10 Superstars Who Aren't As Big As They Think They Are
7. Alex Riley
Poor Alex Riley.
On the surface, his is a story like far too many others - chewed up and spat out by the WWE machine thanks to a bad relationship with its top star, then demoted and depushed on a brand that should have protected him before his eventual release.
Believing his own bullsh*t a little too much ultimately undermined any chance of Riley bouncing back during a laboured final stint on NXT, and an atrocious Twitter game didn't help either.
After posting a host of (now, sadly deleted) Tweets calling out then-Champion Kevin Owens, Riley turned his "rage" on audience members rightfully roasting him for his criminal craic and woeful photoshop retorts. On television he migrated from the commentary table back to the ring, but he was being booked as a failure at both roles.
With his storyline and real life credibility in tatters, Riley retreated from the social media sinkhole but the damage caused by his egotistical fragility was done. Despite his best efforts to parlay all of the b*llocks into a sliver of buzz, he unfortunately went with a whimper, rather than a bang.