 What's good, George? We'll rock back out again with another video. So we're going to check out 10 WWE legends who selfishly refused to put over the next generation. We've seen this time and time again, somebody from the past or what night, uh, get a little bit of a return, you know what I'm saying? They get a good payday from Vince, you know, to have, uh, one more match or a series of matches to not put over the potential new stars in the company that, you know, could use that, that rubbed from beating a legend, you know, we've seen it a few times, especially with Goldberg, but, uh, we're going to check out some of these moments. I'm sure Goldberg is going to be on this list a few times or multiple times, possibly, you know, we're going to check out some of these moments. I'm sure probably Hulk Hogan is going to be on this list. It's, it's something about Vince letting these legends come in here and squash the new talent or the talent that people actually care about. And then wonder why you can't make new stars, you know, like, how you can make new stars if you keep calling back the old stars to squash the new stars you got? I don't know. It doesn't make sense to me, but appreciate all the love and support. Let's get right into this one, man. When a wrestler reaches the top of the WWE ladder, it becomes tradition that they help the next generation by working with them in top matches and by eventually, like Mick Foley did, countless, countless, countless, countless times. Putting them over in a big way, whereas talents such as the Rock and Chris Jericho have executed this numerous times throughout their careers. There are certain talents who took exception to doing the right thing. These legends should, without question, have lost their match against the younger star, but for whatever various reasons that WWE legend came out on top. Join us now as wrestling looks at 10 times. WWE legends refused to put over the next generation. Be sure to subscribe and hit that notification bell for daily wrestling videos and follow us on Facebook for exclusively us to check out our new channel, WrestleMania shorts. Number 10, Hulk Hogan versus Randy Orton. Here we go. Said it. The Hulkster brother. Now it's crazy to think that Hulk Hogan's last ever WWE match would take place at the 2006 Summer Slam event. Hogan would collide with Randy Orton in one of the top matches on the show, and it seemed like a certainty that Orton would attain the victory. And that's it. That was his gimmick to use the legend killer. Couldn't kill this legend, brother tree. However, when Hogan hit the trademark leg drop and pin Orton one, two, three fans were stunned. There was no way that Hogan should have won the match. Orton was on fire as one of the WWE top. I don't lie to you. I love Randy Orton RKO Hulk Hogan onto the truck of a car, bro. That was a funny ass spot. I loved it. And he was going to be a talent that WWE built prominent storylines around for years to come. According to former WWE referee Marty Ellis, there was some debate backstage between Hogan and Orton in relation to who was going over in the match, but eventually WWE, well, specifically Vince McMahon opted to go with Hogan. Why Hogan believed he should have gone over in the match is anyone's guess, but this is Hulk Hogan we're talking about. And we know that putting over the next generation would have been the last thing on his mind. Number nine, Goldberg versus Kevin Owens. I said it already on the list. It doesn't seem logical that the match for the Universal title would be Kevin Owens defending against Chris Jericho. Owens and Jericho's partnership was the highlight of Raw. And the man to see them face off at WrestleMania was at an all time high when Owens faced. I would have definitely loved that actual actual because the story line there and I would have loved that. But, you know, you know, I'll forget Goldberg at the fast lane pay-per-view in 2017. Everyone within WWE fandom was under the impression that Goldberg was going to make Kevin Owens look like a huge deal heading into WrestleMania. But sadly, this isn't what WWE had in mind. Thanks to a distraction by Jericho, Goldberg would squash Owens to win the Universal title. This completely killed the hype for Owens versus Jericho as it was no longer about the Universal title. So he had lost its spark and Jericho himself had admitted that WWE made a terrible decision. Or should have spoken up and realized that putting over Owens was the correct move. But it seemed like Goldberg was happy to win a world title in this lackluster manner. What made this even worse was that when Goldberg was interviewed by Digital Spy, Goldberg revealed that he had regrets about the Owens feud. But those regrets aren't related to winning the Universal title. Goldberg simply wishes he could have smashed Owens a couple more times in featured matches. Number eight triple. Alrighty. H versus Rob Van Damme. A Rob Van Damme was immensely popular with the WWE crowd by September 2002. There were calls from fans as well as some internally in WWE for RVD to finally win the big one. When RVD faced off against Triple H at the unforgiving pay-per-view in 2002, there was strong desire to see RVD win the match. RVD as a face overall was what the red brand needed at the time and Triple H's feud with Shawn Michaels didn't need a world title attached to it to be relevant. RVD winning would have been a huge deal. It was the correct move. However, Triple H was heavily involved in backstage politics. Triple H would be bringing up comments about RVD's promo ability and at one point, the game even outright offered to help RVD with his promo work. Unfortunately, according to RVD, this impacted his push and this act of deviance more than likely led him to not capturing the world title Gold in 2002. Number seven, John Cena. Hey, not John. Triple H backed in. Wasn't the biggest fan of him back then, but you