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* GrowingTheBeard: During the shift from the 2.0 branded era to its current "white and gold" incarnation, where many fans came back around to enjoying the product that harnessed the strengths of both the 2.0 and "black and gold" era.
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* ToughActToFollow: Season 1 was by far the most successful set of Rookies, with the immediate end result (Wrestling/TheNexus & [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]]), meaning that whoever were the next Rookies had their work cut out for them. As evidenced by the end results of Season 2 being a failed attempt to replicate the formation of the Nexus, it did not pan out well. In fact, season 2 actually has the ''lowest'' percentage of rookies still on WWE's active roster. Out of the seven, only Husky Harris (later Wrestling/BrayWyatt of Wrestling/TheWyattFamily), Michael [=McGillicutty=] (later Wrestling/CurtisAxel), and Titus O'Neil (as half of the Wrestling/PrimeTimePlayers before becoming a singles wrestler) are still with WWE. You know the season could've gone better when out of all the contestants, the season's ''winner'', [[Wrestling/LowKi Kaval]], ends up being released first.

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* ToughActToFollow: Season 1 was by far the most successful set of Rookies, with the immediate end result (Wrestling/TheNexus & [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]]), meaning that whoever were the next Rookies had their work cut out for them. As evidenced by the end results of Season 2 being a failed attempt to replicate the formation of the Nexus, it did not pan out well. In fact, season 2 actually has the ''lowest'' percentage of rookies still on WWE's active roster. Out of the seven, only Husky Harris (later Wrestling/BrayWyatt of Wrestling/TheWyattFamily), Michael [=McGillicutty=] (later Wrestling/CurtisAxel), and Titus O'Neil (as half of the Wrestling/PrimeTimePlayers before becoming a singles wrestler) are still with WWE.WWE as Husky Harris (Later Wrestling/BrayWyatt of Wrestling/TheWyattFamily) tragically died while under contract in August 2023 and Axel was released on 2 separate occasions. You know the season could've gone better when out of all the contestants, the season's ''winner'', [[Wrestling/LowKi Kaval]], ends up being released first.

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* QuestionableCasting: Wrestling/AngelaFong questioned one particular decision in an interview with ''Website/DivaDirt''. She had trained in developmental to become a wrestler, had caught onto it very fast, and was the inaugural Queen of FCW. She was called up to the main roster...to be a ring announcer and backstage interviewer. Rather than being used as a contestant on the Divas season, she was released, and they had Jamie Keyes as the last rookie. Jamie Keyes preferred ring announcing and interviewing, and didn't like being forced into a wrestling role - so she asked for her release before the season was even over. So they put a wrestler into a ring announcer role that she didn't want, and then did the opposite with the result that a good potential asset to the women's division was released before she'd even had a match.



* WTHCastingAgency: Wrestling/AngelaFong questioned one particular decision in an interview with ''Website/DivaDirt''. She had trained in developmental to become a wrestler, had caught onto it very fast, and was the inaugural Queen of FCW. She was called up to the main roster...to be a ring announcer and backstage interviewer. Rather than being used as a contestant on the Divas season, she was released, and they had Jamie Keyes as the last rookie. Jamie Keyes preferred ring announcing and interviewing, and didn't like being forced into a wrestling role - so she asked for her release before the season was even over. So they put a wrestler into a ring announcer role that she didn't want, and then did the opposite with the result that a good potential asset to the women's division was released before she'd even had a match.

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* WTHCastingAgency: Wrestling/AngelaFong questioned one particular decision in an interview with ''Website/DivaDirt''. She had trained in developmental to become a wrestler, had caught onto it very fast, and was the inaugural Queen of FCW. She was called up to the main roster...to be a ring announcer and backstage interviewer. Rather than being used as a contestant on the Divas season, she was released, and they had Jamie Keyes as the last rookie. Jamie Keyes preferred ring announcing and interviewing, and didn't like being forced into a wrestling role - so she asked for her release before the season was even over. So they put a wrestler into a ring announcer role that she didn't want, and then did the opposite with the result that a good potential asset to the women's division was released before she'd even had a match.
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* ContestedSequel: Considering that this show is directly replacing arguably the most beloved of WWE's shows for the majority of the TheNewTens, this definitely applies to 2.0, which is directly harkening back to NXT's original purpose as developmental for the main roster instead of the indie supershow it became during its later years. Supporters praise its character work while still displaying very well-done in-ring work with the likes of Bron Breakker and Carmelo Hayes as standout examples. However, detractors argue that the majority of 2.0's storylines and booking nearly seem to rehash disliked booking tropes seen on the main roster or from the lesser years of the Wrestling/RuthlessAggressionEra, breaking away from the more grounded and grittier feel that the "Black and Gold" NXT encapsulated.

