Shawn Spears Returns to WWE NXT | Busted Open

[@joshhefner8179]

Spears came back to WWE just over 5 years to the day he was released.

[@leematherne3912]

Kevin Nash and Scott Hall

[@silgarf]

I was yelling at the tv the same thing lol and star dust left as stardust came back as Cody lol

[@traywyatt]

Yeah but that wasn’t wwf/e. They return to WCW.

[@CarbiesChronicles]

@@silgarf before he was stardust, he was cody rhodes

[@Savvage.875]

@@silgarfyou can’t be serious either you’re the best sarcastic person ever or you’re delusional Cody has been Cody Rhodes his entire career except for his last few years in his first wwe run that don’t count

[@Savvage.875]

They mentioned them dawg 😭

[@braddelisle6902]

Shawn spears is from my hometown, love seeing him moving up. Killer talent

[@brandonwilliams5526]

I hope his does so much better this time around.

[@shivajones108]

Him continuing to go by Shawn Spears makes me happy he is in WWE. Hopefully they'll follow through and give him opportunities to show how good he is. The Chairman 😤

[@WickedCool23]

Ron Killings would be another. He left as K-Kwik and returned as R-Truth

[@drevandamva]

K kwik & R truth are both made in wwe, he’d have to be Ron killings in wwe to count

[@silgarf]

Not the same he wasent now as r truth anywhere else wwe gave him the name he was known as ron the truth killings in tna not the same thing

[@LosBags]

to start... I LOVED spears coming back. He felt like he was where he was supposed to be. The interview afterwards felt real and it truly feels like this is what the 'chairman' shouldve always been. I think hes perfect for NXT and will help the younger guys get over. Happy for the guy, always enjoyed his work.

[@chamae01]

His original WWE Stan gimmick needs to "finish the story"

[@Cboz1978]

I mean HBK felt bad for kicking him so he gave him a job in NXT.

[@11sdownie]

EC3 is one who came in with his name from somewhere else. He was Derrick Bateman before in WWE

[@GenGamesUniverse]

I think MJF was a different name before he was released from WWE as well.

[@GoatFive04]

@@GenGamesUniversewhat? When was mjf with wwe aside from that security thing from nxt

[@terrencepoinsett4169]

​@@GenGamesUniverseThinking isn't your strong side😅

[@djchino774]

If Tony went by Tommy's logic, the young bucks and orange Cassidy would have been off TV a long time ago cause people turn off their TV when they come on. Tony doesn't know what he's doing that's all there is to that.

[@redactedname729]

I don't think people turn off they're TV for Cassidy

[@philo2189]

People don't turn off their tv when the young bucks come on. Whether it's negative or positive they're one of the most talked about tag teams in the last decade. Even people like you just brought them up for no reason. Rent free.

[@BRONCOJUGGALOTALKSMOVIES]

​@@philo2189your right I don't turn off my TV. I change the channel.

[@GenoFalcone-hf6ih]

​@philo2189 you could not be more wrong. They have go away heat. They have a small group of people who meat ride them and most others just want them off their TV. Their a garbage promo. Their matches all look phony with no selling, no psychology and 30 false finishes a match. Total garbage

[@philo2189]

@@GenoFalcone-hf6ih no they don't they only have go away heat with a very very small minority of people who don't even really watch aew like you guys who are apart of the cult of Cornette

[@velissarothefearless5506]

Didn't Raven technically leave WWE under a different name, turn into Raven in ECW then returned to WWE as Raven in 2001

[@frothyn]

Yes…. He was Johnny Polo, and returned as Raven.

[@jmiyagi12345]

I think the difference is that Tye Dillinger was relatively over, then came back as Shawn Spears. If Cardona ever comes back, it would be the same situation I think.

[@IamDoomCrow]

Spears is and always will be a "Good Hand" nothing more, nothing less

[@xXGeko1Xx]

I think Shawn was brought back for a reason. Bo Dallas has been posting promos as a character called Deadmare and been mentioned the fact that Shawn came back and that he was gonna be a part of this faction

[@yusufgazi7]

Should’ve been number 10 at the Royal Rumble.

[@austinbritt9599]

No he shouldn’t. That gimmick is a waste.

[@NORWOODShadow]

​@@austinbritt9599That gimmick was over big with the NXT crowd at the time e

[@SamSamSamJ]

​@@austinbritt9599Waste of time. Was never into it, but folks liked it.

