The "curious" case of Triple K

[Mike the Executioner]

Interesting,, but wasnt hunter the one who gave her that trash hugger gimmick in nxt..?

Did he? I didn't know. It got over, though. Over like a fat rat. Bayley made that gimmick work to its fullest potential and the crowd loved her. It helped that she put on great matches, but she was the best pure babyface on the roster.

Then she gets fed to Alexa ten million times and it's curtains for her. Do you know how much effort it takes to have the whole crowd booing someone as lovable as Bayley when she's announcing her injury? There's a great thread from around that time you can check out where we're all talking about how her character was murdered.

I didn't even mention the fact that her and Sasha lost the tag titles at WrestleMania 35, to the point where Sasha leaves for four months out of frustration. What happens the night after? Bayley loses to Alexa in her first match back for no reason. Pretty sure they gave her MITB/the title out of sympathy since they killed her and Sasha's plans for the tag titles.

 

[Reality Check]

Did he? I didn't know. It got over, though. Over like a fat rat. Bayley made that gimmick work to its fullest potential and the crowd loved her. It helped that she put on great matches, but she was the best pure babyface on the roster.

Then she gets fed to Alexa ten million times and it's curtains for her. Do you know how much effort it takes to have the whole crowd booing someone as lovable as Bayley when she's announcing her injury? There's a great thread from around that time you can check out where we're all talking about how her character was murdered.

I didn't even mention the fact that her and Sasha lost the tag titles at WrestleMania 35, to the point where Sasha leaves for four months out of frustration. What happens the night after? Bayley loses to Alexa in her first match back for no reason. Pretty sure they gave her MITB/the title out of sympathy since they killed her and Sasha's plans for the tag titles.

The NXT crowds in that era put over a lot of trash. Adam Rose is a prime example too, and that's even worse than the Hugger gimmick because we'd get a weekly bunny twerking with JBL trying to sell the hell out of it.

 

[OneDeep]

Interesting,, but wasnt hunter the one who gave her that trash hugger gimmick in nxt..?

Her gimmick could’ve got over with the crowd especially the kids but Vince mishandled her at the time because he was killing most things that were coming out of NXT at that time

 

[OneDeep]

The NXT crowds in that era put over a lot of trash. Adam Rose is a prime example too, and that's even worse than the Hugger gimmick because we'd get a weekly bunny twerking with JBL trying to sell the hell out of it.

Rose wasn’t B&G thought he doesn’t count

 

[Reality Check]

Rose wasn’t B&G thought he doesn’t count

Bayley was brought up and he was in NXT the same time as Bayley.

 

[Rell84shots]

Surprised this hasn't been brought up more in this thread when talking about Triple H because that's a line straight out of the MAGA "I'm not racist, I'm for everyone" playbook. It was such a tone deaf response and really should be talked about more than it has.

He doesn't see color he just sees talent, yet all the talented black people get ignored.

 

[OneDeep]

Bayley was brought up and he was in NXT the same time as Bayley.

He left before they were “Black & Gold”


They cheered him ironically

He didn’t have a near sell out Barclays Center going crazy for him

 

[RegB]

Did he? I didn't know. It got over, though. Over like a fat rat. Bayley made that gimmick work to its fullest potential and the crowd loved her. It helped that she put on great matches, but she was the best pure babyface on the roster.

Then she gets fed to Alexa ten million times and it's curtains for her. Do you know how much effort it takes to have the whole crowd booing someone as lovable as Bayley when she's announcing her injury? There's a great thread from around that time you can check out where we're all talking about how her character was murdered.

I didn't even mention the fact that her and Sasha lost the tag titles at WrestleMania 35, to the point where Sasha leaves for four months out of frustration. What happens the night after? Bayley loses to Alexa in her first match back for no reason. Pretty sure they gave her MITB/the title out of sympathy since they killed her and Sasha's plans for the tag titles.

Respect you have a point, but to me the high of her heel run with Sasha negates the lows she had under Vince.. her high under triple h so far has been damage ctrl but golden role models >>> damage ctrl ..

On a slightly different note, I wonder what hunter sees in Nia Jax, not that she’s not good, but because she’s basically the only woman of color he’s booked well so far ..

 

[R=G]

Is Jade really hurt? You can look up anyone's injury and find reports on it. Nobody knows if Jade is actually hurt or not. They still can't tell us what she hurt.

They literally created a fake ass orbital bone injury for Rhea Ripley just so that she can wear a "cool" mask with devil horns. She was supposed to be out for 6 months and came back in 2 weeks with a face protector. Then 2 weeks later in the most dangerous match in the company she takes off the mask and starts headbutting bytches.

Mean while Jade gets "hurt" and quickly became an afther thought. These clowns couldn't even come up with an fake injury to attempt to make the story good.

The stlye they have her use and this "have multi person matches to mask her short comings" is a horrible idea. No way to tell if someone is improving if all they do is hot tags offense

Lmao..Undertaker in 95 when Mabel broke his face and he had the Phantom of the Opera mask.

 

[CodeKansas]

I voted let it play out.

Legit interested to see how Trick gets handled once he goes to the main roster.

I believe he's gonna get a pretty big pop at RR, barring something catastrophic.

But yeah, if he automatically gets stuck feuding with Melo or jobbing to Gunther, I'm out.

I'll find something better to do with my Monday and Friday nights.

 

[Rell84shots]

I voted let it play out.

Legit interested to see how Trick gets handled once he goes to the main roster.

I believe he's gonna get a pretty big pop at RR, barring something catastrophic.

But yeah, if he automatically gets stuck feuding with Melo or jobbing to Gunther, I'm out.

I'll find something better to do with my Monday and Friday nights.

What has Hunter done to inspire such confidence?

 

[dh86]

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[Osmosis]

Triple K is better than Vince for two reasons: A. He's not as much of sociopath and B. He's more of a mark for himself. HHH gets off on the good publicity and the "this is cinema" tweets, he goes where the wind blows more often than not. The product is pretty safe as a result. Vince was more defiant and tried to force his vision of the product down the fans throats.

With that said, HHH is less amenable to pushing black wrestlers. It'll take a hijacking of Daniel Bryan or Cody Rhodes proportions for dude to start pushing the brehs that clearly deserve a shot.

The fact that he had Bobby Lashley in catering until his contract expired when dude is a former world champ that could have had money programs with so many young guys says all you need to know. Meanwhile, Sheamus just got re-upped and is working Kaiser and Bron on a week-to-week basis.

 

[OneDeep]

Triple K is better than Vince for two reasons: A. He's not as much of sociopath and B. He's more of a mark for himself. HHH gets off on the good publicity and the "this is cinema" tweets, he goes where the wind blows more often than not. The product is pretty safe as a result. Vince was more defiant and tried to force his vision of the product down the fans throats.

With that said, HHH is less amenable to pushing black wrestlers. It'll take a hijacking of Daniel Bryan or Cody Rhodes proportions for dude to start pushing the brehs that clearly deserve a shot.

The fact that he had Bobby Lashley in catering until his contract expired when dude is a former world champ that could have had money programs with so many young guys says all you need to know. Meanwhile, Sheamus just got re-upped and is working Kaiser and Bron on a week-to-week basis.

Even as a H Stan I can see the in this

 

[O.Red]

I used to be all alone in my critiques of Rhea.

If you stay the course, the people will see the light.

Rhea is great in small doses, and as part of a balanced roster. Shyt was all good when she was organically over. The turn around on her didn't really start until she was getting forced and the Liv promo went too long. She's been cutting the same promo since SummerSlam