6 NXT Tag Teams That Everybody Forgot About
These teams make The Ascension look successful by comparison.
After five years of existence, NXT has developed into something of an anomaly in the wrestling world. Whilst it is home to an ever-growing roster that includes some of the greatest performers on the planet, and regularly showcases phenomenal matches and terrifically-written storylines that far surpass those seen on Raw and SmackDown, it is still officially a developmental promotion designed to hone the skills of its talents.
Throughout its lifespan, there have been plenty of wrestlers and storylines that have made it to television - only to be removed upon the realisation that they weren't up to scratch. Though the majority of performers that have come through the system have been 'promoted' to the main roster, there are many that have fallen by the wayside. This includes a number of tag teams.
Though the likes of The Wyatt Family, The Ascension, Enzo & Cass and The Revival have all made the step up with varying levels of success, there are plenty of others that never got past the first hurdle of succeeding within NXT - whose members have ultimately succeeded or faltered as individuals elsewhere...
6. The Legionnaires
Far, far too often are WWE guilty of giving non-American wrestlers one-dimensional gimmicks based solely on their nationalities. NXT has long been credited for its character work, but not in the case of The Legionnaires, whose sole attribute was that its members, Sylvester Lefort and Marcus Louis, were both French. It's a minor miracle that they didn't make the pair come out in blue-striped shirts carrying onions and baguettes...
Neither won a match on television, either individually or as a team, but they were given a comedy storyline against Enzo and Cass that saw Lefort take on the former in a hair-versus-hair match at Takeover: Fatal 4 Way in mid-2014. Though Enzo was victorious, Lefort evaded the match's stipulation and Louis was shaved bald instead, somehow turning him into a monster character that made quick work of Lefort before vanishing from screen after the Phantom of the Opera-inspired character was tuned out.
Both Frenchmen would make just a single further appearance (each as a tag team partner to Jason Jordan, incidentally) before being released, reuniting under the guises of Baron Dax and Basile Baraka in TNA as The Tribunal.
They failed to make much of an impact and lasted just nine months, however, and it remains to be seen whether either will get the opportunity to make waves in a major promotion ever again.