10 Worst First Days For WWE NXT Call-Ups
2. Charlotte Flair
Somehow lost to time over the years, the main roster's rotten abuse of Charlotte Flair's character and the prestigious NXT Women's Champion was a sign of things to come years before Triple H had to start tearing out bits of his beard in place of his once-luxurious hair.
'The Queen' didn't exactly look like wrestling royalty when, after years of careful seasoning and immaculate booking within NXT, she was brought to the December 8th 2014 edition of Monday Night Raw to lose to Natalya in just 2:34.
Flair was a talismanic figure in Full Sail, having won the belt with an epic era-defining battle against her fellow second generation star, but what chance did they have of getting anywhere near that contemporary classic with this? It may well have been categorised as a risk-free way of getting a good luck at the Champion's basics and fundamentals in front of a full crowd, but the television audience were given a stark reminder of just how much distance separated NXT and the supposed big leagues of Raw and SmackDown.
NXT viewers already knew this of course. Just not quite same way around Vince McMahon saw things. And evidently, still does all these years later...