Every Original WWE NXT Black & Gold Roster Member - Where Are They Now?
From WrestleMania to All Elite Wrestling and beyond, here's where all of WWE's first Full Sail NXT class ended up
Where was your NXT fandom like in June 2012?
There's a good chance you don't recall, thanks to the career graveyard the three letters had served to represent in the two years since they had replaced three more - ECW - in the C-Show slot WWE had grown to despise.
The market leader's take on Extreme Championship Wrestling had initially been such a catastrophe that any hope of capturing the buzz built by two critically acclaimed One Night Stand shows was completely lost before the end of its first year. After allowing the brand to die on the vine (and with an iceberg of likely cancellation up ahead), Vince McMahon announced that ECW was to become NXT, a Florida Championship Wrestling/Tough Enough hybrid, with an injection of main roster wrestlers to try and keep the remaining ratings from going off a cliff before the SyFy slot was inevitably taken away.
The format, infamously, was a complete disaster. Challenges were absurd, wrestlers got buried by everybody on the show just for existing on it, the "Pros" from Raw and SmackDown seemed to resent their roles in it as much as the "Rookies" they were tasked with coaching, and when even The Nexus - formed out of disgruntlement form poor treatment - bombed against John Cena, the only potential saving grace of the show dissolved.
The Full Sail University restart was a necessity, but just who was there for it? And what are they all up to now?
42. Tamina Snuka
What was she doing at the time?
Tamina Snuka was successful in a singles contest against Kaitlyn on the fifth edition of NXT to emanate from Full Sail University. A win's a win, but this one was routinely traded between both women on this and every other WWE show. The two were in countless singles and tags on the house show loop via dropping down to developmental, and the reps didn't exactly help them move up the card. It was another year before she found what truly fit - as a heater for AJ Lee during her (very fondly remembered) stranglehold of the Divas title, Snuka was a surprisingly effective silence-and-violence monster.
What is she doing now?
Still wrestling with WWE, though as of 2026, not literally. She remains signed with the company but hasn't wrestled since February 2023, hasn't appeared on a Premium Live Event since the Royal Rumble days before that, and there's been no notable on or off-screen explanation as to why. WWE removed her from the active roster in 2024, but in featuring in the likes of 2K games, action figure lines and/or any company marketing, she remains a presence a full decade and a half after she first debuted.