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There is absolutely no debating that. The company had high hopes and big plans for Matt Bloom and a number of ingredients spoiled before they could bake the cake. And a number of different people earned blame for the disappointing results. At the end of the day, Tensai simply was not the quality performer for the position the company wanted to put him in. Can Tensai recover, perhaps under a new gimmick or with a new name?

Can he adapt what he learned in Japan to better work in the United States? But it will be difficult and it will take hard work from everyone involved to recover from what has to be considered one of the bigger misses in recent WWE history.

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Today's edition will focus on how Tensai can get back into the WWE brass' good graces. Tensai first broke into the wrestling business when he was discovered in He initially wrestled under his real name of Matt Bloom, but he was soon given the name Baldo. That marked the beginning of his long, winding road with the company. After teaming with Droz for a while, Tensai joined forces with Big Bossman.

Tensai won the Intercontinental Championship in , but he would hold it for less than a month. That accounts for his only title reign in the WWE to this point. He took his talents to Japan, where he worked primarily as a tag-team wrestler known as Giant Bernard. When Tensai debuted, he was billed as a former WWE wrestler who departed for Japan to hone his craft. He had a few squash matches in which he thoroughly dominated his opponents and finished them off by using the claw.

Tensai integrated the spitting of green mist into his arsenal when he defeated John Cena in an Extreme Rules match, and he went on to beat CM Punk in a handicap match soon after.

After two high-profile victories, Tensai seemed poised to have a major program with one of the top guys. That was quickly dropped, however, as he became absent from RAW and began appearing on Superstars.

In recent weeks, John Laurinaitis has used him in an effort to humiliate Cena and Sheamus, but they accounted for Tensai's first two losses in the company. After losing to Sheamus, Tensai viciously attacked his worshiper Sakamoto, so it will be interesting to see where the outburst takes his character. Curiously, Tensai was once again left off RAW this week, so I can't imagine that there are particularly big plans for him at this point.

The WWE tried to get him over quickly by allowing him to beat the top two guys in the company, but character development was tossed to the curb and resulted in his failure to be relevant.

Rather than pretending like the Albert chants weren't happening, the creative team should have addressed them, but it seems like the opportunity to do that has come and gone. The main thing that Tensai has going for him, in my estimation, is that he is one of the few big men in the company that can work a good match.

The go-to phrase among WWE fans is that Vince McMahon loves to push big guys, but aside from Sheamus and Jack Swagger, Tensai is probably the only one who can be placed in a marquee feud based on his wrestling ability alone. There have been complaints that the pace of his matches is too deliberate, but the actual substance is fine, as he has a solid, diverse move set. Also, Tensai's experience in the business shouldn't be discounted.

He has been wrestling for about 15 years and has done a little bit of everything. He had a long run in the WWE where he found success as a singles and tag team competitor, and the same was true in Japan. He is trained in several different wrestling styles and is a very versatile competitor because of that. While some may disagree, I also consider his gimmick to be a strength.

The way his gimmick has been managed to this point is an absolute joke, but that can be changed with a bit of effort. Following this, Tensai began losing much more frequently throughout the rest of , beginning with Cena ending his winning streak, before he started to suffer loses to the likes of Sheamus , Tyson Kidd , Randy Orton , and Ryback.

By December, Tensai was reduced to a comedy act, being forced to wear women's dresses and getting squashed by Santino Marella. Towards the end of January , Brodus Clay would come out to support Tensai, which eventually turned Tensai face , forming a tag team with Clay called Tons of Funk, with Tensai being referred to now by the name Sweet T.

They were scheduled to have a eight-person mixed tag team match alongside The Funkadactyls Cameron and Naomi against Team Rhodes Scholars Cody Rhodes and Damien Sandow and the Bella Twins at WrestleMania 29 , but their match was cut due to time constraints, with the match instead taking place the following night on Raw , where Tons of Funk and The Funkadactyls emerged victorious.

In November , Tons of Funk began to show signs of instability once Clay started a storyline where he became angry and jealous of the debuting Xavier Woods. As Clay began to exhibit more heel-oriented tendencies, such as repeatedly attacking Woods after he had defeated Woods in a match, Sweet T and the Funkadactyls slowly became alienated from him, eventually resulting in them leaving him, and to Sweet T defeating Clay on their eventual blowoff match. On August, Bloom announced his retirement from in-ring competition and that he would begin working as a trainer in the WWE Performance Center, resuming his teaching profession.

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