Santi made this video, because Dijak got released 😭. But we all know the Ascension had the biggest fumble of all time

You forgot swerve Strickland

Nakamura will forever be their biggest missed opportunity in my book

They completely dropped the ball with Sting. No title wins, 4 matches, and gets buried twice, with one said burial being at wrestlemania. Horrible.

Day 7 of asking Santi to make a Best PLE of every year (2004-2024)

I did not expect Dijaks release coming. In my fantasy booking, I had the judgment day, turning on Damien Priest, and replacing him with Dijak making him the Judgement days new “leader”.

Didn’t watch yet but Ember Moon gotta be on here

Kieth Lee self sabotaged himself. WWE told him to lose weight and if you watched him then and now he’s winded constantly. Gunther was told to lose weight and did, and now he’s a star.

This video made me way more appreciative of HHH and WWE today for how well they treat NXT call ups (for the most part)

FIN BALOR IS BEING WASTED BUTTON (I love him)

My own list: The Wyatt Family: The Fiend had some irritable booking decisions, but Bray and his followers in the early days of their main roster run just had bad booking all around. They were white hot coming up and they immediately feuded with Kane which led to a Ring of Fire Match. Bray also just took on lower tier talent like Miz and Kofi that probably should’ve been good, but they were more or less filler matches for PPVs. It wasn’t until the feud with Daniel Bryan, The Shield, and John Cena where it felt like they were getting somewhere even with the bad booking sprinkled in time from time. After Cena defeated Wyatt, The Wyatt Family became an after thought. Rowan was barely around, Harper was a decent mid-carder, and Wyatt just kinda floated feud to feud. They came back together with Braun Strowman now on their side, but just couldn’t break through like they used to and they were buried to Brock, Taker, Rock, and Cena (again even in a segment). They tried with Wyatt, Orton, and Harper which worked until Bray got the world title and lost it in a horrible title match at WM33. Vince just never believed in these guys. Cesaro: His character work might not have been the best, but he was a good worker for the mid-card. Dude should’ve won the U.S. or IC Title in his babyface run. He did some great stuff with Ziggler and Owens. Even with Sheamus, he developed a great character and then he just existed until he got his title match against Reigns in 2021 and then got released. Dolph Ziggler: I don’t need to talk about Ziggler. Maybe not main event material in the long haul, but he was pretty much modern day Shawn Michaels with his athleticism, aura, and selling. He was a great mid-carder and proved he can be reliable. Even if he ended up still getting released, 2013 was his year to at least get that main event run he was destined for. Big E: I’m a major Big E fan and I was so happy that he won the MiTB Briefcase in 2021. I was looking forward to seeing how they would book him as WWE Champion and firmly believed if he was just kept in that picture, he wouldn’t have suffered his potential career ending injury cause he wouldn’t have to work with Ridge Holland. Instead, he lost the title in a Fatal 5 Way to Brock. Didn’t even get a rematch at the Royal Rumble. And then suffered that injury in the build up to a lower tier tag team match. Shinsuke Nakamura: I think Nakamura is pretty much the definition of “Vince just wanted this guy because he’s popular in Japan and he wanted to taste that fame.” He had a decent run in NXT and honestly, I still felt like he had a few more months on the yellow brand personally. It’s clear Vince didn’t know how to use him when he came up to the main roster. Rey Mysterio: Yes, he’s a Hall of Famer. Yes, he’s going down as one of the greatest luchadors of all time. Yes, he’s had a great career, but not a good world title track record. Won the strap in 2006 doing it for Eddie and proceeded to lose every big match he was in except for defending the title. Won again in 2010, only had a month reign and lost to Kane. Won the WWE Championship and lost it on the same night to John Cena. Pretty much Vince just didn’t want him as world champion because he’s a little guy. EC3: Boy never had a chance and I honestly would’ve taught Vince would bank money on this guy.

