10 Wrestlers WWE Have Already Ruined In 2022

10. Kevin Owens

Heading into this year fresh off signing a bumper new deal, fans were understandably somewhat hopeful about the prospect of Kevin Owens finally getting a meaningful run at the top of the card in the not too distant future.

And things looked solid enough heading into Day 1, with KO making up one of the initial four men involved in the WWE Championship main event. However, with Brock Lesnar being dumped into proceedings late in the day, winning the strap, and then pulling the attention away from all those who had been scrapping over it beforehand, Owens quickly fell into his familiar role of bit-part utility man shortly after.

A poor Royal Rumble showing was also capped off with an elimination at the hands of a power-mad Shane McMahon, rewarding one of the few enjoyable pops of said match with a limp pay-off.

The fact many had Owens as a favourite to win the whole thing only hammers home just how far apart the company's self-professed Universe and the folks in the back are on the subject of this Prizefighter, with Austin Theory besting him in Elimination Chamber qualification in the aftermath acting as another nail in KO's 2022 coffin.