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10 Dumbest Reasons WWE Killed Storylines | partsFUNknown Oh yeah, this list could have been about seven years longer, but Tempest has distilled it down to just 10 wrestlers that Vince McMahon never 'got'. Let us know if there's any that you think should have been on the list!  00:00 - Start 01:03 - Honorable Mention 01:29 - 10 02:50 - 9 03:50 - 8 04:55 - 7 06:03 - 6 07:38 - 5 09:01 - 4 10:37 - 3 12:12 - 2 13:24 - 1  CAN YOU NAME EVERY WWE CHAMPION? | Survival Series - https://youtu.be/tR4m9shHZoQ  SUBSCRIBE TO partsFUNknown: https://bit.ly/2J2Hl6q TWITTER: https://twitter.com/partsfunknown FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/partsfunknown/ Buy wrestling merchandise here: https://www.wrestleshop.com/ Read more Feature content here on WrestleTalk.com: https://wrestletalk.com/features/

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00:00 When Vince McMahon retired recently, there was a huge spad of online discourse about

00:04 how Vinnie Mac was this big genius of the wrestling world and perhaps the greatest mind

00:08 to ever tackle the sport.

00:10 Vince McMahon sure had a lot of big W's in his wrestling career, but he also had a

00:14 lot of huge L's.

00:16 Like massive L's.

00:18 L's so big that King Kong would try and scale them while swatting away biplanes.

00:22 You see, there are a lot of wrestlers in the history of this mad world in which we, the

00:26 fans, loved and wanted to see pushed to the moon.

00:29 But Vince McMahon, the supposed genius that he was, didn't get and decided instead to

00:35 give us more John Cena or whatever stupid gimmick he was into that week.

00:39 Guys that could have been big or major players for WWE that would have made massive money,

00:43 but Vinnie Mac just didn't get.

00:45 I'm Tempest Haling from PartsFunknown and these are 10 Wrestlers Vince McMahon Never

00:49 Got.

00:50 And before we get on with our list, make sure that you subscribe and enable notifications

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00:56 And make sure that you watch Survival Series, our new hit show here on PartsFunknown.

01:00 I'm a big fan of it and I think you will be too.

01:03 Honorable Mention, Raven.

01:05 Fun fact, WWE is the only major company to not have a version of Raven's Flock, an easy

01:10 to book faction that had brilliant main event feuds in ECW and mid-card feuds in TNA and

01:15 WCW.

01:16 And why didn't WWE have this version of Raven?

01:18 This silver-tongued devil who had a menagerie of misfits surrounding him to do his bidding?

01:23 Because Vince McMahon made him a homeless man.

01:25 No really, Vince McMahon is a f*cking idiot.

01:28 Signed Luke Owen.

01:29 10.

01:30 Broken Matt Hardy

01:31 When both Matt and Jeff Hardy made the return to the house that Vinnie Mac built in 2017,

01:35 a lot had changed for brother Matthew.

01:38 Despite wrestling for two decades by that point, in 2016 Matt would undergo a drastic

01:42 character reinvention while working for Impact, becoming a broken version of himself with

01:47 a wacky new accent, disheveled bleached hair, and a whole universe of props and characters

01:51 that included a dilapidated boat, a mower of lawns, and the Vanguard 1 holographic drone.

01:57 Alright, maybe it's obvious why Vince McMahon didn't get the character now.

02:00 Matt would eventually have the opportunity to apply his broken universe to the WWE by

02:04 the end of 2017, but it was a much less ambitious version of the character than what we had

02:09 seen.

02:10 He played chess with Napoleon reincarnated as a goldfish, but he wasn't treated with

02:13 anywhere near the level of importance he was in Impact, losing to Bray Wyatt in a matter

02:17 of minutes on Raw 25.

02:19 He did get a chance to main event Raw with the Ultimate Deletion match against Bray,

02:23 however that's about as good as it ever got for the WWE version of Broken Matt.

02:27 Michael Cole, literally before the match started, effectively apologized for what we were about

02:32 to watch, right there on TV.

02:34 Vince McMahon told us that he thought this was s*** and you're an idiot if you liked

02:38 it.

02:39 And if that's not enough, on the Talk is Jericho podcast, Matt recalled Vince watching

02:42 it in the gorilla position and outright saying "I don't get it."

02:46 So if that's not enough to earn Matt a place on this list, I don't know what is.

02:50 9.

02:51 Christian Similarly to Matt Hardy, Christian was someone

02:53 that gained a lot of success in WWE throughout the company's most successful periods of

02:57 the late 90s and early 2000s, predominantly in the tag division with his kayfabe brother

03:01 Edge.

