10 Wrestlers WWE Gave Up On Too Quickly

8. Ultimo Dragon

Years after it was feared a botched elbow operation had ended his career, WCW favourite Ultimo Dragon signed with WWE. The company built up his impending debut with vignettes and introduced the inventor of the Asai Moonsault in grand style by having his first televised WWE match take place on an episode of SmackDown taped from Madison Square Garden. 

The masked man looked sharp putting Shannon Moore away, while Rey Mysterio talked him up on commentary and Billy Kidman watched on from the crowd (flanked by models and wearing sunglasses for some reason). 

That was about as good as it got for Dragon, whose next televised outing was a quick loss to Eddie Guerrero. After that, Ultimo could usually be found plying his trade on low-priority weekend show Velocity. No real shock that he decided to leave WWE after less than a year. The man himself would later say that WWE perhaps felt like he was too ‘similar’ to Mysterio, while also revealing that they had wanted him to unmask, a request that helped speed up his premature exit.