Cattle Mutilation
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The stupid part of NXT Black and Gold is that they were just having these guys who had been in NXT for years having good to great matches when it wasn't really accomplishing anything for the main roster.
Like was it really necessary to still have Adam Cole in NXT when he was 31 and been there for four years?
Or early to mid 40s Bobby Fish in NXT ever?
Or early to mid 30s Kyle O'Reilly in NXT for 5 years or frankly ever?
Or mid to last 30s Roderick Strong in NXT for 7 years or frankly ever?
Did a mid 30s Tomamaso Ciampa still need to be in NXT in 2022 after being there for 7 years?
Did a mid 30s Keith Lee really need to be in NXT for 4 years?
Did Johnny Gargano really need to be in NXT for 6 years until he was in his mid 30s after all he accomplished there?
It's not like any of these guys actually needed to learn how to wrestle. Quite a lot of the peak NXT Black and Gold talent were coming from ROH which already did TV tapings so it's not like TV wrestling was a foreign concept to them. Sure it wasn't like WWE TV wrestling but it was still TV wrestling.
Not like these are NIL talents that had never stepped foot in a wrestling ring before coming to the PC. That's kind of the whole advantage of singing these indie guys, they don't have to be trained from the ground up on how to do the very basis. You already know when you sign them the caliber of in-ring talent you're getting.
It shouldn't take several years in the WWE system for WWE to realize those types of guys either are or aren't going to cut it on the main roster. At that point, let them loose and clear the way for the next crop of talent who need the TV time.
Like with Bobby Fish especially, they should have known before they even offered him his first NXT contract that he wasn't a WWE talent. Guy was already older than most of the damn main roster from day 1 at the PC.
Like was it really necessary to still have Adam Cole in NXT when he was 31 and been there for four years?
Or early to mid 40s Bobby Fish in NXT ever?
Or early to mid 30s Kyle O'Reilly in NXT for 5 years or frankly ever?
Or mid to last 30s Roderick Strong in NXT for 7 years or frankly ever?
Did a mid 30s Tomamaso Ciampa still need to be in NXT in 2022 after being there for 7 years?
Did a mid 30s Keith Lee really need to be in NXT for 4 years?
Did Johnny Gargano really need to be in NXT for 6 years until he was in his mid 30s after all he accomplished there?
It's not like any of these guys actually needed to learn how to wrestle. Quite a lot of the peak NXT Black and Gold talent were coming from ROH which already did TV tapings so it's not like TV wrestling was a foreign concept to them. Sure it wasn't like WWE TV wrestling but it was still TV wrestling.
Not like these are NIL talents that had never stepped foot in a wrestling ring before coming to the PC. That's kind of the whole advantage of singing these indie guys, they don't have to be trained from the ground up on how to do the very basis. You already know when you sign them the caliber of in-ring talent you're getting.
It shouldn't take several years in the WWE system for WWE to realize those types of guys either are or aren't going to cut it on the main roster. At that point, let them loose and clear the way for the next crop of talent who need the TV time.
Like with Bobby Fish especially, they should have known before they even offered him his first NXT contract that he wasn't a WWE talent. Guy was already older than most of the damn main roster from day 1 at the PC.
