11 NXT Call-Ups Who Are No Longer With WWE
7. Adam Rose
Talk about a bust.
To be fair, there was never much of a future for Adam Rose on WWE's main roster, but that doesn't mean the company couldn't have tried a little harder to get him over upon his Raw debut in May 2014. Instead, he almost immediately flopped, was written off as a joke and gone from the company two years later.
Rose spent a decent amount of time in WWE developmental and experimented with a few different characters before finally landing on Adam Rose in March 2014. It actually went over extremely well with the audience initially, but of course, Vince McMahon has zero patience and called him up to the main roster before the character was given a chance to truly develop.
He didn't do much of note in WWE at all. He feuded with Jack Swagger for a month or so before WWE gave up on him all together. Rose was then relegated to jobber status for the rest of his time with the company, and outside of his brief stint in The Social Outcasts, he was a total afterthought on the main roster.
Rose was suspended in early 2016 for violating the company's Wellness Policy before requesting (and being granted his release) shortly thereafter.