Although WWE currently welcomes competitors of all shapes, sizes, styles, and more, it isn’t always a perfect fit for every professional wrestler. Over the years and within several eras and generations, there have been examples of individuals or tag teams who don’t quite work out.

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Sometimes, this is due to their own doing, with them not quite transitioning to more of a “WWE-style”, or it can be WWE's fault as they don’t play to the certain strengths of the wrestlers that they’ve brought in and signed. From high-flying luchadors to powerhouses to even legends of the industry, there is a long list of wrestlers who simply didn’t quite fit.

10 Kaval

Low Ki

Better known as “Low Ki”, Kaval was brought to attention on season 2 of the original iteration of NXT. Kaval was someone who stood out from an in-ring point of view, with him appearing to be much more well-rounded and experienced than everyone else, which led to him winning the season and earning a title shot of his choosing.

This came in a losing effort to Dolph Ziggler for the Intercontinental Title, and then he was pretty much dropped from nowhere. With his focus being more on in-ring high-flying rather than “star power”, things didn’t work out.

9 The Brainbusters

Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard as Brainbusters in WWE.

Old school and technical, The Brainbusters were a brilliant tag team who climbed the ranks in NWA and WCW as members of the Four Horsemen. In WWE, they did win Tag Team gold but were never really presented as the generational wrestlers that they were, given their history in the Horsemen.

They were thrown into a tag team division which often had no proper storylines (which is perhaps common for every tag team era in WWE history), and their stint in the promotion only lasted a year or so. They were better suited for the likes of the classic NWA.

8 Sin Cara

Sin Cara

When Sin Cara was brought into WWE, his arrival was met with a lot of press and hype due to his notoriety as “Mistico”. Unfortunately, with him having no other luchador-style wrestlers to work with, his matches were full of botches and mistimed action.

With someone like Sin Cara, he needed like-minded wrestlers to work with, but with the WWE style, he didn’t have this. With a quickly created reputation for botches, Sin Cara quickly dropped down the card, with the man under the mask even getting replaced eventually.

7 Ricky Steamboat

Ricky The Dragon Steamboat Cropped

It must be said that under the WWE banner, Ricky Steamboat wrestled one of WrestleMania’s greatest-ever matches, however when looking at his overall WWE run, WWE mishandled one of the best in-ring workers ever.

He was rarely given the platform he had in the likes of WCW, AJPW, and JCP to put on consistent show-stealing bouts or match-of-the-year candidates, with this likely due to the fact that he wasn’t a huge powerhouse. His second run in WWE will tell fans all they need to know about how Vince McMahon viewed Steamboat, with him given a ridiculously goofy gimmick as “The Dragon”.

6 Kharma

Kharma Cropped

In TNA, “Awesome Kong” became one of the most recognizable female stars on the roster. In 2011, WWE made a huge signing by bringing her in as Kharma. However, WWE’s Divas era was in full swing, and even though Kharma would get ruled out of action with her pregnancy, it is likely that she wouldn’t have worked out anyway.

At the time, Kharma had a different style to the otherwise backward mentality when it came to WWE on booking women, and her being one of the few truly dominant wrestlers would have cooled quickly.

5 The Sandman

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The Sandman and WWE simply didn’t go together. Someone with a less-than-appealing physique from a Vince McMahon perspective, who got famous for beer drinking, smoking, and violent brawls was never going to work out as anything other than a small nod to the old ECW.

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He was unable to be the character that he was popular with due to WWE’s more family-friendly style, especially with the slow move toward the PG Era too.

4 The Revival

The Revival WWE 24 7 Champion

In a very similar fashion to The Brainbusters, The Revival offered a style of tag team wrestling that was too intelligent for Vince McMahon’s closed-minded opinion of the division. The Revival was an example of two wrestlers working together as a team in order to be better than others, rather than them being just two strong individuals.

Their throwback style was looked upon as being average, and although they won some gold in WWE, they were never really presented as a huge threat.

3 Zack Ryder

Zack Ryder Cropped

Zack Ryder’s ascent to gaining a huge fanbase came due to him being years ahead of WWE when it came to social media awareness. WWE simply refused to catch up and understand as to why Ryder got so popular at the back end of 2011.

Ryder used the internet to get himself over, and it worked. Instead of embracing his forward-thinking mindset and use of social media and YouTube, WWE decided to bury him. For someone who was so naturally over with the fans, WWE refused to accept that wrestlers could get over on their own.

2 Gail Kim

Gail Kim Women's Champion

Gail Kim is one of the best women’s wrestlers over the last couple of decades, but in WWE, she was never allowed to truly showcase it. In TNA, she was given the chance to have great bouts against the likes of Awesome Kong, but in WWE she was saddled with all the Divas division tropes.

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From trying to fall in love with the male stars to having one-minute matches, Kim struggled to find a prominent spot in the promotion, which is a huge shame given how good she was.

1 Dean Ambrose

Dean Ambrose

Even as the goofy and wacky character of Dean Ambrose, the current “Jon Moxley” managed to find a lot of success in WWE. However, there was always something missing, and that was due to WWE seemingly only pushing him due to how popular he was, rather than due to them believing him to be worthy of the top spots.

His wrestling style, his cadence in promos, and even his look were not suited to WWE. His success outside the promotion in recent years will give fans all the examples they need of how he wasn’t suited to WWE.