Richie Steamboat was one of the biggest what-ifs in modern wrestling. But, just like his dad, his career was cut dramatically short by a back injury. It's really a shame as I've heard the guy was amazing in the ring.
I completely agree. Imagine how good he would have got if he wasn't injured? He had a good look and a great ability in the ring and the only thing he was missing was charisma, but I think, with some guidance, he would have found that sizzle.
Curtis Axel being a Paul Heyman guy helped him and pushed him to a good level that's how good Heyman really is he can take a jobber and take him or her to a whole new level
@@zanethindI don't know but I never felt Mr Perfect was a Wrestling star. He was good worker and talented but I never saw him as a success anyway maybe at any level. He is a little over with the hardcore fans because of some matches. Mr perfect vs Shawn Michaels was never a 5 star match and many here there also weren't good. Bret vs Perfect is the only remembered match or feud. Curt hennig went to WCW and also didn't do anything great. Curtis did not have a good look which was enough for him to never be a successful wrestler. Mr perfect atleast looked decent. I remember seeing Curtis Axel and never felt he was going to be successful even if he was good worker. Vince talked about Cesaro not having charisma but Axel looked even more worse than Cesaro.
Sad to say but at the moment I think Daichi Hashimoto is a good fit for this list. He's a solid wrestler but being the son of an all time great and turning your wheels in the Big Japan midcard isn't a great sign.
Tbh i disagree since he's doing something his father almost never did but only once did. Plus he became world champion of the other division in the company
I mean he still wrestled and won the Million Dollar Championship and the tag titles so he added to his family's legacy although he likes what he's doing now away from wrestling so maybe after he was released from WWE and wrestled on the indies he could've liked it or wrestling was never his calling
@@Biffo316 he just didn't like the business but imagine if he wrestled on the indies afterwards who knows who he could've became today besides his other job that he has now
Could have put Hector Guerrero or Chavo Sr. Hector is most well-known for being the OG Gobbely Gooker. Gory was a legend in Mexico and was a key player in the early days of Lucha Libre.
Richie Steamboat's dreams were dramatically cut, so are Noelle Foley and the late Reid Flair (Ric Flair's youngest son from his 2nd and final marriage). 😔
I don't think it's fair to include Steamboat on this list. There's a big difference between not living up to expectations and choosing to walk away while he still could. Especially given how talented he obviously was. Just imagine if he could have continued and was the pure babyface against the Head of the Table version of Roman.
I hugely disagree with Richie Steamboat being on this list. Unlike everyone else on the list who never lived up to the legacies of their famous fathers, Richie's career was derailed due to injury. By all accounts he had all the tools needed to make a major impact in WWE had he not gotten hurt. It's unfair to label him as a guy who failed to live up to his legendary father's legacy when his promising young career was taken away from him. Instead of Richie Steamboat, you should've added the likes of either Cody Hall or Scott Putski or Greg Gagne to this list instead of Richie. Another name I think should have been added to this list is Garrett Bischoff, Eric Bischoff's son. Eric Bischoff was not a wrestler but he was for a long time one of the most powerful & influential figures in Pro Wrestling first as the head of WCW during The Monday Night Wars and than as one of WWE's most famous & popular on-screen authority figures. When Eric went to work at TNA, his son Garrett who had very little training & zero experience got his dad to put him on TV in a blatant act of nepotism. Garrett worked briefly as a ref before he was placed in the not so great Aces & 8s stable alongside the legendary Dudley Boys & former WWE standout Mr Kennedy just because he was Eric Bischoff's son. Garrett though never made any kind of an impact whatsoever & was rarely ever noticed, ultimately fading away once Aces & 8s mercifully disbanded.
Pairing David Sammartino with Bruno was the KISS OF DEATH for David, when it became Instantly OBVIOUS that Bruno, despite being in his 50s, was still better than David could or would ever be!!!
WWE put him in developmental when they bought WCW. I think the only time he was on WWE TV was when Taker beat the hell out of him during his feud with Ric. I think I read that David did become a cop.
It isn't fair for the son/daughter of a legend to have so much pressure put on them just because of who there parents were. This is why I am a little worried when it comes to Dominic Mysterio, he can wrestle but I feel he needs to carve his own name at some point, maybe even take on his father at some point to prove he can do it.
Tiger Ali Singh. Pre-debut he's heavily hyped, then he's on WWF programming for a cup of coffee every two-plus years, and his career there essentially ends with concussions in Puerto Rico.
