Leon Ruff tried a springboard move but it took him a few tries to get his spot. Looked weird.

How close am I to the lead for posts in this thread already? Gotta be close.

Aliyah seems weird.... been there forever, never given any sort of momentum or focus or anything, and will seemingly never be called up either.....

but you're a cultist. you aren't allowed to post in here xD

Grizzled Young Veterans with the win. Match was good.

lol damn I forgot. I can only post about that other company I also watch/enjoy.

I remember watching that Breaking Ground series a few years ago. She was featured quite a bit, wanted to have a belly dancer gimmick. She always seemed really boring to me.

Gargano/Theory with a post-match beatdown on KUSHIDA. Dexter Lumis just staring weirdly to spook Theory.

This Dexter dude is weird-looking.

No Cruiserweight Title match. Damn. Regal firing into the Legado locker room. That shit was tight.

Maybe setting up a Kross feud. Nice.

Toni Storm in the house :y:

Io Shirai will take no more of this slander. Also her theme is good.

Mercedes Martinez hits the ring. Business has picked up!

Isaiah "Swerve" Scott promo with the pretty lady. Seems like a heel now. Maybe he always was, I don't know. Seems good.

Had to pause to do some work and take a giant shit (not at the same time). I am back now.

Imperium video package. I like them.

Cole/Strong promo with the pretty lady. They are facing Ciampa and Thatcher next week I guess. Looking forward to that match.

"Swerve" vs Bronson Reed now. Did Reed get a new theme song in the last few months?

The running senton is such a good fat guy move.

Top rope splash also a good fat guy move. Sick.

Finn Balor/Kyle O'Reilly vs Oney Lorcan and Danny Birch. This should be a fun one.

I was right, that was fun. Prefer brawling to a lot of flippy stuff usually.

Pete Dunne in the house for a beatdown!

UE vs Dunne, Lorcan, and Birch would be a fun six-man match.

That was a good episode. I hope last night's show is uploaded soon.

She's been hit with a double whammy of sorts.

NXT's Women's division is way too stuffed because of multiple reasons that WWE doesn't care to fix and whenever she gets any real tv time to develop or build any momentum, NXT Creative pulls a "Vince" by getting quickly bored of her each time.

Lucha House Party vs. Legado de Fantasma was a must watch. Other matches were all good. Ready for Io vs. Toni. And Balor vs. Dunne is a classic in the making. I'm kind of weirded out by face UE, just doesn't seem right.

Ciampa deciding to grow out his hair is...a choice. Makes him look 70 years old.

This was extremely well done, but I still cant for the life of me figure out why Finn Balor is down in NXT. It makes no sense.

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Finn Balor is better than at least 75% of the current WWE roster and I might be short changing him here.

If Finn is there to put Pete Dunn over ( and btw, without watching any NXT in the last 2 months, Pete Dunn looks so much damn better right now visibly ), than I get it, but Finn needs to be a Main Roster guy. He has to get back up there. He's wayyyy too over. WWE is killing themselves not putting him back on the main roster.

Watching this week's episode now. Kai/Gonzalez are a v good team.

Annoying box promo from this other team.

Who was the play-by-play guy on NXT been before Tom Phillips? I thought he was good.

Rich Brennan. Got it.

Catanzaro climbing the set for that cross body was neat

Wade Barrett became a US citizen. Sick

Is this Alyse woman who does interviews sometimes the same woman who did (maybe still does?) This Week in WWE with Scott Stanford?

I liked what I saw from Austin Theory when he was on RAW. Leon Ruff p good too.

Official Spray Tan tossing Gargano from ringside after Leon Ruff's trickery. Damn.

Dexter Lumis stopping Theory from using the ring bell. What a jerk.

I do not know who Tian Sha is, but that video was neat

Legado del Fantasma vs Lucha House Party was really good

Edge challenging the NXT Champion would be really cool

lol Gargano with the other pretty interview lady. That was a good segment.

Toni Storm time

Cameron Grimes coming back next week. Ugh.

