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karmicknight: Aug 21, 2011

Chris James 2 posted:

Congrats to Gargano for being world and US champ, now he'll have to defend both against *throws dart at wall* Ciampa

Why is Ciampa the only name on this wall?

# ? Jun 18, 2020 02:41

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# ? Apr 27, 2024 09:44

rotinaj: Sep 5, 2008; Fun Shoe

skaboomizzy posted:

It really is amazing how quickly NXT became Just Another Two Hours Of WWE Programming.

Does nxt have a cuck angle yet going on

# ? Jun 18, 2020 02:41

Jerusalem: May 20, 2004; Would you be my new best friends?

blast0rama posted:

I thought they were building to Kross vs. Cole?

According to the Observer recap, Cole claimed that Kross needed to work his way up to a title shot, so I assume Kross is gonna go after him at some point for that.

# ? Jun 18, 2020 02:46

Tato: Jun 19, 2001; DIRECTIVE 236: Promote pro-social values

From cucking to piss jars to throwing up on women. I mean, the WWE has always enjoyed crass terrible stuff, but it seems to be coming on at an accelerated rate now and every piece of their programming is affected. No one will confront the old man, they just write the TV they know he will love, while it all burns down to the ground.

# ? Jun 18, 2020 02:47

fatherofmustard: May 15, 2018

sportsgenius86 posted:

Isn�t cole�s contract expiring this summer? This could be them setting up a squash loss if he�s not willing to re-sign

I read that he already re-signed.

# ? Jun 18, 2020 02:49

Dacap: Jul 8, 2008; I've been involved in a number of cults, both as a leader and a follower.

You have more fun as a follower. But you make more money as a leader.

Yeah I don�t see them putting this on Balor or Gargano. I guess the other option is Lee loses to Cole, gets called up and maybe Cole drops just the NA belt but not the NXT belt to Kross?

# ? Jun 18, 2020 02:52

Codependent Poster: Oct 20, 2003

Kross seems like someone they'd move up faster than others, especially once Vince starts seeing more of Scarlett.

# ? Jun 18, 2020 02:52

Benne: Sep 2, 2011; STOP DOING HEROIN

sportsgenius86 posted:

Isn�t cole�s contract expiring this summer? This could be them setting up a squash loss if he�s not willing to re-sign

Cole has guzzled the Kool-Aid, he's not going anywhere

# ? Jun 18, 2020 03:10

Jerusalem: May 20, 2004; Would you be my new best friends?

NXT Results 6/17:

Detailed Results here.
Imperium (C) defeated Breezango to retain the NXT Tag Titles. Fandango was pinned after trying to pin the non-legal man, and while Indus Sher and Oney Lorcan & Danny Burch were brawling at ringside.
Velveteen Dream did an interview stressing to Dexter Lumis that while they'd recently helped each other, he had no interest in challenging for the tag titles with Lumis.
Damian Priest defeated Killian Dane in a singles match.
Aliyah defeated Xia Li in a singles match when Xia Li was distracted by a drunk Robert Stone - who is managing Aliyah - vomiting.
Timothy Thatcher stretched some dudes in a seminar in a vignette.
In a pre-taped segment, Undisputed Era took Roderick Strong to therapy with Dr. Kyle O'Reilly, who tried to convince him to lock himself in the trunk of a car. Roddy ran away.
Keith Lee approached Adam Cole backstage and warned him again he was after Cole's NXT Championship.
Adam Cole went to the ring and declared Karrion Kross needed to work his way up to a title match, and that HE was coming after Keith Lee's North American Championship. Keith Lee, then Johnny Gargano, then Finn Balor all came out to make a variety of threats about winning titles.
William Regal appeared on the Titantron and declared Lee would defend the North American Championship in a triple threat next week against Balor and Gargano, and the winner would face Adam Cole on July 8th with both titles on the line.
Candice LeRae confronted Keith Lee backstage and ended up in a brawl with Mia Yim.
Dakota Kai defeated Kayden Carter in a singles match after interference by Raquel Gonzalez.
Karrion Kross smashed the hourglass from last week and walked through the glass and sand. A vignette aired for Mercedes Martinez.
Bronson Reed defeated Leon Ruff in a singles match, then challenged Karrion Kross to a match next week.
Cameron Grimes made fun of Damian Priest in the parking lot when Priest found his tires slashed.
Santos Escobar came to the ring with Raoul Mendoza and Joaquin Wilde and did a promo about leaving the name El Hijo del Fantasma behind. Drake Maverick attacked him and Escobar, Mendoza and Wilde beat his rear end till he had to be stretchered out.
Sasha Banks & Bayley (C) defeated Shotzi Blackheart & Tegan Nox to retain the Women's Tag Team Titles.
NXT Women's Champion Io Shirai attacked Sasha & Bayley after the match.
Show Discussion here and here.