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* ContestedSequel: Considering that this show is directly replacing arguably the most beloved of WWE's shows for the majority of the TheNewTens, this definitely applies to 2.0, which is directly harkening back to NXT's original purpose as developmental for the main roster instead of the indie supershow it became during its later years. Supporters praise its character work while still displaying very well-done in-ring work with the likes of Bron Breakker and Carmelo Hayes as standout examples. However, detractors argue that the majority of 2.0's storylines and booking nearly seem to rehash disliked booking tropes seen on the main roster or from the lesser years of the Wrestling/RuthlessAggressionEra, breaking away from the more grounded and grittier feel that the "Black and Gold" NXT encapsulated. TheyChangedItNowItSucks was the reaction of a lot of fans.
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*** Audrey Marie, who'd had a successful run as the top face in FCW as the Divas Champion and was catching onto wrestling very quickly - holding her own in matches with Wrestling/{{Paige}}, Wrestling/{{Naomi}} and [[Wrestling/IvelisseVelez Sofia Cortez]]. She was only ever used as a {{Jobber}} for her first year, with her sole storyline of note during this time involving tricking Wrestling/SashaBanks into thinking she had a secret admirer (yes, before Wrestling/AJLee did the same to Wrestling/{{Kaitlyn}}) before being released in 2013 and retiring afterwards after a one-off appearance in the independent circuit in 2014. As a look at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyV14Nnr6tM her work on live events]] shows, she was a great {{Heel}} and quite adept at working the crowd.

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*** Audrey Marie, who'd had a successful run as the top face in FCW as the Divas Champion and was catching onto wrestling very quickly - holding her own in matches with Wrestling/{{Paige}}, Wrestling/{{Naomi}} Wrestling/{{Naomi|Wrestler}} and [[Wrestling/IvelisseVelez Sofia Cortez]]. She was only ever used as a {{Jobber}} for her first year, with her sole storyline of note during this time involving tricking Wrestling/SashaBanks into thinking she had a secret admirer (yes, before Wrestling/AJLee did the same to Wrestling/{{Kaitlyn}}) before being released in 2013 and retiring afterwards after a one-off appearance in the independent circuit in 2014. As a look at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyV14Nnr6tM her work on live events]] shows, she was a great {{Heel}} and quite adept at working the crowd.
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* SmurfetteBreakout: The women on NXT Season 3 fared a little better on the main roster than many of the other contestants (save [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]], Wrestling/WadeBarrett, Wrestling/{{Ryback}} and Wrestling/BrayWyatt). Wrestling/AJLee became the biggest star the women's division had seen in years - she and Wrestling/{{Kaitlyn}} both became Divas' Champions, but AJ held the title for much longer and had a number of high-profile angles with male talent throughout 2012 and 2013. Wrestling/{{Naomi}} likewise became an EnsembleDarkhorse and made it onto the ''Series/TotalDivas'' cast. Maxine became an EnsembleDarkhorse on ''NXT Redemption'' and was considered one of the best things about the show. Wrestling/{{Aksana}} is a marginal case of this: while she did get a regular spot in segments with Wrestling/TeddyLong and a managerial spot with [[Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli Cesaro]], she never really became a star in the women's division. Jamie Keyes in contrast requested her release before NXT Season 3 had even ended (though she did come BackForTheFinale).

