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Richter Scabies posted:Late to the party but Kona Reeves looks like a low rent sleazy Hiromu Takahashi. Ticking! Tiime(share)! Bomb! He looks like Andy Samberg playing a sleazy beach guy character. Also, hot drat is NXT too thick with heels. The ladder match was 5/6 heels, the tag title match was 5/6 heels (where the one face turned heel). Now Killian faces Lars. Just a pack of rat bastard assholes (and Johnny Gargano). Also I get the idea behind leaving looking at the lights, but I think NXT sometimes takes it too far, get predictable.
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I don’t know if Sanity are really heels anymore. Probably not since TUE attacked them.
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Sanity also aren't in NXT anymore, are they?
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Apr 22, 2018 06:56
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Not as of last week. They’re on Smackdown now, minus Nikki.
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Aphrodite posted:I don’t know if Sanity are really heels anymore. Probably not since TUE attacked them. Them and AoP basically turned each other from out-and-out heels to both just being grey area angry murder factions. Up against slimy heels like TUE, that makes you a face. On the main roster, they're probably both heels again.
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Just skimming the roster page right now for current alignments: Face: Men's singles Aleister Black Johnny Gargano Ricochet Tyler Bate Kassius Ohno Trent Seven Lio Rush Face: Tag teams Street Profits Heavy Machinery Danny Burch/Oney Lorcan War Raiders (so far) TM61 Face: Women Kairi Sane Dakota Kai Candice LeRae Nikki Cross Heel: Men's singles Adam Cole EC3 Kona Reeves Lars Sullivan Tommaso Ciampa Velveteen Dream Heel: Tag teams Undisputed Era Sabbatelli/Moss Wesley Blake and his weird MAGA stable that has yet to make TV Heel: Women Shayna Bazsler Lacey Evans Tweeners or no alignment (or not on TV enough to matter) Pete Dunne Cezar Bonini Fabian Aichner Aliyah Bianca Belair Vanessa Borne Taynara Conti There's definitely a lot of heels, but when the champ is a face, that's a good problem to have. Aleister should have no shortage of credible challengers for the next few cycles. You also have some very good faces to chase Cole for the NA strap. The men's roster is a lot more balanced than it looks at first glance. I'm more worried about the women's division, where it's Shayna/Kairi/Nikki/Candice and then a whole bunch of question marks (and they kinda buried Dakota this week if we're being honest).
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Is Lio gonna be a face? I've seen they've paired him up with a huge guy which doesn't scream face to me
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Baron Corbyn posted:Is Lio gonna be a face? I've seen they've paired him up with a huge guy which doesn't scream face to me
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Benne posted:I'm more worried about the women's division, where it's Shayna/Kairi/Nikki/Candice and then a whole bunch of question marks (and they kinda buried Dakota this week if we're being honest). I'm happy for them to do this, as it allows Dakota to find courage into the future, plus the classic wrestling thing- easy way to make someone look strong is make someone else look weak. Apparently main roster guidelines of "don't be a bully" doesn't apply in NXT, and hoo boo is it better for it. It makes perfect storyline sense for Dakota to be terrified of Shanya, and dear god I hated Shanya in that segment. Saying someone is scary when no one is scared of them doesn't work (see also, literally only Xavier Woods was afraid of Bray Wyatt). Wazzu fucked around with this message at 12:27 on Apr 22, 2018 |
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They'll probably never put the belt on Dakota but the way to save her getting punked out is to have her work up the courage to finally kick Shayna's loving head in.
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Fabian Aichner's theme this week is nowhere near as groovy as his old one
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So Kairi found her way of connecting with some fans. https://twitter.com/KairiSaneWWE/status/988260106163965952 She's going to occasionally carry a stuffed animal/sea creature toy to the ring and give it to a fan. With an autograph and little message included apparently. I have no doubt this is meant to pander to younger kids (as it should).
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Benne posted:Just skimming the roster page right now for current alignments: I'd call Dream a tweener at this point.
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Are those greasers local talent or development? I'm sure I've seen the Ascension beat them before.
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VJeff posted:Dain ain't a heel. Dain's Irish. In WWE terms, that means his alignment is 'assbeating'.
