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Benne posted:Where do they even find these scrawny geeks for jobber squashes (who still have some muscle tone so you can tell they work out)? Do they just walk into an MMA gym in Orlando, go up to the flyweights training and be like "hey, wanna be on NXT television?" They probably take them from the inexhaustible local talent armies?
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Basic Chunnel posted:The long-term story they're telling with Asuka turning underhanded when she's met her match has been really solid tbqh, and exactly the tack they needed to take with her. When she goes full-on desperation heel against Ember and fails to put her down it will be earned and put Ember over. It's really the only way to get someone over against a Hogan figure I totally get that, but even against Ember she always shows confidence/arrogance, even if it is to cover up her fear of meeting her match. It has been a nice slow burn, though. She even showed signs of this against Bayley and I'm stoked for when she snaps and goes full-on heel beating the poo poo out of someone/everyone.
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May 5, 2017 07:19
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Wish I could offer a match tally but Cagematch doesn't have a profile. But Binky Blair has maybe 25 matches under her belt yet she is on the national tour: https://twitter.com/BinkyInTheHouse/status/860211841007443970 Next Kurt Angle/Braun Strowman!
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man, i mean, it's hard to "tell roderick strong's story" without namedropping ring of honor, but drat that was a lot more than i expected.
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shiksa posted:man, i mean, it's hard to "tell roderick strong's story" without namedropping ring of honor, but drat that was a lot more than i expected. Personally interested in the dynamics of that. Even with the cameras off Strong wearing an ROH shirt at the PC would something intuitively you'd advise him against if you were a friend. But it was most likely done for effect but it was still weird. Saw the listing of the Kevin Owens DVD it has no full ROH matches on it. Not sure if there's footage in the main documentary. Again I should ask around. If you are looking for the reason why Roddy is getting this push the answer is winning over Shawn Michaels at the Performance Center. That's something I said in the spoilers thread a good while ago. It is definitively a post-Daniel Bryan type push.
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I found Percy more tolerable this week. He drew on some FCW history when talking about Danny Burch and he seems like he's getting more comfortable in his role. He also doesn't chime in too much to the point where he's intrusive.
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I was the only person cheering at Drew Mac's last match in WWE and I'm excited to see my best friend Drew Mac in Chicago.
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rovert posted:The touring roster these days Scrolling down, my initial thought was "Wow, they are doing Bobby Roode vs Asuka, that's not something I would have expected" before further scrolling down, and now I'm sad it won't happen.
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Oh man I would have been so into a Murphy and Jeet team
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rovert posted:Wish I could offer a match tally but Cagematch doesn't have a profile. But Binky Blair has maybe 25 matches under her belt yet she is on the national tour: Wasn't Daria also very quickly moved up?
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rovert posted:If you are looking for the reason why Roddy is getting this push the answer is winning over Shawn Michaels at the Performance Center. That's something I said in the spoilers thread a good while ago. It is definitively a post-Daniel Bryan type push. Not to put too finer a point on it, this seems like the sort of story that if Vince heard back in the day he would have gotten invested in him and handed him a push like candy.
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I never really cared about Roddy as a babyface but those video packages were awesome. He definitely should be the one to beat Roode for the title.
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abraham linksys posted:nxt takeover chicago's themes are by fozzy and a band literally called "hacktivist," i hate this NXT's always had lovely buttrock themes for their Takeovers. I wonder if it's just a running gag at this point.
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rename SAnitY to Hacktivist and give them a Watch Dogs 2 or Mr Robot gimmick
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dromal phrenia posted:rename SAnitY to Hacktivist and give them a Watch Dogs 2 or Mr Robot gimmick only if we get sami callahan back as part of the deal
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abraham linksys posted:only if we get sami callahan back as part of the deal sami says no but we can get Bull Dempsey or Sylvester LeFort to take Sami's old gimmick, will that work?
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May 6, 2017 03:33
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abraham linksys posted:only if we get sami callahan back as part of the deal you cant have him
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They had that child Japanese metal band once.
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Benne posted:NXT's always had lovely buttrock themes for their Takeovers. I wonder if it's just a running gag at this point. Takeover London had Ace of Spades and it was awesome
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Benne posted:NXT's always had lovely buttrock themes for their Takeovers. I wonder if it's just a running gag at this point. Hell, its better than the main WWE PPVs being wall-to-wall nu-metal from the late 90s/early 00s.
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still better than fuckin flo rida or pitbull or whatever
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Benne posted:NXT's always had lovely buttrock themes for their Takeovers. I wonder if it's just a running gag at this point.
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It's probably as simple as lovely buttrock bands being willing to take less money for use of the song
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well you nerds wanted to bicker online and so they let me pick the band, enjoy promo videos set to 14 minute Rush songs you jabronis
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Mob posted:well you nerds wanted to bicker online and so they let me pick the band, enjoy promo videos set to 14 minute Rush songs you jabronis my entrance music is the entirety of 2112 (actually an instrumental version of temples of syrnix would be a good fuckin entrance theme)
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Benne posted:NXT's always had lovely buttrock themes for their Takeovers. I wonder if it's just a running gag at this point. they got baroness one time and it was like "woah hey who let the good band into here"
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RealFoxy posted:Thanks to Asuka for bringing us BABYMETAL BABYMETAL best band to get a Takeover theme song, just saying.
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I'd say PVRIS were, if they didn't blow so hard live. Props to Babymetal at least they can perform. ed: no gently caress me anyway, PVRIS were for a WWE event, not NXT. Welp, Babymetal definitely #1 for NXT, then.
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Benne posted:I never really cared about Roddy as a babyface but those video packages were awesome. He definitely should be the one to beat Roode for the title. Yeah, Roddy always had good technical skills but it always bugged me that his matches went 1000 miles a second with barely any time to actually sell the impact of anything, plus he had the most generic look and almost no personality to speak of. Then he started to get better about his pacing and selling, and now this video package has basically humanized him in a way that makes me really root for the guy. If his push is because Shawn Michaels was impressed with him, then it's just yet another reason to love Shawn Michaels.
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Jerusalem posted:Yeah, Roddy always had good technical skills but it always bugged me that his matches went 1000 miles a second with barely any time to actually sell the impact of anything, plus he had the most generic look and almost no personality to speak of. Then he started to get better about his pacing and selling, and now this video package has basically humanized him in a way that makes me really root for the guy. Did you watch any Of his PWG championship run? Because he was legit one of the best wrestlers in the world as PWG champion. Also a heel that was booed consistently in PWG which is not an easy task.
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The_Rob posted:Did you watch any Of his PWG championship run? Because he was legit one of the best wrestlers in the world as PWG champion. Also a heel that was booed consistently in PWG which is not an easy task. He had an awesome heel run in PWG, but like I said before, it was hard to get invested in him as a babyface. These video packages have done an incredible job making people care, and now that he's doing the best wrestling of his career, he should have no problem being the most over guy on the roster.
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Between this, the UK WWE tryouts this week and WWE planning to contact ex-ROH talent. It is going to be impossible for me to strike up a conversation with anyone in Wrestling without seeming like I am gleaning info out of them - more than usual.quote:During yesterday's conference call to discuss the first quarter earnings of 2017, WWE's Michelle Wilson noted that the current plans for the announced WWE Network women's tournament, a 32 competitor event, would take place in the third quarter of the year.
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