The NXT Thread Is Like Ring of Honor's Bay-Bay!
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WZCW WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION
Had Sami not gotten injured leading to an Owens call up that Joe/Owens feud could have been great, though that one match they had was very unconvincing.
Stormtrooper
Championship Contender
Kong doesn't belong on NXT, as Nia is the monster diva in NXT.
She is a long time away from the main roster though. Kong can jump on the main roster and dominate the Divas like she was supposed to do her first run. When Nia is ready she comes up and takes out Kong and is established as the #1 Monster Diva.
Captain Morgan Freeman
Taught Elvis how to play karate
I boddyslammed Kharma in Texas in front of 100,000 Baleyacs brother!
It turns out The Revival, the trademark or copyright or patent that WWE placed the other week, is Dash and Dawson's new tag team name.
I'm beginning to think Daniel Bryan might not wrestle again after all, guys, which would at least validate my vivid nightmares that are just him crying.
I'm beginning to think Daniel Bryan might not wrestle again after all, guys, which would at least validate my vivid nightmares that are just him crying.
klunderbunker
Welcome to My (And Not Sly's) House
NXT
Date: February 17, 2016
Location: CFE Arena, Orlando, Florida
Commentators: Tom Phillips, Corey Graves
Tonight is a big show for NXT as we’ll find out the #1 contender for Finn Balor’s NXT Title with the title shot coming at Takeover: Dallas in about six weeks. Other than that we’re starting to see the next challenger to Bayley’s Women’s Title as Asuka seems ready to come after the belt. Let’s get to it.
Click on the link below for the full review.
The TV Fastlane
Date: February 17, 2016
Location: CFE Arena, Orlando, Florida
Commentators: Tom Phillips, Corey Graves
Tonight is a big show for NXT as we’ll find out the #1 contender for Finn Balor’s NXT Title with the title shot coming at Takeover: Dallas in about six weeks. Other than that we’re starting to see the next challenger to Bayley’s Women’s Title as Asuka seems ready to come after the belt. Let’s get to it.
Click on the link below for the full review.
The TV Fastlane
Nate DaMac
Fuck erbody but me
I don't think anyone has.
Papa Pillman
I've got more Ho's than Jim Duggan
Owens pinned Joe to retain his title in a three way that also included Balor at the Columbus show back on June 13.
Papa Pillman
I've got more Ho's than Jim Duggan
Finn is it then. No one else has defeated Joe at a Takeover or TV taping.
justinsayne
Cody Rhodes is an excellant
NXT is just too good without him, they need something on that show, other than the fucking Hype Bros., to be awful.
Yeah, but they just had Cameron on.
You've got to draw the line somewhere.
You've got to draw the line somewhere.
See: Bryan, Daniel.
Mighty NorCal
SHALL WE BEGIN?
NXT House Show, Feb 18 2016, Tower Theatre, Upper Darby PA
Tower Theatre is both my favorite and least favorite wrestling venue. Its a shame both this and The Baltimore arena have such nightmarish levels of incompetence in their staffs. Ill put my reasoning and experience that was so bad it was nearly comical in the spoilers. Its the short form version of an extremely angry letter ill be sending to the parent company.
Anyways, Standing room level sellout, loud rowdy crowd. All ages, genders and ethnicity.
1. Enzo and Cass Vs Vaudevillains
Nuclear bomb level reaction for Enzo and Cass (obviously) and the Vaudevillains came out to the scary music from their heel turn vingettes, much to my delight. Awesomely fun match that included
A chicken fight, with Enzo on Cass shoulders, and Aiden E on Gotch's shoulders. Also, an old timey boxing match set up with both guys taking a seat (in an actual chair) in their respective corners and being toweled off/watered by their partners
2. Carmella Vs Peyton Royce
Solid reaction / crowd involvement for both. Decent match. Future of women's division is not looking up.
3. Crewes Vs Elias Sampson
Wanna know the way to get a massive reaction for Black Adrian Neville? Pit him against Sampson, who was so reviled by the crowd I couldn't hear any of his promo.
4. Bayley Vs Alexa Bliss, Women's title
Bayley actually jumped the rails into the crowd and nearly plowed over me to give a headband to a little girl in the row in front of me (and a few seats past me to the right). I patted her on the shoulder. Bayley, not the girl. Decent match. Our crowd sung all of the Bayley songs. Very cool, surreal atmosphere.
