WWE 2K20: 10 Playable Wrestlers Who WON'T Return

5. Hideo Itami

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The decorated past and celebrated skills of KENTA never guaranteed success for the man in WWE, and, as Hideo Itami, the Japanese star never really got going. An always-lethal combo of injuries and poor booking killed his chances of aping what he'd achieved in NOAH back home, and now he's gone.

Itami was released the same day as TJP (22 February), and has to pick up the pieces of a once-proud career that should have given him every chance to do special things on NXT. 2K19 marks his last appearance in WWE-branded video game, at least for now.

He's another who'll be Community Creations fodder for the purists who like to have every wrestler they can on the roster. That'll be the extent of his inclusion in 2K20. His exclusion just gives another NXT star or 205 Live roster member some chance of taking his spot.

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