10 Wild Creative Pitches Wrestlers Made To Get Into WWE

10. Santana Garrett Tries To Walk So That Nikki ASH Can Run

What happened, between 2001 and 2022, is that the creative writing staff cracked the actual description of their duties and pitched pure sh*t to Vince McMahon in order to spare themselves a rollicking.

Writers who admitted to being fans were laughed at, and considered marks. Writers who pitched wrestling-centric storylines evidently didn't get their stuff through. Collectively, they began to realise that it was easier to simply pitch dire, juvenile jokes and keep their mouths shut about the wrestlers they did like, because Vince treated a good faith recommendation as if it were a threat to his precious genius - a petulant "You think you know better than me?" fit that killed off many a promising career.

Eventually, the talent became aware of this cheat code and volunteered to do broad, wacky b*llocks just to get on TV. Nikki ASH played a kid's TV-level superhero, probably with a degree of earnestness, in fairness, but much funnier was Shane Thorne's enterprising, degrading bid to be, simply, "As Australian as I can possibly be". He was a Crocodile Dundee x Crocodile Hunter-styled fellow who lived in the presence of several deadly animals (in Australia; he wasn't conscripted to NXT UK).

Santana Garrett tried her luck along these lines too, telling Lucha Libre that she wanted to play the Wonder Woman-adjacent character she had worked under on the indies in WWE. If her infamous NXT match with Taynara Conti is any indication, she had in fact discovered a superpower, because it was worked in bullet time.

Garrett wasn't the only performer with a half-decent grasp of what the promotion actually was under Vince McMahon...