10 Moments Wrestlers Never Recovered From

No matter how good you are at the wrestling, you are at the mercy of those in charge

I mean, even if you are Stone Cold Steve Austin, if you get told your gimmick is a fish who has transformed into a human

and is now searching for their salmon family, well, it ain't gonna go well

Some individuals can recover from this, but the majority get totally mucked

So prepare yourself, my friends. This is 10 Moments Wrestlers Never Recovered From

Number 10, Lance Storm is Boring. Now, this one annoys me because it's not true at all

If you do listen to Lance Storm these days, that guy is so smart, holding wrestling accountable in a way few others do

You don't have to agree with his take, but it's always a fascinating insight and will give you an interesting angle on many current stories

Maybe this is why in 2003, Vince McMahon thought it would be a great idea to sort of bury this dude

It's total speculation on my end, but I guess Storm may have come up with some logical plot holes, and management didn't like it

So halfway through his match with Garrison Cade, the general manager Steve Austin walked out with a pillow and pretended to fall asleep

Yep, this was boring, apparently. I can only assume the plan was for fans to think the same, but this wasn't accurate

Storm was excellent bell to bell and somebody we can all learn from. You don't start a successful wrestling school because you suck

It also felt like WWE wanted you to change the channel when he was on TV, which is not the idea

And surprise, surprise, this didn't help him at all. Lance retired in 2004, so never really got a chance to put this right

He deserved that opportunity. Guy is really underrated. Number nine, Rick Bogner is Razor Ramon

I mean, nobody could have survived this. You turn up to work and get told you have to pretend to be somebody else

You're done for. This was Vince McMahon's attempt to flip off Scott Hall and Kevin Nash

who had gone to WCW because he did indeed own the copyright on their characters

So screw those guys. He was sure that anybody could do it. We also had a heel Jim Ross introduce them, which is even more confusing

and at the same time, we trolled the audience. We actually pretended that the original Razor and Diesel were coming back

My word. This was such a disaster, even Vince realised he made an error and cut it short

with Bognor's last WWE appearance coming at the 1997 Raw Rumble. He wasn't in it for very long and was out the company overall soon after

Never really got a chance on a major stage to show what he could actually do as himself

Ridiculous. Number 8, Anthony Ogogo's weigh-in. Now, I don't think this one was as bad as we made out

didn go to plan and hindsight could have been done better but it was mostly ill as opposed to terrible felt like some people went way over the top To be fair however a go himself in an interview did call it flubbing dog shib so maybe I being too nice and he was right in the

sense the 2021 segment lacked action. We focused more on the weigh-in, when really, Anthony should

have gone, screw that, and smacked Cody Rhodes right in the face. When Paul White started to

struggle with the scales, though, this just went on and on. Why we didn't just make up a number

I don't know. It's wrestling. You can say whatever you want. We likely should have had a go-go win at the Double or Nothing match too

But sadly soon after, the former boxer wasn't featured as much. And that's silly

Because I've seen this dude up close and personal. So let's hope 2024 is the year for him

All he needs is another opportunity. And I tell you, man will fly

Number seven, Keith Bearcat Lee. I still don't get this. And it was years ago

It's like we hired Keith Lee to not be Keith Lee. It's like getting mad at me when I turned up bald

What were you expecting? It began on the 27th of September 2021 Raw, though

when Keith had a match with Tozawa and squashed him as the Bearcat

Everybody double took when he was announced that way. What was happening? He was allowed to keep wrecking fools for a while

but once again it was clear he'd been told to tone it down. Not one person told us why this was his gimmick now

There was no reasoning at all. WWE soon realized the error of their ways and slowed things right down

and rather than make it right, they let Keith go in November

It was just stupid. Very sadly, soon afterwards, Lee suffered some serious health issues

so hopefully today, he is doing better. That's all that really matters

Wrestling will always be secondary to somebody's well-being. But that said, we should not have done any of this

Number 6, Rikishi did it for The Rock. Excuse me, The Rock

This was all-time nonsense. It's a shame as the Who Ran Over Steve Austin storyline was actually quite intriguing

and picking Rikishi wasn't the worst idea. The man was super over and you know what they say

if you turn heel when you have all the momentum as a good guy, sometimes it works perfectly

This was not one of those times. It was just the lack of justification because Big Keesh kept telling us he did it for Duroc

But why did he do it for Duroc? This was in 2000 and I still don't know

If you do actually watch the roars from this period too, for a small time WWE hinted this could be racially motivated

before realizing that was a very bad idea. when they threw it out the window and put the blame on Triple H instead

