Every Wrestling Rookie Of The Year: Where Are They Now?
8. 2015: Chad Gable
Chad Gable was and is amazing, and soared in NXT with one of the feel-good stories of the decade. The rise of American Alpha was perfect; two great lads and even better wrestlers taking a Steiners/Rock N' Roll express blend and making it their own before finally vanquishing the Revival was peak NXT.
Because he is small, the technical wizard is pigeonholed as a comedy character now, but it's at least more amusing than the career death sentence that was 'Shorty G'. He elevates quite naff WWE material by sneaking in references to It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia and generally being an endearing, irreverent dork.
He's too good for it all.