25 Most Important Wrestlers In NXT History
2. Sasha Banks
NXT's greatest success story has been the way its transformed the perception of women in WWE. With that in mind, few WWE wrestlers have been as influential in the last decade as The Boss.
One of The Four Horsewomen, Banks impressed with her early matches against the likes of Paige, Alicia Fox, and Summer Rae.
She developed her "Boss" character in late 2013; a mean, vicious persona willing to do anything to get to the top of the NXT Women's Division and stay there. Banks would accomplish this task at TakeOver: Rival, when she defeated all of the other Horsewomen in a Fatal 4-Way match.
Banks held the gold for 192 days, which included a well-received match with Becky Lynch at TakeOver: Unstoppable. Banks would lose the title at the first Brooklyn show in what many critics called the best women's match WWE had ever put on.
Even after losing the championship, Banks continued to make history. She was one half of the main event at TakeOver: Respect, the first time two women would close a WWE show. She would replicate this feat later, when she became one half of the first all-female main roster WWE main event.
Banks led from the front during the early days of the Women's Revolution in WWE. Without her time in NXT, women's wrestling in WWE would be very different to what it is today.