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He's truly a man of multitudes, famous for his backstage politics but also probably the biggest key figure in the careers of pretty much everyone who started off in NXT. The "Hunter pointing at a guy/girl backstage" became a meme but it's clear he meant a lot to the folks there.

Not that it was unexpected considering the severity of his health issues, but he confirmed that his in ring career is over due to him having a defibrillator put in. It's amazing to see how things played out for the guy: he went from being HBK's luggage carrier to the GAME-UH to the heir apparent to NXT Dad to having it all pulled away. If you would have told someone five years ago that in 2022 HHH would basically have a no show job with no power you'd have been laughed out of the room, yet here we are.

If TK's plan is to use ROH as their version of black and gold NXT, Pillman is someone who could really benefit from that.

I hate to defend anything here, but pro wrestling has a long history of champs fucking with their belts on. Yes, people will probably make the same assumption I did earlier in the thread, but at least I can see the plausible deniability here. Honestly everything wrong with that segment would be corrected if Sammy was a heel, and even if he was he wouldn't get nearly the heel heat Dan Lambert does and would end up babyfaced anyway.

I get that the segment wasn't great, but Rosa is clearly going to vanquish the evil heels which you can't always assume will be the case in WWE.

Then again, Brodie did smash the belt into a million pieces over Cody's head, so it's not like he was someone who felt that a title belt is sacred.

Wow, I didn't even think about it like that, but yikes.

Swerve vs Starks on Rampage sounds pretty fantastic

LOL Sammy and Tay Paige'd the TNT title

Tay's speaking voice sounds so much like Asuka's it's freaking me out.

Jesus, Hangman whipped Cole in the damn face with that belt

Blackpool Combat Club, I like it.

Mox and Bryan Murder Time coming up next!

Darby not gonna let old man Sting take his spot as crazy bump guy it appears.

Punk bustin' out the long bois tonight, you know it's a special occasion.

I noticed that, and even more how she didn't even participate in the beatdown let alone take a bump.

Greyson and Carmelo are pretty much 1a-1b in my book. Bron has the in ring part down but I can't tell if his promos need work or it's just the Uncle Scotty cadence he has that makes him sound stilted on the mic at times.

Watching now, and Greyson Waller is a tremendous douchebag. Of all the NXT 2.0 kids, he's the the one who seems like the most polished right now (yes Bron is great, but he could use a little more time in the oven even if Vince probably won't be able to wait for that).

It makes the NXT women's tag titles look as useless as the main roster ones if the winners of their big tag team tourney don't even want a shot at them.

I feel you, I get irrationally triggered by like 95% of the entrance poses WWE women do since they are so goofy and/or video game-y. At least Dana's no hands cartwheel deal was cool looking, most of them look like someone asked them to parody the cover of a romance novel.

I'm sure Rick would be down, but is there still bad blood with Scott? He was the guy they used to have posters of to not allow him backstage.

I always thought that team didn't get a fair shot. Two big scary monsters with Bivens as a mouthpiece should have been a license to print money.

AFAIK Fish was promoting one of the "stop child trafficking" events Drake was a part of, and after someone smartened him up he hasn't done anything since.

His name was on the Drake Wuertz donation list, so I'm guessing Tony has no time for Qanon

It does beg the question why there wasn't *somebody* he could trust to run with the ball considering the shape Shane was in.