10 Times WWE Completely Buried Ring Of Honor World Champions
6. LowCool
Ribs.
Ribs everywhere.
NXT, at times, was just one giant rib. LayCool were literally just ribs and haircuts, toned in the extreme as they had to be in order to be believable ventriloquist dummies for writers that were ordered to call Mickie James fat.
But the biggest rib of them all was placing the supremely serious video game character come-to-life Kaval alongside the co-Women's champions for the second series of the dismal production.
The token Daniel Bryan equivalent for Season Two, the first ever Ring Of Honor Champion had built a reputation around his incredibly serious persona, honed in Japan and TNA as well as during multiple trips through ROH.
Part test and part p*ss-about, WWE saw fit to put the 'Mean Girls' knockoffs with the 'World Warrior' in an ode to Bryan's own mismatched relationship with The Miz, vaguely justifying it internally as a learning experience for the well-travelled star.
Yet again, their tacit reduction failed, with Kaval actually managing to 'win' the series and earn a title shot of his choosing to celebrate his main roster arrival. Unable to clip his wings on NXT, WWE instead got to him on the main roster, having him lose an Intercontinental Title match against Dolph Ziggler and fall further down the ladder until he negotiated his own release just to expedite his escape.