5. Sami Zayn Vs Justin's all time favorite wrestler, Alex Riley
Mega pop for Zayn, the crowd sung his theme music (it made sense if you were there). Riley played up the heat real well and talked shit with individual fans. Fun match.
6. Asuka Vs Eva Marie
skin melting heat for Eva. Didn't hear a word of her promo. In fact, it was if her lips were moving with no sound coming out. Huge pop for Asuka. NXT continues a disconcerting trend of Asuka's opponent working her over for 47 minutes (felt like) while she gets in 2 minutes of kicks and a rolling armbar at the end. If her whole appeal is maniacally effective offense, why do all her matches go this way??
7. Finn Balor and Austin Fuckin' Aries Vs Samoa Joe and Baron Corbin
Huge reactions for all involved. Aries did pretty much all the work in your typical heels cut off the baby face tag match. Good guys go over, crowd leaves happy.
Short version of my story below(and much shorter version of the email Live Nation will be getting)
Tower Theatre is both my favorite and least favorite wrestling venue. Its a shame both this and The Baltimore arena have such nightmarish levels of incompetence in their staffs. Ill put my reasoning and experience that was so bad it was nearly comical in the spoilers. Its the short form version of an extremely angry letter ill be sending to the parent company.
Anyways, Standing room level sellout, loud rowdy crowd. All ages, genders and ethnicity.
1. Enzo and Cass Vs Vaudevillains
Nuclear bomb level reaction for Enzo and Cass (obviously) and the Vaudevillains came out to the scary music from their heel turn vingettes, much to my delight. Awesomely fun match that included
A chicken fight, with Enzo on Cass shoulders, and Aiden E on Gotch's shoulders. Also, an old timey boxing match set up with both guys taking a seat (in an actual chair) in their respective corners and being toweled off/watered by their partners
2. Carmella Vs Peyton Royce
Solid reaction / crowd involvement for both. Decent match. Future of women's division is not looking up.
3. Crewes Vs Elias Sampson
Wanna know the way to get a massive reaction for Black Adrian Neville? Pit him against Sampson, who was so reviled by the crowd I couldn't hear any of his promo.
4. Bayley Vs Alexa Bliss, Women's title
Bayley actually jumped the rails into the crowd and nearly plowed over me to give a headband to a little girl in the row in front of me (and a few seats past me to the right). I patted her on the shoulder. Bayley, not the girl. Decent match. Our crowd sung all of the Bayley songs. Very cool, surreal atmosphere.
5. Sami Zayn Vs Justin's all time favorite wrestler, Alex Riley
Mega pop for Zayn, the crowd sung his theme music (it made sense if you were there). Riley played up the heat real well and talked shit with individual fans. Fun match.
6. Asuka Vs Eva Marie
skin melting heat for Eva. Didn't hear a word of her promo. In fact, it was if her lips were moving with no sound coming out. Huge pop for Asuka. NXT continues a disconcerting trend of Asuka's opponent working her over for 47 minutes (felt like) while she gets in 2 minutes of kicks and a rolling armbar at the end. If her whole appeal is maniacally effective offense, why do all her matches go this way??
7. Finn Balor and Austin Fuckin' Aries Vs Samoa Joe and Baron Corbin
Huge reactions for all involved. Aries did pretty much all the work in your typical heels cut off the baby face tag match. Good guys go over, crowd leaves happy.
Short version of my story below(and much shorter version of the email Live Nation will be getting)
First out, stood in line for 30 minutes in 30 degree weather. My ticket, on their website, was on the stage area of the venue. We get there, and while it is marked "stage", on another part of the ticket, its marked "center ring", IE center ring on the floor. Still phenomenal seats, but not the seats I picked/paid for/wanted. I came in and asked the lady how to get to the stage and he response was a very curt "You aren't going to the stage, your seats are over there" we then proceeded to ask two attendants why my ticket seemed to conflict with itself, and got very confused "hands up" expressions from both of them, with no explanation. I asked a third attendant, WHO ADVISED ME I could go BACK OUTSIDE to the box office, and pay for an upgrade to the stage. Bear in mind, the stage ticket price and my ticket price WERE THE SAME PRICE, so at this point, im paying 50$ extra to sit in the spot I originally intended to sit.
