Every Original WWE NXT Black & Gold Roster Member - Where Are They Now?
19. Johnny Curtis
What was he doing at the time?
Being weird, but not weird enough to turn a somewhat-beloved NXT run into a well-liked main roster one. As “Durty Curty”, to say he was making the best of a bad situation on the never-ending “NXT Redemption” gameshow would be understating it.
Because the show seemingly never had a purpose in sight once the original goal was kiboshed ("Redemption" was supposed to come from winning your way back onto the next season of NXT, but in the ultimate irony, the show never booked anything towards an ending and left them in stasis as abandoned misfits forever), the characters were allowed to set their own rules for the universe. In the case of Johnny Curtis, Derrick Bateman, Maxine and Kaitlyn, they went for sitcom misadventures that occasionally spilled over into the ring. The move to Full Sail brought about the end of it all, but not, oddly, without a payoff - Bateman beat Curtis in a straight singles shootout on the very first Florida episode.
What is he doing now?
Fandango was at long last what got Curtis where he'd long felt like he belonged. Sadly, WWE got on board the second audiences did and killed the fun, but via teaming with Tyler Breeze and letting his freak flag fly, he stuck around in WWE until 2021. He subsequently turned that into a TNA run that remains in place as of 2026.