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Who will be the biggest flop of 2015??? This poll is closed. |
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| Adrian Neville |
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66 | 13.66% |
| Finn Balor |
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14 | 2.90% |
| Hideo Itami |
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176 | 36.44% |
| Kalisto |
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133 | 27.54% |
| Sami Zayn |
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36 | 7.45% |
| The Former Kevin Steen |
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58 | 12.01% |
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    NXT is the current developmental territory for the WWE. Some History Ohio Valley Wrestling was the WWE developmental territory from 2000 - 2008. It was considered a pretty good developmental territory and brought us names like Brock Lesnar, John Cena, Randy Orton & Batista. For a while it was considered a great developmental territory - producing some pretty good talent and some great shows. It ran pretty much like any normal little indy would. It had a lot of problems though. WWE didn't really care about OVW producing them great new talent. Jim Cornette has gone on countless rants about WWE giving him orders to teach somebody to just "BE THIS CHARACTER". They'd also call up talent with practically no warning and change the characters completely. I think the biggest example of this is NICK DINSMORE -> EUGENE or 5 young guys feuding -> One big cheerleader team. In 2007 John Laurinaitis thought up the idea of relocating to Florida and started FLORIDA CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING. In 2008 they ditched OVW as a territory and moved all WWE contracted talent to Florida. In the 4 years of FCW existing they proceeded to produce not even 1 star. They put on a lot of poo poo shows with a lot of poo poo talent, making very little good hires. Then HHH was made the Executive Vice President of Talent Relations. With HHH now being the head talent guy - the names coming up were being attributed to him. Suddenly instead of just hiring nobodies, WWE was hiring wrestlers people actually knew - starting with Mistico & Amazing Kong. Sadly neither of these 2 names really worked out - but changes didn't stop there. Developmental was completely rebranded and FCW was scrapped for what we now know as NXT! TODAY Today NXT has a lot of really rad talent hired from the indies/japan (thanks to cool guys like Rob Naylor) and it has a show broadcasted weekly on the WWE Network. It's actually a really fun little show to watch thanks to a lot of fun gimmicks and some great wrestlers. NXT airs on Thursdays at 8 PM Est. THE NEXT BIG SHOW December 11, 2014 HulkaMatt fucked around with this message at 06:51 on Mar 25, 2015 |
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Oct 16, 2014 00:28
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dpp5kX2J20 this post in memory of the lovely show this territory is named after HulkaMatt fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Oct 16, 2014 |
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Oct 16, 2014 00:29
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hey hulkamatt are you wild and young?
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Oct 16, 2014 00:31
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I -HATE- that loving song!!! Please don't poo poo post.
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Oct 16, 2014 00:33
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Between Alex Riley wrestling at a NXT house show and a bunch of "the Phoenix rises" posts on Twitter, I'm afraid we might see him in ring sometime soon.
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Oct 16, 2014 00:37
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HulkaMatt posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dpp5kX2J20 I miss Michael Tarver.
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Oct 16, 2014 00:39
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Sigma posted:Between Alex Riley wrestling at a NXT house show and a bunch of "the Phoenix rises" posts on Twitter, I'm afraid we might see him in ring sometime soon.
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Oct 16, 2014 00:45
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Alan Trammell posted:I miss Michael Tarver. I miss his cool T pose.
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Oct 16, 2014 00:47
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Worth noting is that next week is the next NXT TV taping. The taping will take us up until the next NXT Live special. If Meltzer is believed that taping will be the one that Kevin Steen debuts on. Beyond that of most interest to me is whether he debuts as a heel as the male NXT roster is a little babyface heavy although if Neville turns heel the balance could be addressed just on that change.
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Oct 16, 2014 00:52
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achillesforever6 posted:Hey if that means not hearing him on commentary I am completely fine with that maybe they'll let him go and he can go onto insurance sales or something else thats more suited for him.
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Oct 16, 2014 00:54
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HulkaMatt posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dpp5kX2J20 I forgot how much this opening looked like some lovely 90's sitcom opening.
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Oct 16, 2014 01:03
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Is it safe to shitpost yetHulkaMatt posted:I -HATE- that loving song!!! But but but but
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Oct 16, 2014 01:58
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HulkaMatt posted:I -HATE- that loving song!!! Bryan Alvarez account spotted. Also watching that intro, it's pretty hilarious that Tarver's literally the only one not still on the main roster.
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Oct 16, 2014 02:11
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Alex Riley wrestling means that it is much more likely that someone will notice how badly he sucks so that he can join the unemployment line with all the other schmucks who don't know how to steam chicken breast.
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Oct 16, 2014 02:21
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Maybe one of the wrestlers will teach him how to pronounce "Helluva Kick"
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Oct 16, 2014 03:05
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HulkaMatt posted:In 2007 John Laurinaitis thought up the idea of relocating to Florida and started FLORIDA CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING. In 2008 they ditched OVW as a territory and moved all WWE contracted talent to Florida. In the 4 years of FCW existing they proceeded to produce not even 1 star. They put on a lot of poo poo shows with a lot of poo poo talent, making very little good hires. Aww, we're being unfair with Johnny Ace and FCW here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b-q0cAkboc (We're really not, I just wanted an excuse to post that match)
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Oct 16, 2014 03:09
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I like that the wrestling community pretends that Deep South was a thing that never happened.
