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NXT 2017 Thread *SPOILERS*

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    #1112
    Pentecost
    Registered Users Posts: 3,851 ✭✭✭Pentecost


    Hmm bit surprising that they're advertising Owens. Thought he'd be done with NXT but maybe that'll be his last hurrah.


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    #1113
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Pentecost wrote: »
    Hmm bit surprising that they're advertising Owens. Thought he'd be done with NXT but maybe that'll be his last hurrah.

    I was too to a degree they've serious issues with depth. Rather Owens than a Big Show.

    Kevin had a lot of drawing power in New York when he Wrestled on the indies.


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    #1114
    Pentecost
    Registered Users Posts: 3,851 ✭✭✭Pentecost


    Yeah I guess Owens, Joe and Balor are the only real star names they have until Itami and Zayn are back. Owens is a draw just based on his WWE tenure I'd say. Rematch with Balor I suppose, maybe a triple threat with Joe?


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    #1115
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    I've talked up Nikki Storm from Scotland a fair few times on here:

    https://twitter.com/SCsirens/status/618438626062381057

    The website above made it public. I do know WWE gave a few female wrestlers in Japan tryout/look this weekend. Hikaru Shida and Nikki Storm being the main two names I heard. Nikki was partly there to be an liaison to the Joshi talent at William Regal's request. Hikaru Shida is a really good worker and has softer, more western facial features which would play well to a WWE audience.

    There's lots of rumours about other talent but nothing concrete. Kairi Hojo took a picture with Paige for example. Chelsea attended the WWE show where the tryouts occurred. Cat Power from Canada was also rumoured to have tried out.


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    #1116
    Palo Alto
    Registered Users Posts: 908 ✭✭✭Palo Alto


    Nikki's great, she's a shoe-in for NXT at some point.


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    #1117
    Stereomaniac
    Registered Users Posts: 6,166 ✭✭✭Stereomaniac


    Is that the girl that a video was posted earlier in the thread of a full match in Scotland somewhere?


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    #1118
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Stereomaniac wrote: »
    Is that the girl that a video was posted earlier in the thread of a full match in Scotland somewhere?

    Yep

    After numerous guest trainer stints:
    https://twitter.com/WWEDrakeWuertz/status/618469408034410496


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    #1119
    LeeJM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,469 ✭✭✭LeeJM


    Thats cool. Hes very old school inclined I believe, so Id say hes 100% a HHH appointment.


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    #1120
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Hope Bayley and Becky have dueling U2 "Beautiful Day" hype videos
    https://twitter.com/itsBayleyWWE/status/618544357650640896

    First hint at a Bayley vs Becky vs Sasha match for NXT Brooklyn.


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    #1121
    Stereomaniac
    Registered Users Posts: 6,166 ✭✭✭Stereomaniac


    rovert wrote: »
    Yep

    After numerous guest trainer stints:
    https://twitter.com/WWEDrakeWuertz/status/618469408034410496
    Yeah I remember watching that video at the time and being impressed. Was she the girl who got beaten down by three other ones at the end of the match there?


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    #1122
    Palo Alto
    Registered Users Posts: 908 ✭✭✭Palo Alto


    Bit of a non-event this week, I assume we're onto a new taping next week?


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    #1123
    beakerjoe
    Registered Users Posts: 20,753 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    Palo Alto wrote: »
    Bit of a non-event this week, I assume we're onto a new taping next week?



    I enjoyed the Womens match for what it was.

    I cant warm to Crowe at all.


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    #1124
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Palo Alto wrote: »
    Bit of a non-event this week, I assume we're onto a new taping next week?

    One more week of stuff from the last taping.

    Supposedly this was amazing:
    https://twitter.com/WWENXT/status/619175468986683392

    There's a brand new TV taping being taped next Thursday. Touch wood Becky is cleared to return by then.


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    #1125
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    beakerjoe wrote: »
    I enjoyed the Womens match for what it was.

    I cant warm to Crowe at all.

    He's a bad fit or something. It just doesn't work. Very cartoonish also.


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    #1126
    beakerjoe
    Registered Users Posts: 20,753 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    Omackeral wrote: »
    He's a bad fit or something. It just doesn't work. Very cartoonish also.

    I think with a hair cut and simpler tights he could be grand.

    I would have enjoyed his hacker gimmick but alas I think it would be more suited to someone else


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    #1127
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    beakerjoe wrote: »
    I think with a hair cut and simpler tights he could be grand.