# ? Jun 18, 2020 03:18

Astro7x: Aug 4, 2004; Thinks It's All Real

The less I watch NXT and the more randos they debut, the less I care to get back into it.

Will Io coming out actually lead to anything? Probably not.

# ? Jun 18, 2020 03:22

TV Zombie: Sep 6, 2011; Burying all the trauma from past nights
Burying my anger in the past

Why are Shotzi and Tegan a team? Have they teamed in the past? Also, why would Io attack them?

# ? Jun 18, 2020 03:26

Jerusalem: May 20, 2004; Would you be my new best friends?

TV Zombie posted:

Why are Shotzi and Tegan a team? Have they teamed in the past? Also, why would Io attack them?

Yeah they've tagged only a couple of times but they've been peripherally involved/on each other's side in larger angles on the women's roster as well so it hasn't just come completely out of the blue.

Io attacked Sasha and Bayley, not Shotzi and Tegan.

# ? Jun 18, 2020 03:32

njsykora: Jan 23, 2012; Robots confuse squirrels.

Benne posted:

Cole has guzzled the Kool-Aid, he's not going anywhere

If he thinks going to the main roster will lead to anything other than him being ritually punished for his girlfriend working for the other side then he really has.

# ? Jun 18, 2020 03:34

skaboomizzy: Nov 12, 2003; There is nothing I want to be. There is nothing I want to do.
I don't even have an image of what I want to be. I have nothing. All that exists is zero.

Watching NXT and realizing I have never figured out what Damian Priest's gimmick is. It's like several half-baked idea fragments just kinda smooshed together.

# ? Jun 18, 2020 03:36

Codependent Poster: Oct 20, 2003

The women's tag match was pretty good, but that's no surprise with Bayley involved.

# ? Jun 18, 2020 03:36

Alaois: Feb 7, 2012

skaboomizzy posted:

Watching NXT and realizing I have never figured out what Damian Priest's gimmick is. It's like several half-baked idea fragments just kinda smooshed together.

his gimmick is that his name used to be Punishment Martinez

# ? Jun 18, 2020 03:38

Dimebags Brain: Feb 18, 2013

Jerusalem posted:

NXT Results 6/17:

[*] Bronson Reed defeated Leon Ruff
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Sorry, but even more so than your usual wrestler names, those are gay porn names.

# ? Jun 18, 2020 03:45

Hirez: Feb 3, 2003; Weber scored 49 points?

Jerusalem posted:

[*] Show Discussion here and here.

lol

almost went a month without a post in the nxt thread

# ? Jun 18, 2020 03:48

TV Zombie: Sep 6, 2011; Burying all the trauma from past nights
Burying my anger in the past

Jerusalem posted:

Yeah they've tagged only a couple of times but they've been peripherally involved/on each other's side in larger angles on the women's roster as well so it hasn't just come completely out of the blue.

Io attacked Sasha and Bayley, not Shotzi and Tegan.

I'm sorry for the grammar. I'm just puzzled as to why Io would run and attack anyone in the tag match. Like what's the motivation?

