10 Infamously Short-Lived WWE Gimmicks
The most infamous one-and-dones (or close to it) to have ever graced a WWE audience...
3. Hade Vansen
You must be a pretty big deal if your first angle on the main roster is a feud with The Undertaker, right? So many others on this list flamed out in mostly-cold squash matches, but English wrestler Hade Vansen was fixing to go to the head of the class. The seven-year pro had spent the previous year-plus in WWE developmental before he appeared in a foreboding vignette on an episode of SmackDown in December 2008.
Vansen warned that he and a collection of followers were coming to WWE. According to Vansen some time later, they were supposed to be a gang of X-Men style mutants, which he would dispatch at The Undertaker one by one, leading to "The Dead Man" facing Vansen himself in a final showdown at WrestleMania 25. But after that lone video aired, the storyline was scrapped, and weeks later, Vansen was suddenly released from the company. Granted, few are going to sneeze at the match Undertaker *actually* got at WrestleMania 25, but it's amazing at how fast somebody could go from "positioned for a big spot" to "yesterday's news".
Written by Justin Henry
In addition to writing lists and commentaries for Cultaholic, Justin is also a features writer and interviewer for Fighting Spirit Magazine, and is co-author of the WWE-related book Titan Screwed: Lost Smiles, Stunners, and Screwjobs.