I know many of these sons want to carve out their names and downplay their legacies, but for some of these, knowing who their famous dads were really would have helped, because I had no idea
George Gulas is an easy number one for me. Honourable mentions for Scott and Steve Armstrong, Jamie Dundee, Barry O and all of Bret and Owen Hart's brothers.
Barry O was the Lanny Poffo to Bob’s Randy Savage. Could have been a great main event heel like his brother, but saying to to Uncle Pat back then was not helpful to your career. There were probably a lot of people like that back then.
Did Brian Christopher reach his father's level of success? Nope. Did he fave a successful WWE run? Yes! The guys gimmick popped the crowd. Most wrestlers never experience that at all.
Cody? Former NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion, one of the best IC champions in recent memory, co-founder, and EVP of AEW. If any of Dusty's kids belong on this list it is Dustin (he doesn't).
I know it's a midcard comedy gimmick at best but I genuinely don't think I'd look back at the attitude era as fondly as I do if it didn't have Stasiak twatting into something having just flown straight past his target
Don't even get started on the Hulkster's children. Brooke was brought in to TNA by her father, but it's very clear the apple fell very far from the tree. Brooke's not a wrestler, and had none of her father's charisma or acting ability (which was already minimal, honestly). Her stay in TNA was short, lasting only 2 years, and wouldn't you have guessed it, she left at the exact same time her father left.
I don't think that it's fair to say Richie wasn't able to live up to his dad's legacy since he wasn't able to be in the business long enough to really test the waters
It's not so much that these guys can't be successful....its just they fathers were so iconic and bigger than life that when they come into the business they already have big shoes to fill and they automatically get compared to their fathers. That's why some of those guys choose not to use the same last names as their dads so they can carve their own niche and attain a level a success. And a big part of that is bc ppl won't compare them and put them in that box.
Ehhh, some of these, I dunno if I agree with. We can play semantics, but saying "never measured up" carries the implication they weren't successful, and in the case of a couple, that's not true. Brian Christopher was BIG TIME in 2 Cool. Anyone that remembers that time knows what I'm saying. Their appearance was a staple in the WWE shows every week, and not many can say that. And Richie Steamboat got HURT. The others on the list, yea, they didn't have success. But that's not the case with Brian and Ritchie. My two cents.
Richie Steamboat was one of the biggest what-ifs in modern wrestling. But, just like his dad, his career was cut dramatically short by a back injury. It's really a shame as I've heard the guy was amazing in the ring.
I completely agree. Imagine how good he would have got if he wasn't injured? He had a good look and a great ability in the ring and the only thing he was missing was charisma, but I think, with some guidance, he would have found that sizzle.
He had some great matches in FCW. Gotta check em out.
Got another - son of a legend, was in bullet club, still didn’t take off. Cody Hall.
Son of?
@@calum2324 who else has the last name Hall 🤔
@@ChickenNuggetHM Jillian?
@@singaporesammy exactly
@TheDreamSmasher of coarse I'm so stupid my bad
Curtis Axel being a Paul Heyman guy helped him and pushed him to a good level that's how good Heyman really is he can take a jobber and take him or her to a whole new level
Axel is very capable in the ring but he has no mic skills, that's why putting him with Heyman worked
@@blankko84 yeah I know
@@zanethindI don't know but I never felt Mr Perfect was a Wrestling star. He was good worker and talented but I never saw him as a success anyway maybe at any level.
He is a little over with the hardcore fans because of some matches. Mr perfect vs Shawn Michaels was never a 5 star match and many here there also weren't good. Bret vs Perfect is the only remembered match or feud.
Curt hennig went to WCW and also didn't do anything great.
Curtis did not have a good look which was enough for him to never be a successful wrestler. Mr perfect atleast looked decent.
I remember seeing Curtis Axel and never felt he was going to be successful even if he was good worker.
Vince talked about Cesaro not having charisma but Axel looked even more worse than Cesaro.
It's true. Bobby Heenan did that with Steve Lombardi. I mean, as Brooklyn Brawler he got promo time and got to beat up enhancement talent
1. Garett Bischoff (Yes, his father Eric was not a wrestler technically, but still terrible)
2. Wes Brisco
3. Manu
4. Cody Hall
Garrett Bischoff was only a kayfabe son.
@@joebaumgart1146 No he is legitimately Eric's son. Check Wikipedia if you don't believe it.
@@jeremywilliams5141 never believe everything you read on Wikipedia. I got my info from Eric Bischoff's podcast.
@@joebaumgart1146 Oh ok.
@@joebaumgart1146 garret is eric son
At the very least, David Flair gave us one of my favourite wrestling memes : the David Flair style entrance video.
