NXT 2017 Thread *SPOILERS*

gerrybbadd

I hear Bill has gone through a series of understanding and sensitivity courses.

WWE have hired him back, and he will return as Hugh Manitarian...:eek::P






Gotta love Kayfabe News

Moneymaker

rovert wrote: »

Just heard Sara is now working primarily as the agent for the main roster women's matches. Essentially Sara will be replacing Finlay.

Interesting post-Demott timing. Huh?

I assume that's bad news for the women on the main roster?

rovert

Moneymaker wrote: »

I assume that's bad news for the women on the main roster?

It is a different dynamic and with a lot more accountability.

Del Rey agenting Nikki vs Paige may explain it being better and perhaps the time allotted to it.

Stereomaniac

So is it a wait and see how we get on scenario? Finlay was in charge of the division back since the days of Trish and Lita I thought. I wonder what his role is going to be if he's replaced.

rovert

Stereomaniac wrote: »

So is it a wait and see how we get on scenario? Finlay was in charge of the division back since the days of Trish and Lita I thought. I wonder what his role is going to be if he's replaced.

He's 56 so he is knocking on a bit. Also he was Johnny Ace guy/hire and Triple H is continually replacing Johnny Ace and Kevin Dunn appointments with his own people who are bonded to him.

grames_bond

rovert wrote: »

He's 56 so he is knocking on a bit. Also he was Johnny Ace guy/hire and Triple H is continually replacing Johnny Ace and Kevin Dunn appointments with his own people who are bonded to him.

The coup is on!! :pac:

Itssoeasy

rovert wrote: »

He's 56 so he is knocking on a bit. Also he was Johnny Ace guy/hire and Triple H is continually replacing Johnny Ace and Kevin Dunn appointments with his own people who are bonded to him.

Those that include kevin Dunn and johnny ace ? Please say it does.

Stereomaniac

rovert wrote: »

He's 56 so he is knocking on a bit. Also he was Johnny Ace guy/hire and Triple H is continually replacing Johnny Ace and Kevin Dunn appointments with his own people who are bonded to him.

So I am guessing Triple H is the one who hired the New Age Outlaws to work there?

SureYWouldntYa

Stereomaniac wrote: »

So I am guessing Triple H is the one who hired the New Age Outlaws to work there?

oh you didn't know ?

rovert

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Those that include kevin Dunn and johnny ace ? Please say it does.

Stereomaniac wrote: »

So I am guessing Triple H is the one who hired the New Age Outlaws to work there?

Neither of these things are hardly privileged info.

gerrybbadd

A bit surprised at the total lack of reaction for Alexa Bliss in her hometown this week. Sasha Banks on the other hand, had a great pop

Omackeral

What happened in the Riley vs Owens match? I didn't get to see that bout.

gerrybbadd

Omackeral wrote: »

What happened in the Riley vs Owens match? I didn't get to see that bout.

Haven't got that far into the show yet buddy.

Sasha Banks is awesome. I think she's better developed and more into her character than some of the divas on the main roster.

rovert

gerrybbadd wrote: »

A bit surprised at the total lack of reaction for Alexa Bliss in her hometown this week. Sasha Banks on the other hand, had a great pop

Wasn't a hometown crowd it was a lot of out of towners. A friend of mine drove from Kentucky (4 hours) after work to get there. She wanted to see Balor but she missed the opener due to traffic. The opener was Balor & Itami vs The Vaudevillans. At least Balor did a run in in the Owens-Riley match.

gerrybbadd

rovert wrote: »

Wasn't a hometown crowd it was a lot of out of towners. A friend of mine drove from Kentucky (4 hours) after work to get there. She wanted to see Balor but she missed the opener due to traffic. The opener was Balor & Itami vs The Vaudevillans. At least Balor did a run in in the Owens-Riley match.

