#2 Wade Barrett
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Wade Barrett had “star” written all over him, as soon as he arrived in the WWE, by winning the inaugural season of NXT in early 2010. He then wasted no time in making an immediate impact, by invading Raw with the rest of the Nexus, and from there, he was bound to break out as a main event calibre competitor.
Unfortunately, once Nexus was defeated at that year's SummerSlam event, Barrett's short-lived main event run came to an end. He received several start-and-stop pushes in the years that followed, but bad booking decisions and injuries prevented him from reaching that next level he belonged to. He was once set to break the Undertaker’s streak during the Nexus days when he was red hot, bu t plans changed due to previaling circumstances at that ti
By 2016, it was highly unlikely WWE was ever going to utilise him to his full potential, and he realised that. He allowed his contract to expire in the spring and hasn't looked back.
