Top 5 Washed up Wrestlers We Don’t Feel Sorry for Anymore - Paer 2
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Top 5 Washed Up Wrestlers We Don’t Feel Sorry For Anymore - Paer 2
5 VIRGIL: Virgil was never the most celebrated star, best remembered for stints as Ted DiBiase’s bodyguard in WWE, and as a lackey for the New World Order in WCW. While he had a briefly successful run as a face who stood up for himself against DiBiase’s bullying, that quickly gave way to him becoming just a notch above jobber status.
It’d be easy enough to pity Virgil as a never was, and to feel poorly for him infamously going to conventions and not drawing much of a line for his autograph sessions. This dynamic transitioned into the “Lonely Virgil” meme and less a cause for sympathy than a joke.
Virgil lost further credibility when news broke that he was trading on Dibiase’s name, getting bookings for the two of them without ever even telling the Million Dollar Man. Virgil collected paydays he probably never would have scored on his own and Dibiase started to get a bad rep for no-showing before he caught on and put the word out not to trust his former on screen partner.
4 LACEY VON ERICH: As a wrestling fan, it’s hard for your heart not to go out to anyone left in the Von Erich wrestling family. As the daughter of The Texas Tornado Kerry Von Erich, she not only lost her father to suicide, but a series of uncles to other premature deaths.
Lacey would follow the preceding generation into the wrestling business and not do particularly well for herself. She’s a pretty face, which combined with her last name, got her a shot in WWE’s developmental system and later a stint with TNA. It seemed that her story in wrestling wound up disappointing and sad.
Lacey made an appearance on Steve Austin’s podcast last year, and discussed a number of these dynamics. The point came up that she was working with other daughters of famous wrestlers like Brooke Hogan and starting a new wrestling promotion.
Any sympathy for her quickly faded as she spoke with remarkable ignorance about the contemporary landscape for women’s wrestling, speaking disrespectfully about WWE’s women’s division in particular, and making it clear she hadn’t paid much attention to the women’s wrestling market in the past five years or so.
3 THE DYNAMITE KID: The Dynamite Kid is best remembered to American fans as half of the British Bulldogs tag team. His partner, Davey Boy Smith, would go on to greater notoriety as a singles star, but it’s widely held bt serious fans that Dynamite was actually the more talented wrestler out of the pair.
Despite being smaller, and arguably having less charisma, Dynamite was ahead of his time as a fast paced, high flying worker. Fans felt sorry for him for suffering a back injury that cut him short in his prime, such that he’d never work more than the occasional show after his run with the team.
While Dynamite’s talents may have justified more opportunities, his attitude makes people less inclined to feel sorry for him. Word has gotten around that he was a mean spirited bully to many of his fellow talents.
Additionally, as Bret Hart wrote about in his book, and other wrestlers have corroborated, he became a bitter old man living alone back in England, cruel and critical toward those who reach out to him, and those who have gone on to greater success than him.
2 SHANE DOUGLAS: Shane Douglas was an important wrestler for ECW—the chosen wrestler to throw down the National Wrestling Alliance World Championship belt, and effectively launch Extreme Championship wrestling as its own autonomous promotion.
He had reasonable stints as a mid card talent for WCW and WWE as well, though he never made much headway in those companies. Word came out in recent years that, in addition to still wrestling part time on the indies, Douglas now worked at Target. Soon, people started to either feel badly for Douglas or, in a few cases like Ric Flair, openly mock The Franchise for how far he’d fallen.
While most former stars in this article don’t have fans feel poorly for them anymore on account of unethical behavior or the like, Douglas’s case is different. People don’t feel sorry for him, because he doesn’t feel sorry for himself. He has owned working at Target, very reasonably explaining that he needs to consistently provide for his family.
1 SCOTT STEINER: Scott Steiner rose from tag team stardom to be a legit, full on main eventer for WCW in the dying days of WCW. He’d get a shot at working with WWE for a spell after WWE bought out WCW, and after the InVasion angle had flopped.
That short tenure was largely disastrous, including an embarrassingly bad showing against Triple H in which the company miscast him as a face, after which WWE most relegated him to a mid card role. Steiner would play out the rest of his career working for TNA and on the indies. It’s easy to feel poorly for a top talent who was misused and fell from great heights.
Steiner didn’t exactly draw a lot of sympathy from fans when he’s maintained his outspoken persona in his real life. In a variety of interviews, he hasn’t hesitated to go on expletive laden rants against former colleagues and bosses. While his rants can be entertaining, they ultimately suggest he probably wasn’t a very pleasant person to work with himself.
