From debut to departure - the fastest wrestling binnings

[The King of Old School]

Marty Jannetty is a good one for this in his late WWE years.

Signed in March 2006 after impressive showings Kurt Angle and a Rockers reunion against La Resistance, released in July 2006 without making another appearance. 

Signed again in September 2006, released in December 2006 without making an appearance.

Think he did end up having another couple of matches a few years later without being signed full time again, remember one against Mr Kennedy.

Edited 15 hours ago by The King of Old School

[HarmonicGenerator]

The ones that fascinate me are the people who spent ages and ages and ages in developmental only to have completely flopped on the main roster or had something happen and been released ultra quickly. Brent Albright / Gunner Scott comes to mind, Michael Tarver from the original NXT/Nexus, Chris Cage of the Dudebusters team with Trent Beretta etc.

The mid-late 00s were generally full of people who came and went fast. Sylvester Terkay, anyone?

[The Reverend]

Barry Windham in the WWF as both The Widowmaker in 1989 and the Stalker in 1996. 

'Playboy' Buddy Rose in the WWF in 1990 - he did get a 2 page spread in the WWF magazine at the time though. Likewise in the same time period, Tony Atlas as Saba Simba. 

 

[Big Bully Busick]

9 minutes ago, The Reverend said:

Barry Windham in the WWF as both The Widowmaker in 1989 and the Stalker in 1996. 

'Playboy' Buddy Rose in the WWF in 1990 - he did get a 2 page spread in the WWF magazine at the time though. Likewise in the same time period, Tony Atlas as Saba Simba. 

 

 

 

Buddy Rose was around for quite awhile, just mainly as a Prime Time type jobber 

He was amazing 

[tiger_rick]

3 minutes ago, Big Bully Busick said:

Buddy Rose was around for quite awhile, just mainly as a Prime Time type jobber 

He was amazing 

I really thought Big Bully Busick was here to mention Big Bully Busick. He wasn't as short-lived as most mentioned but debuted on TV in August 1991 and was gone by Survivor Series. I think I always think he lived longer as a character because he was on one of the trading card sets. His run really was short, for that era, and unremarkable. He had an even-stevens feud with the fucking Brooklyn Brawler. Who thought that was a good idea for a new character?

[BomberPat]

10 hours ago, Rockbus2 said:

James Storm's one appearance in NXT springs to mind. He wasn't fired but deciding not to sign long term after all and heading back to TNA was certainly a choice considering the stacked roster he could have had some outstanding matches with in NXT around that time. 

The story I heard at the time was that James Storm was brought in on the recommendation of Billy Gunn, and no one else there really vouched for him. Billy was let go because he used steroids in a bodybuilding competition around that time, and either WWE weren't interested in continuing to use Storm, or Storm saw that he had nobody at the Performance Center/NXT in his corner any more and chose not to sign. 

2 hours ago, CTXRussomark said:

The Headhunters showing up twice in WWE and disappearing after one appearance both times.  The second time in 97 really stood out as I was right in the midst of my initial tape trading phase and had seen a ton of them in IWA Japan, so was disappointed to see them vanish again. 

The Headhunters in the '96 Rumble were a formative memory of mine. I watched wrestling intermittently around maybe '94 to early '97, but my parents and older brothers all hated it, so I never got to watch a PPV, probably not even an A-show, just whatever C-shows and highlights I could catch on the rare occasion that I had the TV to myself. I can't have seen the 1996 Rumble, but I must have seen clips on whatever the recap show of the day was. For years I had this memory of there being two twin "sumo wrestlers" in the match, one getting eliminated just as the other entered, and them looking at each other and both getting in the ring because the referee wouldn't be able to tell them apart to know who had already been chucked out. That was a real formative memory of wrestling for me.

Obviously, it didn't happen. I must have conflated the Headhunters with Yokozuna, mashed his gimmick on to these two other fat lads, and seen him getting a proper run in the match and assumed he was one of them. Or something like that. Because it blew my mind to watch the match back years later and see that they collectively spent about two minutes in the ring. I questioned whether it was the right match, but it was their only TV match for the WWF, so it must have been! It's amazing they would have made a highlight package at all, unless the plan was to do more with them in the future and that fell through for whatever reason. I'm amazed they never got a proper run with either the WWF or WCW, they had such a brilliant look, and were unlike any other team - sure, they were sloppy, but no sloppier than some of the other tag teams around in the '90s. 

 

Just Joe is one probably more fondly remembered in the UK than elsewhere just because Joe E has spent a lot of time here and had decent matches all over the place. I worked with him a bunch of times. I just always found it hilarious that, more than ten years after the fact, he was still getting promoted as "As Seen On WWE TV" when he had maybe 10 TV matches (which is more than I thought he had!), none of which ever even made it on to the WWE Network. 

