Ranking The Only Remaining Main Roster Stars From WWE’s FIRST EVER Performance Centre Class

11. Rusev & Lana

Performance Center 2013
WWE

Promoted together, needlessly split and brought back together twice, Rusev and Lana remain an open goal WWE continue to miss.

The married couple have electric chemistry together despite WWE's odd insistence that Lana be used as a wrestler in spite of her obvious limitations. Meanwhile. the 'Bulgarian Brute's stop-start pushes have exhausted his audience - 'Rusev Day' was a hail Mary in late 2017 but the company flatly refused to catch the ball and score in the months that followed.

Rumours that he'll walk never feel unfounded. That he never follows through never feels like a surprise.

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