10 WWE Superstars Vince McMahon Completely Lost Interest In

5. Sheamus

In 2009 Sheamus was the next big thing, a WWE rookie who€™d won the WWE Championship - from John Cena, of all people - after only five months. An early feud with Triple H was the making of the character, however: Sheamus was booked to be highly competitive with the main event mainstay, even delivering a beatdown that wrote The Game off television after defeating him at Extreme Rules in 2010. From 2009 to 2012, he went on to win the Royal Rumble, King Of The Ring, and the Money In The Bank briefcase, not to mention the World Heavyweight Championship and the United States Championship, with a babyface turn occurring in the middle. That€™s a lot of accolades in four years. In 2013, Sheamus drifted further towards the midcard. There would be another US title win in mid-2014, before he was forced to drop the title due to needing surgery. Ever since then (and especially after returning with a look that screams Midcard Jobber) Sheamus has been floating in the bowl like the world€™s pastiest unflushable. His recent WWE World Heavyweight Championship run wasn't a run at all - McMahon needed a transitional champion to feed to Roman Reigns and Sheamus was booked to look weak and ineffectual. His booking as a babyface hadn't ticked all the right boxes - he should have had his upside enhanced and protected and his weaknesses as a performer (chiefly his mediocre mic skills. Sheamus should never, ever try to be funny) hidden entirely. But even now, Farrelly has a lot more to give the company than a fresh face for Reigns to punch. It€™s just that it may be too late for him.