It didn't help that when he left the first time in 2014, WWE stripped everything away from his character that made him stand out from the rest of the roster to begin with. He didn't come out with the fancy cars. They fired his personal ring announcer, Ricardo Rodriguez.
They stopped giving him pyro. He won most of his matches cleanly early on in his run before gradually becoming like every other generic heel over time. What was so special about him then?
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WWE had their chance to change all that when they brought him back at Hell in a Cell 2015 as a surprise opponent for John Cena and had him beat the face who runs the place in decisive fashion.
In addition to capturing the United States Championship, he recaptured that same “star” he aura he had at the start of his stint in WWE in 2010 and in Lucha Underground.
It looked like he was primed to be pushed to the moon from that point forward, but that was far from the case. It didn't take WWE long to make him less of a priority, throwing him in the horribly booked League of Nations stable that was solely designed to get Roman Reigns over.
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