Ranking WWE's First Ever NXT Class - From Worst To Best

38. Lincoln Broderick

NXT Roster 2012
WWE

Lincoln Broderick had an awesome look and not-insubstantial body of work, but wrestled just once for FCW and twice for NXT before returning to Ohio Valley Wrestling just 13 months after leaving it.

Initially a partner of Big E Langston before the Florida developmental moved its operations from Tampa to Orlando, he made it onto NXT television for a loss to Performance Center classmate J Bronson, but was done with the WWE system after a house show six-man with several other names yet to feature on this very list. 

Based on the scale of his output for OVW (100 matches between September 2011 and April 2016) either side of the minuscule stint with the market leader, he presumably much preferred the lay of the land in Louisville anyway.

 
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