10 Former FCW Standouts Who Flopped On The WWE Main Roster
3. Mason Ryan
No matter how impressive his physique, Mason Ryan never deserved to be pushed as anything special in WWE. It was abundantly clear he had a run with the FCW Heavyweight Championship merely because of his immense size, and once Vince McMahon got a look at him, it was only inevitable that he would be welcomed onto the Raw roster.
Sure enough, he made his WWE debut in early 2011 as a member of The New Nexus. Even when he was surrounded by the talented likes of CM Punk, Joe Hennig and Husky Harris, he stuck out like a sore thumb, and his sub-par performances in the months that followed forced officials to change their opinion of him.
They tried him out as a babyface in the fall, but to no avail. He failed miserably in that role and was soon taken off TV all together. He was sent back down to developmental for a few years, but after showing zero signs of improvement either in the ring or on the mic, he was ultimately let go in the spring of 2014.