8 WWE Busts Who Revived Their Careers
2. Nathan Frazer
It's not as if 'runs really fast' was the most credible of upgrades for Nathan Frazer when he was given speed as a core attribute in 2023, but it ultimately became the thing that led him to the similarly-freewheeling Axiom and a team that dominated doubles wrestling for over a year.
Before he vowed constantly to "never slow down", Frazer was introduced as a football prodigy who just happened to love WWE more, but somebody that could somehow parlay his skills on the wing into a successful career. It was extremely half-baked and forced, not least because Frazer - as Ben Carter - had already built up a reputation as one of the most exciting prospects in wrestling and had the endorsement of trainer Seth Rollins to lean on should he even require it.
"Just like on the soccer pitch, one chance is all I'll need" was how one of his early vignettes concluded, as if that gave him any kind of launching pad in the increasingly zany NXT universe he walked into at the time. A case of cream rising to the top, what he could offer only revealed itself when he got away from being the happy-to-be-there wide-eyed dreamer, and turned his cheesy persona into something there to be derided.
Fraxiom's magic lay in how a split always seemed possible and even probable thanks to Frazer's uncanny valley joviality. Never had somebody calling somebody else "amigo" seemed less friendly. Paused for their main roster call-up, the return of the tension they fostered in NXT may proffer yet more magic on Raw or SmackDown.