Hello all of you beautiful people, Jules here for WhatCulture.com, and as they always say,

history is written by the victors, but you know what, today we're focusing on the losers

because secretly, even without claiming championship victories or standing tall at the end of things,

they actually sometimes master eyes above those that actually pin them to the mat.

Strange I know, but let's check it out.

As I'm Jules, this is WhatCulture.com, and these are 10 wrestlers who got over by losing.

10.

Derby Allen Derby Allen's early win-loss record was uneven by calculated

design.

In addition to getting Derby over as an emerging, spirited talent, it put the very notion

of achievement over how difficult it was to actually ascend.

The dissonance between his record and his performance level asked a very probing question, what

else does he have to do?

And the fundamental answer to everything being, he has to win.

He took Cody to the limit in an inspired match at Fight of Best in 2019, in that it positioned

Derby as a future player and established the drama of a time limit draw unfamiliar to

modern US audiences.

In the dynamite era, Derby defeated the fellow mid-card pack of Kipps Aby and Samic

Rivera, but lost to the established top tier players like Pack and John Moxley, but he

showed out in those defeats, which were definitely orchestrated to put him over as a man on

the cusp of being the big time.

Mox had to put him away with the top-row paradigm shift, Pack had to use the steps.

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