4 Ups & 7 Downs From NXT Spring Breakin'

5. Just A Boyhood Dream

Nathan Frazer Grayson Waller
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We’re going to praise Nathan Frazer later, but can we please implement a moratorium on these “I’m just happy to be here living my dream!” gimmicks?

Frazer cut a pre-match promo backstage where he talked about how he was so excited to be in WWE, that the 10-year-old version of himself wouldn’t believe it, and that he’s been waiting his entire life for this moment, to finally make it to WWE.

If you’re keeping track, this is now the third fanboy/fangirl gimmick or character trait we’ve seen in NXT 2.0. Cora Jade has been playing the young, impressionable “skateboarder” for a while now, even marking out for Natalya when she showed up. Then Roxanne Perez debuted a couple of weeks ago as a gamer girl who just dreamed of being a WWE superstar.

WWE loves these gimmicks where wrestlers just talk about how they want to work for the industry leader, but it just makes them sound like geeks. Yes, a good performer can overcome bad material, but the verbal fellating of the company as the real star here just shows you where WWE’s priorities are these days.

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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.