Wrestlers You Liked That No One Else Cared About

My pick for a wrestler I liked that no one else cared about has to be Kamala, one of those crazy, completely over-the-top gimmick characters from the eighties.

I can't say that I have seen much praise of the Ugandan Head Hunter either on this or other boards.

Me, I always loved Kamala. How many wrestlers has eaten a live chicken on air? Kayfabe ofc, but still. Kamala always entertained me.
 
I have to go with anyone who left ECW for grander Pastures, but one of the biggest I liked that really got no real recognition and it was from what is said their own fault in WWE but I dont know about WCW. . . The Public Enemy, they were great in ECW. Tajiri as well I was at the ECW Arena when Tajiri debuted against Antifaz Del Norte and when he hit that Tarantula I lost it
 
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For me, it was all about the Colossus of Boggo road, Nathan Jones. He had a brutal punch and kick and was put on a great platform to do well. First debuting as a part of "Team Lesnar" with matt morgan. Then disappeared for a short bit and became the protege of the Undertaker. However once he was dropped from WMXIX for being to green I believe, he never really recovered.

I loved him though! Also on my list was steve blackman for being awesome, and Gangrel for being a vampire, though once I saw him start his match I was never quite as impressed.
 
It's already been said, but a guy that I really liked from the mid-2000's was Kevin Fertig, during his time on Smackdown as Mordecai. I'll admit, his ring work wasn't incredible, but it was effective and good enough for his character. I can't believe the whole thing only lasted two months, and I guess there was some sort of bar fight incident that lead to his dismissal. It's just a shame, because I think he could have been a great opponent for a lot of main event guys. We only saw he job out Scotty 2 Hotty and a handful of under-card stars. You're telling me a Undertaker/Mordecai feud couldn't culminate in one hell of a WrestleMania, or Survivor Series match? I don't think he would have lasted forever on top, but he could have been great for awhile.

Here's a video, in case you managed to miss the two months where he was performing as Mordecai...

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He would later return as Kevin Thorn in WW-ECW, but at that point nobody cared. It was just so over-the-top, and the whole promotion was a shell of its former self. I'd probably rather watch Superstars today than some of the things they came up with in post-Heyman ECW.
 
Mine would have to be Papi Chulo/Essa Rios.

Not sure about others but I was stoked every time he came out for a match. It was must see TV for me because I loved his style and athleticism...something about him stood out more than the other lucha guys. I'd take him over Sin Cara any day.
 
I would say Taijiri for his WWF career.

For not well known guys I was only 8 or so when he debuted but I thought that Max Moon was pretty cool. I remember him having a match with shawn micheals that I thought was good at the time, in reality it could very well have sucked.
 
Matt Hardy.

As the V1 Character, I really thought his Mattitude guru type thing could, with the right build become a world title contender who could end up with a run under the right circumstances.

I guess he was a successful midcarder, but I expected/wanted more.


Another one: Albert

Albert I thought could have been Batista, before Batista. He was 6'7" 350 and pure power. That could have translated to monster heel that didn't need to talk. It never happened...I was sold on him as a monster heel tho
 
Adam Bomb was one of my favorites as a kid, and also later on when he had his brief undefeated run as Wrath I was pulling for him. He never even got close to being over with the Wrath character, but I still considered him one of my favorites.
 
I'm going to name two. Mikey Whipwreck and Glacier.

Mikey is one of my favorite ecw wrestlers ever. I doubt he is on other people's top 10 even in ecw, but I just loved the way they booked him. I also think he played the underdog really well and because of his size and the way he acted- it was very convincing. Mikey winning the ecw title was a cool moment too.

Glacier had an awesome entrance and really cool entrance music(well the second one was anyway). At first they had him wrestle while it was snowing(I know it wasn't real snow) which was a cool visual. Plus I liked his martial arts moves. He is legit.
 
I always liked Perry Saturn because his submission The Rings of Saturn is still one of the most legit painful looking maneuvers I have ever seen and I loved how he did a REAL death valley driver not that crappy AA that Cena does. Also he did the Tazplexes better than Taz himself. Honorable mention goes to when Jericho beat him in a match where he had to wear a dress and he actually made a gimmick out of it where he made it look cool when Marylin Manson was at his peak of controversy and to me it had shades of him. Overall, throughout his tenure in ECW with Kronus as The Eliminators, his amazing run in WCW, and his run in WWE with a mop that I'd like to pretend never happened, Saturn was one of the most enjoyable wrestlers I saw.