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Liquid Communism posted:Dain's Irish. In WWE terms, that means his alignment is 'assbeating'. There's a Finn Balor joke to be made here. I won't be the one to make it.
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DarkstarIV posted:It seems like on the Thursday NXT house show, Shayna may have accidentally broken Kairi's finger. Bit late, but the Japanese text says she just split her nail and can’t put pressure on it without bleeding.
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VJeff posted:There's a Finn Balor joke to be made here. I won't be the one to make it. Finn doesn't count, he's too short and skinny for Vince to see.
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Expect WWE to start pushing GLOBAL LOCALIZATION soon for NXT. https://twitter.com/iamjohnpollock/status/989225600706490368 Basically imagine Performance Centers in every country/region listed there, I guess. It'll be interesting to see how NXT functions in a country like Japan though.
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DarkstarIV posted:Expect WWE to start pushing GLOBAL LOCALIZATION soon for NXT. I'm stoked for NXT Svalbard. Surprised there's no love for Australia as they seem to have a decent scene these days.
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Chinston Wurchill posted:I'm stoked for NXT Svalbard. It's surprisingly expensive for a US or Europe-based entity to set up in Australia. Even if they use mostly local talent, they'd still be moving a chunk of office and production people there to start. And that's a market that New Japan actually has a shot at entering and outstripping them in. NJPW can't outdraw a WWE branded stadium show with Reigns, Taker and Cena, but an NXT show with renamed Aussie indie guys? Bushiroad could cripple that as a touring brand simply by counter-promoting. In fact, didn't the NXT tour that had one of the Joe/Nakamura title changes draw really poorly?
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Yeah, that's true. Might as well import the Aussies instead.
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DarkstarIV posted:It'll be interesting to see how NXT functions in a country like Japan though.
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Nixon and Dakota should be tag champs Not for a new women's tag team championship, they should just beat Kyle and Roddy for the belts
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Undisputed Era was rad this week. Dakota Kai is the only one scared of Shayna after seeing all of those video packages. Sucks Nikki Cross is being left behind in NXT. What a bizarre sequence of events to close out the show.
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Kassius Ohno wore a Larry Sweeney shirt on the anniversary of his death and it made it on WWE TV 
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Aleister Black is the best champion ever, I love how he's not even waiting to kick people's heads in.
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My goodness it is finally happening https://twitter.com/JJWilliamsWON/status/989302086478295042
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I really like the running theme of Black being unable to get through a promo without someone trying to fight him.
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Rarity posted:Aleister Black is the best champion ever, I love how he's not even waiting to kick people's heads in. Him interrupting Young’s rant with “do you want to fight for this title or not” was a perfect reaction.
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I thought maybe I had finally managed to get over my blinding, white-hot rage every time I saw Ciampa on-screen dishing out another beatdown to Gargano. Maybe they'd finally run the storyline too long, I thought. Then I saw him standing on the roof waving goodbye to Johnny's corpse and all that wonderful childish fury at the bad guy come flooding back 
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Oh my god Ciampa's full on supervillain moment was perfect
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Surely they had no time to promote the rookie newbie Ricochet this week because of more important segments like Tino turning on Moss.
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Rarity posted:Aleister Black is the best champion ever, I love how he's not even waiting to kick people's heads in. Sanity getting written off by three straight spinkicks to the face was perfect.
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sticklefifer posted:Surely they had no time to promote the rookie newbie Ricochet this week because of more important segments like Tino turning on Moss. Ricochet had a match last week.
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Yeah they probably don’t want to have Ricochet do 3-4 jobber squashes in one set of tapings, the crowd will stop caring real quick
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Jerusalem posted:I thought maybe I had finally managed to get over my blinding, white-hot rage every time I saw Ciampa on-screen dishing out another beatdown to Gargano. Maybe they'd finally run the storyline too long, I thought. I liked the beatdown, mainly because Gargano/Black seemed to come way too early in Black's reign, however part of my mind was thinking "how the hell do you top an unsanctioned match in a storyline?" Then I saw Ciampa on top of the trailer and felt like a 11-year old kid hating Jake Roberts for letting Damien bite Randy Savage all over again.
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