5 current WWE Superstars who were almost fired while in NXT

#2 Current WWE star Tyler Breeze

Tyler Breeze was once one of the NXT's most popular stars before he was promoted to WWE's main roster, where the company seemingly dropped the ball with Prince Pretty.

Breeze has recently made his return to NXT and has continued to team with Fandango. The duo are former NXT Tag Team Champions.

Even though Breeze has made it clear that he prefers it in NXT, the current WWE star recently revealed on Edge and Christian's Podcast of Awesomeness that he was almost fired several times during his time on the black and gold brand.

“We end up having the first NXT pilot at Full Sail [University] to test out and see if Full Sail would work for the venue for NXT. And I ended up having a match with one of the guys in Ascension. He was just basically going to kill me, but he was my friend so he goes, ‘no, let’s have a match.’ So we have this match and Triple H happened to be there and he just kind of looked over at Dusty [Rhodes] and he goes, ‘who’s this guy? Like, why have I never seen anything of his?’ And, all-of-a-sudden, I got saved again. I just kind of keep getting saved along the way. All-of-a-sudden, Dusty says Hunter liked what he saw and I’m off the list again.”

Breeze noted that this wasn't the first time he was almost fired from WWE. He was almost dismissed when developmental was still known as FCW, but he was able to impress the officials and gain himself some more time.