I also liked Chris Kanyon The Innovator of Offense both as Mortis and even later as Champagne Kanyon...or Shampoo Kanyon if you asked Juvi. He could seemingly make up cool slams as he went. He was another like Saturn who had some shitty gimmicks but awesome in ring technique. I got a huge kick out of the guy. It was sad that he killed himself because he was a seriously untapped talent in my estimation. Just another who got lost in the shuffle.

D-Lo Brown was a very talented individual as well with good speed and even some high flying combined with an awesome running powerbomb which I know crippled Droz but thats a story for a different day. I enjoyed his time with The Nation of Domination especially when he wore the chest protector for so long not unlike Cody Rhodes, after Dan "The Beast" Severn got him in a Lying Abdominal Stretch and "hyper extended" D-Lo's sternum according to JR. Even after all that he still did the ridiculous strut to the ring like he owned the place.
 
When I was a kid, I loved Billy Jack Haynes during his stint in the WWF...especially when he was having his "full nelson" rivalry with Hercules Hernandez. Both guys were pretty ripped, and both used the full nelson as their finisher. Having them feud over something as simple as who is stronger/who does the full nelson better just made sense to me as a kid. That was as good a reason to feud as you needed.
 
I'm going to name two. Mikey Whipwreck and Glacier.

Mikey is one of my favorite ecw wrestlers ever. I doubt he is on other people's top 10 even in ecw, but I just loved the way they booked him. I also think he played the underdog really well and because of his size and the way he acted- it was very convincing. Mikey winning the ecw title was a cool moment too.

Glacier had an awesome entrance and really cool entrance music(well the second one was anyway). At first they had him wrestle while it was snowing(I know it wasn't real snow) which was a cool visual. Plus I liked his martial arts moves. He is legit.

Mikey Whipreck was great in the ECW. I thought it was goofy to put the world title on him over Steve Austin back in 95, but he was a great performer.

One of the more underrated sellers in pro wrestling history. The way he could move his body into a slam just made it look like the guy was getting murdered. Loved his match against Chris Jericho at A Matter Of Respect 96. Highly underrated ECW classic.

I really liked what he was doing at the end of the ECW with Yoshihiro Tajiri, and the Sinister Minister. Would have loved to have seen the Unholy Alliance get a big push.
 
Gillberg I was such a huge Gillberg fan I met him years ago at one of those wrestling events held at the high schools I gave him a menu of things my mom could make him for dinner and invited hom over for dinner to bad he never showed up. I think it would be funny if he just randomlly showed up at my house looking for dinner

I was also a Virgil fan Skinner was cool too and you can't forget about Baston Booger Abe Knuckelball Schwartz or even Aldo Montoya

I also thought Gangrel was so cool when he first came I wish more was done with his character. I don't care what anyone says Gangrel had the coollest theme song in WWF/WWE history
 
I always liked Chavo's "Kerwin White" gimmick even though it seemed like nobody else did. Honestly I don't really know why, maybe because I like to golf and he he had some skits with him at a golf course but for whatever reason I always seemed to crack up during all the skits. Me laughing or caring about anything Chavo did was a pleasant surprise for me so that's another reason why I liked it. Of course when Eddie died they scrapped that whole gimmick and most people were happy about it, but of course I wasn't.
 
I always liked Owen Hart he was very gifted in the ring it's sad that May 23rd of this year will mark 13 years of his passing I honestly believe he would have been a excellent WWF/E Champion.
 
Eugene. I used to enjoy watching Eugene wrestle, The gimmick was a bit average, but I always thought he wrestled pretty well. If he had of been repackaged or at least made to be a little bit smarter then what he was allowed, He could of been much more entertaining. I know there needs to be Jobbers in the WWE but I feel like he wasn't used to his potential.
 
I have a few dudes I really liked that most people hated.

I really liked Das Wunderkind Alex Wright, particularly when he was paired with Disco Inferno. His dumb dance always made me lol.

I also was a huge fan of Norman Smiley. He also always made me lol. His dumb dance was hysterical too.

He's not a wrestler, but Ralphus was epic.
 
Ken Shamrock was one of the wrestlers that no one really recognized as a potential main eventer. Although he had alot of pathetic and nonsensical feuds, his feud with the Rock was one of my favorites.

