10 Wrestlers WWE Need To Do More With In 2021
Will 2021 be the year that WWE starts to utilise its elite talent in a more meaningful fashion?
WWE has never had a more talented roster. Such statements are subjective, of course, but this one feels closer to fact than most. All of its shows are packed with elite professional wrestlers with plenty to offer, men and women who can excel in a variety of roles and situations.
With that in mind, the creative malaise of the company beggars belief. With such a mass of talent available, there's no reason for uninspiring stories repeated ad nauseum, week after week after week. The list of underused talent in the company is almost as long as the list of talent in the company full stop.
Most of WWE's performers are being neglected but some are more neglected than others, if you'll allow me to paraphrase the amended commandments of Animal Farm. 2020 has been a year of stopping and starting, a year of creative missteps and baffling decisions, accentuated by missing talent and crippling uncertainty. 2021 can only be better.
For these men and women, 2021 must be better. Wrestling isn't a game for an ageing body (no matter how WWE books its shows), and some potential greats are being left to gather dust. Time to dust them off and make them the sparkling stars that they should be.
10. Bronson Reed
Where has Bronson Reed gone? The Australian beast hasn't been seen on NXT TV for a couple of months, dating back to Kyle O'Reilly's victory in the number one contender gauntlet eliminator. Well, there were a couple of squash victories over Austin Theory after that, but a 15-second win over Johnny Gargano's compadre was the last time Bronson was on NXT TV, and that was in October.
This is all the more perplexing because Reed seemed to be picking up momentum at that point, becoming an integral part of NXT's roster and a potential babyface star in waiting. A great performance in the North American Championship ladder match at TakeOver XXX put him on the map, but he has all but disappeared recently. 2021 offers WWE a chance to try again with the Thicc Boi.
Bronson Reed is very much a professional wrestler of the modern era. He's a big boy and proud of it but he is also more than capable of flying around with the best of them, making him a strange mixture of Bam Bam Bigelow and Rob Van Dam. Who doesn't want to watch that?