After the WWE aired many vignettes teasing the soon to debut Lord Tensai, he finally
made his debut on the April 2nd 2012 episode of Raw, much to the disappointment of the
WWE universe. As you may know, Lord Tensai wrestled as Albert and A-Train between 2000
– 2004 so it was a big disappointment to everyone when Tensai took off his mask as
it was clear to see that he was just a reskinned A-Train or as Santino Marella referred to
him as, a fat Albert… What seemed like a promising gimmick instead couldn’t be taken
seriously as the crowd chanted A-Train throughout his match as well as chanting Daniel Bryan
presumably out of boredom. Had the WWE acknowledged Lord Tensai was Albert and had him undergo
a character change throughout the seven years he spent in Japan, the gimmick could have
turned out to be so much better but instead, the WWE just pretended like Lord
Tensai was a completely different human being.
D’Lo Brown is best remembered for holding the European and Intercontinental championship
simultaneously as well as being a member of the heel stable, the Nation of Domination.
He wrestled in the WWE for six years before being released in 2003. However, five years
later, D’Lo made a return to the WWE in a televised match against Santino Marella...
At least there was one guy who was happy to see D’Lo… Although D’Lo did receive
a little pop, the return itself was nothing special and quite pointless especially since
he was released from his contract for cost-cutting measures just a couple of months after returning.
On the 14th April 2014 episode of Raw, the badass stable known as Evolution made their
return to attack The Shield and the crowd that day went absolutely nuts… well, not
exactly… I’ve heard more excitement from a crowd than when Mojo Rawley comes out…
Ok maybe I’m reaching there! Evolution dominated the WWE between 2003 and 2005 and it came
as no surprise especially considering who were in the villainous stable: “Triple H,
Ric Flair, Randy Orton and Batista,” all of them multiple world champions. So, to see
the group get no reaction from the crowd and commentators was just very insulting and disrespectful.
After spending three years away from the WWE, The Great Khali shockingly returned for one
night as a heel to help assist Jinder Mahal in his Punjabi Prison match against Randy
Orton at WWE Battleground 2017. The Punjabi Playboy prevented Orton from escaping the
prison which allowed Mahal to escape instead and win. Although it was a nice finish to
the match, the whole thing just felt unnecessary especially since The Great Khali only returned
for that one night and didn’t even start a second WWE run. I don’t even think he
knew why he was here to be honest. He probably thought he won the WWE Championship...
After taking a four-month hiatus from the WWE, Rusev returned on the September 16th
episode of Monday Night Raw to only be announced as the father to Maria Kanellis’ unborn
child… Fun fact, Rusev actually returned on the same day as Rusev Day. Although Rusev
looked in possibly his best shape ever, the sheer ridiculousness of the whole “who’s
the daddy” storyline put a big dampener on this and made the crowd very uninterested
in Rusev’s return. Rusev literally returned to Raw to fight a beta cuck… Those were
Corey Graves’ words not mine!