Ya, nice to see Owens act like a true heel, running away. And I lived the little sly Sig he got in at Riley in the way back... Its these small things that make NXT the best thing in the entire WWE right now. Logical, simple stories

gnfnrhead

If they plan on having NXT as a touring brand, they really shouldn't be calling people up to the main roster anymore (other than the money, why would anyone want to move?). Zayn and Neville can't be far off a call up which will really leave a hole in NXT. Their absence has been very noticeable in recent weeks. They are the types of people who will be drawing in the crowds and the difference between the touring aspect being a success or a failure.

Development contracts can still exist but instead of calling everyone up to Raw, let them earn the full contract and keep them on NXT until they actually need someone on the main roster.

This Finn Balor vs Kevin Owens feud has been incredibly half assed. Seems like they forgot they needed to have a match so just threw it on next week to get it done with.

And Alex Riley still sucks.

Palo Alto

He does still suck.

ricero

Palo Alto wrote: »

He does still suck.

But his theme song is awesome

bobby_says_hi

rovert wrote: »

Wasn't a hometown crowd it was a lot of out of towners. A friend of mine drove from Kentucky (4 hours) after work to get there. She wanted to see Balor but she missed the opener due to traffic. The opener was Balor & Itami vs The Vaudevillans. At least Balor did a run in in the Owens-Riley match.

Plus she hasn't really been featured on TV that much. And when she has, she's been a jobber to Sasha and Charlotte. Sasha meanwhile has been featured regularly across the programming for two years now. But the crowd did still duel chant "let's go Bliss" and "let's go Sasha" during the match

Speaking of which, I thought the count-out finish was a good move. Bliss is only just starting to get wins and she's been overpowered completely by Sasha so far. So a count-out win is far better than suddenly being able to upset the Women's Champion. Going with Bliss/Banks is also a nice idea for an interim feud other than seeing her vs Bayley for the umpteenth time again. It'll help build her up as champion before she inevitably moves onto Becky

Liked the Murphy/Cass match for what it was. Anyone else think that Cass's trunks and giant knee pads make him look a little less tall? He should probably switch to tights or something to help emphasize his height. But great that he and Enzo are getting a program. They'd been kind of just there after that Hair vs Hair match. They were incredibly over. If they become champions then they'll make a fortune in merchandise

I liked the main event. Riley still has some obvious ring rust but he really helped sell the intensity of the match. I'd like to see him get a nice program on NXT to help set him up as a wrestler once again. Chap needs a haircut though. I got serious chills with Balor making the save. 10-year-old me would have been marking out like a mental patient

rovert

Both Jasmin and Jimmy Jacobs finished up for AIW last night.

Jasmin (left) is only 20. On a scary trivia note that may age you she was born the day of Survivor Series 1994! A big reason why they signed her is that like Sami Zayn she can speak Arabic. Her mother is Israeli/Turkish and father is Iraqi/Moroccan. So quite the mix.


https://twitter.com/JohnThorneAIW/status/579352292219969536

Jimmy will be NXT Creative not main roster. If this touring brand thing takes off he will NXT's encyclopedia in terms what works in the Independent Wrestling context. Jimmy not only has written some amazing storylines for himself in the past decade but he has also worked for every US indie and often concurrently. Last year he was the leader of faction in seemingly everyone! So he has seen it all first hand. NXT also feels a lot of their characters are kind of flat and need further development. Jimmy will help in that too.

Angron

Hang on, Jacobs is only around 30. Does this mean he's retiring from in-ring, or what's the story?

rovert

Angron wrote: »

Hang on, Jacobs is only around 30. Does this mean he's retiring from in-ring, or what's the story?

Wrestlers don't retire, brother. :P

Yeah I don't think he will ever Wrestle while with NXT/WWE and being in a Creative position. Jimmy is 31 but has been wrestling for 16 years and has had his issues with substance abuse. He has lived a hard life. Npt a young 31 at all.

A Primal Nut

Haha I could see WWE's creative team putting a burqa on Jasmin :P (given their love of over-the-top stereotypes).

gnfnrhead

A Primal Nut wrote: »

Haha I could see WWE's creative team putting a burqa on Jasmin :P (given their love of over-the-top stereotypes).

