Silly Little Guys Who Didn't Belong In WWE ?

10. Johnny Saint

Perhaps it's cruel to single out the elder statesmen of the already-forgotten NXT UK brand rather than highlighting the silliest of the silly little guys on that roster, but Johnny Saint was perhaps most representative of how silly and little the whole project was.

Any wrestlers and/or gimmicks that didn't feel particularly TV-ready - and there were plenty of them - were like that because they weren't TV-ready.

The entire idea was hurried into existence when World Of Sport dared to get a few hours on ITV in the UK, and the brand itself only existed to make good on a doomed promise about further elevating a then-booming scene. It was all a facade, broadly serving the purpose of creaming a little bit off the top of a diluted market before the pandemic and SpeakingOut were the two biggest of several final nails.

WWE trying to make a WWE-adjacent show out of all these decidedly non-WWE properties was silly. Making Johnny Saint the "tonight in this very ring" authority figure (because god forbid a show not have one of those) was silliest of all.