Top 5 Most Underutilized NXT Superstars

#4 Xia Li

Xia Li

Xia Li, a Chinese-born martial arts exhibitionist, was signed to WWE as the sole woman among a slew of recruits from the world's largest country in 2017. She has since stood out as quite possibly the best of the recruits, several of whom have been released. Yet until recently, she failed to score any TV time outside two fairly impressive showings in the 2017-18 Mae Young Classic tournaments.

After recovering from an arm injury, the pint-sized Chongqing native trained at the Performance Center and worked the Florida house show loop until she was randomly placed in the Royal Rumble match in January. Finally, she was booked in a recent women's tag team bout on weekly NXT TV, but spent most of the match on the apron, and in the end, ate the pin from two arguably less talented wrestlers in Aliyah and Vanessa Borne.

Li's energetic ring entrance, natural charisma, and hard-hitting martial arts kicks make her perhaps the second best homegrown female talent in NXT, following Bianca Belair. Her short stature, limited English skills and lack of model looks might not make her ideal for WWE's sports entertainment focus, but her in-ring work is fairly smooth and her fierce persona is cool. She deserves more.