10 Best Modern Day Superstars To Never Be WWE Champion

#4 Wade Barrett

WWE had some Bad News for him

I use to love hearing Wade Barrett give Bad News, but perhaps the worst news was that of his WWE career not being as big as it really should have been.

Wade Barrett was the first winner of the original 'reality series' format of NXT. His main roster debut on RAW in 2010 was one of the biggest and most memorable debuts in wrestling history, as it was the debut of the Nexus.

The faction and angle was the hottest thing WWE had seen in quite some time and as the groups leader, it seemed Wade Barrett was primed for big things.

Unfortunately, some bad booking decisions, particularly SummerSlam 2010 and the John Cena firing angle really threw water on the Nexus fire. But what really got in the way of Barrett being WWE Champion was just some flip flopping booking. There were actually two different points in 2010 where WWE had actually considered Barrett to become WWE Champion.

The first was Bragging Rights 2010, it had been discussed as Barrett had a Championship match with WWE Champion Randy Orton. Those plans were delayed when it was decided that Barrett may win the gold in their rematch at Survivor Series instead, but for whatever reason those plans changed to and we never really found out why. Barrett would start 2011 moving from RAW to SmackDown, and with that went his main event status.

Barrett's secondary faction The Corre was a bust, and WWE then really seemed to have lost interest in pushing him. Barrett would go onto become a 5 time WWE Intercontinental Champion and King of The Ring winner, but never once again became anywhere close to being WWE Champion.

It made perfect sense for Wade Barrett as the leader of the Nexus to become WWE Champion, but somehow WWE just changed their minds on what would have been a great move.