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Originally Posted by Slik
I feel like if the Young Bucks ever sign w/ WWE it probably won't go well...Vince doesn't really seem that interested in tag teams...would be 'a matter of time' before they were jobbing out tbh.
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Originally Posted by Slik
The Hardy's return at WM is one of the most watched WWE YT vids of all-time and WWE didn't really do anything with the Hardy's after WM33 for months.
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Originally Posted by Jordan X
I hope Kenny and The Bucks stuck to their guns and stay away from WWE. The way things seem to be going they could be more than set for their post wrestling career.
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Like with countless others, I think WWE would want them only because they're making noise elsewhere, and that's attention that WWE isn't getting. It's why they signed CM Punk in the first place, but had no idea what to do with him outside of the previous developmental. All the way back then, he was a name on the indys, and WWE wanted to stifle that. It has only gotten worse over time; the company trying to basically hoard non-homegrown talent. KENTA, Chris Hero, Danielson, Samoa Joe, Prince Devitt, AJ Styles, Bobby Roode, Austin Aries, etc., etc. Pete Dunne is pretty fucking over in spite of being barely seen stateside, and he'd prob'ly be pushed like a goddamn monster in Japan or something... but he's in WWE so others can't have him. Same with Ricochet. He definitely doesn't wrestle in the "WWE style". They wouldn't have given two shits about Will Osprey or Zack Sabre Jr. if they weren't getting buzz on a grand enough scale elsewhere.
And now, it's only getting worse with WWE trying to make inroads in areas they clearly have little interest in. Why are War Raiders in NXT or Gallows & Anderson on the main roster when the company clearly has little focus on tag teams in spite of sitting on a treasure trove of premade AND homegrown teams? Some other promotion wants to center around lucha and "flippy shit"? Fuck it, let's make the CWC and try to sign the most popular guys! Britain swelling into a new hotbed of wrestling? Let's start another offshoot and get some of their bigger names under our umbrella!
As a small consolation, they are able to do what they do well (for the most part) in NXT, but it goes back to my "fool's errand" critique about signing all this talent and even possibly building them up over time down in Florida just to piss any momentum away in short order on national TV after a call-up. Then sit on them until a few years later at a post 'Mania housecleaning. Instead of a potential ROH Champion or someone who dethrones Nick Aldis as a more popular/credible NWA Champion, that guy just sits at catering week after week after week or *maybe* appears on TV to job every so often; being buried by a large paycheck and the "possibility" of a push as a dangling carrot.