Another wrestler is the 123 kid. I know alot of fans mark out for him due to his athleticism he displayed in the early 90s. He was completely ahead of his time as far as moves went. He had textbook kicks that looked like they really contacted.
 
Love the examples other people mentioned. My favourite from the 80s was hands down Hillbilly Jim. When Hogan and Warrior weren't on the show, Hillbilly Jim better have been there. From the mid 90s, I liked Ahmed Johnson. He was a crazy powerhouse that I really thought was going to be a WWF champ one day. Late 90s, it had to be Ultimo Dragon. He was a treat to watch and was probably the main reason I still watched wrestling in the late 90s. La Parka would definitely be my second favourite from that time.

The current day and age, I really enjoy watching Jinder Mahal. He needs a bit of work, but I really feel he has the potential to become a very good wrestler one day. He has a good look and I enjoy watching him in the ring. Here's hoping 3MB can become his launching pad.
 
I've always liked Test, he had a cool look and a killer boot as his finisher. I really wanted to see him win a World Title at some point, even if it was the second rate WCW Championship, actually I thought with the push he got in the Alliance storyline that he would've won the WCW Title off of Chris Jericho and feuded with him over the belt, but unfortunately even that didn't happen. Poor fella was either just stuck in the wrong era, there was no way he was gonna draw more than Stone Cold, HHH, Rock etc. as champion, or he was bombarded with some ridiculous gimmicks like that whole "Testicles" crap.

Wrath is another guy who I thought had a good look and a cool finisher. I was pulling for him also when WCW tried giving him a Goldberg push, where they gave him an undefeated streak of his own and they promoted his Meltdown finisher as a devastating finish, but unfortunatly he just didn't get over as I hoped. If he had, I always thought it would've lead to Goldberg vs. Wrath with the WCW Title on the line and the two men's undefeated streaks on the line also, and Goldberg would put Wrath over, completing Wrath's push.

I also liked Ahmed Johnson, he reminded me of Monty Brown (another guy I liked) as in they both wore all red coloured ring attire, and they were both crazy powerhouses that were over with the fans at one point until their companies gave up on them.

Mike Awesome was just that, awesome. It's a real shame that after all those fantastic matches he had in Japan, ECW, but more specifically with Masato Tanaka, that the WCW & WWE mis-treated him and turned him into a joke.

Weird how I'm only going for big guys in this thread.
 
Michael Tarver, I thought the guy could have been something special. In season one of NXT, I thought he was the most interesting in what was largely a sea of mediocrity (at the time, I feel every member has developed since then, plus the obvious exceptions of Barrett and Bryan.)

I dunno, when he was released, I felt there was a huge missed opportunity. I haven't really justified this, have I? Maybe it was just the mouth bandana, or that RUN NXT shirt he had one week. I liked him anyway, he seemed cool.
 
Great concept for a thread. While I always identify my favorite wrestlers of all time with guys like Mr. Perfect, Shawn Michaels, Bret Hart, The Rock, Kurt Angle and Edge, there have always been guys who I liked almost as much who were lesser guys that not to many other people liked.

It begins with Dino Bravo. I was real young (like 6 or so) and everything about him just clicked for me. From the strong man gimmick, to the look and accent, along with the fleur-de-lis on his trunks (always thought it was the coolest looking thing).

After Bravo, I instantly started to like Ludvig Borga. Similar strong man type gimmick like Bravo and his european uppercut finisher is what drew me in. I remember pretending to be Borga when I used to fight my younger brother all the time.

After that it gets tough. I started liking alot of guys early on before they got big or popular like Rock, Angle and Edge, but they eventually became stars and thus liked by everyone else.
 
You liked Doug Furnas and Phil Lafon? I guess tastes differ. The only thing I remember about them is wanting to see them lose and when they started their feud with the legion of doom I felt that they became so boring time slowed down around them.

The only wrestler I can think of that nobody else cared about was Jushin "Thunder" Liger we saw him in wcw and tna briefly but we never got to see him go anywhere that had direction apart from in Japan.
 
I was a big fan of Lafon and Furnas. If you watch some of their stuff from Japan you'll see them at their best. Lafon was Dan Kroffat in most places outside of the WWF.

Team had really good timing and really just looked like they belonged together as a team. I liked teams like that.

Whoever said Ultimo Dragon really nailed one out of the park. LOVED Ultimo. Hate that he got injured.
 

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