Sidney Akeem is finally opening up about why the Scrypts character never got off the ground in WWE NXT.
You might remember him as Reggie, the 24/7 Championship guy who was doing backflips over everybody and turning into one of the more entertaining acts on Raw. Then he gets to NXT, rebrands as Scrypts, and the whole thing just kind of… fizzled. Akeem recently talked to Rewind Recap Relive and explained what went wrong.
His answer? Too many cooks. Literally his words — “too many chefs in the kitchen.”
That phrase tells you everything without saying everything. When too many people have creative input on a character, it stops being one cohesive thing and becomes a compromise of five different ideas that don’t fit together. The vision gets diluted. The edges get sanded off. What starts as something fresh ends up as something nobody fully believes in.
Scrypts had a look. The character had an aesthetic going for it. Akeem clearly wanted to do something different with the NXT audience, something that felt more mysterious and distinct from what he had been doing under the 24/7 title era. The athleticism was always there. The guy can move. But the character never clicked the way it needed to.
Akeem left WWE in 2024, and Scrypts went with him. No big send-off. No angle to close things out. The character just stopped existing.
That’s honestly one of the more frustrating patterns in WWE developmental. A talent comes in with an idea, there’s genuine creative energy behind it, and then it gets passed through enough hands that nobody recognizes it anymore. By the time it hits TV, the original concept is barely visible underneath all the revisions.
Akeem spent years in WWE. He came up through 205 Live as Reggie, worked the cruiserweight style, and eventually found his footing as the 24/7 title holder who could escape anybody because of his gymnastics background. That run actually got him some real fan support. People were cheering for him. The bit worked because it leaned into what made him unique and didn’t try to turn him into something he wasn’t.
Scrypts was supposed to be the next evolution. A more serious character, a new name, a chance to prove he could hang in NXT and maybe push toward something bigger. It just never got the runway it needed.
Post-WWE, Akeem has been working the independent scene and keeping himself active. Talent like him doesn’t disappear just because one run doesn’t pan out. The athleticism alone makes him a valuable commodity anywhere he shows up.
Whether he lands in TNA, AEW, or just keeps building his brand on the indies, someone is going to figure out how to use what he actually brings to the table. Hopefully with fewer chefs involved this time.