[@American_Nightmare]

No, hes not even the 10 guy anymore. Hes the chairman now

[@yusufgazi7]

@@American_Nightmare Cody literally tweeted "10" after he returned

[@RyanD4life]

Johnny polo/ raven

[@silgarf]

He was barelly in wwe as johnny polo there talking about established wwe stars

[@alexanderletzing6705]

​@@silgarf how in the hell is Tye Dillinger an established star? He's not. The Raven example is perfect. Except Raven became someone

[@ArsyaUtomo]

In nxt, 10 chant is Over​@@alexanderletzing6705

[@CountryWheels711]

He was at a small promotion called DPW

[@GenGamesUniverse]

From what I remember reading, was that Shawn was punished for doing what he did with the chair where he literally caught Cody right on the forehead and caused Cody to juice legit instead of juicing via a blade.

[@gabriellane9366]

There are so many that Tony Khan is underselling, it is borderline insane: - Jay White (yeah, he had a feud with MJF, and he is Trios Champ) who we all know is a heel-heat machine and has enormous potential, but is somewhere in the midcard - Andrade El Idolo - Brian Pillman Jr. - Edge etc. I really hope that Okada and Tama make the right choice and join WWE, the AEW ship is sinking sadly

[@Hypno_BPM]

Tommy is 100% right , some talents only have 3-5 years that’s it. Fans can’t expect wrestlers to be around for 10 years all the time, it’s a rare thing imo.

[@thomassavage8581]

i agree with everyone on this video and it makes perfect sense!!! thank you bubba and Tommy for the knowledge of Professional wrestling ! i been wrestling for close to 30 yrs but non-professional but did have the chance to be in 4 different wrestling schools

[@jumartinez727]

I'm excited for Shawn Spears back at WWE ! With Cody Rhodes there, he will give Shawn that push he needs & deserves.💣💥💯🙌🔥

[@AlSween]

Possibly the Road Warriors even though WWE would only say it when Legion of Doom right after.

[@glydoughnut9432]

After Drew McIntyre was fired he was Drew Galloway in the Indies. When he came back he was Drew McIntyre again

[@taz5573]

spears wrestling name in the indys was the perfect 10 where he just came from wrestling matt cardona and many others in mlw,ovw wsw and many more and right into nxt. Matches are on utube

[@NORWOODShadow]

He wasn't part of the All friends group

[@philo2189]

Everybody in wrestling are friends. This criticism that aew is all friends wrestling and only hire friends is weird. They signed Sasha Banks. The elite and her have no previous relationship

[@NORWOODShadow]

@@philo2189 You lost me with everybody in wrestling are friends

[@philo2189]

@@NORWOODShadow because they are? Are you stupid? Lmao

[@philo2189]

@@NORWOODShadow because they are? You think most people in this business aren't friends? You really think WWE don't hire people that they're friends with? Lmao who are you kidding? Hunters entire circle is his friends that he's known for years through wrestling.

[@roachasaurus2020]

It's not a true one-to-one comparison, but R-Truth left WWE as K-Kwik, reinvented himself as Ron "The Truth" Killings and went back with a variation of that name.

[@AlSween]

Hmm... I remember that even Sid Justice was the name in WWE and Sid Vicious in WCW. As a kid, I would always shrug at it but still halfway believed. Then the internet happened lol...

[@crimsonchaos4257]

Tag team divisions has been underutilized for years

[@theraVen27]

Hey someone slap Tommy. Hogan and Goldberg don’t go on the wcw mt Rushmore? Two of the biggest stars ever. Tommy’s nice but his brain damage has eclipsed his rational thought

[@RyanD4life]

Kronik (crush and Adam bomb)

[@jamesreding6336]

That's the first names I thought of Nash and Hall

[@welcometoweezyville]

7:14 Oh MR DREAMER... they aren't his vignette that would be " the man with three faces "

[@walterharris4681]

His old WWE name hadn't been used and had never needed renewal for trademarking since he was already gone from WWE. I guess that they didn't want to pay all of that money to reregister it again since Shawn's current run is probably going to be short-term this time. After that, I've read that he's going to transition to being a full-time trainer at the performance center.

[@Trendnet18]

Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, EC2.

[@wvu9787]

The Dudley’s and Mickie was used to get over more interesting and younger talent, no one wanted to see Mickie James as champion at the time when you had newer and more interesting talent at the time like Alexia Bliss, Sasha Banks, Bailey, Becky Lynch, etc.., now for someone that fans wanted to see such as Ember Moon at the time I can understand what they are saying but it’s just they had way more talent that fans wanted to see on top at the time.

[@BenjaminDarlingMusic]

Spears needs to stack some accolades. I’d like to see him win the NXT championship. The Chairman of NXT. Have a solid 4-6 month run as champ. I’d also like to see him eventually get a legit run on the main roster. A solid US or Intercontinental championship run.

