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This person is rarely successful: they might look good on paper, but when it counts they fizzle out. Supporters will claim he is the greatest thing since sliced bread, they’ll say that all the high-stakes failures do not prove anything because he really won them, and they will attack anyone who tries to point out that he can't deliver when it counts. Compare Fake Ultimate Hero, where most people seem to realize they are not that great, and Small Name, Big Ego, when it's the person himself who has a bloated self-esteem. May overlap with Crutch Character, depending on how long they hold out before this trope comes into play: they can still make important gains for their team early on, even when they lose their steam by the time they reach the climatic matches. The Trope Namer is the SNL sketch quoted above, which Manning, the former Trope Namer, was hosting after he won the Super Bowl. Manning himself was playing Ted Trimble with Jason Sudeikis as Chris Graham. This is different from Informed Ability in that the person might have the skills and you have seen them, but they are not able to finish the job with them. May be the result of Always Second Best. A villain who regularly faces an Invincible Hero is likely to be this. Often the result of being Well-Trained, but Inexperienced. |
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His losing streak finally came to an end in Alola, where he beat Gladion and won the League, even shocking Ash that he had won. Then, he goes on to beat Leon and become the World's Strongest Trainer. | |
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Jay Briscoe had been in Ring of Honor from day one and before he challenged Kevin Steen for the ROH World Title, a video montage was shown of all his prior failures to win an individual ROH title belt. | |
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The Road Of Homicide, part revenge, redemption quest over his frustration at not being able to win a single title belt of any kind in Ring of Honor. So he shot for the big one and at the end of the road was Bryan Danielson. | |
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For CS:GO from 2015 to the start of 2018, it was the Danish team of Astralis (then once known as Team Dignitas/Team SoloMid). Let's see: 3rd-4th at ESL One Katowice 2014, 3rd-4th at ESL One Cologne 2014, 5th-8th at Dreamhack Winter 2014, 5th-8th at ESL One Katowice 2015, 3rd-4th at ESL One Cologne 2015, 5th-8th at Dreamhack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015, 3rd-4th at MLG Major Columbus 2016, and 5th-8th at ESL One Cologne 2016. See a pattern? They were once infamously known for performing very well in the Majors...until they reach the semifinals, where they always lose. Fans have called this "The Semifinal Curse" for their constant tendency to just choke when they make it to the semifinals. This was averted for a time when they made the pioneering decision to hire a sports psychologist to help with their issue of mentality and won the Atlanta Major, but would be played straight for the rest of the year, where they would once again fall to eventual winners Gambit Esports at the Krakow Major, finishing 3rd-4th. This was eventually (and finally) averted for the second and possibly last time after the Boston Major, where after Kjaerbye's sudden departure and the acquisition of Magisk, would go on an absolute tear for the rest of the year, culminating in a dominant performance at the FACEIT London Major, where in the Champions Stage would go undefeated all the way to their 2nd Major victory, cementing their era. It would be further cemented with their win at the ESL Pro League Season 8 Finals, where they not only won the event itself but with this their fourth ESL/Dreamhack victory, won the $1 million prize of Intel Grand Slam Season 1 as well. One hell of an aversion right there. | |
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As much is said about Kamina of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, he actually hardly ever won a fight on his own, and only ever mostly succeed when fighting with Simon. Granted when they are fighting, Kamina appears to be doing most of the work. Also, he was able to get Simon to stop being such a wimp, basically get the whole story and rise of man thing started yet is mortally wounded when facing and bringing down the series' first extremely powerful foe, but manages to have a lasting impact and come back from the dead as a ghost or something to get everyone out of a Lotus-Eater Machine, which makes him something else entirely. The supplemental material explains why this is. For all his bravado, Kamina never truly believed in his own abilities, which meant he had the lowest Spiral Power levels of anyone in the series. Meanwhile, it's clearly established that Simon ends up having the highest. While Kamina does the work, he needs Simon to back him up, or he is - quite literally - powerless. | |
