10 WWE Stars Who Have Gone AWOL

2. The OC

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AJ Styles has been used in promotional materials for the special 'Tribute To The Troops' episode of SmackDown, so he might well have returned to TV by the time you read this. If so, great, but what about his buddies in The OC? Where the heck are they, and why don't they get used?

You can rule Luke Gallows out of this straight away, to be fair, because he's been rehabbing a knee injury and only just returned to house shows at the turn of December. Karl Anderson and Michin haven't had much to chew on during TV days lately themselves though. WWE must think there's no value in that pairing without Styles, which is fair enough but annoying for them.

Michin's last TV match came back in June, and Anderson hasn't had too much airtime as a singles whilst big LG has been on the bench. Perhaps that'll change now Gallows is healthy again and AJ is back (or set to be back).

Watch this space. Hopefully, The OC has at least one last hurrah as a group.

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