5 WWE Superstars Vince McMahon gave up on during Paul Heyman's time as RAW Executive Director

#4 Ricochet

It is worth remembering that Paul Heyman had to report directly to Vince McMahon, so any RAW push from the last 12 months still had to be approved by the WWE Chairman.

In Ricochet’s case, Heyman and/or Vince McMahon decided to push him as one of the top rising Superstars on RAW, resulting in the high-flyer facing Brock Lesnar for the WWE Championship in a marquee match at Super ShowDown in February 2020.

Unfortunately for “The One and Only”, he turned out to be yet another victim of a brutally quick Lesnar squash match, as “The Beast” pinned him after just 88 seconds to retain his title.

Ricochet then failed to win the 24/7 Championship in an eight-minute match against Riddick Moss four days later on RAW, leading Dave Meltzer to report that Vince McMahon wanted to “bury” him.

"Ricochet is done. Yeah. It's Vince! You know, he may change his mind next week, but yeah, this week he's done. He's so done. This was a burial, without a doubt, like who knows, he gets these things in his head. With Cedric Alexander, he was supposed to get a big push and Vince just buried the guy, and now he's burying another guy."