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8. Caylen Croft
Once half of The Dude Busters alongside Trent Barreta, Caylen Croft is a former FCW Tag Team Champion who debuted through WWE’s ill-fated ECW revival. He and Barreta defeated a couple of local competitors, the moved onto a brief with with Goldust and Yoshi Tatsu that saw them claim victory, and establish themselves as number one contenders to the ECW Tag Team Championships.
The pushed amounted to nothing, however. Croft and Barreta were transferred to SmackDown, and embarked on a long losing streak against teams like Cryme Tyme and The Harty Dynasty. A feud with Curt Hawkins and Vance Archer followed in August 2010, and after racking up a grand total of one victory that year, Croft was released from his WWE contract.
While Barreta stayed with the company for a few more years and has now established himself as a regular fixture in America and Japan, Croft has left the business. He now works as an illustrator and author, and in 2013 he set up a Kickstarter campaign to fund his children’s book: “No Beard, The Pirate”.
The book was successfully published in 2014, and while he was never anything more than “just a guy” in WWE, he continues to ply his artistic talents elsewhere.