Bad debuts in professional wrestling, for some reason you love hearing about them, which is a bit mean.

But the good news is, even if you do have a terrible arrival on the wrestling scene, sometimes, as you're about to see, you can still go on to have a Hall of Fame career. So even if your own life, even if you're step one, you do stumble and fall, just remember to pick yourself back up and keep kicking ass. Still, though, there are a list of professional wrestlers who did pop up, and everybody went,

oh no, that's not what we should have done.

So like my... remember to pick yourself back up and keep kicking ass. Still though, there are a list of professional wrestlers who did pop up and everybody went, oh no, that's not what we should have done. So, hello my friends, I am Simon Miller and let me throw them in your face right now. Number 15, Adam Rose. So before Adam Rose became Adam Rose, he was actually known as Leo Kruger down at NXT and he was a bit insane. He was like a South African hunter dude. I guess it's a bit

like Skinner. You remember Skinner from the 90s? He walked around with the big knives like, oh man, I'm going to stare people in the face. That's essentially what Leo Kruger was doing, but he did not say stab in the face. Now, the re-package was totally nuts because even though he did keep his accent. All of a sudden, Leo Kruger was Adam Rose, who was like some kind of

party dude that came to the ring with what, a congline or a bunch of people that looked like they just got drunk and done a bunch of drugs at a party. He would also say, don't be a lemon, be a rose bod, and who the flub knows what that means. And actually, this congregation of people was called the Exargettec Press, and sometimes they dressed as hamburgers,

and sometimes they dressed as, I don't know, whatever that meant to be. But the big one is who is in the Buddy Rabbit costume? And actually, it was a lot of wrestlers. But we all assumed that one day it was going to be like, ta-da, it's this person. And then when Adam Rose would have a feud, instead, this never happened because Vincent man got tired of the gimmick, and poor Adam

Rose was let go. Now, listen, it was fun to talk about when he did first debut, but you can go back and watch it now, and instantly you'll fill deep down in your tutsy toes. I don't think this is that long for the world, and it wasn't, mostly because what even in the hell was it? Number 14, the Ascension. So going back and watch The Ascension, that tag team in NXT, this felt like the most

obvious call-up ever. There would be a success, because essentially Victor and Connor had gone, well, why don't we just tap into the old-school legends? They were in the tag team scene, and then we can just copy and paste with that. And if WW had just gone with it on Raw or Smackdown, well, they would have been fine, but instead, once again, Vince McMahon, I can really presume, went, well, I understand they did really good in NXT, but I'm going to ignore everything they did do and cast them in my own image. This was the 29th of December 2014 episode of Raw, and listen, the Ascension did beat the miss in Demien Sandow, but you can watch and listen to this with

your own ears. J.B. on commentary just eviscerates these guys going, ha ha ha, they want to be the road warriors. They're never going to be a road warriors. What a couple of losers. So surprise, surprise, if you weren't watching NXT, you then decided, well, I guess they're just a couple of losers. We got to week two when essentially the Ascension lost the New Age Outlaws.

So he basically gave them seven days.

And from here, decided, well, I guess they're just a couple of losers. They got to week two when essentially the Ascension lost the New Age Outlaws.

So we basically gave them seven days. And from here, they quite literally became comic book characters, including being in the cosmic wasteland. They walked around and go, I think we're on a different planet. And listen, this is totally fine. It was entertaining, I would say, to a certain extent. But when you have this great idea down at NXT, which is meant to be your developmental platform, and you don't launch it in the right way on your main roster, well, it just makes you go shrug emoji, even more so, because they booked so badly, they went down and down and down the card until they got released, and it wasn't even their fault. They had figured it out, and all their gifts were taken away. Imagine you did that to a kid at Christmas, the kid is going to cry, and now you're a bad parent. Number 13 came the Lasquez. So this one basically comes through confusion because I think at the time if you were super duper into UFC, maybe you weren't necessarily watching WWE, so when all of a sudden the former heavyweight champion turned up on Smackdown, most people, especially in the crowd on that night, were just like, what the hell is going on? This all went down in October 2019, though, when Fox did start to air Smackdown, and quite clearly someone from the network had gone, hey man, we really would like a big surprise at the end of of this show. So not only did you get that terrible match between Brock, Lesnar and Kofi Kingston, when Kofi did lose his WWTamanship, but afterwards out came Ray Mysterio and went, ta-da, look who it is Brock, it's your old foe from the octagon, Kane Velazquez, and he's going to kick your ass. I mean, talk about mucking offray Mysterio. He had come out to get revenge on Brock and Gobel.

I know I can't beat you up, for he's going to do it instead. As we were soon learned as well, this was just so Brot Lesnar could get his win back over King Velasquez, which was also stupid. And he was gone in like three months. Quite clearly somebody had gotten in Vincent Mann's ear to convince him that we should do this. Vincent Mann disagreed and yet it never actually connected with the fans

and go and watch their match from Saudi Arabia. It is one of the strangest things you can ever hope

to see, but it doesn't help on night one. You had thousands of people going, I don't quite understand.

It is two plus two equals potato and we never should have done it. Or we should have done it, at least had some introduction videos, because how easy is that? It's like a free home run. He's a former UFC champion. Instead, we just pooped the bed. Shouldn't have said that. Number 12, Xavier Woods. Now, Xavier Woods is massively underappreciated. He is massively underrated. He is a future Hall of Famer. And do not forget that's just not what he has done in a wrestling ring. The way he kind of fused the two worlds between what you can do in wrestling and what you could do outside of wrestling with content. We need to put some respect on his name right now. Now, of course, he also helped the new day to go on to become one of the best tag teams of all time, but actually his journey from NXT to a main roster was a bit weird, because while he had done some really good work in developmental, when he did get called up, he was just thrown into a random tag team with Our Truth, and just to make you face palm once again, they were never allowed to cut any promos, so you essentially stole their personalities away from them. And in many ways, that's all our truth and Xavier Woods are, and I mean that as a massive compliment. Also, some of the teams they were feuding with didn't like the world on fire because it was like tons of funk and 3MB. And listen, they did get some wins and sometimes they got defeated. Then after six months, WW, we just wait, you know what you're done. The truth is there was just no hoopla behind this and it didn't feel like the company was getting behind Xavier Woods at all. I do believe he's spoken about this. That's why he put his career on the line when he did come up with the concept of the new day. And he went to Vince Oman and said, if I can't get this over, you can fire me because he understood.

He had more to offer than the company was willing to give him.

And now look where we are 10 years on.

You can't debate it, man.

He was absolutely telling the truth, which is ironic because he also tag team with truth.

Number 11, Batista.

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