Ranking 22 WWE Debuts And Returns In 2021
21. Tegan Nox
Your heart has to go out to someone like Tegan Nox, who overcame
multiple injuries and kept persevering in WWE.
Nox finally got the callup to the main roster in July, but rather than coming in as a flashy singles star, she was partnered with Shotzi Blackheart, who herself had been in a tag team in NXT with Ember Moon. So rather than call Shotzi and Moon up together as a tag team, they hacked off half of Nox and Shotz’s names and stuck them together on SmackDown.
The duo actually did OK, defeating the WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Natalya & Tamina three times and yet never received a tag title match. Nox didn’t have another televised match after August, and she would be released in mid-November as part of yet another “cost-cutting” move.
Only 27, the now-rechristened Nixon Newell hopefully has plenty of time in front of her to prove just how wrong WWE was in releasing her.