Triple H named Head of Talent Relations and Creative in WWE. 2023 WON Booker of the Year.

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

this brock crash out from his book years ago

Don’t even recall him coming out with a book

 

[Mr. Manhattan]

 

[Larry]

I get that. But, damn if it isn't the most entertaining show usually each week. Across all the content RAW, SD, Dynamite, Collision.

It’s just hard for me to invest, it’s really nothing wrong with the product itself I’m sure. I was just talking shyt lol

But genuinely it feels, at least for me, that wins, lost feuds, championships etc. in NXT all mean absolutely nothing in terms of WWE on an overall scale.. a mf can lose to Ridge Holland tomorrow and it’s like.. so? The minute this dude debuts on Smackdown or RAW, none of that shyt matters.


I always enjoyed seeing people learn/find themselves and their characters in NXT, and start developing a following. That’s always fun to follow.. but in terms of everything else, it’s inconsequential because it’s developmental and there’s no real way to shake that. It’s why the majority of wwe fans don’t watch. We all know it exists, it’s just not important

 

[Rell84shots]

It's a damn developmental brand.

I get the simping "Jaida Parker is ready, now!," but, brehs will look at the product and legit think that preselect crowd of WWE's versions of sickos (look up the process to get tickets to get into NXT shows...you got to be a sicko to do that every Tuesday) poppin for you means anything.

Yes, watching ppl mark out for Trick was dope.

But, I watched Trick's last match with Eddy Thorpe... My brotha needs a year or two.

Those Booker T comparisons got to stop.

The last next Booker T (Mason Madden) is light years ahead of Trick.

shyt, sent Trick to Japan for a lil bit.

What exactly do yo want Trick to be? Because the "Trick ain't ready" crowd tend to act like he has to be Angle in the ring. We can see numerous people on the main roster stinking it up every week, whereas Trick's main issue is pacing which is easily fixable. Two years is too long and runs the risk of Trick being a has been by the time he gets called up. I'd rather have him on the main roster than someone like Gargano or Waller.

 

[DaHNIC82]

I mean it’s a holiday tour lol

As long as they’re not wrestling together at Wrestlemania then we good.

Don’t know what he would be doing at mania but someone mentioned maybe facing Drew McIntyre and I wouldn’t be mad at that

That was for house shows. Talent usually let loose on there. I remember Jey USO telling a fan fukk you on the mic at the start of their heel run

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

Brock Lesnar had an angry rant about this match with The Rock in his book. He was pissed about taking the L and said his relationship with Vince deteriorated after this Kinda long, but here’s a copy and paste of the quote “I never knew that I was supposed to lose to the Rock. “It’s Miami,” Jack said. “No one will ever know!” I can remember hearing Jack say that like it was yesterday. I wasn’t upset about losing. That wasn’t the point at all. What bothered me was that I was the last guy to know, when I should have been the first. No one had the guts to tell me the truth, until it was time to step into the ring. Just from the look on Dwayne’s face and the tone in Jack’s voice, I knew they were in on something I wasn’t. It was obvious to me that Vince, Dwayne and Jack were all in cahoots, and I wasn’t being smartened up to the situation until the very last minute. That night changed my attitude toward the WWE, because it’s when I started to feel Vince was a manipulating b*stard, and that I was being played. I thought it was a stupid decision to have the WWE Champion lose in a “non-title match,” but that was something I was going to have to accept. As someone who fights for real, it made no sense to me for the champion to lose … and still be the champion. If someone can beat the champ, then they deserve the title. It’s that simple. Who wants to see that? People pay to see the champion because he’s the champion, and his position as number one is on the line. I didn’t like it. I had been pulling the company plow, been filling the arenas and selling the pay-per-views, and no one even tells me that Dwayne wants to get his loss back? No one has the balls to just say, “Brock, this is the way it is”? Vince can’t tell me the angle, the story, and why it makes sense for me to lay down for the Rock in a “non-title” match? He doesn’t want my two cents’ worth? I’m the damn poster boy for this company, and I’m the only one who doesn’t know what’s going on? Even though I knew one day I would have to do a job for The Rock, I still kept thinking that Vince was really screwing with me, and that there was a lot more behind keeping me in the dark than just Dwayne wanting to get his loss back after a year and a half. Did I do something to piss Vince off? Did he need to show that he could keep me in my place? Something was going on. I’ll be the first one to admit that I’m a control freak. When it comes to business, I want to know what’s going on, when, where, and why. This is my living. If I have to lose for the good of the company, I will, but it’ll be on my terms. I thought I had a good relationship with Vince, but obviously I was wrong. When it came to my business with the WWE, the one person I thought I could trust was Vince. When I first started we had that handshake, and I put my future in his hands. He ran the company. He controlled everything. I knew that if I couldn’t count on him to tell it to me straight, I was screwed. I could play the game with everybody else on the roster and in the office, but I couldn’t play games with the owner of the company. That’s a fight I’m going to lose every time because HE writes the checks. HE makes all the rules. If I’m Vince’s top guy . . . the guy he’s relying on . . . his go-to guy . . . his main event . . . why would he lie to me? Why would he play this kind of game with me, in Miami, for no reason? Just to mess with my head? Just to do it for the sake of doing it? To Vince, it may have been just another day in the wrestling business, but to me it was a lot more than that. That day was the first in a chain of events that led to my departure from the WWE. The wheels were still spinning in my head about getting screwed over in Miami, when Vince tells me he wants me to lose the WWE title to Eddie Guerrero.”

