Superstars of the Future: Curt Hawkins

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Curt Hawkins is a typical case of somebody who hasn't gotten the breaks of other superstars but goes out there every night and gives 100% in the ring and out. Hawkins started in the WWE in 2007. Teaming up with Zack Ryder on ECW and they were known as the Major Brothers. Ryder and Hawkins a little bit of trouble in their tenure at ECW. In the summer of 2007 they were drafted to the Smackdown! brand. Nothing really occurred for the duo until they dressed up as Edge to help Edge win the World Heavyweight Title and aligned with the Rated-R superstar and started going by the names we know them by now. Hawkins and Ryder won the Tag Team Championships from John Morrison and Miz in a fatal four way match at the Great American Bash. Once they lost the titles and got away from the faction with Edge, Ryder was drafted back to ECW which split up the tag team.

Hawkins and Ryder win Tag Team Championships. Courtesy of WWE.com

 Hawkins went back to developmental in Florida for about a year then came back to the main roster teaming up with Vance Archer in ECW and started teaming up regularly on WWE Superstars. Once Archer was released from the WWE Hawkins started teaming up with Tyler Reks WWE NXT. Reks and Hawkins became two of the most entertaining superstars that hardly anyone saw on a regular basis. As the time went on for the next two years Hawkins was seen on RAW occasionally as a jobber to people like Brodus Clay. Hawkins and Reks then were starting to be shown on Smackdown and Superstars as a tag team more regularly and were going to be one of the cornerstones of re-building the tag team division. Tyler Reks however, asked for his release earlier this month to spend time with this family. 

Now where does this leave Hawkins? He has a lot of potential and knows how to put on a good to great match every night. Has the charisma a lot of superstars lack, best bet for him unfortunately, would be to team back up with Ryder and help mold the tag team division to at least get to show the national audience how much he has improved in the almost 5 years he has been absent from the major two shows. Worst comes to worst he can go back to NXT where he has looked like a major superstar. Hawkins deserves more than just being stuck in the mid-card his whole career.

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Till next time,

Jacob Reyes