I like Mike Dalton. He's small and reeks of "cruiserweight," but he's clearly got skill. He just needs a gimmick that can enhance his personality. Tyler Breeze could be this. Breeze reminds me of WCW Chris Jericho for some reason. If he can talk, this might fast-track him.

I know what Tyler Breeze needs more than anything else.

Vicki Guerrero.

Tyler Breeze would make an awesome ally to Brad Maddox.

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GIMME SOME FIVE!

Big E vs English ballet dancer wannabe

:heart: Emma

Aksana's theme seems get even more burlesque each time.

Big E vs. Glass Joe

Evil Al Snow is back with a vengeance

lol Bo-lievers, more like Bo-leavers AMIRITE?

Go Regal Go!

Latest episode (Hulu version): http://www.hulu.com/watch/505325

I do love the crowd turning their back to Bo

Emma ia so fucking great. Loved her backstage interview.

Very "Impact Zone esque"

It needs to stop.

Those people paid good money to not be punished by having to watch Bo Dallas.

Funny enough I think a lot of those people were Impact Zone fans

Lol it explains a lot.

:lol: crowd still does the back turn to Bo and Krugger acting his usual crazyness.

Love Emma. Love Paige. My two favorite girls in the WWE.

Lol at Bo Dallas holding the title upside down and being a goof in general. Leo Kruger is really good, but something is missing for me. I don't know -- he just seems...there. I was thinking, in passing, that I wouldn't mind it if he joined The Shield, since they're doing this whole mercenary thing with him. I'm not sure if that's a good idea, though.

I really liked the Redneck Resistance of Garret Dylan & Scott Dawson. There was something really cool about the way they worked, and I liked the idea of them having a French manager. Still love Kassius Ohno & Corey Graves, no matter what Gertner says.

Dylan and Dawson aren't big enough.

Aksana is a straight up whore

love her

lol Regal being a creep when Emma shows up

Leo Kruger is underrated

he's the best

Leo Kruger vs Shelton Benjamin Jr.

LARIATOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

why do they shoot Conor O'Brien's promos in Laser Tag places?

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DALLAS

why is Bo Dallas' finishing move an arm drag essentially?

Leo Kruger is weird and creepy and has a personality. I'm a fan.

I would love Aiden English as a comedic protege to Damien Sandow.

I'm all for this. :y: He can be Sandow's "understudy" and help him win matches and shit. He'd be like the Virgil to Sandow's DiBiase.

Kind of like Mickey Keegan for some reason I cannot explain.

Aksana looks like she should be doing Euro porn on trains and shit.

Kind of like that about them. I really liked how Regal sort of went behind the front story of "Sylvester saw them in a fight at a musical festival" and said that there's more to these guys. In a way that was perfectly fine with me (not breaking the fourth wall, but merely pointing out that they are trying to present themselves a certain way -- kind of like mind games) he kind of made their gimmick seem like just that -- a gimmick designed to get them noticed.

I'm not saying they should be beating The Wyatt Family any time soon, but I like that there is an air of mystery about them and their style.

I guess my point is: If these guys were big, they would be two rednecks who are big, and we've seen that before. The way these guys are presented are sort of like The Eliminators posing as simple rednecks. And they've got a French manager? Weird.

If the rumors of The Briscoe Brothers coming to the WWE are true (and I know you'll hate that, Gertner), I would love to see the "real rednecks" go against these two, on NXT at the very least. The smarky crowd down there would be right into The Briscoes and there's a relaxed style that they have on the mic that I think would fit NXT well.

Still want Emma to be called up to the main roster as Brad Maddox's assistant. Then she would be the assistant to the assistant of the managing supervisor of Monday Night RAW. They could have some fun with that. Maddox would clearly adore Emma, and Vickie Guerrero, being the jealous cougar that she is would give Emma occasional matches on RAW. Emma would be all mock excited, not expecting the opportunities, but appreciating them nonetheless, only to find out that her opponent is Tamina Snuka or something like that. Emma would upset Snuka and dance only to get attacked post-match. Just harmless little fun Diva segments to get the hot Aussie over.

Bayley should come up with Bray Wyatt and just be a weird brainwashed girl.

Paige can make her debut as "the newest major signing to the Divas Division," win a few matches and then be made fun of by Fandango and Summer Rae in a backstage segment, where Fandango hits on her and then calls her "pasty." Wade Barrett comes to Paige's defense (he'd have issues at the time) and the two would form a make-shift alliance against the dancing duo. They'd win a mixed tag against the heels and Paige would help Barrett finally knock-off Fandango one-on-one. A weird embrace between the two could give Barrett and Paige and dimension and direction as a "Beauty and the Beast" type babyface duo.

