Ranking WWE's First Ever NXT Class - From Worst To Best
1. Roman Reigns
Four years as WWE Champion almost forty years after a wrestler was able to do it last. A box office and ratings draw long beyond the era where talents could still take individual credit. The company’s - and thus the industry’s - top guy by every metric until the next one can spend the same amount of time taking his spot. Every fictional and real accolade there is can be awarded to Roman Reigns.
It was a long, hard struggle at times, of course. Ironically, Reigns flirtation with NXT found him as a prototype version of the ‘Tribal Chief’. Moneyed, arrogant and shirtless, the first Reigns was faking it until he made it but he didn’t have to wait all that long for a life-changing spot in a business-changing stable.
The Shield were the bedrock of anything good in some barren years on WWE’s main roster, and the group achieved its stated real-life aim as well as any kayfabe goals.
The muscle of the group did eventually become WWE's biggest name and the closest resemblance to somebody who could be called "the next John Cena" in a splintered and star-starved era.Typically, it took turning him heel six years after a legendarily broken babyface switch that should be studied for years, but they got there in the end.
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