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from what ive picked up nxt started out bad then became good then became bad again, why was that also general retrospective nxt talk i guess
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they raided the indies for all the good wrestlers for a bit and then they all went to the main roster + aew started so now they're stuck with failed college athletes and never-weres
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Mar 24, 2024 02:32
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nxt was faux-developmental which meant that if anyone got too big they got called to RAW and repackaged by vince, who didnt watch nxt
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Mar 24, 2024 02:56
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neoaxd posted:they raided the indies for all the good wrestlers for a bit and then they all went to the main roster + aew started so now they're stuck with failed college athletes and never-weres that sucks tbh
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Mar 24, 2024 07:39
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effort post beware: before nxt was actually good it was a weird reality show like sports entertainment variety show where actual developmental wrestlers were called to do talent show/big brother like competitions between wrestling and then would be voted off the show by fans(?). It was funny/bad until it got to just bad and eventually canceled. Nexus starting point. first time Daniel Bryan was on WWE TV (kicked off the show because he'd win the polls), Kaval/Low Ki winning the fan polls over the person WWE wanted to win Genesis of McGuillicutty. then them calling an audible that others in ring werent aware of. A bad Divas Season then a forever purgatory seasons after Vince/WWE stopped caring about it It then started back up as actual developmental brand like their old developmental show fcw and wasnt aired anywhere but people could still find the shows online to see: pre roman reigns "Leakee" a repackaged Husky Harris doing the Bray Wyatt character 2nd NXT champion Big E Langston (after beating Shield Seth Rollins in his first loss) Alexander Rusev who was managed by a french man and teaming with a southern mechanic Scott Dawson who'd go on to be Revival/FTR. A kraven the hunter like psychopath character called Leo Kruger Vampire/Werewolf/Underworld like characters named Rick Victor and Connor O'Brian (used to be a ratman in gameshow nxt) WWE finally letting Antonio Cesaro(Claudio Castagnoli) wrestle instead of being in cuck storylines and losing all the time (he was cucking people) The TV debut of Sami Zayn Slowly with the launch of the WWE Network the people at WWE wanted to stress test their streaming service so they tried with NXT's first ever Special Event Arrival and that was a success for them so they decided to start signing bigger names Like KENTA, Prince Devitt, and Kevin Steen. This kept going with signings of Samoa Joe, Shinsuke Nakamura, Aliester Black etc. Takeovers had great wrestling and felt focused compared to WWE main product at the time. There was no AEW and alternatives like TNA and ROH were starting to decline hard and Japanese wrestling wasnt that accessible for people to check out yet (no english commentary was a big hurdle). NXT even focused on things the main roster didnt such as Tag Team wrestling and the womens division. Women like Paige, Emma, Charlotte, Bayley, Becky Lynch, and Sasha Banks were big talks while people wished the main roster was like that instead of Divas stuff. As a developmental brand where eventually you're supposed to get called up to wrestle on Raw and Smackdown saw people go through pre-call up gimmick/name changes. Konnor and Viktor became Legion of Doom rip offs that instantly buried on call up for being rip offs. the Hunter Leo Kruger became a Party Bus Raver called Adam Rose. Some stayed similar and maybe pushed ok, but got jobbed out because their gimmicks were never pushed/explained to main audiences who maybe didnt watch NXT. and were punished for it/put in bad stories. Emma had an awkward/clumsy gimmick brought up and paired with Santino a comedy guy with a snake hand puppet and that died terribly she went back to NXT to repackage herself. Becky, Charlotte, and Sasha were called up at once to form teams with Divas to make it seem like they cared about the womens division after fans complained about giving them a chance to wrestle more. At some point WWE just started calling up the NXT champions and people in the middle of stories in NXT and changed their gimmicks/had them lose a lot as NXT champions. Aliester Black/Ricochet were called up as a tag team as were tag team champs War Raiders (now called The Viking Experience) after they just had a Tag Team title match the previous Takeover. NXT UK started at some point where WWE successfully killed most independent wrestling in the UK because they were scared of a new big time wrestling promotion in the UK from starting up. NXT UK was a failure and a joke fwiw but the job was done already. Then AEW started up and Covid happened and the talent/crowd energy in NXT was gone and still getting called up and used terribly and repackaged. Eventually WWE released a bunch of people and reunited the NXT US and NXT UK brands (firing all the NXT UK people who didnt want to move to the US) and then they rebranded NXT from this alternative to WWE since AEW was already like that to a real developmental program on TV again with bright flashy colors, a bunch of new faces (most having never wrestled before), and cartoony gimmicks from like 80s while also trying to be raunchy and have the sex appeal for women back when the Attitude Era and Divas were at the peak. They called it NXT 2.0! This was also a huge failure so they kind of just reverted back to NXT black and gold color scheme and slowly toned down on some of the earlier because most did not catch on with the crowd/fans at home. Still not that good even with some good independent talent hanging around. tl;dr: There was the bad NXT Gameshow Era (WWE trash Bad!), then NXT Developmental Era(Fresh Ideas Good) to NXT Takeover(Super Indy Good) Era, to NXT Covid Era (Talent Gone, AEW exists, Bad!) to NXT 2.0 (weird rebrand that barely lasted a year, Bad!) to current day NXT (Its Eh? Mostly bad mixed with some good.)
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Mar 24, 2024 22:52
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NXT had that one falls count anywhere match between Asuka and Nikki Cross where they brawled through the arena on a random streamed weekly episode. Them just giving away something like that on a show no one watched was probably the peak of NXT
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2uiWsLsK9o
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Mar 25, 2024 17:18
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One reason NXT could be good was the schedule
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Mar 25, 2024 21:44
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmOAB8ztrS8
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Ty iggy i was lookin for that
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Mar 27, 2024 00:36
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nxt game show diva era had a different theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zODyABRQyO8
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KungFu Grip posted:nxt game show diva era had a different theme whats the opposite of nostalgia
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Mar 27, 2024 02:52
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I turned nxt on for a bit tonight because I was bored and curious, and it was during a like 15 minute monologue of a British dude announcing he was Too Old For This poo poo while the crowd in their "wow, it's just like the indies" arena kinda half-heartedly reacted?
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Mar 27, 2024 03:09
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nxt died when kevin owen lost to john cena
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Mar 27, 2024 04:07
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i don't know. it's short for "next"
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Cthulu Carl posted:I turned nxt on for a bit tonight because I was bored and curious, and it was during a like 15 minute monologue of a British dude announcing he was Too Old For This poo poo while the crowd in their "wow, it's just like the indies" arena kinda half-heartedly reacted? lol
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Mar 29, 2024 14:43
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I also noticed during a match I bothered to half-watch that they have screens behind the top row of the audience and during the match there were a bunch of ghostly, vaguely humanoid shapes on the screens so that if you just glanced at the TV or were far more focused on... I dunno, Beef Meatslap going up against some guy whose real name is probably Gareth, you might be tricked into thinking the crowd is way bigger than in reality
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NXT's quality depends on what WWE wants it to be. Do they want it to be a good wrestling show, or something stupid? It's always been one of those two.
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