10 NXT Stars That Have Been Squandered

Speaking of throwback characters, it had been eons since wrestling had a pair of face-painted baddies that wreaked merciless havoc. Konnor and Viktor reigned for one year as NXT Tag Team Champions, physically dissecting opponents before upending them with their Fall of Man double team move. Their rise to the main roster was supplemented with boisterous promos that functionally cast them as the Illuminati version of Demolition.

Upon arrival, JBL would scream over his headset that they were a couple of second-rate impostors, and nobody could take the duo seriously. After all of that time building the two up as immovable monsters, working a gimmick that was overdue for exhumation, The Ascension were firmly trapped as lifers in the undercard, a complete waste of development time.