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I kinda think it's funny that he was one of the guys Dusty was all about when he was still alive, with that whole "...why is he still down here?" thing. How many years ago was that? Because like I said, Dusty was still alive and said he didn't have anything else to teach him and believed he was "ready".
He is a perfect example of a guy who hasn't done shit because he hasn't been presented as doing shit. We had a short-lived push for Mojo fucking Rawley, but this guy just shows up in Royal Rumble in the 10 spot two years in a row and pretty much sits in the back scratching his nuts by catering for the rest of the year.
He's just supposed to stay over forever because of the 10 chants? Where's his angles? Storylines? Triumph, failures, titles shots??? Nah, he's just another guy on the roster. Another person who wasted years he could have spent elsewhere potentially becoming a name who was probably promised the moon and stars and instead did jack shit but be filler in occasional backstage segments and even more occasional matches.
Good on him for leaving. WWE can't maintain this ecosystem they themselves are trying to build. It's like building a 40 gallon freshwater fish tank, taking care to cultivate the pH, species balance, and comfort, then after an arbitrary amount of time, taking some of the bigger freshwater fish and dumping them out in the dirty, salty ocean never to be seen or heard from again. And yes, that would kill most fish. That's the point.
If they were doing what they were supposed to be doing with NXT/WWE progression, we should have been seeing something like Shinsuke Nakamura defending the WWE title against Tye for the first time at Fastlane... coming out on the losing end, but looking like he belongs in the hunt. Instead, Nak is in the midcard and Tye is leaving to be replaced by another NXT callup who will be made to look like they're all interchangeable bodies when things are said and done.
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