Santos Escobar so good

Kross vs. Escobar should be a good match

Is there a reason they're calling it Vengeance Day instead of just Vengeance?

Wait I just realized the date of the show

When did UE turn face? This is weird.

Damn that main event was good. Expected UE to go over.

Thatcher/Ciampa a v fun team though

Around the time Pat McAfee showed up and feuded with Adam Cole.

Before that feud, it looked like UE were going to split up with Cole & O'Reilly as faces and Strong & Fish as heels.

Oh okay. I only saw a little of the Cole/McAfee stuff so I guess I didn't pay much attention.

According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, WWE is making another change to NXT's creative team and its related to their recent hiring of a new head person for the company's main roster creative team.

The amount of people working in NXT's creative team has bloated by a lot since the switch to the USA Network. Used to be just 1 writer and a couple of NXT officials at most helping out in a support role. Now they have their own small crew of writers and a larger number of people in a support role.

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that could be a good story the rich hillbilly, didn't jamie noble have the same type story in mid 2004 or somthing.

That was great. I love a good rich hillbilly gimmick!

He needs to hang out with "JAMIE NOBLE BOY!".

Lol exactly!

Watching now. MSK vs Legado - should be tight.

One of the MSK guys hit a Bronco Buster. Nice.

Camera guy had to "bounce" with him. Was bad.

Did not expect MSK to go over. Match was good though.

Xia Li character seems neat. Would watch more squash matches.

I like the person/entity in the chair calling the shots too.

lol Wade saying Gargano is "unable to walk due to a broken arm." Tremendous

Johnny said to roll the footage, then Candace covered his eyes during it. I love this segment.

Ember Moon and Shotzi rolling out on a tank. Sick

Decent match despite a few botches. Moon/Shotzi vs Kai/Gonzalez final should be good :y:

Looks like Kushida raided Jimmy Wang Yang's wardrobe.

Dexter Lumis v creepy

Ugh. Cameron Grimes

V interesting opening promo from KOR.

Blackheart Moon vs. The Way to start off this week.

Man, I missed Swerve. He should be on TV killing it every week.

I don't understand any of this Xia Li angle, but NXT is trying to reach new fans in China I guess, so...

Cameron Grimes hick hop promo :lol:

Cameron Grimes is great

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I will admit this made me laugh.

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My favorite part of that is after he hits the last guy, he throws like $3000 on the ground and leaves. Could have saved himself $2000 by just letting the dude dribble :rofl:

Dexter Lumis has a very crisp looking Thesz Press.

Apparently Adam Pearce is now a heel authority figure based on what went down with the Women's Tag title match on tonight's show.

One of Regal's big announcements ended up being the introduction of new NXT Women's tag titles but the actual inaugural title match happened way sooner than rumored.

Also :lol: at NXT pulling a page out of main roster creative for how bad they handled the whole thing.



Everything about last week's WWE Women's Tag title match and tonight's NXT Women's Tag title stuff was way dumber than it should have been.

The whole Gargano and Candice pretending they are actually Theory and Hartwell's parents, and trying to convince Theory and Hartwell that Dexter Lumis is actually a bad guy and they should stay away from him has been pure comedy.

He'll yeah, love Blackheart Moon.

Starting off with Io/Toni, Jesus Christ this is a loaded episode.

Great match from Io/Toni, dunno how I feel about the ending though.

I really like the idea of NXT Women's tag belts. This particular NXT women's division is as deep and talented as any women's division I've ever seen. I feel like they out wrestle the guys most weeks.

I can't say that I understand why they booked the first night the way they did though.

This Devlin/Escobar storyline has been off the stove for like a whole year now. However, Santos' suitador game is next level.

Fandango dressed like hes the 3rd Gunn brother circa 1995 :lol:

Really good Balor / Cole match. Looks like it might be an Undisputed Street Fight at Takeover

Watching the 1st half of this week's show before SmackDown starts and would not be surprised at all if Toni Storm's new pants look was HBK's dumb idea.

The chaps-esque style and her entrance gear looked very eerie to HBK's 90s entrance look.

They are covering up her biggest asset....

