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#3. Wade Barrett
Wade Barrett carved out a decent career in WWE from 2010 to 2016. He was five-time Intercontinental champion and a former King of the Ring. Barrett had several gimmicks, most notably Bad News Barrett and King Barrett, making it work and getting over. He had the size and look of a champion with fans predicting that he would be the first ever English-born WWE champion.
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Barrett burst onto the scene as the first winner of NXT and immediately made an impact on his WWE debut in June of that year. Along with the other seven participants in NXT’s first season, Barrett led them on a path of destruction for a couple of months and they were called The Nexus.
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Barrett and The Nexus were the hottest thing that summer and it looked like the United Kingdom would have their first ever WWE champion.
However, WWE made a poor booking decision when Nexus lost their first ever big match as a stable at SummerSlam against Team Cena. They tried to re-establish The Nexus, mainly Barrett, by giving him several shots at the WWE Championship. His best chance to win the WWE title was against Randy Orton at Survivor Series but John Cena interfered.
From there, Barrett lost his eventual feud with Cena and he was kicked out as the leader of the Nexus by CM Punk. It was bad decision after another by WWE at that time in regards to Barrett. They used an up-and-coming Superstar to put over an already established superstar in Cena. WWE’s lack of star-power heading into the 2020s can be attributed to their failure to create new megastars in the past decade.
