10 Candidates For WWE’s Bizarre Post-WrestleMania 35 Push

3. Kona Reeves

Kona Reeves
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Vince McMahon doesn't watch NXT. If we didn't know this before Triple H casually let the revelation slip last year, it was fairly obvious.

By normalising and or ruining those who were once superstars in that context, and ordering the latest class from a catalogue ("I'll take the muscles, the massive freak, the funny freak - and can I get a side order of blonde, please?") Vince has given the game away. But who next?

Ricochet, an actual supernatural entity of a professional wrestler boasting an arsenal you can only gasp at? The Velveteen Dream, a performer of such raw talent and captivating, idiosyncratic charisma that he might, just might, move the elusive needle upon his promotion? Aleister Black, a fighter capable of hurting his opponents in countless ways, each more painful and spectacular-looking than the last?

Amiable destroyer Matt Riddle? Johnny Gargano, who guarantees a pulsating classic every single time he wrestles? Tommaso Ciampa, a man so reviled that Vince can use him to indulge his hatred of the audience without quite boring them to another station?

Kona Reeves never wrestled for PWG, so let's go with him.

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