10 Best WWE NXT Wrestlers Of 2017
1. Johnny Gargano
Is there a better pure babyface in all of wrestling than Johnny Gargano?
Shawn Michaels' handsome stripper irked '90s WWF crowds. Times have changed in 2017, or Johnny Wrestling is far more likeable; TakeOver crowds took the pretty boy Gargano to their hearts with the obsessive clamour of a hormonal teenager, ignoring the (honourable mention) bad boy Tomasso Ciampa to throw their emotive weight behind his scorned former partner.
In an expertly-crafted story arc, they have been made to wait to consummate this passionate, symbiotic relationship; one of few performers with the currency and talent to pull off the losing streak angle, Gargano's authentic selling ability and perfectly-timed comebacks wrench elusive unpredictability from a by-design predictable booking pattern. Gargano's mastery of the convoluted, rapid 2017 in-ring mode has helped, obviously - but few fuse it with the emotion he engineers with such winning aplomb.
Prior to his singles run, Gargano somehow elevated an already sky-high superb NXT tag ranks with a spate of sublime performances rich in literary depth. The foreshadowing of the #DIY split; the threads of continuity picked up from the seminal Revival rivalry; the crazy, sympathy-generating bumps in his G.O.A.T-level luggage handling with the Authors of Pain: Gargano is writing his own grand story arc in WWE.