8 Awesome NXT Entrances WWE Made Uncool
You hate to see it.
It's no secret that almost anything that comes out of NXT isn't quite the same once it hits WWE's main roster. That has been the case for several years and will likely continue to be the case for as long as Vince McMahon is at the helm of the company.
Above all else, Vince's pettiness is to blame.
Although NXT operates under the same umbrella as Raw and SmackDown, Triple H clearly has a better grasp on what works in 2019 and what doesn't. Vince, on the other hand, has long been criticized for being out of touch, which would explain his insistence on fixing things that aren't broken.
Only Vince will ever know for certain, but one can only assume that it's embarrassing for him to realize that his own son-in-law is doing a far better job of creating stars than he is. In retaliation, the Irish madman sends a message to the talent once they're called up by ruining whatever made them appealing in the first place, including their awesome entrances.
There is something to be said about certain stars who will only ever get over in NXT due to being big fishes in a small pond. On the whole, however, most NXT call-ups have the potential to go far on the main roster but don't due to questionable booking decisions made by the powers that be in WWE.
These eight entrances in particular have suffered the most from WWE toying with them too much and becoming uncool as a result.
8. EC3
The Top One Percent has about a one percent chance of escaping the doldrums he currently finds himself in with the way he's been booked by WWE in 2019.
EC3 originally caught fire in IMPACT due to how cool his entrance came across, with the privileged nephew of former IMPACT president Dixie Carter throwing his initials up on the big screen in front of him on the ramp before slowly turning around so the crowd could admire him.
To Triple H's credit, he copied that entrance for EC3 almost to a tee when he joined NXT at the onset of 2018. Of course, the booming voice announcing "Ladies and gentlemen, EC3" was replaced by EC3 himself saying "I am the Top One Percent," but it was effective, nonetheless.
WWE promoted EC3 to the main roster out of nowhere earlier this year and had no plan in place for him. He thankfully kept his entrance, but the more meaningless matches he lost, the less cool it became. It reached a point where he visibly couldn't have cared less while making his way to the ring and didn't bother to put as much effort into it as he once did.
In typical WWE fashion, they took something special and practically ruined it.