Persona's that never saw full potential.

[Jannettyzilla]

This thread belongs to Kane. The guy is marketed from the start as Undertaker 2, given an interesting look and a shit ton of back story...but then evolves to "jobber to the stars" whenever he gets near a major program. Then he gets repackaged, gets over with that, but becomes the jobber to the stars again. And so it has been for 12 years, and he's left with only one day as WWF Champion to his name.

[Theo Dious]

Originally Posted by Jannettyzilla and he's left with only one day as WWF Champion to his name.

Not that I don't lament the fact that Kane hasn't spent more time at the very top... but that's still one day more than Ted DiBiase, Jake Roberts, or Rodney the Piper ever got...

[CWK]

Originally Posted by Jannettyzilla This thread belongs to Kane. The guy is marketed from the start as Undertaker 2, given an interesting look and a shit ton of back story...but then evolves to "jobber to the stars" whenever he gets near a major program. Then he gets repackaged, gets over with that, but becomes the jobber to the stars again. And so it has been for 12 years, and he's left with only one day as WWF Champion to his name.

I agree with you, they could have made a ton of money with Kane, particularly right when he took the mask off and he was tomb stoning Linda McMahon on the entrance stage, and when he had a match to wrestle, he had to be let out of an ambulance and walked to the ring by cops with his arms and legs shackled. The black towel on his head was an awesome touch too.

I started to go downhill for him in my view around Survivor Series 2003 when they billed Shane McMahon as a viable and believable opponent for him. When Shane superkicked Kane on Raw and Kane "fell into a dumpster" full of fire, and then he appeared on Raw the next week with just a bandage on his arm..... I had to walk outside and breathe for a minute, it was so ridiculous.

Just when I thought they were redeeming themselves from the recent Katie Vick storyline, they went and screwed it up.

[Mogadishu]

Originally Posted by Jannettyzilla This thread belongs to Kane. The guy is marketed from the start as Undertaker 2, given an interesting look and a shit ton of back story...but then evolves to "jobber to the stars" whenever he gets near a major program. Then he gets repackaged, gets over with that, but becomes the jobber to the stars again. And so it has been for 12 years, and he's left with only one day as WWF Champion to his name.

Great point about Kane. I completely forgot to mention him.

I think Big Show is another guy. I remember when he first debut'd in 1999, the guy was an absolute monster. He threw Austin through the cage, gave Foley major internal injuries (kayfabe wise), and destroyed Test on two separate occasions in less than 10 seconds. Show almost rolled a car on to Hardcore Holly, and also managed to chokeslam the Undertaker through the ring.

I was really annoyed in 1999 when they paired Big Show up with Taker....and basically made Show look like Taker's bitch. In my opinion, Big Show never really recovered from that. To make things worse, they made Big Show look even more vulnerable in the Fall that year when they put him in that program with Bossman...where Bossman literally made Big Show ride the casket, etc.