NXT Megathread

[screech]

Tony D'Angelo "the Don of NXT" out with some other guy. Neither guy is Nunzio

[Mr. Nerfect]

I was looking up more about Julius Creed (Jacob Kasper).

“Early life. Jacob was born in 1994 in Wheeling, West Virginia to parents Brad and Angie Kasper. He has two brothers named Gregory and Drew. Kasper's early years were spent being a small child.”

Thanks for that, internet.

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Jobber with a bunch of dumb tattoos

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Referee in this match kinda looks like Karl Anderson

[Mr. Nerfect]

The Grizzled Young Veterans are amazing as Joe Gacy’s creepy followers.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Jobber with a bunch of dumb tattoos

Brody King has jumped ship.

[screech]

They showed the jobber's name but my son walked in front of the TV so I missed it again.

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Ref threw up the X so the jobber won

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(Wes Lee is his name)

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Carmelo Hayes wearing a sick shirt

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Surfer chick vignette. Sol Ruca. I guess she's debuting next!

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Carmelo Hayes wearing a sick shirt

My wife tells me the shirt was Versace

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Surfer chick vignette. Sol Ruca. I guess she's debuting next!

This match is bad

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Sol Ruca should be a heel and hit her opponents with a surfboard

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This guy Joe Gacy looks like he stormed The Capitol

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Also I'm tired of handspring finishers

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Chase U gimmick is fun

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(guy looks like he takes advantage of freshmen so it fits)

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Video with some guy playing futbol and the field (pitch?) is in terrible shape. All brown and shit

[Mr. Nerfect]

Is William Regal’s son still going by Charlie Dempsey? I hate how they do that with second generation guys lol.

[DAMN iNATOR]

Might need to retitle this thread as it seems that as of this past Tuesday’s episode, NXT is no longer 2.0. Thank fuck.

That’s not to say there aren’t other issues with the show that need addressing, but getting rid of “2.0” in the name and the annoying rainbow sidewalk chalk color scheme from the logo at least is a baby step in the right direction.

[Mr. Nerfect]

NXT is just AEW if it were in the Impact Zone and none of the talent had worked indies. I hope Triple H and Shawn Michaels tighten it up.

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These "pretty deadly" guys seem good. Terrible wigs in this segment.

Love it

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Brawling Brutes out now. Nice

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I walked away for like ten seconds and two other people came out before commercial. Dammit. Who is anyone around here?

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Chase U gimmick is good. That guy should've won. Other guy was boring.

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Got a DQ commercial. They claim to have "house made" hidden valley ranch dressing with their chicken tenders basket.

How y'all gonna say you made someone else's dressing in house

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Some woman in pajamas out rasslin now. What is happening

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Pajama lady won. what

[DaveWadding]

Watching NXT this week. "McDonagh" vs. Dragunov vs. LOL BRON WINS should be a banger. Dragunov and JD are always great.

[DaveWadding]

These Frazer vs. Axiom matches have all been really fun. Lots of excellent counter sequences and back and forth action. I didn't watch a lot of NXT UK, looking forward to seeing more from both guys.

[DaveWadding]

Apollo Crews doing voice over on a direct head shot of Apollo Crews, only for him to speak the last line of the promo.....what?

I can't be THAT high.

[DaveWadding]

Cora's new emo mean girl gimmick is pretty funny, this seems way better for her than barely riding a skateboard to the ring for no apparent reason.

[DaveWadding]

NXT tag team division is really thin. I thought it was bad with MSK as champs, but this is worse. They're almost completely resetting the division without MSK, Imperium, and Legado. It's the Creed Brothers, Pretty Deadly, and not much else. What are Moustache Mountain up to?

[DaveWadding]

Kianna James definitely a porn star name :lol:
Gigi Dolin has some really sick tiger striped shorts.

[DaveWadding]

Found out that "The Dyad" are just Grizzled Young Veterans with a new gimmick. I've never really cared for them. I guess cult members are a better gimmick than soccer hooligans though.

[DaveWadding]

Wes Lee is a human highlight reel. Dude is gonna shine in this ladder match.

