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I was at the first Brooklyn Takeover in 2015 and seeing what NXT has become is loving depressing.
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It's one of those interesting thought experiments but in reverse where the fourth TV wrestling show fields a roster of Keith Lee, Prince Devitt, Io Shirai, Gargano, Adam Cole, 3.0 et all and is generally the dullest wrestling show on TV
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Aug 23, 2020 14:38
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They just burn through stuff so fast, you've gone through both Keith Lee's coronation and Kross' within a month. There's no thought behind anything just ramming 'moments' together in order to pop interest solely within your dilapidated fanbase. Who does Kross fight now?
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Aug 23, 2020 14:58
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cauliflower jones posted:Who does Kross fight now? Injury rehab
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cauliflower jones posted:They just burn through stuff so fast, you've gone through both Keith Lee's coronation and Kross' within a month. There's no thought behind anything just ramming 'moments' together in order to pop interest solely within your dilapidated fanbase. Well he's probably on the shelf till next year, at which point he can chase the NXT championship again and win it from *checks notes* Dexter Lumis
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Aug 23, 2020 15:07
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cauliflower jones posted:
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I was at the first Brooklyn Takeover in 2015 and seeing what NXT has become is loving depressing. Same! I got to see Bayley's big win, Andrade beat Drew, and War Games and I was loving hyped for all of them. Once they moved to TV the show just felt listless and I couldn't get into it. It used to be the show my partner and I were most excited to watch every week and now we don't even bother.
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Aug 23, 2020 15:16
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https://twitter.com/NXTUK/status/1297346562700513282 not really
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I want Vince to continue to be in charge, to continue to be clueless as to what fans want and I want them to continue to only appeal to 50+ year olds. This terminally uncool awful company deserves to die a slow painful death in front of whatever geriatric fanbase they have left at the end.
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Aug 23, 2020 15:20
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Orange Carlisle posted:I want Vince to continue to be in charge, to continue to be clueless as to what fans want and I want them to continue to only appeal to 50+ year olds. they just had their most profitable quarter ever.
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Aug 23, 2020 15:26
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Oh they'll continue to be profitable sure, but they'll do it with ratings low enough to have to go back to whatever spike TV is now
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Aug 23, 2020 15:28
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flashy_mcflash posted:I'm actually kinda surprised at how much my interest in NXT has dropped off over the last year. I WENT to Takeover last August, and I can't even be bothered to watch the one from last night. I’m in the same boat as you. Went to Takeover Toronto, skipped last night’s. Honestly, the biggest thing that killed NXT for me is that when it moved to USA, NXT could not longer be watched live in Canada even if you have the Network. You can only watch It as a replay a couple days later. There are nights where I would have been willing to watch NXT if they had a good card, or switch back and forth between it and Dynamite but WWE just decided that viewers in Canada aren’t needed. They also killed the network app in Canada by making it incompatible with logging in via a cable provider, which is the only way to subscribe to the Network in Canada .
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Aug 23, 2020 15:29
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JOHN CENA posted:they just had their most profitable quarter ever. eventually the dipshit suits at USA and Fox are going to realize nobody's loving watching this garbage and the only money it actually makes is the money THEY'RE giving it
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Aug 23, 2020 15:32
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Dacap posted:Honestly, the biggest thing that killed NXT for me is that when it moved to USA, NXT could not longer be watched live in Canada even if you have the Network. You can only watch It as a replay a couple days later. not only that but they trim it to an edited one hour episode. when I first got to see nxt I was interested and seemed neat but it quickly just became a nothing show with good wrestling. I don't care about anything that happens. it's so sterile, samey and boring, with annoying production. it's a shame because the wrestlers kinda rule but it's all covered in garbage.
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Aug 23, 2020 15:46
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Takeover Portland was booked like it was booked by someone who wanted to make fun of NXT booking, but it was still red hot. Haven't really cared about the product since.
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Dacap posted:
Is this new? Because as of Mania, when I did a free trial, you were just able to close the popup where they ask for your tv provider on the website and browse away (on desktop), and the app worked as normal. The only thing I needed a VPN for was the signup process.
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The thing is NXT was fine as a one hour show now its bloated and directionless. Title changes happening because theyre going to the main roster us a lot qorse on a show that us its own thing so it becomes incoherent rather than developmental. People loved NXT because it was just a simple show with no weird poo poo other than lets settle this via wrestling. Now its two hours got a fleet if writers and no idea what it wants to be.
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Like we had two different title changes and the stories coming out of them could not be any different. What does Kross dethroning Lee in a competitive match mean? Ignoring Kross is now out injured what does the belt on him accomplish and moreso what does taking it off Keith Lee accomplish? The story feels undercooked and underdeveloped, like a season finale with no build up.
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Aug 23, 2020 16:11
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Nxt doesn't even mean anything!
