El Generico Debuts In NXT As.... Well.... El Generico

[Papa Pillman]

Originally Posted by Y2eh 2.0

By the way, if they signed him for him, then it's for the gimmick,not the guy under the mask. My theory though is tha they signed Generico in order to get Steen.

The WWE doesn't need some kind of hook to get Steen. If they want Steen they can have him. He's not going to turn down the WWE's money or spotlight. If we were talking TNA you may have a point, I couldn't see Steen willing to make that jump, there just isn't enough upside. But Vince, he gets who he wants. The fact that the WWE hasn't signed Steen likely says more to the point that they are not comfortable with some combination of his weight, injury history, and/or ability to thrive in a PG format.

El G will be treated like a fuckin star!! They'll make him love it, he'll talk to Steen, and we'll see Steen in the E by te summer.

We won't even see Generico above the NXT midcard by summer.

It should also be noted tat right after word got out about El G signing with the E, Steen tamed down his twitter handle.

Steen dropped the "kill" from his twitter handle out of respect for the victims of the Newtown shootings. He openly stated as much.

[VictorySauce23]

The fact that he still has his Indy gimmick is surprising. The only guy I can think of who kept his Indy gimmick is Punk. I say the sooner he gets out of NXT the better. Let's all hope he keeps the Brainbuster.

[Papa Pillman]

Originally Posted by VictorySauce23

Let's all hope he keeps the Brainbuster.

I agree totally.

I think that Killjoy is right in guessing that the WWE will likely not allow Generico to use the Turnbuckle-Brainbuster, but the real question is- will he be able to use a Brainbuster at all?

Who was the last guy who used a Brainbuster in the WWE? I can't remember anyone since Kid Kash was using it around the time of the Invasion angle.

I wonder if the WWE sees the Brainbuster as "too risky", and has a ban of sorts against it, the same way they do the piledriver.

It would suck to see Generico have to replace the Brainbuster as his finisher. And it would be nice to see a WWE guy using it again.

[Azane]

I see this working out for them.

WWE has too many faces, and not enough characters. Generico can bring us back some personality to a company that's been plagued with too much stale real name wrestling.

[VictorySauce23]

If he is a big enough hit with the fans (which he most likely will be) he could be like Santino but more successful. I along with many of you can't wait for him to get out of NXT and onto our TV screens.

[TWJC: The Beginning]

"Repackaged" guys? Daniel Bryan dressed, wrestled, and acted like Bryan Danielson. Claudio isn't much different, black isn't either, and Ambrose really isn't either. They aren't repackaged, they are renamed. This is likely a mutual thing because the wrestler wants to be able to use their name in the inevitable event they eventually are back on the indies (I'd guess the average time on WWE TV is 2 years". It's mutually beneficial from a business standpoint.

I'm excited though, el generico is awesome. Fantastic at selling.