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DarkstarIV posted:I think the biggest flaw I've started to notice with NXT is that they can't book underdog babyfaces worth a drat anymore. They managed to successfully geek out Kairi, Io, and Dakota in the span of a few minutes. HHH outright said on the post show that he doesn't think Kairi's issues with Shayna are done yet. Wouldn't be surprised if she ends up winning the title at the January Takeover.
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Hey. Hey, WWE. You makin' me sad, WWE.
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Ragnarok the Red posted:I agree that Takeover matches do have a habit of kind of falling into their own "style" much like the main roster, but the style is so consistently good I don't really mind at all. It's high skill, frequently frentic pace, and almost always gives satisfying endings. Yeah, and this is true of almost every promotion anyways, every group of bookers and agents are going to have their style. NXT can be overly dramatic with some bad acting but I take that as just being what WWE is, it's the most soap opera of promotions. I don't think this was the best takeover but I think it was very good. The Takeovers have just been so great that in comparison they make "just good" look bad.
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SamuraiFoochs posted:Happy Roman filled me with such mixed emotions He seems like such an insanely likeable dude
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Nov 18, 2018 04:43
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This Dean Ambrose chronicle is legit pretty great.
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Nov 18, 2018 04:44
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war games went too long, was paced weirdly, and the Dunne getting locked up stuff made no sense and had zero pay off.
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Mukaikubo posted:This Dean Ambrose chronicle is legit pretty great. It was very good, very real, and also very sad.
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DarkstarIV posted:I think the biggest flaw I've started to notice with NXT is that they can't book underdog babyfaces worth a drat anymore. They managed to successfully geek out Kairi, Io, and Dakota in the span of a few minutes. This feud feels like it will lead up to a 3 on 3 match at the next Takeover. May not need a new challenger until Wrestlemania Takeover.
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Astro7x posted:This feud feels like it will lead up to a 3 on 3 match at the next Takeover. May not need a new challenger until Wrestlemania Takeover. I don't think they are going to find a new challenger, considering NXT seems to be going forward with the plot point that Kairi had her shoulders up on the final pin, but the ref didn't catch it. I figure if that's the case, we'll get Kairi vs Shayna again at Takeover: Phoenix, and then if Kairi wins the title there, they'll do the rubber match at Takeover: New York and send the MMA 4HW to the main roster. Since the night after Wrestlemania is one of the biggest nights of the year for WWE TV. And Ronda will probably be titleless thanks to Becky at that point.
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Nov 18, 2018 05:59
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KungFu Grip posted:war games went too long, was paced weirdly, and the Dunne getting locked up stuff made no sense and had zero pay off. Man I didn't really think that the Black Gargano match was as overwrought as some people are saying, sure its kind of obvious who is agenting it, but it wasn't nearly as egregious as say the Gargano Ciampa matches
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IDONTPOST posted:whens the next takeover so i can enjoy wwe wrassling
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Nov 18, 2018 06:09
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Y’all have been too spoiled NXT usually leans on indie style sprints and Ciampa / Dream sort of straddled a line between that and more classic WWF brawling. I keep expecting Dream to get exposed in big matches but he’s not getting carried out there
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Nov 18, 2018 06:12
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NXT Takeovers are usually what Triple H's idea of epic matches are on the main roster he has himself, except everyone in NXT can outwork and outpace him in his prime. Lots of false finishes, high spots that take lots of selling, and pauses for dramatic effect. It's not the worst, some guys really flourish in this like Aleistar Black and Dream. Other guys are just doomed to be on 205 Live because they're not big enough or charismatic enough, unfortunately like Ciampa, Gargano, and everyone in TUE. The big hiccup is just if Vince, Dunn, and the others higher up in WWE see you as profitable, since guys like Authors or The Revival should have been having epics against New Day or The Usos, but never got any momentum. Asuka was the biggest female signing in a long time in NXT, she had her streak long enough to lose to Charolette then went nowhere afterwards because she didn't fill a mold.
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Gargano/Black had just the right amount of melodrama. As a match I think it was one of the better WWE matches this year. I wasn't that fussed on Ciampa/Dream it was obviously a 4 star match at a minimum but the ending soured me a bit on it. It actually felt a lot like a main roster match with the amount of kick outs to finishers. NXT is extremely consistent and every match was good at a minimum on the card.
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Holy gently caress that show was great. After Black beat Gargano, I suddenly became convinced that Dream was going to beat Ciampa and we were going to get Black/Dream II and I got super-excited at the prospect 
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Nov 18, 2018 11:08
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i think Dream finally beating Aleister and winning the title from him is a better story than him going into their rematch as champion, slightly. But a second and very bad reign would not help Satan so perhaps it Would not be worthwhile
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Nov 18, 2018 11:22
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That shot of both teams on either side of the rings facing off and then running to the ropes in the middle to talk poo poo before climbing into No Man's Land and just beating the poo poo out of each other was so loving cool.
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Nov 18, 2018 11:41
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Jerusalem posted:After Black beat Gargano, I suddenly became convinced that Dream was going to beat Ciampa and we were going to get Black/Dream II and I got super-excited at the prospect You're a good man, J-Ru
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I liked that show, I thought the women's match was pretty crap even compared to their fight at Evolution, the Riddle thing was weird but fine, Gargano/Black was really bad and felt like it was written and acted out by 12 year olds, but Ciampa/Dream was the polar opposite and fantastic in every way. War games itself was great and really genuinely fun and silly without it detracting from it in any way. So I guess a bad first half, great second half type deal for me.
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The fun thing abt Wargames as a whole is that you get the whole gamut from utter squashes to Rocky-style epics and then you get an hourlong spotfest. It’s a good wrestling sampler
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