10 Wrestlers WWE Could Poach From NJPW Next

3. Bad Luck Fale

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Despite the tidal wave of shorter, technical talent that has crashed into the shores of NXT over the past couple of years, one need not look further than Braun Strowman, and the ugly rumours that he was at one point penciled in to face the Undertaker at this year’s WrestleMania, to infer that if there was a similar surfeit of big men on the fringes of the mainstream wrestling scene, NXT might look a lot different than it currently does.

Unlike Strowman, the Tongan Fale, paired with the right opponent, can flat out go. His matches with Togi Makabe in 2014, and especially those with Shinsuke Nakamura in 2015, testify to that. That said, the incredible standard of the main event level likely means he is forever destined to merely orbit it. Fale on his day is very good, but to become a permanent main event fixture in New Japan, you have to be a damn sight better than that.

His mammoth size would handily off-set such a handicap in WWE, who have historically been quicker to sign talent from the South Pacific than the Far East. This is an acquisition which makes more sense the more one ponders it.

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