10 Former WWE NXT Wrestlers You Totally Don't Remember
7. Brandon Traven
A product of WWE Hall of Famer Harley Race’s wrestling academy, Brandon Traven’s connections helped him earn a spot in the company’s developmental system in 2012, having filled in as an enhancement talent in the past. Making only a handful of NXT TV appearances, Traven went winless through his WWE run, and was let go in May 2013.
Traven’s WWE run produced little of note between the ropes, but he was at the heart of the Bill DeMott scandal in 2015. DeMott, the WWE Performance Center’s former head coach, resigned from his role amidst allegations of abuse from a number of former NXT wrestlers, with Collins providing one of the more damning testimonies:-
“I have also grown very tired of how Coach DeMott has constantly bullied us. Whether by physically hitting us, or by calling us gay. He has on numerous occasions alluded to me being gay. His favorite phrase is "half a sissy" not to mention him calling me and others "f-ggots" Coach DeMott has also on several occasions grabbed the bottom rope while we are watching practice and pull it back to hit everyone in the face while they are paying attention to instruction. I personally don't understand his destructive and bullying nature.”
Traven confirmed that he wrote the letter in the aftermath, but not that he leaked it to the public.