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You think there is a call up soon in Asuka's immediate future?
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I want it, but I don't at the same time. Feels like they'll botch it really really bad. I don't think she can cut a promo to be at that level yet which sucks because she's prob my fav women's wrestler right now along with Sasha.
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Just got tickets for nxt Baltimore. I'm like a giddy child right now.
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Finally got round to seeing Joe vs Nakamura, not surprised at how stiff it was. Nakamura's entrance gave me goosebumps, so incredible.
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I'd have Nikki Bella hold the SDL Women's Championship until Becky takes it from her at WrestleMania. After that, there's an obvious rematch for Nikki Bella, who loses again. That'd probably happen at the April PPV SmackDown has exclusively. Then it's onto their May one, where I'd Becky face Lita in a "I get to face my idol" dream match for Becky, where she gets to keep the belt. Asuka then attacks both ladies after the match to make her debut as this vicious heel. She beats Lita in match #2 for Lita -- which puts us at SmackDown's Money in the Bank event. You probably run Asuka vs. Becky at SummerSlam, or do some sort of Triple Threat for the belt and include Lita. If Lita takes the fall, Becky can chase having never truly been beaten by Asuka, and you can start the build to Asuka vs. Becky (w/ Lita) at WrestleMania 34 in Philly. |
Really hope they aren't turning Joe face, and this new humble attitude is just a swerve. Monster heel Joe is the best Joe.
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I really think Joe should have shown up on SmackDown immediately after losing the NXT Title. Not everything needs a rematch.
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Austin Aries should start a petition to have the GTS banned for his feud with Hideo Itami.
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I've been thinking about good opponents for a hypothetical Lance Storm match at NXT Takeover: Toronto. I actually wouldn't be opposed to seeing Angelo Dawkins try and earn a shot at competing against Storm. He's been in NXT forever, and he's started to earn a bit of a following for himself. The NXT faithful would get behind a push. But I guess there's also Oney Lorcan.
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Patrick Clark as the heel in a one off vs Storm could work.
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Cien ditching the suspenders and hat for his entrance was a good idea assuming it wasn't just a one-off for this week.
His shirt still doesn't make sense considering his gimmick has nothing to do with money nor the "100 souls" part of his name. |
They should just call him Cien __________. Whatever his last name is. Ditch the first name. He's not going to catch on as he is.
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God tne nxt crowd booing Cien just made me hate them even more. Like, the guy can clearly go in the ring. He's a pleasure to watch, but he gets booed just because the crowd wants to jack off the internet darling.
He should just turn heel with the reasoning being "fuck you guys". Then the crowd will cheer for him because Full Sail DERP |
And if aries was as good as evrybody says he is, he would have done something, anything, to get the crowd to turn on him, but he didn't.
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He could easily transition into a heel, but his ring style is built for a face.
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There was also a pretty loud dueling chant of "AUSTIN ARIES" and "SUCKS!", so it wasn't as one-sided as you're making it sound here.
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Austin Aries used to be one of my favorite guys to watch in the ring. ROH had a lot of guys that kind of grated me, because they would stretch matches out for the sake of stretching them out. Aries was about the only guy who would keep me captivated an entire match. I think he's got a good gimmick too. I'm looking forward to seeing Roderick Strong debut and how that affects Aries. I'm also looking forward to Hideo Itami vs. Austin Aries. |
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And I'm not buying the presentation excuse. Yes, it's bad, but the NXT crowd has been mostly appreciative of in-ring work. Crews was the same vacant smile, babyface and he didn't have to put up with this shit,. And Almas actually has a little more personality and character than crews, with his showmanship in the ring. |
God, really says a lot about Crews' character when a guy who can't speak english has more of a personality than him.
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I understand why they did it because he has a likable face but I liked Almas as La Sombra. His mask was one of the better lucha mask I've seen. The suspenders and fedora just isn't a good look in my opinion.
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He's been bringing me on his side quickly, and his superb theme helps too.
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So are these 'Sanity' videos going to be for Eric Young? Seems like with the next Takeover being in Canada it would be the best time to have him make his "debut".... Hopefully they don't stick him with another Canadian in "The Perfect 10" and give him Blake or Murphy and let him keep the Piledriver.
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Between Bobby Roode, Tye Dillinger and Eric Young, there are some Canadians that might be pretty over in Toronto.
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If they throw in Tyson Dux, I'd be completely okay with a "Team Canada" versus a bunch of other guys Survivor Series Elimination Match with the Canadians winning.
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New tapings going on, and damn son some of those new results are.. invigorating.
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Eric Young has a new weirdo stable called Insanity.
