Randomly remembered this old WWE magazine poster from 2009 I used to have in my room as a kid. Funny lineup in hindsight with how pretty much all of them but Cody didn't make it as top guys, and he had to take such a roundabout way. What a dimeless era.
>>21345666Morrison really looked like a bonafide star here. All they had to do was write some halfway decent promos for him instead of eternally keeping him in the midcard.
If you asked me back then:>DH Smithdoesn't have it>Cody Rhodested dibiase's jannetty>Evan Bournemaybe>Dolph Zigglermidcarder>John Morrisonmulti time world champion>Jack Swaggermaybe>Tyson Kiddno>Ted DiBiasemulti time world champion, beats the streak>Kofi Kingstonnope>The Mizmaybe
>>21345666I remember having this and even though I enjoyed pg era I still knew these guys would be awful champions (besides miz he was cool)
>>21345690I still believe Jack Swagger could have been a great champion if they kept his dudebro jock bully character instead of having him wear a suit, pout all the time, and run away from his opponents. They could have filmed vignettes of him trash talking people on CoD Black ops lobbies and doing drills in the ring instead of the drizzling shits that he was given. He was also going to be a big deal with the Real American gimmick until he fucked it up for himself. Biggest What If of that list desu.
>>21345685Why the hell would Ted Jr be a multi time world champion
>>21345717Ted would have been a star if that referee hadn't fucked on him
>>21345666i'm a dolph soldier for lifeit should have been him
>>21345685>>Ted DiBiase>multi time world champion, beats the streakHOLY MARK! How could you not see how generic and bland he was?
Being Under Melina's thumb really destroyed any potential Morrison hadVince hated whipped man
>>21345666>200913 year old me would've bet the house on Morrison, then probably Bourne and Kofi. By 2011 I would've said Dolph and Cody would have the most upside
I still remember when Benoit died Morrison magically became the face of ECW, people were saying Morrison vs Punk would be the next gen Orton and Cena, their careers went on a different pathsthey did try to push Morrison to the level of Punk, but his mic skill were non-existing and he needed a mouthpiece (R truth, Miz, Melina) which hurt him, also not standing up to Melina bullshit probably hurt him backstage with the boys
>>21345948it's incredible how dolph was handed the belt on tv only to immediately get sent back down to midcard hell and not do anything of note until the survivor series match where he blew everyone's expectations out of the water
>>21346050I feel like most of the time they plucked Ziggler out of the midcard for a 1 off PPV main event he did that but they never let him stick around.
>>21345700If he didn't get high that night, I assume he would've went over Del Rio at Mania. But then do they still do the Dolph cash in the next night?
>>21346050Dolph got the Balor treatment. 2 guys that Vince was probably iffy on, and they immediately gave him an excuse to justify never pushing them again
>>21345700Jericho inadvertently ruined heel wrestlers for like 4 years, because after 08, everyone decided that they wanted to be a suit wearing heel.
>>21345666half of them became world champions tho
>>213456665 of those guys became a world champion so it’s not like it’s wrong.
>>21346906even jeff hardy did that shit when he turned heel in tna and wore the purple suit with the purple trailer park belt
>>2134566650% ain’t bad, too bad 80% of that 50% is dimeless
today's shitters
>>21346921>>21346916Ziggler, Swagger, Kofi, and Miz all had world title reigns but were never actually treated as top guys/the future.Kofi had Kofimania which ended with the Brock squash.The other 3 only ever won it by cash in and would drop it within a couple months so who WWE actually considered stars could have it again while they went to the midcard.
>>21345666Can anyone look at this back then and think Cody was gonna be the one to make it to the top out of them? [spoiler]It should've been Ziggler.[/spoiler]
>>21345724trvke
