I do love Scott Dawson. He just does little things I enjoy. I don't think he's a World Champion waiting to happen or anything, but he could be a useful mid-card act. Especially with Alexa Bliss.

Love Scott Dawson, he is a natural in the ring and is decent on the mic. I am not too convinced about Alexa Bliss in her current gimmick though, Emma is already working on a similar audience target on Raw and not successfully yet.

I loved the tag team of El Local and Calisto but Ricardo really needs to hit the gym and lose the belly if he wants to be an in-ring competitor.

I can't wait for El Local to turn on Kalisto and lose his mask only for it to be revealed El Local is Ricardo Rodriguez.

WHERE THE FUCK IS ENZO

Would love Enzo to handle backstage interview duties or commandeer the commentary booth.

Enzo and Dawson have both been training the past month or so to get back and be medically cleared for action. I expect not too long now, but the recent spoilers suggest Colin Cassady has a new manager :'(

I could totally see Enzo ripping on Big Cass for being whipped by his new manager.

I've decided how I want Sasha Banks vs. Charlotte to go (provided that is the plan -- we still have Natalya vs. Banks to go...):

* Banks and Charlotte do their best to tear it up at Takeover, and the end result sees Charlotte win after she cheats and hits Sasha with the NXT Women's Title while the referee is distracted with Ric Flair or something.

* Charlotte has a coronation with her dad there. Sasha crashes the party and asks why she wasn't invited along. Charlotte tells Sasha she would have done the same. Banks says that she wouldn't have hit Charlotte with a title, and Flair interjects and tells her that's why she isn't championship material. Flair tells her that champions use people -- he used the Four Horsemen, and Charlotte used the BFFs. Sasha can choose to second the Women's Champion, or go back to the street corner where she belongs. Sasha then kicks Flair between the legs. Charlotte tries to blast Sasha with the belt again, but Sasha ducks and then clears the ring of Charlotte. Sasha then hits Bankrupt on Flair to end the segment.

* Charlotte and Sasha Banks have another match where they beat the crap out of each other. Eventually Sasha wins the Women's Title, since she should be pretty over at this point.

Good triple threat match this week

Does Aiden English have Trollface on his pants?

:lol: Regal wanting to randomly beat up CJ Parker

Triple threat match was good.

I liked the Triple Threat and that cool suplex spot, but I was kind of hoping for more. I'm a selfish prick.

The title match at NXT Takeover seems like an odd choice to me. The match will rock off socks, but Kidd's character doesn't really seem developed enough for that yet. I'd like to see Neville get a chance to promo about how he's more scared of Kidd than he was Brodus Clay, because he knows he has to work harder and smarter to be better than bigger guys; but now he's going against someone who has made a career out of working harder and smarter to be better.

I felt like Aiden English should have beaten Mojo Rawley. I like English's thing where he's actually very credible if you look at how much he dominates anyone that's not a main roster Superstar when it comes to win-loss records. He'd have made a good challenger for Neville down the line.

I liked the Alexa Bliss vs. Charlotte match, which is a good sign for the Divas, in that it's not just matches with Paige, Bayley, Sasha Banks and Emma I enjoy.

Would actually really like to see a William Regal vs. CJ Parker feud, where Regal just rants about how the youth of today are so entitled and need to shower and get real jobs.

Justin Gabriel and Adam Rose could eventually form a South African-gimmicked tag team when Gabriel comes back. Either on the main roster or in NXT if Rose is pushed back like Kidd and Clay were.
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I don't see the need to have Adam Rose paired with Justin Gabriel. But I have been thinking about where J-Gabe plugs in.

Renee Young on commentary this week!

Also, I miss Bo Dallas' old theme.

Oh no! Bo Dallas has to leave NXT! Whatever will he do?!

Curt Hawkins sighting.... MAIN EVENT PLAYER

Tyson Kidd and Adrian Neville on the mic.... terrible..... Though Neville had a good line at the end....

Tyson Kidd still looks like a giant goomba, even with hair now.

i don't think neville is that a bad on the mic. obviously still developing. kidd, however, is just not very good. FACT!