We need a Dominik Mysterio variant of the David Flair titantron
That ass whipping Taker gave David os pretty memorable also
You mentioned the Rock and Randy as positive examples... there's also Eddie Guererro. Cody and Dustin are arguable. Charlotte is getting up there too.
Are you suggesting that Charlotte is even remotely close to her father's success?
@@shock_n_Aweful Nope, but she does great work nonetheless. I doubt there will be another Ric Flair, it was a different. time
Didn't know Charlotte had a sex change. 😂
@@AnotherCupper You're focusing on the wrong part of this project
Charlotte is up there already technically she is the greatest women's competitor arguably in the WWE
Sad to say but at the moment I think Daichi Hashimoto is a good fit for this list.
He's a solid wrestler but being the son of an all time great and turning your wheels in the Big Japan midcard isn't a great sign.
Tbh i disagree since he's doing something his father almost never did but only once did. Plus he became world champion of the other division in the company
A shame about Ted Jr. The team with Cody was one of the highlights of Raw for me in 08 before they turned them into lackeys for Orton.
I definitely thought Ted Jr was gonna be a star. He had the charisma and the look to make it but after Legacy split up he disappeared
kind of means he also didn't measure up to his grandfather Iron Mike DiBiase as well
I mean he still wrestled and won the Million Dollar Championship and the tag titles so he added to his family's legacy although he likes what he's doing now away from wrestling so maybe after he was released from WWE and wrestled on the indies he could've liked it or wrestling was never his calling
@@Biffo316 he just didn't like the business but imagine if he wrestled on the indies afterwards who knows who he could've became today besides his other job that he has now
@@egpmh2891 he won a title that's good enough
Hornswoggle MacMahon.
Could have put Hector Guerrero or Chavo Sr. Hector is most well-known for being the OG Gobbely Gooker. Gory was a legend in Mexico and was a key player in the early days of Lucha Libre.
Always felt bad for Curtis Axel. Dude gave it his all but it never clicked unfortunately
Especially since he didn't have much of anything that you could point to that was anything near what his father could do.
well...never clicked with Vince anyways, clicked big time with the fans though, especially with the 'B-Team'
So many Honorable Mentions: Greg Gagne, Jake Carter (Big Van Vader's son), Manu among others.
@TheDreamSmasher just googled him and wow. Lol, you are absolutely right.
@@joeboggio4002 During a match on NXT Jim Ross said "Thank God he got his mother's looks!"
I guess you could say Stasiak's potential...hit a wall
Or a milk truck
Richie Steamboat's dreams were dramatically cut, so are Noelle Foley and the late Reid Flair (Ric Flair's youngest son from his 2nd and final marriage). 😔
Miracle Violence Connection is still the best tag team name ever.
I see your Miracle Violence Connection and raise you Vicious and Delicious
The best tag team ever was The Road Warriors
I don't think it's fair to include Steamboat on this list. There's a big difference between not living up to expectations and choosing to walk away while he still could. Especially given how talented he obviously was. Just imagine if he could have continued and was the pure babyface against the Head of the Table version of Roman.
Geez....
Take everything you said about Watts...and multiply it x2, and you have Greg Gagne.
I can't believe he's not on this list.
Yes this. He’s a pretty good used car salesman though.
Something special about hearing "Grand Master Sexay" in a british accent
David Flair was by far the worst & unfortunately we will not know what Reid Flair would have done.
I agree that David Flair was the worst but, hot take, Charlotte is overrated.
@@thetruecish woah what a hot take.
Super controversial
@@alexknight81 I know, right?
We know what he would have done. Meth.
Yeah sadly
I hugely disagree with Richie Steamboat being on this list. Unlike everyone else on the list who never lived up to the legacies of their famous fathers, Richie's career was derailed due to injury. By all accounts he had all the tools needed to make a major impact in WWE had he not gotten hurt. It's unfair to label him as a guy who failed to live up to his legendary father's legacy when his promising young career was taken away from him.
Instead of Richie Steamboat, you should've added the likes of either Cody Hall or Scott Putski or Greg Gagne to this list instead of Richie. Another name I think should have been added to this list is Garrett Bischoff, Eric Bischoff's son. Eric Bischoff was not a wrestler but he was for a long time one of the most powerful & influential figures in Pro Wrestling first as the head of WCW during The Monday Night Wars and than as one of WWE's most famous & popular on-screen authority figures. When Eric went to work at TNA, his son Garrett who had very little training & zero experience got his dad to put him on TV in a blatant act of nepotism. Garrett worked briefly as a ref before he was placed in the not so great Aces & 8s stable alongside the legendary Dudley Boys & former WWE standout Mr Kennedy just because he was Eric Bischoff's son. Garrett though never made any kind of an impact whatsoever & was rarely ever noticed, ultimately fading away once Aces & 8s mercifully disbanded.