Alex Riley got the treatement and pop like Virgil when he popped on Milion dollar man , only thing that Virgil got more was a title , Alex Riley got jabbated😂

SANTI WE NEED A PART TWO, there's Cesaro, Ember Moon, Swerve Strickland, just to name a few ALSO BRO YOURE DOING GREAT KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK

HHH has two kinds of NXT call ups: 1. You're the next big thing we're gonna push you to the moon immediately 2. Uhhhhhh, yeah sure we could use you up on the main roster for a bit. Plans? 🤷‍♂️

I still remember from when I was 9 and Alex Riley turned on The Miz. Specifically one episode where he had a tag match with John Cena against The Awesome Truth with Stone Cold as special guest referee. The good guys won and all shared beers with Austin. It was one of those Mondays where as a 9 year old, it was impossible to fall asleep from how amped I was.

Other Names not mentioned in the Video that I find were completely Fumbled -Ember Moon -Sting -Cesaro -The Ascension -Mustafa Ali -Bobby Roode -Elias

Shout out to Alex Riley, super whatever, but BUT, with one of the best entrance songs of all time. "SAY IT TO MY FAACE!" Absurdly good for somebody so mid.

Huge fan man keep it up!!

Buddy Murphy is another name I can think of. I never followed him before his call-up, but his matches with Aleister Black were some of my favorites. They really let both of them walk.

With this video you can make another of “People WWE almost flopped” like LA Knight to Max Dupri back to LA Knight.

santi this needs a part two this is like a therapy session for us

I'm getting ready for my rendition of I believe in Joe Hendry at bar karaoke tonight. Wish me luck.

John morrison. The reason why Vince didn't push him is because morrison was mature and didn't throw a tantrum about melina cheating on him with batista. Meanwhile when matt hardy got heated about the edge and lita thing he got fired.... bro vince is a child.

Finn Balor. Fumbled since his injury tho his NXT runs were good. Especially fumbled with the Demon character too.

Video idea: best fan interactions/crowds ever

In my opinion like this is why a lot of stars in other promotions that were in WWE dont want to go to WWE cause they probably will get treated like trash again

The Fiend was such a gem. It's ashame vince had it out for the gimmick. I think he was just mad the fiend was the most overwrestler when he wanted others to be more over.

You forgot Nicholas

Day 36 of asking Santi to start training to wrestle to settle his beef with Dijak in a WWE ring

forgot Nakamura, he’s similar to samoa joe in the sense he built his name somewhere else, sure he won titles but they kept giving him dumb gimmicks with boogs and dumb intentions, nakamura is one of the best talents in the world, yet they never put the big one on him, he should’ve beat jinder in 2017 for the big one and should’ve beat seth with his current anime gimmick

Samoa Joe and Braun Strowman not winning the Universal title in 2017 or 2018 was a travesty.

Ryback must be on that list, i remember the 2013 run when I was a kid, dude was amazing

Damien Sandow is another prime example. He was so damn over, even before the Mizdow stuff. Remember WrestleMania 31? When he eliminated Miz from the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal? The pop he got from it was HUGE.

A wrestling content machine 🔥

You are my favorite wrestling KZfaqr.

Day 6 of asking Santee to guest wrestlers by there forehead

*A couple of names when it comes to WWE fumbling the bag with are these superstars for me…* Dean Ambrose: Despite being possibly the most popular member of The Shield, the company always treated him like the black sheep as they were more favorable towards Rollins(Triple H’s Guy) and Reigns(Vince McMahon’s guy). Not to mention the fact that I hated how they turned them into a complete comedy act. Bray Wyatt: He was one of the most intriguing characters in the history of the company but yet every time it seemed like he was gonna get pushed the company just did their best to completely squander his momentum. Christian: He was one of WWE’s most loyal workers but it’s very clear that Vince McMahon for some particular reason hated his guts as he wanted to put a blue dot on his face. Plus, he should’ve been a multipletime world champion throughout his tenure. Samoa Joe: This guy was just a total package: great talker, immensely over with the audience and a phenomenal worker in the square circle despite his size. Yet somehow someway, they still didn’t know how to utilize him. The fact that Jinder Mahal was WWE champion and he never did so insulting to me. Owen Hart: Despite being a part of one of the most famous families in the history of wrestling, I am so appalled that this man never got to be world champion, despite having all the tools to be a world champion from his phenomenal in-ring work, excellent promo skills and was a great human being. A couple honorable mentions: Ricochet, Allister Black, Ember Moon, Dolph Ziggler, Gail Kim, Cesaro, etc.

