Ranking WWE's First Ever NXT Class - From Worst To Best
51. Adam Mercer
Despite a great look, Adam Mercer wasn't long for NXT or, as it turned our, wrestling in general.
He ended up working a handful more times than the aforementioned Chad Baxter, but didn't even make it to the Largo Loop even when the NXT branding started going.
A Cagematch listing finds him with just 15 matches to his name total, suggesting that the industry wasn't for him, vice versa, or both. Of those, just four were for the rebadged developmental in 2012, and he was mostly used as fodder for future NXT Champion Big E Langston during his unstoppable run as the brand's biggest star.
Never cracking more than two minutes before falling to the count of five against Langston, Mercer suffered what he described as a "serious head injury" against Erick Rowan in what proved to be his final bout. His last interaction with WWE was a legal one - he was part of a group of wrestlers that lost an injury lawsuit to the company in 2018.