 

[Easy-E]

What exactly do yo want Trick to be? Because the "Trick ain't ready" crowd tend to act like he has to be Angle in the ring. We can see numerous people on the main roster stinking it up every week, whereas Trick's main issue is pacing which is easily fixable. Two years is too long and runs the risk of Trick being a has been by the time he gets called up. I'd rather have him on the main roster than someone like Gargano or Waller.

Let's skip to the real shyt;

What is Trick's ceiling, in your opinion? Lavek calls him up for the Netflix RAW. What's his ceiling?

Trick took his first bump in 2020. Before that he was a NFL washout (all due respect).

What world do ya'll live in where you can be all world at something in let's than 4 years? Unless you some type of protege, you need more work.

Trick was Melo's sidekick til like 2022? Trick goes up there and gets over on his personality when HHH is not gonna feature him at all the same amount of time as he does in NXT.

If Trick can't get over on his in-ring work, he's in trouble in Paul Lavek's WWE. And he's got a small window to impress.

Trick ain't getting the Jey Uso treatment. He's not getting the Seth Rollin's treatment because he has a bangin' intro.

Montez is awesome in the ring--didn't have a long indie run, was in NXT for 4 years---and he's Bianca's husband and he kills himself with the shyt he does in the ring...look how he's been booked. And he's HHH NXT era.

Trick will be in catering half the year while Lavek struggles to get Karrion Kross and Motor City Machine Guns over.

There's nothing about Lavek's booking that makes me think Trick will do anything more than what Melo is doing. And that's some type of comedy act that barely sniffs the title.

Hell, I hope he stays in NXT til some of HHH's favorites retire--like Gargano.

He's shown; you are not going over his favs.

 

[Rell84shots]

Let's skip to the real shyt;

What is Trick's ceiling, in your opinion? Lavek calls him up for the Netflix RAW. What's his ceiling?

Trick took his first bump in 2020. Before that he was a NFL washout (all due respect).

What world do ya'll live in where you can be all world at something in let's than 4 years? Unless you some type of protege, you need more work.

Trick was Melo's sidekick til like 2022? Trick goes up there and gets over on his personality when HHH is not gonna feature him at all the same amount of time as he does in NXT.

If Trick can't get over on his in-ring work, he's in trouble in Paul Lavek's WWE. And he's got a small window to impress.

Trick ain't getting the Jey Uso treatment. He's not getting the Seth Rollin's treatment because he has a bangin' intro.

Montez is awesome in the ring--didn't have a long indie run, was in NXT for 4 years---and he's Bianca's husband and he kills himself with the shyt he does in the ring...look how he's been booked. And he's HHH NXT era.