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A part of me wants Nakamura to be NXT Champion until he gets called up and has to forfeit the belt. I know that doing the honors is the traditional way to do business, but I feel that Nakamura is special. I don't want to see him vulnerable or beaten. The man is a myth that should just dance through everything.
To me, this is part of the psychic problem surrounding NXT. It's unavoidable, and I know people love the product, but it's that canon/non-canon moving guys from one to the other sort of thing. You also go with these guys and gals on this journey to finding out who they really are, but when they get to the main roster, you see this final product but no one has any clue how they got there. A big part of why The Shield worked -- besides the wonderfully consistant booking, of course -- is because you had these guys grow into those personas before your eyes. Dean Ambrose was never in NXT; Seth Rollins was the babyface champion; Roman Reigns played a cocky heel. For them to kick down the door in their black turtlenecks was...different. We didn't know where we were going with these guys. Does anyone else feel that these guys getting this gimmicks together in NXT and then just slotting into the main roster is kind of bringing them in cold? Maybe this is another one of my "Shut up and stop thinking about wrestling, Noid" moments, but I think this is a large part of why Emma flopped, Tyler Breeze flopped, The Ascension flopped, The Vaudevillains flopped, American Alpha is in the process of flopping (they will be okay though, because Vince will want them saved), etc. A large part of me that enjoys the storytelling element of professional wrestling wants this Sanity angle to happen on the main roster. Maybe they do need some more polish here or there in certain regards, but being rough around the edges can help some guys' charm. If the angle doesn't work, you can always repackage them down in NXT later. |
I still have weird fantasies about the guys in NXT that are ready to move up to the main roster moving up, and Regal bringing in Lance Storm, Finlay, Tajiri and Nick Dinsmore to as a team of veterans to stretch out some of the newer guys. I know it would never happen and most people are kind of snarky about old guys and enjoy NXT hoarding talent, but I'd rather see Roode, Joe, Nakamura and even Dillinger contributing to the main roster. I'd maybe keep Aries down in NXT for a program with Roderick Strong while Strong tries to find something in his presentation that could help him click on the main roster. Maybe bring in James Storm as another "special attraction" guy. But Joe, Roode and Nakamura are ready to start making money.
To my last post, though, I think the timing of some talent being called up is off. They are kept in NXT when they are hot and then they're cooling off when you've got them on the main roster. If getting someone over is like baking a cake, then you're bringing up all these cakes and none of them have been baked in front of the wider audience. "Here's a Superstar we prepared earlier." Can you re-tell the rise of Bayley? I think you can bring them in and try the things that have already worked. Obviously not word-for-word, but Bayley -- who did beat Charlotte and Becky en route to winning the title off Sasha -- could still conceivably find herself behind Charlotte and Sasha in their current incarnations and have a long chase to the belt. But there's something about being there for the first time. Adam Rose is the glaring hole in my theory. He was a guy that called up, but I think that was way too fast. Plus the way he was presented was...weak. I think that's just generally a main roster problem. I guess it really comes down to intuition and when certain guys need to move on and when others need to be kept back. But seriously -- what the fuck is a Samoa Joe or a Shinsuke Nakamura learning in NXT? |
Oh, to my point about never wanting to see Nakamura lose the title to anyone: There is one exception to that, and that's Cesaro.
I'd absolutely adore a frustrated Cesaro, angered that he can't get any respect from Vince McMahon on RAW, jumps to NXT to re-invent himself and prove that he can be a champion. I'm sure the promos won't be as good, but maybe you can get Paul Heyman to help agent Cesaro, and get him to do some "Extreme Superstar" like promos where he blasts the WWE for not being able to realize what a sterling wrestler they continue to marginalize. Nakamura vs. Cesaro is my dream match at the moment, it happening in front of an NXT audience, as annoying as they can get sometimes, would be absolutely tremendous. Cesaro winning the NXT Title before Nakamura makes his way to the main roster in time for WrestleMania would be absolutely gorgeous. Cesaro is not going to be given the chance he wants on the main roster -- and it's arguable that he doesn't have the charisma to carry a brand. But NXT -- which is the wrestling brand -- is one that he would be more than fit to run. It'd give him the chance to look good with a belt, have stellar matches, work on his promo content, his delivery, grow into those big paws he has on the personality front (it's all there, it just hasn't come together yet). Plus, he'd always be the guy that first pinned Nakamura. That could be pretty special. |
That will only make sense if he is still making "WWE money" while down in NXT.... If he has to take a pay cut, he'd likely be able to make much more in the Indies.....
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The nxt graduates that have prospered were all immediately put into an interesting feud and angle upon their arrival on the main roster. It gave people a reason to care about them, on more than an in-ring performance level.
