3 former World Champions who are being misused in WWE

Today WWE has the largest roster it has ever had. Other than the main roster, you also have the 205 Live guys, NXT and now NXT UK, so naturally superstars are being the best they can be to get those top spots.

However, putting on exciting and thrilling action, or being just flat out entertaining in doing whatever they are being told to do doesn't always guarantee being treated like the superstars they are.

Not only do WWE have lower card level stars that are being incredibly misused, but their are even former World Champions in WWE today who, to no fault of their own, are struggling to stay afloat on RAW and SmackDown.

Among the many, here are three former World Champions who are being heavily underused in WWE today.

#3 Rhyno

Alright, so at 42 years old Rhyno won't be in the main event of WWE Monday Night Raw next week, or the week after or next year, but he certainly deserves more than what he is getting today.

The last ever original ECW Champion and a former NWA World Champion, Rhyno joined WWE in 2001 to a monster push.

While WWE suffered creatively during the failed WCW/ECW Alliance angle, one good thing about WWE not signing any of the big former WCW names was it gave opportunity to lower level card stars like Rhyno for some big matches and programs.

After a few months of big matches, Rhyno's broken neck would keep him out of action until 2003, and when he returned, WWE seemed to have lost interest in pushing him. After being fired in 2005, he went onto have a mostly successful 6 year run with TNA, where he won the NWA World Championship.

Fast forward all these years to 2018, and Rhyno is still in tremendous shape, but has seen better days.

Rhyno and Heath Slater became the first ever WWE SmackDown Tag Team Champions in 2016 and were quite the entertaining comedic duo, however although they are still together today, you would only find them already in the ring after Raw has returned from a commercial break, often not even being acknowledged by the ring announcers, awaiting to be defeated by another team in a 2 - 4 minute near squash match.

I am not saying Rhyno should be having 20 minute matches with Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns every week, but he deserves far more than what they are doing with him.

He and Heath Slater could be put to far better use as a comedic team, and if not, Rhyno could even be a legit challenger for the WWE Intercontinental Championship.

Another quick loss for Rhyno and Heath.

#2 Sheamus

Sheamus is a former multi-time Heavyweight Champion, both WWE Championship and World Championship, as well as a former Untied States Champion, 4 time RAW Tag Team Champion, King of The Ring, Money in The Bank winner and a Royal Rumble winner.

Over the past 2 years he has been teaming up with Cesaro as the remarkably excellent tag team The Bar, but could WWE be doing more with him?... Yes.

After 2 years together and four Tag Team Championships, it is probably time that The Bar team up for the last time. I mean sure, they have been arguably WWE's best tag team of the last two years, but both Sheamus and Cesaro still have much left to accomplish on their own.

While WWE have yet to hit the glass ceiling with Cesaro as a solo star, Sheamus despite having had an incredible solo career, still has much to offer.

Sheamus has had some nagging injuries over the past year that some are even claiming may cut his career short, but if so, that is all the more reason to act on him now. i don't see him winning another Royal Rumble, but main event matches and WWE Championship matches shouldn't be out of the question.

As a former multi-time World Champion, Sheamus has yet to step into the ring one on one with fellow SmackDown stars like AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura, and another series of matches with Randy Orton would be entertaining.

I don't know if WWE plans on breaking up Sheamus and Cesaro anytime soon, but the two really need a change, especially of their current booking.

Ever since they were moved from RAW to SmackDown in April, The Bar have barely appeared on SmackDown and for the past few weeks have competed in dark matches before SmackDown Live begins.

You know things aren't going very well when you lose to a team who only exist to put others over.

#1 Bray Wyatt

Where did it all go wrong?

Bray Wyatt was by far the most interesting character WWE had in years. The profit of a backwoods cult, Bray's stirring promo's and general creepiness made for very entertaining television.

After a good run with NXT, The Wyatt Family debuted on WWE TV in the summer of 2013, and booking of Bray has been mostly a failure ever since. While he has had some strong outings in some decent feuds, he has always seemed to have lost the big matches.

His promo's eventually started to sound the same every week and dream feuds with Dean Ambrose and The Undertaker fell flat.

It seemed like after every failure, WWE would try bounce him back in feuds with John Cena, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns, but they all ended the same with more big losses for the Eater of Worlds.

And let's be honest, if Bray Wyatt hadn't been the defending WWE Champion at WrestleMania 33, we would all have probably forgotten he held it.

Yes, Bray was one of the more deserving contenders in WWE to become WWE Champion, and his winning of it should have been an incredible accomplishment, but by the time he did win it, no one seemed to care about his booking anymore and his reign would only last a month before he lost it to Randy Orton at WrestleMania during their interminable feud.

After falling down the card and almost wrestling in drag as a 'Sister Abigail' persona, Bray entered a much hoped for feud with 'Woken' Matt Hardy.

After being thrown by Matt into the Lake of Reincarnation after The Ultimate Deletion, Bray has since re-emerged as Matt's partner. The partnership may be keeping Bray on TV every week, but as a character, it seems to be going nowhere, as does the career of Bray Wyatt.

One would hope that the team will come to an end soon and hopefully, Bray can transfer back over to SmackDown where he may be potentially put to better use, as long as it is not with Orton.

I don't think all hope is lost for Bray, but it is up to WWE to bring him back to his backwoods cult persona, followed by a winning streak and then maybe, just maybe he could re-enter the WWE Championship picture in a more serious way.

Playing second fiddle.

Edited by Anthony Akatugba Jr.