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I still watch NXT weekly and enjoy it. Started watching regularly after Charlotte/Nattie and stuck around.
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sticklefifer posted:It's almost like NXT is a developmental show featuring new up and coming wrestlers. It's always been that and yet it was great in the past because a lot of the new up and comers were good. A lot of the current crop aren't.
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spudsbuckley posted:It's always been that  , but as far as the current crop not being as good, ehhh not really. Older NXT/FCW was pushing pre-oblivious heel Bo Dallas as a superface in the main event for literally years, and its midcard was lame as hell with only a few bright spots for quite some time. It only started getting really good shortly before the first Takeover. The fun part for me at least was watching people develop their characters, not watching newbies struggle to put on a good match. The matches were rarely memorable.
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Sep 30, 2016 10:01
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always enjoy the 'nxt has always been bad' defense to criticism
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Sep 30, 2016 16:36
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I've honestly been finding the current month or so of NXT pretty fun and watchable. Mid 2016 was probably the creative lowpoint with the Joe/Finn forever feuding and a load of people just waiting to shuffle out the door through the draft, but now they're actually developing the women and stuff like Almas/Cedric and the Joe/Regal angle has been quality. And now we have the tag classic starting up again, which made Revival/AA the first time round.
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Sep 30, 2016 17:05
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I've been waiting for WWE to sign Shane Matthews for a good six years. They better loving do it. He is such a natural fit for WWE. Oh and Scott Parker can come along as well. (I kid, I love him too)
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Sep 30, 2016 18:01
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If WWE signs Parker and Matthews, I hope they call themselves 4.0
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Blasmeister posted:I've honestly been finding the current month or so of NXT pretty fun and watchable. Mid 2016 was probably the creative lowpoint with the Joe/Finn forever feuding and a load of people just waiting to shuffle out the door through the draft, but now they're actually developing the women and stuff like Almas/Cedric and the Joe/Regal angle has been quality. And now we have the tag classic starting up again, which made Revival/AA the first time round. The women all suck at the moment besides Asuka. They are all truly loving terrible and no one stands out. The tag thing will hopefully be good but the two good teams are DIY and The Revival. The rest are ranging mediocre to poo poo.
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Sep 30, 2016 19:45
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wait a minute did you just put over asuka
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Sep 30, 2016 20:11
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Also, I just kinda owned myself. I read about the Eddie Kingston tryout and caught myself thinking "man, Eddie Kingston has to be so old and busted up by now, what does WWE want with him?" and then I realised he's literally only 3 days older than me. I also haven't seen Eddie wrestle since whatever he did in Chikara in like 2010 but he was pretty drat broken down back then.
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Super No Vacancy posted:wait a minute did you just put over asuka She's comparatively amazing when put up against the utter shitheaps that make up the rest of the current NXT womens division.
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Sep 30, 2016 20:40
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I like liv and mandy both
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spudsbuckley posted:She's comparatively amazing when put up against the utter shitheaps that make up the rest of the current NXT womens division. Are you suggesting that the women's division in NXT needs a... revolution?
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Sep 30, 2016 22:06
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Carmella simply should not have been moved on, and though Alexa and Nia are both doing fine on SD/Raw, another month or two in NXT wouldn't have harmed either of them. Essentially NXT's womens' division has been brought back to where it started, when Paige was wrecking everyone and the likes of Sasha and Bayley had no character and were either jobbing out or playing underling to Summer Rae. It took a few months (and Paige getting called up) for the division to get good, and it'll take a few months to recover again this time.
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Sep 30, 2016 22:11
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quote:In what was described to PWInsider as a "mutually agreed upon decision", WWE has released NXT performer Stuart Tomlinson aka Hugo Knox, 31. Knox had not worked a match for the brand since this past August. Heard about this midweek. He has moved back to the UK and is now a personal trainer. He got released as his neck was giving him issues.
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Sep 30, 2016 22:26
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pressedbunny posted:Carmella simply should not have been moved on, and though Alexa and Nia are both doing fine on SD/Raw, another month or two in NXT wouldn't have harmed either of them. I agree about Nia and Carmella, but Alexa's match with Bayley showed that she was basically at the best she could be in NXT. Moving her up made her step up big time in a newly formed division and she's flourished as a top heel. Peyton Royce needs to return and save the NXT women's division.
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MrBling posted:Also, I just kinda owned myself. I could see them signing him as a dude to give promo classes or something. Maybe do a light schedule on NXT. I don't know how he would do full time.
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Sep 30, 2016 22:56
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I hope they bring Eddie Kingston. He would immediately get over at Full Sail with his promos. Bring in more guys like him so you can have more room to finally bring up Nakamura, Joe, Roode, etc.