[DaveWadding]

Great motivational speech by wheelchair bound quadriplegic Roderick Strong. V motivational.

[XL]

NXT tag team division is really thin. I thought it was bad with MSK as champs, but this is worse. They're almost completely resetting the division without MSK, Imperium, and Legado. It's the Creed Brothers, Pretty Deadly, and not much else. What are Moustache Mountain up to?

Tyler Bate in NXT. Trent Seven in the unemployment queue.

[XL]

Pretty Deadly
Creed Bros
The Dyad
Briggs & Jensen
Gallus?
Anofe & Blade

Do you need more than 6 teams?

[Mr. Nerfect]

No, you don’t. It’s an indy mark thing to judge a tag division by the number of teams.

[xrodmuc316]

Oh shit, Rock's daughter just debuted!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">AVA RAINE LOOKS GOOD. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWENXT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWENXT</a> <a href="https://t.co/HfXa81Y9Je">pic.twitter.com/HfXa81Y9Je</a></p>&mdash; melissa (fan account) (@LIVSMUNECA) <a href="https://twitter.com/LIVSMUNECA/status/1585082339750998016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[Mr. Nerfect]

AEW shitting bricks.

[drave]

how long till she gets called up to join The Bloodline?

[Danny Electric]

Tyler Bate in NXT. Trent Seven in the unemployment queue.

He has first match since being dropped this Friday in Wolves against Matt Cordona.

[Evil Vito]

A deathmatch guy, a British tag team, and The Rock's daughter in a stable sounds like an EWR game come to life.

[Mr. Nerfect]

No that’s AEW.

[LibSuperstar]

No that’s AEW.

*Chuckles*

[Evil Vito]

Wait, Noid made an AEW post about something that has nothing to do with AEW? Again?

Rent free.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Wait, Noid made an AEW post about something that has nothing to do with AEW? Again?

Rent free.

Irony writ-large.

[xrodmuc316]

how long till she gets called up to join The Bloodline?

They should use her joining the bloodline as a way for Roman to claim he really is head of the table, and use that to get Rock to come back and fight him.

[Mr. Nerfect]

The Rock should beat up the The Schism at WrestleMania and beat Rip Fowler in a 3 second match.

[xrodmuc316]

Ava Raine looks like a kung fu movie when she talks. Her mouth doesn't seem to match up to her words.

[Sepholio]

R-Truth injured himself on NXT last night against Waller. Messed up his leg apparently. Match was called and he was taken to the back by medical staff.

[Sepholio]

Looks like he blew out his knee diving over the top. Injury seems like it happened on the take off, not on the landing.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Ah man. That sucks for the guy. I was interested to see where his stuff with Shelton Benjamin was going. I hope Truth comes out in a wheelchair and becomes a heel manager.

[drave]

Looks like he blew out his knee diving over the top. Injury seems like it happened on the take off, not on the landing.




Bound to happen sooner or later at his age, with his same style. Dude is still money tho.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I thought the dude had stopped wrestling anything but comedy matches. Then I saw he was doing some stuff on Main Event. Figured he went back to his stuff. Has he been doing it along?

[Mr. Nerfect]

R-Truth > Hangman Page

[drave]

Yup. Comedy for sure, but same in-ring moveset.




Dude has always been in my top 10, easily. He can adapt to nearly any style, any gimmick and make it serviceable for television.

[drave]

R-Truth > Hangman Page


I'll buy that.




I don't think Hangman is terrible (I don't follow backstage whatever, to the degree most do), but I don't see him as "the guy" either.

[Mr. Nerfect]

He’s someone who really found a way to make a place for himself in the industry.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Lol, I remember thinking he was “too old” to put much stock in when he turned heel. That was 11 years ago.

[LibSuperstar]

I don't really follow AEW but I know that Page is popular and reportedly good in the ring. Is he charismatic?

[Mr. Nerfect]

There’s something there. He’s not phenomenal, but if he put it all together he could be a big deal. But he seems to have no intention to do that/thinks he’s already there.

[drave]

He's gonna need to go away for a while, maybe lose the "cowboy" thing and come back as a badass submission machine.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Maybe he can go away on paternity leave and people can just call it “long-term storytelling?”