I know he's a commentator now but Wade Barrett HAS to be one. Was so over at one point...

my issue with these "wasted" arguments is who gets put down in place of a joe or dean if dean was in wwe still we might never get main event jay uso if joe was a top guy la knight might have to be put down some things happen for a reason

Dean Ambrose hit his peak in 2016 and it all went downhill from there, meanwhile Seth and Roman only got pushed harder up the card. It’s a true shame.

TBH Ambrose is the least good member of the Shield. WWE has proven recently that they no longer really need him now.

We need the same energy as the "We Want Cody" Movement for Dijak

Santi advocating Dijak was fumbled something i didnt expect considering he got Ratio'd a lot

Dijak lacked a good gimmick. Retribution coulda been good if they didn't straight up book that group like garbage.

I think they are hinting Jon Moxley return with all the shield stuff at wrestle mania Last Monday they showed him on Seth’s recovery video and now the shield triple powerbomb on smack down

santis dijak rant really reminds me of the you have no Idea how good tim duncan was meme

Hey y’all, trying to post this on all of the accounts I regularly watch. I’ve been watching wrestling since 2021 super religiously, and this Monday is going to be my first ever show! Got some cheap tickets in TD Garden, and I’m so excited! I know about dark matches, speed matches, and main event, but I was wondering if y’all had any tips about attending a show live? Arrival time, sign usage, and any other tips would be so greatly appreciated!

I mean , AEW made Adam Cole a manager as well ..

santi making deadpool jokes for the first time... looks like he is a good marvel fan too

This is a great video

One that I feel like was grossly misused was Kane about a year after his debut (was so over, they then gave him the title by having the terrifying guy knocked out for one day) . Basically, he was left as an upper mid carder for ovwr a decade for no reason.

I watch WWE since 2015, and the ones I saw that it was soo easy to turn into a star that WWE fumble are almost the entire main event/mid card of NXT black and gold era, Bray Wyatt, Dolph Ziggler and Strowman

Vader comes to mind. He was a big deal everywhere else, but when got to WWE they didn't know how to use him.

I’ll give a shoutout to the iiconics had so much potential as a pillar of the tag team division and were never really give an opportunity to get there character work over

Ember moon is one of the biggest examples of this, so much talent and potential and they had no vision for her

Hideo Itami, Swerve, Deonna Purrazzo, Mickie James (return), Dana Brooke, and Harper, Kushida, (imo) Yoshi Tatsu, Zack Ryder, EC3, The IIconics, Ember Moon, GAIL KIM, and more Current that come to mind: The Good Brothers, Nakamura, Mis Yim, Cedric, Natalya (which is crazy), Apollo, LA Knight (just not giving him his flowers), Balor, Pete Dunne, Corbin, Naomi, Justin Gabriel and more

Yo Santi when’s the pod going up on Spotify. Slacking brother

They fumble the ball with DIJAK right now

Can we get a we want dijak movement

4:55 That guy looks like LA Knight cosplayer

I mean obliviously the Zack Ryder

I think some of WWE's biggest fumbles are The Fiend, Shinsuke Nakamura, Dijak, Ricochet, Zack Ryder, Mojo Rawley, Keith Lee, Finn Balor, Wade Barrett, Aleister Black, and Dolph Ziggler. BUT! Their biggest absolute fumble of all time, and they will likely never have a fumble this bad ever again, is Cesaro. He was misutilized from day one till the end. He should have been world champion right after winning Andre Memorial BR, after WM30. by now, at least 5 time world champion. Vince f*cked him over so bad.

