8 Best Options For Dethroning Samoa Joe As NXT Champion

5. Bobby Roode

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It is still somewhat unclear what Bobby Roode's role in NXT is going to be. He'll obviously get that respected star babyface reception when he arrives in Full Sail, but will he continue as a good guy or settle into a role as a top heel on the program? For now we can only speculate, but this writer believes that the latter is by far the best option NXT could make.

Whichever way he goes, Roode is a hyper-credible professional wrestler who has finally arrived in World Wrestling Entertainment, and is likely to be treated as a big deal. It is extremely easy to imagine Roode on top of NXT, adding that championship to the many he won in TNA throughout his 12 years there.

As with a few other top NXT stars, the only thing that will stop this happening is if he is shipped up to the main roster quick smart once RAW and SmackDown go their separate ways.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.