Just talked about Aiden English as an understudy to Damien Sandow. I don't now what to really expect from English, but I think he would be fine on the main roster as a henchman and just someone to take falls for Sandow's opponents before Sandow gets in there with them.

Actually wouldn't mind it if Judas Devlin was called up as an anti-Sandow type babyface. I haven't seen him work, but his character sounds pretty intriguing. He's like an intellectual philosophy major that believes in anarchy or something. He could be a modern Raven-type character. He could really get under Sandow's skin. Or he could be another understudy to Sandow, and he and Aiden English could form a heel tag team.

Dylan and Dawson are basically midget versions of Cade and Murdoch and not nearly half as good.

Cade and Murdoch might be the most under-rated tag team of the past decade. Absolutely LOVED them.

Lol Emma should debut as 3MB's backup dancer. It'd be hilarious.

Second only to Deuce 'n' Domino

I always loved Cade (can't believe he's dead), but Trevor Murdoch always had something about him. He looked so old-school and like a brawler who just wanted to kick your teeth in, but he was kinda graceful and bizarrely athletic. Kind of miss him now.

Man, Zeb Colter getting behind a returning Murdoch would be awesome. When you think about it, Colter should really try and have someone going after each title, since there aren't any "Real Americans" holding any of them. Murdoch as a mid-card representative of Colter's would be pretty cool. He could sing "America the Beautiful" before all his matches.

Murdoch's weird country singing thing was better than Cade and Murdoch together

Deuce N' Domino are super underrated though

I never liked Deuce N' Domino. Just never did. I wanted to bang Cherry for some odd reason, and I liked Domino. He would do little things in his matches to try and stand out away from the gimmick. Deuce was like he was an actual greaser, whereas Domino was like "I'm dressing as a greaser, but I'm actually a beast that is just doing this so I have a job." And I mean that in a good way.

My problem is a lot of gimmicks are that it makes no sense as to why that person is a good wrestler. That's what I really dug about Goldust -- he was this talented guy with a great lineage who dressed up like a freak to take your mind off that and fuck with you. When The Boogeyman initially debuted, I could have gone one of two ways on it:

1. OK, he's this big guy who is trained as a wrestler, was going to be a part of this TV show that didn't go ahead, and has now gone so deep into the character that he believes that he's actually this supernatural otherworldly being and actually can't feel pain and freaks the shit out of everyone.

2. He's an actual Boogeyman?

I can suspend disbelief for the first one, but the second one just becomes too cheesy for me. And that's where Fandango is at the moment with me. He's come in as this world class ballroom dancer, and that's fine. Is he actually a dancer, or is he just using the flamboyance to catch his opponents off-guard? He uses his agility and dexterity in his matches, which makes perfect sense. But the WWE could very easily reduce him to comedy gimmick where he's actually a dancer and would rather be dancing than wrestling. So far, all his dancing has been to knock people off their guards or to earn the ire of future opponents (like when he turned on Wade Barrett and threw the match with Jericho and Miz -- seemed stupid at the time, but all of a sudden he was in the Intercontinental Title picture).

One day, I'd like it to come out that Johnny Curtis (or whatever name they eventually decide to give him) was never actually a dancer. He was just a professional wrestler who had all of us and all his opponents fooled. He got opportunities, got a hot woman by his side and took the world by storm.

I actually loved it when Curt Hawkins & Tyler Reks showed up and played awkward male strippers. They hinted at it one week "No, your other job" and then Reks and Hawkins came out in tights made to look like male underwear and Hawkins was so perfectly awkward that it was kind of funny. Reks was more natural, because it had been implied that it was one of his jobs before arriving in the WWE. I don't think it would have worked as a long-term thing, but in the short-term, it was pretty harmless and was a gimmick that was aware of itself.

Maybe I just hated Deuce N' Domino because I felt they unjustly ruined that epic Tag Team Title reign Paul London & Brian Kendrick were having. Those guys were tearing it up in perfectly fun tag team matches every week, and although they were never in anything major, they would constantly get PPV spots just to warm up the crowd and shit and it worked. They were never super-over, but they did their job and there would have been a time to take the titles off them and go from there.