Just finished watching the rest of this week's show. NXT title match was very good but NXT Creative got very lazy when it came to booking match endings for the latter half of the show.

Last 3 matches either ended via a DQ (Kayden Carter vs. Xia Li) or had distractions to setup the finish (Grizzled Young Vets vs. Legado Del Fantasmo and NXT title match).

It was a very good show overall but really not a fan of the growing amount of main roster booking mentality that keeps seeping into NXT these past couple years.

And this is where NXT lost me. It became exactly like everything else.

LA Knight (Eli Drake) making his debut.

WWE pulling a NJPW by having one of the TakeOver matches on Night 2 being based on a match result from Night 1.

Night 1 has a Battle Royale Gauntlet match to determine the #1 contender for the North American belt.

Night 2 has the winner of that match vs. Johnny Gargano for the belt in a regular singles match.

Based on Gargano's current storyline stuff, anyone else besides Dexter Lumis winning on Night 1 and the title would be a big head scratcher but then again Lumis' style of wrestling has been mostly boring in NXT since it doesn't really mesh well with NXT's style. His character and style of wrestling fits a lot better on the main roster instead.

Baring a sudden change, WWE accidentally spoiled the outcome for the NXT UK title match at TakeOver: Stand & Deliver when they officially announced the cards for both nights.

Night 1 has the NXT UK title match between WALTER and Ciampa. Problem is NXT UK is airing their Prelude special the night after and already advertised a NXT UK title match of WALTER vs. Rampage Brown as the headliner for it.

According to the Observer, NXT UK Prelude likely was taped prior to WALTER traveling to the US for his current TakeOver storyline due to scheduling issues and UK's quarantine rules for traveling to the country.

If they swap the NXT UK title match to Night 2, then kayfabe wise it's not a problem since WALTER very likely isn't losing the belt on a non-TakeOver NXT UK show and since that showairs first, it wouldn't affect NXT's Night 2 TakeOver show later in the day.

First year I've given zero shits about WM or NXT's event :(

Yeah, I'll probably tune in for some of it since I have Peacock but I don't expect it to hold my interest.

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lol Roddy Strong saying Cole and O'Reilly can both go to hell

At least they answered definitely if Undisputed Era is still a thing or not just with a new leader. When Bobby Fish returns I hope he comes out in full UE gear and apparently he'd been paying no attention to TV.

Yeah if Ciampa doesn't even want to do the main roster travel, he sure as hell isn't going to Europe a bunch.

Going to be interesting to see if NXT can sustain the energy of a Takeover for 2 nights.

All the matches look good. Really excited for Cole / KOR.

I think Escobar / Devlin didn't really need the stipulation, but I marked out like a little bitch for the way they announced it. Will probably be my match of the weekend. Both guys are just TOO good.


Balor might have to carry Kross, but WALTER / Ciampa will be a slugfest, Johnny Takeover always delivers, and Io Shirai might be the best wrestler in all of WWE right now.

Didn't even realize I first posted this in the wrong WWE-related thread until just now but managed to finish watching the 1st half of this week's NXT show before tonight's Smackdown started.

Opening women's tag match was entertaining. With the way Zoey Stark has been giving a big push/rub right from the start, wouldn't be surprised if she ends up being the first big title feud for Raquel after TakeOver assuming Raquel wins the belt and Io gets called up shortly afterwards.

Promo-wise LA Knight is pretty good compared to others in NXT but in-ring wise, getting some serious Bobby Roode vibes in the sense of him wrestling a lot slower style and his match against Bronson was a bit boring because of it. Roode had a fantastic gimmick in NXT but he also had some of the most boring and very dragged out high profile matches in NXT history as well.

Kross vs. Oney was a splendid hard hitting bout and best match on the show so far.

Seems USA Network lost their exclusivity for Night 1 of next week's two-night Takeover event since its also airing on Peacock.

That's probably going to take a sizable bite out of NXT's viewership next week and turn what should have been a guaranteed ratings win next week into something a lot less etched in stone now.

Night 2 will still be exclusive to Peacock i the US and the WWE Network outside of the US.