10 WWE Stars From 2005 Who'd Be Awesome On Today's Roster
5. Eugene
WWE missed out on a golden opportunity in not putting Eugene into the Wyatt Family. Yes, WWE is a "PG" environment these days. Thus, there's even more reason why having "evil cult leader" Bray Wyatt being the one guy on the show who does deplorable things like bully a mentally deficient and emotionally unstable man being even more of a necessity. Bray Wyatt having great matches and feuds that don't go anywhere against similarly unproven talents is one thing. Bray Wyatt working with a 20-year veteran with a fair amount of recognizable WWE awareness is something else. Imagine after losing to The Undertaker at WrestleMania that Wyatt became a truly deplorable and depraved man. As well, imagine that this involved the return of Eugene to WWE, and Wyatt bullying him. Eugene eventually flipping babyface and having a series of matches with Wyatt -- given Eugene's experience -- could've actually gotten more out of Wyatt and had him further along as a performer by this point than anything else he's done.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.