know, I love the guy now. But back then, oh man, backstage politics. He literally ran Monday night raw. It was it just got abysmal at one point. I'm like, Jesus Christ, man. Some can say that's being the same. That's the same thing we're dealing with right now with Roman Reigns. So who knows, you know, universe is Bray Wyatt, the time we arrived at WrestleMania 30 in their pay-per-view schedule. Bray Wyatt was one of the most interesting characters on the roster. Wyatt was incredibly popular and his feud with John Cena was well received. And they should have resulted in Wyatt pinning Cena on the ground stage. Naturally, this didn't happen. And Cena defeated Wyatt in a move which still confuses fans to this very. Yeah, if John Cena would have did the job for Bray Wyatt then. It would have made him a mega star. It would have made him a way bigger star because he was super over then. If they would have did the job, his momentum would have skyrocket because he would have beat John Cena at WrestleMania. That would have made that WrestleMania even that much better. Like what? Bray Wyatt defeated John Cena. Oh my God, at WrestleMania 30. That would have skyrocketed him. Ah, man, I missed opportunities. Today, this was a wrong move as Wyatt needed the victory to solidify himself in WWE, but WWE and Cena obviously had other ideas. At this point in time, Cena was invincible in WWE. Whilst he didn't explicitly have creative control, you know that would have been able to influence his match outcomes. And this is without question one. He should have positively. For sure. Number six, the Undertaker versus Albert. The Undertaker had a reputation for always being willing to put over young talent. The dead man had put over a range of talents from the great Kali to Vladimir Kozlov. However, in 2001, the Undertaker outright refused to put over Albert. According to X-Part, when the Undertaker was asked to put Albert over on TV, he simply said no. The Undertaker and Albert worked together a total of three times on TV in the summer of 2001. So it's hard to pinpoint what match exactly Albert was supposed to win. Then the Undertaker's defense randomly losing to Albert would have been a strange move. So we have an interest in discover if WWE had big plans for Albert at that specific time. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know the obviously, you know, the main reason why Undertaker was like, no, I'm not going to do that because usually he's the guy that will put you over. If they if they if they see something in you and he see it as well, he'll put you over. But when he's like, no, I'm not putting this I ain't putting this guy over. As a victory over the dead man could have been potentially been career altering. Number five, Hulk Hogan versus Triple H, the WWE's decision to award Hulk Hogan the title at backlash in 2002 was a strange one. It can be argued that Hogan was beloved by fans, but this didn't need to transition into a WWE title reign. Triple H was the reigning undisputed champion at the time, and the game had just won the title in the main event of WrestleMania 18. So it seemed like a bizarre decision to make Triple H drop the gold just a few short weeks after obtaining it. There's no reason that Hogan should have been agreeing to win the matches of this nature at this point of his career, and it was clear that WWE realized the error their ways. That's funny that Hulk Hogan got one over Triple H at this time. Hulk Hogan out backstage politic Triple H at this time. I want you to know how OP Hulk Hogan is backstage. He out politic Triple H out of a title he just won a few weeks prior. That's crazy. He had Hogan drop the title the following month to the Undertaker. Oh, my God. Talk about hot potato in the title. Number four, Goldberg versus The Fiend. I'm going to be on this again. The Fiend to win the universal title at the Super Showdown in 2020 was a move that nobody saw coming. The Fiend was presented as this unstoppable monster, but then he was defeated by a semi-retired wrestler. It was truly atrocious booking decision that destroyed the mystique behind the Fiend's character and persona. It was rumored at the time that Goldberg lobbied to win the match backstage, but these rumors have never been confirmed. Nevertheless, it was nonsensical that Goldberg and WWE believed that this was the correct decision. This booking decision highlighted Vince McMahon's habit of losing faith in the current generation. Time and time again, McMahon opted to go back to wrestlers he had previously relied on. It seemed like McMahon had no interest in making the current crop of wrestlers the true stars of his company. Number three, Triple H versus C.M. Punk. Summer of Punk was an exciting time to be a wrestling fan. Triple H on this list a lot too. Summer of Punk quickly fizzled out when WWE made some truly ridiculous decisions when it came to Punk's booking. One of these decisions took place at the 90er Champions Pay Per View in 2011. Punk would face Triple H, and this was a match that Punk without hesitation should have won. Triple H was semi-retired at this point, and it was already a key part of WWE's corporate structure. Unfortunately, WWE had Triple H pin punk in the center of the ring, and this outcome led to excessive resentment between Punk and the game, as Punk knew that the game should have put him over. Triple H at this point in his career had so much power that he could change any match outcomes he wanted, and this was one that he needed to step up and do the right thing. To this day, I still don't understand why he won that match. It made no sense with the narrative that they're trying to tell with C.M. Punk for him to lose a non-title, no disqualification match. Why? Why? It made no sense. Number two, John Cena versus The Nexus. All right, before we get into this, I know I don't know if you all follow me on Twitter, but you should. There's a guy. There's