WWE: Who are the top 10 NXT exports on Raw or SmackDown?
By Tom Colohue
6. Bray Wyatt
Wyatt’s impact in NXT was not as strong as his impact in WWE, but he still impacted the landscape and everything that followed. Wyatt made it okay to be strange and out of the ordinary. He made a number of very strong promos and really defined his character and personality.
He also showed what he could do in the ring as well as with his followers. His best work, though, would come with a bigger budget.
Bray Wyatt is far from the most decorated man on this list. His number of championships of any kind is paltry by any stretch of the imagination, but his character work is second to none. This is a man who could build a feud without any connection to those that he was feuding with. The first time that The Shield and The Wyatt Family stepped into the ring together, the atmosphere was electric.
The feud with Cena was incredibly intense and Randy Orton joining the family was long term booking at its finest. Bray Wyatt didn’t get long at the top but he certainly made the most of it.
Now, we have The Fiend; a man that everybody in wrestling seems to be behind. As always, he has the character. Now he just needs the results.
5. Alexa Bliss
Bliss did not leave a strong legacy in NXT. She wrestled rarely and spent most of her time in a manageress role. If she had, she may be even higher on this list because from her second week on the main roster it was clear that Alexa Bliss was going to be very, very important.
Bliss was privileged enough to be the one to dethrone inaugural SmackDown Women’s Champion Becky Lynch. She won the first women’s Tables Match and the first women’s Cage Match. She destroyed Bayley and beat Sasha Banks before wrestling in losing efforts with Charlotte, Asuka, Nia Jax and Ronda Rousey.
Almost every major moment in women’s wrestling has had some sort of involvement from Bliss since her debut. She was even the first woman to be both Raw and SmackDown Women’s Champion.
Alexa’s major strengths are not in ring, but she is unquestionably the best woman that the WWE has ever had on the microphone. She is almost beyond compare. Her Moment of Bliss setting has given us some very fun moments and even now, as one half of the women’s tag team champions, she is leading the charge in a division that has been largely forgotten and overlooked.
Since her first appearance, Bliss has been one of the most celebrated and focussed upon in the entire WWE.