In an interview with the No-Contest Wrestling podcast, Tony D’Angelo opened up about scrapped plans WWE had for him in NXT, recalling:
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.
NXT saw a rebrand in 2021 with the rise of NXT 2.0, which saw Bron Breakker rise as a singles competitor and going on to hold the NXT Championship twice before being called up to the main roster.
D’Angelo would see singles success of his own, defeating Oba Femi in October 2024 to become NXT North American Champion.
Breakker and D’Angelo would also become tag champions with different partners, even being across the ring from each other when Breakker teamed with Baron Corbin to defeat D’Angelo and Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo in February 2024.
Source: F4WOnline