The FCW thread

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You know what Seth's like? A shitty film. Yeah, he's an absolutely worthless motherfucker and he's terrible in all respects. But for that reason he can be enjoyably bad if you just laugh at his failings as a wrestler.

And I've extended the rules of the drinking game.

Drink when:

• Richie Steamboat does an Armdrag
• Seth Rollins is involved in a stupid sequence
• A finisher is hit, attempted, countered or kicked out of in a Seth Rollins match
• Kassius Ohno fails to kick out of a pin
• Kassius Ohno attempts to pin or submit a non-KOed opponent
• Bo hits a low impact spear (extra drink if it's from ZOMGnowhere)
• William Regal talks about the specifics of Uppercuts
• William Regal talks about old school wrestling/wrestlers
• William Regal says something that is utter bullshit (extra drink if he's said it before)
• Xavier Woods hits a move that makes no logical sense (e.g. honour roll)
• Every time the commentators talk about something about a wrestler's personality that has never been shown on camera. (e.g. Rick Victor being a weird guy)

 

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Which move is the honour roll? Is that the sliding complete shot? There's definitely logic to that move.

 

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The rolling thunder lariat. The sliding complete shot is called "Lost in the Woods"

 

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The new show is up. It's not worth your time though.

 

[thrilla11]

^Yeap. It sucked.

To be honest, there's nothing really worth watching right now except maybe for Hero and Paige. I skip all of Steamboat's and Black's matches.

Oh and Ascension, who I really want to get called up. Love the gimmick and could work with Paige as the valet. In essence, I just want Paige brought up. I'm smitten.

Here are some negatives I see with the product at the moment:
1. Needs more Dean Ambrose (yeah even more- give him the fucking belt already)
2. Needs less Steamboat and Black
3. Needs more Ascension
4. Needs less Rick Victor (they're investing a lot of time in the guy but I just don't see the appeal)

 

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Bo Dallas is the FCW heavyweight champ now. According to Kassius Ohno's twitter. Apparently Rollins lost the title to Victor who later that night lost it to Bo again.

 

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Bo as FCW champ? Ugh. I was tired of this kid two years ago. I thought when they changed his name that might mean they'd finally be calling him up to the main roster to sink or swim.

Here's a non-spoiler match-listing for the first set of FCW/NXT tapings.

* Rick Victor vs. Bo Dallas
* Connor O'Brian and Kenneth Cameron vs. C.J. Parker and Mike Dalton
* Damien Sandow vs. Jason Jordan
* Michael McGillicutty vs. Tyson Kidd

No Ambrose, Rollins, Steamboat, or Ohno? The fuck? Nobody gives a shit about Connor O'Brian or Rick Victor and I highly doubt they ever will. Why leave off so much of your clearly best talent? Unless they plan on calling all four up soon to Raw or Smackdown and didn't want to saddle them on NXT.

 

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Bo as FCW champ? Ugh. I was tired of this kid two years ago. I thought when they changed his name that might mean they'd finally be calling him up to the main roster to sink or swim.

Eh, for better or for worse, Bobo is the John Cena of FCW. I have no issue with him carrying the title. It's not like they're airing shows anymore.

Here's a non-spoiler match-listing for the first set of FCW/NXT tapings.

* Rick Victor vs. Bo Dallas
* Connor O'Brian and Kenneth Cameron vs. C.J. Parker and Mike Dalton
* Damien Sandow vs. Jason Jordan
* Michael McGillicutty vs. Tyson Kidd

No Ambrose, Rollins, Steamboat, or Ohno? The fuck? Nobody gives a shit about Connor O'Brian or Rick Victor and I highly doubt they ever will. Why leave off so much of your clearly best talent? Unless they plan on calling all four up soon to Raw or Smackdown and didn't want to saddle them on NXT.

They were taped in batches of four. You can't put all your best guys on one episode or you've got shit for the rest of the night. Case in point, Steamboat had a match in episode 4 vs Leo Kruger. There was blood. Also, if you're calling Conor uninteresting, you've never watched the Ascension. Made of fucking win.

Victor's a good mechanic, If nothing else.

 

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I've seen the Ascension stuff, but Conor is still so uninteresting and bland to me, particularly in the ring. Do you actually think this guy has any kind of future in the WWE? Fuck 90% of the FCW roster I just take one look at and go "Yep, that guy will never amount to anything whatsoever in the WWE". So many of them just feel like Create-A-Wrestlers out of a wrestling game, no personality or anything to even distinguish themselves from one another. I feel like they just pumped most of these guys out of a cloning machine in the back of Vinnie Mac's office or something. Atleast when I watch someone like Seth Rollins or Richie Steamboat I feel like I'm watching someone unique and who could actually get over and be useful on the main roster.

Didn't realize they already did all four tapings though, thought they only did the first. Also didn't realize they'd be taping it in batches like that.

 

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I've seen the Ascension stuff, but Conor is still so uninteresting and bland to me, particularly in the ring. Do you actually think this guy has any kind of future in the WWE? Fuck 90% of the FCW roster I just take one look at and go "Yep, that guy will never amount to anything whatsoever in the WWE". So many of them just feel like Create-A-Wrestlers out of a wrestling game, no personality or anything to even distinguish themselves from one another. I feel like they just pumped most of these guys out of a cloning machine in the back of Vinnie Mac's office or something. Atleast when I watch someone like Seth Rollins or Richie Steamboat I feel like I'm watching someone unique and who could actually get over and be useful on the main roster.

Conor is indeed nothing special but the glorious OTTness and whatthefuckery that is the Ascension makes me overlook that. A good gimmick can make a mediocre guy awesome.

Didn't realize they already did all four tapings though, thought they only did the first. Also didn't realize they'd be taping it in batches like that.

Yeah, they took the FCW TV model. Tape in batches and run one batch behind the latest set.

 

[Mighty NorCal]

when are new shows usually posted up?

 

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Usually Mondays, but it varies, presumably because Brighthouse preempt it on occasion. Just search on YouTube for FCW (filter by length (long) and sort by upload date to indbthe latest episodes).

 

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Why isn't the new NXT up yet? I thought it was being uploaded this week.

 

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No Ambrose, Rollins, Steamboat, or Ohno?

Ambrose is way above this show.
I couldn't be happier that mr. no sell Rollins isn't on the first episod
Steamboat is meh. He's stagnant at the moment.
I'm a huge fan of Ohno but he's been hit and miss since he debuted. More so miss than hit with his only good match being against Cesaro and maybe BoBoBoBoBoBoBoBoBo.

Nobody gives a shit about Connor O'Brian or Rick Victor and I highly doubt they ever will.

I do. Moreso than Rollins. O'Brian actually has a really cool gimmick that entertains me with his over the top intensity. Victor is ok but his lack of personality hurts things. However he is one of the best in-ring workers in FCW at the moment. What you'd expect from a Hart Dungeon graduate really.

Why leave off so much of your clearly best talent?

I know. The lack of Bray Wyatt annoys me.

 

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From what I understand it's not airing on WWE anymore, so us in the UK are getting it first and thus have to do the uploading to YouTube.

 

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New episode is up featuring the Ascension(In a petty shitty match with a half decent story), KO & Ambrose/Rollins IV.