2. The Ruthless Roundtable
Triple H has recently given credit to Regal for his role in NXT's recruitment process, praising his extensive knowledge of worldwide wrestling and his eye for excellent in-ring talent. His own personal style has often reinforced this idea of Regal as a wrestling purist, one incredibly well-versed in the technical aspect of the art. Despite this justified view, it didn't stop WWE from teaming the Brit up with two of the most lumbering, uninspiring talents of recent years in Vladimir Kozlov and Ezekiel Jackson. The trio largely appeared on the ill-fated ECW brand, and were known as the 'Ruthless Roundtable'. Not even the influence of as respected a veteran as Regal could get the team over, and they did very little of note. At one stage, William actually lost an ECW Championship match to Christian in eight seconds.