London & Kendrick's tag team rivalry with Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch could have really been something, too. Not a draw, but a solid piece of RAW each week to get crowds going and such. It looked like we were once going to get Edge, Lance Cade & Trevor Murdoch vs. Triple H, Paul London & Brian Kendrick or something like that, but then Triple H Pedigree'd London & Kendrick like they were goofs. And of course, in doing that, they did become goofs. Yeah, they both sort of had this "entitlement" issue, but it just seemed so illogical and silly to not capitalise on guys like that and at least give them a shot to deliver.

Kendrick would get the opportunity of a life-time on SmackDown later as one of my favourite characters of all-time, The Brian Kendrick (seriously one of the best things ever that people weren't ready for), but London never really got a chance to even be a jobber after his tag stint with Kendrick. If time heals wounds and both guys can still go, I would not be opposed to seeing London & Kendrick brought up as a babyface tag team. Seth Rollins & Roman Reigns will eventually need babyface to beat, and London & Kendrick are the longest reigning WWE Tag Team Champions of all-time. You'd have to explain them to people, but...oh, I give up, I know it will never happen. :(

If fucking Kendrick just stayed off the weed. I honestly think the dude was going to win Money in the Bank at WrestleMania XX. He was a little obnoxious heel that could work, talk, looked pretty and had a big fuck-off bodyguard and was presented as an evil genius. Would have fit him so well.

When I say Deuce N' Domino I mean Domino and Cherry

Deuce was pretty lame

I don't really ever want to see people fail, but Deuce never took off for him. Even as Sim Snuka, he was just there. Domino is a guy I'd like to see get another shot. Kind of seemed like there was something there. I liked his idea of being this guy who targeted all the top guys in WWE to make a name for himself. I'm fine with The Shield as it is, but if they wanted to add another guy to its ranks, I mentioned Leo Kruger earlier, but I think Domino could be another good candidate, since he's still working and has managed to keep himself out of TNA and stuff.

Or, imagine some sort of anti-Shield? Leo Kruger, Domino and some other guy who has got a ton of potential, looks the part and isn't going to fuck up. Even someone like Justin Gabriel, who has got the background of being a member of the Nexus and is familiar to the WWE Universe and has got some exciting moves. Kruger and Gabriel are both South African, so they can play off that connection, but that helps Domino stand out (what is his connection to them?).

The Shield would just be celebrating a victory in the ring when suddenly, over the barricade come Gabriel, Kruger and Domino, dressed like The Shield is. Ambrose, Rollins & Reigns have no clue what is going on when Gabriel, Kruger & Domino hit the ring and start brawling with The Shield and clear the ring of them.

The story can be that they're sick of seeing The Shield dominate. Kruger can point out that they've got the trophies and he wants to hunt them. Domino can say that there's targets on their heads and he's here to collect on the bounty their success has built for themselves. Gabriel can say they might be The Hounds of Justice, but they are The Wolves of Vengeance, and they're taking their spot as the most dominant faction in all of WWE. With their South African accents, it might sound weird, but it would kind of give them this otherworldy integrity. Plus, as faces, if they manage to beat The Shield, they can then move on to a feud with The Wyatt Family. There are too many heel factions running around and no one to really challenge them.

If they don't want to bring back Domino, have Corey Graves do it. He may work better as a loner, but he's familiar with The Shield from their NXT work and having some bigger guys behind him might lend him credibility. His smaller frame could be hidden by some sort of uniform, and despite his lack of size, he's deceptively strong and able to work a faster-paced style and oozes a sort of "hit me and I'll just come back harder" mentality.

Loved Reks and Hawkins stripper gimmick. It would have gotten over.

Their matches with the Hardyz were tremendous. Loved their Sweet and Sour finisher. They had some nice double team moves. Murdoch would do a front atomic drop and hold him there while Cade would do a running big boot. Cade would pick Murdoch up in a belly to back suplex and drop Murdoch into a leg drop on his opponent. They functioned as a real tag team.

Did not like Deuce and Domino one bit.

Deuce and Domino's theme music alone is better than pretty much anything in WWE today.

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Plus Domino's Andrew Dice Clay impression is awesome.

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"OOOOH!"

Gilbert Gottfried's Dice Clay impression is even awesomer!


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Had the same thought about Kruger whilst watching the latest episode. I love his in-ring style, it seems so purposeful, but I don't see where he'd fit on the main roster.

As a mercenary brought in by Ambrose to strengthen their ranks, Kruger could be the wildcard that goes too far, which creates friction between Reigns/Rollins and Ambrose.

Would love that. Apart from that, I just think he'd be a creepy heel beating Justin Gabriel every now and then.

Just me, or does Corey Graves have a little Jeff Hardy about him?

I hope not.