Santi, I am mad that you didn't include Dolph Ziggler. He was possibly the biggest fumble that they had.

New episode suggestions. Wrestler who actually works in Vince McMahon era

The fact that there are so many superstars that been fumbled by Vince. And Triple H only fumbled at least one (Unfortunate) superstar. Really says alot...

Aleister black was my favourite guy in nxt when he was there. So sad they never used him properly on the main roster

Awesomesauce!

I remember when Alex riley was the mizs lacky and the streets said he had a great theme song

Who remember the time that during the 2016 a lot fans wanted to Dean to the win Royal Rumble and headline WrestleMania, he was this close of winning the whole damn thing but to only get eliminated by HHH who win by the number 30 entrance

i love santi shitting on vince, i couldn’t agree more about the booking from 2008-2021

You forgot about EC3 too, they did not even tried something with the guy

Santi mentioned a lot of big star that WWE fumbled except the biggest one of all that is swerve strickland

Swerve, Ascension, Adam Rose (debatable but I think he coulda been alright), Neville (PAC). That's just off the top of my head.

Bro that pic of Alex Riley looks like la knight if he was 20 years younger and without a beard

The Revival were gonna be made into clock holding comedy acts

Ember Moon is another name I'd add on this list

Day 76 of asking you to rank every superstar based off of pure in ring ability

i have herd that john cena did not like alex riliy and which was the reason for alex's push going down. could be wrong tho

Excuse me if i don't cry for Dean Ambrose. Stone Cold flatlined his carrer.

To be fair to the WWE they aren't the only company to miss use talent just think of Undertaker and Stone Cold in WCW.

the fact that oddesey jones is still in the company is crazy

Thank you dijak me and my friends only watch nxt for the last year and dijak was our favorite he will be missed

Oh my God I forgot that Tony Storm was on the main roster

Honestly I think the reason this happens with Vince is bc he was so stubborn with anyone he didn’t discover himself and got popular in nxt what a jerk lol

i’d like to add Mercedes Moné to the list. I think the work she put in outside of the wwe in ring wise has been amazing, I do feel like they both benefited each other as wwe worked with her on her promo skills and she put on great matches

I know i’m a bit late to this video, but Buddy Murphy (Buddy Matthews) will always be the most shocking release for me. The guy has EVERYTHING and he’s still not being utilised properly in AEW.

There mustve been something else going on behind the scenes in regards to Dijack. Wonder if he caught flack for the ratio-attacks on you.

Braun Strowman was PEAKING in 2017. The problem is Vince McMahon hated the fans for not cheering Roman so he was borderline sabotaging the product. Elimination Chamber 2018’s booking is absolutely ridiculous looking back 💀💀

I agree with Dijack. Back in the day, him and keith lee's feud in NXT was phenomenal and both of them were AMAZING wrestlers. Oh, keith lee was a double champ in NXT and did nothing on the main roster so he indeed was also fumbled

Cesaro Insanely strong and impressive in the ring and always got incredible reactions but was relegated to the mid card/tag team division even though everyone knew he should have been a main eventer except McMahon.

Santi became yhe worlds biggest Dijak fan after he trolled him lmao

Buddy Matthews was such a good wrestler and his cruiserweight title reign was my favorite and he was one of the best thing to come out of 205 live

Please look up Terry Taylor 😂 thats probably the funniest burial/fumble ive seen

Santi is the best.

Video idea: number…I don’t have a clue. Every NXT superstars male and females chances of winning a world title on the main roster. /Bet the house.All the way down to no chance In hell.

I remember, as crazy as this sounds. People thought Alex Riley could have been the heir apparent to John Cena for a very brief widow of time. He came along during this period of time before there was an NXT as we know it now. And there seemed to be no obvious replacement for Cena. A-Ry came along and for a brief window. Seemed like he was the guy.

Only so many spots at the top

They fumbled the potential of Dijak vs Keith Lee. FIGHT FOREVER. Those two together could feed generations with their 5* matches.

Biggest fumble imo was stings wwe run

Video for Stale Characters in WWE right now