10 WWE Wrestlers Poised To Break Out In 2024
1. Von Wagner
Shawn Michaels' greatest achievement as NXT booker has been turning Von Wagner into a character an inordinate number of people genuinely care about.
Von Wagner is a large man but Von Wagner is not a particularly charismatic man - so much so that that's the way he'd say that sentence. But the bulk of 2023 was spent carefully making the most of the undeniably unique vibe, and gradually it's taken.
Through his relationship with Robert Stone and exploration of a brain surgery backstory (!), Wagner's become the most sympathetic monster this side of a mourning Big Show, and in the time we've learned about his past we've also seen a glimpse into his future; the big man with a bigger heart that likes a table as much as he does a therapist's personal time.
If this all sounds like too much of a reach, you've just not seen enough NXT yet. Nobody saw him keeping his job as recently as 2022, let alone commanding a big push. The future, somehow, looks incredibly bright.