I do want to make it clear before we do start talking about today's video that many of the wrestlers that are going to come up went on to have amazing careers.

It's just that when you do go back through their runs, particularly in WWE, all of a sudden you go, wait a minute, they had this amazing moment, then they kind of fell back into a pan.

So essentially we are going to tell some stories today, and my name is Simon Miller.

Thank you for joining me. These are 10 one-hit wonders from wrestling history. Number 10, Carl Anderson. Carl Anderson has managed to make money from every single wrestling promotion in the world. As far as I know, he is still active today, has one hell of a career. The reason of what Colchab decided to put Carl Anderson in this list, though, takes us back to the G1 climax in 2012, and all of a sudden, Carl Anderson was taking on Akada, who was still sort of finding his way, and good grief did they put on one hell of a final. I mean, it really was selling the idea of what NJPW was before it was going to blow up in a couple of years' time. And the counter-laden sequence structure of the thing

is awesome to watch. It's like you go, I go, your nan goes, but everything just looks so damn good. I do want to point out that Carl Anderson had a great singles run a few years after this in New Japan. And really, he would have done far better in WWE, but the machine never got behind him. I mean, when he was in that team alongside AJ Stiles and Luke Gallas,

it just felt like we could have pulled the trigger more than we did.

And also him and Luke Gallis have been oddly fired from WW on a few occasions. That doesn't help, but yeah, go back to 2012 and watch this and you will go, my gosh, what a great main event. Number nine, Alex Riley. This one doesn't really tie into the other things we are talking about, because at one point, Alex Riley really did feel like the next big thing. I mean, he was standing alongside the MIS when he turned on the guy. They had a decent feud, and everybody kind of thought, well, if WW does get this right, they may have a brand new baby face. When Riley finally did deck the Mizz in May 2011 as well, everybody went crazy. And then right after this, for one reason or another, W.W. He kind of just gave up on him. Now, if you do go on Google right now, you will find so many rumors about this, some of which actually bring in John Sina. But given that no one's actually clarified, all we can do is go shrug emoji, nobody actually

knows what happened here. It did feel like he was a very Vincent Mann pro wrestler, though,

and he ticked most of those boxes. And then before long, he was doing NXT color commentator work

before he got let go. I'm not trying to take shots here, but look at somebody like Jack Swagger.

He did go on to become the world champion, but most people in the crowd thought that Alex Riley had way more potential, and then one day he was there, and the next day he wasn't, and really he never did anything else in wrestling after this. It is the most peculiar tale. Number eight, Leaver Bates. Now, I really like Leaver Bates and I have talked to her in real life and she is just a super nice person.

And actually, every single thing she has done post-WW has been massively successful.

So here we are just focusing on NXT.

It's totally mad though, but as NXT did rebuild itself into this interesting developmental and sort of third brand,

she came out as blue pants.

I mean that literally, I'm pretty sure WWE even released merchandise that had a picture of blue pants on it.

How or why this did come to be, I don't know, but good grief did Batesley and into it hard. I mean, she could come out wearing these blue pants and the NXT audience would just go crazy.

I think she just embraced the concept to such a degree and everybody could see she was having fun with it. Damn it, when you do break it down, that's what wrestling is all about. This was a very fun time. The issue was that WWE never really had a plan to evolve from this, and eventually you do have to do that. I don't want to call it a comedy gimmick, but of course it was leaning into the novelty, so on all of a sudden it does become a regular fixture, you have to have something else ready to go. I think that Leverbates absolutely could have leaned into that as well, and after she did leave NXT, she did start with AEW in 2019, and she had a pretty good run there before returning to the Indies. It's just if you are more of a WW fan and you do see her, you will always go, that's blue pants.

Kind of sums it up.

Number seven. to the Indies. It's just if you are more of a WW fan and you do see her, you will always go,

that's blue pants. Kind of sums it up. Number seven, Action Andredi. So this one is super duper weird, because the rumor was at the time, Chris Jericho decided let's surprise the audience, and he saw Action Andretti working a match and thought, well, that guy's awesome. Why doesn't he beat me and he did. It came out of nowhere, nobody was expecting it, and all of a sudden in

2022 we thought, well, that guy's awesome. Why doesn't he beat me? And he did. It came out of nowhere, nobody was expecting it. And all of a sudden in 2022, we thought, oh my gosh, maybe action can be the next big thing. This was absolutely possible as well because he was only 24 years old, and he had beaten a Hall of Famer, but then for some reason, well, we didn't really do anything with him. That's only fair to say, he has continued to work in All Elite Wrestling, and his tag team

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