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When EVOLVE started, each wrestler's wins and losses were recorded in order to determine who would become champions or get title shots. Chuck Taylor of Ronin proved to be very successful, ending up with the best record in the company, but time and time again he failed to win the belt while his Ronin partners Rich Swann and Johnny Gargano were racking up title belts in EVOLVE's partner promotions FIP and Dragon Gate USA. He eventually abandoned Ronin to form The Gentleman's Club, a group dedicated to his own success, and it led to none as far as winning any title belts in EVOLVE or the rest of the WWN while Gargano would become the inaugural EVOLVE Tag Team winner with Drew Galloway, who was substituting for Swann. | |
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Big Show was known for his poor singles record and constant jobs at WrestleMania, having lost seven single matches. This became part of the build for WrestleMania XXVIII, where Cody Rhodes would constantly mock The Big Show for his inability to "win the big one". This would end up being the WrestleMania where The Big Show finally broke his singles losing streak by defeating Rhodes to win the Intercontinental Championship and joined the list of Grand Slam Champions. | |
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All My Children's Susan Lucci turned in enough magnificent performances to be nominated for an Emmy a whopping 19 times (this is a record). And every one of those times, she was beaten out by another actress before finally winning in 1999. | |
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Take a look at the top seeds in Ninja Warrior. There are ten or so competitors (among them Bunpei Shiratori) that consistently pass the second stage. Then recall that only three men have ever won (and one of them, Kazuhiko Akiyama, has had about a 50/50 record of clearing Stage One since - though to be fair, he's suffered chronic injuries). Pretty much all of them fit the trope. This is slightly hard to say for sure because every time someone wins the producers go and change the whole course. They may scale it back if no one wins after so many seasons, but the difficulty is upped constantly. |
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Surprisingly, the main character of Dragon Ball Son Goku is one of these. He has only won one tournament, the 23rd budokai vs Piccolo, and all others come up short in some, disqualified by technical ringout or quite literal gods getting in the way. Even anime filler and Super doesn't have him win although by this stage in his training, Goku tends to try to avoid winning so as not to attract too much attention. | |
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One of the reasons why Shooter McGavin from Happy Gilmore was such a Jerkass and grew into the villain of the film. Despite his reputation as a great player he was never able to win the championship and get the Golden Jacket. As his strongest competition weren't playing in the tournament this year he seemed like a shoe-in, only his thunder kept being stolen by Happy's violent antics while playing so nobody cared that he was on his way to the championship. | |
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Even more ironically, Black would go on to win what most fans consider a far more prestigious World title at WrestleMania 31. And that was just the first of his five WWE world title reigns in singles. | |
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In The Game Plan, The Rock plays one of these before he meets his long-lost daughter. | |
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Another good contender could be Rowdy Roddy Piper, especially since he got quite a few title matches against Hulk Hogan in the 80s. Hot Rod didn't just lose to the Hulkster every time, he got disqualified every time. | |
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Cheerleader Melissa had been on every volume of SHIMMER, and for seven years she had come up short in every last title opportunity she had until 2012 when she managed to beat Madison Eagles for the singles title belt. | |
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In ECW, Tommy Dreamer had a long feud with Raven in which he continually ended up losing to him. Dreamer finally won on Raven's last night with the company. | |
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WWE's angle for the revival of ECW was based on this - Rob Van Dam was built up as, in Joey Styles' words, the greatest competitor to never win a World Title, heading into his battle with WWE Champion John Cena in the main event of the revival show One Night Stand. By the time the show was over, he wasn't without one anymore. | |
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Kenny Florian fought at the top level in four different weight classes. He finished second in the inaugural The Ultimate Fighter tournament and challenged four times for various UFC titles, losing each time. He retired without ever winning a belt. | |
