8 Recent WWE Repackagings That Were Doomed From Day One

8. Max Dupri

Whilst already a wrestler with an impressive enough resumé, NXT at least gave LA Knight a chance to strut his stuff to fans who might’ve not been aware of his greatest Impact moments. Instantly he stood out from the brand’s roster which, whilst technically proficient, sometimes lacked true charisma on the microphone.

It wasn’t long before Knight was one of NXT’s most highlighted attractions, but the shift to the young and vibrant NXT 2.0 signified that he was not long for Full Sail University.

Instead of just letting LA Knight continue his holier-than-thou gimmick with all of his cemented catchphrases, WWE defied the entire point of their developmental system yet again and decided to reset the clock. Knight was no more, instead we had Max Dupri.

WWE have had this strange fascination in recent years with “soft debuts”, having characters come out and tell us how we as an audience aren’t ready for them and rarely ever do they land. This was yet another example of a debut that began not with a bang but with a whimper.

Dupri did a decent job with the scripts given but WWE's writing is worlds away from the heights of his improvisational skills. Simply using the former LA Knight as a mouthpiece for catwalk modelling segments is a terrible misuse of a solid in-ring worker with a great personality.