10 Specific Ways WWE Could Debut NXT Stars On The Main Roster
8. EC3
You could make the following argument about most members of the main roster, current or imminent, in an era in which several of those who perform on it come equipped with heightened auras.
We often admonish the creative regime for its reckless treatment of those they are paid to promote, but we live in a strange new paradigm, post-NXT. The in-ring standard of that roster is incredible (when not over-produced). Several become part of it having conditioned their fans to expect the incredible, and having shown their main event credentials either in NXT or on the Independent circuit. Really, it's a roster crammed with main event talents, and though the slowed progress of an Andrade "Cien" Almas is inexplicable in a vacuum, the levelled landscape is something of an inevitability about which little can be done. With so little separating so many in terms of quality, and WWE's recruitment process greedy in the extreme, is it any wonder that they become sadly indistinguishable?
But EC3's entire act is predicated on his superiority.
The 1%, if we are to take him at all seriously, must dominate the 99%. It's so simple as to be mathematical, and this is something that has already weakened his standing in the ordinarily expert NXT environment.
A petulant EC3 on RAW, apoplectic at the parade of enhancement talents thrown his way by an eternally distracted and put-upon Kurt Angle, would reinforce his entitlement and create an inroad into a career-making GM scalp-taking.