Cranjis McBasketball☝🏻
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball☝🏻 on Dec 29, 2019 19:47:15 GMT -5
Carlito. His catchphrase should be “I don’t care and it shows”.
Loved the guy but damn he wasted his potential. Not saying he could have main evented but a nice long upper card run was certainly in his abilities
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Post by CeilingFan on Dec 29, 2019 19:55:33 GMT -5
Lars Sullivan.
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Post by Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby on Dec 29, 2019 19:59:47 GMT -5
Lots of love here for Barrett. Didn't see that coming. Barrett isn't necessarily the best talent that WWE wasted...but he is probably the one who seems like there are the least excuses for why they did. He wasn't that great in the ring? Didn't stop them before, with some guys. His heel catchphrase started getting face pops? No face turn, only a removal of what got him over! He was big, he could talk, he could get booed against John Cena 100% of the time. None of the old excuses held up on him. He got injured a lot, but so did Batista and Edge. Before him (and Ryback, and Zack Ryder, and a few others), there were always these stock excuses - too small, couldn't talk, nobody cares about flippy guys, nobody cares about dry technical wrestling, gimmick is too niche, didn't get over, whatever. Barrett was practically a gift-wrapped WWE style main eventer of the type that WWE always claimed to want, and they wasted him. That is very revealing of how WWE really works and how honest those reasons were to begin with.
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Dec 29, 2019 20:01:02 GMT -5
Carlito. His catchphrase should be “I don’t care and it shows”. Loved the guy but damn he wasted his potential. Not saying he could have main evented but a nice long upper card run was certainly in his abilities So here is a man, who debuted at the EXPENSE of John Cena. Won the US title the first night. 6 years later and man this guy fell off. To think at one time these guys were booked as equals. You can clearly see how much higher Cena is than poor jobber Carlito at this point.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2019 20:01:34 GMT -5
Ryback. The Big Guy was freakin' over before they fed him to wolves and that bully persona could have been something too, if done right. I want one more run out of him, be it WWE or AEW. Only stuff I've seen from him in years was that match against Brian Cage and it was pretty fun. Then again, I could watch him eating stuff for eternity on youtube...
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 29, 2019 20:04:01 GMT -5
Carlito. His catchphrase should be “I don’t care and it shows”. Loved the guy but damn he wasted his potential. Not saying he could have main evented but a nice long upper card run was certainly in his abilities So here is a man, who debuted at the EXPENSE of John Cena. Won the US title the first night. 6 years later and man this guy fell off. To think at one time these guys were booked as equals. You can clearly see how much higher Cena is than poor jobber Carlito at this point. Now I'm reminded about that story of Drunk Cena telling Carlito that he needs to apply himself
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Dec 29, 2019 21:32:42 GMT -5
I actually went with Masters although Emma and Riley are not far behind. Masters I think is the best all around talent of that group imo so I went with him. Guys like Barrett, Ryback, and Harper are getting a lot of votes and even though all those guys definitely could've been something more, they still all had pretty good runs. All three had IC title runs, Ryback and Barrett had stints in the main event picture, and Harper was in a group that was heavily pushed featured for several years. If the question was biggest missed opportunities those three would've been tops.
Sans Riley being a clutz in ring him, Masters, and Emma were three talents that pretty much had all the intangibles to be stars (ability, look, charisma) but due to various factors whether it be injuries or behind the scenes mishaps ended up all having very subpar careers and accomplished nothing. IMO those three are the epitome of wasted talent in that pretty much all the tools were there but whether it be management's fault or their own doing did almost literally nothing with those tools and pretty much got chewed up and spit out.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2019 21:46:11 GMT -5
Chris Masters should do Disney Hercules gimmick if he comes back.
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Post by xxshoyuweeniexx on Dec 29, 2019 23:40:51 GMT -5
Even though he got pushed way harder than most of the other people on this list, it still feels so baffling that Dean Ambrose ended up the least-important member of the Shield and drifting aimlessly around the upper midcard. More than literally anyone else in WWE this last decade, he felt like he had all the tools to break out as a headlining megastar on par with Cena. Unlike Roman or Seth, who have been the narratively most important on the show for years at a time, Dean only got that for like, 4 months in 2016 on Smackdown post draft. Any other time, dude was always 2nd or 3rd most important dude on the show, but with WWE that meant just beating the shit out of guys like Dolph Ziggler, being a poor man’s Mick Foley/Tommy Dreamer lovechild, and announcers screaming about how important he is while doing some wacky bit while his buddies Rollins and/or Roman do something of actual importance.
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Post by Malibu Stacy on Dec 30, 2019 1:41:07 GMT -5
Digging the Wade Barrett love, but I'm going to say Luke Harper. While Ambrose was for whatever reason deemed the least valuable Shield member, he at least got his share of bumps. Hell, Dean's lowest point was- well, feuding with Harper, lol. But while WWE kept rekindling their search for the next superstar monster, it was like the scene where Mr. Burns was looking for a stool pigeon while Homer keeps saying "hello!", but if Burns just kept thinking without deciding on Homer. Utterly infuriating. Charismatic big man with a great look who can actually work, and all you can think of is tossing him at the bottom of the tag heap, when you're not flat out "creative has nothing for you"ing him.
