WWE: Who should be called up from NXT after SummerSlam?
Velveteen Dream
Of all the tremendous talent occupying the NXT roster, few have felt like more of a can’t-miss star than the Velveteen Dream has.
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At only 23 years old, Dream has everything a promoter would want in a top star: a cool, marketable look, magnetic screen presence, outstanding promo skills, savant-like psychology, and unbelievable athletic ability. Even the area of his game that still needs some fine-tuning — his overall workrate — has grown to the point where he can hang with just about anyone on the roster. Put it this way, if Baron Corbin can main event a pay-per-view, then Dream is overqualified.
Of course, how successful Dream’s main roster run is will depend on whether McMahon “gets” his Prince-inspired character. McMahon could look at Dream and think “Isn’t Shinsuke Nakamura already doing this?”. Or worse, McMahon could envision Dream as the next Adrian Adonis or Rico Constantino and veer into some problematic territory (and if you buy into the notion that WWE is too “sophisticated” to do something like that in 2019, trust me, they aren’t).
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As many WWE fans have come to accept, no NXT star is too big to fail on the main roster. We’ve seen far too many supposedly Teflon stars get ground into the trash compactor that is WWE’s weekly programming while being left to wonder what could’ve been. But if anyone can transcend that trend, it’s the Velveteen Dream.