NXT TV Thread
 

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Did Adam Cole do anything cool?

Got pinned by The Velveteen Dream.

Heel Candice LeRae is pretty hot

Only seen a couple clips and read a few reports and reactions online but why was El Hijo del Fantasma announced at 217 pounds when the Cruiser division and Interim title tournament is only meant to be for those 205 lbs and under?

Also considering the current story with Drake Maverick since being released, would be a huge mistake to not have him win this tournament and title from Devlin. Would be the division's best "feel good" moment since Buddy Murphy winning the belt in Australia or Cedric beating Ali for it at Mania 34. Also would arguably be the greatest moment in the division's history since Cedric's hiring after the 1st CWC tournament if Maverick got rehired at the end.

Certainly a strange situation they’ve created here by incorporating these releases into storylines.

It only covers up for the fact he has zero chance of winning although he almost has to get a win in the 2nd match or else there's zero drama to be had over him at 0 - 2 in the 3rd match

Plus it shows how bad the cruiser division is

Think they’ll need a few at 1-1 to add any drama to the final round of matches.

It's a bit rich that they're hyping up Jake Atlas as being a trailblazer and breaking barriers when they're clearly not allowed to say that he's gay.

Oh. Was that what that deal was about?

Watching now. Keith Lee is such a good dude, always helping every face whenever they're in peril.

Tony Nese might be the single most underrated talent in WWE, tbh. Him vs KUSHIDA was pretty good.

RIP LUCHA UNDERGROUND

TICK TOCK

The soft music in the background of the Johnny Gargano promo is hilarious.

Fantasma winning his debut match and casually throwing out an Arrow from the Depths of Hell made my night.

V interesting choice to have him cut promos in Spanish when he speaks English very well. Hmm.

NXT 4/29/20
 

Should be a good show. Starting with former Lucha Underground greats Isaiah "Swerve" Scott and El Hijo del Fantasma. Keith Lee in the main event.

Mauro needs to work on his pronunciation of "Hijo"... Keeps saying "hee-oh" when it's "E-ho"

Mauro again saying Son of the Phantom when Son of the Ghost is more accurate.

This is not shit on Mauro hour, sorry.

Match is good, but feels like they're going at half speed.

ARROW FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL

Okay I enjoyed the ending. Keeps both guys looking strong.

I'm down for Dijak and Gargano. Could be really fun.

"pint size poison"
"poison pixie"

Are awful nicknames, imo.

Gargano as ring announcer though :lol:

I thought Kacy quit?

Whatever that was with Riddle and Thatcher, I'm here for it.

Mia Yim and Charlotte was good, but the ending was obvious.

How Tony Nese vs. Drake Maverick isn't happening on 205 Live, I'll never know.

KEITH LEE TIME

Goddamn Keith.

You should be basking right now.

Sweet entrance... idk about Scarlett mouthing along with the lyrics but otherwise cool...

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Guess Aleister Black let Kross borrow his smoke machine for that sweet looking entrance.

Good entrance for Kross

agreed on lip-synching Scarlet

Scarlett can do anything with her lips she wants, Ill support it.

I wasn’t too excited about Cross/Scarlett coming to NXT but their intro was great...until Scarlett started lip syncing, that shit was embarrassing. I liked that the smoke was still in the ring during the match. Not sold on Cross’ submission finish, it’s a chin lock.

Other NXT thoughts from this week...

Most of the action felt like it meant something/had consequences. Gargano/Dijakovic was fine I guess, DD hasn’t really grabbed me as a personality.

Tozawa/Gallagher was a good little match, Tozawa going 2-0 while jobbing on Raw I still can’t wrap my head around.

Interesting little wrinkle with Robert Stone seemingly linking with Aaliyah - another talent who’s been there for years without getting over.

Shirai/Flair was good, shame about the non-finish. Guess we’re getting Shirai/Ripley. Fine with that.

Kushida has been a talent that I’ve also failed to “get into” since his arrival. He is interesting though. Wish they’d do more to get people to invest in the characters of the Cruisers more. Good little match though.

Squash match for Grimes to setup a match vs Bálor. The Bálor situation is intriguing; I was looking forward to Bálor/Dream before they scrapped it. Obviously the Bálor/WALTER match is on hold. Bálor hunting down his attacker is interesting but could move him towards face/tweener territory depending on the outcome. We do however have the Lucha kidnappers attacking people backstage, and Kross started off with that, and Balor’s unresolved issues with Imperium; maybe he should start his investigation with one of those threads?

The Main Event was a bit disappointing.

They just need to make NXT a 2 hour Scarlett Bordeaux show. I’d watch that.

Apart from killing the poor jobber by dropping him on his head like that I dont get the appeal.

Didn't like the entrance, he looks weird with the overdone facials and wtf is up with the hugging finisher... Ol mate tapping out before he even touched him probably didn't help to be fair.

I dunno, didn't see anything that would make me tune back in. And my god that commentary is terrible.

For clarity, the only appealing thing for you is seeing someone get dangerously dropped on their head? Nice one.

