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Gotta applaud the audacity of NXT trying to pass Kona Reeves off as a new Japanese signing.

What?

He lost to <s>Brendan Vink</s> Duke Hudson.

That's not Kona Reeves.

Are you sure??

Yes. Ikeman Jiro has been around the Japanese independents for years.

I see. So they repackage him as Kona Reeves for a few years like an opposite Yokozuna!?

Shut up, XL.

just put NXT on now and Vic Joseph has said "OOH!!!" 10 times in the past like 45 seconds... the absolute worst wrestling commentator of all time,,,

I heard Kona Reeves came up with the Diamond Mine idea too, he is good in that.

I can see them stripping Kross of his title after his actions on NXT.

They'll probably give him an "indefinite suspension" until like the next TakeOver, where he fights Joe in like, a street fight or some other dumb shit.

Yeah that really bothers me too. 1000000× worse than Cole screaming "OH, MY!" or "VINTAGE (SUPERSTAR)!" or my personal favorite (/s), "IT'S...BOSS TIME!".

Hey, look, it's Samoa Joe the NOT wrestler with a new shirt. Do they normally give the office staff custom apparel?

I do not understand any of this Xia Li stuff, I think they'll call her up before I do.

Hell yeah, Taya match.

Inject Swerve vs. Santos into my veins. So fucking good together every time.

She wants to be the first Chinese Women's Champion, I guess? *shrug*

Ciampa / Thatcher vs. Oney / Doone was good. Ridge Holland is back now, he didn't really get to even establish a character before he got injured this last time, so that will be interesting to see.

Samoa Joe vs. Kross is gonna be a murder. Maybe after Joe buries Kross, Jeff Hardy will come out and pin Kross again for no reason.

Carmelo Hayes seems like the obvious winner of the Breakout Tournament. No one else has been built up as well.

Raquel Gonzalez's opponent is perfect.

THEY ANNOUNCED WALTER/DRAGUNOV FOR TAKEOVER, Jesus Christ.

Swerve vs. Santos is a Takeover level match that probably won't even make the cut.

Ric Flair is still in the opening signature.

Some fan shouting CM Punk :nono:

lmao @Beth telling Barrett to zip it

Kinda like when someone was still in the opening signature when they were in TNA (I want to say Booker T, but I might be conflating his WCW Harlem Heat fuckup meme with the real one from raw memory... but it was someone, and whoever it was still appeared in it for awhile until someone apparently let WWE in on the secret). The only thing I remember for sure was that it was made more ironically funny because they fired a guy for being gotcha'd on camera for being at a show with his son, but they showed a talent in the opening signature for weeks and weeks that was actively in-ring and on camera there ON PURPOSE.

That was such utter nonsense.

The internal power struggle spilling onto the product is such toxic petty carny bullcrap.

Diamond Mine introduced two bland looking guys (Creed (Kasper) brothers) . Two guys with an amateur wrestling background who have been there for 8 months.

This Bachelor Party montage is insane :lol::rofl: