10 Reasons Not To Lose Faith In NXT

7. A Few More Stars Of Tomorrow Are Beginning To Emerge

Throughout NXT's short history, it has sort of had a problem with establishing and maintaining a fresh main event scene. Go back and look at the main events over those first few years of TakeOvers, and you'll find a litany of rematches and familiar names. This has continued in recent years, where the main events seem to have revolved around Adam Cole, Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa. Prior to June of this year, you had to go all the way back to August 2017 to find a TakeOver main event that didn't feature any of those three men - ironically, the very night Adam Cole made his NXT debut.

It has taken a while, but NXT seems to have finally understood that it needs to establish a new crop of stars, fresh faces that will continue to move the brand forward as we get closer to 2021. 2020 has seen Bronson Reed, Cameron Grimes, Damian Priest and Timothy Thatcher get some much-deserved attention, while the creative team has finally worked out what it wants to do with KUSHIDA. Kyle O'Reilly's emergence as a singles star is the cherry on the cake.

The main event scene may well continue to revolve around familiar names for the time being, but there is a whole crop of talent bubbling underneath, waiting to take its place at the top of the table. These are very exciting times for the entire roster.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.