There's absolutely nothing technically wrong with Camacho, and he's actually the one released wrestler who will likely come back to WWE after being gone for some time and make the company sizable dividends. There were numerous issues with Camacho's run in WWE: He's not Latino. He's actually Tongan, and the son of Haku. His tag-team partner was Hunico, and when the original Sin Cara was released (and plans were made to retain the gimmick), the fact that Hunico was once Incognito and had wrestled under a mask in AAA, Hunico was promoted to the main roster as Sin Cara. Arguably, anything Camacho ever did as a "Latino" in NXT was solidly terrible. Unfortunately, with the Usos as "hip, urban men of island descent" on WWE television, he was the odd man out and stuck in a lose/lose situation. I actually can't wait for what should likely come next for Camacho post-WWE. Camacho's brother wrestles as Tama Tonga in New Japan Pro Wrestling, and is a member of the incredibly gifted "NWO"-styled "Bullet Club stable. Tama Tonga hasn't quite broken out as a member of Bullet Club, and though the tag team of Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows are the IWGP Tag Champions, just the idea of "Camacho" getting chance to develop himself as himself is enticing. What "Camacho" could evolve into with significant time working with the deeply-talented roster of New Japan could be a story to watch, as again, there's absolutely nothing at all, whatsoever technically wrong with his wrestling. In granting him the space to grow, wrestle and develop, it's a move that the WWE Universe should watch, mainly because we should all be absolutely certain that WWE's offices are watching with rap attention, too.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
