10 Most Creative Wrestlers On The Planet Right Now

5. Malcolm Bivens

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Malcolm Bivens deserves a cut of at least 30% in the NXT pie.

AEW Dynamite has exposed the "It's better than the main roster - just take a look at our sweet, dry logic!" formula as stale, and the panicked, reactive booking has left most every character who was rushed into a ratings grab of a title match without much of an arc. The midcard badly needs a direction, and the tone desperately needs lightening. A Bivens stable is the best means of accomplishing that. Hell, give him the book: his missing CD player mystery storyline had far more of an intriguing episodic quality than anything NXT has pumped out since Octover 2.

Bivens is the patter-shaped, fun-sized answer to NXT's intense, humourless presentation - an ostensible narcissist who gets his comeuppance as a heel largely through hilarious, inadvertent self-deprecation. His Twitter game is phenomenal, too.

The man is essentially Will Hunting, daubing the formula to NXT's Wednesday Night Wars ratings problem on a chalkboard in the form of fire patter, but nobody believes him capable because, as a mere manager, he is the victim of snooty preconceptions.

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