Wrestlers who never lived up to their potential

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Kerry Von Erich

Kevin Von Erich

"Stunning" Steve Austin (yes, he went huge after becoming Stone Cold, but the Stunning Steve persona would have drawn huge bank if given the chance.

 

And, I think if you're name is Jericho2000Mark you should have to choose someone other than Jericho ... it just seems kind of biased.

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ok Ill pick someone else,

 

and its a doozy

 

 

GOLDBERG

 

once he became us champ he had a huge wave of mometum that carried him to the world title on july 6, 1998. then his title reign was lame, having only 3 title defenses on ppv against Curt Hennig, DDP (in a very good match) and jobbing to Nash at starrcade

 

even his wwe run was bad. He was over, but they didnt seem to know how to book him. they gave him long matches with the likes of jericho and hhh and he got totally exposed. fittingly his last match was the abomination vs lesnar

 

 

 

as for Tazz, no I dont think he was misused. once he came to wwf and everyone saw how small he was, there was no way for him to go anywhere. it would look bad for bigger guys to be thrown around by this little man. ecw covered up a lot of weaknesses in their wrestlers. he had no chance. probably should have stayed in ecw. although we did get Taz, sd commentator out of this so its not all bad

[Quit Calling My Mama 0]

Two words..

 

 

Norman Smiley.

[TheBigSwigg 0]

as for Tazz, no I dont think he was misused. once he came to wwf and everyone saw how small he was, there was no way for him to go anywhere.  it would look bad for bigger guys to be thrown around by this little man. ecw covered up a lot of weaknesses in their wrestlers.  he had no chance.  probably should have stayed in ecw.  although we did get Taz, sd commentator out of this so its not all bad

The thing is, though, is that once Tazz made it into WWE his character was what held him back. Vince didn't let him be the mostly no selling human suplex machine. Tazz vs. Benoit would've have drawn and made both men bigger stars. Tazz vs. HHH could work if done properly. I can hear JR saying "This dog's got a lot of fight in him." It wasn't Tazz's limitations that hurt his chances, it was Vince's inability to see past them.