10 Wrestlers WWE Gave Up On Too Quickly

4. Tensai

To be fair to WWE, they tried time and time again to make Matt Bloom a credible singles threat. In the early 2000s, he was given a not-insubstantial push on SmackDown as A-Train, but failed to get over to the desired level and, after an injury and switch to Raw, he was let go. 

Reinventing himself as a monster heel in Japan, he changed his name to Giant Bernard and enjoyed much success as one of the top foreigners in New Japan. WWE’s Talent Relations chief John Laurinaitis was watching and engineered Bloom’s return after an almost eight-year absence. 

Coming back with a gimmick inspired by his time in the Land of the Rising Sun, Bloom was now known as Lord Tensai (though he soon dropped the ‘Lord’ part) and was being built up as a villainous challenger for John Cena. After a couple of squashes to establish him as a threat, Tensai actually beat Cena in an Extreme Rules match on Raw. This didn’t lead to anything substantial, however, as WWE suddenly got bored of the big man, fed him to Cena and proceeded to job him out. He would soon become a dancing act alongside Brodus Clay.