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JOHN CENA posted:they just had their most profitable quarter ever. On the other hand, Vince probably doesn't really care about money all that much anymore. And it has to be gnawing at him that the ratings for his shows are declining, instead of pulling record numbers during a pandemic, where many people are stuck at home with nothing else to do.
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Dacap posted:I’m in the same boat as you. Went to Takeover Toronto, skipped last night’s.
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jesus WEP posted:Idk if this is just an impression I get as a foreigner but it always seems like media consumers in Canada just constantly get loving owned on absolutely everything oh we do
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jesus WEP posted:media consumers in Canada just constantly get loving owned on absolutely everything We're about a year out from putting this on the flag
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jesus WEP posted:Idk if this is just an impression I get as a foreigner but it always seems like media consumers in Canada just constantly get loving owned on absolutely everything Ask them how much they like their Rogers service!
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Seth Rollins loving sucks, jesus christ. All he seems to be doing lately is openly making GBS threads on the people that are left watching their product. It feels like the kind of thing where in any other promotion someone would've pulled him aside and said "Hey tone it down with the openly making GBS threads on the people that are left watching our product thing". But we know that this attitude goes to the very top so all he's doing is making sure he's first in line to be the next HHH 20 years from now I guess. Someone else already said it upthread but it is crazy how vastly different the quotes from people on each promotion are. You'd think if there was one person happy with the booking/writing going on at WWE that they'd be out there talking about it but even Seth Rollins who has now become super boot licker #1 can only muster up "These little shits wouldn't know good wrestling if it bit them in the rear end. Now watch this Pedigree."
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oldpainless posted:
Uh. My rear end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4GP1LYwsjk This happened in 2016.
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Sometimes I think guys like Seth and AJ (and sorry to go here, so I’ll make it brief) just let their political leanings shine in their arguments when they’re given a platform. That’s why they say the ridiculous things they say and just lean so heavy into them. I mean, honestly, they’re perfect for WWE and they’re never leaving, much like a Braun or a Dolph would never, ever leave. They’re right at home. It gets bad when you can pretty much guess spot on what these guys believe and/or will say next.
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Every other tag title reign on the brand since Dec 2016 (team, days held) per wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WWE_Raw_Tag_Team_Champions Cesaro and Sheamus, 42 Gallows and Anderson, 64 Hardys, 64 Cesaro and Sheamus, 77 Dean and Seth, 79 Cesaro and Sheamus, 49 Seth and Jason Jordan, 34 Cesaro and Sheamus, 71 Braun and Nicholas, 1 Bray and Matt, 80 Bo and Axel, 50 Dolph and Drew, 49 Dean and Seth, 14 AOP, 34 Roode and Gable, 63 Revival, 54 Hawkins and Ryder, 64 Revival, 49 Gallows and Anderson, 21 Braun and Seth, 26 Dolph and Roode, 29 Viking Raiders, 98 Seth and Murphy, 41 Street Profits have held it almost half a year, one other team got to hold it for as long as three months
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oldpainless posted:
First team since New Day broke Demolition's record to keep those belts for over 100 days Seth has had 6 runs with those belts and 5 of the 6 are with different people (two of them were with Mox) They've changed hands on Raw 11 times in the last 2 years, once on a PPV main card, once on the Wrestlemania pre-show. They've only been vacated once, because one of the champions was 10 years old and had school the next day. Tag team wrestling!
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FOX 13 aired actual footage of Sonya Deville's home invasion during a news report. This seems... misadvised.
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I feel bad for AJ. Why can he not be appreciated for his art? Like when he called disco the f word and threatened to dismember him with a chainsaw. THAT was art. Whenever I see someone bitch about how "sensitive" people are nowadays my brain just turns the quote into "I want to call people awful things without repercussion is that so much to ask?"
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Rarity posted:FOX 13 aired actual footage of Sonya Deville's home invasion during a news report. This seems... misadvised. Yeah the local news here has been really bad with this story.
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Seth Rollins talking to everyone thinking about leaving because of their promised pushes for new contracts that didnt happen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHol7WW2A8g
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Critical posted:I feel bad for AJ. Why can he not be appreciated for his art? Like when he called disco the f word and threatened to dismember him with a chainsaw. THAT was art. Someone should say something negative about his Jesus and see if he takes that well.
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Hoss Corncave posted:Someone should say something negative about his Jesus and see if he takes that well. Jesus disrespected Pilate by kicking out after the three count
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Chris James 2 posted:Every other tag title reign on the brand since Dec 2016 (team, days held) per wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WWE_Raw_Tag_Team_Champions JFC that’s a lot of title changes over 4 years. No wonder no one gets over.
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Did Jesus believe the world was flat?! (prolly) I'm not surprised a dude who spent the prime of his career on whatever TNA or Impact or whatever the gently caress. I mean good for him getting paid this "late" in the game, but his brain is toast and he's never gonna change, much like Jericho - He may show itsome signs of good/change because eyes are on him, but it's probably just for the optics, and not remorse. Critical posted:Jesus disrespected Pilate by kicking out after the three count 
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