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Post by Feyrhausen on Oct 18, 2022 13:05:27 GMT -5
Mark Jindrak like Cade had the look of a star, big athletic guy, looked like he was set for big things being paired with Kurt Angle but again never found his groove. I might be wrong but i read he was friends with Randy Orton and was fired because they either thought he was a bad influence or a distraction as he was seen as Ortons party buddy. He went on to have a decent career in Mexico. That was the reason he was replaced by batista in evolution He was going to replace Batista technically. Reasons I always heard were that they felt he was too similar to Orton appearance wise, and he didnt have the intimidating look that they wanted for their enforcer. So they just decided to wait for Batista to heal. I mean he was still around for years and got some pushes so it wasnt like they were that upset with him in 03.
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Post by DSR on Oct 18, 2022 13:13:11 GMT -5
On the subject of Matt Morgan and Jim Cornette another guy that Jim talked up as a can't miss prospect was Doug Basham. I wanna say I remember the Apter mags of the time calling his OVW work some of the best stuff going, too. Like I wasn't following developmental but I already knew who Basham (and Victoria) was because they got hyped up in PWI.
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Oct 18, 2022 13:30:52 GMT -5
Wasn't Matt Morgan going to originally be called up as like Kane's other brother named Abel or something?
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Oct 18, 2022 14:16:06 GMT -5
I remember when NXT Season 2 started, Alex Riley was who everyone thought WWE wanted to win and wanted to push to the moon. Good ol' Alex Riley. He’s somewhere still calling out John Cena too. This reminds me of another reason Vince lost faith in him. His first really big shot to do anything was the royal rumble to be three catalyst that setup the main event. Toss Cena out while Miz makes a distraction... all he had to do was stay in the ring, and he didn't. He was eliminated pretty blatantly too though the announcers apparently missed it.
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Post by chazraps on Oct 18, 2022 14:29:51 GMT -5
I wouldn't say he failed by any stretch. He suffered a career-ending injury at the hands of Bill Demott making him do a reckless unsafe drill at practice that he shouldn't have been doing to begin with.
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Post by James Fabiano on Oct 18, 2022 14:45:48 GMT -5
The Russian Assassin NWA tried pushing him as an invincible monster...hyped up his debut...and he sucked from day one. Thankfully it didn't last long. Wait, do you mean Vladimir Petrov? Who they got to replace Nikita after he turned face? Russian Assassin was either Jack Victory or Angel of Death. I think AOD was the original, then when they got Assassin #2, that was Jack. But yeah, Petrov was a pretty big failure. He didn't last till the end of 1987, when they just put Ivan with Manny and later with the Warlord.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Oct 18, 2022 15:23:18 GMT -5
Chris Taylor.
Decorated collegiate wrestler and Olympic medalist in wrestling, who was then trained by Verne Gagne in the seventies to be his next big thing. Had a series of world title matches with Nick Bockwinkel, but retired the next year because of health problems, and was dead two years after that from heart disease.
It seems a bit harsh calling him a "failed" prospect because it wasn't his fault that his career ended, but he's definitely an example of someone where you perhaps wonder what could've been.
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Post by Jacy Jayne Atomic Dog AMV on Oct 18, 2022 15:29:59 GMT -5
Remember when Tino Sabatelli was talked up as being perfect for the wrestling business
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Post by Hypnosis on Oct 18, 2022 15:32:58 GMT -5
I wouldn't say he failed by any stretch. He suffered a career-ending injury at the hands of Bill Demott making him do a reckless unsafe drill at practice that he shouldn't have been doing to begin with. I've noticed that Richie hasn't been on Twitter since 2019. Hope he's doing okay. I liked his feud with Kassius Ohno on NXT back in 2012.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Oct 18, 2022 15:42:27 GMT -5
I wouldn't say he failed by any stretch. He suffered a career-ending injury at the hands of Bill Demott making him do a reckless unsafe drill at practice that he shouldn't have been doing to begin with. People being forced to retire due to injury makes it kinda unfair for this topic. Richie never got a chance to really be a prospect, and Magnum was well on his way of being the super face before their career ending injuries
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Post by Susan "Poison" Candy on Oct 18, 2022 15:49:26 GMT -5
He’s somewhere still calling out John Cena too. This reminds me of another reason Vince lost faith in him. His first really big shot to do anything was the royal rumble to be three catalyst that setup the main event. Toss Cena out while Miz makes a distraction... all he had to do was stay in the ring, and he didn't. He was eliminated pretty blatantly too though the announcers apparently missed it. Actually I remember seeing how he got out. It was John Cena and Kofi Kingston who were working on The original Biggest Idiot Ever in the corner and they both pushed him over the top rope and let go when he was trying to hold on when he was supposed to land on the ring apron. If you rewatch the match you see him drop in the corner of the ring during the countdown right before Ezekiel Jackson comes out at #36. Then Miz and Cole who were basically stroking each other off on Commentary both said: "Notice how smart Alex Riley is being right now" and then you hear both Matt Striker and Jerry Lawler say: "Where is he?" Leading to Cole and Miz having to shut up right away about it and then when it was down to the final 4, Riley came out and tried to distract Cena but he hit him off the apron then Miz ran in and tossed Cena out. During the rest of the match you can see John Cena talking to the refs while he would be laying in the corner most likely asking what are they going to do to fix Riley's f**k up.
