Throughout the years, we the fans have encountered many WWE fans that have over stayed their welcome, and somehow remain employed by WWE. Who makes my list for the year 2008?
Funaki
Believe it or not, Funaki is still employed as WWE's number one jobber. When you hear Funaki's music once every six months, you know that he is going to lose, and nothing you say will change that. Funaki's character has gone dry ever since the tag team Kai En Tai disbanded many years ago. Since then, Funaki's claims to fame are former Cruiserweight Champion, Smackdown's "Numba One" announcer, and the biggest jobber in WWE history. I would tell Funaki to expect to be fired soon, but if it hasn't happened up until now, then it surely isn't happening anytime soon.
William Regal
It's one thing to see Cena and Batista week after week, but at least they are top notch stars. Barring the times that Regal has dealt with a Japanese man who spat different colored mist from his mouth (Tajiri), or Eric Bischoff's mentally challenged nephew (Eugene), he's never really gotten much of a crowd reaction. Even when he is a heel, he still can't garner boos from the crowd. To have him win something like the King of the Ring tournament was just a waste of time. That usually foreshadows a major championship run soon to come, but in Regal's case we know that is not going to happen.
Snitsky
The highlight of Snitsky's career came when he inadvertently killed the unborn child of Lita. What has he done since then? Snitsky wins matches against the likes of Funaki. This is all we have seen from him. He never fights the likes of Batista or JBL. Even if he did, the WWE would have him act as a jobber to them in a heartbeat.
Vickie Guerrero
When Vickie was named GM of Smackdown, I thought that it was temporary, and that Theodore Long would return as GM, and not Assistant GM, the position he previously held before moving to ECW. Creative must have been all out of ideas when they were sitting at the roundtable one day and someone randomly blurted out,"Hey, let's make Eddie Guerrero's widow the General Manager of Smackdown. She has no qualifications whatsoever, but it's better than the other idea we had about making Shawn Michaels WWE Champion for a change." The Vickie character is annoying. The fans don't like her character, and never will.
Hardcore Holly
Just whe nyou think he's gone, he comes back to bully some young, up-and-coming talent. Like everything else in the WWE, it gets stale really quick. You would think that Bob Holly should get credit for putting Randy Orton and other stars over. The problem is, he really shouldn't. Randy Orton wasn't over with the fans until he became a member of Evolution with Batista, Triple H, and Ric Flair. Cody Rhodes still isn't really over with the fans. Despite being heel, he comes out to really no crowd reaction. Bob Holly is a former Hardcore Champ and Tag Team Champ. The Hardcore Chamionship has been defunct for six years, and the Tag Team Championship is virtually non-existent. Similar to Hardcore Holly.
Val Venis
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Mike 10 months ago
Umm you know Sunday Night Heats Been canceled for months right?
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Kevin Williams 10 months ago
my bad i guess thats the point tho no one keeps up with it and these guys were constantly on it
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Dozer 10 months ago
Why'd they ban the 450 Splash? That was one of my favorite finishing maneuvers. It was original, exciting, risky and effective. I had been wondering for a long time why Paul London had stipped using that once he started teaming with Brian Kendrick. If you know why it was banned...please leave me a comment and let me know.
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Kevin Williams 10 months ago
the 450 splash and the shooting star press (up until now) were banned when many cruiserweights started getting injured and were asked to tone down there moves.
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Kyle Bean 10 months ago
Yes, the 450 and the Shooting Star WHERE banned for a short period of time. Now Evan Bourne on ECW uses the shooting star press. Just a precaution.
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Shane H. 10 months ago
Umm, you do know that William Regal is a talented technical wrestler. The KOR win for him was to lead to a major push but his 2nd Wellness suspension stopped that. Funaki is an enhancement wrestler, there to make someone up-and-coming look good. Plus, he is well liked with Vince. The same goes for Val Venis. Venis has a good wrestling business mind to add to that.
You say Vickie Guerrero is annoying and the crowd hates her. I thought that was her job. She plays a heel. Heels get booed. She is the best heel in the business not named Jericho or Edge. And Super Crazy showed 2 weeks ago what he can do when he isn't being squashed when he teamed with Evan Bourne and Tommy Dreamer on ECW.
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Kevin Williams 10 months ago
my only problem with vickie is that there are so many other people who could be in her position and yet they randomly chose eddie guerrero's wife? we saw her maybe two or three times on tv while he was alive and now that he's dead we have to see her get booed by the fans every week?
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Brandon Warnes 10 months ago
Those guys are characters in the WWE and make it what it is.
Regal is a gifted guy, maybe some of his better days are behind him but I really liked him as GM on Raw.
As for Viki, sure she's annoying but like Shane mentioned, that's her job. She is meant to be a GM that not every one likes or can go to, she just goes about her job as she sees fit.
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