All tne flops just had a few matches with no point, or at the most a barebones, cliched feud, and it's no wonder they didn't catch on. You don't need to change the formula. You just need to have these people make an actual impact on the program when they debut. |
It might be what the main roster is missing affecting my thought processes. I feel very strongly that they could use DIY, The Revival, Asuka, Shinsuke Nakamura, Samoa Joe, Bobby Roode, Sanity, Tye Dillinger and Austin Aries on their main roster tearing things up.
I'm curious to see how the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic goes. Something seems right about a Revival vs. DIY final, but are The Authors in the tournament? I could see them attacking the winners to get something started. I can see separate brackets of Revival vs. DIY and The Authors vs. TM61 leading to a DIY vs. Authors final or something too. I'd be more tempted to keep The Authors out of the tournament and have DIY, The Revival, TM61 and, fuck it, The Dudleys in the semi-final stages. |
Feel like this is the third or fourth time they've repackaged Sawyer Fulton. Hope it works out for him this go around, although that necklace tattoo he has is stupid.
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Pretty interested in Dan Matha.
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Me too. It's just a weird hunch, but I'm expecting him to click it all together pretty well and have a nice little career for himself.
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"They put the Japanese guys together" cynicism aside, I am actually pretty stoked about the Itami/Ibushi team. If they click well together, I'd be okay with them winning the entire tournament. They can't keep bringing in Ibushi to lose tournaments, can they?
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Imagine if Nathan Jones could have worked. Wow.
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12 of the 16 teams for the Dusty Rhodes Classic have now been announced.
NXT Tag Champions The Revival Tye Dillinger & Bobby Roode Johnny Gargano & Tommaso Ciampa The Authors of Pain No Way Jose & Rich Swann Hideo Itami & Kota Ibushi HoHo Lun & Bin Wang Niko Bogojevic & Tucker Knight TM-61 The Bollywood Boyz Tino Sabbatelli & Riddick Moss Andrade "Cien" Almas & Cedric Alexander |
Jose & Swann, Bogojevic & Knight, Bollywood Boyz and Sabbatelli & Moss will hopefully be out in the first round. HoHo Lun and Bin Wang are probably going to suck, but I imagine they will get through. I'm curious to see how they book The Authors in this thing. A countout?
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4 spots open. Well I'm hoping the Addiction dropped the World ROH Tag Team Championships of the World so they could be in the Dusty Rhodes Classic but its wishful thinking. I imagine Aries will team with someone that Ibushi beat in the CWC. Wanted to see him and Roode but I'll give Roode and Dillenger a chance, could be a good team.
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Good theory, but that'd mean it'd have to be Sean Maluta or Brian Kendrick. Something seems off about them. Maybe he gets a completely different partner?
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Maybe Roderick Strong could come in as Aries surprise partner. Aries could one up him by getting one of his old friends to tag with him.
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I was thinking that, but it might seem like it'd be a quick jump for Strong to being an active character. But I suppose he is as ready as he's ever going to be, right?
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He's been ready ever since he left ROH in my opinion. I don't think the guy needs a name change either. They could be saving him to refill NXT after the next wave of call ups.
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DIY v. Team Aries Finals?
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Nah, it'll probably be Aries/Strong vs. DIY in the finals. Either that or Aries/Strong and Ibushi/Itami go to a time limit draw, The Authors beat DIY after The Revival interferes, and at Takeover we get The Revival vs. DIY and Aries/Strong vs. Itami/Ibushi vs. The Authors of Pain. Or maybe it's just Aries/Strong vs. DIY and Itami/Ibushi team up with TM61 or something to face The Revival and Sanity in some sort of Survivor Series tribute.
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Interesting that they've announced the brackets including teams that haven't even debuted yet.
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Can we have the show results in spoiler tags please? Don't need to know how it goes before we get to it.
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Is Patrick Clark's new character/gimmick supposed to be some sort of mashup between Prince and Hunter Hearst Helmsley?
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Also Dan Matha looks like Dory from Finding Nemo in the face. So much for his big debut though. I'd like to see him have a match though.
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Predicting big things for Dan Matha. He might be my Percy Watson though.
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Predicting a gimmick where he's half reptilian. Have you seen the guys skin?
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Feel really bad for Itami. Finally returns after a bunch of complications from his shoulder injury and could even get back his move set since Punk and Bryan are gone/retired only to shortly get put back on the shelf with a new injury.
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Reptar Matha does sound better than plain ole Dan.
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Watching Dan Matha get massacred by Soma Joe was a highlight of my day.
