10 Forgotten WWE NXT Stars
10 WWE NXT stars you completely forgot about
4. Sakamoto
Kazma Sakamoto ventured overseas in the summer of 2011 for a customary ‘learning excursion’ away from his Japanese homeland. Having worked for TAKA Michinoku’s K-DOJO promotion for the best part of a decade, Kazma sought new experiences and challenges and wound up getting signed to a WWE developmental deal.
His FCW stay was characterised by doing jobs for just about everyone, before he was called up to the main roster as the manager-come-whipping boy of Lord Tensai. When the Tensai character failed to get over to the desired level, Sakamoto was sent back to Florida, resurfacing as the opponent for a debuting Adrian Neville in January of 2013.
It was clear just what Sakamoto’s spot on the third brand would be and his subsequent losses to Mason Ryan and Konnor O’Brian were par for the course. When he was one of the first men to be quickly eliminated in a battle royal, he must have seen the writing on the wall. Thankfully, since his release, Sakamoto has been able to show a lot more of what he is genuinely capable of while wrestling in his native Japan.
