Five faces WWE surprisingly didn’t use to their full potential

There is currently a shortage of engaging protagonists in WWE programming but makes what makes this frustrating is that they’ve missed opportunities with several members of the roster.

If it’s not abundantly clear, WWE has had a hard time selling its audience on a pure babyface for while now; particularly on the main roster. Sure, Kofi Kingston made a great valiant champion, but they’ve had an easier time pushing tweener characters like Becky Lynch. This problem has several contributing factors, but it would be hard to say they don’t have the available personnel.

They have been plenty of popular Superstars on the roster that fans are clamoring for a reason to cheer for. Finn Balor is a great example. The audience loves him. However, he never got the material he needed to become the top face that he was positioned to be before his absence to recover from a shoulder injury sustained at SummerSlam 2016.

Now he’s back on NXT and he turned heel, which is a reoccurring theme for popular wrestlers who become creatively stifled as good guys. It happens so often, and many times fans welcome the turn just because they want their favorite wrestler to do something new.

Then, they end up cheering for the bad guy and other fans complain about it. But that’s another topic for another day. The issue at hand is WWE often gives up on their best potential babyfaces too soon.

To illustrate, these are five times the company surprisingly didn’t use a face character to their full potential.