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Chris Benoit's angle going into WrestleMania XX, where both Triple H and Shawn Michaels made a huge deal over the fact that, despite receiving numerous opportunities, he always seemed to choke in world title matches, and thus both felt he was not in their league. Guess who won? | |
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Another New Japan case was Katsuyori Shibata. Despite being groomed as one of the company's "Three Musketeers" it took him precisely seven years to win a title belt in the company, or anywhere else in pro wrestling for that matter, a whopping sixteen years of failing to win when something was on the line if his other pro wrestling and mixed martial arts ventures are to be included. Meanwhile the other two, Shinsuke Nakamura and Hiroshi Tanahashi, racked up title belts constantly when they weren't simply enjoying long reigns. Even after Hirooki Goto helped Shibata to win the IWGP Tag Team Titles in 2015 it would be another year before he finally gained a singles belt in the NEVER Openweight Title. A year earlier Goto also helped end Shibata's tournament drought via the World Tag League but he continued to falter in singles tournaments while the other two already had several under their belt with Nakamura winning the New Japan cup that year and Tanahashi going on to win the notoriously difficult G-1 Climax for the second time the next year. | |
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In the Battletech parody Critter-Tek, which reinvents Humongous Mecha combat via the rules of baseball, House Mongrel of the Flea Worlds League are described as filled with potential that never quite gets realised, playing well at home, and on the road, and yet somehow always losing 20 games in a row in the middle of the season. The main issue seems to be that they're rife with infighting (parodying the factionalism of the Free Worlds League), and they respond by getting rid of the problem players ... who are also the best players. | |
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Combat robotics has BattleBots competitor Witch Doctor. The bot is a consistent title favorite each season, and even made two finals only to come up short both times. In Season 4, it was knocked out by Bite Force who remains one of the most successful bots overall to this day. Two seasons later, Witch Doctor made it back to the finals only to fall to underdog Tantrum. In the spin-off BattleBots: Champions the bot competed in that final match only to lose to Season 5 Giant Nut winner End Game. In the end, the team just couldn't get their hands on a piece of hardware to the point where fans on the show's subreddit started calling them "the Buffalo Bills of BattleBots". | |
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UrinatingTree has an entire series of videos, dubbed "A Legacy Of Failure", devoted to analyzing this trope in professional sports. Unsurprisingly, several teams highlighted in the folders above are featured. His own rules for featuring a team in this series are notably stricter than the trope's own definition, specifically: The team has to have been active in their current league for at least 40 years. They usually have to qualify for their sport's postseason on a fairly consistent basis. They have never won their sport's top prize despite all their postseason participation. (This was slightly amended with the 2020 release of the episode for the Toronto Maple Leafs, who last won the Stanley Cup in 1967 and from which point the recap begins.) The series was expanded in 2018 to begin covering coaches with a reputation for playoff futility, with coaches being required to participate for at least 10 years without a championship to receive an entry. |
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Played with in By the Sword. Alex Villard believes his father was this because his father was a famous modern-day fencing champion who died in a duel with a student of his after finding out that the student was having an affair with Villard Senior's wife. This leads the younger Villard to muse "He spent half his life winning fencing tournaments, but the only time in his life that he was in a fight that mattered he got himself killed". This fuels Villard's win at any cost, no matter how dirty your tactics approach to both fencing and life. Later that student, now out of prison for killing Villard Sr, sets Villard Jr straight. Villard's father had given the student a live rapier while arming himself with only a blunt practice sword and beat the student within an inch of his life with the practice sword. In the end, humiliated by his defeat, (in part because the student had been an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy back in the day) the student had stabbed Villard Senior In the Back when senior was ready to show him mercy. | |
