Timbo Slice

At his size, he’s basically a super heavyweight given what NXT has run out there on a weekly basis, and he’s someone moldable that is okay with smoke and mirrors hiding his weaknesses. Problem is guy should never be going longer than 15 in anything.

Paul has always been a front runner, and the best of NXT was because of who he had around him, so now that he’s been exposed, how can you be surprised?

Causation isn’t correlation and all that relative to stock prices, product be damned. The bigger issue is that there isn’t much of a plan forward from a talent perspective. The ESPN influence on the company for pushing brand over talent is a business direction not conducive to product, and they seem to be turning it more into an excuse to run legacy talent or expand programming options instead of making the current talent memorable. That’s not sustainable, especially since the legacy talent is what drives the ability to offer expanded programming. Can’t have one without the other.

You can make agreements with the network to go commercial free for the last part of a broadcast as long as you frontload it with commercials, and this would have been the time to play that card.

I’m big on aesthetics because I come from a TV production background so those things can really ruin the flow for me probably more than others. I also think this will be released in full somewhere, and once it is, it’ll probably change for me.

That’s on production more than anything else: Nobody knew how to shoot this match to avoid things like that.

The fact this wasn’t on PPV absolutely killed the momentum, and the crash pad was bush league…sigh. The first part of the match really had a good rhythm though. Just got killed dead.

Michael Cole with an all-time bungle, holy shit.

The SOUND. HOLY SHIT.

Sasha's also great at having a mean streak at any point she feels she needs to amp it up, this is an absolute clinic in a lot of ways.

They have been, and at really weird moments.

Her adaptability on the fly is what makes her so great.

Jesus Christ, that's the greatest military press of all time.

Seriously incredible stuff. I'm still in shock.

Legitimately amazing all-time in-ring debut. He has more nuance in pro wrestling than most other folks on the roster. I imagine there's folks crowded around monitors in the back.