10 "Superstars" You Totally Forgot Were On The WWE Roster
5. Shelton Benjamin
Shelton Benjamin shocked the world at the Royal Rumble when he turned up for the battle royal in long tights instead of his usual attire. Or was the world was simply shocked just to see him turn up at all?
Benjamin was bailed out of a potentially sh*t 2017 return when WWE awkwardly shoved Chad Gable with him after the former American Alpha star lost Jason Jordan to Kurt Angle's tear-soaked revelation, but the level of f*cks the company gave about that unit was at times embarrassing.
Robbed of more pay-per-view title attempts despite very very good television matches, the pair disbanded when Gable set off on his next salvage mission with Bobby Roode. Benjamin, in his absence, went back to the hinterland that used to be the bubble back when wrestlers actually got moved on to other companies.
Instead, his failure to project has become a systemic failure to perform - Benjamin is literally and figuratively going nowhere, but WWE's rigid (and often turgid) match structuring won't even allow him to pass his extensive knowledge on. He was once a supreme talent that triggered cries of waste. In reality, said critique has never been so valid.