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So piggy is back
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That spoiler is very interesting.... might have to do that for awhile with Asuka as champion, as none of the women on the roster seem to be ready yet, and I'm sure they don't want to blow Asuka/Ember too soon.....
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Got around to watching this week's NXT episode and :n: for a bunch of hobos beating Glorious 10 in the Dusty tournament.
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I like Sanity.
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Shoudda been Dirty Heels in the Tournament but I like the choice Aries made anyways.
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Aries and Strong is a good pairing. They go way back.
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Generation Next. All we need is Jack Evans and Alex Shelley
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I would kill for jack and roddy teaming on nxt. Those old roh tags are still the shit
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Still want Sanity as a main roster faction. I worry that they will lose their edge by the time they think they are ready. Give them a shot and see if they click. If not, you can repackage them all later. I don't think the desired result you want out of these guys is going to come with carefully watering the flowers.
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I'm also still pro a Roode/Aries/Strong/Storm faction. Roode's entrance alone makes him feel like a star, and he carries himself just as well as Triple H did as a heel. I think he'd be better in the Kevin Owens spot than Kevin Owens to be honest. I'm not a big fan of Owens, but I think he'd be more refreshing and enjoyable in the scorned babyface spot.
It would make sense for Roode to surround himself with allies to make himself invincible. Aries and Storm immediately come to mind, and Strong has the Aries link. Strong and Aries could bump around and make the babyfaces going after Roode look good, while Storm has the character work down (and Aries to an extent) and while they won't likely use the bottle, he can slip Roode foreign objects to help him win. |
Given that I urgently want Nakamura on the main roster, but I think Joe can wait until Cena is done with Styles at WrestleMania, it would make sense to me if Joe wins the NXT Title back in the near future. I think Nakamura will remain champion, but I think if you have Joe win the title back at, say, Takeover Toronto, you can have their final match at Takeover San Antonio and then Nakamura can focus on something for WrestleMania.
Joe vs. Roode, in the confines of NXT, works better than Nakamura vs. Roode, on the simple basis that the crowd is not going to boo Roode down there. His entrance theme is too epic. You can run him as a pure heel main roster, I think, but he seems next in line for the main event down there, and if you space that out until around WrestleMania time, Roode being the hero we need is a story that makes sense. |
For those who give a shit, my ideal "realistic" plan is for Nakamura to kick the shit out of Triple H at WrestleMania. You can run Zayn vs. Nakamura II another time. Nakamura beating Triple H makes him a big deal out the gate, and you know you have to give Triple H a big name opponent at Mania. The King of Kings vs. The King of Strong Style works.
Styles beats Cena to retain the World Title at WrestleMania. It's a clean finish, and hopefully one by submission. An official "This guy really is the man" moment. There could even be something resembling a handshake after the match. Cena cuts a promo on SmackDown the next week about how he threw everything he had at Styles, and he didn't give up at WrestleMania because he is a coward, but because he respects the wrestler AJ Styles has proven himself to be. Cue Joe coming out -- Cena looking somewhat awe-struck (he knows Joe -- he knows this moment was coming) and Joe mauls Cena. Cena vs. Joe and Styles vs. Nakamura for the World Title. Joe wins their first match by pinfall, but he still hasn't made Cena tap-out. Their second match sees him get the Clutch in, but Cena passes out instead of tapping. In their third match, Joe wins, but it's not by submission, because nuts to that, he'll win his own way. Styles vs. Nakamura is interrupted by Dean Ambrose with a Money in the Bank briefcase he has won the month previous. This would put us at the July exclusive for these two. Ambrose wins the belt from the man that beat him for it and turns heel in the process, regaining his throne as the "Kingpin" on SmackDown as a heel for the first time. Triple Threat between Styles, Ambrose and Nakamura at SummerSlam. |
Why does Nakamura want to kill the guy who brought him to NXT and is positioned as a babyface to NXT talent? On top of that HHH already has a program brewing with Rollins. They had that booked for Mania last year, so if HHH is to work Mania, it's likely with Rollins. And even if they do Rollins v HHH prior to Mania (say Rumble), then you would want to put Hunter over someone at Mania to build him back up.
I would say it's more logical for Samoa Joe to lose to Nak one more time and then transition to one of the main rosters. I like the idea of a Roode stable, which would be a logical way to beat Nak next Mania weekend and then debut Nak on RAW or SD after that. |
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No way... Jose. I kinda hope they stick around as a tag team a little longer. |
I like the idea of a No Way Jose/Rich Swann tag team. Swann is talented in the ring, but could use something to temper him, and Jose is going to get better teaming with Swann.
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Can we all talk about how great Psycho Nikki Cross and Sanity is?
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it's pretty fucking great
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"Patrick Clark" seems interesting
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