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* SmurfetteBreakout: The women on NXT Season 3 fared a little better on the main roster than many of the other contestants (save [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]], Wrestling/WadeBarrett, Wrestling/{{Ryback}} and Wrestling/BrayWyatt). Wrestling/AJLee became the biggest star the women's division had seen in years - she and Wrestling/{{Kaitlyn}} both became Divas' Champions, but AJ held the title for much longer and had a number of high-profile angles with male talent throughout 2012 and 2013. Wrestling/{{Naomi}} Wrestling/{{Naomi|Wrestler}} likewise became an EnsembleDarkhorse and made it onto the ''Series/TotalDivas'' cast. Maxine became an EnsembleDarkhorse on ''NXT Redemption'' and was considered one of the best things about the show. Wrestling/{{Aksana}} is a marginal case of this: while she did get a regular spot in segments with Wrestling/TeddyLong and a managerial spot with [[Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli Cesaro]], she never really became a star in the women's division. Jamie Keyes in contrast requested her release before NXT Season 3 had even ended (though she did come BackForTheFinale).
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: After one year with the ''2.0'' moniker, WWE made changes for the revamped brand, which includes changing the multicolored logo with a white and gold one, resembling the "Black and Gold" era of NXT while retaining the good parts of ''2.0'' and removing most of the bad parts of it.
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** The "Namer of Dummies" himself, Eli Drake (under the new ring name LA Knight) appearing on the ''NXT [=TakeOver=]: Vengeance Day'' pre-show, due to 1). he'd last been seen in the [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]], 2). he had no real reason to sign with WWE at all, having already had an unproductive stint in WWE developmental in the past.

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** The "Namer of Dummies" himself, Eli Drake (under the new ring name LA Knight) Wrestling/LAKnight) appearing on the ''NXT [=TakeOver=]: Vengeance Day'' pre-show, due to 1). he'd last been seen in the [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]], 2). he had no real reason to sign with WWE at all, having already had an unproductive stint in WWE developmental in the past.

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** Zoey Stark. Either she's a very impressive athlete with a ton of potential, or, following the storyline where she and Io Shirai suddenly won the NXT Women's Tag Team Championship, only to be portrayed as not getting along and Startk to start clumsy attempts to bond with Shirai, she's the reason why Shirai hasn't been called up the main roster.

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** Zoey Stark. Either she's a very impressive athlete with a ton of potential, or, following the storyline where she and Io Shirai Wrestling/IoShirai suddenly won the NXT Women's Tag Team Championship, only to be portrayed as not getting along and Startk to start clumsy attempts to bond with Shirai, she's the reason why Shirai hasn't been called up the main roster.



** Among women's wrestling fans, who like to remind people that the 'Four Horsewomen' (Wrestling/CharlotteFlair, Wrestling/SashaBanks, Wrestling/{{Bayley}} and Wrestling/BeckyLynch) had predecessors in Paige, Emma and Summer Rae - they've been nicknamed the 'OG-3'. Summer Rae and Paige was the first women's feud on NXT, and Paige and Emma wrestled for the first NXT Women's Championship match.

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** Among women's wrestling fans, who like to remind people that the 'Four Horsewomen' (Wrestling/CharlotteFlair, Wrestling/SashaBanks, Wrestling/{{Bayley}} and Wrestling/BeckyLynch) had predecessors in Paige, Emma Wrestling/{{Paige}}, [[Wrestling/TenilleDashwood Emma]] and Summer Rae Wrestling/SummerRae - they've been nicknamed the 'OG-3'. Summer Rae and Paige was the first women's feud on NXT, and Paige and Emma wrestled for the first NXT Women's Championship match.



** Wrestling/EvaMarie. Despite having at this point being signed for two years and having received personal training from Brian Kendrick she has shown very little improvement since her disastrous matches in 2013 and legitimately '''forgot to kick out of a pinfall''' while Full Sail went nuclear once they realized what had happened. She has rapidly reached XPacHeat, and it only got worse after fans heard rumors that officials wanted to portray her as "an underdog overcoming adversity" against Bayley at ''Takeover: London''. [[FromBadToWorse It got worse]] when she then injured Carmella (see RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap) at a live event with a kick to the head. Fans had already expressed disgust at Eva's presence in NXT to begin with (even allowing that it is a developmental system) and now have evolved into wanting her blacklisted from the company (and her defenders becoming rapid victims of members of the IWC as a consequence, justified or not).