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Roque11 posted:I hope they bring Eddie Kingston. He would immediately get over at Full Sail with his promos. Bring in more guys like him so you can have more room to finally bring up Nakamura, Joe, Roode, etc. Only if Tim Donst shows up and Eddie Kingston gets fired because he unleashes every slur known to man on him. That's the only way Eddie Kingston's WWE run should end.
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Sep 30, 2016 23:26
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Eddie Kingston gives great promos in the indies and can still work ok, but a lot of his appeal comes from his very un-PG persona. The last time I saw him he tried to literally kill Sami Callihan but suffocating his with a plastic bag over the head. I'm not sure I see what he does and who he is translating well to NXT.
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Sep 30, 2016 23:44
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ChineseConnection posted:Eddie Kingston gives great promos in the indies and can still work ok, but a lot of his appeal comes from his very un-PG persona. The last time I saw him he tried to literally kill Sami Callihan but suffocating his with a plastic bag over the head. I'm not sure I see what he does and who he is translating well to NXT. He's been one of the top names in Chikara for the last decade and he's done fine.
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Oct 1, 2016 00:16
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So does this mean Ibushi's gonna keep coming in for a few awesome matches, leave, then come back a few months later? I'm surprisingly okay with that idea.
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Oct 1, 2016 00:19
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I'm curious if there will be any other surprises for the Classic. I mean, who cares about the Bollywood Boyz?
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Oct 1, 2016 00:28
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Charles Gnarwin posted:Peyton Royce needs to return and save the NXT women's division. She wrestled at the show I went to a couple weeks ago so she might be on the current set of tapings.
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Gavok posted:He's been one of the top names in Chikara for the last decade and he's done fine. I mean thats pretty much the thing with Kingston, he can play at whatever level he's supposed to be playing at. He pretty much plays the same character in Chikara as he did in the urban werstling federation, just in one he was playing it pg and in the other he dropped f-bombs every other sentence. He knows his audience and he plays to it.
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Oct 1, 2016 02:28
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Kingston would be great to bring in for a one final run type thing, getting super desperate against a champion like Joe who just points out how badly banged up he is before he even got here. I legitimately can't tell if Kingston is in constant pain or selling well but he can cut an amazing intense promo.
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Oct 1, 2016 03:41
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Blasmeister posted:I've honestly been finding the current month or so of NXT pretty fun and watchable. Mid 2016 was probably the creative lowpoint with the Joe/Finn forever feuding and a load of people just waiting to shuffle out the door through the draft, but now they're actually developing the women and stuff like Almas/Cedric and the Joe/Regal angle has been quality. And now we have the tag classic starting up again, which made Revival/AA the first time round. Agreed. The Revival vs. Ciampa & Gargano is also something I want to give a shout out too as being one of the few storylines I actually care about in WWE right now. The Dusty Classic should be good but I'm kinda disappointed it's not its own thing like the CWC. The Almas/Cedric team has to be them finally realising that Almas needs a shake up and turning him, right? Dan Matha looks like a fish GEORGE W BUSHI fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Oct 1, 2016 |
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Sucks about Knox. He sold and moved well in his jobber showings, not unlike Jason Jordan. Guess he and Nia Jax couldn't make it work.
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Baron Corbyn posted:The Dusty Classic should be good but I'm kinda disappointed it's not its own thing like the CWC.
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AMReese posted:I don't trust the main WWE product when it comes to Dusty Rhodes, so I'm glad the Classic takes place on the show he had plenty of involvement in. CWC wasn't exactly the main WWE product
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Oct 1, 2016 06:26
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Actually, it was. People think it was something done by or for NXT, but that's false.
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Super No Vacancy posted:always enjoy the 'nxt has always been bad' defense to criticism AMReese posted:I mean, who cares about the Bollywood Boyz?
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AMReese posted:Actually, it was. People think it was something done by or for NXT, but that's false. It was literally done by the NXT crew and production people.
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Oct 1, 2016 11:25
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WWE used the NXT crew, yes, but it was still a WWE product. Dave Meltzer said that it was a common misconception.
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Oct 1, 2016 13:59
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If it used the NXT crew and the same guy in charge of the booking of NXT booked it, what is the significance of the distinction?
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Oct 1, 2016 14:03
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Forgot about this: https://twitter.com/FightOwensFight/status/685987046599491584
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Oct 1, 2016 14:16
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AMReese posted:WWE used the NXT crew, yes, but it was still a WWE product. Dave Meltzer said that it was a common misconception. NXT is also a WWE product - A durr., DOooyyyy.D>D>OOY
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I remember Meltzer saying there was an important distinction. I just can't remember exactly what it was since it was a mailbag question or something. I'm sending him a tweet and I'm hoping he'll respond with what that was.
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rovert posted:Forgot about this:
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