Calling It Out of: Ilja Dragunov apparently not been seen as a top guy in WWE in 2026 by AverageMansReviews

Calling It Out of: Ilja Dragunov apparently not been seen as a top guy in WWE in 2026 by AverageMansReviews

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Well this is a hot steaming pile of horse manure!: So you spend years, so we aren't talking about a short time here... years upon years building him up; whilst winning championships/accolades like; NXT United Kingdom Championship [including but not limited to his epic rivalry with Walter,] NXT Year-End Award [twice,] Male Superstar of the Year [2003] and Match of the Year vs. Carmelo Hayes at NXT No Mercy and on the main roster WWE United States Champion [as of this content being first created; this stands at a one-time reign.]

So it takes NXT/WWE main roster since 2019 to 2026 to apparently realise in their own mindset that he is not a main event guy; when everyone else knows he is 100% the real deal and should absolutely be in and around the main event scenes; let's talk about what is possibly really going on here and I did say it years ago, when Walter or/and Dragunov get to the main rosters, how are they going to book two very much very unstoppable forces; meaning they were going to have to be creative with the booking/outlay of their matches and yes they have limited Walter's losses, but seemingly as far as I can see it they want to obviously keep Walter within the WWE and clearly can't be bothered with Dragunov, because he is a pound for pound wrestler/fighter that is the only one that can go toe to toe with Walter, so by the WWE saying they don't see him as a main event guy, from me that translates into it just can't be bothered, so let's just say we don't see him as a main event guy.

So I find myself asking this question what precisely is the point of NXT? No seriously what is the point of it? Because you have made big names down there and absolutely treated them like donkey diarrhoea on the main roster; here is a very small selection of names; Shinsuke Nakamura, Carmelo Hayes, Dragunov, Piper Niven, Alba Fyre and Sol Ruca and let's be honest on the main roster more or less they have been made to look like chumps.

Dragunov without question needs to go somewhere like either NJPW or AEW when his current WWE contract runs out sometime in the future, because I don't know about everyone else, but I am finding the current product incredibly stale, to the point where I am vaguely, incredibly vaguely keeping up-to-date with things just on social media and I have to be honest it really does annoy me when you have someone like Dragunov that could really freshen up anything and yet they don't have the vision to use him as a top wrestler; and just for the record I can't stand saying superstar so that is why I went with top wrestler.