Ranking WWE's First Ever NXT Class - From Worst To Best
30. Conor O'Brian
It'd be fair to say that The Ascension were done fairly dirty by the main roster after NXT made it abundantly clear exactly how to use them.
A glorious run as NXT Tag Team Champions extenuated the positives while hiding the negatives as Triple H booked a Road Warriors-adjacent act in an era full of fans predisposed to find the reduced violence just as appealing. Longer matches never really pulled up trees but it wasn't like the squashes flattered to deceive either - the act were over and as the bigger of the two, Konnor was one of NXT's more effective monsters of the week.
It all appeared so promising, but WWE's main roster and some of the dinosaurs inhabiting it had other plans. The only squashes that came their way were at their expense, particularly as wider audiences were given no reason to take them seriously before the humiliations began.
Konnor was released in late-2019, along with...