a John Cena, another John Cena super fan. I mean, super mega ultra fan. And I think on one of my previous videos, we talked about actually, no, I think someone had sent in a clip of John Cena beating, you know, Team Cena beating The Nexus or whatnot. And the dude went on a just a rant talking about how John Cena should have won. Well, Team Cena should have won and all this other stuff. And John Cena always loses at SummerSlam and all this other stuff. Hey, I know you're going to watch this video. I just want you to know, personally, I do not care. John Cena should have lost that match. Team Cena should have lost and put over the Nexus. I want you to understand John Cena is one of those characters that can take a loss to put over other people. He's still going to be John Cena. The dude even said, oh, he he shouldn't have lost to Daniel Bryan at the time at SummerSlam. He was injured. He should have, he should have won. I'm like, what? It's like, I get it. You can be a fan of somebody, but y'all are so delusional. He's like, all y'all do is hate on John Cena. No, we don't. We know he's a certified Hall of Famer. It's you can't see me, man. He's the goat. We get that. He's one of the greatest of all time in WWE. He's carried the company on his back for over 10 plus years. We got it. But at the same time, at some point, John Cena became unbearable. It is he became unbearable to watch because he was always winning and going over and fused that other wrestlers could have benefited from. So I just wanted to say this strictly to you, my boy. You need to get you some help, man. It's OK to be a fan of someone, but I'm telling you right now. John Cena doesn't actually know you, bro. No matter how many times you sit up there and praise him and worship him, he does not know you in real life, bro. Separate the difference between being a fan and appreciating someone and being obsessed and upset that John Cena didn't win every fucking match in WWE. Like, relax, my guy. Jesus. Back to the video. I had to do that little rant there. The Nexus storyline was one of the most captivating storylines of 2010. I've seen it. Seen a defeated team Nexus and so much pay-per-view. The storyline and the stable quickly lost its aura. The original plan for Summerslam was to seem team Nexus get the victory, but Cena spoke up and believed that he and his team should win the match. This was the wrong decision. Super wrong. Nexus members knew it and so did team Cena members such as Chris Jericho and Edge. In later years, Cena has admitted that he got it wrong and he's fully aware that the Nexus should have come out of the match with the W. Whilst it doesn't make up for the backstage politics Cena pulled back in 2010, it does show that Cena is able to reflect and realize he did the wrong thing. For sure. And number one, Stone Cold Steve Austin versus Brock Lesnar. When WWE wanted Stone Cold Steve Austin to lose to Brock Lesnar and Roy in 2002, Austin was so offended by what WWE was suggesting that he legitimately walked out of the company whilst Austin had taken issue in the past with putting over talent. He'd never reacted in this manner. Austin believed that if he was going to give the rub to Lesnar, it shouldn't be on free TV and it should be beat up. Fans continue to be split on if Austin was justified in his actions. Austin has admitted it's one of the biggest regrets of his career and he wishes he just did the job in relation to Lesnar. He's never shared any ill will towards the WWE legend and it wouldn't be an overreaction to call Lesnar and Austin close personal friends. But I think they're actually cool with each other. I don't think and in that situation and I can get it, you can say he was being selfish because he's like, bro, I'm not about to not about to put this guy over on a random Monday night. Raw like, no, I get that it's Stone Cold. I don't care what anybody say. I know Vince was in love with his new toy, Brock Lesnar, but it's Stone Cold, Steve Austin. You don't have him lose to the next up and coming guy on a random match on a random episode of Raw. That's somebody that should be if he's going to lose and needs to be at a pay-per-view. That's something you build up to. Not some can say that's just an out. He just maybe didn't want to do the job for Brock, but I don't think so because he knows Brock was a legit guy that can go and ring everyone knew that at that time. You know, so I don't think that was the situation. I think it was just I think for Stone Cold, he felt kind of betrayed by Vince as I have made you so many millions. And this is what you think of me now that I can't really go in the ring anymore. This is what you think of me now like, nah, bro. I think that's kind of what it was. It was more so a damn, Vince. You really just want to job me out pretty much like I'm a J.A.G. to a upcoming Stark is now he's your your new favorite toy. Nah, so that one I kind of understand. I wish it was. I wish he did handle it a little bit better, but I for I get it. I get it. You've been the guy for so long and then now they're trying to job you out to the next big thing on a random episode of Ronda put this on a pay-per-view, build it up. If I'm going to go out, let me go out in glorious fashion like I've always done, you know, so but comment down below. Let me know if there's any other legends you felt like should have put over the younger talent that wasn't on this list. Most of this list was comprised of Triple H, Goldberg and. And. Hulk Hogan, the guys with the most backstage politics, man. That's crazy, but I appreciate all of them. Sport roads, 150 K and I'm sitting on the speed of you to the wrestling champion of the world. Appreciate y'all kicking in with me. See y'all next one. Peace. Oh, before I go. You, you John Cena, super fan, bro, get you some help. John doesn't know you. You probably appreciate your support, but he doesn't know you, my boy. Relax.