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Have to think they see a lot more value in KO, who has been used as the ultimate utility player on both brands since being called up, working with just about everyone on all levels of the card, versus NXT standouts who Vince probably hasn't worked directly with more than 2 or 3 times.

These mfs no sell everything unless it's the end of a fall though. EDIT: the fuck just saw a spinning powerbomb from 1930 :pop

Are we going to call this a hatch suplex or the first DDT

Okay

If there is such a thing at winning at life, The Rock absolutely won at life

I would find it nearly unthinkable that Vince has ever heard of Billy Corgan or the Smashing Pumpkins

Maybe, but how much of that perception is from her being pretty much the only character on the shows where they explicitly portray her as being the same in "real life"?

It's really impossible to separate Charlotte the character and person more than just about anyone in wrestling in recent years. And her booking has frequently intentionally been used to annoy fans that she gets preferential booking, so it all wraps back in on itself. It's pretty weird, really. Even if you ignore all the times she's lost her cool in the ring and semi-shot on co-workers on live tv.

The heel color guy agreed with the heel wrestler saying obvious bullshit? Berried.

I remember KURT ANGLE saying it was an illegal choke, so the win shouldn't count, and therefore he still went around saying he was undefeated like the delusional heel he was. I do not recall the announcers ever agreeing with that. Not really much different than wearing the hair piece after getting his head shaved. What killed Taz was the Radicalz coming in shortly after. Benoit in particular. Also he was very short and Vince treated all the ECW dudes with even more disdain than WCW guys.

If I'm trolling, it's blatant trolling jokes. Hook looked like a guy with no experience other than drilling what will be his main spots. He has a presence, he has a look, he has athleticsm. He also looked like he'd never sold, those crossfaces looked terrible, his other strikes were pretty dodgy, his moving from spot to spot looked like a guy trying to remember what he was supposed to do, and the few times he had to sell looked weird. He looked like a rookie. A rookie with potential, to be sure, but absolutely looked like a rookie. I know he somehow became a meme for whatever reason over the past year, but come on. I'm not sure he looked as polished as Brock Anderson, who also is definitely a rookie and needs a year or two working mostly on Dark to get seasoning.

He's about the same level as Jade Cargill.

Hook absolutely looks like a guy having his first match.

There are also a dozen dudes in AEW that do the thousand kick outs never ending matches so what will yet another of those do for them at this stage

Gargano was so overexposed in the past 2-3 years and went through such a full arc and character changes two or three times over that I really have no interest in him going anywhere. AEW is currently full of so many guys he's been associated with for the past few years, with probably a couple more coming in soon as well. Gargano is way tiny to fit in the heavyweight scene for NJ and lol juniors. He's in a weird spot for sure. WWE really has a knack for making you not care at all about people who at one point seemed like the best in the world.

Long Island fucking sucks, for any of you that have never been.

Just hire Jujimufu already. BOOGZ, Nakamura, Juji trio to save pro wrestling.

I wish WWE had car crash appeal. You'd have to pay me to sit through any of the weekly shows.

KOR/Strong was a better team than reDRagon, would rather see them in AEW than Fish and KOR back together.

I feel like KOR would thrive in the good matches for the sake of good matches and who cares about storylines or promos aspect of AEW, but Gargano is a dude who has been so over exposed in every possible way that I have no interest seeing him against anyone in any company in any role for a long, long time.

No one wonders why WWE booking goes nowhere and nothing matters. It's been about 10 years now of only putting in any effort for WM season and each year that actually becomes more and more like the last 3-4 weeks before WM instead. You can probably really draw the line straight back to WM 27 and Rock's involvement.

Honestly, no idea why there wasn't a mass call up for these people that have been in NXT forever. It's not even just the ones like Ciampa/Gargano/KOR/Dunne that have been spinning their wheels for years, but also guys like Cameron Grimes, DJZ, Roderick Strong, Robbie E, DJZ who all have years of TV experience before even getting to NXT. There's something to be said for vets teaching the young guys and all that, but obviously that's not something WWE has ever seemed to give a shit about with NXT. Eli Knight as part of the old school NXT team is bizarre. Dude didn't show up until earlier this year. He has no history with the brand. The only thing of any interest in 2.0 is Bron Breakker and I think odds are pretty good that once he gets called up he ends up another Chad Gable. 2.0 feels like that weird period in 2004-2005 when they suddenly started reviving 80s/early 90s style gimmicks.

This show fucking sucks. NXT 2.0 is somehow even more lifeless than old NXT for the past 2 years.

He also looks like he hasn't hit the gym in 2 months

That war games fucking sucked. Reboot NXT again.