5 Top Stars WWE Will Soon Stop Pushing

 Kathmandu:nov 11/27/2017/ monday /BIrbal Tamang.
 WWE can't push everyone at once, which explains why stars like Kevin Owens or Sami Zayn can main event a pay-per-view one month and then not appear on a show the next.

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In recent years, we've seen countless WWE stars go from the main event scene to the midcard, the lower card or even out of the company altogether in the blink of an eye. Stars such as Jack Swagger, Ryback and Alberto Del Rio recently were all pushed as main event stars but are no longer with WWE, and although many stars remain with the company even after their push ends, they often never recover from it.
Think back to how stars like Adam Rose and Damien Sandow found themselves flirting with stardom only for the WWE machine to pull the plug on their pushes and ultimately release them. As seen with Neville, however, WWE often chooses simply to leave some stars stuck in a situation where they may he hardly featured on TV (if they're featured at all), relegated mostly to midcard feuds or be there simply to put over rising stars.

The lack of a push will affect these superstars' bank accounts, too. Swagger recently revealed in an interview with WrestlingInc that his pay fluctuated greatly depending upon how he was pushed, saying:

It is very difficult to plan financially with the WWE because every week the salary was different. Every month the salary was different. It's based on the house shows and the attendance, and any extra stuff that goes in there. It makes it difficult to be consistent with your budget because it fluctuates...It is a couple of thousand each month, but sometimes and a lot of times it is lower and that makes it tough. Once you make it up to a certain income level and you acquire and buy certain things and have a certain way of life, it is really tough on your family to go back below that income level because you have certain things set as far as private schools and things like that.

For some superstars WWE has missed the boat on, that is often the unfortunate result of bad booking. And it won't stop anytime soon.
Here are five major stars WWE will soon stop pushing for a variety of different reasons.
Bray Wyatt

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If there's another current WWE star whose career path that of Bray Wyatt mirrors, it's Dolph Ziggler.
The average fan will tell you that Ziggler, despite his tremendous talent, has seen his career marred by start-and-stop pushes and the creative team preventing him from truly breaking through that glass ceiling. Ziggler has had just two very forgettable world title reigns and spent much of his career in the midcard when he should have been in the main event. Meanwhile, Wyatt has had one incredibly lackluster world title run and has been an underutilized talent throughout much of his career.
Once one of WWE's top merchandise sellers, Wyatt seems to have fallen off badly in that category through no fault of his own. Of all the main event caliber stars on the main roster, you could argue that Wyatt has been victimized the most by bad booking, which has turned what could have been an all-time great character into an almost comically bad one at times. WWE has tried some rather bizarre techniques to reestablish Wyatt as a demonic heel, such as those projected maggots at WrestleMania and the abomination that was "Sister Abigail," but it hasn't worked and has instead completely halted any momentum he had at the beginning of 2017.
Wyatt has major potential as a babyface and likely could have developed into a strong draw and cemented himself as an elite merchandise seller in that role had WWE pulled the trigger on it a few years ago. But he's now getting to that point where WWE seems to have pigeonholed him as nothing more than a midcard star, and with other stars rising up the ranks, it will be more difficult for him to establish himself as a top star at any point down the road.
So, we can probably expect Wyatt to get the Ziggler treatment and never be pushed beyond the midcard again, except perhaps for a brief run or two that is really all about putting someone else over.
John Cena

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There are already signs that the John Cena that ruled WWE for a decade is long gone.
Consider that he's competed at just seven pay-per-views this year or that his only notable victory in 2017 came against AJ Styles at the 2017 Royal Rumble. You can also look at the fact that he faced The Miz and Maryse in a mixed tag team match at WrestleMania 33 (a huge step down from his traditionally big matches) or the way his appearance at Survivor Series was treated like an afterthought, even though it marked it a rare appearance for "The Champ."
Of course, Cena is almost guaranteed to win his record-breaking 17th world title at some point, but because he's hinted at retiring soon and has put over the likes of Shinsuke Nakamura and Roman Reigns recently, it's clear WWE is no longer pushing him as "the guy" in WWE. That's not to say Cena won't have a substantial role whenever he's around. He certainly will because he's WWE's runaway No. 1 merchandise seller and the company's biggest draw whenever he's on Raw or SmackDown, as evidenced by the incredible effect he had on live event attendance earlier this year.
Rather, it's that Cena, much like Triple H, is around to help other guys get over the hump. That's why he put over Nakamura, Reigns and Styles, just to name a few, over the last year-plus, and it's why his push is disappearing so that others can take the spot he was once in.