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Old 12-10-2021, 04:24 PM   #2965
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Originally Posted by #1-norm-fan View Post
If they didn't HAVE to then their hand wasn't forced. You can't have it both ways. And if their hand wasn't ACTUALLY forced we're already starting on a premise of them doing what they want. Even if they felt compelled to use NXT one night against Smackdown guys, that didn't force them to turn it into a major angle for their next big show. They made a conscious decision to run with the angle.
If you felt like your hand is forced, you are going to act like you have to play the hand. You’re arguing semantics and it’s textbook for you, but that is where the conversation stops. You absolutely can have it both ways. A shotgun wedding doesn’t literally need a shotgun.

Of course they turned it into a major angle for their next big show. It was an inter-promotional issue promoted en route to their next big show. They would have been mocked if they had dropped it too.

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The development guys SHOULD lose to the main roster stars. If your arm is twisted and you absolutely have to book it (WHICH, AGAIN, THEY DIDN'T), you don't put guys who aren't main roster ready over your main roster. It's fucking stupid. NXT was already perceived as the "minor leagues". Putting up a fight but losing to the major league doesn't hurt anything. Unless your goal is to push your development brand as an equal to your main roster. Which is stupid. Which is my point.
There are cases where it is fine to push fresh talent. I don’t know if they used people that weren’t main roster ready on the show. I’m not going to go through each name, but I’m pretty sure most of them were fairly experienced at this point and a lot of them would be featured on the main roster within a year.

Whether NXT was or wasn’t perceived as the “minor leagues” and how intentional that was or wasn’t is a completely different argument. But even taking your point at face value, there are contexts where having the minor league go over has benefits — to both the minor and the major. It doesn’t mean they have to be equal. Ultimately, you can see that NXT was not pushed as equal, is not pushed as equal, and probably was never intended to be equal.

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And ultimately your argument against that point is...



Another awkward attempt to shoehorn your AEW obsession into a conversation. I literally mentioned AEW 0 times while you've kept trying to argue against an imaginary "WWE WAS TRYING SO HARD TO DESTROY AEW!!!!” narrative. lol
That’s what the Wednesday Night Wars were about, bub. That’s the narrative behind WWE trying to push NXT as an alleged monster against Dynamite, putting them over everyone else and loading them up with top drawing talent like Charlotte. It’s why we’re having this discussion. You bring up Charlotte and NXT every time it comes up like that was some sort of power play, lol.

Do you deny that narrative exists?
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