From Olympic gold flops to possible next big things. Each of these cannot fail wrestlers all did exactly that.

And if you want to know why, well, you've come to the right list. I'm Gareth. This is What Culture Wrestling.

And here are five real reasons why can't miss wrestling prospects bombed.

Number five, Tyler Bate.

Tyler Bate was just 19 years old when, in front of a packed Empress ballroom in Blackpool,

England, world wrestling entertainment decided to strap him up as their first WWUK

champion in January 2017.

That sentence alone feels like something generated by the sort of ineffective AI that

appears at the top of the average Google search almost a decade later.

But somehow, all of it is true.

And again, somehow it all happened nearly a decade ago.

That is mad.

A total prodigy, having worked less than three years by the time

he was carrying a belt, the market leader now pretended to care about, Bate had worked roughly

300 matches between his 2014 in-ring debut and WWE bow. That's a lot of matches. For context,

current era breakout star Javon Evans has only just clocked up the same

amount, despite working twice as long, and getting an extended NXT run to tune him up for

weekly shifts on the likes of Roar and Smackdown. Bate had miles on the clock and was constantly

gaining value thanks to experience and connections. His on-and-off-screen relationship

with fellow seen standout Pete Dunn and Brit Rest Boom veteran Trent 7 further bolstered the sense

that he was an unstoppable force. British strong style in name and concept was over. Mustash Mountain

for all of it of the time meme popularity was over.

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