10 Embarrassing NXT-Era Creative Failures You Totally Forgot About
4. Jason Jordan & Tye Dillinger: Faceless Tag Guys
The creative triumph that was American Alpha's NXT coming together owes much to this union, as it was Jason Jordan's string of failed tag teams that prompted the endearing Chad Gable to irritate him into forming their tandem in the first place. Still, JJ and Tye Dillinger did next to nothing together.
They wore similar tights and worked a basic, coordinated ring entrance that saw them approach the stage from different sides, meet in the middle, then make their way down. That was the extent of a gimmick. Aside from that, Dillinger and Jordan were just a couple of personality-less create-a-wrestlers with the most generic entrance theme in the territory. There wasn't a single reason to care about them, so nobody did.
The duo finally found the direction they were dying for after going their separate ways in 2015. Dillinger became so popular as 'The Perfect 10' that WWE were eventually forced to turn him babyface, while Alpha remain one of the NXT system's biggest tag team success stories. Things haven't worked out so well on the main roster (for varying reasons), but their respective repackagings springboarded both from developmental when they looked like prime candidates for release a few months prior, such was their uselessness as a tandem.