The Official Mae Young Classic Tournament Thread
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Having finished the last 2 rounds and the finals now....what a bust. Better than the UK tournament in the sense that there were more than 2 talents (Bate and Dunne) that seemed like they should ever be even looked at by WWE (in this case, Storm/Sane/Jazzy Alpha/Rhea Ripley/Tessa Blanchard), but the match quality ranged from bad NXT weekly match to the best matches not even being some of the better NXT TV quality matches this year. Not even taking Takeovers or big Raw/SD/PPV matches.
I feel like all of them would have been better served just normally debuting in NXT instead of in a tournament format with higher than normal expectations where all the matches were short and 30 were taped in the course of 2 days in front of the same crowd, with the top ones working 4 matches in 2 days in the same place and crowd. The constant circle jerking off how important it is for women rang hollow when the matches were what they were, half the competitors were PC talents, and the winner of another WWE tournament was a second option because they couldn't get the person they really wanted for various reasons.
The lay out of a lot of the matches also sucked, with so many women using the same moves, finishers in one match being a regular move in another, 115 pound women doing spears, shyt like Piper being slammed and speared by Serena, Kairi physically dominating Dakota Kai, Baszler getting smashed by strikes/submission/throws by Candance and Mercedes, etc. I assume they just gave time limits and let them do whatever, because I find it hard to believe agents that are 15-30 year vets would tell the women to kill moves and gimmicks so regularly throughout the entire tournament.
A huge bust in comparison to CWC, slightly better than the UK Tournament, bleh as hell overall with the biggest stand outs being women who lost in the first or second rounds.
I feel like all of them would have been better served just normally debuting in NXT instead of in a tournament format with higher than normal expectations where all the matches were short and 30 were taped in the course of 2 days in front of the same crowd, with the top ones working 4 matches in 2 days in the same place and crowd. The constant circle jerking off how important it is for women rang hollow when the matches were what they were, half the competitors were PC talents, and the winner of another WWE tournament was a second option because they couldn't get the person they really wanted for various reasons.
The lay out of a lot of the matches also sucked, with so many women using the same moves, finishers in one match being a regular move in another, 115 pound women doing spears, shyt like Piper being slammed and speared by Serena, Kairi physically dominating Dakota Kai, Baszler getting smashed by strikes/submission/throws by Candance and Mercedes, etc. I assume they just gave time limits and let them do whatever, because I find it hard to believe agents that are 15-30 year vets would tell the women to kill moves and gimmicks so regularly throughout the entire tournament.
A huge bust in comparison to CWC, slightly better than the UK Tournament, bleh as hell overall with the biggest stand outs being women who lost in the first or second rounds.
Norrin Radd
To me, my board!
Damn that's a terrible picture of Abbey
JerseyBoy23
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No spoilers but they have girls from the MYC all over these NXT tapings.
JerseyBoy23
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They really gonna act like none of those girls were already signed before the MYC
Toni Storm is better off improving in Stardom and coming to WWE later on when she has more clout. All the PC is gonna teach her is Crossfit drills and Push Up competitions so IMO she's better off getting some of that GOAT Japanese wrestling training then coming over as a complete project. Because right now she's good but still a little green.
DoubleJ13
Smooth sailing from here on out...
I assume nobody here is watching it
JerseyBoy23
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She looks better than I expected. I know it's a big deal for any masked wrestlers to be unmasked.
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I don't know why I was expecting her to look like somebody's abuela...she's a lot younger than I thought.
The Prince of All Saiyans
Formerly Jisoo Stan & @Twitter
nah she's already back at some bingo hall
Playaz Eyez
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I've been keeping up with Toni for probably 4 years now and there's nothing green about her
girl is ready to step in and replace a ton of the WWE women right now. Wanna know who a project is? Most of the Performance Center women not named Bianca Belair, like Vanessa Bourne
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JerseyBoy23
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I've been keeping yourself with Toni for probably 4 years now and there's nothing green about her
Bianca's not even fair. She's like the female Brock/Kurt in that she picked up wrestling quick as hell.
It's crazy to me that Eva was a division 1 soccer player and could never get wrestling after 4 years while Bianca was a track star and then a crossfit pro, yet she's picked it up.