5 Ruthless Aggression Era Superstars that should have been WWE Champion

A-Train

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Now hear me out. There was a time when A-Train was pretty over as a heel. And it was right around the time he faced the Undertaker at Wrestlemania 19. He found himself as one of the biggest heels on Smackdown around that time. Why didn’t the WWE use that heat and have him run as a strong heel champion that was hard to beat?

Well the thing that obviously held A-Train back was that he shared a roster with Kurt Angle, Brock Lenser, Terry Bolea, Undertaker, Big Show and more. SmackDown was clearly just packed with talent around this time. That still didn’t stop the brand from putting the belt on guys like The Great Khali and John Bradshaw Layfield.

So why not A-Train? The former Intercontinental Champion had shown in the past that he could carry a title as a heel. He had plenty of heat and a sweater of hair that would make the hairiest of men look like an Olympic swimmer. Well he tore his rotator cuff in 2004 and then was drafted to Raw.  After one match on Raw with Val Venis, he was released from his contract.

Matt Bloom then went on to become a big star in New Japan and eventually came back to the WWE as Lord Tensai. He looked like he was finally going to get that shot at the title when he beat John Cena clean on Raw weeks after his return. But the crowd wasn’t buying it.

You could hear the Albert and A-Train chants from miles away. And that’s what the problem was. When Lord Tensai vignettes were going, nobody really expected to see Albert come out. And when he did, it just became a joke.