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In New Japan Pro-Wrestling, Toru Yano developed a reputation for being a "spoiler", in that he could somewhat reliably beat many of the promotion's top wrestlers but for whatever reason was continuously unsuccessful when it came to winning title belts, tournaments, wager matches or really anything with a tangible or long-lasting symbolic prize. He mainly existed to make all better wrestlers wait for their success, or "spoil" their good runs. It had a clear effect on his psyche, as Yano began as a somewhat serious and clean technical wrestler but degenerated into an alcoholic who was best known for trying to cheat his way to the quickest victories possible. After seven years his bad luck finally came to an end when he and Togi Makabe of Great Bash Heel won the IWGP Heavyweight Tag Team Titles. Individual success continued to elude him though. | |
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Saki (specifically, the Achiga-hen spinoff) presents Shindouji All-Girls' High School from Fukuoka, which had a long history of qualifying for the National high-school mahjong tournament... and getting no farther than the second round. For the current season, they fielded as Vanguard the incredibly lucky Kirame Hanada, hoping to at least survive through the five phases of each round. Alas, they still came up short, though at least they made it as high as the semifinals. | |
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The reference to Arizona having a reputation of fizzling out in the Saturday Night Live sketch in the page quote was based on three embarrassing first round exits by the highly-seeded Wildcats in The '90s, losing to East Tennessee State in 1992, Santa Clara in 1993 (as a 2-seed) and Miami (Ohio) in 1995. | |
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As it stands, most would probably go with either The Million Dollar Man Ted DiBiase or "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig as the greatest competitor to have not been granted the world title. (Never mind Curt Hennig was AWA World Champion in 1987-88, before he went to the WWF). Ironically, DiBiase was promised by the then-WWF to win the WWF Title at WrestleMania IV. However, politics occurred (that didn't even involve him!). WWF wanted The Honky Tonk Man to drop the Intercontinental title to Randy Savage, but Honky refused and threatened to leave WWF with the belt, so WWF caved in and allowed Honky to keep the belt, and gave Randy Savage the WWF title at WrestleMania IV to make up for it. | |
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The Red Sox were so predictably the team that fizzles out every year that the writers of the American adaptation of "Fever Pitch" had written it into the ending, which was the opposite of the ending of the British novel/film it's based on. The film was supposed to end on a wistful "there's always next year" kind of vibe. Except they shot it in 2004. The subversion of this trope meant the ending had to be very quickly re-written, with one of the final scenes filmed at Game 4 of the World Series that year. Ironically, this made it a closer adaptation to its source material, which involves a similar Miracle Rally from a football team. | |
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Wade Barrett. From the onset of The Nexus, it became clear to everyone that management was high on Barrett and wanted to push him. And they tried, several times, only for any momentum he would get to be cut off by an injury or some kind of questionable booking decision. While he did have a prolific career for an upper-midcarder, he never really got to fulfill his full potential as a performer before he was released. | |
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Then, there's Lex Luger. He choked against Ric Flair (multiple times), Yokozuna (twice), and Hollywood Hulk Hogan... all for either the NWA/WCW or WWF Title beltsnote Luger managed to briefly avert this and pinned Hogan clean as a sheet for the WCW World Championship on the Aug. 4th, 1997 episode of Nitro... only to lose it right back to Hogan 6 days later at Road Wild. | |
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Ring of Honor pulled this with Tyler Black and Roderick Strong; the latter was 0-15 in World Title matches at one point. Ironically, Strong would defeat Black to win the title at Glory By Honor IX. Even more ironically, Black would go on to win what most fans consider a far more prestigious World title at WrestleMania 31. And that was just the first of his five WWE world title reigns in singles. |
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Cowboys Jet & Cord ran The Amazing Race three times, and, due to their ability to blaze through physically or technically based tasks and their huge popularity, were huge favorites to win all three times. However, they lost all three times due to making several small mental or navigational mistakes, all of which accumulated to cost them the win. | |
