10 Wrestlers WWE Should Have Signed YEARS Earlier

Kyle O'Reilly can do it all. He can strike, he can grapple, and he can fly around the ring with the best of them, and at only 33 years of age, he has a very bright future ahead of him.

So maybe, given all that, WWE has signed him at just about the right time? Well, maybe not. Despite being at the top of his game, O'Reilly also had one heck of a run in his twenties, capturing gold in Ring of Honor, NJPW, PWG and even the NWA. While other wrestlers were traversing developmental, O'Reilly was putting on acclaimed matches with the likes of Zack Sabre Jr., Davey Richards, and current ally Adam Cole.

His recent solo outings against Finn Bálor should be evidence enough that he's the future of NXT, so how much sweeter would it have been for the company had they picked Kyle up a few years earlier, and moulded him into a future star themselves, instead of letting him do it alone? Instead of winning gold in ROH, O'Reilly could have been laying the foundations for the new-look WWE in matches against Daniel Bryan, Kevin Owens and AJ Styles. Hopefully he'll have a chance to break out by himself in 2021, but what a missed opportunity it was to not strike sooner.