10 Embarrassing NXT-Era Creative Failures You Totally Forgot About

10. Scott Dawson: Angry Mechanic

The vintage heel offence that ultimately got The Revival over as the most technically devastating team in pro wrestling initially had fans and NXT itself labelling them as 'The Mechanics', but Scott Dawson took embodied that moniker rather literally as he rose up the ranks on the developmental brand.

Doing jobs for the bigger names (and bodies) on the show for well over a year, he looked to be doing an entirely different job away from the ring. All oil-slicks and denim, Dawson seemed more comfortable getting under a car than he did getting over as a wrestler. It was thankfully never explicitly stated - the days of plumbers, clowns and binmen moonlighting as wrestlers remained confined to the past - but the out-of-work greaser look didn't particularly augment Dawson's red state hick schtick.

Leaked Performance Center promo class videos positioned a proto-cheerleader Alexa Bliss (more on her later) as his southern belle, though Dawson rode solo by the time he made it to television. It wasn't until he found a brand new kinship with the equally ignored Dash Wilder that the pair finally got their motors running.