10 WWE Legends That Require A Career Reevaluation
8. Sheamus
It took making Sheamus and Cesaro tag team partners for the lack of anything better to do to actually give both the spotlight they deserved in 2016, but the unit's done even more for the much-maligned 'Celtic Warrior' than the largely-loved 'Swiss Superman'.
Sheamus was rocket-strapped in 2009 when a shove on John Cena through a table won him the WWE Championship amidst rumours of a politically-motivated friendship with Triple H, and he struggled to shake off wider audience malaise in the years that followed. Worse was to come when - following an unwanted babyface turn - he beat Daniel Bryan at WrestleMania 28 in an 18-second squash that kickstarted two movements. One was an unrelenting charge of support behind the future of the loser, the other a critical mass of hatred piled on the supposed winner.
The great matches he assembled during this time were thus lost to disinterest and disdain from the 'WWE Universe' that did at least motivate his 2015 heel turn after an injury return. All still looked lost before 'The Bar', but he remains the only villain detestable enough to get Roman Reigns cheered during their troubled WWE Title trades.