Just can't take Neville seriously because of his accent

Like the worst accent ever

i love his accent :(

It's not a sophisticated English accent like William Regal.
It's not a badass English accent like Wade Barrett.
It's not a comedic English accent like Rockstar Spud.

It's just... I dunno... an awkward English accent.

:lol: Renee's sudden outburst of hatred of Tim Tebow

Best part from this week's episode was the Breeze music video. :lol: him dedicating the song to all his fans even the uggo ones.

Tyler Breeze has suddenly got it all clicked together. I like that he is biding his time with his title shot. They could turn it into a Money in the Bank type deal. I'm interested to see where they are going with Tyson Kidd. Does another loss to Neville push him over the edge? Does he turn heel and actually win the NXT Title? Both are workable, but Neville probably gets more out of being champion at this point. Have him beat Kidd again and then Kidd turns.

I feel like NXT needs a heel stable of former WWE main roster talent who come to NXT to try and stay relevant

Curt Hawkins, JTG & Zack Ryder.

I'd like to see Epico & Primo play themselves down in NXT and pretend to have no connection to Los Matadores. They might make decent stop-gap challengers to The Ascension.

This was glorious:

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lol that looks amazing, I need to catch this week's NXT now.

HE TOUCHED MY BUM

:lol: Bo

Caught up with the last two weeks. Good stuff.

Loved the Bo Dallas bit, and the Neville/Kidd match. Interested to see where they go with Tyson Kidd from here.

Also, after Breeze's music video, I am slightly more sold on his new music.... But not all the way there, because the old one worked better with his entrance motions.

Loved the whole Kidd/Natalya/Neville saga, pretty sure Kidd is going to "break up" with Natalya and turn full-on heel. One of the top ring moves from Kidd which turned into a bulldog of kind was more impressive than most finishers out there.

Mr NXT was awesome and ran just enough to be entertaining but not overly silly.

Huge Vaudevillains fan already

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1000% in on the vaudevillains

Absolutely love it. I think this will also translate well on Raw/Smackdown too.

Nah, not gonna translate over well at all.... but I can enjoy it while it lasts.

Wow Lock Jaw I didn't know your real name was Debbie Downer.

WHO TOLD Y- I mean... Ahaha, a very nice jest, sir. :shifty:

Vaudevillians = Amazing

just watching it now. vaudevillains are awesome, but lock jaw is probably right.

WHEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE
LIKE A BIG PIZZA PIE
THAT'S....

I want him back. Now.

Holy fuck, The Vaudevillians are amazing. Definitely won't translate well to the WWE, but prrtty fucking awesome.

I can't see them being taken "seriously" as a heel team, if that makes sense. I kind of want The Ascension to just move up already, just so some teams that aren't as "heavy" get some time with the titles. As I suggested earlier, I'd actually really love it if Epico & Primo returned as a face team in NXT and won the titles. They could do some great work with The Vaudevillains, Jason Jordan & Tye Dillinger and Kalisto/El Local.

Sami Zayn vs. Tyson Kidd will be awesome. As a face, Kidd has all the tools in the ring, but just didn't...connect. A vicious heel run would allow him to show off his strengths and maybe get more noticed. I wouldn't mind it if Kidd became a Paul Heyman Guy. Brock Lesnar, Cesaro and Tyson Kidd...three very different competitors.

BULLY TO ALL OF YOU BULLY I SAY

Inno Knows. The rest of you can can go one on one with the Demon Kane!

:lol: "Standing at a combined height of"

Renee adorable

Bull Dempsey would do good with a "Road Block" gimmick

Really seems like he should be fighting in mid-90s WCW Saturday Night

Miss Summer Rae's old NXT theme. Was so good.

Yay, Enzo

Dammit, what the hell. RVD on NXT.

Good, he jobbed.

:D Enzo

:lol: Becky Lynch accidentally punching herself from the uppercut she gave to Summer Rae.

bull dempsey not working for me

more women wrestlers, especially the shorter ones, should hit the second rope when running the ropes. it would look more natural, and they'd get more momentum. it always looks so awkward when they have to stretch up and hit the top rope, and end up moving slower than when they started which kind of defeats the purpose.

and of course i'm a big becky lynch fan. nice finisher.

big cass is so awesome. good to see a dominant tall guy in nxt.

