10 Times WWE IGNORED The Fans (... And Got It Right!)

4. Holding Off On Bron Breakker's Main Roster Move

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Ahead of this year's WWE Draft, many fans presumed Bron Breakker was nailed-on to make the jump from NXT to the main roster. After all, Bron had dropped the NXT Title to Carmelo Hayes, and it looked for all the world as if there was nothing more for the second generation star to do down in WWE's developmental arm.

While there were several NXT talents who did make the jump to Raw or SmackDown as part of the Draft, Breakker was surprisingly not one of them - and that has proven to be the correct call.

Right now, Bron Breakker is tearing it up in NXT with a new vicious, violent persona. Sure, Steiner Jr. has always shown the same badass, roughhouse aggression as his father and uncle since arriving in what was then NXT 2.0, but that has been taken to an entirely new level since Bron turned heel by attacking Hayes shortly after that title loss.

If Breakker had moved to Raw or SmackDown in his prior NXT guise, he'd have been perfectly fine and would still be viewed as a can't-miss prospect. But by allowing the 25-year-old to hone his heel craft in NXT for a little while longer, that should position Bron to make an even bigger impact when he inevitably lands on the main roster.

Should WWE get it right, this villainous, brutal Bron Breakker could legitimately make the same sort of impression that Brock Lesnar made when the Beast debuted on the main roster back in 2002.

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