03:02 And, also like Matt Hardy, Vince saw his brother as the bigger star.

03:07 While Edge would go on to establish himself as one of the most successful single competitors

03:10 in company history, Christian would be forced to forge a path outside of WWE to be viewed

03:15 the same way.

03:16 And Christian would find success across in TNA, winning their big one on two separate

03:20 occasions.

03:21 Why did Christian struggle to find similar success in WWE?

03:24 One contributing factor?

03:25 Vince thought he was ugly, to the point that Vince famously wanted to put a blue dot over

03:29 Christian's face whenever he was on screen.

03:31 And if you ever need more of a reason to believe that Vince McMahon put on shows just to entertain

03:35 himself, during the Abraham Washington show in 2009, remember him, AW went off on one

03:40 about how ECW champion Christian was ugly.

03:43 AW the ventriloquist doll puppeting Vince's madness and revealing to the world why Christian

03:48 continued to struggle in Vince's company.

03:51 8.

03:52 Dusty Rhodes

03:53 Polka Dots, Need I Continue?

03:55 Arriving in the WWF in 1989 as one of wrestling's biggest names after hugely successful stints

04:00 in the NWA, and Jim Crockett promotions in particular, Vince seemed to be out to sabotage

04:05 the American dream from the word go.

04:07 The Polka Dots were perhaps a way to stick it to the man who worked for his competitors

04:11 for so long, but regardless, Dusty took them in stride and still remained massively over.

04:16 Rhodes would unfortunately reach nowhere near the same level of success however, and would

04:21 finish his active wrestling career in fairly unmemorable fashion.

04:24 Dusty was approaching the end of his active in-ring career by the time he arrived in the

04:27 WWF, so was unlikely to be pushed to the main event during the era of Hulk Hogan and the

04:32 Ultimate Warrior.

04:33 However, his treatment seemed awfully counterproductive for Vince, as he was still such an asset despite

04:38 his age.

04:39 Dusty would leave in 1991 to become a booker for WCW and occasional on-screen character,

04:44 only eventually returning to work for Vince in 2005.

04:47 This time around, Dusty was rightfully celebrated for his legacy, and would become a key figure

04:51 behind the early days of NXT until his passing in 2015.

04:55 7.

04:56 Cesaro In late 2014, Vince McMahon appeared on the

04:59 WWE Network's Stone Cold Podcast and implored talents such as Cesaro to grab the infamous

05:04 brass ring.

05:06 According to McMahon, the reason for Cesaro's lack of a serious push by that point was because

05:10 he lacked "it".

05:12 Quote unquote "it".

05:13 Hmm, yeah, okay Vince.

05:15 Let's just ignore the fact that Cesaro was easily one of the most over-talents on the

05:19 roster earlier that same year when he won the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal.

05:23 The aforementioned Battle Royal win seemed destined to be the catapult for Cesaro to

05:26 get to the main event spot that he so rightly deserved, but instead, it led to an ill-advised

05:31 heel run in partnership with Paul Heyman.

05:34 While Cesaro could have undoubtedly benefited from having a legendary mouthpiece like Heyman

05:38 by his side, he always felt like an afterthought to Brock Lesnar throughout this run, and was

05:42 never quite Heyman's main attraction.

05:44 In the years following this, Cesaro would achieve success, most notably perhaps as one

05:48 half of the bar with Sheamus, but he would only get very miniscule tastes of the main

05:53 event scene prior to his departure in 2022.

05:56 Cesaro had all the tools to become a main event presence in WWE.

06:00 Curse you Vince, you are the one that dropped the ball.

06:03 6.

06:04 Diamond Dallas Page Following WWE's victory in the Monday Night

06:08 Wars against WCW, it was inevitable that Vince would look to ingest as much of the

06:12 former competition's talent as he could to bolster his roster.

06:15 That is if their contract wasn't too big, in which case by all means, sit out.

06:19 However, as we've already learned, Vince McMahon is a very, very petty man, and when

06:23 it came to the WCW roster, it was evident that he rarely ever wanted them to look as

06:28 strong as his WWF loyalists.

06:30 There was perhaps no greater example of this than Diamond Dallas Page.

06:34 A WCW mainstay and former three-time World Heavyweight Champion, Page was a perennial

06:39 babyface and an unlikely star for Ted Turner's company.

06:42 So given the popularity of Page, what kind of character would Vince McMahon design for

06:47 Page's eventual debut?

06:48 Any guesses?

06:49 Well if you said creepy voyeuristic stalker, then you are correct.

06:53 Bafflingly, Page debuted as the mystery stalker of The Undertaker's then-wife, Sarah, who

06:58 had been the subject of unsettling video camera recording vignettes for months.