ENZOOOOOO!!!!!

Bull Dempsey is awesome

my favorite duo in the entire wwe

bull dempsey will never make it. guaranteed.

So many tag teams in NXT. If only the Ascension would lose the titles so they could leave and have major competition between other teams for the titles.

<font color=goldenrod>Becky Lynch is so cute :heart: even if the jig is awful</font>

I am not convinced about Bull Dempsey myself, his debut should have been better.

<font color=goldenrod>I don't know what I dislike more about Sawyer Fulton, the awful ring gear or the awful necklace tattoo</font>

I find it odd that they not only gave him a 2nd look, but also a slight push. I kind of like the gimmick, but it won't translate well outside of NXT.

Bull Dempsey is a stud. Dude has 'it'

BFF's breakup felt a bit anti-climatic overall assuming that was actually it this week.

:lol: Regal's on-going verbal trashing of CJ Parker. NXT's version of the sudden tirades JBL gets whenever he sees the Bunny.

Didn't the BFFs win their match? Maybe I missed something, but I didn't see a breakup.

Was from a segment afterwards where Charlotte said she's done being Sasha's tag partner and the group itself.

Hmmm... didn't see that happen....

Really interesting to read through early pages of this thread.

It's been a pretty good ride so far.

I thought Xavier Woods was an odd choice as the first guy to have Bull Dempsey steam-roll. I'm not sold on him, but Gertner is, and Gertner is usually right. I want the persona to succeed, but he just looks like such a baby-faced guy. It feels like the guy should have a massive chip on his shoulder. He seems like the sort of personality that would have done really well in ECW or on the Heyman SmackDown era.

Becky Lynch is adorable. I love how the women are treated down in NXT. I'm thinking Summer Rae beats Bayley (haven't read the spoilers) and Sasha appears in her corner against Charlotte. Meanwhile, Banks can get wins against Alexa Bliss and Bayley to build her up as a challenger.

NXT is getting more and more great tag teams, but I still want Epico & Primo as NXT Tag Champs, dammit! I know I'm the only one. Big Cass & Enzo will be your next champs, I'm betting.

Speaking of NXT Renee Young is moving on up. She's now full time announcer for Superstars. Let's hope she can move up to Smackdown or Raw.

I really want to see Christian join an announce team. I've always thought he'd make a great commentator, although not all good talkers do. His work on panel shows has been, in my opinion, exemplary. He knows what to focus on when putting guys over. Plus, he's quick-witted enough to jabber back and forth and not look lost. He's funny enough to make nice quips. And he's got the ability to play both a face and heel character well. I think he'd have a good dynamic with Michael Cole and JBL. He'd bicker with JBL just enough to give different perspectives, but not enough for it to become distracting from the show. Trial it out on SmackDown.

<font color=goldenrod>Nooooo this thread can't be on the second page!

Feel like it's been said ad nauseum on here but they seriously need to either call the Ascension up or just get rid of them at this point. I believe they're both in their mid-30s or so and have been in development for several years. Actually I think this is Konnor's second run with the company so he's probably somewhere around 7-8 years in development. I really don't think there's anything left for them to do in NXT. They need to sink or swim on the main roster.</font>

I think they put the Ascension in a holding pattern until Enzo was healthy

Discussion in this thread dropped dramatically once it got on the WWE network and people stopped posting links. I am guilty of it too.

Ya, definitely need to do something with the Ascension. They started off soo good as a 5 person stable :'(

Dude looks like Community's "Fat Neil" in a singlet and he is legit just ripping off Eddie Kingston's promo style and catch phrase.

Please make him go away.

No

No

nononononononono

LOL

I kinda guessed that would happen. I don't really care for either of them so the worst now is I get to ignore them both together.

So Bull is now a face?

Seemed odd how they suddenly broke up a few tag teams even though a big tag team tournament is about to start.

Bull Dempsey is everything, including the next NXT champion!

If it happens in the indies then it didn't happen

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