NXT TakeOver: San Antonio Thread
 

Here we go right here!

Just turned on the pre-show..... Corey Graves announcing he is leaving the NXT commentating team..... and replaced with Nigel McGuiness.....

DAMN

Will miss the chemistry between Corey Graves and Tom Phillips..... hopefully they will be reunited someday......

Don't blame him a person can only do so much

Is that an Oscar dress?

Billy Kay & Peyton Royce winning award for 2016 breakout star of the year

Nigel McGuinness on NXT commentary is a good move. Corey Graves is now a "heavyweight" commentator. Don't stretch him too far.

Billie Kay mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Billie Kay & Peyton Royce will be main roster call-ups at some point this year.

Couple of lingering NXT questions.....

1) What does Andrade "Cien" Almost's theme say at the beginning of it...... "ES EVILO"

2) What is the deal with Sawyer Fulton..... I don't remember reading anything about him being injured, but then one week they just removed him from SaNity with no explanation, and now replaced him with that SlickDamo guy...... Sawyer Fulton seemed like he had a better look......

I dont think I like this Kayla girl

She doesn't like you either

Good!

Those red contacts of Ember are great

I think Sawyer Fulton is injured.

Why do Nigel and Regal say Asska not Asuka

I'm not sold on The Authors of Pain as a tag team just yet. I appreciate they want them to be seen as monsters that can move, and they really do look like menaces, but something is just not there with them. I'd rather see War Machine in the WWE to be honest. I'd probably go with #DIY retaining the belts and then heading towards something with Itami & Ibushi at Takeover on Mania weekend. Austin Aries should be medically cleared by then too. Aries & Strong being thrown as a tag team with very different personalities could be intriguing.

The Japanese sometimes roll their u's into consonant sounds. It's probably how she says it. To elongate it as "Ass-u-ka" is probably a bit pidgin.

TUESDAY IN TEXAS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nigel keep bringing the brilliant insights like "If Nakamura hits his finisher he will win, if he doesn't hit it he won't"

Don't care about Roderick Strong at all..... so generic and bland seems like...... would rather watch Hideo Itami because at least he has "being Asian" going for him to make him "stand out".......

I haven't been watching, granted, but Roderick Strong has done nothing to capture my imagination at all. That being said, I am actually looking forward to him wrestling as a result. He's a completely blank canvas for me in that sense.

The Aries team is probably the best thing for him, and vice versa actually. Aries is kind of just there too.

I will have to catch this in a few. Looking forward to it. Tag bout, Women's bout and Main-Event in particular.

Gonna be cool when Tye Dillinger comes in @ #10 in the Royal Rumble

Who is the new commentator, is he just some guy

Fulton had to get written out of the group because of how severe his shoulder injury was last month. Happened in between tapings so I guess either the Damo stuff got rushed or he was the best replacement available at the time.

"Sanity" theme seems horrible

He's a former wrestler. He worked in ROH and TNA before it was revealed he had hepatitis and had to retire to become a non-wrestling character.

Thank goodness SlickDamo is wearing a shirt tonight

He was Desmond Wolfe in TNA, and was actually pretty over. He also had a random hot chick valet named Chelsea:

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Percy Watson?

He was a former NXT wrestler back when it used to be the seasonal era.

Oh yeah, Percy Watson. How is he on commentary?

He freakin' oozed personality and then they had him just drop it when he was in the new NXT. Weird.

STD is there @ lock jaw?

why would STD be shirtless in attendance, does he do that a lot...he wore a shirt to NXT Takeover: Dallas

Seems like they should not have renamed Damo to Killian Zane because we already have a Zayn.......

Getting a little better since his commentary debut but pretty much what you'd expect someone to be who's been away from the WWE for years or new to wrestling commentary.

Never mind..... it is "Dane" not "Zane"...... still sounds too similar.... should have kept his name as SlickDamo.

Isn't it supposed to be "Dain?" Did they change it, or is it just not being enunciated clearly.

Never mind.

Killer Killian

Killian Murderplot

I hope we get SAnitY versus Tye Dillinger, No Way Jose & Rich Swann at Takeover Mania. That will be a super over babyface team.

Crowd is good

is std shirtless and on camera, some1 tell me, very kanefusing lock jaw posts earlier

Not even Takeovers are immune to random crowd reaction shots now. Don't think they did them for the last Takeover.

Pretty cool top rope suplex by Tye.