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In Dota 2, when it comes to The International, in terms of professional organizations, Team Secret is possibly the biggest example in its pro scene. Its first iteration consisted of Puppey, Fly (then known as Simba), N0tail (then known as BigDaddy), KuroKy, and s4. They had some good success but wasn't enough for Puppey, who would kick Fly and N0tail for Evil Geniuses's zai and Arteezy. They were considered to be the most star-studded roster ever made in Europe and had shown it, having won the last four LANs before The International 2015. They only finished 7th-8th after being beaten by Virtus.pro, a disappointing showing for the all-star team. So, in the post-TI5 shuffle, Puppey restarted his team, acquiring pubstar w33ha, and longtime veterans MiSeRy, pieliedie, and EternaLEnVy to make another star-studded roster. This iteration had even more mixed success, apart from a 2nd place finish at The Frankfurt Major and a victory at The Shanghai Major. Unfortunately, Puppey once again kicked two players, this time in w33ha and MiSeRy for Arteezy to once again return and bring Universe this time. This went as abysmal as one would've expected, with Secret finishing last both at The Manila Major and at TI6. What's more embarrassing was that Universe left the team before The Manila Major even ended, returning to EG. For added humor and irony, w33ha, MiSeRy, both on Digital Chaos, and Universe managed to make it to the top 3 with their teams, with DC triumphing over EG in the Lower Bracket Finals to finish 2nd. Post-TI6, Puppey restarted his team once more, making a final roster for TI7 of MP, KheZu, MidOne, and YapzOr, the latter two of which would form a core trio alongside himself. This was a quiet time for the team, and had mixed results as well overall, having to qualify for TI7 through the qualifiers. They finished 9th-12th, eliminated by eventual winners Team Liquid. For the 2017-18 DPC, MP and KheZu left, with Ace and Fata joining in. They would win both seasons of Dreamleague held during the season and finished 4th overall in the standings. They had a much better showing at TI8 but ultimately lost to Team Liquid once again, finishing 5th-6th. 2018-19 DPC: zai returns to Secret, and Nisha joins. They managed to finish 2nd at The Kuala Lumpur Major, and 1st at The Chongqing Major, along with wins at ESL One Hamburg 2018 and Katowice 2019. They have qualified for Dreamleague Season 11, and are looked on right now as the best team in the world, surpassing Virtus.pro. Time will tell if this transitions to a dominant performance at TI9. |
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One more instance of this trope hitting the Cowboys was the early 1980s. Between the 1980 and 1982 seasons, Danny White (replacing the retired Roger Staubach) led Dallas to 3 straight NFC Championship appearances only to lose all three, first to Philadelphia, then San Francisco following a thrilling conclusion with young quarterback Joe Montana throwing the winning pass to a leaping Dwight Clark, and finally arch-rival Washington in a game where Danny was knocked out early. These games, combined with the Cowboys' decline soon after, relegated Danny White to the status as being known as the Dallas quarterback between Roger Staubach and Troy Aikman, despite having stats that surpassed Aikman and rivaled Roger's. | |
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In Pokémon: The Series, Ash is a somewhat downplayed example, as most trainers never win all eight badges in the first place, which is an accomplishment in its own right. However, he only rises above the quarterfinals twice, reaching the semifinals in the Sinnoh League and the finals in the Kalos League, with the latter tournament only having 64 contenders (the others had over 100, involving 1 or 2 extra rounds)note And in that tournament, he suffered a Diabolus ex Machina. The one exceptions to this are when he took part in the Orange League and the Battle Frontier, which held the same prerequisite of obtaining the respective badges/frontier symbols, but instead of a tournament, Ash would be given the right to battle against the league/frontier’s top-ranked trainer’s, and won. He was very close to averting this in the Kalos Pokémon League, as he reached the finals of that tournament and was VERY close to finishing it off with Ash-Greninja. Unfortunately, Alain and his Mega Charizard X would have other ideas. His losing streak finally came to an end in Alola, where he beat Gladion and won the League, even shocking Ash that he had won. Then, he goes on to beat Leon and become the World's Strongest Trainer. |
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In professional League of Legends, the entire North American region is infamous for being a chronically-underperforming major region, but an exception to this (ironically making them the most qualified for this phenomenon) is Cloud9. Active since 2013, Cloud9 has been the most consistently-performing team in the NA-based League Championship Series, reaching playoffs in almost every split since its inception, but in terms of international tournaments like the Mid-Season Invitational and Worlds, they generally only eek past the group stages, with the furthest they've ever gotten being reaching semifinals in Worlds 2018. This is still better than their local competition (the only other NA team to have ever gotten out of groups was Team SoloMid in Worlds 2014), but it's become a tragically recurring joke that "the last hope for NA is Cloud9", which sadly never seems to mean much. | |
