10 Underrated Stars That WWE Should Never Have Released
1. Colt Cabana
WWE's biggest missed opportunity of the 21st century so far has to be their complete misfire when Scott Colt Cabana Colton was signed to the roster.
One of the most talented all-round independent wrestlers in the world, Cabana would become semi-legendary for his amazing series of matches with real life best friend CM Punk, who he first trained with. Punk would later go to WWE, and Colton would send him off from Ring Of Honor by defeating him in a scorching two-out-of-three falls match.
While Punk began to work his way up to being the best thing in the WWE, Cabana continued to be the best thing on the card all over the independent circuit, wrestling all over the world. Eventually, his own time would come, and Colton would debut for OVW in 2007, and later move to FCW when Florida became WWEs developmental territory.
When he finally debuted on the Smackdown roster in August 2008, it was under the name Scotty Goldman. Despite Cabanas success on the independent circuit and in FCW, Scotty Goldman would only ever wrestle on Smackdown six times before Colton was released in February 2009, jobbing to midcard wrestlers every time during those six months.
Colton returned to the independent circuit, where he set out his stall as one of wrestling's most successful cottage industries, proving that you can make a significant living on the independent circuit if you apply yourself.
Colt Cabana can do it all. As good an all round wrestler as there ever was, hes perfect as a heel, as a fan favourite, a comedy character and more. He has an easy natural charisma and can work with anyone of any size or ability.
There might well have been room for Colton to return to WWE to give it another crack, but he became involved in the CM Punk story when he allowed his podcast to be used as the venue for Punk's first interview since leaving the WWE, and has now officially burned his bridges, along with the boats and the houses nearby. It's still WWE's loss, however.