# ? Jun 18, 2020 03:52

Grendels Dad: Mar 5, 2011; Popular culture has passed you by.

njsykora posted:

If he thinks going to the main roster will lead to anything other than him being ritually punished for his girlfriend working for the other side then he really has.

You see, it will be different for him because he's tall.

# ? Jun 18, 2020 03:53

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

I've kept the parts of the text where I genuinely can't tell from the text who's the face

Jerusalem posted:

[*] Aliyah defeated Xia Li in a singles match when Xia Li was distracted by a drunk Robert Stone - who is managing Aliyah - vomiting.
[*] In a pre-taped segment, Undisputed Era took Roderick Strong to therapy with Dr. Kyle O'Reilly, who tried to convince him to lock himself in the trunk of a car. Roddy ran away.
[*] Keith Lee approached Adam Cole backstage and warned him again he was after Cole's NXT Championship.
[*] Adam Cole went to the ring and declared Karrion Kross needed to work his way up to a title match, and that HE was coming after Keith Lee's North American Championship. Keith Lee, then Johnny Gargano, then Finn Balor all came out to make a variety of threats about winning titles.
[*] William Regal appeared on the Titantron and declared Lee would defend the North American Championship in a triple threat next week against Balor and Gargano, and the winner would face Adam Cole on July 8th with both titles on the line.
[*] Cameron Grimes made fun of Damian Priest in the parking lot when Priest found his tires slashed.
[*] NXT Women's Champion Io Shirai attacked Sasha & Bayley after the match.

# ? Jun 18, 2020 03:54

TriffTshngo: Mar 28, 2010; Don't get it twisted who your enemies are.

Jerusalem posted:

NXT Results 6/17:

Santos Escobar came to the ring with Raoul Mendoza and Joaquin Wilde and did a promo about leaving the name El Hijo del Fantasma behind. Drake Maverick attacked him and Escobar, Mendoza and Wilde beat his rear end till he had to be stretchered out.

only heels have friends, only heels have brains

# ? Jun 18, 2020 04:02

Lid: Feb 18, 2005; And the mercy seat is awaiting,
And I think my head is burning,
And in a way I'm yearning,
To be done with all this measuring of proof.
An eye for an eye
And a tooth for a tooth,
And anyway I told the truth,
And I'm not afraid to die.

I'll admit with no context

[*] In a pre-taped segment, Undisputed Era took Roderick Strong to therapy with Dr. Kyle O'Reilly, who tried to convince him to lock himself in the trunk of a car. Roddy ran away.

This made me laugh a lot in a good way.

# ? Jun 18, 2020 04:03

Hopkins FBI: Jan 4, 2015; MY SACRED POSTING VOW IS NOTHING, FOR WHILE I STAKED MY HONOR UPON MY COMMITMENT TO NEVER SUPPORT JOSEPH R. B. JUNIOR I HAVE SCANDALOUSLY ABANDONED MY PRINCIPLES

skaboomizzy posted:

Watching NXT and realizing It's like several half-baked idea fragments just kinda smooshed together.

# ? Jun 18, 2020 04:44

Chris James 2: Aug 9, 2012

Psychepath posted:

Uh..
https://twitter.com/BrianFritz/status/1272723726946177024

Fightful's saying Kevin Owens bailed on doing the tapings after reading this

# ? Jun 18, 2020 05:03

TV Zombie: Sep 6, 2011; Burying all the trauma from past nights
Burying my anger in the past

Chris James 2 posted:

Fightful's saying Kevin Owens bailed on doing the tapings after reading this

Owens should bail, since he has kids to keep safe.

# ? Jun 18, 2020 05:21

Grendels Dad: Mar 5, 2011; Popular culture has passed you by.

CM Punk has a history of getting hosed over by WWE doctors, what's his take on all this? His return has severely diminished my expectations of him calling WWE out in a meaningful fashion.

