10 WWE Stars Who Need To Follow Neville Out Of The Exit Door

4. Chad Gable

Chad Gable was the smaller component of American Alpha, which naturally saw him abandoned at the altar of the inevitable bigger-man-gets-the-push WWE tag team split - despite the fact that he was the man with the talent and currency with which to enliven Jason Jordan's Dead On Arrival storyline arc. More depressingly still, American Alpha II, despite a recent mini-push, are already following the main roster formula of the original tandem: anonymous introduction, absence from TV, sudden thrust into title contention, inevitable fade from relevance.

Gable is a stupidly talented, amiable and hard-working talent. Though exclusively trained within the WWE system, he wrestles with a personality all of his own. He transposed his amateur gifts to the professional arena to retain a sense of credibility, and soon developed a winning strand of professional showmanship. None of this matters; Gable is short and slight physically, and therefore doomed to follow a certain path. If he gets over to a needle-moving extent, it will be through sheer will - or accident - more so than carefully calibrated design.

Gable is a Kickoff-level act with no DVD royalties forthcoming, and no items bearing his name currently available on WWE Shop.

He is doomed to both mediocrity and what is likely a low downside guarantee - beneath, surely, a man who is Ready, Willing and Gable to print merch money and wrestle the great matches expected of the increasingly lucrative Indy scene.