10 Former FCW Standouts Who Flopped On The WWE Main Roster

10. Justin Gabriel

As you'll soon see, Justin Gabriel was the only Superstar on this list to capture championship gold during his stint on the main roster. That didn't necessarily make his main roster run successful, however.

When the NXT concept was introduced in February 2010, it was the perfect way of giving Justin Angel, as he was then known, some television exposure. He was making waves down in Florida Championship Wrestling as champion thanks to how athletically gifted he was in the ring and his swoon-worthy "pretty boy" look.

Of course, NXT was a bust as a competition show, but Gabriel went far, getting third place behind Wade Barrett and David Otunga. Immediately afterward he became a main roster regular as part of The Nexus and was focused on more than many of the other members of the group because of how he would finish off their adversaries with his scintillating 450 Splash.

Sadly, WWE did next to nothing with him as a singles star once The Nexus and later The Corre fizzled out. Aside from winning the WWE Tag Team Championship on three separate occasions, he was an undercard act for the last few years of his WWE career before he quit the company in January 2015.