10 WWE Careers That Flatlined After WrestleMania - Rusev! Lex Luger! Jack Swagger! Bart Gunn?!
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🗓️ 24 April 2023
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Those talents whose WWE career nose-dived after WrestleMania... Andrew Pollard presents 10 WWE Careers That Flatlined After WrestleMania...
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| 0:00.0 | Wrestlemania is so often being utilised as the place where talent can take their stock |
| 0:05.2 | to an entirely new level. |
| 0:07.2 | There have been plenty of other wrestlers whose careers have plummeted in the aftermath |
| 0:11.8 | of the showcase of the Immortals. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Andrew from Whatculture Wrestling and here are 10 such wrestlers whose time with WWE |
| 0:18.4 | was only on a downward slope once Wrestlemania was in the rearview mirror. |
| 0:22.5 | 10. |
| 0:23.5 | Crush Wrestlemania 10 Brian Adams had so many of the attributes |
| 0:27.9 | that will forever get Vince McMahon tight in his pants. |
| 0:31.0 | He was a big, powerful fella with a great look and he would pass the famed airport test. |
| 0:36.0 | The fact that McMahon made Crush the third member of the iconic demolition should indicate |
| 0:40.4 | how strongly the talent was thought of and even his corner crush it looked as if the |
| 0:44.4 | powerhouse was being groomed to be a main event player. |
| 0:47.5 | In an actually rather nicely done heel turn, late 1993 saw Crush return to television |
| 0:53.3 | with his tribal Hawaiian heel persona. |
| 0:56.0 | He immediately targeted Randy Savage, claiming Savage was responsible for a back injury |
| 1:01.3 | Crush had suffered when trying to slam Mr Fuji's Yokozuna earlier in a year. |
| 1:06.2 | The logic was, Savage encouraged Crush to slam Yoko and thus the mature man was to blame |
| 1:12.2 | for the injury suffered by the former demolition man. |
| 1:14.9 | This issue culminated at Wrestlemania 10 where Crush and Savage did battle in a slightly |
| 1:19.6 | bizarre force count anywhere, 60 second count contest for all the world it's seen as if |
| 1:25.6 | Crush would get the win here, giving him a huge win on a huge stage against a huge |
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