The Hardest NXT Quiz EVER - Test Your Knowledge
Were you a Full Sail devotee? Just how much do you really know about WWE's developmental golden era?
When the NXT letters were lifted from the worst-era-of-all-time WWE gameshow format and attached to a revived developmental post-FCW outfit in Florida in 2012, few predicted the greatness that lay ahead. Following a careful transition period utilising a mix of main roster regulars and developmental relative unknowns, the territory hidden within the market leader blossomed into the best weekly wrestling show in the world.
By 2014 it was a WWE Network centrepiece, and by 2015 it was running - and filling - arenas. NXT was the show. Over time, the great booking got replaced by truly transcendent in-ring action, as Triple H replaced his original slate of aces with the independent scene's top workrate stars that assured credibility on the increasingly massive TakeOver stage. The buildings remained full, but over time the realisation that this opposition to WWE was still in fact WWE signified the beginning of the end for the show when enthusiasm for other wrestling incubated something greater.
Made redundant philosophically by the very existence of All Elite Wrestling in 2019, NXT ceased to be in its Full Sail Form by 2021, when it was aggressively rebranded into the "2.0" version of the show. That ultimately morphed into something of a hybrid brand in the years to come, finding its own success after divisive beginnings. But a decade on from the brand's halcyon days, just how much of what made the show so magic has stuck in your memory?
Test your knowledge and find out here...