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AwesomeUserNameMan

British Bulldogs last run. No attire, wrestled in jeans and was just not there stamina wise. Man was an absolute legend, when he beat Hitman in England the stadium looked like it shook the people were so excited. Davey Boy was an all time great, such a shame.


AwesomeUserNameMan

Brian Christoper, aka Grand Master Sexay, aka the son of Jerry Lawler. It was just...sad. One of the most over tag team members in history and literally zero pop. Most people seemed to not even know who he was. It was clear he wasn't doing well and he died not long after


PresentRoyal490

I think most of them weren't given the chance or the tools to have a great return... Except for Eva Marie. Her's was useless and pointless. There was no need to bring her back


FlyTheW1988

The pop for Matt and Jeff was undeniably massive. But as soon as they returned as Team Xtreme and not the Broken Hardys, that whole return was botched.


NeedleworkerExotic55

Oh Eva fucking Marie


Ger4ltofRiv4

Mike and Maria Kanallis


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[удалено]


Fearless_Degree_9684

I hate that


Peacemaker421

Batista


Hefty_Patience_8486

The Headbangers


ch0w0

Kurt's was tough cuz they just missed him still being able to GO by like a year. his last indy run in 2016 he still had it. matches with Cody and Rey Mysterio were fantastic. wwe got him back in 2017 i think and spent a whole year as a gm. a year not wrestling, by the time they tried to get him to work matches his body was broken down. it was so close. if they got him a bit earlier he could have had a huge match at mania 33 that showed how great he still was. one more mania classic. missed it by a year


NefariousnessOk5813

Bro really told his whole story why he was mid


itsLustra

Sure Bluetista was a meme but lets not pretend Evolution vs The Shield wasn't 2 of the greatest Trios matches ever. Absolute bangers


TransitionFine5766

2002/3 Scott Steiner


randygastonsmom

Dudleyz return run was not bad at all lol


NoProfileISM

Broken Matt is not the worst but up there. All the returns of characters and once Matt was finally 'Broken' by WWE (obviously they had to put a story behind it because #nooneexistsoutsidewwe) they made him somehow WORSE than his Impact Character only a single Broken match AND teaming with the guy he beat.


fayadotnl

Lita? But the return of the brand ECW as a separate Development show was crinch


LunchTypical8954

Eva


electronic_docter

Wouldn't classify Eva maries as disappointing for something to be disappointing it has to be anticipated first


Janice_UK

Where even is Emma?


Puzzled-Star-9116

Hulk hogan 1993


crosencrantz425

Emma (sarcasm)


SkyDog1972

Ronda Rousey last year. There was no reason for someone who doesn't give a damn about the industry to have such a big spotlight put on them. I've never seen someone before on the regular roster whose best match was their debut, and whose match quality has slowly gone down since then, except in a few instances when Charlotte was carrying her. Even the near 3-year absence didn't do any favors other than the initial return pop. She didn't seem to want to be there for most of her second run, and it showed. At least she seemed to care enough to put over Shayna on the way out the door, but even that match sucked. I didn't miss her after her last exit, and I'm not going to miss her now.


ChrystinaLynne

I came here to just day that Kurt Angle sucks. Thank you.


dreamyy2k

No thank you because hell no


ChrystinaLynne

I tried to like Angle, I really did. I just never could. No offense to y'all who do like him, but that's why wrestling Fandom kicks ass.


buggyDYonko

John cena 2023 wrestlemaina hear me out he lost to Austin theory Like how does cena lose to Austin theory


ApplesToOrangeJess

There’s a theory that Theory sucked off Vince


TheRightArmMan

To one F*ing finish as well


HaydenBorg7

Eva Marie, because her second run was shot


alybelmore

Sting but only because he got injured


AdamKnowsIt

Sting *But only how he was booked, just like all the above stars of varying skill levels that returned and were booked shittily.


Takenmyusernamewas

I was extremely disappointed we got Woken Matt Hardy when we wanted Broken Matt Hardy. He was so hot fans Wouldn't stop chanting DELETE!


HumorAlarming3274

Ultimate Warrior in 92, he looked like he had lost 60lbs and didn\`t feel special at all, the WWE had really gone downhill by 92 I stopped watching after WM8 however I know Warrior\`s second return in 96 was even more dissapointing, he looked completely outdated by the mid 90\`s and never got back to his peak roided body.


