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.