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#7 Apollo
Titus Worldwide is a terrible travesty and needs to end. The crowd doesn’t care about Titus O’Neil, and being associated with him just drags Apollo down. The initial pairing may have helped Apollo gain some confidence in a speaking role, but outside of that, it’s been a waste of time. Apollo is an extremely talented wrestler and is one of the rare cases of a wrestler being called up from NXT far too early instead of far too late. He barely sipped a cup of coffee in NXT before he was pulled up to the main roster, and he suffered for it. The crowd didn’t really get a chance to be properly introduced to him, so when he didn’t receive an immediate superstar response, WWE left him out in the cold.
While he is still not the best talker WWE has to offer, he has a lot of in-ring presence and he is an amazingly talented athlete who continues to improve as a wrestler each and every time he has a match. On in-ring talent alone he was able to make the crowd believe that he had a chance to defeat The Miz on an episode of SmackDown in late 2016 for the Intercontinental Championship. And this was coming off the heels of an absolutely terrible feud where he teamed with Kalisto to take on a newly heel-turned Dolph Ziggler, a storyline that the crowd could not be bothered to care about.
He did it again earlier this year in the qualifying matches for the Elimination Chamber, specifically with his outstanding performance in the last chance fatal 5-way match that ended up being won by both Finn Balor and Seth Rollins. Imagine -- Apollo was in a match with Seth Rollins, Finn Balor, Bray Wyatt, and Matt Hardy for the final spot in the Elimination Chamber and the live audience actually believed that he had a legitimate chance to win the match. That alone should have been enough to wake up WWE management, but clearly, it fell on deaf ears. He could have a breakout year as Intercontinental Champion in 2018.