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** Wrestling/EvaMarie. Despite having at this point being signed for two years and having received personal training from Brian Kendrick she has shown very little improvement since her disastrous matches in 2013 and legitimately '''forgot to kick out of a pinfall''' while Full Sail went nuclear once they realized what had happened. She has rapidly reached XPacHeat, and it only got worse after fans heard rumors that officials wanted to portray her as "an underdog overcoming adversity" against Bayley Wrestling/{{Bayley}} at ''Takeover: London''. [[FromBadToWorse It got worse]] when she then injured Carmella (see RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap) at a live event with a kick to the head. Fans had already expressed disgust at Eva's presence in NXT to begin with (even allowing that it is a developmental system) and now have evolved into wanting her blacklisted from the company (and her defenders becoming rapid victims of members of the IWC as a consequence, justified or not).



** Wrestling/JohnnyGargano vs. Wrestling/AdamCole at ''[=TakeOver=]: New York'' exceeded every expectation, which says a lot, given that quality matches have become NXT's trademark. Although the match was intended to be the climactic blow-off to the Gargano vs. Ciampa feud, an unfortunate injury put that on hold, so Ciampa vacated the title, and Cole won the right to fight for it with Gargano. The match featured a lot of brutal spots and a finisher galore, but even Wrestling/TheUndisputedEra's interference couldn't keep Johnny down, and he finally fulfilled his promise and became the NXT Champion and the first NXT Triple Crown Champion. Big Dave has also given the match an astonishing score of '''''5.5''''' stars, the first for WWE.

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** Wrestling/JohnnyGargano vs. Wrestling/AdamCole at ''[=TakeOver=]: New York'' exceeded every expectation, which says a lot, given that quality matches have become NXT's trademark. Although the match was intended to be the climactic blow-off to the Gargano vs. Ciampa feud, an unfortunate injury put that on hold, so Ciampa vacated the title, and Cole won the right to fight for it with Gargano. The match featured a lot of brutal spots and a finisher galore, but even Wrestling/TheUndisputedEra's interference couldn't keep Johnny down, and he finally fulfilled his promise and became the NXT Champion and the first NXT Triple Crown Champion.Wrestling/TripleCrownChampion. Big Dave has also given the match an astonishing score of '''''5.5''''' stars, the first for WWE.



* ValuesDissonance: Back in the early years of NXT being a developmental, it wasn't unusual for an episode of NXT to not have any women's matches or segments much like its predecessor, FCW (Florida Championship Wrestling). These days, an episode of NXT generally has at least two or more women's matches in an effort to promote gender equality not to mention that Wrestling/TripleH and Wrestling/ShawnMichaels are huge fans of women's wrestling.



* ValuesDissonance: Back in the early years of NXT being a developmental, it wasn't unusual for an episode of NXT to not have any women's matches or segments much like its predecessor, FCW (Florida Championship Wrestling). These days, an episode of NXT generally has at least two or more women's matches in an effort to promote gender equality not to mention that Triple H and Shawn Michaels are huge fans of women's wrestling.
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* BadassDecay: Admittedly, there were a lot of [[RealLifeWritesThePlot external factors]] [[note]] AJ Gallante obviously wasn't sticking around since he isn't a wrestler or under contract, and Troy "Two Dimes" Donovan was let go due to a failed drug test. [[/note]] but it's hard to buy Tony D'Angelo as some type of intimidating mob boss when his "family" now consists of exactly ''two'' people, counting himself.

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* BadassDecay: Admittedly, there were a lot of [[RealLifeWritesThePlot external factors]] [[note]] AJ Gallante obviously wasn't sticking around since he isn't a wrestler or under contract, and Troy "Two Dimes" Donovan was let go due to a failed drug test. [[/note]] but it's hard to buy Tony D'Angelo as some type of intimidating mob boss when his "family" now consists of exactly ''two'' people, counting himself. Nicely subverted on the duo's 2023's face turn and tag title win in July though.
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* ValuesDissonance: Back in the early years of NXT being a developmental, it wasn't unusual for an episode of NXT to not have any women's matches or segments much like its predecessor, FCW (Florida Championship Wrestling). These days, an episode of NXT generally has at least two or more women's matches in an effort to promote gender equality not to mention that Triple H and Shawn Michaels are huge fans of women's wrestling.
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** EJ Nduka. He had a great physique and stood at 6'9, so he pretty much ticked all the boxes in a star Vince was looking for, and it helped he was given a lot of praise by Wrestling/Edge and ''Wrestling/JohnCena'', so it seemed he was destined for success. However, he was let go during the mass releases of 2020 without even making it to TV, apparently stemming from getting into a fight with Drake Younger over Younger using racist terms (and it wouldn't be the first of Younger's controversies).
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* WTHCostumingDepartment: When SCRYPTS (formerly the main roster's Reggie) made his debut, many people were appalled by the mask he was wearing, with many deeming it ugly and tacky, and even among the worst masks in wrestling history.

