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I kinda wish his name on the tron was the first announcement of him coming to NXT, after weeks of Regal saying "I've searched the globe to find the perfect opponent for you."
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# ? Aug 27, 2016 05:16 |
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AMReese posted:Well, that mostly happened during his debut. I'm surprised that didn't become the norm because it worked so well. Yeah, I just think it they should have waited until the actual drop before he was on stage. Maybe not have the orange flashes beforehand. When the worst thing I can think of for their handling of Nakamura is the interplay between his song, entrance, and tron, they are probably handling him pretty well.
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# ? Aug 27, 2016 05:18 |
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AMReese posted:Well, that mostly happened during his debut. I'm surprised that didn't become the norm because it worked so well. That entrance was far and away the most cinematic shot I've seen all year from WWE. I've probably watched it a dozen times and it's just perfect, with the silhouetted figure, the darkness, the name appearing and the figure moving in only the way Nakamura can in front of it. loving brilliant.
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# ? Aug 27, 2016 06:34 |
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I loved Nakamura's first entrance against Zayne and I'm kinda bummed they changed it to what it is after that. I really like the darkness and the silhouette, but I can understand that they probably want to actually show Nakamura more.
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# ? Aug 27, 2016 07:29 |
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Nakamura's first entrance was perfect, but I think having a different entrance for your average show keeps the cooler entrance special. I'd like to see them go back to that entrance for big matches if they don't have a violinist or another special thing planned.
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# ? Aug 27, 2016 14:23 |
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https://twitter.com/WrestlingNewsTV/status/769593470793101312
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# ? Aug 27, 2016 20:46 |
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I think the bigger news there is that Cornette publicly states an opinion that doesn't make everyone want to smack him.
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# ? Aug 27, 2016 20:52 |
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I like that match less now
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# ? Aug 27, 2016 21:10 |
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Pretty interesting piece: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/wwes-new-era-began-in-japan/
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# ? Aug 28, 2016 00:22 |
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Summary: Japanese wrestlers are being treated better now than they used to be.
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# ? Aug 28, 2016 01:15 |
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538 somehow found a way to reach a smaller audience with even worse data
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# ? Aug 28, 2016 06:28 |
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ibushi is announced for ddt's november show though i'm not positive if that means wrestling
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# ? Aug 28, 2016 12:08 |
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Developmental https://twitter.com/willh94/status/769713598813859841
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# ? Aug 28, 2016 12:56 |
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I'll riot if he's not at #NXT
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# ? Aug 28, 2016 16:33 |
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Endless Mike posted:I'll riot if he's not at #NXT Since I'm going I guarantee you we'll get the B-show of all B-shows.
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# ? Aug 28, 2016 16:43 |
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Finally get to see Tino Sabatelli live!
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# ? Aug 28, 2016 17:34 |
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Baltimore is a touring date, you should get all the stars. Jacksonville is a $10 local show so that spoiled rear end idiot can get hosed.
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# ? Aug 28, 2016 17:46 |
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If you're at a house show The Revival are who you want, because they work almost as hard in front of 150 people as they do in front of 15,000
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# ? Aug 28, 2016 18:01 |
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St Evan Echoes posted:If you're at a house show The Revival are who you want, because they work almost as hard in front of 150 people as they do in front of 15,000 So you're saying they work hard all day and all night?
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# ? Aug 28, 2016 18:03 |
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SomeMathGuy posted:So you're saying they work hard all day and all night?
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# ? Aug 28, 2016 18:12 |
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Eltoasto posted:Baltimore is a touring date, you should get all the stars. Jacksonville is a $10 local show so that spoiled rear end idiot can get hosed. Somehow I misread the other NXT show that date as "Dallas/ Ft Worth" as opposed to Ft Pierce FL. I'm always doing dumb stuff like this. And yeah that's an amazing show for just something local.
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# ? Aug 28, 2016 18:54 |
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edit: wrong thread
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# ? Aug 28, 2016 18:57 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlAkyRWgPYM
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# ? Aug 29, 2016 00:28 |
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So, after roughly a generation of WWE women being an afterthought, aside from 2-3 years of Lita and Trish getting good enough to have OK matches... Triple H in roughly 2014 or so goes "OK ladies, do pretty much whatever the gently caress you want. Also we don't care about look anymore much." That has now developed into the women being in strong competition for best match on show on every PPV. More than WWE starting its own version of ROH, I find this amazing. Meltzer talks like he writes and after 10 loving minutes I only vaguely have an idea of what he was trying to say. The short story I think is that once Vince completely ages out and his cronies lose power, this sort of wrestling will probably move up to the main roster instead of this weird Twilight Zone booking where the two-hour NXT PPV is orders of magnitude better than the Actual Show. That being said, I think almost the entire roster is wrestling too hard at this point and we're going to end up with another rash of Dr. Youngblood's Magical Spinal Fusion Surgeries That No Really, Fixed Everything from the 2000-2002 period. This is exemplified to me in AJ deciding that he needed to take an avalanche AA for a non-title match on the middle of a card. That's OK I suppose if they intend him to never work with Cena again.
