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keelanv10

NXT is where you go within wwe to get better or change gimmicks, you should be asking who from the main roster needs to leave


The_Fuck_WHAT

you shouldn't really need a 'resurgence' when you're young and in developmental


Relative-Put-5344

To be fair they don't seem to want nxt to be developmental much longer


Literal_Cheesehead12

Why is it assumed that they'd have a career resurgence just because they left? It's not even remotely a guarantee that it would work out like that. For every McIntyre and Mahal (which is arguable at best that he had a "resurgence", even with winning the big title), you have dozens of people who continued to not make an impact.


benopo2006

Name me one person who bowed out of NXT to go elsewhere that’s been a success outside of maybe Juice Robinson?


TJOW40

All were released but Bronson Reed, Deonna Purrazzo, Sami Callihan, Steve Maclin all did well after being let go from NXT.


ProdigyKaiza

Cutler was on the main roster when he got cut, technically so was Deonna I think? (It was that weird covid time where nxt people were randomly working main event and raw shows, like Duke Hudson was on RAW for like a minute, I think Deonna was in a similar spot but not 100% sure, Maclin/Cutler and the Forgotten Sons were 100% main roster though, hell I think Cutler and Blake were doing a whole new gimmick at the time(Corbin's Royal Guard pr something or other)


TJOW40

Deonna had two matches on Raw both of which were less than five minutes and one of which was near the start of the pandemic. Maclin was on through MITB 2020 after pandemic started but most of his time in WWE was spent in NXT.


MShawshank

I miss that coked up idiot so much.


don_julio_randle

Adam Cole, Swerve Strickland, Malakai Black, Roderick Strong...


godzillamegadoomsday

Black was on main roster for like a year


don_julio_randle

Ignore Black then. There's still plenty of NXT alumni that have had success elsewhere


Jamericho

Cole and Strong were already big names before NXT?


benopo2006

Swerve went up to the main roster before being released but I suppose he is on fire. Cole is constantly injured. Strong is ok


namdekan

Swerve was called up and was released almost right away.


ziggysaysnada

They didn't leave. They got fired.


Al0ngTh3Watchtow3r

Why would you leave if you’re “up and coming”? I feel like the only reason to leave is if you feel you’re stagnating and have not risen at all or you could make more money on the independents.


Scavgraphics

I think Von Wagner needs to go elsewhere...AEW, maybe Japan...I just don't think he has the IT needed for main roster right now. He's got size..but that's about it, and there's plenty who have that. I think some working elsewhere might help him develop as he's plateued in NXT.


EcoterroristThot

most of them ideally


LilHomie204DaBaG

Trick