Ranking All 24 WWE Debuts & Returns In 2023

10. Pretty Deadly

CM Punk Trish Stratus
WWE.com

What a debut year 2023 could have been for Pretty Deadly had it not been for an unfortunate injury.

Elton Prince and Kit Wilson were tailor-made for the WWE main roster, as any NXT fan would know, so their callup this spring felt like it couldn’t fail. And in many ways, it didn’t. It was Prince’s shoulder that failed during a July match against the Brawling Brutes, sidelining Pretty Deadly for three months and sidetracking their momentum.

Despite that, Prince and Wilson proved that they belong and that they will be successful on the main roster. One has to look no further than the absolutely hysterical video depicting Elton’s rehabilitation.

The injury might have delayed Pretty Deadly’s ascent, but all the pieces are there, and it’s only a matter of time before they realize their full potential on the main roster.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.