Surely it would be Princess Jasmine?

mrkiscool2

So one of the NXT stars is going to be in the Andre the Giant Battle Royal. It will be a battle royal on the Thursday of Axxess to decide who gets the spot!

hufpc8w3adnk65

mrkiscool2 wrote: »

So one of the NXT stars is going to be in the Andre the Giant Battle Royal. It will be a battle royal on the Thursday of Axxess to decide who gets the spot!

I'm guessing it'll be Mighty Mouse by turning heel and cheating Finn out of it and Finn will come out the night after mania on Raw too confront him!

Loughc

mrkiscool2 wrote: »

So one of the NXT stars is going to be in the Andre the Giant Battle Royal. It will be a battle royal on the Thursday of Axxess to decide who gets the spot!

I thought there was going to be a tournament on the Thursday to earn a spot for it?

Pwtorch are reporting,

"WWE announced Friday that a tournament will be held at WrestleMania Axxess on Thursday, March 26 to determine which wrestler gets the slot.

The first four names announced for the tournament at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center are Adrian Neville, Finn Balor, Hideo Itami, and Tyler Breeze."

Bounty Hunter

So is this match on this Wednesdays show?

rovert

Bayley has been on NXT TV for 2 years now. She debuted as a heel

You never hear any call up news about her.

mrkiscool2

Loughc wrote: »

I thought there was going to be a tournament on the Thursday to earn a spot for it?

Pwtorch are reporting,

"WWE announced Friday that a tournament will be held at WrestleMania Axxess on Thursday, March 26 to determine which wrestler gets the slot.

The first four names announced for the tournament at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center are Adrian Neville, Finn Balor, Hideo Itami, and Tyler Breeze."

Apologies, it is a tournament. You are right!

brianregan09

How would everyone feel if balor entered it and won it

rovert

brianregan09 wrote: »

How would everyone feel if balor entered it and won it

A battle royal is kind of a cold way to debut. It is very midcard. I'd do it if I was extremely confident Balor would get a strong reaction from the Wrestlemania crowd. I'd also have him last until the final four people at the very least. I'd have him do a seperate entrance 100%. You could do the highest possible production version of his Demon entrance too using the budget they have for Wrestlemania. However logistically him doing his crawling entrance in a stadium maybe long and painful figuratively and literally. But has pulled off a high production entrance before (4:30):
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x19h2vv_prince-devitt-vs-kota-ibushi-njpw-wrestle-kingdom-8-2014_sport

Then again I still shudder at him struggling to take off this space helmet :


Or you could just debut him the next night on Raw and a guaranteed major reaction.

rovert

Also Sasha should win it all:
https://twitter.com/SashaBanksWWE/status/579015198809419776

billion dollar baby

rovert wrote: »

Bayley has been on NXT TV for 2 years now. She debuted as a heel

You never hear any call up news about her.

Probably for the best. You only have to look at how badly Emma has been handled to see how she would fair.

Also CJ Parker and Tyler Breeze have been on TV longer I think. Tyler used to go by Mike Dalton and I remeber seeing a tag match with both Parker and Dalton on one of the early episodes of the relaunched NXT. It's just a matter of time for Breeze but can't see Parker getting moved up anytime soon

rovert

Taped in February 2014 back when NXT was cool.

rovert

This Wednesday:



Minor spoiler

I believe that and Bliss vs Sasha are the only two matches. Owens vs Balor went like 35-40 minutes live.

Stereomaniac

Hey Rovert, as someone who likes to talk about how much they know about NXT and being "friends" with people over there, I resent the tone you took with me a few pages back on here. You are one of the most informative posters on here but can you please not do that again?

rovert

Stereomaniac wrote: »

Hey Rovert, as someone who likes to talk about how much they know about NXT and being "friends" with people over there, I resent the tone you took with me a few pages back on here. You are one of the most informative posters on here but can you please not do that again?

Zero idea what you referring to be honest. Strange fight to pick.

