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7. Welcoming Back 'The Chosen One'
Drew McIntyre's return to NXT (and, by proxy WWE) over WrestleMania weekend in 2017 was seen as a personal and professional success story for the 'Scottish Psychopath' having failed to live up to the billing Vince McMahon gave him during his original run.
Labelled the 'Chosen One' in a debut that damned him to an entire tenure in which he couldn't meet expectations, McIntyre the man and character had little-to-no-agency in his position to try and earn the reputation that had been thrust upon him.
A moribund midcarder-for-life career seemed to beckon until he made the most of a 2014 release with an independent reinvention that brought him all the way back via the black-and-gold brand.
His debut against Oney Lorcan could well have just been a formative squash, but the entire match was instead a bar fight transplanted onto the WWE Network with the clear intent of reimagining the FCW milquetoast man as a grizzled hybrid wrestler. From a presentation standpoint, it was perfect, but it's placement on the Network-only NXT rendered it something of an all-time hidden gem.