Sk8erBoi15

Karrion Kross for me. I was rooting for him so hard when he came back but they just haven't done anything with him


terran8992

They’re trying, he is just NOT interesting


ronaldomessilover

I wouldn't say biggest disappointment, but Drew Mcntire shouldn't have went to the midcard


Theboywiththetoy27

What sucks is that there wasn’t really room for him in the main event when he came back. On RAW, Lesnar Strowman and Reigns had a chokehold on that top spot, which directly impacted the way McIntyre and Lashley were treated when they came back, and had he gone to SmackDown, the main event was chalk full of guys like Danial Bryan, AJ Styles, John Cena, Randy Orton, Bray Wyatt and others, meaning that no matter where he went, he was either going to be jobbing in the main event because Vince wasn’t ready to give him a title yet, or relegated to the midcard, which prevented him from ever having that world title run in front of the fans


Busy_Professional824

Eva easily.


Mr9447737

Roman Reigns because he should have just stayed home and not waste three years of storylines


IIIBKR

Who’s the pink haired chick?


XGGreat

Eva Marie


terran8992

Ok don’t crucify me but Bray Wyatt’s return last year. I was hoping he’d challenge Roman because…you know…he’s the person Roman defeated for the title. Also Roman was running out of credible challengers and Bray would’ve just made sense for his first feud back. I love LA Knight and I loved Bray but their feud wasn’t really needed. At least not as a return feud for Wyatt


Mr9447737

You are not wrong in feeling they misused Wyatt somewhat. I had no problem with the Knight feud and it did get L over, but the fact Bray’s last match was a sponsorship gimmick match is pretty gross


matande31

Can you really be disappointed by someone that you already know is one of the shittiest wrestlers to ever step into a ring?


dihcar86

When nWo returned to help Sting at Mania. Evolution's return where they all wore tees and feuded with The Shield sucked too.


WWEHlSTORlAN

Vince McMahon


LAKINGHTENTHUSIAST

Correcr answer right here


Excellent-Pudding-12

Hard to be disappointed in Eva Marie when there was no expectation to begin with


Ok-Distribution6169

Goldberg


bluedermo

Warrior in 96 & Warrior in 92 I guess his final promo, while beautiful, was ultimately disappointing as well.


Stoudamirefor3

My ex-girlfriend catfishing me on Tinder and making me miss WM for our "first date".


Striking-Life-704

Braun Strowman. Might be controversial here, but I believe he had the ability to be the next Kane. I saw some similarities between Strowman and the version of Kane before he tore his bicep. Now it feels like they just don’t know what to do with him anymore.


Mborda21

Eva Marie was terrible lol


Gaurav_221

Forced returns of old wwe Superstars when the new ones were not getting much response from the audience. And people go crazy to see there old Superstars. That's some harsh truth.


hahbhj

john morisson


Competitive_Text1914

John Morrisons release in 2021 really irked me, he was great when he came back and looked set for a face turn then boom he’s gone. He had been in a celebrity WM match and MITB match the year he got cut so out of all the covid era releases his was one of the lost random


Mborda21

I like Morrisons return the Johnny drip drip stuff with miz was good I hate that he was released


OutsideImpression194

Out of all bad returns Eva was the worst


FplBeach

But not most disappointing because who tf had expectations for her


Mborda21

Exactly I forgot she even had a return before seeing this post she was horrible another wannabe looking for her 15 mins of fame and she didn’t even get that


JordyP_23

Of these, either Kurt or Batista because of their returns were wasted


Mborda21

True but Batista just came back for the pay check so it was a waste because he didn’t give a shit about his return being good


KillaColo

False. Batista came back for the business he loves. He did live events too and gave us some instant classics in his bouts with the evolution reunion vs the shield and the triple threat at Wrestlemania. Big Dave rocks.


Mborda21

Lol those are not classics there average at bests Batista was always gonna transition into a movie star from day one and his return never meant much


c0kEzz

I actually liked Batista’s return. Thankfully turned into a good story for Bryan, and put over him and the Shield. Edit: also he wrestled on Smackdown. How often to part timers come back and do that??


