3 Released stars who might return to WWE soon and 2 who probably won't

#1 Probably won't return to WWE: Tucker

Tucker

It often happens that when WWE breaks a tag team, one of the members emerges as the chosen one, while the other slowly fades away. Unfortunately, the same was the case with recently released WWE Superstar, Tucker (aka Tucker Knight).

After a few individual appearances on NXT, Tucker formed a tag team with Otis, named Heavy Machinery. The tag team gained popularity and even challenged for the NXT tag team titles, but didn't win them. The two then made their main roster debut in January 2019. Heavy Machinery competed for the SmackDown Tag Team Championships on multiple occasions but never won them.

In 2020, WWE started pushing Tucker's partner Otis in singles competition, with the latter even winning the 2020 Money in the Bank match. At Hell in a Cell 2020, Tucker turned on Otis, costing him his Money in the Bank contract to The Miz. However, there was no proper pay-off to the angle and Tucker just disappeared from WWE TV.

Following his release earlier this week, Tucker's tweets made it clear that he wasn't very happy with WWE. He even took a massive shot at WWE Chairman Vince McMahon, calling him an old man in charge. It's unlikely that he will return to WWE or the company would be interested in signing him again.