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Post by 06vwgti on Oct 18, 2022 15:52:31 GMT -5
Remember when Tino Sabatelli was talked up as being perfect for the wrestling business Same way he was supposed to be this amazing safety for the Bucs but he couldn't do anything in the backfield and the fans were calling for his head
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Post by mrpeacock on Oct 18, 2022 16:00:09 GMT -5
I wouldn't say he failed by any stretch. He suffered a career-ending injury at the hands of Bill Demott making him do a reckless unsafe drill at practice that he shouldn't have been doing to begin with. . What’s the story there? All I read was he hurt his back doing a moonsault.
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Post by chrom on Oct 18, 2022 16:11:48 GMT -5
Vladimir Kozlov.
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Post by I'm A Pop Sensation on Oct 18, 2022 16:27:08 GMT -5
Mordecai
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Oct 18, 2022 18:39:25 GMT -5
I have a few
Eric Watts: Was brought in because of Bill and was given a push enough though he was horrible.
Trytan: Early TNA from the FSN days hype this giant up as some big thing. First match he lost because a masked Mediaa ran in and took the fall. He did nothing and wasn't that good.
Sim Snuka: Jimmy Snuka's son. Was one half of tag champions Deuce and Domino. A forgotten member of Legacy and best known for the guy who missed catching Taker at WM 25 and who ended going head first into the floor.
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Post by Mozenrath on Oct 18, 2022 18:43:29 GMT -5
Sean O'Haire is a big one, there were a few rounds of "Oh man this guy is going to be big" that never panned out - WCW, OVW, Devil's Advocate vignettes. Seconding almost everyone of note from 00's OVW, though. Matt Morgan was a big one who was pegged as a future big deal who just never got good enough. O'Haire had *almost* everything you'd want in a megastar. Pretty much. I do remember Lance Storm saying Sean was his own worst enemy and would do shit like get into fights with random people at bars and get into legal trouble, etc, and just demonstrate an unfortunate lack of discipline and self-control, that it was one of the major reasons other people would get picked over him.
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Post by kingoftheindies on Oct 19, 2022 7:15:28 GMT -5
I wouldn't say he failed by any stretch. He suffered a career-ending injury at the hands of Bill Demott making him do a reckless unsafe drill at practice that he shouldn't have been doing to begin with. . What’s the story there? All I read was he hurt his back doing a moonsault. I don't know the Richie one specifically but Ricardo Rodriguez talked about hos DeMott would be a drill sargeant in warm ups to the point everybody was exhausted and then he would have wrestlers whonwerent trained in Lucha Libre do lucha drills. Ricardo said there were a very people that got hurt that way because DeMott didn't know lucha himself so wrestlers got hurt doing drills they shouldn't do instructed by a guy who didn't know the drills
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Oct 19, 2022 8:40:04 GMT -5
Nathan Jones. He had the size and the look, and the vignettes made him look like a legendary monster heel in the making. Then they dropped the interesting character, he was the shits in the ring, and got tired of it before he could have worked enough to get better.
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Post by Sephiroth on Oct 19, 2022 10:27:20 GMT -5
Monty Brown/Marcus Cor Van. He certainly didn’t do badly, but he never got to reach his full potential.
Armando Estrada. The guy actually played his heel manager character to the hilt should have gotten a chance to work with other talent after Umaga was released.
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