10 WWE Superstars Who Have Been Hurt The Most By The Wild Card Rule
9. Aleister Black
It's strange how someone such as Aleister Black, who at one point was receiving consistent television time from week to week on SmackDown Live, could feel as irrelevant as he currently does.
Black arrived on WWE's main roster with a bang alongside Ricochet earlier this year and was booked fairly well for the first few months. It should have been a no-brainer for him to branch off on his own following the Superstar Shake-Up and find success on SmackDown Live, but that has yet to be the case.
For weeks, Black begged for someone, anyone to knock on his door. He literally sat in a dark room and complained about not having any competition for three months before finally facing Cesaro at Extreme Rules. It was an instant classic, but he's only had a handful of matches since then.
It'd make perfect sense for Black to enter the Intercontinental Championship picture and not The Miz (who isn't even on the SmackDown roster), but WWE would rather subject him to cutting pointless promos backstage every other week. It almost makes you wonder if WWE had bigger plans for him on the blue brand before the Wild Card Rule came along and threw everything into disarray.
This Draft couldn't come any sooner for his sake.