Kang Deezy
Overall Nice Guy
Once they lost the live crowds they were done
The Rise and Fall of NXT
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Metal Face
Superstar
Bron Breakker >>> old NXT
Norrin Radd
To me, my board!
Takeovers were consistently shytting on main roster PPVs for a long time
Remy LeBreh
Linconia
NXT has been on this cycle for its entirety as they rotate out and build characters, wait 6 months, everyone will love it again.
Nah, the vibe is wack now.
Not saying it needs to be in the dark, but it's just weird now
Honestly all they had to do was institute an NXT off-shoot and call it FCW since they still own the trademark for it.
Put on FCW instead of 205 Live, collapse that division into NXT by having a match of that 'style' on every show guaranteed, and then you can do the 2.0 idea in parallel to NXT - which had legs in, if nothing else, helping to teach their developmental-made wrestlers how to have the prestige wrestling matches you'll expect from them if they ever hold a title on a wrestlemania. It's the very thing the people from the FCW days pre-Black&Gold had a hard time with. It's partially what sank Roman, and what they failed to even address with E for a long time.
Basically, treat NXT like the IC/US title, if RAW/Smackdown are the top title tier of your company. That's the intermediary step where you put people to either finish their training and get them prepped for TV, or where you send people down to fine-tune new gimmicks or work on a singlular weak point (Finn and his Prince gimmick, in both regards)
But... that ain't what they did, because they cutting every possible corner and dollar to make it appear a certain way so they get the biggest sale price.
So... in a way, they end up bailing out and letting their only possible competition become the only game in town for something that they were at least competitive in. It isn't that Vince don't see AEW as competition - it's that Vince doesn't care about wrestling and never has. He all set to cash out, and he doing it the same way he first cashed in - by not giving a fukk about the wrestling landscape in his wake. Not when he torpedoed the territories, and damn sure not now that the options are walk away with a bag or actually have to be competitive in a landscape he now is even further out of touch from after running unopposed for so long.
He's just like the old politicians who are retiring now instead of bothering to run a re-election campaign where they might have even a mid-tier primary challenger. And the immolation of Hunter and Shawn's project puro E-Fed is just one more thing to be sacrificed. It's just, unfortunately, the first of the very few things the company does well to get done greasy.
Won't be the last, either
CFO$ got bushed, Top-quality talent got tossed like unwanted garbage - many without even being given a chance, The House that Hunter Built got set on fire like it was the Firefly Funhouse... the MINUTE the video package team starts getting hit with 'budgetary constraints', it's a fukking wrap
Put on FCW instead of 205 Live, collapse that division into NXT by having a match of that 'style' on every show guaranteed, and then you can do the 2.0 idea in parallel to NXT - which had legs in, if nothing else, helping to teach their developmental-made wrestlers how to have the prestige wrestling matches you'll expect from them if they ever hold a title on a wrestlemania. It's the very thing the people from the FCW days pre-Black&Gold had a hard time with. It's partially what sank Roman, and what they failed to even address with E for a long time.
Basically, treat NXT like the IC/US title, if RAW/Smackdown are the top title tier of your company. That's the intermediary step where you put people to either finish their training and get them prepped for TV, or where you send people down to fine-tune new gimmicks or work on a singlular weak point (Finn and his Prince gimmick, in both regards)
But... that ain't what they did, because they cutting every possible corner and dollar to make it appear a certain way so they get the biggest sale price.
So... in a way, they end up bailing out and letting their only possible competition become the only game in town for something that they were at least competitive in. It isn't that Vince don't see AEW as competition - it's that Vince doesn't care about wrestling and never has. He all set to cash out, and he doing it the same way he first cashed in - by not giving a fukk about the wrestling landscape in his wake. Not when he torpedoed the territories, and damn sure not now that the options are walk away with a bag or actually have to be competitive in a landscape he now is even further out of touch from after running unopposed for so long.
He's just like the old politicians who are retiring now instead of bothering to run a re-election campaign where they might have even a mid-tier primary challenger. And the immolation of Hunter and Shawn's project puro E-Fed is just one more thing to be sacrificed. It's just, unfortunately, the first of the very few things the company does well to get done greasy.
Won't be the last, either
CFO$ got bushed, Top-quality talent got tossed like unwanted garbage - many without even being given a chance, The House that Hunter Built got set on fire like it was the Firefly Funhouse... the MINUTE the video package team starts getting hit with 'budgetary constraints', it's a fukking wrap
Long as Cokeboy, Khan, and Prichard running it?
They literally working HBK like a Lulu on the blade in The Mack “I started out doing two hours a day, three days a week. Now I’m doing it about 23 hours a day, seven days a week,” Michaels said reflecting on recent years. “People out there thinking it’s all Vince McMahon and Bruce Prichard type of production. They just are the ones who gave us the direction of what it is they wanted from NXT going into the future. It is still all the team Hunter [Triple H] put in place doing it here."
RammerJammer
#RollTide #TSC #RiseUp #BullsNation #RIPKobe
Nah, this isn’t the NXT that was a hybrid 3rd brand from 2014-2020, this is a 2 hour FCW.
I don’t necessarily blame them for going in the new direction though, NXT 1.0 was running on fumes.
Bryan Danielson
Jmare007 x Bryan Danielson x JLova = King Ghidorah
CBoz
We Are NXT!
Well it was hinted at this week at being re-named. The show isn't about Cruiserweights any more. It's just a NXT lower card showcase show now.Wait, so 205 is being replaced too
They are also hinting at either re-naming the Cruiserweight title, changing it or getting rid of it all together. It's not exactly clear what is going to happen.
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MenacingMonk
Tranquilo
Huh?
It had a good run. Takeovers and Lucha Underground need their flowers. We got two ECW like "you'd had to be there" kinda things this gen. AEW is the best parts of both. Ryan Ward getting promoted was the catalyst imo.
Bryan Danielson
Jmare007 x Bryan Danielson x JLova = King Ghidorah