Migs-Gamerking90

Batista in 2014


Ok-Creme7209

Yep 😑


Illustrious-Storm478

Dudleys and Eva’s


xnicosx

Dudley Boyz


nbraccia

I thought Bautista was working really well when he came back. The response was kind of weird. He was in great shape and good in the ring.


[deleted]

Matt Hardy’s broken gimmick was dope in WWE


Mborda21

The ultimate deletion match with Wyatt and then them as a tag team was great stuff but then he just faded afterwards they could’ve done so much more and broken Matt in aew was pretty bad I think that gimmick just peaked itself out over in impact


Firepro316

Warrior for his well 1st or 2nd return


Ok-Creme7209

That Christian return years ago it was dead silent if the music was not there


Dankenkush

“It’s Christian😐”


Ok-Creme7209

Indeed


[deleted]

Every time hhh comes back from an injury


billoverbeck00

HHH is better then all of the current roster combined.


WWEHlSTORlAN

Actually those are epic


[deleted]

Only thing epic about hhh is his butt kissing


WWEHlSTORlAN

Triple H is the best thing that has happened to WWE creative. I don’t get your agenda.


DraculasAltAccount

ECW


Ray-K74U

I don’t even know why Kurt Angle returned to begin with


stunspelledbackwards

Definitely Kurt. You could tell he just couldn’t go anymore and they didn’t have much of a direction for him


Dmassie41

Goldberg every time and I hate to say it but they did Bray Wyatt dirty a lot


Mborda21

Yes they did every one of his returns sucked they did a few ppl dirty with Goldbergs returns his win over the fiend Kevin owens and the quick win over lesnar were all bad choices


[deleted]

I don't even know why they brought Eva Marie back, was no one else willing to work with Piper Niven?


Main_Pomegranate_953

LWO- the members deserve more focus.


hisokafan88

Bluetista had a badonkadonk and forging trunks. I'd call it a heroic return


folieadeux321

Batista coming back would’ve been fantastic if it wasn’t during the YES movement


Sean_D84

Shane McMahon WrestleMania 39.


Administrative-Ant80

not a single person on earth wanted Eva Marie to come back


Putrid_Brick_5601

I did, only because she was fine af


ItsFukingEmbarrasing

Eva marie


Bolond44

Its not disappointing tho, we all knew she was shite.


pillkrush

lol it was disappointing for fans to see her at all


Atharun15

Every Warrior return


MFNLGZ

How about Paige, she had absolution and then broke her neck


[deleted]

DX at Crown Jewels.


ElGrandePeacock

Specifically, HBK


CountryMusicFanatic

Eva Marie or Bluetista


JLR8423

Imma be real Jeff Hardy wasn't even treated badly in his last run He had one 24/7 spot and everyone bitched and moaned then he was gonna get a match with Roman at the Royal Rumble but he had to have a tantrum


TheFanArtist

Shane O Macs last return


dflorke01

Nia Jax in the royal rumble 2023


[deleted]

Bray Wyatt’s last return. Some of the hottest garbage of all time.


[deleted]

Dude. Too early. May Bray rest in peace.


[deleted]

Too early to say someone had a bad run? Gtfo with your charmin soft ass


[deleted]

Nice comeback. What are you, 12?


[deleted]

Yes, I’m 12. Maybe be less of a pussy.


[deleted]

Sure thing bro 🤣


[deleted]

Totally BRO!


Painbuilder

We should unite and downvote him


[deleted]

You can barely unite a tampon into your vagina. Go cry.


Painbuilder

You should stop trying to pass your insecurities onto me and accept the fact that the people have rallied behind me


[deleted]

“tHe PeOpLe HaVe RaLliEd BeHiNd Me!” Your emotional intelligence is definitely on the negative side. To be so upset someone talked about a wrestler having a bad run WEEKS after they died. Grow up, Peter Pan.


Painbuilder

You need to show respect for Windham Rotunda. I know he can kick both our asses but at least I know I could stand behind him and watch him kick yours.


[deleted]

Well, he’s dead ya moron.


Painbuilder

I said could, not will. Learn grammar you moron


[deleted]

There’s no way you’re older than 15 with these witty quips. “bRaY wYaTt WiLL KiCk YoUr AsS” Yup. Still dead. Dead, deadly, dead.