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# ? Aug 29, 2016 11:26 |
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They want HHH to take over for Vince but the shareholders see Vince as the only person who can do what Vince does, so they want to use NXT as an example to point to that says "HHH can do this. He is the guy to take over." NXT's primary purpose at this point in time is to exist as a highly successful example of HHH running a wrestling company so that there's no pushback whenever Vince is gone and a decision is made to put HHH in charge.
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# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:51 |
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:So, after roughly a generation of WWE women being an afterthought, aside from 2-3 years of Lita and Trish getting good enough to have OK matches... Triple H in roughly 2014 or so goes "OK ladies, do pretty much whatever the gently caress you want. Also we don't care about look anymore much." I think they still care about look a lot. Also even since the NXT women started getting called up, vanishingly few women's matches have been in competition for MOTN on main roster PPVs.
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# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:54 |
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You say "few", but that's still more than there's been in years where "none" was the case.
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# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:57 |
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Especially with Four Star Roman on those same cards
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# ? Aug 29, 2016 16:59 |
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AMReese posted:You say "few", but that's still more than there's been in years where "none" was the case. yes
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# ? Aug 29, 2016 17:02 |
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sportsgenius86 posted:They want HHH to take over for Vince but the shareholders see Vince as the only person who can do what Vince does, so they want to use NXT as an example to point to that says "HHH can do this. He is the guy to take over." My question is, who, besides HHH, could shareholders possibly have confidence in running the company? Vince won't live forever, and there aren't many other options.
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# ? Aug 29, 2016 17:15 |
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it's not like they're required to have confidence in someone
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# ? Aug 29, 2016 17:20 |
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It's less that they HAVE to be in agreement and more that they don't want the stock to take a dive because it looks like the shareholders and the leadership are at odds.
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# ? Aug 29, 2016 18:15 |
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Spermgod posted:I think they still care about look a lot. Also even since the NXT women started getting called up, vanishingly few women's matches have been in competition for MOTN on main roster PPVs. They originally had issues with Charlotte apparently and Bayley is just ridiculously unlike the people they used to call up.
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# ? Aug 29, 2016 18:20 |
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My favorite part about discussion about WWE after Vince dies are the ways Bryan and Dave talk around Vince being dead in the scenarios.
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# ? Aug 29, 2016 19:10 |
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:They originally had issues with Charlotte apparently and Bayley is just ridiculously unlike the people they used to call up. I know there's a lot of "Charlotte got off the juice" chatter but i'd be shocked if it wasn't simply Vince and co. wanting her to lose tone because she didn't look womanly enough for them. Truther Vandross fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Aug 29, 2016 |
# ? Aug 29, 2016 19:54 |
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They're going to do some kind of carny as gently caress angle when Vince dies and it's going to be amazing. I bet it's in his will.
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# ? Aug 29, 2016 20:25 |
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:They originally had issues with Charlotte apparently and Bayley is just ridiculously unlike the people they used to call up. True but I can totally see them looking at new hires and going "we already have one ugly girl, we don't need another one." (i don't think Bayley is ugly) Likewise I don't expect them to hire any more fat women while Nia Jax is there.
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# ? Aug 29, 2016 20:28 |
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Eltoasto posted:Baltimore is a touring date, you should get all the stars. Jacksonville is a $10 local show so that spoiled rear end idiot can get hosed. I've never been to a ROH show or any other high profile indie for that matter but I have been to the NXT Jacksonville shows plenty of times. I could not imagine a smarkier crowd to exist. They've had big chants for the 2K video game
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# ? Aug 29, 2016 20:29 |
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Bianca is someone to eventually look out for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HWoaljXCVA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yfLXsBs_RQ
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# ? Aug 31, 2016 01:13 |
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# ? May 16, 2024 17:31 |
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I just got done watching Takeover. Loved it as always. I'm only a casual viewer, so forgive me if this is a dumb question. I never realised how much I hated the smarky WWE crowd until watching these events. Why is the crowd so awesome at NXT shows and so annoying at WWE shows? Surely the smarks at a WWE crowd are the same people at an NXT show but a WWE crowd should also have the benefit of 15-20k extra regular WWE marks. I'd understand if it was some pre-WWE owned ECW type thing where you hate the big guy and love the other brand but the two products are so similar now that I struggle to see why one gets so much more love than the other. Wouldn't everyone just have way much more fun if they marked out every show like they do at NXT?
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