All 21 NXT-To-WWE Call-Ups - Ranked From Worst to Best

I love Xavier Woods in the New Day, but his NXT character was kind of terrible. If I had to condense it into a sentence, I guess I’d go with something like, “Ernest ‘The Cat’ Miller but also Dragon Ball Z".

I know that on paper that sounds like the song of my heart, but it didn't quite work as a pro wrestler. In practice it was a guy dancing badly and trying way too hard to work “it's over 9000!” into a wrestling promo. 

It's not like he was straight-up cosplaying Raditz a la WrestleMania 32, you know? Still, Woods impressed enough people in NXT to score a main-roster call-up, but it wasn't exactly high-profile.

It's never a good sign when creative’s big plan for you is to be R-Truth’s sidekick. To be fair, Woods and Truth had a history, having teamed together to book around the fact that TNA had given their tag team titles to a football player who could not legally wrestle.

In WWE, their mission statement was “antagonize Brodus Clay and steal his theme music”. Woods didn't even get the standard post-debut winning streak, losing to Clay barely a week after his first Raw appearance. 

Gotta get that 50/50 booking started early, you know?