No offense Greg gagne is actually good. Hell less of a douche than his father about politics backstage
Pairing David Sammartino with Bruno was the KISS OF DEATH for David, when it became Instantly OBVIOUS that Bruno, despite being in his 50s, was still better than David could or would ever be!!!
Wow I hope axel heads to the nwa
Ted Debiase jr was one of my favorites to succeed. Sadly it didn't work out
mr,perfect and brett hart where two of the best ever
For years I’ve been wondering what happened to David Flair.
The Undertaker beat him senseless and he disappeared forever.
Hanging out with Manu. 😂
WWE put him in developmental when they bought WCW. I think the only time he was on WWE TV was when Taker beat the hell out of him during his feud with Ric. I think I read that David did become a cop.
@@thetruecish he appeared in my hometown in 2006 the last time I saw him...
It isn't fair for the son/daughter of a legend to have so much pressure put on them just because of who there parents were. This is why I am a little worried when it comes to Dominic Mysterio, he can wrestle but I feel he needs to carve his own name at some point, maybe even take on his father at some point to prove he can do it.
I just hope one day wrestlers sons and daughters can reach the level their parents and relatives did
I hope -1 ISN'T on this list when we revisit it in twenty years.
gawd, i was SUCH a ted jr stan in his WWE heyday. For whatever reason, i really, legitimately thought he was gonna go far.
Rest in Peace, Grandmaster Sexay!
The WWF should've had MR.PERFECT son as THE PERFECT SON as his character and he is just like his father.
Is it me or does Richie Steamboat look a lott like Adam COle BB?? And am I the only one surprised Bo Dallas isn't mentioned??
The premise for this video is -brutal-
9:52 Adam Cole face swapped with Ricky Steamboat
You guys have probably already thought of/started working on this but next you should do 10 wrestlers who outshone their fathers
Jake the Snake Roberts
Randy Orton
If I’m correct axel won the tittle because fandango got injured, ucky he was because it was Father’s Day
Tiger Ali Singh. Pre-debut he's heavily hyped, then he's on WWF programming for a cup of coffee every two-plus years, and his career there essentially ends with concussions in Puerto Rico.
Angelo Mosca Jr is another example.
I worked a show with Steamboat Jr. He was a nice guy.
At least David is #1 at something.
I know many of these sons want to carve out their names and downplay their legacies, but for some of these, knowing who their famous dads were really would have helped, because I had no idea
You forgot Davey Boy Smith Jr., Kendall Windham, and Dominic Mysterio.
@@aztecwrrior1997 True, but Rey's legacy will be a tough one for Dominic to live up to.
Davey Boy Smith Jr did a lot better outside of WWE and Dominic Mysterio career is still pretty new
It would be nearly impossible to live up to Rey. He is a legit Legend.
I guess Scott Hall's kid is #11 and want even good enough to make the list 😆 🤣 😂
It was really unfair to expect David Flair to live up to Ric Flair's legacy or Curtis Axel to live up to Mr. Perfect's legacy.
George Gulas is an easy number one for me. Honourable mentions for Scott and Steve Armstrong, Jamie Dundee, Barry O and all of Bret and Owen Hart's brothers.
Barry O was the Lanny Poffo to Bob’s Randy Savage. Could have been a great main event heel like his brother, but saying to to Uncle Pat back then was not helpful to your career. There were probably a lot of people like that back then.
Isn’t Scott Armstrong a referee?
1:41 = Mojo? Bo though? No go? I couldn't make out what you said.
He says "Though Joe...." and continues his sentence.
@@youngdolo8 took me x5 times... Thanks. How we're just disregarding kayfabe 😂
A slight honorable mention to Nick Kiniski.
Wwe don't care about the sons or daughter of passed legends they always treat them like shit
Unless their name is Randy.
Unless you're tall and blonde like what VKM likes in Charlotte. Or the Rock, or Randy
@@joeboggio4002 get out
Charlotte is not “on her way” to being one of the best ever. She is. She’s it.
Mr. Perfect was so great, unfair to expect his son to live up to that
Also not great booking
Conspicuously absent from this list is Mike Graham. He didn't break a thousand guitars, but he sure as hell never drew a dime either.
Ted DiBiase Jr is my favorite person on this list
Did Brian Christopher reach his father's level of success? Nope. Did he fave a successful WWE run? Yes! The guys gimmick popped the crowd. Most wrestlers never experience that at all.
