Today we’ll take a look at who is probably the biggest longshot we’ve covered as a possible subject of the 2.21.11 spots, former NXT Season 1 contestant Skip Sheffield. Sheffield made his debut on the main Raw roster on the June 7 episode, alongside Wade Barrett and the rest of his NXT peers when they attacked John Cena, CM Punk, and anybody else who happened to be ringside. The group would later go on to become Nexus, but unfortunately for Skip, he was sidelined with an ankle injury just over two months after the stable’s formation. As a result, Sheffield, like Michael Tarver and Darren Young, missed out on the collective push given to the rest of the Nexus members as the stable gradually picked up more and more steam.
It’s said that of the original eight NXT rookies, Mr. McMahon has especially high hopes for Skip Sheffield. According to sources close to him, McMahon views The Cornfed Meathead as the company’s potential number two face, second only to John Cena. If this expectation sounds insane to you, you are not alone. Given the limited time Sheffield’s spent in front of WWE audiences, the kind of reaction he’s capable of generating is a great unknown. I don’t know how such a lofty expectation can be placed upon him, but I do know that Vince McMahon is a stubborn promoter, and if he views Sheffield as a main event star, he will probably be pushed as such. As discussed in our look at Tyler Black as the potential subject of the 2.21.11 videos, these vignettes could definitely be used as a vehicle to propel a young, relatively unknown wrestler into immediate stardom. Should the creative team chose to elevate Skip Sheffield in this manner, we could see him play a major role in the ongoing Nexus / Corre program. One possibility is that we see him return as a lone wolf type, pledging allegiance to neither faction, and instead waging war on both, similar to what Goldberg was to nWo Hollywood and the Wolfpac circa 1998. Of course, this is just speculation, and if Sheffield does indeed return at the February, 21 edition of Raw, the role he will play is completely unknown.
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