10 Most Desperate Ways WWE Got You To Watch
7. Here's Some NXT Guys!
In a development loaded with irony, given the discourse surrounding a certain promotion's method of debuting new talent, WWE in 2019 debuted four talents at once on the main roster in 2019.
Vince McMahon's promise of change failed to materialise, and fans didn't connect with the last round of NXT talents that were called up to brush paint on rust. EC3, Lars Sullivan, Lacey Evans, Heavy Machinery and Nikki Cross barely even debuted. EC3 didn't talk, Lacey Evans didn't wrestle, and you can't remember a single thing that the other three acts did, be honest.
Ricochet, Aleister Black, Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa followed mere weeks later, balls-deep into WrestleMania season i.e. when you were theoretically meant to care most about the existing roster as they entered the "season finale" of WWE programming.
The tacit implication was some self-own; WWE with unashamed desperation all but said "You're bored as f*ck of everybody else because we can't book, so here are some new faces, leave us alone".
Ricochet was a man who did flips.
Aleister Black in the words of Michael Cole via Vince McMahon was "moody".
Ciampa and Gargano meanwhile, despite being involved in a blood feud, were brought up as #DIY. And yes, Ciampa looked at Gargano funny, and he did the same thing when invading SmackDown alongside Adam Cole, but looking at an opponent with one eye doesn't count as continuity.
It's no wonder he was mentored by Shawn Michaels.