Come on It left Rikishi in the worst position because we took the focus off the man and he was just hanging out in limbo It was sort of a heel but also not Penicking the powers that be then tried to make him the fun dancing dude again

but they ruined that too. This was so poorly thought out. It never got back to where it was

and really, we should have just sat down and figured this out. We didn't. You know the rest

Number five, the Shockmaster stumbles. So, you will be hard-pushed to find a character that died as quickly as this

By my takings, it was less than five seconds. Incredible. It has become part of wrestling folklore now, though

because, yep, when Fred Oppmann tried to smash through a wall in his new gimmick, he tripped over some flooring he didn't see

It looked so ridiculous, the British Bulldog couldn't stop laughing. Even if we had gotten away with this

the Shockmaster was still just going to be a big dude wearing a sparkly stormtrooper helmet

And what was that? Surely they were going to get sued by Star Wars. There was no coming back from this

although WCW did try and rebook him as a bumbling fool, but that was never going to work

You can't reclaim the joke. It meant we just ended it in a matter of weeks

although fair play to the former typhoon. He still travels the convention circuit today making money off this

That is a nice ending to the tale. Number four, Medusa bins the WWF women's title

In terms of shocking TV, this is right up there. If you were flicking between Raw and Nitro back in the day

and saw Medusa on WCW TV drop a WWF title in the bin

well, you lost it. It felt like a war. Medusa herself has talked about how this derailed her career

because once World Championship Wrestling was gone, she had no home. McMahon was so offended by this, he never invited her back

It's not like WCW used her all that well either, and thankfully she did get a Hall of Fame nod in 2015

What did Alondra Blaze have to talk about then, though? This incident, it just took over

I suppose you can argue that it was so momentous that it will stand the test of time

Still not all that sure it was a great idea, mind. Number three, Doctor Death loses it all in the brawl for all

It does feel like somebody new learns about this every day, so yes, the Brawl for All was a stupid idea

because it was shoot-fighting in a predetermined world, which just told you everything else on the card was worked

It was so short-sighted. The whole plan, though, was to turn Dr. Death's Steve Williams into a real killer, so he could feud with one Steve Austin

And that's fine on paper, but again, this was two people legit trying to hurt each other

You never know what could happen. So when Williams hurt his hamstring mid one gun and his boxing background exploited this and knocked Steve out bad I mean it was kind of a mauling It took any program with Stone Cold off the table because he had been beaten so badly Dr Death couldn portray himself as a tough guy he made a career out of What were we thinking It didn help Bart Eder who got tonked at WrestleMania by pro

boxer Butterbean. In the future, if you want to book a brawler, just let them win matches. You do

have that power, for goodness sake. Number two, Bret Hart leaves the WWF. The more you read into

it, it really does feel like Bret Hart didn't have a choice. Vince McMahon had told him he wasn't

going to live up to the terms of his contract and that he should take the WCW offer that was on the

table. Not going to do much for your confidence, is it? It also followed the Montreal Screwjob

which was a horrible situation, but even then, it was the hottest thing in wrestling and WCW

could have capitalized on this if they wanted to. They did not. Instead, the hitman arrived as a

referee in the Hulk Hogan Sting World title match and from there, we had no idea what to do with

Brett. I'm sure backstage politics played a role, but this was so dumb, everybody wanted to see what

Hart was going to do. Very sadly, Brett then got injured as his career came to an end. That was not

fitting of such a legend. Yeah, it kind of sucked. Didn't take away from what he achieved, however

The man just deserved better. Number one, Vader irks Shawn Michaels. If you've ever wondered why

there's a lot of stories about Shawn Michaels version one, here you go. At SummerSlam 1996

The WWF decided Vader would be a great opponent for HBK because Vader was a killer

Every promotion he'd ever worked in, he wrecked fools, so fans believed the hype

A large reason for this is because the real-life Leon White would work quite snug, however

And do you know who didn't like that? Shawn Michaels. If you go and watch this now, you can see the Heartbreak Kid audibly chastising him

And after the match was done, apparently, Michael stormed backstage and said, as far as he was concerned, Vader was done

He was right. Somehow he got in the ear of management and within two years, Vader had been reduced to walking out on television and telling the audience he was nothing but a fat piece of ship

Yep, that's what we had him say. Once he left, everybody agreed this was the worst version of the character when thankfully he was able to revive his career by going back to what he had been doing beforehand, ruining folk

When it does come to the WWF, however, yeah, that was done

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