Silly Little Guys Who Didn't Belong In WWE ?
3. Eli Cottonwood
Eli Cottonwood's infamous "moustache" promo was the defining moment from a short and otherwise-uneventful WWE television career, but time is rightfully kinder to the wrestlers themselves from the game show era of NXT.
A needlessly cruel and potentially damaging process, early-2010s NXT was less of a developmental than Triple H's 2019 super-indie version of the show, dragging hopefuls through a host of increasingly irrelevant tasks and trials that made a mockery of the promotion, the performers, and anybody that saw it as a viable way to make it big. It was a self-own, too - if making it in WWE really did require such a hare-brained and scattershot skillset, maybe it wasn't that great place to make it along?
Eli Cottonwood was a textbook silly little guy because he was actually a very serious big one, but trapped in a time where the company seemed more intent on doing damage to prospects rather than helping any to maximise their minutes and fulfil any dormant potential.