Ranking All 24 WWE Debuts & Returns In 2023
22. Indi Hartwell
In NXT, Indi Hartwell was a central character in the women’s
division and very likely was the masked attacker who took out several
wrestlers, before her April callup forced them to change direction and make
Blair Davenport the culprit.
Hartwell was drafted to Raw as the reigning NXT Women’s Champion, relinquishing the title before being carried off the developmental brand by her storyline husband, Dexter Lumis. She would appear in a few backstage segments, but she didn’t wrestle on Raw until July (though she was recovering from injury).
Since then, Indi has wrestled several times on Main Event and grabbed an NXT Women’s Championship match against Becky Lynch in October. The match wasn’t great, and Hartwell has yet to win a bout on Raw, making her little more than cannon fodder at this point.
By virtue of her pairing with Candice LeRae, Indi should
always have a chance to be a challenger of the week for the WWE Women’s Tag
Team Championship, but this still was a very disappointing callup for someone
who was an NXT champion at the time of her promotion.