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4. Curt Hawkins
Where Is He Now: Laid Off From WWE
Poor Curt Hawkins. This man seriously can’t catch a break, as he’s the only person on this 2014 list who also was a member of the 2020 purge.
Hawkins’s story is pretty well known. He debuted in WWE alongside Zack Ryder as the Major Brothers, but were rechristened the Edgeheads after serving as doppelgangers for the Rated-R Superstar. They won the WWE Tag Team Championship, but lost them a short time later and the duo split up. Hawkins would continue as a lower-card talent for the next five years, shuttling between FCW, Raw, SmackDown and NXT.
Following his 2014 release, Hawkins spent two years on the independent circuit, including a brief stint in TNA. He returned to WWE in 2016, where he settled into a familiar role as a jobber to the stars. Hawkins amassed a 269-match losing streak that became his gimmick. That streak finally ended at WrestleMania 35, where he and Ryder won the Raw Tag Team Championship during the kickoff show.
Hawkins & Ryder lost the titles two months later after a nondescript reign, and then settled in as jobbers once again before Wednesday’s bloodletting.