[@marvinleong5902]

Sorry to bust your bubble but I don't think Shawn would be back to the main roster, he is obviously sign in as player coach in NXT to teach the younger guy. With Dijak and Corbin moving back up after the draft, he is most likely staying in NXT, especially when he doesn't need to travel since his second kid is coming

[@shagdad76]

Shawn Spears got some Tully Blanchard help; now he's better second go round in WWE.

[@themarinect]

Seems like everyone came back to wwe from aew has become a better version of themselves

[@philo2189]

What? Bro Shawn Spears came into NXT with the same exact gimmick as he had in aew lmao what are you talking about?

[@Shisui5752]

​@@philo2189 he's clearly talking about presentation.

[@Juniorkeavwm00]

That’s the one thing I like about Tony Khan if they’re not happy in your company, let them go let them go back to WWE simple don’t force him to stay

[@jasonriley1235]

Raven came back to wwe with his new gimic

[@jf2000x]

Better than Yawn Moxley

[@marvinleong5902]

Shawn Spear return is to take up the player/coach role in NXT and help train the PC talent once Dijak and Corbin goes back to main roster. He know what he is in when he re-sign and I'm sure he doesn't care whether he have another main roster run or not. He has another kid coming and not travelling help him so he's back

[@Damonicus1]

Andrade debuted in WWE as Andrade Almos, went to AEW, and returned to WWE as Andrade El Idolo

[@timhellum5587]

I think the 10 gimmick was outdated. But with the dreadmare said something about him. Maybe a better gimmick

[@tj2nasty4ya83]

Another example is earthquake he came back as golga under a mask with the oddities in the attitude Era.

[@11sdownie]

His name was Giant Bernard in Japan

[@tj2nasty4ya83]

@@11sdownie oh was it I'll just edit that out lol

[@jj204]

No. That was Albert.

[@tj2nasty4ya83]

@@jj204 it was earthquake..

[@Iamone1111]

here's my hot take on what happened to Shawn Spears in AEW, early on he was hot and then TK started hiring more and more talent that came from WWE, Undisputed Era, Bryan Danielson, Claudio, Jon Moxley is still featured, Miro, Malakai, Matthews, the list goes on and on so now no more time to feature him, it feels like TK used him until he got bigger stars and then just left him by the wasteside

[@marvinleong5902]

Spears became a jobber back when guys like Bryan, Cole, Punk etc was signed

[@karlodonnell8935]

I am happy Paul heyman is going into the wwe hall of fame and he is the father of ecw

[@csjbackups]

Good stuff!

[@TheProdigyJamesCurrey247]

Cody, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash.

[@Shisui5752]

7:30 I believe the writing in the sand is for Sol Ruca, the blonde girl with a surfer gimmick.

[@taecapone8299]

No reason the good brothers shouldn’t be on smackdown heavily, they need to separate those damn tag belts , I don’t see why that’s being stalled , Finn and Damian could just give the smackdown belts to jd and dom and they can defend them on smackdown and lose them down the line to a team on smackdown..I always hated unified titles they’re taking way too long to separate them and they have all these teams

[@devileezy]

the only aussie that didn't go to Australia was Bronson, no? and he didn't go for good personal reasons

[@MrTommygunz0482]

You could argue R-Truth but it's not the same

[@mfinite689]

Not sure about the timing, but didn't Shawn's mom pass away during his AEW run? And then Cassie had the baby. Probably just needed time off TV? I don't know.

[@WWE2KUNIVERSEELITE]

With AEW fking him up look to him as the next star for WWE.

[@philo2189]

Lmao you think he's gunna be a star in WWE?

[@xxminty619xx6]

​@@philo2189he be buried again on the main roster lol 😂

[@kodyepidemic]

EC3 was originally Derek Bateman

[@xyv.joe1]

Andrade had his AEW name in WWE too

[@yosefvargasx]

He was just Andrade before

[@joenelsaracho4836]

Now i want miro to come back to help NXT

[@BePatient888]

Take him!

[@ssvitosoto]

Xpac, Keith Lee and r-truth

[@asher24]

The writing on the beach is for Sol Ruca

[@adamburke4738]

Speculation is not fact for god sake

[@mac4u2k6]

Sol Ruca is a great talent

[@TheSportsWarriors]

Why is no one talking about dreadmare! Shawn spears is part of that

[@GrittyMTrain]

Faroqq is back as Ron Simmons

[@FitFreshMiami]

Why does every star that leaves AEW think they’re going to get the Cody Rhodes treatment when they go back to WWE

[@pricelessgenerationc]

R-Truth he was K-Kwik in WWE then Ron The Truth and came back to WWE as R-Truth

[@miguelg9497]

He was the first wwe to aew guy after it started. They did nothing with that

[@marioguzman6045]

El idolo Andrades was another one that could of been at the top and went down at aew

[@blackrealmccoy3812]

Jon Moxley go be next to come back as Jon Moxley

[@Breezy8486]

Bully Ray will come back as bully Ray

[@CaptDavyJones]

Didn’t Andrade come back as ‘Idolo’ a week or so ago ?