07:02 After revealing his identity on the June 18, 2001 episode of Raw, to a massive pop by the

07:07 way, DDP revealed he only stalked Taker's wife to get to the dead man, who proceeded

07:11 to destroy Page in the subsequent feud.

07:14 And that was that, really.

07:15 Page went on to do not much else of note in his short WWE tenure, save for a brief run

07:19 with the European Championship, before sadly being forced to retire due to a neck injury

07:23 in April 2002.

07:25 The real kicker here is that Page took a massive pay cut to come to the WWF for the invasion.

07:30 He could have sat on his Turda contract like Hall, Nash, Goldberg, and Hogan did, but he

07:34 wanted to wrestle for Vince.

07:36 And this is how Vince repaid him for it.

07:38 5.

07:39 Taz Yet another popular act from a rival company,

07:42 Taz, despite a relatively small stature, was a man to be feared during his time in ECW.

07:47 The human suplex machine was a legit badass that carried himself as such and would become

07:52 one of Paul Heyman's biggest success stories, winning pretty much every title he had to

07:56 offer across a six year spell in ECW.

07:58 Taz's WWF debut at the 2000 Royal Rumble might be the most perfect wrestling debut

08:03 ever.

08:04 He came out to a huge New York pop, he destroys the unbeaten Kurt Angle and puts him to sleep

08:08 with an illegal chokehold.

08:09 But the problem was, he came from ECW.

08:12 Which means Vince took one look at him and said, "Well, you're the hardcore guy now

08:15 then."

08:16 So Taz went from beating the unbeatable future WWF champion, to feuding with the big boss

08:21 man and Prince Albert.

08:23 Next thing you know, that's it for Taz.

08:24 He teamed with fellow ex-ECW alumni Raven for a forgettable tag run, and then, just

08:29 one year after an incredible debut in the Rumble, he was eliminated from the 2001 Royal

08:34 Rumble in a matter of seconds with a sign that said, "My crap is bigger than Taz."

08:39 Which might as well have been written by Vince McMahon himself.

08:41 As previously mentioned, Taz was not the biggest individual, and in the land of the giants,

08:45 this is always likely to work against you.

08:47 After numerous injuries, Taz would successfully transition to commentary and become a staple

08:52 of the Smackdown booth alongside Michael Cole.

08:54 As good as Taz was and still is at commentary, it is hard not to ask "What if?" when

08:59 it came to his in-ring WWE career.

09:01 4.

09:02 Zack Ryder When it comes to who gets pushed in WWE, very

09:06 rarely did Vince McMahon not have 99.99% of the say in things.

09:10 So if you're not seen as a star in his eyes, I hope you enjoy sitting in catering, pal.

09:15 Nobody perhaps fit this bill more than Zack Ryder.

09:17 Or maybe Primo or JTG.

09:19 For real, it felt like those two were employed forever.

09:22 And to Zack Ryder's credit, however, he was not simply content with languishing away.

09:26 Instead, he would start up his very own YouTube channel and begin a series known as Z True

09:30 Long Island Story.

09:31 The series garnered Ryder a massive following throughout 2011, leading to fans hijacking

09:36 shows with "We Want Ryder" chants until WWE were forced to take notice.

09:40 Now you've got to remember, this was before YouTube was this major thing that it is now,

09:45 and wrestling Twitter was still in its infancy.

09:47 However, we were hastily reminded that more often than not, if you go against the will

09:51 of Vince McMahon and get yourself over organically without WWE's backing, you will duly be brought

09:56 back down to Earth.

09:57 Despite throwing Ryder a bone by giving him a United States Championship run in late 2011,

10:01 he was well and truly dismantled and humiliated on TV constantly in early 2012.

10:07 Specifically, throughout John Cena's rivalry with Kane and on-screen romance with Yves

10:11 Torres.

10:12 The cake was getting kicked square in the gonads by Torres at WrestleMania 28, effectively

10:16 extinguishing the Ryder fire for good and sending him back to catering for 8 more years.

10:21 WWE spent all of 2011 burying Twitter because guys like Ryder got over because of it, then

10:26 fast forward one year and they're slapping the trending sticker over the end of an era

10:30 segment like that's what matters at that moment.

10:33 Had Ryder gotten himself over on tout, maybe things would have been different.

10:36 Number 3, The Fiend After 6 years of character mismanagement,

10:40 the spring of 2019 saw a true revival for Bray Wyatt.

10:44 No longer the swamp-dwelling cult leader and instead a children's TV show host carrying

10:48 extremely unsettling undertones, the birth of the Firefly Funhouse was a breath of fresh

10:52 air for Bray and WWE.

