10 Wrestlers Without Direction For WWE SummerSlam 2017
10. Tye Dillinger
'The Perfect 10' has experienced a start to life on the main roster that smacks of stubbornness from management resentful of the brief hijacking that took place following his monstrous reaction at November's NXT TakeOver: Toronto.
It wasn't Dillinger's fault of course, but he wouldn't be the first performer punished for daring to get over in a manner not in keeping with WWE's longterm plans. The organisation acquiesced to rampant fan demand by affording him the #10 spot in January's Royal Rumble, leaving him on borrowed time for the remainder of his NXT run ahead of his post-WrestleMania call-up.
In hindsight, he probably should have stuck around in Full Sail one more year. Dillinger had built up unbelievable stock with the NXT loyalists, and having already established a superb rivalry with Bobby Roode ahead of 'The Glorious One's Title victory, could have been the perfect opponent to headline TakeOver: Brooklyn 3 in the absence of a genuinely established contender.
A nondescript afterthought on SmackDown Live!'s so-called 'Land of Opportunity', Tye has lost matches that barely mattered and won ones that mattered even less. It happened again when he returned to Toronto on this week's edition of the show, with his partner suffering similar indignity...