Trick will be in catering half the year while Lavek struggles to get Karrion Kross and Motor City Machine Guns over.

There's nothing about Lavek's booking that makes me think Trick will do anything more than what Melo is doing. And that's some type of comedy act that barely sniffs the title.

Hell, I hope he stays in NXT til some of HHH's favorites retire--like Gargano.

He's shown; you are not going over his favs.

I honestly see Trick as being a upper midcarder that can have a long career being a multi time IC/US champ, and possibly be a short term world champ if booked correctly. Pointing out him being a NFL washout means nothing, since the current biggest star in the business was also a washout. You're not wrong in what you're saying, I just feel like Trick is one of those easy layups. HHH should really be getting the Vince treatment with his mishandling of Montez & Giovanni.

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

I honestly see Trick as being an upper midcarder that can have a long career being a multi time IC/US champ, and possibly be a short term world champ if booked correctly. Pointing out him being a NFL washout means nothing, since the current biggest star in the business was also a washout. You're not wrong in what you're saying, I just feel like Trick is one of those easy layups. HHH should really be getting the Vince treatment with his mishandling of Montez & Giovanni.

most of the top stars in history are NCAA/NFL washouts when you think about it lol

 

[Instant Classic]

I honestly see Trick as being a upper midcarder that can have a long career being a multi time IC/US champ, and possibly be a short term world champ if booked correctly. Pointing out him being a NFL washout means nothing, since the current biggest star in the business was also a washout. You're not wrong in what you're saying, I just feel like Trick is one of those easy layups. HHH should really be getting the Vince treatment with his mishandling of Montez & Giovanni.

Throughout wrestling history we had guys that couldn't make it in football become top stars.

The Rock, Roman, Goldberg, Brock, Ron SImmons, Vader, Bronn Breaker, Brian Pillman, Monty Brown, etc.

I agree pointing that out doesn't mean much. I think they key for Trick will be presentation. They can't do the Melo route where he looks like a joke from the jump. They need to start him off strong, and I think letting him being a fighting midcard champ early could help him out. He might need to clean up some of his moves, but the Trick shot for example is a move that people will love.

 

[NoMorePie]

Throughout wrestling history we had guys that couldn't make it in football become top stars.

The Rock, Roman, Goldberg, Brock, Ron SImmons, Vader, Bronn Breaker, Brian Pillman, Monty Brown, etc.

I agree pointing that out doesn't mean much. I think they key for Trick will be presentation. They can't do the Melo route where he looks like a joke from the jump. They need to start him off strong, and I think letting him being a fighting midcard champ early could help him out. He might need to clean up some of his moves, but the Trick shot for example is a move that people will love.

Don't forget about ceGOAT. He only made to the college level(I think)

 

[CBoz]

It's clear they are making NXT more important in the company, something equal to Raw and SD.

They have changed all PLEs and TV Specials to be labeled with the WWE logo/moniker and not the NXT name.

Example: WWE Halloween Havoc, WWE Deadline and WWE New Year's Evil

Spoiler: Logos

Also the main roster is 90% NXT Alumni and if anything, the women's roster is closer to 98% from NXT. So If someone doesn't like NXT that's fine, it's their opinion but you might as well not like the main roster, especially once the old guard starts retiring. It's just going to be more and more NXT alumni that fill the main roster as the years go by.

 

[VegetasHairline]

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

While HHH's daughter puts no one over and legit been in the World title scene for every eposide and PLE of 2024.

It's a muthaf*ck'n shame.

And I've got so much shyt for "being negative."

Relagate the tag team titles (women's) to NXT and send some of them woman back down there (The Party Girls and the Witches).



Wait? Are you talking about another Bianca?

Cuz I know you didn't bout Bianca Belair below.

Asuka
Tiffany
Nia Jax (who I defend)
Alexa Bliss


HHH really burying...nevermind

All you can do is tell it like it is... I think Triple H has done some great things with the booking but there's some issues and Bianca being placed in the tag scene for over a year ain't right to me personally... Also, who cares if people get mad at you. I haven't seen you say anything crazy really