He had a better run in WWE, sure Jerry main evented some ppvs but he was really known more for being an announcer.
Future member of this list: Dominik Mysterio
Probably especially with the awful booking they have right now
thanks!
I like curtis axel it's a danm shame he was wasted
You should have mentioned Brett & Mike DiBiase as well.
Richie Steamboat was a fucking tragedy. It's still sad to me that he didn't get a real shot, he was so talented.
Curtis axel deserved so much more
Shane McMahon, Hornswoggle, Cody Rhodes
Cody? Former NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion, one of the best IC champions in recent memory, co-founder, and EVP of AEW. If any of Dusty's kids belong on this list it is Dustin (he doesn't).
greg gagne, scott putski, shaul guerrero, mike graham, and the von erich grandchildren.
Rip curt Henning
Scott putski I was sure he as going t be in there !
What about Jason Jordan not living up to Kurt Angle? Lmao
Bruce Hart, and Teddy Hart
I feel like Curtis Axel being on this list is true but unfair. He was never given a chance to shine. Same treatment with Bo Dallas.
do an inversed one with who were better then their fathers
the daphney/david pic
Damn David Daffney and Kanyon are all gone now
Huh? David Flair isn’t dead
Subjective opinion but I still believe Joe Hennig had potential to be something, it was just typical bad wwe booking
Agree most of them were imo
Just like now
God awful booking
Nice!
Me personally I don't disagree with Bill watts' old time methodology. It would be a great change of pace compared to today. Just my opinion.
Do one where the son was better than the father. IRS and The Fiend
David left sometime after wrestlemania 2
I know it's a midcard comedy gimmick at best but I genuinely don't think I'd look back at the attitude era as fondly as I do if it didn't have Stasiak twatting into something having just flown straight past his target
Angelo Mosca Jr., or BlackJack Mulligan's other son Kendall.
Don't even get started on the Hulkster's children. Brooke was brought in to TNA by her father, but it's very clear the apple fell very far from the tree. Brooke's not a wrestler, and had none of her father's charisma or acting ability (which was already minimal, honestly). Her stay in TNA was short, lasting only 2 years, and wouldn't you have guessed it, she left at the exact same time her father left.
@Miguel Baltazar Amen.
I don't think that it's fair to say Richie wasn't able to live up to his dad's legacy since he wasn't able to be in the business long enough to really test the waters
David Hart Smith was never as the same level as his dad the British Bulldog
In WWE maybe not but he was on a tear in MLW alongside Teddy Hart (biggest waste of talent ever) and Pillman.
@@criminalmindsgirl2936 I still wish
He teared up in Japan and MLW
Benoit's son never got that chance.
It's not so much that these guys can't be successful....its just they fathers were so iconic and bigger than life that when they come into the business they already have big shoes to fill and they automatically get compared to their fathers. That's why some of those guys choose not to use the same last names as their dads so they can carve their own niche and attain a level a success. And a big part of that is bc ppl won't compare them and put them in that box.
Don't forget Polish Power Ivan Putski and his son Scott.
You rightfully give Erik Watts a segment on the list...but you didn't show THE "DROPKICK". You guys are slipping.
Hennings son was screwed by WWE, he could have been huge with proper booking and constant mentorship from Dutch Mantell.
I remember deuce and domino
Am I crazy for thinking Ted D wasn't that good in the ring and his value was all on the microphone?
Commendable? Curt hennig was as good as I ever seen . That perfect plex, that was excellence.....just my opinion on him being the best
Ehhh, some of these, I dunno if I agree with. We can play semantics, but saying "never measured up" carries the implication they weren't successful, and in the case of a couple, that's not true. Brian Christopher was BIG TIME in 2 Cool. Anyone that remembers that time knows what I'm saying. Their appearance was a staple in the WWE shows every week, and not many can say that. And Richie Steamboat got HURT. The others on the list, yea, they didn't have success. But that's not the case with Brian and Ritchie. My two cents.
I'd have to think Curtis Axel got buried by creative. Why take so long to recognize he was the kid of Mr Perfect?
Bray waytt is great in his on way great man
Let s go Brandon
You forgot Mike VonErich
Some of it is not fair as anyone can see in the WWE, they have big rosters but the writers wouldn't have storylines for the few mentioned here.
Lacey Von Erich.
Bruno had two other son's who I think tried it too they were twins
Brock Anderson
Too early to decide, but he certainly didn't leave a positive first impression.
I’m not even going to watch this list. It’s not fair to compare sons to their fathers, especially if they are considered “one of the greats”.
Cant blame the wrestler sometimes blame back booking and storyline decisions.