Stereomaniac

It's not a fight. I'm just saying, it's not alright for you to be patronising when someone defers to your knowledge of something.

rovert

Stereomaniac wrote: »

It's not a fight. I'm just saying, it's not alright for you to be patronising when someone defers to your knowledge of something.

Again you are being too vague for me here. I don't recall being patronising. Again report me to the mods or avoid me if you have problem with me. Would prefer that than picking random fights.

Stereomaniac

Post number 462. Hardly something worth reporting to the mods, but definitely a bit too put-downish when all I did was ask you a question.

rovert

Stereomaniac wrote: »

Post number 462. Hardly something worth reporting to the mods, but definitely a bit too put-downish when all I did was ask you a question.

Strange as someone commented to me about the tone of this post last night. Personally didn't reply to it for the same reason:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=94807325&postcount=56

We can both play the nit pick game on here. I've been voted Most Helpful on here in the past.

Can we get back to NXT now?

Stereomaniac

Nothing to do with what I talked about. I didn't address anyone in that post, I made a general statement. I don't appreciate your tactic of mentioning that someone is messaging you about me. Anyway, I find you to be quite helpful on here, but not when you make posts like that and are dragging other things into play as a means of nit-picking, as you put it. I had an issue with what you said to me a couple of pages back, I went to you about it and you are not prepared to address that with me. Fair enough. If someone has an issue with what I said in the matches of the year thread, it was never meant to be that way and surely rovert isn't the person to come to about that, I'd like to think it would be me.

The Ayatolla

Jaysus boys, yer gas.

Ye know wrestling isn't real ya? :P

rovert

Not a tactic it is a simple fact. The person can come forward if he wants to. I am just illustrating that you often come across put downish yourself. I'll accept the criticism but you need to realise you come across that way yourself and more recently than I have that's all.

Stereomaniac

Rovert, it doesn't matter what I said in the other thread really, because I am the one who is calling you on something that YOU said to me, in this one.. Thank you for discussing it with me this morning. But you don't need to get defensive. If someone has something they want to talk to me about, they can. I view you "alluding" to something as a tactic. You don't, obviously. I'm logging off now and I am feeling quite saddened to think that someone is messaging another user about something which I have said. I find this environment to be quite an enjoyable one for posting and discussing professional wrestling, and learning more about aspects of it which I might not usually hear or see anything about. It hurts my feelings and embarrasses me sometimes if someone makes me feel like I am a bit stupid, for perhaps asking too much of an obvious question. Anyway, I really respect you as a poster and thoroughly enjoy the content which you put up here. I hope we can get past this and not end up like this.

https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/kevin-owens-alex-riley.png?w=650

gerrybbadd

Ah lads, this is not really the place for this - can it be done through PM at all?

I'm not back seat modding. I'm quite familiar with both posters here, and have never had an issue with either. Both are helpful and informative.

The problem with the internet is, typed word cannot convey tone the same way speech can. So things can be picked up wrong or interpreted in ways that were not intended.

As Rovert said, he's been voted most helpful poster before - i'm sure he didn't go out of his way to intentionally upset you Stereomaniac

Anyhow, back to NXT!

Really looking forward to Balór vs Owens. Gonna be avoiding the spoilers like crazy!

Stereomaniac

Thank you gerry.

Loughc

gerrybbadd wrote: »

The problem with the internet is, typed word cannot convey tone the same way speech can. So things can be picked up wrong or interpreted in ways that were not intended.

Anyhow, back to NXT!

Really looking forward to Balór vs Owens. Gonna be avoiding the spoilers like crazy!

I agree with all of the above!

NXT is the only product I refuse to read any spoilers for. I love watching the weekly shows with no idea who is scheduled to appear or results and the likes.

It really does capture the old school way of what wrestling tv shows used to feel like as a kid. Looking forward to watching the title match on Thursday Night should be a great match.

gerrybbadd

Stereomaniac wrote: »

Thank you gerry.

No worries.