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Originally Posted by Rollermacka
Supposedly, Curt Henning was gonna win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and become the major face for TNA in 2003 (but he passed away before that could happen)
To the point at hand
Wrath (Bryan Clark)
Sean O'Haire
Monty Brown (Marcus Cor Von)
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To be fair on Monty Brown, it isn't like he got injured, arrested, politicked, backstabbed, depushed, or otherwise derailed because of something within the business itself. Real life events outside of the wrestling world completely got in the way of that... so this doesn't seem like it should count.
He would have at least been multiple time IC and/or US champion at this point. And prob'ly thrown into a tag team for at least one run as a champ there as well. If situations changed, Monty could prob'ly walk into Extreme Rules, cost either Thwagger or Of The River their match, and be hotshotted into the main event pictue similar to how they initially shoehorned Skippy.
I agree with MVP, JoMo, and Benjamin. Expecting too much too soon from Shelton while WWE was in one of those "OH SHIT, WE KINDA NEED FRESH FACES RIGHT NOW!!!" modes was part of his problem. I would liken him to Sin Cara in the whole trying to make him a big deal way too fast thing.
On the TNA side of things:
Elijah Burke
"the future of the company" Jay Lethal
Motor City Machine Guns