Yeah! The hype for Cara got ME hyped too! I didn't realize they hadn't waited for him to learn basically ANY English, I still think the language barrier contributed to some of his botching (not all of it unfortunately) but yeah I remember the last stupid injury mistico took before they let him go and put Hunico in the mask full time. He did la suicida through the ropes on ADR but I think caught his foot on the ropes on the way down, dislocated his fingers and VISIBLY called the ref over right away probably because he doesn't speak English.. but I remember ADR getting pissed as fuck and rolling him back in the ring and laying a stiff kayfabe beatdown until the ref stopped him and pushed him off haaard (you can tell because normally they wouldn't have a ref forcefully push around a heavyweight superstar)
Road Warriors weren't good wrestlers either, certainly not when they started but they looked legitimately bad ass enough and were stiff enough in the ring that people popped for it , like Goldberg , Ascension is just hopelessly unconvincing by comparison. their time in development (longer than most) has not even made them average, they aren't noticeably athletic, nor impressively strong, nor stiff .... and they look like ass XD RW were also popular before coming to WWF