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Random WWE (mainly NXT) thoughts:
Having Mandy in NXT is MONEY, especially for the young gals that are showing up.
Having Natalya in NXT will also be MONEY, as long as she's around to work with the young gals, and groom them into potential superstars.
I am trying REALLY hard to REALLY like Cora Jade, but she hasn't done anything to gain my fandom just yet. She's still young, though, so she has a lot of time.
Super stoked to see Cody back.
And, finally, as always...
I'm beginning to get REALLY annoyed at the "E" blatantly trying to shove their big name stars down everyone's throats. Roman is becoming stale. But, yet, he keeps on getting the massive push. So. Freaking. Annoying.
Having Mandy in NXT is MONEY, especially for the young gals that are showing up.
Having Natalya in NXT will also be MONEY, as long as she's around to work with the young gals, and groom them into potential superstars.
I am trying REALLY hard to REALLY like Cora Jade, but she hasn't done anything to gain my fandom just yet. She's still young, though, so she has a lot of time.
Super stoked to see Cody back.
And, finally, as always...
I'm beginning to get REALLY annoyed at the "E" blatantly trying to shove their big name stars down everyone's throats. Roman is becoming stale. But, yet, he keeps on getting the massive push. So. Freaking. Annoying.
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I don't buy Cody kayfabe taking it off him in a one on one match.
I did say that Rock should help getting the belt off Roman not necessarily be the one to do it. So totally possible Rock comes in to celebrate the family at SS or Survivor Series and costs Roman the belt. If that happens in a match vs. Cody that is much different than just Cody vs. Roman. It sets up the big WM payday and an eventual face turn for Reigns.
I did say that Rock should help getting the belt off Roman not necessarily be the one to do it. So totally possible Rock comes in to celebrate the family at SS or Survivor Series and costs Roman the belt. If that happens in a match vs. Cody that is much different than just Cody vs. Roman. It sets up the big WM payday and an eventual face turn for Reigns.
Roman’s been annoying for like a combined 6 of his seven years on top. His return from cancer was amazing, and the beginning of his heel turn was too. Everything else…
I like Cora. She’s not quite there yet, but like you said she’s super young still with lots of room to grow and she’s just endearing to me. Plus, I’m a sucker for “Real life superfans living their dreams” stories she has right now. Har fan-girl’ing out to Natalya was cool.
More NXT;
The taller Creed brother could be getting Bron Breaker’s push and I wouldn’t bat an eye. Dude is awesome.
I don’t know a lot about Pretty Deadly, but I like them already.
I really hope Trick Williams learns to wrestle because he’s money everywhere else.
Joe Gacy’s character arc has been bizarre, but I kind of like it.
I like Cora. She’s not quite there yet, but like you said she’s super young still with lots of room to grow and she’s just endearing to me. Plus, I’m a sucker for “Real life superfans living their dreams” stories she has right now. Har fan-girl’ing out to Natalya was cool.
More NXT;
The taller Creed brother could be getting Bron Breaker’s push and I wouldn’t bat an eye. Dude is awesome.
I don’t know a lot about Pretty Deadly, but I like them already.
I really hope Trick Williams learns to wrestle because he’s money everywhere else.
Joe Gacy’s character arc has been bizarre, but I kind of like it.
Leave it to the WWE to ruin careers with a name change...
Report: Two NXT Superstars Getting A Name Change
No one in the WWE had/has the ability to come up with a better name for either? Heck, I can probably spend 5 minutes and come up with 10+ names for EACH...
Report: Two NXT Superstars Getting A Name Change
No one in the WWE had/has the ability to come up with a better name for either? Heck, I can probably spend 5 minutes and come up with 10+ names for EACH...
Katana Chance is hilarious, and I’m indifferent to it because Kacy has shown up and disappeared like 5 different times. She isn’t established enough for me to really care.
Alba Fyre sucks. Especially because she’s been heavily featured for years at this point under KLR. Wonder if there’s going to be any explanation at all.
Wonder who else is going to get awkwardly and unexplainedly renamed. Like during the gauntlet match when CRUZ DEL TORO was suddenly in and I was like “WTF?!”
Alba Fyre sucks. Especially because she’s been heavily featured for years at this point under KLR. Wonder if there’s going to be any explanation at all.
Wonder who else is going to get awkwardly and unexplainedly renamed. Like during the gauntlet match when CRUZ DEL TORO was suddenly in and I was like “WTF?!”
Meh to that. While it may be mostly true that they didn't let wrestlers use their real names, apart from obvious exceptions like John Cena, Ronda Rousey, Brock Lesnar and Randy Orton (and less obvious ones, like Mickie James, Jillian Hall and Johnny Gargano), there's tons of precedent for them allowing wrestlers to use names that they brought from outside of WWE: WWE certainly didn't create CM Punk, Mercedes Martinez, Samoa Joe, AJ Styles, Beth Phoenix or Roderick Strong. This is about Vince wanting to have total control over a wrestler's character, so that they can't go outside of WWE and make money off that character. Which I think (and I believe most of us would agree) is bull****.
KLR's new ring name is indeed (allegedly) supposed to be Gaelic for "Scottish Fire," which is still stupid, but she's good enough to make it work. Katana Chance is just plain stupid, full stop.
KLR's new ring name is indeed (allegedly) supposed to be Gaelic for "Scottish Fire," which is still stupid, but she's good enough to make it work. Katana Chance is just plain stupid, full stop.
I guess what I should have said is it's apparently a big no-no right now that he's not letting folks do it. He certainly has allowed it for more established stars and for legacies (but then turned around and tried to keep Cody from the Rhodes name) and he's stuck a Steiner legacy with one of the stupidest names ever. It's annoying and dumb and it's stupider when they have been around for 2-3 years and he does this.
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Is it just me, or is anyone else annoyed when storylines (primarily those on NXT) are put on, what seems to be, a bi-weekly schedule? For example, they seem to schedule some sort of an angle involving Cora Jade and Toxic Attraction one week, and then either, or both, get some promo time the week after. And then, nothing happens during week 3. And, finally, they resume their storyline in week 4, hoping that the casual WWE/NXT fan actually remembers what took place way back in week 1.
I liked when NXT was an hour and the angles developed slow over 3 months to a Takeover and you might go two weeks without seeing a wrestler.
I started watching around the first Wrestlemania when the typical WWF style was squash matches and a promo with Mean Gene about the match at Arco (or Garden when I moved East). So of course I began to appreciate the Monday Night War era when you wouldn't know who was going to win the match just by who actually got an entrance. But some time after that we started some version of the PPV match every week and it took something away.
The NXT and AEW shows did a pretty good job cleaning that up but NXT went to two hours and a little more bloated and AEW started taking all the WWE young talent who was underpushed and I think they started focusing a little two heavily on the top draws, pushing others to Dark, which sucks imho.
I started watching around the first Wrestlemania when the typical WWF style was squash matches and a promo with Mean Gene about the match at Arco (or Garden when I moved East). So of course I began to appreciate the Monday Night War era when you wouldn't know who was going to win the match just by who actually got an entrance. But some time after that we started some version of the PPV match every week and it took something away.
The NXT and AEW shows did a pretty good job cleaning that up but NXT went to two hours and a little more bloated and AEW started taking all the WWE young talent who was underpushed and I think they started focusing a little two heavily on the top draws, pushing others to Dark, which sucks imho.
