Most of the promos were really good.
Fucking Miz's was excellent. He came across as a full on dickhead heel with confidence. Some of these guys really should just be told 'go there, say this' and let them get on with it.
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Most of the promos were really good.
Fucking Miz's was excellent. He came across as a full on dickhead heel with confidence. Some of these guys really should just be told 'go there, say this' and let them get on with it.
UberTag
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The product would improve immeasurably if they did. Which is why it will never happen.
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PHOENIXZERO
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They have at least a couple experienced women waiting in the wings who haven't debuted on NXT TV yet in Athena/Ember Moon and Nikki Storm, I'm really hoping that with that call up it means the ball is going to finally get rolling on Athena debuting after almost a year since she was signed. Also you may not believe it but Billie Kay and Peyton Royce have been wrestling for nine and seven years respectfully.
Intheflorsh
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Should have done it on the show everyone was going to watch.
If you were a WWE employee and said this to Vince's face he'd fire you. Enough with the fucking common sense godammit
It's like Summer Rae, who's always been a heel, even on Total Divas, but she seems like the nicest girl possible, it makes it unbelievable.
The Elite
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I wasn't a fan of the close ups they were doing on her eyes during last night's NXT. Is that a regular thing? I don't recall it previously.
They did it during her championship match with Asuka, as I recall.
I re-subbed to the network to watch the CWC, and would watch Raw for the cruiserweight stuff if it had a set slot, but I'm not watching either show after seeing how they split up the roster. Neither show has enough people worth watching to endure the rest of the garbage and terrible booking.
I subbed to the network for NXT and get special bonus CWC...I tried watching Raw/SD for a few weeks...dear lord it was painful. They've got enough talent for 2 good rosters, and one developmental...instead we're seeing 2 "eh" rosters that make little sense (splitting the women and cruiserweights), and a developmental that's keeping in people like Samoa Joe and Shinsuke who are clearly good enough for the main roster but leaking people like Dana Brook, Nia Jax, and Baron Corbin who don't cut it. Add to that the fact that people like the Ascension and the Vaudevillains are being wasted because someone doesn't get how to use them, or introduce them....
Very frustrating. I'll stick with NXT. You lose superstars all the time, but at least while they're there they're being given sane things to do, and do promos that generally aren't abysmal.
Dave Meltzer wrote an explanation for the NXT picks in the new Wrestling Observer.
A key here is political. With the exception of Balor, who was in NXT for far too long, everyone called up was someone signed and trained by WWE and put in their system. People like Aries, Roode, Tye Dillinger and Eric Young, not to mention the champions of the brand are all far more advanced, but because of the millions of dollars spent, to justify it, you have to prove it worked by showing that youve trained real athletes like Jax (college basketball), Jordan & Gable (college wrestling), Rawley (college/pro football), Baron Corbin (college/pro football), Bliss (gymnastics), and Dana Brooke (fitness). They could have cherry picked the PWG All-Star team of three years ago or New Japans top American guys who have kids and want to be closer to home or Japanese guys who want to be on the international stage, or the fed up with TNA alumni crew, brought them in, without a program. This is not meant as a knock on the program, because it is that program that will keep them on top while New Japan will struggle going forward for not having something remotely similar even though New Japans actual training system is more successful with a higher percentage of recruits.
So he thinks the picks were meant to show that the WWE Perfomance Center is successful at converting athletes into wrestlers.
A key here is political. With the exception of Balor, who was in NXT for far too long, everyone called up was someone signed and trained by WWE and put in their system. People like Aries, Roode, Tye Dillinger and Eric Young, not to mention the champions of the brand are all far more advanced, but because of the millions of dollars spent, to justify it, you have to prove it worked by showing that youve trained real athletes like Jax (college basketball), Jordan & Gable (college wrestling), Rawley (college/pro football), Baron Corbin (college/pro football), Bliss (gymnastics), and Dana Brooke (fitness). They could have cherry picked the PWG All-Star team of three years ago or New Japans top American guys who have kids and want to be closer to home or Japanese guys who want to be on the international stage, or the fed up with TNA alumni crew, brought them in, without a program. This is not meant as a knock on the program, because it is that program that will keep them on top while New Japan will struggle going forward for not having something remotely similar even though New Japans actual training system is more successful with a higher percentage of recruits.
So he thinks the picks were meant to show that the WWE Perfomance Center is successful at converting athletes into wrestlers.
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I'd say they are, too. And this runs even deeper because it shows that HHH is capable of keeping things going.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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I love it. It should be her finisher.Let's hope Nia doesn't try this move again.
AdventureMike
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Makes me chuckle that they just gave everyone new t-shirts (and Steph a new dress) featuring logos that they were swapping out in a matter of days.
spindashing
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Let's hope Nia doesn't try this move again.
Looks alright to me, tbh...
Uno Venova
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It would be nice if Raw actually reflected the simpler, grittier look of the logo.
SymbiantXenos
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We'll be getting new theme music then?
Nothing will top the goat theme of Raw is War though.
Nothing will top the goat theme of Raw is War though.
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I can live with Raw's, but I cringe whenever SmackDown! is on.
And they should've brought back the exclamation mark.
They were props for the draft. I'm sure they have a shit ton of extra ones sitting around so it was easy to break those out.
New logos are fine I guess. Curious to see what they do with intros for each show. Also if they actually change the overall Smackdown presentation.
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