[LibSuperstar]

Maybe he can go away on paternity leave and people can just call it “long-term storytelling?”

*Chuckles*

[Mr. Nerfect]

I read the spoilers for the next two weeks…it doesn’t actually sound half-bad.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Everything seems logical and like it’s leading to a clear program. I haven’t watched in ages, so I can’t speak to the quality of the talent or the matches, but on paper it all tracks.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Tyler Breeze should return to television and help Pretty Deadly. Cue Big E to help out his buds.

[DAMN iNATOR]

I read the spoilers for the next two weeks…it doesn’t actually sound half-bad.

I don’t like the hot-shotting of Roxanne Perez. I feel like Deadline was the time to make Indi the #1 contender and have her be Mandy’s successor.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I don’t like the hot-shotting of Roxanne Perez. I feel like Deadline was the time to make Indi the #1 contender and have her be Mandy’s successor.

Eh, their hand was kind of forced. I haven’t seen much from Indi, but apparently she is horrible in the ring. Roxanne is just green as shit. I think she’s she’s heading towards Elektra Lopez, which is…fine. It’s her first program off the ranks.

[DAMN iNATOR]

Honestly even Cora Jade, her friend turned arch-nemesis would’ve been a better choice. But as things are now, with Roxanne as women’s champ and the rest being a snoozefest, and no Cameron Grimes on the show in forever? Nope
Tuesday nights 8PM-10:08PM (Eastern US time) on USA are not for me right now.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Everyone Triple H has brought back to the main roster would be better off helping NXT.

[mitchables]

NXT is really good at the moment, lotta quality rasslin to be had

it kind of reminds me of ECW? not in the extreme violence sense, but in the crowd energy and the size of the arenas it's taped in. huge chant culture, lots of "you fucked up"s and "let's go ______"s and "holy shit"s, crowd just seems stoked to be there every week

something about the smaller setting makes the energy feel bigger than you get in the large raw and smackdown arenas

it is obviously a talent farm so the mic and ring work might not always be the best but it's positively overflowing with potential, provides a very cool glimpse of obvious future superstars, and its runtime makes it v easy and watchable

dunno, i just have a lot of love for it. its product is flourishing under shawn michaels tbh

[mitchables]

also extremely funny to me at the disproportionate and delightfully petty response from WWE to tony khan moving dynamite to tuesday this week for his birthday

they were like "oh you want to air on tuesday and parade around the fact you have edge and christian together again? cool cool, anyway, here's NXT with paul heyman and cody rhodes and john cena and asuka and rhea ripley and LA knight and finn balor and JD mcdonagh and the undertaker"

like at the end of the day the real winners are the audience because competition has always driven WWE to deliver a better product than when it has been an uncontested dominant force

but it is still hilarious to see khan flip out every week about WWE and have WWE never acknowledge him directly but just carpet bomb the shit out of his birthday plans

[Mr. Nerfect]

No Mercy was an easier watch than Fastlane. A lot of the guys who were green 3 years ago are now, frankly, PrettyCool and have progressed past the goobers people used to champion in AEW.

[xrodmuc316]

Damn Shotzi dressed like Pinhead, and Scarlett dressed as, well I dont know but :drool:

[mitchables]

main event was really good. lyra's sell on that manhandle slam was fucking sick but the whole match was v strong and a testament to the calibre of wrestling in the women's division

props to becky for cleanly putting over lyra. none of that charlotte triple threat "i didn't actually get pinned" garbage. becky spent her entire reign elevating younger talent, which is more than can be said for most champions. legend

like yeah she won her matches in the lead-up to hand lyra the belt, but a) it gave NXT folks a chance in the spotlight -- and they all performed well to boot -- and b) now that lyra goes back with the belt as the person who beat becky lynch, whoever gets the belt next is the person who beat the person who beat becky lynch, etc.

