The NXT Thread Is Like Ring of Honor's Bay-Bay!
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How easily did Lars catch him from his dive over the top? I thought that that was fucking ridiculous.
klunderbunker
Welcome to My (And Not Sly's) House
NXT
Date: October 4, 2017
Location: Full Sail University, Winter Park, Florida
Commentators: Percy Watson, Mauro Ranallo, Nigel McGuinness
It’s a big night this week as NXT Champion Drew McIntyre is putting the title on the line against Roderick Strong. There’s a good chance that this is going to be more about the post match issues as you can almost guarantee that the Undisputed Era will be getting involved. Let’s get to it.
Click on the link below for the full review.
Just What Drew Needed
Date: October 4, 2017
Location: Full Sail University, Winter Park, Florida
Commentators: Percy Watson, Mauro Ranallo, Nigel McGuinness
It’s a big night this week as NXT Champion Drew McIntyre is putting the title on the line against Roderick Strong. There’s a good chance that this is going to be more about the post match issues as you can almost guarantee that the Undisputed Era will be getting involved. Let’s get to it.
Click on the link below for the full review.
Just What Drew Needed
Mighty NorCal
SHALL WE BEGIN?
Da woah gameth
Sai the Uganda Guy
Has-been
Helluva match from Drew and Roddy. Loved the bit after with UE coming out and talking to him.
Richard Blonoff
Make America Rassle Again
Kairi Sane has the best elbow drop in the business, and if you disagree then fite me.
Also
Also
War Games is back for the next TakeOver between Undisputed Era and Sanity.
Drew McIntyre's transformation - not just in the sense that he's now absolutely ripped but in how he's now one of the most exciting wrestlers on the roster - never ceases to amaze me. The way early in the match he just tossed Roddy across the wrong was just nuts. It's a shame that he's growing on me after winning the title but better late than never.
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I dont know. The Purple Rainmaker literally 5 mins earlier was pretty damn nifty.
@smarkmouth
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Question for long time NXT watchers; is this the best it's ever been?
I started watching regularly when they hooked me with the Sami-Neville feud. Since then, it's always ranging from good to great, but this is the first time in awhile that every segment has been must-see, and it's been so for a few months now. I'm invested in everyone who appears as regularly as NXT allows, and I'm excited about what's next in all the rivalries.
From top to bottom of the card, it's been the best that I've ever seen it, but I'd like to pick the brain of those who have been with NXT since even earlier.
I started watching regularly when they hooked me with the Sami-Neville feud. Since then, it's always ranging from good to great, but this is the first time in awhile that every segment has been must-see, and it's been so for a few months now. I'm invested in everyone who appears as regularly as NXT allows, and I'm excited about what's next in all the rivalries.
From top to bottom of the card, it's been the best that I've ever seen it, but I'd like to pick the brain of those who have been with NXT since even earlier.
Richard Blonoff
Make America Rassle Again
Барбоса;5750895 said:
Clark, or Dream I guess I should call him now, is a good athlete and gets good height on his as well, but I like the movement from Sane on hers. Its kinda nice to see a move like that being used in a finishing capacity again. I know Bayley has won a couple matches with hers, but she doesn't pull it off as well as those two. Punk had a solid one when he could be assed to properly pull it off but I think his only real win with it was when Swagger forgot to kick out.
I'm afraid Sane's actually going to hurt someone with her elbow drop. Then again, she probably weighs as much as my cat (he's a big cat), so that's probably unfounded.
If you've been watching since Sami Zayn won the title, you've seen Bayley, you've seen The Revival, and you've seen the best of NXT. The only thing you might have missed is Sami's feud with Cesaro, otherwise it was basically FCW with a new coat of paint and not that remarkable.
As anybody can tell you, it's transformed from a "true" developmental brand to what they probably wanted ECW to be; a third brand that caters to smarks. The likes of Heavy Machinery could use the experience, sure, but who's going to tell me Adam Cole isn't ready to be on Raw?
I do think the Balor/Joe/Nakamura era will be looked back on as a downpoint of the main event scene. This week's main event was better than most, if not all, of the matches that those three had with one another. You've got the likes of Aleister Black and Johnny Gargano - and, if God is good, Oney Lorcan - waiting in the wings. I'm confident that the main event is going to be hot shit by the time I get to Philadelphia in January, even if it is "just" Adam Cole fighting his larger, angrier version.
The women's division, assuming they draft in the better competitors from the Mae Young Classic along with Kairi Sane, could be just about to recover after its second generation - Bliss, Jax and Carmella - was prematurely called up. Just another sacrifice on the altar of six hours of excruciatingly dull programming. Even if you just bring in Toni Storm and Shayna Baszler, you've got a hell of a division. Please note I've been entirely removed from wrestling news for months so I've no idea how feasible that is. No, seriously, let me know if there's any news on that front.
I can't say that any of the tag teams strike me as being on The Revival's level but I adored the Sanity/Authors of Pain match regardless and I'm sure Undisputed Era will add something to the mix.
Add in the prospect of the British wrestlers being more integrated into the show and I do think this could be a new golden age for NXT.