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Since 2007, GameFAQs' Contests Board has run a "Video Game Music Contest". 256 songsnote 192 songs in the 2007 edition and 128 in the 2016 edition, single-elimination bracket, vote for which song you like more. To prevent the same songs from dominating year after year, any song that makes it to Round 5 is immediately "retired" from appearing in any future edition of the main bracket and can only return for the occasional Tournament of Champions, which means that making the field year after year requires a certain level of popularity during the nomination phase without ever actually being able to go on a prolonged run. Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke and The Best Is Yet to Come have managed to make the field in all 10 contests. | |
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When Pro Wrestling Wave was founded in 2007, Yumi Ohka quickly shot her way into the main event, consistently winning tournaments and multiple bout of the year awards, yet she consistently failed to win a title belt of any kind, with her own Black Dahlia stablemate Misaki Ohata bringing younger wrestlers into the faction to offset Ohka's age and "The World Famous" Kana proclaiming Yumi Ohka had lost the right to call herself Wave's Ace in November of 2012. Ohka's tournament wins made her eligible for another to decide Wave's first singles champion in February of 2013 however and she capitalized by knocking off Ohata and beating Kana in the finals, which she then followed up by finally defeating Kana's Triple Tails to win Wave's Tag Team Titles alongside Ice Ribbon's Hikaru Shida. | |
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Byzantium in AH World Cup is meant to be an Expy of the Netherlands in The World Cup, always one of the favorites to win it all but never actually does. Even in the actual simulations, Byzantium struggled against teams they were expected to win against, drawing all their matches before they were finally defeated when facing another favorite. | |
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Phil Gordon. Wrote several books teaching poker. Color-comments several poker tournaments. Has never won a World Series of Poker bracelet, and has in fact never finished higher than third in one (though he does have a high finish of 4th in the main event and has a World Poker Tour title). Most importantly, he got rich playing. This is fairly common among well-known poker players/writers, such as Mike Caro or Doyle Brunson (who singlehandedly popularized no-limit Texas Hold'em and the WSOP and didn't win a tournament in the big-money days). Generally speaking, they honed their skills in ring (live cash) games, which have a very different pace from Tournament Play. Because of the randomness of casino games, it's very easy for one or two bad breaks to ruin an otherwise stellar performance. This is especially common at the WSOP in the post-Moneymaker era, where the sheer number of amateurs means that the winner is basically the player with the most luck that happens to be just good enough to take maximum advantage of it (which, conversely, means that WSOP winners tend not to have nearly as much success before or after). |
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Sasha Banks was this at WrestleMania until WM 38 in April 2022. She lost all of her first six WM matches; although only of those matches was a singles match, said singles match was a SmackDown women's title match that was the main event of Night 1. Sasha, the champion, was unable to defend her title, losing to the newly-crowned Bianca Belair. Although she climbed the mountain to win five RAW women's titles from 2016-2020, she also added to her "choker" label by never successfully defending any of them. Ended at WM 38 when she and Naomi won the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship (encompassing both Raw and SmackDown) in a four-way match featuring incoming champions Carmella and Queen Zelina, plus Liv Morgan and Rhea Ripley as well as Natalya and Shayna Baszler. | |
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WWE tried to do this with John Cena in the lead-up to WrestleMania 29, where he even compared himself to Donovan McNabb as a guy who couldn't win the big one should he lose to The Rock again. Tried being the key word, because Cena was already a 10-time champion going into the match, meaning he not only could win the big one, but had done so ten times already. | |
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The Moneyball-era Oakland Athletics were one of the best teams in baseball from 2000 to 2003, making the playoffs every year, and every year they found creative ways to lose in five games in the ALDS. In 2001, they seemed to have the best team in MLB, winning 102 games, playing better than the 116-win Seattle Mariners... but lost in the first round when Jeremy Giambi failed to slide. | |
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