    I would have enjoyed his hacker gimmick but alas I think it would be more suited to someone else

    Apart from the static interference in his intro music 'THIS IS NOT A TEST', is there anything else that tells us he's a hacker? I think there was a teaser actually before he came too on an NXT but since we've seen him, nada really. Was the hacker thing more hen he was with his silver pants look that wasn't on tv? Hackers could be relevant in today's social media driven world fwiw. Anonymous etc and then obviously they push Twitter hard and the Network.


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    #1128
    beakerjoe
    Registered Users Posts: 20,753 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    Omackeral wrote: »
    Apart from the static interference in his intro music 'THIS IS NOT A TEST', is there anything else that tells us he's a hacker? I think there was a teaser actually before he came too on an NXT but since we've seen him, nada really. Was the hacker thing more hen he was with his silver pants look that wasn't on tv? Hackers could be relevant in today's social media driven world fwiw. Anonymous etc and then obviously they push Twitter hard and the Network.

    I meant he had a previous hacker character in development when he first came to NXT. It didnt go anywhere for whatever reason.

    I had him in the boards draft a in 2014 and went down the anonymous gimmick road with him. Its something that if done right could be decent.


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    #1129
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    beakerjoe wrote: »
    I meant he had a previous hacker character in development when he first came to NXT. It didnt go anywhere for whatever reason.

    I had him in the boards draft a in 2014 and went down the anonymous gimmick road with him. Its something that if done right could be decent.

    Oh yeah I was talking about that too but doesn't he kinda have a hacker gimmick now? Remember the week before he came in there was live feed 'problems' with his name flashed up and the when he did come it was put over as an interruption to regularly scheduled programming. I dunno what he's at or where he's going but it needs something more.


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    #1130
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Before he debuted on NXT TV I described Crowe as polarising. But his NXT TV stint hasn't even been good enough for him to earn that status.

    In terms of connecting he ain't Bayley that's for sure:

    https://twitter.com/gravenbabies/status/619204228905611265


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    #1131
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    The Mattel reveal today:
    https://twitter.com/WWENXT/status/619253097617948672

    They announced this too:
    https://twitter.com/WWE/status/619243704767791104


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    #1132
    beakerjoe
    Registered Users Posts: 20,753 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    rovert wrote: »
    Before he debuted on NXT TV I described Crowe as polarising. But his NXT TV stint hasn't even been good enough for him to earn that status.

    In terms of connecting he ain't Bayley that's for sure:

    https://twitter.com/gravenbabies/status/619204228905611265

    Thats Bret Hart/ New Gen ad kind of awesomeness


    "Brrrrrreeeeeeeeeettttt!"


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    #1133
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Nothing of real note on the last two nights of NXT Live Events:

    The Tough Enough cast were at the Orlando show last night. Lita and Billy Gunn appeared in the ring. The venue was completed packed to the degree that local Fire Marshals were considering shutting down the show. It was also 500 people in a tiny venue with no A/C in the middle of July in Florida so it was pretty miserable for fans and Wrestlers.

    Zahra Schreiber made her NXT debut as a ring announcer.


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    #1134
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Bayley made her return from injury last night:
    https://twitter.com/evildiscoqueen/status/620091807318339584

    Gionna Daddio and Carmella tagged up which is probably the eventual direction with them given their connection with Enzo Amore.

    Balor main evented Tye Dillinger. Tye exists in two universes in NXT. Jobber on TV and over veteran on Live Events.


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    #1135
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Put the NXT title on Enzo:
    https://instagram.com/p/5C7FsDLXgh/


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    #1136
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Get excited:
    https://twitter.com/WWENXT/status/621478937827213312


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    #1137
    J. Marston
    Registered Users Posts: 23,185 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    Judging from them showing that "Go away Eva" sign, it seems like WWE is playing up to her "Go away" heat.

    Can't remember them doing that for any other character.


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    #1138
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 40,016 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Shock horror but the nxt women's title match was unreal. Saha and Charlotte just work so well together and loved Charlotte doing the flair flop.


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    #1139
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    There's online rumours that Samoa Joe has quit WWE. Seem far fetched to me. I guess tonight's taping will reveal all.


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    #1140
    Moneymaker
    Registered Users Posts: 9,846 ✭✭✭Moneymaker


    rovert wrote: »
    There's online rumours that Samoa Joe has quit WWE. Seem far fetched to me. I guess tonight's taping will reveal all.

    He hasn't exactly set the world on fire though has he?

    Granted its not been long and the booking hasn't been great, but I expected more.


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    #1141
    beakerjoe
    Registered Users Posts: 20,753 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    Moneymaker wrote: »
    He hasn't exactly set the world on fire though has he?

    Granted its not been long and the booking hasn't been great, but I expected more.

    I think his feud was over shadowed by Owens switch to the main roster to feud with Cena.

    His theme music sucked to IMO


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