Ranking All 24 WWE Debuts & Returns In 2023

23. Alba Fyre & Isla Dawn

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If it wasn’t for the fact that Odyssey Jones hasn’t had any TV exposure since being called up, Alba Fyre & Isla Dawn would have been a likely candidate for the bottom spot on this list.

The duo was drafted to SmackDown as the reigning NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions, defended the titles once, and then lost them to the then-WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions, Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler, unifying the titles and nixing the NXT straps.

And that was the last televised match Fyre and Dawn have had… and that was in June.

The creepy duo showed up on NXT Halloween Havoc, and they’ve created a running gag that they are responsible for the women’s tag titles being “cursed,” but other than that, they’ve been non-factors on SmackDown. A handful of dark matches throughout the fall helped keep them out of the basement slot.

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