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18. The Ascension

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Though cameos came good for Konnor and Viktor during the heady days of the 'Fashion Files' (more on that later), they were back to square one as soon as the acting work dried up - and is it really worth them swimming against the tide at this point?

The Ascension were an act that could only work the way they actually did, for the better part of a year.

In NXT they were squash match merchants with a cult appeal, heading to a main roster in which neither attribute could serve them particularly well. The act looked derivatively cartoonish, the in-ring work failed to flatter, and the pair were used as the squash fodder themselves whenever legends returned needing somebody to run roughshod over.

Nobody gets moved on anymore, but that does as much to stop performers moving anywhere, let alone up.

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