For clarity it was the only piece of offence that looked like it might have actually hurt. Im all for suspending belief for the sake of the story but I draw the line at having to imagine that pitiful hug of a finisher hurt.

I kind of expect a wrestler to ya know... look like he hurt his opponent? I mean shit... Maybe I'm just expecting too much.

Totally agree things should look like they hurt, and I feel the same about the chinkock. I’d prefer things look painful though rather than being straight up dangerous.

I was hoping he’d have an alternate power finisher but looking at YouTube that chinlock seems to be his actual finish. He needs to bring back the Razors Edge or a Test-style Gutwrench Powerbomb.

Entrance was alright minus the lip syncing. For the hype around this dude, there was nothing impressive.


Never understood how debuting a guy against someone less than half his size is supposed to be effective. Looked boring and WTF at the finish :|

I can't pick Kross out of a lineup.

A generic looking bald guy in a goatee. He looks more like a CAW than Cody did on his debut.

Scarlett having her last name chopped off immediately was the lock of 2020.

Wait...there was a guy that came out with her to the ring?

Carrion CAWss

I downloaded a CAW for Kross for 2K19 (yeah, still playing it). The model is pretty good but obviously called Killer Cross. As neither ’killer’ or ‘cross’, or ‘karrion’ are selectable as call names I was playing around to see how close I could get it and settled on calling him Krimson Kross (using ‘Ross’ as the surname, pretty close) to call back to his old gimmick in Impact. Only problem is, Crimson was a totally different guy.

Maybe I can see those CAW criticisms.

Purely coming from a point of never seeing the guy before his NXT debut, the coolest thing about his was his entrance.




Still a generic, tattooed bald dude who frowns really hard.

Trying to watch YouTube highlights of this Matt Riddle vs. Thatcher match and just immediately felt like turning it off as soon as Beth Phoenix started talking... So hard to listen to... Truly feels like a bad announcer in a wrestling video game where it is just clips unnaturally spliced together...

Glad that WWE hasn't forced Timothy Thatcher to fix his teeth yet

Thatcher is great...

Is part of that because it’s clipped together highlights?

There were so glaring issues with commentary this week, I thought they were recording remotely? Surely could have fixed that?

NXT Takeover: In Your House?

Balor vs Priest
Riddle vs Thatcher
Gargano vs Keith Lee

Shaping up nicely.

Favourite thing about NXT the last few weeks; no Indus Sher.

Probably off making Million Dollar Arm 2.
To be fair I can see them in a few months time being back up for Jinder Mahal, taking out the Bollywood Boys.

Well at least I can skip Jinder and Indus Sher at the same time I guess.

I'm guessing we are going to get a Charlotte vs Ripley rematch or a triple threat with Io.

Still leaves Cole and UE, Dream, Ciampa, Kross, Riddle, etc without a match.

Lots of options for a great card.

Well Riddle vs Thatcher looks likely. Ciampa/Cross in the works. Not sure if they do Cole/Dream again as I can’t see another challenger lined up just yet. Unless they do something with Dream/Lumis vs UE.

Some of these programmes will have to play out on TV I think.

Heel Gargano is incredibly captivating against all odds.

Adam Cole knows a really good dentist if they do

No, she is always like that... Just says stuff like "Wow!" and "Wow! What a move!" in a really forced, unnatural, robotic tone, like clips of her are played from a sound board or something... sucks......

I know she’s bad, just wondered if it exacerbated by the highlight format. Guess not. Cringe.

Not only a really good dentist but the “Bret Hart of Wrestling dentists” if Mick Foley is to be believed.

shotzi stole Rusevs tank

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Either Dream can contort his body in a completely different direction in a millisecond or someone really screwed up the shooting and/or editing of the elbow drop.

There's no way he hit that in one shot

Landed on a crash mat, dropped the elbow from standing position, edited together badly.

It took 3 weeks, but Mauro is now correctly pronouncing the word "Hijo"

Multiple King Cuerno references, and a win. Hell yeah.

How did he say it before? "Hee-joe"?

Watched a replay of this week's episode a bit earlier than usual.

Fantasma vs. Akira match was pretty good. Also helped it wasn't rushed unlike the past two weeks of Cruiser tournament matches.

1st hour of NXT felt better in terms of flow or pacing than AEW's show was this week.

Strong vs. Lumis was a weird match. Felt like NXT Creative didn't know how they wanted to book Lumis and it showed in both the match and ending.

KUSHIDA vs. Maverick was very good. NXT's first attempt at doing a Best of the Super Jrs was pretty good in general although bit lame to deflate Maverick's big win over KUSHIDA with the 3-way tie to end the group.

Shirai vs. Ripley was very good up until Charlotte randomly showed up and then it quickly fell apart.

In terms of comparisons, 2nd hour of AEW felt better than NXT's show.

This week's episode of NXT was very good overall and felt the better of the two shows in general this week.

I like what they’ve done with Karrion Kross; a couple of squash matches but a pathway laid out to a destination at Takeover. So many debuts just run squash after squash (see Viking Raiders or Aleister Black for examples) with no progression. Still don’t like the Kross Jacket as a finish, and the entrance will have diminished returns the more they do it but otherwise one of the best setups for a new guy that we’ve seen.

