It appears #DIY, Ricochet and Black have been officially added to the main roster

[JOHN.KOOL]

yep and Paige

And Kevin owens

 

[JOHN.KOOL]

? So Wwe does the same thing and they get criticized they do something new they get criticized . Did you want ricochet and them to not to get on mania

It wasn't something new, its a rushed way to debut them, clearly last minute and it actually hurts them when they debut all at once rather the spotlight is on them. Remember Jericho's debut? people should be debut direct into angles and if thats not possible build up anticipation with weeks of vignettes. Watch them have absolutely nothing to do now. They still haven't worked out what to do with EC3

 

[dogavi]

ricochet could be a great upper mid card guy if he stays healthy and they dont worry about trying to have him talk.
i still think ciampa has an intensity they could do something with.
black has all the makings of a guy that comes in hot and fizzles because vince doesn't know what that is.
gargano is a shorter, skinnier, less charismatic daniel bryan. he'll be putting over rusev and corbin by the end of the year.

also, regarding dream:
he's still super young plus vince will have NO idea what to do with that boy and just turn him into black goldust. he can stay in NXT for 2 more years as far as i'm concerned.

 

[23Barrettcity]

It wasn't something new, its a rushed way to debut them, clearly last minute and it actually hurts them when they debut all at once rather the spotlight is on them. Remember Jericho's debut? people should be debut direct into angles and if thats not possible build up anticipation with weeks of vignettes. Watch them have absolutely nothing to do now. They still haven't worked out what to do with EC3

You can’t compare this to wcw debuts as we’ve seen Wwe try both approaches and still people fail / succeed . They were alll pushed as big deals and won . IS this worse than John Cena open challenge?

 

[Carl Tethers]

also, regarding dream:
he's still super young plus vince will have NO idea what to do with that boy and just turn him into black goldust. he can stay in NXT for 2 more years as far as i'm concerned.

Vince has two more years left?

Edit - My 666th post... ah, shyt

 

[JOHN.KOOL]

You can’t compare this to wcw debuts as we’ve seen Wwe try both approaches and still people fail / succeed . They were alll pushed as big deals and won . IS this worse than John Cena open challenge?

Yes it is worse than John Cena open Challenge, John Cena open challenge was brilliant. Not only did they debut alone with the spotlight on them in a title match, but they debuted against John Cena, the companys biggest star and someone the fans absolutely hated so straight away the fans were behind the guy debuting.

 

[23Barrettcity]

Yes it is worse than John Cena open Challenge, John Cena open challenge was brilliant. Not only did they debut alone with the spotlight on them in a title match, but they debuted against John Cena, the companys biggest star and someone the fans absolutely hated so straight away the fans were behind the guy debuting.

They lost ,and who did it really build besides Owens ? Zayn got hurt right way in this scenario they all won and got rubs on both brands and were pretty much the focus of the flagship Wwe shows . There was no this is the majors and they are minor league stars etc no they were sold as big stars to be excited for . Most People don’t watch nxt so now the around 3 million viewers see them as stars to look out for and will watch the takeovers.

 

[JOHN.KOOL]

They lost ,and who did it really build besides Owens ? Zayn got hurt right way in this scenario they all won and got rubs on both brands and were pretty much the focus of the flagship Wwe shows . There was no this is the majors and they are minor league stars etc no they were sold as big stars to be excited for . Most People don’t watch nxt so now the around 3 million viewers see them as stars to look out for and will watch the takeovers.

It built Owens and Zayn, Zayn getting hurt isn't the fault of the open challenge and actually the anticipation for zayns return was huge. Owens and Zayn got much much bigger pops from the Crowd than any of the guys that just debuted. Owens and Zayn are two of the biggest stars on the roster. Tye Dilliger also was given a platform from it and had a huge pop too but that died cause WWE didn't use him.

WWE debut Ciampa and Gargano together in disregard for their slow aligning storyline which was brewing in NXT. They debuted against the revival in a match the crowd was dead for for most of it because despite the revival being champs no one really cares because of how bad they been booked. Black again a small reaction debuted to squash a very very poorly booked Elias who is losing steam and Ricochet debuted again to hardly any reaction as a tag team partner for Finn balor in his very boring feud with bobby lashley and Lio rush. No one all of a sudden sees them as stars what you talking about, the crowd reactions tell the story, people hardly cared,

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

Ricochet gonna end up in a team with Apollo Crews

hopefully its a good one

 

[Max.]

Its time cut fire all the jobbers that aint being used

 

[Max.]

Top
Upper mid card
Midcard
Jobbers

 

[jackswstd]

All 4 are going to Raw? I think Gargano and Ciampa are better suited for SD, unless Black would rather be on SD with Zelina they could move him and Ricochet to SD. Gargano, Ciampa, Finn, EC3 could elevate the IC title.

 

[Carl Tethers]

Well, I've got a bit of backstage news:

Ricochet is to be rebranded as Enrico Che, a masked wrestler of Cuban descent who intends to cause a wrestling revolution by being extra flippy. A bloated Konnan to return (cause his Wikipedia says he was born in Cuba or some shyt) as his manager in the most unexpected but welcome return for a few TLC posters since Jeff Jarrett. K-Dawg to make corny references to his old Max Moon mask and say how things are going to be different in the wrestling revolution to absolute crickets. Enrico to remain a white-meat babyface who does a spot where he jumps very high each match.

Lucha libra being a Central American tradition to remain irrelevant to the booking team, pals


This might be my worst post yet... need to stop using TLC for creative writing fukkery

 

[TobiOT]

In a big rebound from recent weeks, Monday's Raw scored the show's biggest TV audience since before the start of the most recent NFL season.

Buoyed by a first hour that broke three million viewers for the first time since last August, Raw had an average audience of 2.771 million viewers, the largest total since September 3, 2018.

The number topped the Raw after the Royal Rumble, which did 2.70 million viewers.

It's possible that the late afternoon tease of Ricochet, Johnny Gargano, Tommaso Ciampa, and Aleister Black debuting helped the ratings rebound. There was a big drop of over 20 percent from hour one to hour three, with that being one of the ten highest drops in history.

Monday's Raw also got a bump from taking place the night after Elimination Chamber.

In a relatively weak night for cable TV, Raw finished fifth for the night in overall viewership and topped the 18-49 demo with an average rating of 0.96, nearly 50 percent higher than second-place Love and Hip Hop.

Year-over-year, Raw was down 15 percent, a little better than in recent weeks. Last year's President's Day show did a big number as well -- but not nearly the 12 percent increase over the previous week that this episode did.

The three hours for this week's show were:

• 8 p.m. 3.05 million viewers
• 9 p.m. 2.84 million viewers
• 10 p.m. 2.43 million viewers

Midgets draw

 

[reigun]

These last callups have been so weird. Lacy Evans and them are still just hanging around backstage, and they just called up NXT's main event scene to no fanfare.