WWE did a list of forgotten superstars that includes Ryan Braddock. Even after looking him up, I haven't the faintest idea who he is.

Daniel Rodimer/Dan Rodman is another. There was a surge of articles about how Stephanie McMahon rated him really highly, and how he was going to be in line for a monster push as soon as he debuted. He lost to Eugene and Val Venis on Heat and then he was done.

 

[Carbomb]

I remember the TNA/Andromeda-Cassandro debacle. IIRC Cassandro was getting quite over outside Mexico, so it seemed only a matter of time before they hit a big promotion. TNA were still doing quite well then, so this seemed like a positive jump at the time. 

Some good mentions here. So I'll mention one that hasn't been so far - David Flair in WWE. Really only there as a stepping stone for the Taker/Flair feud, but there nevertheless.

Also, Manu. Think he only had a couple of matches as a member of Legacy, then was ditched for being shit and having a bad attitude.

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[RedTwoster]

34 minutes ago, HarmonicGenerator said:

Brent Albright / Gunner Scott comes to mind

He had a great career in my EWR game if that's of any consolation to him. Multiple time WWE champion. 

1 minute ago, BomberPat said:

Daniel Rodimer/Dan Rodman is another. There was a surge of articles about how Stephanie McMahon rated him really highly, and how he was going to be in line for a monster push as soon as he debuted. He lost to Eugene and Val Venis on Heat and then he was done.

I remember him from Tough Enough, but I had no idea that he'd been rebranded as Rodman, or that he had actually wrestled matches. 

39 minutes ago, HarmonicGenerator said:

The mid-late 00s were generally full of people who came and went fast. Sylvester Terkay, anyone?

And then there was an entire division that came and went in the blink of an eye - anyone remember the Junior Division?

 

[Carbomb]

1 minute ago, RedTwoster said:

And then there was an entire division that came and went in the blink of an eye - anyone remember the Junior Division?

 

Yep. When they had Cannon Palmer as the SD GM, and Burchill was doing the pirate gimmick. They brought in Super Porky, and the whole thing was wound up a couple of weeks later, I think.

[Supremo]

[RedTwoster]

1 minute ago, Carbomb said:

Yep. When they had Cannon Palmer as the SD GM, and Burchill was doing the pirate gimmick. They brought in Super Porky, and the whole thing was wound up a couple of weeks later, I think.

Network Representative Palmer Canon - Teddy Long was still GM at the time, and Canon was presented as the thorn in his side. I think he briefly feuded with Miz without ever wrestling, before quitting for real; accusing JBL of harassing/bullying him. 

[BomberPat]

I was talking to my partner about the Juniors division last night, because a clip of Super Porky wrestling Eddy Guerrero as part of a trios match came up on Instagram, and I was just generally talking about how great Super Porky was. I mentioned that WWE did a weird Minis division, and she couldn't understand why Porky would be part of it as he wasn't a Mini, and I genuinely just never thought about it. And then looked it up to realise that Porky never even had a match in WWE.

For a few weeks it felt like they were really taken by him - fat guy popping up in backstage comedy skits is a pretty easy win for WWE - but I'm amazed it never translated into him actually wrestling, and that they just got rid of him with the rest of the division. He was there at the same time as Simon Dean, even if it's just one match that angle writes itself!

[Big Bully Busick]

32 minutes ago, tiger_rick said:

I really thought Big Bully Busick was here to mention Big Bully Busick. He wasn't as short-lived as most mentioned but debuted on TV in August 1991 and was gone by Survivor Series. I think I always think he lived longer as a character because he was on one of the trading card sets. His run really was short, for that era, and unremarkable. He had an even-stevens feud with the fucking Brooklyn Brawler. Who thought that was a good idea for a new character?

 

 

Talking in the third person isn't my style 😂 

[Rockbus2]

10 minutes ago, Supremo said:

The "real life son of Chad Gable" Storyline would have been "Hilarious".

[Rockbus2]

7 minutes ago, BomberPat said:

I was talking to my partner about the Juniors division last night, because a clip of Super Porky wrestling Eddy Guerrero as part of a trios match came up on Instagram, and I was just generally talking about how great Super Porky was. I mentioned that WWE did a weird Minis division, and she couldn't understand why Porky would be part of it as he wasn't a Mini, and I genuinely just never thought about it. And then looked it up to realise that Porky never even had a match in WWE.

For a few weeks it felt like they were really taken by him - fat guy popping up in backstage comedy skits is a pretty easy win for WWE - but I'm amazed it never translated into him actually wrestling, and that they just got rid of him with the rest of the division. He was there at the same time as Simon Dean, even if it's just one match that angle writes itself!

This has led me down a rabbit hole of discovering the Super Porky is the father of Psycho Clown.