10 Best WWE Wrestlers Of 2017

4. Neville

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Perhaps the saddest thing about Neville's recent WWE walk-out is how easy the company has found it to erase him from the general make-up of the show. Confined to pay-per-view Kickoff shows, the purple-roped Bermuda Triangle 205 Live or neglected supercard death slots, his contests had a habit of drawing both the most praise and the least attention.

It's fitting that current Cruiserweight Champion Enzo Amore satisfies the entirely opposite criteria considering Neville's planned duties the night he bailed altogether on Monday Night Raw and perhaps the company in general. Set to lose again to the 'Smacktalker Skywalker', Neville's concern was less a personal slight on Enzo and more a reflection of the one he rightfully felt against himself.

As big a scandal as not affording his matches the stature and credit they were the due was the lack of interest in an exceptional 'King Of The Cruiserweights' gimmick he'd built from the ground up. Changing his voice, look, working style and even Twitter game to suit it, the presentation was finally a perfect package, yet Neville somehow found himself squashed up against an even lower glass ceiling than the one he'd suffered under in his original babyface incarnation.

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