10 WWE Prospects Who Caused Their Own Downfall
These WWE prospects failed because of their own actions
When a WWE-contracted performer who seems to have a glittering career in front of them is released, the question quickly turns to ‘why’ it happened.
On some occasions, the answer is staring the sports entertainer right back in the face when they look in the mirror. While lack of creative ideas, budget cuts and all manner of other excuses can often be given, the reason can occasionally be boiled down to ‘me’.
These are 10 promising WWE prospects who caused their own downfalls.
10. Joshua Bredl
It had its critics, sure, but WWE’s win-a-contract reality show Tough Enough did occasionally make for great television and helped get the likes of The Miz, John Morrison and Maven through the door.
Not everyone who made the final cut or even won the competition enjoyed success, however.
Just ask Joshua Bredl, the season six winner who was duly re-christened Bronson Matthews and shipped off to NXT.
After only a few months of being stationed in Orlando, Florida, Bredl – who at six-foot-seven, almost three-hundred pounds and with a big head of hair, seemed to check a lot of WWE’s boxes – raised the ire of the locker room with a single ill-conceived tweet.
While watching Raw, Bredl used the hashtag #SocialJobbers to describe the new Social Outcasts stable.
Though he later protested that he did so in ‘heel’ character, the likes of Kevin Owens and Cody Rhodes did not take kindly to the perceived slight.
Bredl had to go to the so-called Wrestler’s Court and was temporarily kicked out of the NXT locker room over the incident. From that point on, his release, which came on November 5, 2017, was inevitable.
