(重击声)
- （画外音）从中邑真辅
到今天这位英俊的魔鬼
一群惊人的超级明星让WWE（美国职业摔跤）
的发展联盟 成了众人追捧之物
有些被人们遗忘的名字
开始的表现很好 最后结局却不尽人意
这里我们为大家讲述五位有过辉煌开始的明星
大家可能已经把他们给忘了
塞斯·罗林斯一直是
It's right there on his t-shirt.
And that makes sense considering the man was originally
a good guy in trunks who flew around the ring
and headbanged like a punk rocker,
when he debuted NXT in 2012.
He ultimately won a Gold Rush tournament
to become the first NXT champion that summer.
The skills that took Rollins to WrestleMania
were present even them.
But the edge that defines him today,
eh, not so much.
Rusev never quite lost his own ruthlessness
but in NXT his signature aggression
took a very different form.
Back in 2013, the Bulgarian Brute
was literally a brute in a loin cloth,
who teamed with Scott Dawson
and was managed by Sylvester Lefort.
That is before a mysterious woman arrived
and became his new ambassador.
You probably know her as Lana.
Rusev was also known for a particularly grizzly
pre-match routine,
writing his opponents' names on two-by-fours
and breaking the wood in half
as a warning of things to come.
âŤ Three ain't enough, man, I need five âŤ
Speaking of routines,
ever wonder about that "three ain't enough" refrain
from Big E's old theme song?
Well, during his days at
The New Day's resident powerhouse
was known for beating his opponents so badly
that the referee would count past three all the way to five.
It was effective enough to carry him past Rollins,
then ally with The Shield
to an NXT championship reign of his very own in early 2013.
The NXT women's division has been
through perhaps the biggest change of them all,
but few of those performers
went through a more profound evolution than Summer Rae.
Beginning as a mean girl ring announcer in 2012,
Summer eventually found her way between the ropes
during the next year and formed the faction called the BFFs,
or Beautiful Fierce Females.
Her stable mates?
None other than Charlotte and Sasha Banks
who were a long way
from their current iterations of themselves.
And finally, we come to Roman Reigns.
On the one hand, it's not surprising
that he calls himself The Guy in WWE,
because he was doing that during his brief NXT stint
in fall 2012.
He just displayed it in a very different way.
- Who wears the big watch?
What time is it?
Tell me what time it is.
What, what, what, what,
what, you can't read the clocks?
It's Roman Reigns' time.
- [Voiceover] Before audiences could get to know
this mysterious, sharp dressed man,
he traded in his suit jacket for a flak jacket.
Be sure to let us know
if you think of any unlikely NTX beginnings
that WWE universe will be shocked to hear about.
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