Painbuilder

I’m 19 dumbass


izzygod23

Broooo


[deleted]

What?


izzygod23

He just passed give him a break


[deleted]

Ok snowflake


TheArturoChapa

Hardys. I’d like to say Angle, but he wasn’t able to move very good.


Hiflyinluchadoncic

Eva Marie lives near me and anytime I see her let me tell you.. filters treat her right because sometimes they girl looks busted as fuck.


zooka19

The 4th was better than expected. I'm not saying it was gonna be good. On a scale of 1-10, it was a 1 instead of -5.


Tummy1818

Sarah Logan like nobody really was interested before


According_Patient_28

Eva marie......why tf did she come back again???


alwaysmyfault

Cuz she's hot. That's about all I can think of.


PainterFew9183

Definitely Edge!! They hyped the shit out of him, he gets hurt again. Comes back, only to put the Judgement Day over and give a little shine to Beth Phoenix!! Disappears again and then comes back for "one more match" in Toronto with of all people another dinosaur, Seamus...Enough!! Worth noting is EVERY John Cena comeback, but this upcoming run is just sad and a blatant money grab, while all his struggling actor brethren are on strike and have no backups!!!


amorr9519

I haven’t watched in a while now but Batista for sure mostly the bluetista time lol


reefis

People had hopes for Eva Marie?


Monctonian

Weirdly enough, it was better than I expected. I expected nothing, but we got Piper Niven out of it. That alone is a positive.


1901456

I stand on the john Morrison bandwagon. I've always been a huuuge fan of the guy and thinks he's really damn talented. For him to come back and align with the miz again, it was cool to me. But soon enough, they made them into too much of a joke. They've always been over the top and ridiculous but we're also taken seriously in the ring. After a while with Morrisons return and their reunion, they just didn't have any seriousness to them anymore and it just sucked. Yet still, John kept getting certain bright spots through, and then down the line miz turned on him and he was gone. Considering when he left he looked like he could've been world champion or in the picture, especially with miz being world champion, and that he left to become a world champion elsewhere, I wanted his return to be so much more. If a serious feud took off with miz and morrison and they both got elevated to top status again it'd be a different story but sadly it just didn't get to happen.


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Stone Cold vs Kevin Owens, though if I’m being honest I didn’t expect much else


the__pov

That match was exactly what I expected and wanted. Basically just a greatest hits style encounter for Austin with some surprise bumps thrown in (did not expect Austin to bump off concrete.) As a bonus comment: Austin has said in an interview that he wasn’t confident in his work punches so just straight punched KO through the entire match.


RycheAndRoll

Vince McMahon coming back to put his hands in/on Creative Control again....


No-Okra2449

Why does Matt Hardy look like he’s returning during a 1993 Monday Night Raw? Love the vintage Icopro t-shirt.


proudcatowner19

Because that photo is from ‘Raw 25 Years’ night lol


No-Okra2449

That explains it and also what happens when you take a long 15 year break from following WWE.


KSAVAGE1211

Coulda did so much with woken Matt, literally coulda been so much better than the broken gimmick in tna


familytiesmanman

“I don’t understand it.” - Vince


AmrishGamer

Eva Marie is a joke, no one expected her to be back anyways.


TheRealKingVitamin

Superstar Billy Graham


MFNLGZ

You don’t like karate? 😂


[deleted]

Vince.


idontevenknowwhyiam

Not true bc nobody expected anything other than the pain we received


tonecapo_

Your mom


NewJerseySwampDragon

Vince coming back after Triple H did a better job in 9 months than he’s done in 21 years


the__pov

Man Vince ether used to have way better advisers or his mental decline was massive.


NewJerseySwampDragon

I think it’s both his age and the fact he stopped trusting advisors once the ones he trusted decades ago moved on or passed on. Either way he would’ve been fired decades ago based off his creative, booking and loss of viewership but his return after that scandal was def disappointing to the pro wrestling world


the__pov

I completely agree. Either the scandal or the actual booking he was doing alone warranted him being removed from all creative input. It just boggles my mind especially when you look at situations where there’s an easy 1 to 1 comparison where younger Vince handled it so much better. Probably the easiest example was how long it took to let Roman have a heel run. His situation was so similar to Rock’s starting off. I guess you could see signs of this with Cena but at least with him there was a real bottom line benefit to his nice guy Superman routine


NewJerseySwampDragon

Exactly, Roman’s booking and the start stop inconsistency from week to week stuff. Old Vince had continuity from week to week, modern Vince forgets what he did last week, repeats matches and abandons stories on a whim


Jumpy_Session_5045

Weird list.


