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Old 07-04-2018, 10:32 AM   #67
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Originally Posted by Noid View Post
But the thing is, Triple H coddles the fuck out of them in NXT because he can afford to. Like, yeah, that's good booking to an extent (and Triple H doesn't book the shows), but they aren't trained to be good workers or reflexive performers. They are just well produced versions of the sports entertainment characters they eventually become. And you have to see them every week. Against the same people. With five plus main hours to fill. Triple H isn't going to be able to fix that logistics problem and that everybody works the same way and that without clever booking they aren't going to be able to survive in such a vast landscape with shitty punches and poorly rehearsed scripts that betray they don't really know how to hold a bunch of strangers that have never seen them over before.

Honestly, if Triple H were given full control of the WWE, I do think that some things would get immediately better. If he fired Dunn, for example, then I think the aesthetics of the show might get better, including commentary, because they would have free reign and probably do fine. In terms of performance, things might get a little better. I think mic work will get a little bit better, and generally speaking, people in the main events would be hyped better. But I think he would drown so fucking fast. He can't afford to keep Sasha and Bayley off TV every week. So what are they going to do this week? Ummm...shit. And those own lofty standards will come back to bite. "We've seen this match" will still be a problem. When you watch Takeover shows, you can already start to see the same things repeat themselves. Every match had those new post-modern verbiage tropes in them. Black/Sullivan and Baszler/Cross both ended with a "bring it motherfucker" finish. I appreciated that stories were there, and that they were simple, but you can see how they step on each other's toes a lot. That will only get worse with more hours to fill.
I agree with that, but my opinion is more in line with Emperors point above.

How you take an amazing heel with the whole story of I'm the best and I'm taking this company to the next level, with a bit of Ric Flair wearing custom suits, then bring him to Smackdown and turn him face with no backstory whatsoever while taking away every single trait and motivation for the character away is beyond me.

I don't care if NXT Bobby Roode had the same match against the same guy 10 times in a row, that would still be better than what his character is now, the guy with a cool theme who says Glorious over and over like a modern Hacksaw Jim Duggan saying Ho to everything every few minutes.

There is no point to Bobby Roode today, and that is Vinces fault. I honestly can't remember if he was even on Raw this week or not, cause it doesn't matter one way or the other.

And the last thing that is really MINDBLOWING to me is that Roode has not had a single special entrance in WWE. In NXT he had a special entrance at every takeover. He didn't even get a special entrance at Wrestlemania, which considering his whole purpose of being on the main roster is Vince saying "damnit pal, I want that entrance on TV". The one thing WWE focuses on for him in WWE, his entrance, and they can't even do that as good as it was done in NXT.
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