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10 Wrestlers Who Suffered From The Curse Of Comparison - Jack Swagger & Kurt Angle! Dolph Ziggler & Shawn Michaels! Lex Luger & Hulk Hogan! Mason Ryan & Batista?!

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🗓️ 20 June 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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The struggles of living up to in-ring icons... Simon Miller presents 10 Wrestlers Who Suffered From The Curse Of Comparison...


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Well, it can be lovely to be compared to somebody else, it can also utterly derail your

0:13.3

career.

0:14.3

I get compared to somebody called Johnny Sins every day, for example, because we're both

0:17.9

bald, and if you do not know who that is, do not Google it, especially at work, I did

0:23.1

this and quickly found out the hard way.

0:25.7

It can be a real problem in the world of wrestling too, though, because all of a sudden your expectations

0:29.4

have gone through the roof, even though really, you were never supposed to be in that bracket

0:33.5

to begin with.

0:34.5

I'm sorry for what culture, please do hit that subscribe button, this is 10 wrestlers

0:38.6

who suffered from the curse of comparison, number 10 Nicole Bass.

0:43.0

Around the same time, China was lighting up arenas the world over, WCW introduced Asia,

0:48.9

and yes that's exactly what you think it is, but you could just pass his office Monday

0:52.6

Night Wars silliness, that was not the case with Nicole Bass.

0:56.2

By viewing at WrestleMania 15, Bass was clearly brought in to try and recapture the magic

1:00.3

that WWE had already struck gold with.

1:03.1

She also acted just like China, in the sense that on this night, the night's one of the

1:06.9

world interfered to give Triple H the victory over Kane, the Bass did the exact same thing

1:11.2

was sabile.

1:12.2

It was clear the plan was to pair the two off against each other at some point, but Nicole

1:15.8

didn't really adapt to wrestling that well and began to struggle.

1:18.8

So why in 1999, China became the first woman to enter the Royal Rumble won the IC title,

1:23.9

and was in the King of the Ring, whereas Bass was fighting Deborah for some reason.

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