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Post by nate5054 on Dec 30, 2019 2:08:31 GMT -5
I won't say he was wasted but the fact they screwed up the Damien Sandow Miz storyline proved the lower card doesn't matter no matter how much the audience is into a story or charecter I disagree, Sandow proved he was worthless in his tna run, the wwe did good by not pushing him. Sandow was great in WWE. I couldn't care less how he did in TNA. Maybe the 5 people who watched TNA care, who knows. And he could have done fine with a midcard push. He wasn't championship material by any means, but not everyone is.
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Post by BrodietheSlayer on Dec 30, 2019 2:20:33 GMT -5
I disagree, Sandow proved he was worthless in his tna run, the wwe did good by not pushing him. Sandow was great in WWE. I couldn't care less how he did in TNA. Maybe the 5 people who watched TNA care, who knows. And he could have done fine with a midcard push. He wasn't championship material by any means, but not everyone is. Dude's been a highlight of NWA Power(rrrrr) so far, as the creative in charge of that seem to get what Sandow/Stevens was best at better than TNA ever did, and that's as being a midcard comedic heel. He was never meant to be "The Guy," but like you said....not everyone is.
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Post by Nic Nemeth on Dec 30, 2019 2:23:08 GMT -5
Glad Barrett is getting the love he deserves. We all talk about how great NXT is but remember Barrett is why NXT was so great, he won the very first NXT season when it was still a contest and then debuted with Nexus.
He really should have won in 2010 against Orton for the title and they should have went all in on a push to the main-event for him.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2019 2:26:14 GMT -5
Lots of love here for Barrett. Didn't see that coming. I never got the appeal of the guy. I always felt like his initial popularity was sparked by the anti-Cena thing where ANY new heel that ever looked to get one up on Cena was worshipped like the second coming. I remember people praising green as f*** Sheamus when he beat Cena in that tables match. He was also pretty dangerous with the way he would do Wasteland to some guys (an especially egregious one on Mark Henry once) which was thankfully replaced with the bull hammer Elbow. However, I always thought -that- move was pretty lame. So basically, I felt like he was an alright talker, but mediocre in the ring with a bland look. It never clicked for me that he should have been destined for bigger things other than the story he debuted in being red hot.
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Post by thegame415 on Dec 30, 2019 3:31:34 GMT -5
I had to look up Bronson Matthews.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Dec 30, 2019 3:43:13 GMT -5
I won't say he was wasted but the fact they screwed up the Damien Sandow Miz storyline proved the lower card doesn't matter no matter how much the audience is into a story or charecter I disagree, Sandow proved he was worthless in his tna run, the wwe did good by not pushing him. Didn't say that. Just said the fact they never finished the storyline correctly showed their mentality with the lower card
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Post by warden on Dec 30, 2019 4:02:59 GMT -5
Most of the people on that list I would say weren't wasted. A few met with unfortunate injuries that halted any progress thus the fates were against them like hideo. Others wasted their opportunity like carlito. And the rest were used accordingly. But if I had to pick I suppose I would go with cody seeing as for the first half of his career he was slowly finding his stride but then they saddled him with that stupid stard dust gimmick. And seeing what he grew into I would say him
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Post by PTBartman on Dec 30, 2019 6:28:16 GMT -5
Even though he got pushed way harder than most of the other people on this list, it still feels so baffling that Dean Ambrose ended up the least-important member of the Shield and drifting aimlessly around the upper midcard. More than literally anyone else in WWE this last decade, he felt like he had all the tools to break out as a headlining megastar on par with Cena. That’s what I was going to say. I thought Ambrose should have been on top. He was my favorite part of the Sheild and I thought he was going to be the breakout. Seriously, I never got Rollins and Roman is another sacrifice to Vince’s Hoss getish. But Ambrose could have been a combo of Austin, Piper, and The Rock. I think my favorite Ambrose moment was The Blizzard episode of RAW
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Dec 30, 2019 6:35:49 GMT -5
Kaval. Austin Aries is up there too with his attitude. But Kaval man. This guy was just TOO impatient. He was stuck with Laycool but by Survivor Series he had an IC title match. And I remember hearing he was going to be pushed big in 2011. Then the man quits. It's one thing not to even come to WWE, but all the time and effort he put into this? I remember hearing he had MAJOR attitude problems back then. Which is a shame. Look at AJ Styles, WWE had no problem pushing TNA talent as long as they were component. Which wasn't much, asking from Kaval. Imo dude was only going to go so far once he wasn't allowed to kick people as hard as possible (which is how he got over in the first place).
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Post by Mid-Carder on Dec 30, 2019 6:36:37 GMT -5
Who chose Alex Riley? 'Fess up!
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