[Tom Guycott]

Originally Posted by Lock Jaw Either way, Neville isn't going to get over on the main roster. Bring him up "as is" and he will receive a good "push" for a few weeks based solely on his finishing move. Then he'll be pretty much Evan Bourne. The dude who occasionally gets spotlighted for his finisher, but is largely directionless and a jobber for the most part.

Maybe, but they keep trying to make some kid-friendly high flyer. They want to perpetually marry the two; to make another Rey Rey simply to sell masks to kids and feature him on Saturday Morning Slam or some shit. They did it with Borne. They did it with Kofi. They tried BLATANTLY with Sin Cara, but just picked the wrong guy to wear the mask to begin with (also, making him silent was a stupid way to ask him to get over, no matter WHO wore the gear). They want someone new to capture that magic, and more importantly, that money. Never mind he is trying to be the biggest star he can be, and can potentially go as far as they're willing to push him. It seems like a disconnect to let the guy believe he can be a huge, credible wrestling star, when all they see is some cheezy potential toy-and-shirt seller.

Its one thing to present someone in such a way where they're a big deal in the realm of wrestling. If you push a guy, put him on TV more than 10 minutes a month, don't continually job him out, give him feuds, a title run with more feuds over said title... that will make people go "hey, this guy is a big deal, and I should care some way about him", and a character being developed alongside that, as well as announcers DOING THEIR JOBS (instead of talking about other shit or downplaying the talent they should be highlighting) lets the people know which way they should feel about it.

It's another idea, however, that someone should be an instant total package. They should be hot instantly and a licence to print money in perpetuity. If they're not insanely over with the crowd in the space of a PPV cycle, they "don't have it"... unless the WWE deems you have it to begin with and beat the horse until it dies. If this gimmick doesn't work for PAC, then what? It's his fault for failing? He doesn't get another chance, or an overhaul, or at least the opportunity to drop the nonsense super-gimmick and, you know, possibly end up with something on his own?

Again, WWE seems to have gotten away from what made WWE in the first place, and NXT is doing it right. It is a wrestling show that is an actual wrestling show, with wrestlers in a wrestling world doing and talking about wrestling related things, and not shilling product or possibly being farmed to movies or putting over Total Divas or being in a cartoon or the next video game. The main roster mentality seems to be putting the cart before the horse anymore, that the stars are stars and the wrestling is secondary, instead of wrestling making the stars relevant to begin with.

And it's almost sad that the endgame for these guys is potentially the worst thing that can happen to them- your future is only as bright as someone else sees it. Even if this Mighty Mouse thing is true, what, is Nevile supposed to say "no"? It's his shot; his chance to be seen by a worldwide audience. We don't know, it may work... hell, in all honesty, The Undertaker was a potentially horrible gimmick, and prob'ly just about anyone but Mark would have made that a shit show. Maybe this will work. We don't know. BUT, the issue is that they will likely bank on this to work for him, and if it doesn't, then "Eh, well... NEXT!!!"