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8. Perfect Ten...Again

Tye Dillinger's entire main event run is starting to look as though it was manufactured strictly as a shortsighted favour to the long-suffering developmental star.

Experiencing a soft-launch at January's Royal Rumble in a rare example of WWE caving to the enthusiasm of the live crowd, his placement at #10 in the battle royal looked assured following an outstanding NXT TakeOver: Toronto clash with Bobby Roode that briefly propelled his catchphrase into the wrestling zeitgeist.

There was similar inevitability about his post-WrestleMania call-up too. Though he'd never managed to have an angle more significant than the aforementioned Roode feud, his tenures with the company, in-ring proficiency and overwhelming backstage popularity backstage made him a safe bet for introducing to the fold on Tuesday Nights.

Though he was successful in debut squashes (over, of all people, Aiden English), he first lost his finisher, and then lost his TV time. It was as if the company had forgotten that he'd had his promotion, and after weeks of total absence, he was fed to Jinder Mahal in a soul-crushingly formulaic squash.

It's those types of demeaning defeats that have defined English's own run following the exit of his Vaudevillains partner Simon Gotch. The result is sure to be the same here, though it's hard to see how yet another meaningless victory can propel the 'Perfect 10' past his status as a solid 7.