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** Nick Miller and Shane Thorne, AKA The Mighty or TM-61, were previously known as Mikey Nicholls and Shane Haste, or The Mighty Don’t Kneel or TMDK of Wrestling/ProWrestlingNOAH fame. The team’s third member, Jonah Rock, would later join NXT as Bronson Reed.



** Solomon Crowe is Wrestling/SamiCallihan, who was at the time best known for his work in CZW but is nowadays much more widely known for Wrestling/ImpactWrestling.
** Dexter Lumis and Cameron Grimes used to wrestle under their own names, Sam Shaw and Trevor Lee. Shaw was mainly known for his time on TNA playing a similar serial killer gimmick (which at the time was compared to the title character of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', which might have played a hand on his WWE ring name). Lee has competed in various independent promotions but he was also known for working on Impact.
** Manager Robert Stone is best known for his time in TNA as the ''Series/JerseyShore''-inspired Robbie E.
** Drake Maverick is British independent star Rockstar Spud, who was best known for his time in TNA.
** Franky Monet is Taya Valkyrie of Wrestling/ImpactWrestling fame.

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** Solomon Crowe is Wrestling/SamiCallihan, who was at the time best known for his work in CZW CZW, but is nowadays much more widely known for Wrestling/ImpactWrestling.
** Dexter Lumis and Cameron Grimes used to wrestle under their own names, Sam Shaw and Trevor Lee. Shaw was mainly known for his time on TNA playing a similar serial killer gimmick (which at the time was compared to the title character of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', which might have played a hand on his WWE ring name). Lee has competed in various independent promotions but he was also known for working on Impact.
** Manager Robert Stone is best known for his time in TNA as the ''Series/JerseyShore''-inspired Robbie E.
** Drake Maverick is British independent star Rockstar Spud, who was best known for his time in TNA.
** Franky Monet is Taya Valkyrie of Wrestling/ImpactWrestling fame.
Wrestling/ImpactWrestling.
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** After years of actually avoiding this with their female wrestlers, this appeared to happen again with Taynara Conti. The first female Brazilian wrestler in WWE, and a black belt in judo who participated in trials for the Brazilian Olympic team at the 2016 Summer Olympics, her most high-profile appearances in WWE consisted of her being among the participants of the Women's Battle Royal in ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 34'' and a storyline that consisted of Wrestling/TheUndisputedEra convincing her to attack Wrestling/NikkiCross. Despite interest about the idea of UE adding a female member, it went nowhere; as it turned out, UE only approached her to attack Cross because they were feuding with Cross's stable Wrestling/{{Sanity}}. After three years of doing nothing of note besides the examples mentioned, she was released April 2020 due to "budget cuts" supposedly due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, only for her standout work when she later re-emerged in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling to show just what a dumb move it was letting her go.

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** After years of actually avoiding this with their female wrestlers, this appeared to happen again with Taynara Conti. The first female Brazilian wrestler in WWE, and a black belt in judo who participated in trials for the Brazilian Olympic team at the 2016 Summer Olympics, her most high-profile appearances in WWE consisted of her being among the participants of the Women's Battle Royal in ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 34'' and a storyline that consisted of Wrestling/TheUndisputedEra convincing her to attack Wrestling/NikkiCross. Despite interest about the idea of UE adding a female member, it went nowhere; as it turned out, UE only approached her to attack Cross because they were feuding with Cross's stable Wrestling/{{Sanity}}. After three years of doing nothing of note besides the examples mentioned, she was released April 2020 due to "budget cuts" supposedly due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic,[[note]]and this was apparently after she had [[https://www.wrestlinginc.com/news/2020/02/taynara-conti-returns-to-nxt-after-walking-out-in-january-666484/ already walked out of the company in January]] in displeasure over her position, only to be convinced to come back,[[/note]] only for her standout work when she later re-emerged in Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling to show just what a dumb move it was letting her go.
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** NXT, to an extent, to Wrestling/{{ECW}} after the brand extension came back.