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Oct 16, 2014 03:37
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rovert posted:Worth noting is that next week is the next NXT TV taping. The taping will take us up until the next NXT Live special. I think neville gets called up rumble season so him going heel won't matter.
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Oct 16, 2014 03:38
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NotQuiteQuentin posted:I like that the wrestling community pretends that Deep South was a thing that never happened. It accomplished gently caress all except souring Kenny Omega on wrestling in the States for anybody other than PWG, so I'm fine with that.
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Oct 16, 2014 03:44
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NotQuiteQuentin posted:I like that the wrestling community pretends that Deep South was a thing that never happened. The team of Mike Knox and Derrick Neikrik will carry WWE through the 10's.
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Oct 16, 2014 03:51
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El Gallinero Gros posted:It accomplished gently caress all except souring Kenny Omega on wrestling in the States for anybody other than PWG, so I'm fine with that. 
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Oct 16, 2014 03:56
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HulkaMatt posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dpp5kX2J20 just looking at the camera with his dead eyes
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Oct 16, 2014 04:11
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HulkaMatt posted:I -HATE- that loving song!!! But we have just begun...  Dias posted:Aww, we're being unfair with Johnny Ace and FCW here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b-q0cAkboc FCW also brought the fantastic Ambrose/Rollins series for the FCW 15 medal. And this proto-Shield triple threat with Reigns still as Leakee. FCW was pretty cool.
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Oct 16, 2014 04:23
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Rollins' little dance during his entrance is so loving stupid.
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Oct 16, 2014 04:42
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TL posted:Rollins' little dance during his entrance is so loving stupid. It was even funnier when he was doing it in NXT with the bigger stage.
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Oct 16, 2014 12:23
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What happened to Real Live Cowboy Wesley Blake? Why does he look like an American Wolf now?
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Oct 16, 2014 13:02
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I just now learned that Charlotte's married to the Latimer guy, aka former Ascension punch-a-cop / current TNA midcarder and Willow hunter. I mean obviously they wouldn't give a Flair poo poo for their choice in SOs but it does kind of make the shade thrown at Havok a little more scummy
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Oct 16, 2014 13:27
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1) What's the deal with Titus O'Neal? 2) Enzo and Big Cass are going to be legends when they get called up. Have you seen the "SAWFT" signs at Raw? 3) Is it wrong to want Bailey to win the belt?
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Oct 16, 2014 14:16
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Ben Smash posted:3) Is it wrong to want Bailey to win the belt? Yes, wanting to see the best babyface in this entire stinking company succeed is wrong and makes you a bad wrestling fan. What?
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Oct 16, 2014 14:28
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I only want Bailey to win the belt if she rides a zipline from the rafters of Full Sail (so like a 20 ft ride) and then does the full on crying and kneeling with the belt routine while Renee Young goes on about the girlhood dream.
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Oct 16, 2014 14:55
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Ben Smash posted:1) What's the deal with Titus O'Neal? 1) Titus is down in NXT for a spell, which I approve of because I enjoy watching him. He's doing the thing of lording it over all the NXT guys and the NXT guys come out to defend their show. 2) Truth. 3) No, Bayley rules.
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Oct 16, 2014 14:55
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Charles Gnarwin posted:I only want Bailey to win the belt if she rides a zipline from the rafters of Full Sail (so like a 20 ft ride) and then does the full on crying and kneeling with the belt routine while Renee Young goes on about the girlhood dream. Bayley doing homages to old wrestling moments like taking the Rocky Mavia tassles is great so yes, this.
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Oct 16, 2014 15:02
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It would be cool if people could spell Bayley's name right. And Titus owns as long as he's not actually in the ring, though he's fun to watch wrestling smaller guys he can just toss around like they're nothing because that's the one part of ringwork he's really good at.
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Oct 16, 2014 15:08
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sticklefifer posted:But we have just begun... FCW was awesome. Streaming it in my lunchbreaks used to be one of the highlights of my week. Was Regal/Cesaro FCW or NXT? I also really miss the old FCW website with the hilarious green background photoshoots of guys straight out of the genetic splicing machine. When did Bayley do the tassles?
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Oct 16, 2014 15:23
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Also, I'd like to note that the picture of the tag titles in the OP need to be updated since the NXT tag belts have their black and gold parts opposite of each other which is a really cool detail in my opinion.
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Oct 16, 2014 15:24
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Acaila posted:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x25yr5c_charlotte-c-vs-bayley-nxt-takeover-2_sport And I just noticed the 'HUGLIFE' sign  Seriously Bayley is the best proper babyface character in years. If she gets to keep all the fluff when she moves up (ha!), I can see her being a bigger hit with the kids than Cena or Rey.
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Oct 16, 2014 15:44
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I know people don't like spoilers but talking about this isn't one as neither on TV or at the last set of tapings did they seem to establish what is the next NXT Women's match. Charlotte vs Sasha is the primary feud but the match could also be a four way with Bayley and Becky added.
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Oct 16, 2014 15:47
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Bayley needs a new finisher, though. Either that or tweak her current so it looks better.
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Oct 16, 2014 15:55
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They should give her the Muta Lock
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coconono posted:Bayley needs a new finisher, though. Either that or tweak her current so it looks better. Yep Sasha is the only person I've seen take it correctly.
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