Wrestlers that could have been Great

Silver Saviour · 06-21-2009, 12:40 AM

Who are some wrestlers you think could have been great, but never got the chance, or through no fault of their own were released.

A wrestler to be 'great' in this case needed signs of strong ring work, charisma, mik skills and future drawing ability, and future upper mid card/ main eventer

So of any company over how ever long you can remember who are some wrestlers that could have been big, but werent and why?

Y 2 Jake · 06-21-2009, 08:15 AM

For overall look I'd say Sean O'Haire. He wasn't anything special in the ring or on the mic, but he looked like he could've been a star. Look is actually more important than ability in a lot of cases. I hear somebody high up in WWE felt threatened by him.

Also, RVD. I know he has name value and by some he is considered great. But his WWE run was lackluster. If WWE had pulled the trigger on him in late 2001 I honestly think he could have been a huge star. What happened was he spent most of his WWE career as a super-over mid carder. But then again, some of his performances in WWE were awful.

iamthedestroyer · 06-21-2009, 04:04 PM

Had Pillman not destroyed his ankle and later on passed away, I think he would have been absolutely huge in late 98 when the Attitude Era was in full swing. He was just perfect for it.

As mentioned above, if RVD were given a big win for the World Belt either during the Invasion when he was massively over and the Alliance was starving for another big star, or at Unforgiven against HHH he could have been huge. I remember watching a Raw a while ago from that time period, both him and Booker were massively over at the time but neither got that one win needed to break the glass ceiling. By the time that both of them became Main Eventers although they were still popular for the most part it was too late. That and RVD got high.....

Roxy · 06-28-2009, 04:45 PM

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Had Pillman not destroyed his ankle and later on passed away, I think he would have been absolutely huge in late 98 when the Attitude Era was in full swing. He was just perfect for it.

Yeah, agreed. He was a good wrestler, but he also became too much of a lackey in the end. Also, when it comes to Brian Pillman by himself, at the time he was in WWF, he needed to really be developed more, and when it seemed like WWF was developing his character with a rivalry with not just Stone Cold but Goldust as well, we all know what happened.

Mr. Sam · 06-28-2009, 06:20 PM

I feel Pillman is overrated. Great lightweight, but even with that killer angle behind him (and more killer angles promised, according to Eric Bischoff) I don't think he would have been one of the greats, so to speak.

I reckon Taz could have been pretty big in the E if the idiot didn't refuse to wear knee pads.

Cleaver · 06-29-2009, 07:37 PM

Kudos on the above post; Tazz had the look, slick in-ring ability and intense mic work to be a reputable main event player. His credibility as ECW champion, with the use of cleverly placed vignettes, would have made him a very effective foil for the likes of the main event Angle, Trips and more.

Yet as was prelavent with many non-WWE born and bred wrestlers of this period (another that comes to mind is DDP), they were squashed for the big boys. Missed opportunity, because Tazz was a beast.

horrorfan_1986 · 06-30-2009, 12:28 AM

The main problem with Tazz was that he was short and stocky. He just flat out didn't have the mainstream look about him. There wasn't anything about Tazz that could make people think he could actually beat the likes of Triple H, The Rock or Steve Austin. With Tazz being a bad ass, why would anyone believe that he was the bad ass of the WWE with the likes of Kane, Big Show and Taker around? Other short wrestlers like Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit could still be marketed in what they were best at and still be seen as the best in the WWE for that category. Tazz no longer had anything to offer.

CGS · 06-30-2009, 07:55 AM

Tazz - He had the potential to be great but as Jim said he just didn't have that overall marketable look that would make him a believable main event player.

Kennedy - Yes he could of been great for the WWE. But the guy was just way to injury prone. He was with the WWE for what 4 years & out of that four years at least 2 years where spent on the sidelines.

Muhammed Hassan - This guy could of been great. He was good on the stick, had a great gimmick, had some charisma & by the looks of it he was just about to be pushed before he was released due to circumstances that were out of his control (UPN i believe didn't want him shown on tv as he came across as a terrorist type of character in the midst of the london bombings). Real shame.

The Half Boy · 06-30-2009, 08:12 AM

I agree with the Mohammed Hussain comments. The stupid thing is, they had complete control over that. The terrorist abduction segment was taped prior to the bombings, to be shown after. WWE should have pulled that segment as soon as the bombings happened, and maybe just shown a vignette or something different. It was so retarded to put that forward.

horrorfan_1986 · 06-30-2009, 09:03 AM

For the life of me, I will never understand what people saw in Muhammad Hassan. Since his departure, he's sort of became the IWC love child and the great 'What if?' example. In his short stay in the WWE (Just over six months), he didn't put on any particularly good matches, his character had been done a thousand times only with a slight change, his mic skills were average and the other memorable feud he was in was the Taker one. And that was only memorable due to the terrorist attacks. Why do people care so much about this short lived unmemorable character? The guy didn't even have any passion for the business.

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