10 Worst First Days For WWE NXT Call-Ups
3. Angel Garza
Angel Garza was quite the headline-grabber during the very early days of the Wednesday Night Wars. Or, at very least, he got people talking about his matches when the black-and-gold brand couldn't get near the headlines, which increasingly was the norm.
But 2019 was a good year for the handsome former NXT Cruiserweight Champion. He'd lit up the league on Wednesdays alongside the likes of Lio Rush, had gotten a comedy tearaway pants spot over as a weekly highlight and even got the big Yes from his fiancee with an in-ring proposal that went down a storm with the Full Sail regulars.
None of that mattered a jot when the main roster came calling.
Arriving on the February 3rd 2020 edition of the show with no prior notice or build, Garza decked his cousin Humberto Carrillio, then went 13 competitive minutes with Rey Mysterio only to lose by disqualification. His character was rolled back entirely to the point where he was propositioning anybody with a pulse and the trousers may as well have stayed on for all WWE valued that p*ss easy pop.
It prepped him for a remarkably awful year. Garza quickly linked up with Zelina Vega, Andrade and Austin Theory to form a never-named group that would have easily been the worst in WWE history had it not been for Retribution existing in the same f*cking timeline.