10 WWE Superstars That Are Permanently Lost
3. Akira Tozawa
The former 24/7 and Cruiserweight Champion was last spotted necking on with Tamina in the run-up to a double wedding payoff alongside Dana Brooke and Reggie that didn't really offer all it promised in the wacky and (very) occasionally passable comedic build.
Also he's a ninja.
Such is life for Akira Tozawa in an an organisation even more dated and archaic than its backstage machinations would suggest. Ultimately, with over six years banked with the organisation, he can include himself in the minuscule list of Japanese wrestlers marked as "success stories", but the devil is most definitely not in the detail.
Nothing he's ever done has amounted to anything that could possibly earn him an opportunity beyond the role he's trapped in. The days of Tozawa being permitted to entertain with his skill rather than a certain fish-out-of-water comedic charm were virtually over before they begun, and that sentence isn't just a figure of speech - once he had to pretend to get eaten by a shark.