12 Ups And 15 Downs For WWE In 2017 (2nd Opinion)

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12. The Neville Level

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If things had gone slightly different, this could have ranked much higher. As it stands, it still gets a positive nod, but a very tacit one.

Neville returned to WWE and took the cruiserweight division by storm in 2017, winning the title at the Royal Rumble and holding it (aside from a brief interruption by Akira Tozawa) until September. During that time, Neville had a fantastic rivalry with Austin Aries and defeated Jack Gallagher, TJ Perkins, Rich Swann and Tozawa along the way. He frequently had one of the better matches on Raw PPVs and appeared reinvigorated.

That all came crashing to a halt in October, when Neville apparently walked out of the company. He hasn’t been seen on WWE programming since, but some hope he will return. Reportedly, Neville was upset at several things during the past year (placement on the card, exclusion from the WrestleMania DVD, not wrestling main roster opponents as he had before).

If he can get back on good terms, it could make for a happier ending, but as it stands as 2017 ends, Neville might have crashed and burned.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.