Ranking Every TNA Wrestler's Success In WWE

Despite winning the US Championship, Bobby Roode has had a rather low-key start to 2018. He was left out of the 30-man Royal Rumble last week, made instead to compete on the under-card in a glorified squash match against Mojo Rawley.

The pathway that WWE's Glorious One takes from being the lower mid-carder with a spectacular entrance to headlining SmackDown every week is now unclear to most of us, but that doesn't mean his previous two years in the company suddenly count for nothing.

Roode put on several of NXT's best-ever matches during his time in Orlando, including a couple alongside Shinsuke Nakamura that deserve to be listed among the very best, anywhere in wrestling, from 2017.

There may not be an obvious spot awaiting him at WrestleMania, but the fact that he has already been involved in the SmackDown main event mix - if only peripherally (competing in the Survivor Series main event, for instance) - surely means there are long-term plans to make him the star we all know he is.