10 Worst First Days For WWE NXT Call-Ups
6. Brendan Vink
Perhaps it was because Brandan Vink lived close to WWE's Performance Center that he got his shot pretty much out of nowhere on the March 23rd edition of Monday Night Raw.
The pandemic had strangled all wrestling within in an inch of its life, but wrestling was predictably taking a mile from that inch. If wrestlers were available, they were valuable, and Vink was certainly the former if never once booked to be the latter.
Teaming with fellow NXT alumni Shane Thorne (more on him later), Vink certainly looked the part and was still so unknown as a character (even within the confines of the black-and-gold brand) that he may well have been a perfectly pitched newcomer to spice up one of the darkest times in human history. WrestleMania was going to be a stretch, but there have been all sorts of post-'Show Of Show' pushes more ridiculous than this one.
It wasn't to be. MVP took half an interest then lost it, Vink and Thorne were beaten like a drum for a month and a half, and Vink disappeared into the abyss for 14 months. Still, could have been worse...