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TPWW's roster is the worst it's been to this date but we make it work.
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I don't know if it's the roster, per se, but I just find it so hard to invest in the cycle of NXT now. I dropped off sometime around that boring Finn Balor reign. Owens and Zayn were the last stage of NXT really keeping me hooked.
I know wrestling is patterned. Something about the way NXT works comes off even more so to me. I know how the guys are going to end up on the main roster. I know how the internet is going to be upset when they aren't treated right. Can anyone give me a reason I should really invest given that I know how this turns out? But even so, the Gargano/Ciampa stuff has been extremely overrated, in my opinion. Well, what I've seen. I can't remember which match it was I saw. It was either Money in the Bank weekend or SummerSlam weekend, but it had Gargano hit the Emerald Frosion off the speaker onto the floor or whatever. Absolutely no psychology in doing that whatsoever. Generally, I like Gargano -- I think he and Ciampa told great stories with The Revival -- but that match absolutely missed the mark with me. The crowd ate it up, which might be all that matters to some people, but that says a lot about that crowd. And a lot of the current guys are just hampered, in my eyes, by the perception of entering the company as the next indy darling that gets plucked. Adam Cole has something interesting about him, but he feels like a dude who left ROH for WWE greener pastures to me. It feels like he's filling a positioning more so than crafting one out. A lot of the personalities seem to fill voids left by former NXT guys. Dakota Kai is Bayley. Keith Lee seems to channel a lot of what Kevin Owens was doing. Johnny Gargano is a spiritual successor to Sami Zayn. People talk about what great workers these people are, and I get that to an extent, but I feel that there's still something rote and blocky about the way everyone seems to be modeled on one another. I feel like truly great workers would find a way to seem unique, even in the greater WWE environment. Velveteen Dream is my favorite down there, because almost everything he seems to do feels organic. He's still pretty green in the ring, but even the way he works seems to draw something from who his opponent actually is, and he often sells their gimmicks better than they do. I can't argue with this. I feel like the Dolph Ziggler of TPWW. There was once potential in me, and I used to be thought of as someone worthy of high praise, but I've been floating around with so many stop-start pushes and the same old shit for so long, everyone wishes I would just go away. |
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