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NXT 2017 Thread *SPOILERS*

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    #602
    LeeJM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,469 ✭✭✭LeeJM


    See Rovie I knew if I pressed you you would come up with the goods :)


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    #603
    billion dollar baby
    Registered Users Posts: 465 ✭✭billion dollar baby


    Really hope they sign Athena. She is everything. But she won't be able to use the "O Face" now though since John Cena is using a crappier version of it.

    She may possibly be a bit stiff for the other "Divas" so I imagine that will be ironed out. Hope she doesn't lose her aggressive style. Assuming she gets signed that is


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    #604
    Pingi
    Registered Users Posts: 618 ✭✭✭Pingi


    Uhaa and Tischer are the only 2 I know and I really like both.

    Tischer will have the Germans/WxW fans behind him in a big way, hope he deos great, lovely guy in person.

    Uhaa will without a doubt smash it, he's been the most "why isn't he signed to WWE" guy for me of the past 2 years.


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    #605
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


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    Left to right - Nhooph Al-Areebi, Cassie McIntosh, Jessica McKay, Oscar Vasquez, Kenneth Crawford, Radomir Petkovic, Levis Valenzuela Jr., Thomas Kingdon, Sesugh Uhaa, Peter Howard, Axel Tischer


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    #606
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    PWInsider
    Longtime CMLL star Sarah Stock aka Sarita in TNA is at the WWE Performance Center this week working as a guest trainer.

    Former WWE star and longtime British wrestling veteran Dave Taylor is also in for the week, training talents in Orlando, FL.

    Sarita rules but her being a trainer is a bit left field.


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    #607
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    KC Cassidy/Cassie McIntosh's home promotion made this genuinely cool tribute video:
    https://twitter.com/mcitywrestling/status/587733894595751936


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    #608
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Sasha with a great call back
    https://twitter.com/SashaBanksWWE/status/587767000006598657
    https://twitter.com/TozawaAkira/status/564337669371879424


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    #609
    Mr.Nice Guy
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    To be honest I only know McKay and Uhaa but good luck to all of them. I must say that Petkovic guy looks like a beast, and I note he has some amateur wrestling experience so that's a promising combination.


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    #610
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Best

    https://twitter.com/BeckyLynchWWE/status/587953489923416065


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    #611
    billion dollar baby
    Registered Users Posts: 465 ✭✭billion dollar baby


    We were all thinking it. Nice one Bex


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    #612
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Wale the rapper is the reason why Uhaa was able to get noticed by the WWE:
    How did you first come to WWE's attention?

    UHAA: I was in England at the time. A rapper by the name of Wale followed me on Twitter. He sent me a direct message and he said, "I just got hip to your stuff and man, you're amazing. How do we get you in WWE?" I hadn't been in contact with anyone. I did extra work [for WWE] back in 2011 before I started traveling [to different countries to wrestle]. And I said, "I'm not in contact with anyone. I don't even know if they have an idea of who I am at the moment." [Wale] got in touch with Mark Henry, who then got us in.

    http://www.sbnation.com/2015/4/14/8405213/wwe-performance-center-new-signings-interview-nxt

    Uhaa has been recommended numerous times from Rob Naylor to Bob Holly. Mark Henry being close to Senior Director of Talent Development Canyon Cemen. There's so many gakekeepers and politics involved before someone gets kicked up the food chain.

    Ricky says Richie won't be Wrestling. Had surgery on 4 discs in his back (2:20)


    In other news your youngest sister signed with NXT and she's pretty happy about it:
    https://twitter.com/IsntSHELOVELY_4/status/588058863007617024

    That's Jasmin or should I say Nhooph now.


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    #613
    rovert
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    Briscoes re-signed with ROH for two more years
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    Ring of Honor announced today that ROH champion Jay Briscoe and his brother Mark have each signed new two-year deals with the company. While the signings were announced this afternoon, I believe they were actually signed about a month ago. I heard rumblings among ROH talents the second week of March that The Briscoes had agreed to new deals but could not confirm it.

    WWE sources indicate that the company made a "top flight NXT level offer" in their attempt to sign the brothers but a number of factors led the pair to instead sign new deals with Ring of Honor.

    For one, the Briscoes have each had a big part in growing ROH and have been there since the first show and there was an extreme sense of loyalty to the company. Secondly, each of The Briscoes have a big family (Jay has three children while Mark has three children and a fourth on the way) and uprooting all of them from their family in Delaware and moving them down to Florida was not going to be an easy transition for any involved, especially given what a strong family bond the Briscoe family has. The way the family is portrayed on TV (in terms of being such a strong family unit) is 100% legitimate to who they are as a family. Third, the brothers have outside business prospects in Delaware, including their family's farm and like ROH, they did not want to walk away and abandon something they have worked on their entire lives to build for an NXT deal. Fourth, obviously ROH made the brothers an offer that was to their liking.