10:54 Though it should be noted that the Firefly Funhouse was literally born out of those 6

10:57 years of bad booking.

10:59 At the center of all of it, however, was Bray's new alter ego, The Fiend, who provided one

11:03 of the most truly unsettling character designs in wrestling history and gave Bray a new horror

11:08 villain character that was simply indestructible.

11:11 That is, unless you're going up against a 53 year old Goldberg.

11:14 Oh yes, in what is still arguably one of the worst booking decisions of all time, The Fiend

11:20 was fed to Oldberg after months of dominance.

11:23 Just baffling.

11:25 Proving precisely why The Fiend should have been kept away from the title scene in the

11:28 first place, the mystique of the character was damaged beyond repair at that moment.

11:32 And that was a few months after the Hell in a Cell debacle.

11:35 And it's not even getting into the maddening Randy Orton storyline that went on for months

11:40 and had no satisfying conclusion outside of Randy Orton squashing The Fiend at WrestleMania.

11:46 Absolutely atrocious for such a creative character, for Vince McMahon, the supposed creative genius,

11:52 to have no idea how to book him.

11:55 Vince and Bray notoriously clashed creatively very often, which would eventually lead to

11:59 Wyatt getting released and receiving the "difficult to work with" label.

12:03 Simply meaning that Bray simply called McMahon out for his garbage creative.

12:07 Thank God this wasn't the final chapter for Wyatt in WWE as it once seemed to be.

12:12 2.

12:13 Dean Ambrose Seeing Jon Moxley flourish in AEW as a no-nonsense,

12:18 foul-mouthed badass has truly shown just how much WWE and Vince McMahon missed the mark

12:23 with his character.

12:24 Despite showing glimpses of his current best, the WWE version of Dean Ambrose always felt

12:29 like a bit of a caricature.

12:30 Ambrose was labeled as "unhinged" and a "lunatic" but often came off as a bit corny and not

12:36 a balanced blending of the character and the real person at times.

12:39 And when WWE attempted to change Ambrose's character after many years with his 2018 heel

12:44 turn, it was so dreadfully botched that it provided the nail in the coffin for Ambrose's

12:49 WWE tenure.

12:51 What could have been the catalyst to see Ambrose lose the shackles and show that rougher side,

12:55 instead saw him get dressed up as a wish version of Bane and get inoculations on camera to

13:00 protect himself from the WWE Universe.

13:03 Had it been a year and a half later, he might have been onto something.

13:05 Rewatching that segment in particular, though, is painfully evident just how bad Mox knew

13:10 the material he was given was.

13:13 Nothing more than the creatively devoid "you people are disgusting" heel heat that was

13:17 so beneath Mox's talents.

13:20 Just let Mox be Mox, Vince.

13:22 Why did you have to make everything so lame?

13:25 And number one, almost every NXT call-up ever.

13:28 Karrion Kross, Keith Lee, The Ascension, Tyler Breeze, Bobby Roode, The Revival, Rusev, Ty

13:33 Dillinger, Aleister Black, Andrade, EC3, The Viking Raiders, Sanity, AOP, Hit Row, American

13:38 Alpha, Hideo Itami, Pete, Dunne.

13:41 Okay, breathe.

13:43 Probably forgetting a few.

13:44 But is there anything more to say there?

13:46 While there have been numerous NXT alumni that have successfully made the transition to a

13:51 Vince McMahon-led main roster, the number of botched call-ups is truly staggering.

13:56 And while some have stuck around or found their way back to the company recently, so

14:00 many have slipped through WWE's grasp, which is a huge shame.

14:04 The sheer frustration caused in seeing a character being developed for years in NXT only to be

14:09 completely gutted on the main roster was painful.

14:12 Some were given helmets, some were given totally random nicknames, "Bearcat, anyone?" and

14:17 some were made a mute, like EC3, because of, you know, reasons, I guess.

14:22 This almost certainly got some sort of sick pleasure from the whole thing.

14:26 That truly evil man.

14:28 Thankfully, NXT is no longer treated like the ugly stepchild of the WWE, and things

14:32 are looking up.

14:33 The reign of McMahon terror is over.

14:35 Long live the McMahon-Helmsley-Conn era, I guess.

14:39 Yeah, that sounds about right.

14:41 WWE.

14:42 WWE.

14:43 WWE.

14:44 And that's our list.

14:45 Did we forget your favourite wrestler that Vince McMahon never quite got?

14:47 Make sure you let us know in the comments below, and make sure to like this video, subscribe,

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14:54 it.

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14:56 I'll send you a cookie, maybe.

14:57 No, I won't.

14:58 But I'll appreciate it very much.

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