Whatever happened to that "flamboyant black guy" who came in during a Samoa Joe promo like a month ago and just got beat up by Joe... what was his name... he seemed good

I think there is a wrestler named "Damo" in Sanity

edit: Big Damo

Like I said jobber

Glad Eric Young won......

Thank You Triple A for being a good man and responding while Lock Jaw was probably jacking off to Asuka.

Also Special TY to The Mercenary for clarifying jabroni is a jobber

Was busy watching the rassling. Decided to close the internet because I wasn't paying attention to the TV......

ES EVILO

What does this mean

It's ok I still love u business partner

It means not that great

According to Google Translate it means "The Idol" since the start of his theme is actually "El Ídolo"

Roderick Strong does seem incredibly generic.

Can't imagine him on the main roster at all...

Is he a really good wrestler?

Only heard about him from his ROH stuff but he was supposedly really good there.

Outside of teaming with Austin Aires for the Dusty Classic, he's been pretty generic in NXT although probably more because they haven't really done much with him outside of hyping his nickname as the Messiah of the Backbreaker.

He's supposed to be. I remember I really liked him on this segment he did with Kurt Angle on SmackDown in, like, 2005. It was during Kurt Angle's open challenges and Roderick Strong was like "I don't think I can beat you, but I do think I can do this" and slapped Kurt across the face. He get got German suplexed to death.

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I kind of feel like Andrade Almas was a failed package, and they've tried to salvage him, but elements of the failed stuff still remains (like the name).

Is Bobby Roode playing tonight?

I enjoyed that match......

Been liking Cien since his heel turn.

Roderick does seem "good" in the ring, but needs to do something to give himself a unique look.....

Also, he is not a guy who should be using a big boot as a finisher...... he is the "messiah of the backbreakers", make his finish a "devastating backbreaker".......

Strong-Almas was pretty decent overall.

They botched his debut but then again he's pretty much in the Breeze/Parker/Dillinger spot right now of being the one to put over the stars. Could still go the Dillinger route and get a spark later to boost his star appeal and have a real push.

WWE should have never ditched his mask and persona he had in Mexico although to be fair, CMLL also did the same near the end and gave him a similar gimmick that also didn't work out as well as they wanted.

Paul Ellering sounds like he has a lot of phlegm in his throat and didn't clear his throat before doing this Authors of Pain hype video

Micheal Haynes looking rough

I like his smooth and shiny bald head

:lol: at the shroud getting stuck on the one guy's head

worried about DIY

Feels like they have my favorite matches on the card every time they wrestle, but will get a "cruiserweight-like" reaction and booking on the main roster

Neckbreaker & Powerbomb combo was pretty cool.

DIY losing obv

Tag match was really good and a lot better than I expected.

Good match..... good showcase for AoP...... I think DIY will reclaim the titles.....

Whhhhaaaa?

Wtf!!!!!!!

WWE invades nxt!

Nice, wasn't expecting this

This makes Rollins a heel though

:eek:

Lol

Need better security

Cool at Rollins actually making an effort to find HHH

Just tuned in, a decent opening match with Tye and Young, knew Tye would lose though. Strong/Ciena was pretty good too, first time i've seen Strong wrestle and was impressed. Its the tag match next.

Also, that Watson guy is terrible on commentry.

I gots a feeling that if Rollins comes out again Joe is gonna get him

Smart of him to wait after a new champ got crowned considering Triple H's habit of taking pictures right away with NXT champs after their match backstage.

Also smart of Triple H to not attack Rollins since he has at least 2 more pictures left to take tonight and didn't want his suit to be messed up.

Pretty obv to me Nikki gets pinned by Billie or Peyton

Billie Kay and Peyton Royce really hot,,

I thought we were gonna get a fingerpoke of doom between Billie and Peyton

Seemed like an abrupt ending, but was a "good match" I guess..... like the "twist" on the fatal four way in two people being on the same side and not "turning against each other".....

Good Women's title match even if the ending was a bit anti-climatic.

I think Nikki Cross hot braud too...... Lock Jaw digs crazy chicks :shifty:

Is that Goldust?

Tyler Bates looks like a right wanker

forgot that UK thing even happened..... didn't watch it......

Time for some GLORIOUS entrances

Gimmick infringement

Roode bringing his harem to the ring

He's married..hmm

got distracted reading stuff about Trump's muslim ban decree and got mad and missed most of the past half hour,,,

should have just kicked back and relaxed and enjoyed the show......

Doesn't top having a Glorious choir singing the Glorious theme but still a good Glorious-approved entrance for The Glorious One.

Shinsuke Nakamura and his Seizure Machine