# ? Jun 18, 2020 05:31

Raskolnikov38: Mar 3, 2007; We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

TV Zombie posted:

Owens should bail, since he has kids to keep safe.

i feel like owens wouldn't bail on the company after all the help he credits them with settling his family in florida

# ? Jun 18, 2020 05:53

RealFoxy: May 11, 2011; I'm not making a fucking QCS thread for this but seriously can we take a harder stance on Kiwifarms freaks like this guy, Jesus Christ seriously, you used to be better at knocking these creeps down. I guess ADTRW mods aren't responsible like GBS mods are.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

i feel like owens wouldn't bail on the company after all the help he credits them with settling his family in florida

For a billion dollar company that's a drop in the bucket and no big deal, but potentially catching and exposing COVID-19 to his family because of absolute stubborn neglect is a huge loving deal for him, and he has every right to bail on them.

E: I also want to bring up that they hired a Japanese wrestler to help train at the performance center who's been in America for less than a year, and fired him in the middle of a pandemic with no other place to go

RealFoxy fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Jun 18, 2020

# ? Jun 18, 2020 06:28

Golden Bee: Dec 24, 2009; I came here to chew bubblegum and quote 'They Live', and I'm... at an impasse.

He�s Canadian, he still has self respect.

# ? Jun 18, 2020 06:35

Tokamak: Dec 22, 2004

Tato posted:

From cucking to piss jars to throwing up on women. I mean, the WWE has always enjoyed crass terrible stuff, but it seems to be coming on at an accelerated rate now and every piece of their programming is affected. No one will confront the old man, they just write the TV they know he will love, while it all burns down to the ground.

The sophistication will increase until ratings improve.

# ? Jun 18, 2020 06:42

Dell_Zincht: Nov 5, 2003

WrasslorMonkey posted:

I remember her jumping through the second and top ropes (which is how the women had to be eliminated back then). And the announcers were like "Uh, did Gail just eliminate herself?"

e: Nope, just rolled under and walked right off, lmao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCoFCSISuEI&t=40

Apparently Melina's "tying her bootlaces and falling through the ropes when Beth barely touched her" right at the start was also a show of disregard for the match, too.

You have to wonder if the two women pre-planned it, seeing it was both of their last matches in the company.

# ? Jun 18, 2020 07:39

BrigadierSensible: Feb 16, 2012; I've got a pocket full of cheese🧀, and a garden full of trees🌴.

Completely unrelated, and a good couple of days, (maybe even a week? I dunno when it aired), late.

But I just saw Miz and Morrisson's 80's song. I liked it. I thought it was good silly fun, and clearly shows none of the fingerprints of Vince. Much like the early Dirt Sheets, it is just two friends pissing about being silly and amusing themselves.

Now I am biased, as a big ol' Miz fan, but I think it's cool when something like this slips through the net. Good honest dorks just goofing around having fun, which lord knows WWE does not let it's performers have enough of.

# ? Jun 18, 2020 08:38

Quantum of Phallus: Dec 27, 2010

BrigadierSensible posted:

Completely unrelated, and a good couple of days, (maybe even a week? I dunno when it aired), late.

But I just saw Miz and Morrisson's 80's song. I liked it. I thought it was good silly fun, and clearly shows none of the fingerprints of Vince. Much like the early Dirt Sheets, it is just two friends pissing about being silly and amusing themselves.

Now I am biased, as a big ol' Miz fan, but I think it's cool when something like this slips through the net. Good honest dorks just goofing around having fun, which lord knows WWE does not let it's performers have enough of.

Yeah I really enjoyed that, they should have played a full song to fill out time before their awful match with Braun. They're both great on the mic, particularly Morrisson.

# ? Jun 18, 2020 08:42

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

Codependent Poster posted:

The women's tag match was pretty good, but that's no surprise with Bayley involved.

Agreed. It was nicely laid out.

TV Zombie posted:

I'm sorry for the grammar. I'm just puzzled as to why Io would run and attack anyone in the tag match. Like what's the motivation?

It was kind of thin but they were running down NXT and Io's thing is that she is the best woman in the world. I am hoping it leads to Io/Bayley but also not on Smackdown since I don't want to watch Smackdown.

# ? Jun 18, 2020 09:22