Ranking 22 WWE Debuts And Returns In 2021

22. Hit Row

Almost universally, everyone probably agrees that no debuting act had it worse in WWE than Hit Row.

The quartet got called up from NXT as part of the WWE draft in October and were assigned to SmackDown. Isaiah “Swerve” Scott lost his NXT North American Championship on his way out, and the group began showing up on the blue brand for a couple weeks.

Then B-Fab, the only woman in the group, was released on November 4 with a bunch of other wrestlers. Hit Row soldiered on as a trio until the remaining members were turfed from WWE later that month. The group had one televised match in October and that was it for them.

Worse, because Hit Row had been called up to the main roster, they became subject to a 90-day non-compete clause, instead of NXT’s 30 non-compete deal. Regardless, this group was doing fine in NXT and was fractured and bounced from WWE in record time.