Normally wrestlers go from NXT to the main roster, but it’s certainly not uncommon to see wrestlers from the main roster get moved to NXT. Back in 2022, Sidney Akeem, formerly known as Reggie on the WWE main roster, moved to NXT and started working as Scrypts. He remained with the NXT brand until his contract expired in 2024.
While talking about his move to NXT on Between Two Jobs, Sidney Akeem revealed that after Triple H took over WWE creative he had a meeting where he pitched and idea for his character moving forward, but the pitch seemingly fell on deaf ears. Shortly after he accepted the move to NXT because he believed he would’ve gotten fired had he rejected it.
“Whenever that switch happened between Vince [McMahon] and Triple H, that’s when I came back to NXT. [What was that conversation?] It wasn’t. I tried to have a conversation with someone. I had a conversation with him, trying to reinvent myself because we knew that the 24/7 stuff was going down the drain.
I’m like, ‘I have this idea, this character with the mask and this and that. Rey Mysterio’s on board, and it’ll be super cool.’ Then he said, ‘Alright.’ He was looking at me as I was talking to him, but he wasn’t listening.
So I left the conversation, left the room thinking, ‘That was a waste. That didn’t get anything or go anywhere.’ Then I got a message from John Cone saying, ‘Hey, we’re thinking about sending you back to NXT. How do you feel about that?’ I said, ‘Cool.’ That was it. I wasn’t going to say no. I would’ve gotten fired.”