10 Wrestlers Having An AMAZING 2023 (… That Nobody Is Talking About)

10. Bron Breakker

Antithetical to the other pillars of the NXT 2.0 era, Bron Breakker is scarcely heralded as a premium worker.

An elongated babyface run drastically hindered his success rate. Ensembles of boos were commonplace for Bron in the first four months of 2023, the live audience restlessly awaiting a change from his draggy babyface NXT Champion run. It came when he was dethroned by Carmelo Hayes, but the match and the angle were controlled by immeasurable plaudits for Carmelo. Bron may as well have been Triple H circa-2003 for how fatigued and spiritless NXT onlookers had become of him.

Turning heel post-'Mania released Breakker from babyface confinement. He's evidently a more organic performer and his work has improved because of it; take his recent NXT TV bout vs. Trick Williams as a pertinent measure of this. Breakker practically eradicated Williams before Spearing the sh*t out of Carmelo Hayes post-match in a scene he has received mass ovation for on social media.

Babyface highlights vs. Grayson Waller and Pretty Deadly shouldn't be left out of the conversation either. Breakker was sturdy and authoritative in both, bulldozing Waller with a nauseatingly divine Spear in the former, a Steel Cage match where the cage worked in every way it should. He's always been a brute of a pro wrestler; disregarding him for his lifeless babyface persona isn't admissible, knowing what we know now.