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15 WWE Pushes That Immediately Backfired - Scott Steiner! Mordecai! Braun Strowman! Bret Hart?!

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🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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WWE really needed to think these major pushes through first. Simon Miller presents 15 WWE Pushes That Immediately Backfired...


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0:00.0

You know when you wake up actually feeling good? Yeah, your watch loves to see it. So it adjusted your sleep reminder to fit in an extra REM cycle. The new Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 is the ultimate health coach powered by AI. Save 114-town with the Galaxy Watch 8 at Vodafone on a 24-month connectivity plan ordered by the 2nd of September. Visit your local London-Putney Vodafone store today. Saving against connectivity and device. Eligibility credit checks in terms of apply. Compatible smartphone, Vodafone airtime plan, Samsung accounts and health app required. Soup tracking is intended for general wellness only. The big push. We all want one even if we're not wrestlers. You work at the grocery store in the fruit aisle. You've got your eyes on baked goods. I mean, that's not how supermarkets work, but it's a free world. I can say whatever I want. It is very important in sports entertainment because it's basically your currency. You can be the best grappler on the planet, but if a company doesn't get behind you, you're sort of screwed. That's why when somebody does get one of these pushes and it doesn't work, well, it's no fun. So let's relive some of these live and in real time before we figure out why. Slap your damn head. Number 15, Nathan Jones. This was in 2003, so let's make it clear, it kinda wasn't Nathan Jones' fault.

1:11.1

You can find the same report over and over from this time where huge dudes were hired

1:15.1

by WWE, and as soon as Vince Oman saw them, he called them up to the main roster.

1:20.4

The issue was this wasn't 1984 anymore.

1:23.3

Being a giant wasn't enough, and poor folk like Nathan were performing on paper views before even

1:28.2

being taught basic wrestling fundamentals. What did anybody think was going to happen? Jones was

1:32.9

especially huge as he was near seven foot and was also jacked, so on the 10th of April Smackdown,

1:37.6

he beat Bill DeMott before becoming the protege of the Undertaker. Felt a bit weird, but again,

1:42.8

WWE knew he needed experience,

1:45.2

so put him with the guy that had a lot of that.

1:47.2

The big story was going to be these two teaming together at

1:49.5

WrestleMania 19 to face A train in the big show,

1:52.7

but just beforehand,

1:54.4

W.W.E pulled Jones because,

1:56.9

well, they realized he didn't have the right experience.

2:00.0

Obviously, you couldn't write this. It's like punching yourself in the face and wondering why you got a bruise. This was my hand. Why would it do it to me? It turned into a handicapped match with Nathan just helping out instead. And then, well, we never really saw him again. He returned to developmental promotion to OVW and that was damning,

2:18.3

but why didn't we do this to begin with? It was also the end of this push, and I think after a while

2:23.1

Nathan Jones got tired of it all, and he just left wrestling altogether. So that was silly. If we

2:28.6

had just given it time, who knows where it all be now? Ah well, number 14, Liv Morgan from 2022. It's even madder to go back now

2:37.5

and watch because compare it to Liv Morgan in 2024. How did we get this first go-around so wrong?

2:43.7

Suppose it started all right as she won the money in the bank briefcase and cashed in on the same night

2:47.8

to take the title from then champion Ronda Rousey, then after that,

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