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** NXT, to an extent, to Wrestling/{{ECW}} after the brand extension came back. It helps that, for roughly the last two years of its existence, while viewed as barely a shadow of the actual promotion it was in TheNineties, the WWE version of ECW was generally perceived as pretty decent if viewed as a developmental show.
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** Deonna Purazzo was mainly used as a jobber on NXT before her massive success in Wrestling/ImpactWrestling.

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** Deonna Purazzo was mainly used as a jobber on NXT before her massive success as "The Virtuosa" in Wrestling/ImpactWrestling.Wrestling/ImpactWrestling and her nearly-year-long reign with the Impact Knockouts Championship.
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** Wrestling/BeckyLynch debuted [[EthnicScrappy representing almost every unamusing Irish stereotype]] and failed to get any heat for it. Her change in gimmick to a mosh pit girl began her redemption with the fans, and a well done FaceHeelTurn along with more chances to show off her incredible in-ring abilities completed the rescue.

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** Wrestling/BeckyLynch debuted [[EthnicScrappy with a gimmick representing [[{{Oireland}} almost every unamusing Irish stereotype]] stereotype imaginable]] and [[EthnicScrappy failed to get any heat for it. it]], to the point that it became the ''only'' induction the Black and Gold era of NXT got on ''Website/WrestleCrap''. Her change in gimmick to a mosh pit girl rocker chick began her redemption with the fans, and a well done FaceHeelTurn along with more chances to show off her incredible in-ring abilities completed the rescue.
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** Before the FCW/NXT merge, telling smarks that you wanted Wrestling/TripleH to succeed Wrestling/VinceMcMahon as owner of the company, you would have been laughed out of any forum you voiced your opinion in, on top of calling you a shill. Thanks to the success of NXT, smarks have unanimously been calling for Triple H to become chairman, citing Vince's recent running of the company as out of touch.

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** Before the FCW/NXT merge, telling smarks that you wanted Wrestling/TripleH to succeed Wrestling/VinceMcMahon as owner of the company, you would have been laughed out of any forum you voiced your opinion in, on top of calling you a shill. Thanks to the success of NXT, smarks have unanimously been calling for Triple H to become chairman, chairman (or at least head of Creative), citing Vince's recent running of the company as out of touch. And then the latter did end up actually happening, when Vince announced his retirement in 2022,[[note]]albeit a retirement that was widely seen as Vince essentially being forced to resign in disgrace after the company held an internal investigation over sexual misconduct allegations against him, more specifically Vince using the company's money to quell the allegations,[[/note]] with Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon becoming chairwoman and Triple H becoming head of Creative of the entire company.
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** During the early days, Raquel Diaz was being given a lot of hype in vignettes and in fact was the only female talent getting them while the rest had random matches. People who had seen her work in FCW and been unimpressed felt she was being given an absurd amount of hype purely because [[Wrestling/EddieGuerrero of who her father was]]. Ultimately, she left the company in 2014 due to an eating disorder (though she has started working in the business as an announcer and valet under her real name, Shaul Guerrero).

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** During the early days, Raquel Diaz was being given a lot of hype in vignettes and in fact was the only female talent getting them while the rest had random matches. People who had seen her work in FCW and been unimpressed felt she was being given an absurd amount of hype purely because of [[Wrestling/EddieGuerrero of who her father was]]. Ultimately, she left the company in 2014 due to an eating disorder (though she has started working in the business as an announcer and valet under her real name, Shaul Guerrero).
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** Zoey Stark. Either she's a very impressive athlete with a ton of potential, or she's the reason why Io Shirai hasn't been called up the main roster.

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** Zoey Stark. Either she's a very impressive athlete with a ton of potential, or or, following the storyline where she and Io Shirai suddenly won the NXT Women's Tag Team Championship, only to be portrayed as not getting along and Startk to start clumsy attempts to bond with Shirai, she's the reason why Io Shirai hasn't been called up the main roster.
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** The team consisting of former NFL player Pat [=McAfee=], Pete Dunne, Ridge Holland, Danny Burch, and Oney Lorcan, despite being together for almost a year and having a marquee feud with The Undisputed Era, never appeared to get an official name, but fans tended to call them "The Kings of NXT" after [=McAfee=] refered to themselves as such in a throwaway line during one of his promos. It went to the point that when a page about the group was created in Website/{{Wikipedia}}, it ended up using that very same name.


