The Official Mae Young Classic Tournament Thread

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Shayna and her push is easy to detest...but I think she gets it.

She made Candice LeRae look like a million bucks, and was an advanced "base" in so many maneuvers, I couldn't help but give respect.

Plus she's got that ZSJ-ish "catch you in a choke in some crazy ways" thing going on...

She was in a sport where she had to ignore pain, so I'll give her time to adjust the reactions as a pro wrestler...but if she continues to show improvement and flashes of brilliance the way she did then...then the push is justified.
The story for Shayna/Candice was good, but there were others better than her that should have advanced.

Get Shayna "The Robot" Severn off my screen. :scust:
 

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Im not feeling Shayna Baszler at all. The whole she used to fight so shes tough gimmick is lame. She sucks in the ring. Even her strikes look like shyt.


Next broad whose hand she doesnt shake should point a Rhonda and be like "that worked real good for your girl" :umad:
 

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Yeah, not that I want to get kicked by her in real life, but Shayna's worked kick looked really slow and weak.
 

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Im not feeling Shayna Baszler at all. The whole she used to fight so shes tough gimmick is lame. She sucks in the ring. Even her strikes look like shyt.


Next broad whose hand she doesnt shake should point a Rhonda and be like "that worked real good for your girl" :umad:
She lost to Bethe Correia, half of the crew lost to her.
 

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I hope they don't bring JR & Lita out to do the finals. They are fukking terrible on tape & they could have went in & fixed some of that, I can't imagine how bad it would be live :scusthov:
 

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Shayna wishes she was like this when she still did MMA. I haven't seen any of her Shimmer stuff, but I have seen her Stardom stuff and she seemed perfectly fine in longer more competitive stuff for the most part.

Io tried to make her stuff look deadly.
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As for what she could work on:
-Her punches and kicks need more sauce on them.
-She slaps her thigh for strikes too early sometimes.
-She moves like she's wearing really heavy boots and comes off unnaturally slow and stilted at times.

Very curious as to what happens with Sonya Deville going forward. Shayna has size, cred and association going for her. Plus she was booked better in this tournament than Sonya has been during her entire NXT run. From August of 2016 until May of this year when they changed her name, she was presented as this badass MMA chick yet lost every match she had. Sonya has a solid look, moves better and has the LGBT thing going for her, but she only appears sporadically and still hasn't really clicked with the audience.
 
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