Orlando Jordan

"Saw him briefly at all star wrestlign australia and has a hell of a match with keegan brettle they fought on top of a truck it was crazy. His TNA run sucked though."

[3.0] "He gets graded low because he was part of the Hogan & Bishoff TNA debacle. But as a midcarder on Smackdown he wasn't bad - crazy to think he beat Cena for the US championship"

[6.0] "I really liked Orlando Jordan as the mid-carder in the Cabinet and he played that role well, had good matches and won the mid-card title for the faction. I did not however appreciate his TNA run where his entire character was being bisexual. Like good for you but I don't see how this translates to a wrestling character. Just wrestle."

[3.0] "Good size but he didn't have the ability in the ring or on the microphone to ascend where he needed too. Somehow, he's a former United States Champion and, while it's not completely his fault, he did absolutely nothing for that title. He held it for a whopping 173 days with most of his defenses coming on house shows and a few times on Velocity before he dropped the title in 25.5 seconds to Chris Benoit. Despite his title reign being solid, he was essentially a non-factor before being released from the company in 2006. He debuted a weird gimmick on TNA and worked there for a bit but again, wasn't able to establish himself as a singles competitor. Obviously with the right opponent, he could be carried to a solid match but despite his good size, he was an absolute vacuum of charisma and couldn't tie his shoes let alone wrestle a match."

[4.0] "There are very few things that have got in my head as much as his WWE theme song. When it comes to cars? Do it big!"

[5.0] "Orlando Jordan was decent, but not as bad as people claim. But he also wasn't as good as he was pushed, but I like him enough to give him A 5/"

[3.0] "Another generic guy they tried pushing with a belt. Once he got destroyed by Benoit in their US title match, the experiment was over."

[3.0] "Orlando Jordan was your typical OVW callup from the Ruthless Aggression era, in that he had an extremely bland moveset filled with restholds, and he had no charisma or mic skills whatsoever, which resulted in him never being over, even when paired with JBL."

[4.0] "Just couldn't put the pieces together as a performer. Guy had the size, legitimacy and the look to be a potential mid card worker but he just wasn't made for the wrestling aspect and struggled to have really any good matches beyond a okish feud with Benoit. Sure, he was athletic and could sell for bigger established stars, but he had no real offence or just any real element of wrestling skill or acumen. Clunky in the ring and always looked just off in general, always botching moves or hitting bad looking strikes and kicks. He can work a BASIC style (and I mean basic as basic can be) with someone else and did admirably get a 40+ beyond gassed Ultimate Warrior through a 15 minute match with some element of structure but he just wasn't suited for wrestling."

[3.0] "Jordan seemed poised for a good run in WWE after getting an on-air stamp of approval from the Undertaker and then a featured role (including a US Title run) with JBL's Cabinet, but struggled to put all the pieces together in the ring and really connect with the crowd. Character-wise, he fared somewhat better in TNA, where he was allowed to run with the more flamboyant persona he reportedly wanted to use in WWE, but while he had a somewhat amusing odd-couple tag team run with Eric Young, and it was somewhat interesting to see just how far he would take his character, he was still unable to achieve the audience connection or staying power of subsequent flamboyant personas like Dalton Castle or Velveteen Dream."

[3.0] "I feel like there could have been something there with the Orlando character, but the guy was too unskilled to pull anything out of it. As JBL's right hand man, he never felt like he belonged in that role & never had a good match. Later in TNA, if they kept some of his persona more nuanced, perhaps he could have been something similar to what we have now with Velveteen Dream. But instead TNA went too far too fast & made it something you didn't want to see at all."

[0.0] "Orlando Jordan was devoid of any semblance of talent or ability, beyond having the knack to suck all the life out of anything he was involved in."

[2.0] "All I remember about this guy was when he jobbed to Chris Benoit in 24 seconds at Summerslam 2005. Awful."