When Bill DeMott is fired for the many complaints filed against him, will he be beaten down by wrestlers on an episode of NXT in a kayfabe angle as to why he's departing?

I hope not. Even a little Jeff Hardy would kill a normal man.

Corey Graves would be a cool addition to the Wyatt Family down the road as a sympathetic character who ends up turning face.

Now that you mention it he does a fair bit as far as look but he's not a spot monkey at least not yet that could very well change but I doubt it.

I didn't mean an exact replica. Obviously there's a similarity in look but I think Graves has a touch of charisma similar to Hardy's that could take him quite far.

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Big E was right, Bo never stops smiling during promos.

:lol: Enzo Amore and that match

What an uppercut by Cesaro to Kruger

Hulu Plus version: http://www.hulu.com/watch/507691

Renee Young is the best

whoever came up with Bray Wyatt and thought of Husky Harris to portray him is a genius

Enzo Amore is weird and awesome

I think I read somewhere that it was Dusty Rhodes' idea.

I think I read that too, but I didn't want to commit to it

Dare I say it?




I'll say it quietly.






Bo Dallas is actually pretty good with this new character; he might go somewhere with this deluded, smiley babyface that everybody hates. Talking about being in the Rumble, wrestling at Mania, his Bo-lievers. The crowd were chanting "We The People" during the Main Event and then started chanting for Kruger when he attacked post-match. Looks like they've taken note that nobody likes Bo and used it to their advantage.

Gonna repost something I said to that effect in the Tables, Ladders and Podcast thread...

Bo Dallas is so obviously bad and obviously corny when he cuts a promo I seriously feel like WWE is literally trolling people with his push. Like they're trying to make him into the first "intentional Cena". Which if done right, could be kinda genius/awesome.

Bo Dallas reminds me of what I imagined people must have felt when they saw Rocky Maivia become Intercontinental Champion. Imagine if it turned out that Dallas really does have the talent of his brother to portray a character (remember when Bray Wyatt was just Husky Harris?) and he suddenly became fucking awesome on us.

Christ Cesaro was tremendous in that match, the schoolboy to the outside was great.

I love Paige way too much. That match between her and Alicia Fox was all I ask Divas matches to be. Love how over Paige is.

I can't tell if Bo Dallas is a babyface that is a heel or a heel that is a babyface.

Xavier Woods is so fucking good. He'd make a perfectly good mid-card babyface on the main roster. There's something about Scott Dawson I really like. Where the fuck did that guy come from?

I like the way that Mason Ryan's opponents have formed a bit of a bond in order to try and stop him. It makes sense. Enzo Amore and Colin Cassady could be a New York-themed The Brian Kendrick and Ezekiel Jackson, a duo I really loved.

I've been impressed with Woods on his last couple of outings, which is impressive given that I couldn't work out why WWE signed him. Again, I don't quite see where he would fit right now.

Just seems that the Main Rosters are full of guys that aren't really going anywhere. The likes of Rhodes, Barrett, Sandow need to move up to declutter the midcard/make room for these new guys.

Actually, a Percy Watson/Xavier Woods tag team would be fun. If, y'know, they hadn't fired Percy Watson :-\

The Antonio Cesaro vs. Bo Dallas match was great. The story told was fantastic. Cesaro did his part perfectly and Kruger was fucking awesome at ringside. Bo Dallas' finisher needs some work, though. Why not let him win matches with a Flatliner? He can hit it out of nowhere like his belly-to-belly suplex, and it's also similar to his brother's Sister Abigail finisher, which could be a little in-joke about their relation.

Watson & Woods would have been great together. The WWE seems to find it hard to make babyface tag teams that are worth a shit.

Would love to see Kruger win an NXT Money in the Bank Ladder Match and stalk Bo Dallas constantly.

Bo Dallas is not entertaining enough to use the Flatliner. Let's not sully a perfectly good finisher.

Never really liked the Flatliner myself.

You're probably thinking of the shitty Downward Spiral / Mic Check / Token Black Guy finisher variations.

All of which are still better than Bo.

I wonder what the general mark thinks if they tune into NXT. How do they put together that Langston is a face in NXT and a heel on the main rosters? And all this stuff with the Wyatt's coming, when they've already been here for months?

NXT is the best part of WWE right now so I would imagine they would be happy.

Bo Dallas stole his finisher from the nearly crippled Andre the Giant

I am a bit disappointed in Rick Victor- where did those amazing shades go? :'(

:wtf:

I swear Bo Dallas' finisher is a hiptoss

It is, stolen from Andre the Giant, minus Andre falling on you.

He may well be the next John Cena.