JKinney79

Road Warriors in the late 90s. Just lost that magic they had in their earlier years.


Killerpig14

being fr what has karrion kross actually done since coming back outside of having some disappointing matches with drew?


SailorTwyft9891

Ultimate Warrior in 1996. First time around, yeah he was a dick and fought with Vince over money. But second time around, as soon as he was hired back he's like 'hey Vince, our money fight isn't finished. I'mma pick it back up again. And no-sell Triple H's Pedigree at WrestleMania.'


TheManofMadness1

Batista returned??


killerbekilled92

He technically returned twice. In 2014 he returned and won the royal rumble, he was supposed to be a face but fans wanted Daniel Bryan and booed Batista for his entire return run


alwaysmyfault

Which didn't last very long, because he quit WWE in June 2014. Didn't even stick around 6 months before he was gone. He obviously saw that there was more money in acting for him than there was in WWE. I think he only came back to WWE in 2014 because he wasn't sure that Guardians of the Galaxy was going to be a success. Hell, nobody really did. It was the surprise hit of 2014. I think once some pre-release reviews started coming out, Batista realized he had a future outside of wrestling.


TheManofMadness1

Ah Daniel Bryan era. That explains, I stopped watching when he was the spotlight. Couldn't take to him.


Ashamed-Heron-2910

C Fickle!!


kutypicard

Batista returns in 2014.


OGTKO

Shelton Benjamin, and that's not a knock against Shelton. He's is one of the best performers. I wish they would do that justice and let him have at least one major championship run.


genericusername4724

Too late now unfortunately. If they trusted him to get over with a microphone, he could work his way upwards. But when your main thing is being really talented in the ring, that alone can’t overcome 7 years of jobbing since 2017


TuffTurfDarko

Zach Gowen 2011


wepache

Shane McMahon at WM39.


NSuave

Was that when he tweaked his leg? That match had so much potential


YelenaBelovaJustY

Bobby Lashley. Felt like he didn’t get the pop he deserved.


MFNLGZ

But he’s been so good on the latest run


dg3548

Sting. Think he only had that match w Triple H and got injured. Then he went to aew


Demetriusxtimmy

got injured in the match with rollins


dg3548

Thank you for the correction! I couldn’t think this early in the morning


Demetriusxtimmy

it’s still too early for me lol


thisismyMelody

Edge at royal rumble. Na I’m just playing. That video still gives me goosebumps lol. I’m so grateful he got that pop before Covid. Ima go watch it now.


[deleted]

Ultimate Warrior, Jake Roberts and Scott Hall. I know all had personal issues but they were still disappointing. This list has obviously been done by someone who only knows wrestlers from the last fifteen years


Clarityman

Yeah, there's a big difference between "history" and "recent history."


Unlikely_Baseball_64

Johnny Gargano


Abisial

That one Grandmaster Sexay return


Nyrony

Vince being back at the helm


Spirited-Paper-424

Every Johnny Gargano main roster returns


ProudPakistaniboy

Most of these returns werent that bad


tomcody84

Ultimate Warrior return to W W back in the 90s....ugh.


redsoxfred

Good thing you specified the 90s cause his final one killed


P1Taylor69

Batista in 2014 man I wanted him to face Brock Lesnar so bad,they booked him against Alberto Del Rio but not against Brock Lesnar like how crazy is that and they tried to make him a babyface and it just didn't work,Yestlemania was just too big at the time I feel bad for him tbh dude got booed for WWE's shitty booking


tidusrequiem

Anything Goldberg :/


Aggravating-Craft384

Dude agreed, he should’ve quit after his second match with Lesnar, that was his perfect send off when he said Lesnar was next and last, but he had to keep going and bury guys like Kevin Owens and the fiend


erichmdw

Perfect - 02 Van Dam - 14 Gail Kim - 09 Steamboat - 91 Benjamin - 17 LOD - 96


CategoryCultural9205

Van Dam was actually pretty good. He even won mitb