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In WWE, and indeed all professional wrestling, one of the goals of any Superstar is to go down in the history books and having a stellar win/loss record is one of the best ways to get into the history books in the first place.
We've already looked at WWE's main roster for 2021 so far, with Roman Reigns topping the men's division in terms of win percentages and Alexa Bliss beating out all of RAW and SmackDown's other women so far this year. You can see the top five list for the men's main roster here, and the same for the main roster women here.
But what if we turned our attention towards the Superstars of NXT and in particular, the men's division? Who are the five men in the black and gold brand with the best win rate in WWE?
Let's find out the 5 male WWE NXT Superstars with the best win percentages (We're only counting Superstars on NXT and not NXT UK and those who have wrestled in five or more matches.)
#5. Current WWE RAW and former NXT Superstar Mansoor - 100%
Mansoor is the only Superstar in WWE to have a win record that gets him in the top five of both the NXT and the RAW and SmackDown/main roster lists, which makes him fairly impressive in my opinion.
On top of winning nine of the twelve matches he's competed in across Monday Night RAW, Mansoor was unbeaten in NXT, competing in seven matches and winning every single one of them.
And that's just the matches this year. If you look back at 2020 and beyond, you'll see that Mansoor actually went on an incredible and extremely under the radar 49 match unbeaten run from September 20th, 2019 until his RAW debut.
Often in these lists, names crop up that you wouldn't have been expecting, and Mansoor holding the best record in NXT for 2021 so far is certainly one of those instances. Plus, now that he's on the main roster it seems that his perfect 100% record is going to remain for the rest of the year.
#4. Current WWE NXT Tag Team Champions MSK (Nash Carter and Wes Lee) - 90%
In joint second for NXT's men's divisions are the current NXT Tag Team Champions and former IMPACT Wrestling stars Wes Lee and Nash Carter, or MSK.
The pair have been tearing it up in NXT's tag team division, winning ten of their ten matches together, hence the joint placing in the win percentage rankings. On top of the NXT Tag Team Championship win they've won a six-man tag with their titles and the North American Title on the line, and two more title defenses.
They've only lost one match in NXT indeed their whole WWE careers so far this year and that loss came in a six man tag team match where they teamed up with current NXT Cruiserweight Champion KUSHIDA against Legado El Fantasma in a losing effort.
The pair face their toughest challenge yet when they take on the tag team of Tomasso Ciampa and Timothy Thatcher at the NXT Great American Bash next week. Will a second loss be added to their records?
#3. Current WWE NXT Champion Karrion Kross - 88.89%
When you consider how extremely dominant Karrion Kross has been in NXT since his arrival, it's quite baffling to see him so far down the top five, falling in third place with a win percentage of 88.89%
If we were to include Kross' whole WWE NXT career since his debut in August 2020, his percentage would actually be 94.73% with 18 wins out of 19 matches. But this year, Kross has only competed 9 times with one loss.
That loss came in a NXT Tag Team Championship match with Finn Balor against Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch. However, it was a bit of a harsh black spot on Karrion Kross' record considering he wasn't pinned in the match and actively contributed to Finn Balor getting pinned and his team losing.
Kross has recently competed in a dark match before Friday Night SmackDown against Dolph Ziggler and a match against Shelton Benjamin in the Main Event, winning both. So it seems clear he's continuing his extreme dominance from NXT to the main roster.
#2. 205 Live and WWE NXT Superstar Ikemen Jiro - 80%
I mentioned earlier that sometimes with these lists names can pop up that are very, very surprising, and after only just qualifying with the bare minimum of five matches 205 LIVE and NXT's Ikemen Jiro is the fourth-best male Superstar.
Perhaps even more interestingly, only one of Jiro's five matches has been on the black and gold brand, and that was a tag-team match with August Grey against Grizzled Young Veterans. It would also be the only match he's lost since appearing for WWE.
But if you put Ikeman Jiro on 205 Live, the purple brand seemingly brings out the best in him, propelling him to two wins in singles matches and two wins in tag team competition.
Luckily for Ikemen Jiro, he's now one of a handful of Superstars left for the 205 Live brand after WWE made a recent round of releases cleaning the purple brand out. This means he should appear on the show often, and should win often.
#1. Former WWE NXT North American Champion Bronson Reed - 72.73%
Bronson Reed's NXT win percentage looks like it's going to stay at 72.73% given that he just dropped the North American Title after competing in a match on Main Event, hinting that he's moving on up to RAW or SmackDown.
Still, that makes him the fifth-best Superstar in NXT to have competed in at least five matches in terms of win percentage, with Reed winning eight of the eleven matches he's been involved in.
Obviously, the most recent loss came on this week's NXT as Reed would lose the NXT North American Title to Hit Row leader Isaiah 'Swerve' Scott. Bronson Reed's other losses came in a singles match against Karrion Kross and an 11-man battle royal loss.
Like Kross, Reed is two-for-two on WWE's main roster with a win over Bobby Roode in a dark match and a win over Drew Gulak on WWE Main Event. I wonder which one of Kross and Reed will lose a match first.
