18 Ups & 15 Downs For WWE In 2023

16. Creed Brothers On The Ascent

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The WWE roster is full of former NXT superstars whose debuts were grossly mishandled, cautionary tales that a company with its own developmental brand can’t adequately prepare and then book their up-and-coming talent.

But for every few failures, there are some true gems, and one of the biggest has to be the Creed Brothers, who arrived on the scene two months ago and immediately caught on with fans due to their incredible athleticism. Julius and Brutus came up short in their first crack at the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship this month, but the brothers have established themselves as serious players in the tag division, with the potential to break out as singles stars in the future.

The Creeds and Dragon Lee brought up the batting average on NXT call-ups for the year, but the brothers deserve special recognition as products of the WWE Performance Center, perhaps an indication that the company could be figuring out how to produce successful superstars.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.