10 WWE Superstars That Are Permanently Lost
8. Tyler Bate
Perception counts for a great deal in professional wrestling.
It's not always fair and it's rarely representative of a singular or universal truth, but how enough of a majority perceive a performer can have a massive impact on how they're used, promoted and - most crucially - how much people even notice when they're not.
Such is life for Tyler Bate at present. The inaugural and current NXT UK Champion might have given the belt genuine prestige in 2017, but his history-making second reign kicking off five years later did so with zero fanfare for the news breaking out of the desolate and dank BT Sports studios. For somebody with his prodigious talents, this is a creative crime.
Bate outshone the field in the aforementioned tournament, then earned raves for his match-of-the-year contender against Pete Dune when he dropped the gold. Marooned on NXT UK ever since, Bate's almost certainly done more than his non-existent main roster record suggests but as long as the brand is the proverbial tree-falling-in-the-woods branch of WWE, he may as well not even exist.