it has a flow-on effect of elevating the credibility and status of the NXT women's championship, and i think it's really laudable that becky has made it her focus, much like cena has with LA knight, to put over other people for their moment rather than try to turn this into an ego-stroke where they refuse to job to nascent talent

anyway, good stuff

[mitchables]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">One of the best Becky has ever done. <a href="https://t.co/QsaWRnnxKW">pic.twitter.com/QsaWRnnxKW</a> <a href="https://t.co/mpAKz6VeWL">https://t.co/mpAKz6VeWL</a></p>&mdash; Humble Wrestling (@WrestlingHumble) <a href="https://twitter.com/WrestlingHumble/status/1717003065751224685?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 25, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

fucking brutal

[xrodmuc316]

Ok I missed somwthing, but Noam Dar is in some haunted house dressed as Scooby Doo licking his heritage cup, and I think calling it Tozawa, since Tozawa stole it

[DAMN iNATOR]

I still have a feeling Trick Williams is going to turn heel and feud with Carmelo Hayes. Especially after what happened tonight.

[Tom Guycott]

Damn Shotzi dressed like Pinhead

She has such sights to show you.

[Destor]

Scuttlebutt is the nxt is getting bumped off USA for CW. It'll easily be CWs top show at least

[Mr. Nerfect]

NXT rumored to start touring with the jump to CW. That doesn’t shock me. They were always just waiting out AEW imo.

[Mr. Nerfect]

So I watched NXT this week. If you can get past some pretty hokey acting, um, holy shit.

That main event was fucking insane. Bron Breakker vs. Eddy Thorpe was really good too. Every match worked, I thought. I really like Brooks Jensen and Lexis King. Trick Williams and Carmelo Hayes have a Stringer Bell/Avon Barksdale thing going on, where Trick doesn’t realize Melo’s put out the hit. Ooh, Melo’s gonna get that fake heat when he turns.

[Mr. Nerfect]

NXT was a good show this week. Ilja and Dijak are pretty good at this wrestling thing.

[Mr. Nerfect]

I guess I should use the NXT thread for this. Boards are off a lot though, so eh. But anyway. NXT has been a great show the last two weeks.

Ethan Page is like…better MJF.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Oba Femi vs. Moose can be injected directly into my veins, please.

Ricky Saints did great this week. He was all over the show and didn’t miss a beat. His talent wasn’t the issue holding him back in AEW. That culture needs to change. Another L for them.

Jordynne Grace gives off great babyface vibes. I’ve never engaged with her work enough to become a “fan,” but she was really vibrant on this show.

The booking on NXT is layered. HBK might be better at it than Triple H.

Looking forward to The Hardys being involved and where the tag team scene goes. I enjoy Tavion Heights.

Eddy Thorpe is good and he’s busting his ass off, but something is missing from the act.

Ethan Page is still better MJF. I hope Josh Alexander does an MCMG and takes a WWE deal.

Lexis King and Moose were funny together.

[Lock Jaw]

Dunno why but Jordynne Grace screams 80s rassler to me

[xrodmuc316]

NXT is so much better than AEW at like 5% the payroll. At least AEW has Goldust and Edge to constantly remind us that wrestling is FUN! :rofl:

[Mr. Nerfect]

Dunno why but Jordynne Grace screams 80s rassler to me

I definitely get throwback vibes with her. Something about her ring gear makes me think of a classic women’s wrestling ace.

[Mr. Nerfect]

NXT is so much better than AEW at like 5% the payroll. At least AEW has Goldust and Edge to constantly remind us that wrestling is FUN! :rofl:

I saw a clip of Australia singing along to Edge’s theme. People were trying to make it seem like that doesn’t happen every other week in WWE. I guess they’re not used to AEW having crowds.

Dustin is washed.

It’s just refreshing watching a wrestling show where things matter. No one in AEW can work to the booking because they don’t know what it is.

[Mr. Nerfect]

NXT is probably my favorite WWE show right now. Ricky Saints was awesome this week.

[Mr. Nerfect]

It was good to see Moose in the WWE system. Cool to see The Hardys back too. Their AEW run was a bit tragic.

Roadblock looks like a damn shiny event.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Roadblock was a really good show.

[Mr. Nerfect]

EVOLVE has been a really easy watch. Some good wrestling.