Keep it a secret but I'm looking forward to IYH a hell of a lot more than Double or Nothing tomorrow

I don’t think it’s a secret that you’re not an AEW fan.

Also, looks like we’re getting Thatcher/Riddle on TV next week rather than at Takeover.

Ciampa vs Kross
Balor vs Priest
Cole vs Dream or some sort of match involving UE vs Dream/Lumis
Flair vs Ripley vs Shirai
Burch & Lorcan vs Imperium
Gargano vs Lee or Gargano/Candice vs Lee/Yim
Interim CRUISERWEIGHT Championship Final

Can’t see them putting all that on the show but it’ll make for some great TV matches in between.

WTF was that finish in the triple threat

That's news to me Im not an AEW fan

Def gonna try to watch the Riddle vs. Thatcher match... Thatcher is great

Jesus..

paging Britt Baker, thatcher needs a dentist

Did he get more teeth knocked out in the match? That's what people are saying

Probably will have to fix all of his teeth now and ruin his cool look :-(

His teeth were always like that

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Thatcher rules

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Well he handed Kurt 2 teeth so 2 came out from somewhere unless he had em loose in his mouth from the start. It might be an angle to get his teeth fixed lol

hmm

Haven't watched this week's episode yet but yikes at Shotzi's coffin drop spot.

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Unlike Darby Allin and Aerostar from AAA/LU, she rotated too much and/or too quickly with her move.

If it was gimmicked, that's the best fake tooth spot ever in terms of not being real. He took a hell of a jumping kick.

Ho-ly FUCK.


She's insanely lucky if she comes out unscathed. That is absolutely awful

Correction: the Cruiserweight match is on NXT next week.

Guess Balor vs. Priest bumped off the Interim Cruiser finals.

Not really digging the card for TakeOver: In Your House outside of the NA title match. Women's title match should be very good but lost all interest in Charlotte's reign, especially with her now showing up on all 3 brands.

Now had they swapped out Balor vs. Priest and Ciampa vs. Kross with the Interim Cruiser title Finals and the first or blow off match for Riddle vs. Thatcher, that card would have been way more mouth watering and up there with the all-time greats for TakeOver cards.

Checked in with NXT for the first time in a long time because of the Pit Fight. Haven't even really been paying attention, but that felt like a big of a game-changer. Great stuff. Timothy Thatcher and Matt Riddle are so good.

* Keith Lee should beat Johnny Gargano. Honestly, I hate that they turned Gargano heel. He and Ciampa should have been two buds that could team up perpetually. I kind of wish they'd both get off NXT and go up to the main roster as a tag team. I don't have any desire to see either get a main event push, but as a tag team? Yeah, gravy.

* That's why Ciampa should put over Karrion Kross too. Feels like NXT could move forward if it got rid of some of its old names and established these new acts. Karrion Kross leaves me largely unimpressed, but Scarlett is excellent. She's probably ready for the main roster as a manager for someone. She could make anyone interesting. Doesn't mean she has to leave NXT either.

* If they're keeping Balor down in NXT, he should probably beat Priest. Like Priest's look, and he does movez, but I don't really feel him as a gimmick. He might be another guy that's more naturally adapt to a main roster push, in terms of at least trying to dictate people's feelings about him. Kind of disappointed we haven't got a proper Balor vs. Styles feud that I can check out on DailyMotion. Maybe Balor should lose and go to SmackDown? Or maybe Styles can do some appearances in NXT? Or maybe Balor should be an established guy for Velveteen Dream to beat out the gate?

* Whether Dream wins the belt or not depends on whether there is any validity to his legal issues, I guess. Would they be using him if there was real cause to be concerned? If he's not going to be tangled up and destroyed by this shit, he should definitely win and The Undisputed Era are likely going over to the main roster. There's a reason Imperium got the tag belts and not UE. If they can't go with Dream, Cole will win and likely go against Balor himself. I expect him to drop the belt soon anyway. Can always have Dream win it from a new champ too.

* Not a fan of three-ways, and I think this is kind of just there for Charlotte to drop the belt without getting pinned (even though Triple H likes to do the thing where the champ gets pinned in three-ways). I can kind of see Charlotte retaining though. I don't know which other women they have lined up, but it kind of makes sense for Charlotte to pin Io and keep things going with Rhea for later, with a "Last Chance" spot for Io down the line too.

Should be your usual great Takeover from an in-ring perspective, but it's hard to get excited about things. They need to move forward with some of these personalities they're trying to establish, like Thatcher, Scarlett, Kross, Imperium, Balor or I guess Priest.

Keith Lee vs. Johnny Gargano might be an 8 star match.

breezango having a current events gimmick might be hilarious

Notice where Fandango was holding his helmet? :lol: and was it just me that thought it looked like Breeze was wanking Dango off during their entrance pose?

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Damnit, that is awesome! They should bring both Pettengill and Sean Mooney back just for vignettes.

Jesus H. Christ. :lol: