5 WWE Superstar Relations That Crashed And Burned In NXT

4. Jake Carter

Son Of - Vader It's quite surprising that Vader isn't in the WWE Hall of Fame yet, given the masked wrestler's notable stints in Japan and WCW that led to him joining Vince McMahon's company in 1996. Though never booked as strongly as he was by his previous employers, he did feud with Shawn Michaels and the Undertaker before freefalling down the card, leaving the company in 1998 and subsequently competing on the independent circuit to this day, despite now being 60 years of age. His son Jesse trained under him following the early end to his college football career. Subsequently joining FCW, he adopted the name of Jake Carter and formed an alliance with Corey Graves to capture tag team gold. This partnership continued onto NXT, and the pairing picked up a few wins before it was quietly dissolved, with Graves going on to establish himself as one of the first top-tier performers in the revamped promotion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBGCTSFYQ1k Carter transitioned into a new character, deeming himself 'your girlfriend's favourite', but this failed to catch on and he was ultimately winless in his NXT singles career, which ended with his release in mid-2013. This was supposedly due to the creative team disliking the ideas that he pitched to them for his persona's direction, as well as a match with Tensai that was poorly received. Having not wrestled since, it would appear that he is done with wrestling, though he does still maintain a connection with the WWE through his relationship with interviewer Jojo, whilst his name was reused for The Miz's character in The Marine series of direct-to-DVD films.