7. Wade Barrett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icUPjniE52w WrestleMania XXIX match: Lost Intercontinental Championship to the Miz on the pre-show Past year PPV highlights: Lost IC title to Curtis Axel at Payback The bad news for Wade Barrett fans is that he hasn't wrestled a PPV match since July. While Barrett hasn't been an active competitor for nearly nine months, he's managed to pull off a remarkable stunt in the past few months: He is on TV almost every week, and yet he's less relevant than Justin Roberts. The whole Bad News Barrett gimmick has been a slow, long death for the former leader of the Nexus. Wade plays it well and seems to actually enjoy having a bully pulpit (literally), but how this is supposed to help him long term is baffling. The logical conclusion to this angle is for someone to physically make him shut up, and then he fades away.
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