I stand outside for another 20 minutes to purchase the upgrade, come back and snag my wife out of the crowd, and we go to the stage.....Or not, because now the guy at the stage looks at us as if we have smoking turds hanging off our lip when I present him with the upgrade ticket THAT A STAFF MEMBER TOLD ME TO GO BUY. He then told me oh the upgrade tickets are for this section, motioning towards SEATS THAT WERE WORSE THAN MY ORIGINAL TICKET. My words said "sir, my original seats were third row center ring, how could I be paying 50$ extra to move over here?" and my facial expression said I would like to make a predator style skull/spine trophy out everyone working here, he calls over someone who is supposed to know what the fuck she is talking about.
SHE then directs me to the same area, to which I once again ask, what logic would dictate me paying 50$ to move laterally....and all the sudden a very pronounced "...oh shit" look comes over her face, and she runs off.....Returns ten minutes later to say..
"Sir, they should not have sold you that upgrade, there is no room on the stage. Im sorry, and you can go back and get your refund from the box office"
"So I can go back out and stand in line again when the show is starting in five minutes because of something your people told me to buy?"
"Well, I just want you to get your money back because I don't want you unhappy"
"Well its a little fucking late for that"
My wife and I retook our original seats, now being the proud owners of the most expensive tickets in the house. There was an entire row of empty seats on the stage for the entire night, visible from were I was sitting. Not only that, but they ADDED chairs to the stage.....Which were never sat in by anyone.
TLDR, no one in that building knew what in the first flying blue fuck was going on. Common sense and any shred of customer service would dictate physically seeing if any stage seats were available. or working something out. Not telling me to go back out and miss 40 minutes of my show due to the tickets being misrepresented on the website, and for a staff member erroneously advising me to buy a ticket upgrade when my ticket was already the same price as the stage seats.
I stand outside for another 20 minutes to purchase the upgrade, come back and snag my wife out of the crowd, and we go to the stage.....Or not, because now the guy at the stage looks at us as if we have smoking turds hanging off our lip when I present him with the upgrade ticket THAT A STAFF MEMBER TOLD ME TO GO BUY. He then told me oh the upgrade tickets are for this section, motioning towards SEATS THAT WERE WORSE THAN MY ORIGINAL TICKET. My words said "sir, my original seats were third row center ring, how could I be paying 50$ extra to move over here?" and my facial expression said I would like to make a predator style skull/spine trophy out everyone working here, he calls over someone who is supposed to know what the fuck she is talking about.
SHE then directs me to the same area, to which I once again ask, what logic would dictate me paying 50$ to move laterally....and all the sudden a very pronounced "...oh shit" look comes over her face, and she runs off.....Returns ten minutes later to say..
"Sir, they should not have sold you that upgrade, there is no room on the stage. Im sorry, and you can go back and get your refund from the box office"
"So I can go back out and stand in line again when the show is starting in five minutes because of something your people told me to buy?"
"Well, I just want you to get your money back because I don't want you unhappy"
"Well its a little fucking late for that"
My wife and I retook our original seats, now being the proud owners of the most expensive tickets in the house. There was an entire row of empty seats on the stage for the entire night, visible from were I was sitting. Not only that, but they ADDED chairs to the stage.....Which were never sat in by anyone.
TLDR, no one in that building knew what in the first flying blue fuck was going on. Common sense and any shred of customer service would dictate physically seeing if any stage seats were available. or working something out. Not telling me to go back out and miss 40 minutes of my show due to the tickets being misrepresented on the website, and for a staff member erroneously advising me to buy a ticket upgrade when my ticket was already the same price as the stage seats.
That is some ridiculous & frustrating shit right there. At this point you could probably get all your money back, or at least free tickets to another show of your choosing.
Live Nation pulled something similar on us once for a concert, but we ended up in the correct seats with a few drink vouchers, so at least the staff in Dallas had their shit together enough to fix it during the show.
Live Nation pulled something similar on us once for a concert, but we ended up in the correct seats with a few drink vouchers, so at least the staff in Dallas had their shit together enough to fix it during the show.
That is fucking priceless.
