10 Wrestlers WWE Gave Up On In 2016

10. Titus O'Neil

Titus O’Neil is a former WWE Tag Team Champion, but he’s never been anything more than a lower-midcard player throughout his time with the company. The former Prime Time Player has rarely been used as anything other than a slightly upgraded jobber, but 2016 has been absolutely brutal to him, even by O’Neil’s standards.

The 2015 Celebrity Dad of the Year actually enjoyed a relatively bright start to the year. He wasn’t exactly striding up the card, but Titus was being featured with increasing regularity on Raw and SmackDown, and looked set to slot into a comfortable midcard role.

That all ended during Daniel Bryan’s retirement ceremony in February, when he O’Neil playfully grabbed Vince McMahon in the aftermath. The result? A ludicrous 90-day suspension (later shortened to 60), and the end of his mini-push.

O’Neil returned to television in May, and he was buried immediately. Rusev obliterated him in front of his family then wrecked him in two consecutive US Title matches, and O’Neil slotted into the year’s worst feud alongside Darren Young, his former tag team partner. From there, Titus inherited the deathly “Titus Brand” gimmick and a sizeable losing streak, and while he remains a good PR figure for WWE behind the scenes, his onscreen career is dead in the water.