To me the last NXT Champ that felt really special was Bobby Roode. Champa has awesome heat, but once his segment/match is over its easy to forget about him just as quickly.
I think to me the main reason it's hard to get fully behind an NXT guy is because WWE has blown every single callup since Kevin Owens, which was like 3 years ago.
Check out what I wrote in June
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Originally Posted by xrodmuc316
So this DVD came out less than a year ago, let's see what happened to the top 25.
25. Alexander Rusev -- An incredibly over wrestler WWE refuses to push
24. Big E Langston (Big E) -- Part of very successful comedy trio
23. Corey Graves -- Decent announcer, kind of a crybaby in real life
22. Bo Dallas -- Half a decade of being a jobber, now comedy jobber
21. Ember Moon -- Main roster for 2 months and has no direction
20. Antonio Cesaro (Cesaro) -- Barely considered NXT. Good tag team run
19. Tye Dillinger -- A jobber with a hand signal and chant
18. Tyler Breeze -- Part of a jobber comedy tag team
17. Baron Corbin -- Is he even a wrestler anymore, or just a constable?
16. Becky Lynch -- Losses after losses
15. Bray Wyatt -- Jobber for all the top guys, a caricature of himself
14. Adrian Neville (Neville) -- WWE couldn't see past his size, quit
13. Samoa Joe -- Really believable heel monster, WWE missing big opportunity
12. Paige -- Got drugged up, injured, and retired
11. Alexa Bliss -- Hugely successful, but this is a lie, she was nothing in NXT
10. Charlotte Flair -- WWEs golden girl, beats everybody else
9. Bobby Roode -- Cool entrance song turned him boring Babyface midcarder
8. Bayley -- Most over female, turned into whiney vindictive jobber
7. Kevin Owens -- Consistent top performer, under utilized sometimes
6. Sasha Banks -- Consistently near title, just as whiney as Bayley
5. Sami Zayn -- Wasted for years, finally given something entertaining to do
4. Shinsuke Nakamura -- King of Strong Style to evil foreign jobber
3. Seth Rollins - Like Cesaro, barely NXT. A top star
2. Asuka -- Unfeared, unintelligent, beatable sudden jobber
1. Finn Balor -- Wins just enough to not be a jobber, but not by much
Like Alexa, some of the other stars getting a good run despite being nothing in NXT include Carmella, Braun Strowman, Elias, Xavier Woods, Big Cass, and Sonya, Mandy Rose and Riott Squad.
This, OUCH. Vince really building for the future...
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It's only got worse since then for everybody mentioned above not named Becky Lynch.
Joe still is over, but has jobbed out like 5 more title matches since then.
It's even worse for people who weren't even in the top 25.
Revival, Sanity, Ascension, Nia Fucking Jax, Almas isn't even on TV while his manager is in matches on Smackdown.
How can anybody really buy into current NXT Wrestlers knowing that they are gonna be horrible jobbers in the not so distant future.
Champa and Gargano will be lucky to avoid being sent to 205 Live, Undisputed Era, same thing.
Aliester Black, whatever mystique he has going for him will be gone as soon as he starts having backstage segments with R-Truth.
EC3 can go and Vince likes super jacked dudes, but the guy doesn't cut good promos.
Ricochet will be the new Neville, does cool looking moves, but jobs to main roster guys.
War Raiders, Vince isn't pushing fat hairy guys, ask Killian Dain.
Vel Dream will be stripped of any character depth, and will just be the new resident weirdo like Goldust.
Matt Riddle isn't getting a push by saying bro if Zack Ryder isn't.
Street Profits will be Vinces new Cryme Time
Bianca Belair is neither big boobed or blonde, she will be done the second she gets called up.
Kairi Sane's English is even worse than Asukas so she isn't getting anything.
They already debuted Nikki Cross back with Sanity who was in tv the first time in about 2 months cause of it.
Lars is green as goose shit, but since he looks ugly like a 1970's Vince will probably push him to the moon until it's time to job to John Cena.
Keith Lee isn't getting called up.
Honestly I think they are gonna end up going back to sending current roster guys back down to rehab their horrible booking for a while before bringing them back up to waste them all over again.