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** Nick Miller and Shane Thorne, AKA The Mighty or TM-61, were previously known as Mikey Nicholls and Shane Haste, or The Mighty Don’t Kneel or TMDK of Wrestling/ProWrestlingNOAH fame. The team’s third member, Jonah Rock, would later join NXT as Bronson Reed.
** Deonna Purazzo was mainly used as a jobber on NXT before her massive success in Wrestling/ImpactWrestling.
** Solomon Crowe is Wrestling/SamiCallihan, who was at the time best known for his work in CZW but is nowadays much more widely known for Wrestling/ImpactWrestling.
** Dexter Lumis and Cameron Grimes used to wrestle under their own names, Sam Shaw and Trevor Lee. Shaw was mainly known for his time on TNA playing a similar serial killer gimmick (which at the time was compared to the title character of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', which might have played a hand on his WWE ring name). Lee has competed in various independent promotions but he was also known for working on Impact.
** Manager Robert Stone is best known for his time in TNA as the ''Series/JerseyShore''-inspired Robbie E.
** Drake Maverick is British independent star Rockstar Spud, who was best known for his time in TNA.
** Franky Monet is Taya Valkyrie of Wrestling/ImpactWrestling fame.
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* ContestedSequel: Considering that this show is directly replacing arguably the most beloved of WWE's shows for the majority of the TheNewTens, this definitely applies to 2.0, which is directly harkening back to NXT's original purpose as developmental for the main roster instead of the indie supershow it became during its later years. Supporters praise its character work while still displaying very well-done in-ring work with the likes of Bron Breakker and Carmelo Hayes as standout examples. However, detractors argue that the majority of 2.0's storylines and booking nearly seem to rehash disliked booking tropes seen on the main roster or from the lesser years of the [[Wrestling/WWERuthlessAgressionEra Ruthless Agression Era]], breaking away from the more grounded and grittier feel that the "Black and Gold" NXT encapsulated.

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* ContestedSequel: Considering that this show is directly replacing arguably the most beloved of WWE's shows for the majority of the TheNewTens, this definitely applies to 2.0, which is directly harkening back to NXT's original purpose as developmental for the main roster instead of the indie supershow it became during its later years. Supporters praise its character work while still displaying very well-done in-ring work with the likes of Bron Breakker and Carmelo Hayes as standout examples. However, detractors argue that the majority of 2.0's storylines and booking nearly seem to rehash disliked booking tropes seen on the main roster or from the lesser years of the [[Wrestling/WWERuthlessAgressionEra Ruthless Agression Era]], Wrestling/RuthlessAggressionEra, breaking away from the more grounded and grittier feel that the "Black and Gold" NXT encapsulated.
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* ContestedSequel: Considering that this show is directly replacing arguably the most beloved of WWE's shows for the majority of the TheNewTens, this definitely applies to 2.0, which is directly harkening back to NXT's original purpose as developmental for the main roster instead of the indie supershow it became during its later years. Supporters praise its character work while still displaying very well-done in-ring work with the likes of Bron Breakker and Carmelo Hayes as standout examples. However, detractors argue that the majority of 2.0's storylines and booking nearly seem to rehash disliked booking tropes seen on the main roster or from the lesser years of the Wrestling/RuthlessAgressionEra, breaking away from the more grounded and grittier feel that the "Black and Gold" NXT encapsulated.

to:

* ContestedSequel: Considering that this show is directly replacing arguably the most beloved of WWE's shows for the majority of the TheNewTens, this definitely applies to 2.0, which is directly harkening back to NXT's original purpose as developmental for the main roster instead of the indie supershow it became during its later years. Supporters praise its character work while still displaying very well-done in-ring work with the likes of Bron Breakker and Carmelo Hayes as standout examples. However, detractors argue that the majority of 2.0's storylines and booking nearly seem to rehash disliked booking tropes seen on the main roster or from the lesser years of the Wrestling/RuthlessAgressionEra, [[Wrestling/WWERuthlessAgressionEra Ruthless Agression Era]], breaking away from the more grounded and grittier feel that the "Black and Gold" NXT encapsulated.

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