WWE's biggest missed opportunities

Over the years, WWE has been a factory of top talent, producing talents year in, year out. Even though they have given us stars like Shawn Michaels, Undertaker, Steve Austin, Triple H, Kurt Angle, John Cena and more, I hate to admit that the creative team have made a lot of mistakes in handling a lot of potential superstars.

In this article, I will talk about the superstars that got away, and how WWE creative team could have handled them differently.

The Great Khali

Let us begin with one of the obvious one. When The Great Khali made his debut in 2006, dominating and humiliating the Undertaker, we all thought that he was ‘the’ big deal. For the first year, he surely was. One thing that did not work in his favour was his poor in-ring ability. So, what do you do with a guy who is a massive giant and is an imposing figure, but cannot wrestle? Simple, do not make him wrestle at any cost. Seriously, don’t!

Imagine a WWE where The Great Khali just walks around the arena, just dominating superstars, interfering in any match he wants and destroys the participants BUT is never booked in a match. He could have easily been WWE’s silent assassin. He could have been a wrestler who never actually wrestled a match. This way, the audience would have been saved from watching ill-planned action in the ring and would have rather enjoyed the dominance. Every fan could have been on the edge of their seats at all time, just hoping that Khali’s music did not hit in-between their favourite superstar’s match. And if this move would have timed out, the creative team could have revealed him to be Vince McMahon’s destruction man, who had been demolishing everyone and everything on McMahon’s orders for all these years. There could have been a lot of storylines which could have been developed through this angle. Now, however, he is the Punjabi playboy who jumps around with Natalya and the Hornswoggle.

Chavo Guerrero

He was never the fan favourite. Agreed. However, no one can deny the wealth of talent the guy possessed. Sure, he also had a run at near-top as the ECW Champion (if you think that being ECW Champion was top draw in WWE, that is). After Eddie’s death in 2005, Chavo was shown to be on his way to retribution, but for what? Eddie’s death was no one’s fault. Soon after that, he turned the bad guy and had a feud with Rey Mysterio to honour his uncle Eddie Guerrero. After his string of feuds ended, he was drafted to ECW where he received his much desired push. And, soon after that, he was blown into incompetence by the WWE creative team. It was a pity to see a talent like Chavo teaming with the likes of JTG to take on the likes of Yoshi Tatsu. Unacceptable.