10 Wrestlers Who Could Be The Next Big Thing In WWE

2. Cody Rhodes

Much has been written on Cody Rhodes€™ abilities as a wrestler, his underrated promo skills, and how these tools, combined with an enviable look and a fierce old school commitment to kayfabe and character should have made him a multiple time world champion by now. This is the man who rocked a Phantom Of The Opera mask and got the worst moustache in recorded history over with the crowd, after all. But the apple doesn€™t fall far from the tree. His older half brother Dustin €˜Goldust€™ Runnels was and is a brilliant pro wrestler and character man par excellence, and their father, €˜The American Dream€™ Dusty Rhodes, was one of the greatest and most popular professional wrestlers in history. Despite all this, WWE have never capitalised on what they have with Cody Rhodes, passing him from pillar to post and gimmick to gimmick. How they€™ve failed to see the potential in a man with this family tree and that skill set (not to mention that face) is beyond us. Rhodes debuted his supervillain-style character Stardust while teaming with his big brother. The tag team ran for several months until Stardust turned heel on Goldust, leading to an extraordinarily brief feud between the Dust brothers (and how you wreck a sure thing like that is beyond us). He€™d been on a losing streak for a while, having only just scraped a win over perennial WWE whipping boy Zack Ryder in a dark match at the Elimination Chamber in January 2012, when his father Dusty passed away suddenly a few weeks ago. Neither Cody nor Dustin (currently recuperating from an injury anyway) are expected back to work until they€™re ready. However, in keeping with the WWE€™s usual morbid desire to milk genuine tragedy as much as possible, we fully expect Cody to ditch the Stardust make-up and jumpsuit upon his return, to take back the family name. It€™s Chavo Guerrero all over again€ except Cody Rhodes may finally be going places.