Tony D’Angelo reveals WWE NXT’s original scrapped plan for Bron Breakker
Tony D’Angelo recently opened up and shared what WWE NXT had originally planned for him and Bron Breakker together.
Recently speaking on the No-Contest Wrestling podcast, D’Angelo revealed that during their early days in NXT, WWE had originally planned to have D’Angelo and Breakker together in a tag team.
“When we first got in, me and Bron were in a tag together. So we were doing that for a minute. Not on TV, but they were priming us, ‘This is what you’re gonna do,’ kinda like the new age Steiner Brothers type of deal. I was (wearing a singlet), but I was wearing a singlet before that anyway, so that wasn’t foreign.
“I just remember one day, Road Dogg came up and he was like, ‘Hey man, we’re not doing this,’ and this is right when 2.0 first kicked off, they kinda just, ‘Clean slate, everybody, we kinda have a lane for you,’ and I had to figure out quick what I was gonna do,” D’Angelo continued.
“So in one of the in-house matches, I just turned it on, and they were like, ‘Whoa, where did that come from?’ And then they were like, ‘Yep, we’re running with this, this is it.‘”
In 2021, NXT rebranded itself from its original Black and Gold to NXT 2.0. Shortly after, fans experienced the surge and rise of several new and upcoming wrestlers, one of whom was Bron Breakker.
Following the original scrapped plans with D’Angelo, Breakker was presented as a singles star and soon pushed to the top as one of the most popular singles stars on the roster. He later went on to become a 2-time NXT Champion.
While Breakker and D’Angelo never tagged together, they both won the NXT Tag Team Championship with different partners: Breakker with Baron Corbin, and D’Angelo with Channing ‘Stacks’ Lorenzo.
Interestingly, Breakker and Corbin defeated D’Angelo and Lorenzo to win the NXT Tag titles in February 2024.
Breakker is currently a part of Paul Heyman’s Vision stable and is recovering from a hernia injury. Although out of action, he is rumored to return by WrestleMania 42.
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