Tyler Breeze
A few weeks ago, just as my panic level for Tyler Breeze’s chances on the main roster were approaching critical mass levels, a glimmer of hope appeared. Breeze announced that he was done taking “Us-ies”, and would no longer have Summer Rae by his side. I saw this as acknowledgement by WWE that adding Summer to Breeze’s character was unnecessary, and by removing her, that WWE was essentially hitting the reset button on Breeze’s debut. Unfortunately, since that time, it seems Breeze went from being marginally irrelevant, to completely forgotten. The breaking point came last night on RAW, when Breeze was defeated handily by Titus O’Neil, someone who, despite WWE’s apparent desires to the contrary, nobody sees as a superstar or big player in the grand scheme of WWE. It seems strange to me, in this time of such roster depletion, that WWE would be so quick to basically give up on a talent they’ve spent so much time on in NXT, and who succeeded so often in that setting.