9. Is Neville Being Marginalized?
When Adrian Neville was called up to the WWE roster the day after WrestleMania XXXI, he arrived with great fanfare. In one of his first bouts, he took U.S. Champ John Cena to the limit. He nearly won the reinstituted King of the Ring tournament. And he won a featured bout at SummerSlam last month alongside action hero Stephen Amell. But through it all, Neville has not really advanced on the card. Sure, hes a very popular star who rarely looks bad and wins more often than he loses, but sooner or later, the question needs to be asked if hes just being brushed aside into nothing feuds. Sunday, he teams with the Lucha Dragons to battle Stardust (one of his opponents at SummerSlam) and the Ascension on the PPV pre-show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL17o0Nnga0 The fact that hes been bumped to the pre-show might just be a scheduling thing all titles are on the line and Wyatts/mini-Shield is a featured bout but it still raises the question. It would be nice to see Neville go over strong and finally get into a program for a title or a more prominent feud that doesnt feel like a placeholder.
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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
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