[@QCS_AdamCole]

Is he being billed as Spears, or as Dillinger for this run? Or is it been said officially yet?

[@hunterdelano]

He is gonna be mentioned as shawn spears from now on,

[@Melo_Soul]

It's the Chairman of Wwe now 🪑🤷‍♂️😂

[@bradykwiatowski303]

Anderson & Gallows are actually 9-Time Tag Champs in the Catering division

[@ResistingDeath]

Why does it always look like Tommy doesn't like being here?

[@vanzbeatz106]

Cody left as Stardust and came back The American Nightmare 😅

[@k999999]

Jade Cargill retain her ring name as well from AEW to WWE ~

[@allendavis5930]

In a round about way 2 cold Scorpio was flash funk and terry funk was chainsaw Charlie would that count and raven was Johnny polo

[@bryanreynolds7460]

Shawn should of had a big push last time

[@johndrake2729]

If Sasha Banks were to return to WWE, would she do so as Mercedes Monet?

[@Fulgore2005]

Spears comes back to WWE three years after they canned Peyton Royce? Interesting...

[@davidtuyau7139]

Tommy looks like death. Hope he’s ok

[@XposinDundee]

Andrade El Idalo

[@Brandonweeks19]

They’re doing the same thing every time John Cena comes back. They step on him to get to the top and it hardly works.

[@markshepherd9153]

Sean Waltman😂

[@justinbishop5512]

Tenacious D the guy that print Albert returned as

[@thomassavage8581]

Mark Henry is one of them!!!

[@andrebdd5818]

K kwick to rtruth is an example since he was Ron the truth killings in tna

[@jamesreding6336]

I didn't watch the show I don't watch much of it very often I already watch a lot of wrestling

[@jewixy24axxhie]

The Chairman is back in NXT🥵

[@SageOSRS]

Bubba always asking questions but nobody ever has answears for him :(

[@welcometoweezyville]

you are missing the point... a man has three faces.

[@MyKLP73]

I can see eventually Miro & Lana going back to WWE since AEW is dropping the ball with them, im sorry Tony Kahn you need to hire a better booker and hand the pencil to someone else, someone who isn't a video game style booker but maybe AEW is supposed to be a niche for that style.

[@yosefvargasx]

Miro is content with doing his twitch. It was also rumored he didn't wanna lose. It's not all on tony.

[@BePatient888]

Take him! AEW doesn't need anyone who doesn't want to be there, crying on social media.

[@philo2189]

​@@yosefvargasxidk where you been but Miro stopped doing that stuff years ago

[@philo2189]

I don't see how they're dropping the ball with Miro. Hes hard to work with and he's one of those WWE signings who think he's too good to do things like job to aew originals. It's hard to book someone like that.

[@MyKLP73]

@@philo2189 Miro is 10 times more established than the carnies on Aew just because they were originals doesn't entitle them to go over legends .

[@TrayvonWickliffe]

Hall and nash

[@Iamone1111]

Technically you have Andrade 'Cien' Almas leave WWE join AEW and become Andrade El Idolo and he returned to WWE as Andrade El Idolo but not sure that counts cause his name is still Andrade

[@jmiyagi12345]

I think by the time he left WWE he was just Andrade as they shortened his name over time. Then he was Andrade el Idolo in NXT and now I think he is just Andrade again. Could be off though.

[@Trunks7500]

TEN!!!!!!!!!

[@Charles-xm1ml]

Nice return 💪Happy used name. Vince is gone 👏

[@thatalleycat]

D R E A D M E R E

[@matsdaggerx3141]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmnIkmV6oNiGhdUsi=zfbWQCIWOFENQzfb D R E A D M A R E indeed!

[@abrahamdeweese5882]

Albert / Lord Tesai

[@LegendofTheCosmic7]

😂😂😂 big surprise lol it's Shawn Spears following Cody, Again! 😂

[@charlesmason4197]

Is anyone seeing this Bo Dallas stuff

[@jordanlassiter5311]

That’s fan-made unfortunately

[@Deans-jm3uf]

After the Cody feud he didn’t win a big match. He won lots on KZbin and beat a jobber here and there on dynamite but it was clear to the audience he was just there to put bigger stars over. He was the fall guy in pinnacle

[@rupbhatt]

He should've come back as Stan and kick HBK.