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Old 06-13-2014, 11:46 PM   #6001
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Originally Posted by Cool King View Post

And speaking of gimmicks/character development and seeing Paige's name there, what's with her? I've read so much about her having this Anti-Diva gimmick on NXT but it's nowhere to be found on the main roster. From what I've seen so far, she has no gimmick. She's nothing. The only thing she has going for her is that she's 21 and from England. Every time she's on TV, we hear Cole saying "The 21 year old from Norwich, England". That's it. There's nothing else to her other than her age and birthplace. She's quite boring and it makes me wonder why she's still Divas Champion when they have other Divas, most with actual characters/gimmicks, doing pretty much nothing, when they could be champion or chasing the title.

That's a problem that seems to persist with most people making the jump to the main roster: their gimmick doesn't come with them. Half the time, they treat NXT as its own entity. At times, this is a good thing... but it is inconsistent. Both of IRS's kids made the jump doing what they were doing to begin with, but then they pull stuff like stripping Paige and Big E Langston* of their respective gimmicks (Anti-Diva and the 5 count) and just make them generic roster filler. If it's working, they should keep it. If it isn't, THEN they should try something else. For example, Emma needs something more to her on the main roster than the dancing and the bubbles, because the smaller, more intimate crowd at NXT "got" the gimmick, while the mass of humanity on the larger stage of WWE doesn't really.

Speaking of generic roster filler: Rusev. Jesus. I'd rather see that broom HHH wanted to wrestle have a hardcore title match against La Parka's chair than keep suffering through this shit. Lana having nice legs, making him a "Russian" Kurt Angle/Iron Shiek/Yokozuna/Samoa Joe/Nikoli Volkoff hybrid, and flashing pics of Putin on the titantron doesn't translate into the need to be eating up so much TV time trying to shoehorn such an over-the-top old school heel (and not ironically either- they're playing it straight) into a world that doesn't want to see it and would only make some sort of sense if they made Swagger turn face from and go back to being an American American American American again. Like Bandit Keith.
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