It's just unfortunate that the great reward for the talent is the main roster. Well, not for them - for them it means fame and fortune. For me, it means watching my favourite wrestlers becoming husks of themselves. I had to watch Sami Zayn be rescued by Shane McMahon the other week. That's a profound pain.
If you've been watching since Sami Zayn won the title, you've seen Bayley, you've seen The Revival, and you've seen the best of NXT. The only thing you might have missed is Sami's feud with Cesaro, otherwise it was basically FCW with a new coat of paint and not that remarkable.
As anybody can tell you, it's transformed from a "true" developmental brand to what they probably wanted ECW to be; a third brand that caters to smarks. The likes of Heavy Machinery could use the experience, sure, but who's going to tell me Adam Cole isn't ready to be on Raw?
I do think the Balor/Joe/Nakamura era will be looked back on as a downpoint of the main event scene. This week's main event was better than most, if not all, of the matches that those three had with one another. You've got the likes of Aleister Black and Johnny Gargano - and, if God is good, Oney Lorcan - waiting in the wings. I'm confident that the main event is going to be hot shit by the time I get to Philadelphia in January, even if it is "just" Adam Cole fighting his larger, angrier version.
The women's division, assuming they draft in the better competitors from the Mae Young Classic along with Kairi Sane, could be just about to recover after its second generation - Bliss, Jax and Carmella - was prematurely called up. Just another sacrifice on the altar of six hours of excruciatingly dull programming. Even if you just bring in Toni Storm and Shayna Baszler, you've got a hell of a division. Please note I've been entirely removed from wrestling news for months so I've no idea how feasible that is. No, seriously, let me know if there's any news on that front.
I can't say that any of the tag teams strike me as being on The Revival's level but I adored the Sanity/Authors of Pain match regardless and I'm sure Undisputed Era will add something to the mix.
Add in the prospect of the British wrestlers being more integrated into the show and I do think this could be a new golden age for NXT.
It's just unfortunate that the great reward for the talent is the main roster. Well, not for them - for them it means fame and fortune. For me, it means watching my favourite wrestlers becoming husks of themselves. I had to watch Sami Zayn be rescued by Shane McMahon the other week. That's a profound pain.
Mighty NorCal
SHALL WE BEGIN?
Bazsler is signed, Storm, totally inexplicably, is not.
Richard Blonoff
Make America Rassle Again
There has to be something about Storm we dont know because she is a star waiting to happen and for her to be not signed is crazy. Bazsler is there to grease the Rousey wheels, but she still could be something in time, Im just not sold yet.
Mighty NorCal
SHALL WE BEGIN?
You have til January to take this back.
Frankly, I'm stunned.
She is like Bayley with knee strikes a pirate gimmick and a fucking incredible elbow drop. Also bled all over during the semi final
FunKay the Inevitable
People Like Me, We Don't Play
Storm's living, working and probably making good money in Japan. She's also champion in various smaller promotions around the world (Progress Women's Champ I think) and, again, making bank doing that too. And she's like 23? I'd assume they tried to lock her down and she declined, valuing freedom and independence and experiences around the globe before committing herself to the 'E.
klunderbunker
Welcome to My (And Not Sly's) House
NXT
Date: October 11, 2017
Location: Full Sail University, Winter Park, Florida
Commentators: Nigel McGuinness, Percy Watson, Mauro Ranallo
It’s another pretty big show this week as we have a Takeover: Brooklyn rematch with Johnny Gargano vs. Andrade Cien Almas. The other big story continues to be Sanity vs. the Undisputed Era with Drew McIntyre watching over the whole thing. Roderick Strong is the other factor, as the Undisputed Era seems interested in adding him to their ranks. Let’s get to it.
Click on the link below for the full review.
Something About How NXT Is Good
Date: October 11, 2017
Location: Full Sail University, Winter Park, Florida
Commentators: Nigel McGuinness, Percy Watson, Mauro Ranallo
It’s another pretty big show this week as we have a Takeover: Brooklyn rematch with Johnny Gargano vs. Andrade Cien Almas. The other big story continues to be Sanity vs. the Undisputed Era with Drew McIntyre watching over the whole thing. Roderick Strong is the other factor, as the Undisputed Era seems interested in adding him to their ranks. Let’s get to it.
Click on the link below for the full review.
Something About How NXT Is Good
Richard Blonoff
Make America Rassle Again
I'm conflicted on the Street Prophits. They are fairly entertaining in smallish doses, but for so long I couldn't stand Angelo Dawkins and that stupid bowl mixing motion he does.
Mighty NorCal
SHALL WE BEGIN?
The SP are absolutely fucking tremendous.
Also my top vote for an act that is great on NXT and will be as horrific as a bridge collapse on the main roster
God DAMN Peyton Royce is fucking hot
Also my top vote for an act that is great on NXT and will be as horrific as a bridge collapse on the main roster
God DAMN Peyton Royce is fucking hot
klunderbunker
Welcome to My (And Not Sly's) House
Yep, yep, yep.
The Profits looked stupid to start but they've grown on me at an amazing rate.
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The real fear is that Vince and co. have used up all their good 'monster' booking on Brock, Joe and Braun.
Asuka really should be booked as a 'Winning Wrestling Machine' type.
