10 WWE Superstars That Are Permanently Lost

10. Mustafa Ali

A victim of the pace of wrestling discourse and WWE's internal mechanisms alike, Mustafa Ali was like every other performer a little a while ago - he was at his hottest when he was nowhere near a television screen.

Announcing that he'd requested his release on social media after one too many failed attempts by the company to make the most of his blindingly obvious talents, Ali accidentally became the face of the misrepresented many getting lost in the shuffle. A wrestler that persistently elevated nothing to something and still saw no reward, he was just the latest to reveal Vince McMahon's old "brass ring" take as all stick and no carrot.

Unfortunately, his request wasn't granted. When WWE didn't respond to the #FreeAli groundswell, the story went away and so too did Ali's avenues of escape. He returned to work on the April 25 2022 Raw and has mostly done jobs since, including in his hometown for pet project Theory. This, it seems, is his lot before he's at long last legally out the door.