10 Lockdown Era WWE Superstars You Totally Don't Remember
WWE's ThunderDome days were something else, but...do you remember these faces?
Going back to the ThunderDome!
This is a tough one, because the "Lockdown Era" wasn't actually that long. WWE closed doors with the rest of the world in March 2020 and retreated to the cosy confines of their own Performance Center for marquee events like WrestleMania 36. It was bizarre, but the company deserves credit for making the best of things and giving everyone some much-needed entertainment.
Fans wouldn't start coming back to shows again regularly until the summer of 2021. Some events did have a live crowd, but it was limited and hardly happened often other than on specific special occasions. On the plus side, workers were given room to breathe on the microphone without dreaded "WHAT?!" chants, and some (like Bayley, for example) used the experience to better their skillsets.
How about the forgotten ones then? That's tricky, if only because this era was recent. Pretending you won't know any of the names included would be silly. You will - you just might've forgotten what they were up to or that they had a part to play whilst all the COVID restrictions were ongoing.
Check this roster out...
10. Denzel Dejournette
This dude holds the distinction of changing his name during the lockdown days, but then never making it stick before being released in August 2021. Still, you'd have to be a walking WWE historian to remember Denzel Dejournette or Desmond Troy. It's Denzel that gets the deep dive here.
Dejournette popped up on various episodes of Raw during the closed door Performance Center days in 2020. He wrestled both Seth Rollins (6 April) and Bobby Lashley (27 April) in the same month, and even managed to work Sheamus (17 April) on an edition of SmackDown in between.
It was a busy April for the NXT hopeful.
Denzel's longest main roster match was a six-minute loss to Jinder Mahal on Main Event that May. It's worth saying that he was clearly brought up as a job guy, but WWE's announcers did shower Dejournette with praise and it legit looked like he had a chance at making something more of his sudden flurry of appearances.
Sadly not.