    My gut feeling is that if WWE had offered The Briscoes something that would have sent them right onto TV on the main roster for main roster money, we'd have seen The Briscoes leave, but them to walk away from ROH and their entire family's lifestyle for the promise of just NXT, it wasn't going to happen....and who knows, it might happen one day, but it won't be at least for several years, but it also might never happen.

    Online rumors that Jay Briscoe was offered the ROH booking position in an attempt to get The Briscoes to stay is great science fiction, but nothing of that sort was ever discussed.


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    #614
    Stereomaniac
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    So we have Sami Zayn vs. Rhyno tonight I see. It will be good to see Zayn back in action again.


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    #615
    billion dollar baby
    Registered Users Posts: 465 ✭✭billion dollar baby


    Dana Brooke debuting too so that should keep Rovert happy


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    #616
    rovert
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    billion dollar baby wrote: »
    Dana Brooke debuting too so that should keep Rovert happy

    Am interested in it as I am interested in what the reaction online will be. Will prove/demonstrate a lot of the talking points myself and others have. Interested in the feedback too. Next week's women's match is what I am interested in purely as a fan.

    NXT has a new TV taping next Thursday. First since February 18th. So much has happened in the interim. The Ohio, San Jose NXT shows AND the firing of Bill Demott. Yep it has been that long. Will be interesting to see if anyone's stock has gone up or down - heard Baron Corbin has kind fallen out of favour he was a big Demott guy. Also it is the last TV taping before the next NXT Special so it is guarantee to be eventful and pacey. Everything the current ones from Full Sail haven't been.


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    #617
    billion dollar baby
    Registered Users Posts: 465 ✭✭billion dollar baby


    rovert wrote: »
    Am interested in it as I am interested in what the reaction online will be. Will prove/demonstrate a lot of the talking points myself and others have. Interested in the feedback too. Next week's women's match is what I am interested in purely as a fan.

    That's the 3way No.1 contenders match right? Looking forward to that myself


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    #618
    brianregan09
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    Don't think the Briscoe's would work with a lot of WWE territories and could see them quickly being made into a comedy act , Despite there obvious talent , Is there any update on Samoa Joe ?


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    #619
    The Ayatolla
    Registered Users Posts: 4,100 ✭✭✭The Ayatolla


    Has the Becky Charlotte Bayley match already been taped ?


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    #620
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    The Ayatolla wrote: »
    Has the Becky Charlotte Bayley match already been taped ?

    It was. They have one last episode "in the can."


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    #621
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Tweet #NXTDublin if you can

    https://twitter.com/WWENXT/status/588741342349656064


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    #622
    LeeJM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,469 ✭✭✭LeeJM


    Done it but chances of it happening have to be minute at best but lets try anyway #NXTDublin

    Out of interest how many tweets would it take to get #NXTDublin trending?


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    #623
    Pentecost
    Registered Users Posts: 3,851 ✭✭✭Pentecost


    Wouldn't rule it out tbh

    http://dublinohiousa.gov/


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    #624
    gerrybbadd
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    Done!


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    #625
    grames_bond
    Registered Users Posts: 9,820 ✭✭✭grames_bond


    I Noticed becky RT'd one of them!


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    #626
    Tugboats
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭Tugboats


    Nxt will end up in Dublin,Ohio...


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    #627
    Lord TSC
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,464 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    Would have thought #NXTIreland would have been safer in that regard :P


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    #628
    Pentecost
    Registered Users Posts: 3,851 ✭✭✭Pentecost


    Tugboats wrote: »
    Nxt will end up in Dublin,Ohio...

    Ahem..two posts up :)


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    #629
    Tugboats
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭Tugboats


    Pentecost wrote: »
    Ahem..two posts up :)

    Haha good lad never realized..


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    #630
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    William Regal, at a talk event in the U.K., said plans were already in the works for NXT doing international tours, running shows in smaller arenas. He said the business plan was in place and it would start within 18 months.

    They are coming after OTT and the Wards.


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    #631
    Stereomaniac
    Registered Users Posts: 6,166 ✭✭✭Stereomaniac


    Let's have them in that GAA club in Dublin where Chris Masters was wrestling on Easter before.


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