Thread: Who will be the biggest hit on the main roster.
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Old 12-11-2018, 11:04 PM   #35
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Originally Posted by Franco Vazquez View Post
Why would you want an NXT jobber on the main roster. It's not like Tye Dillinger is doing really well.
And that's not really his fault. He's a great example, actually. Here was a guy who was someone who was looked at by Dusty as "why is he still down here?" talent. He can apparently do it all, but he isn't getting a chance to showcase any of it. People from NXT are being groomed to "work WWE style" and slide onto the main roster and likely promised nothing but upward mobility... then when they show up, most of them get the spotlight for a moment (in Tye's case, coming out at the predictable 10 during the Royal Rumble), and then either little to no screen time, or taking whatever screen time they have to make them look inconsequential.

To the wormen for a second for a wider example: Bayley was the scrappy, fight from underneath babyface that had to reach down to overcome the odds. On the main roster? She is a moron who consistently gets betrayed by her so-called friends and loses all the time. You know, like people are want to get behind. Later on, Asuka is down in NXT wrecking shit, being undefeated, tearing through all comers, even in some self-requested handicap matches, because "nobody ready". They even looked to be putting that over on her transition. But what happened when she showed up on the main roster? They gave her Bayley's NXT gimmick: the scrappy fight from underneath babyface that had to reach down to overcome the odds. They killed their own build they put in place for her by starting her off with someone who they had already established as a jobber and have her struggle to win and hasn't been booked much better since.

They do this with just about everyone they call up: make them totally unimportant to the point of nobody caring. There are very few exceptions like Seth Rollins' million dollar heel turn-cum-path of redemption, or parts of Kevin Owens' start/stop pushes, but they're pretty much all otherwise made to look like jackasses nobody should care about instead of the future stars they're supposed to be.

So being excited about anyone on this poll getting a call up seems like an excercise in futility to me. I look at it more like "Oh, okay... how is Vince going to fuck THIS one up?"
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