C.S. Posted October 29, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 Rhea is too good for NXT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KawadaSmile Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 THE YETAAAAAY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S. Posted October 29, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO at Drake Hogan, "Big Show," "Yeti," and "Shockmaster." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KawadaSmile Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 Holy shit this episode has been a blast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S. Posted October 29, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 WTF was that??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S. Posted October 29, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 5 minutes ago, KawadaSmile said: Holy shit this episode has been a blast. Agreed, Bubba. Most fun I've had with NXT in ages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S. Posted October 29, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 So, Ciampa's new gimmick is the bitter vet who knows better than the young kids? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KawadaSmile Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 POPPY!!!!!!! THIS SHOW MAN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KawadaSmile Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 Io DESTROYED Candice on that suplex, holy shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KawadaSmile Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 Holy fuck this match rocked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S. Posted October 29, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 What a match!!! WHAT A SHOW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KawadaSmile Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 Candice's knees absolutely turned to dust. She fell from what, 12 feet, on her damn knees onto a ladder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S. Posted October 29, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 4 minutes ago, KawadaSmile said: Candice's knees absolutely turned to dust. She fell from what, 12 feet, on her damn knees onto a ladder. I literally put my hand over my mouth when that happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovert Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 1 hour ago, C.S. said: Rhea is too good for NXT. She IS but there's been a generational shift at the same time. She suffers from a lot from social anxiety and can't deliver main roster length scripts due to a speech/learning impediment. A lot of her current persona is very carefully crafted to hide that - Rhea cites Scott Taylor/Scotty 2 Hotty for primarily helping her. Once she hits the main roster her skillset will be assessed on a deficit-based. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S. Posted October 29, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 33 minutes ago, rovert said: She IS but there's been a generational shift at the same time. She suffers from a lot from social anxiety and can't deliver main roster length scripts due to a speech/learning impediment. A lot of her current persona is very carefully crafted to hide that - Rhea cites Scott Taylor/Scotty 2 Hotty for primarily helping her. Once she hits the main roster her skillset will be assessed on a deficit-based. Interesting. I had no idea about any of that. You certainly can't tell, based on how she's been presented so far. I guess that explains why her big hype piece for the WrestleMania match was a carefully constructed and edited video package. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricR Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 I'm on the west coast so a few hours (or more) behind everyone else, but I thought I would do a live blog for Halloween Havoc. They suckered me in with the gimmick. https://segundacaida.blogspot.com/2020/10/nxt-halloween-havoc-live-blog-102820.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 Since my son is obsessed with Nightmare Before Christmas, I enjoyed Johnny and Candice's Jack and Sally costumes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovert Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 35 minutes ago, C.S. said: Interesting. I had no idea about any of that. You certainly can't tell, based on how she's been presented so far. I guess that explains why her big hype piece for the WrestleMania match was a carefully constructed and edited video package. Yeah, Rhea is a borderline smoke and mirrors job. The Performance Center has a rep for being ineffectual. But they did give Rhea the confidence she so sadly lacked. She was told she was dumb by the regressive formal education system she grew up in at an early age and deeply internalised it. All detailed here: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cm funk Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 I'm in the midst of watching this show, was gonna wait, but after watching the Lumis fuckery I have to say this before I forget I wish Lumis and Fiend and all these characters operated in a separate universe from the rest of WWE, off in their own dimension. That is all. I could possiblty enjoy it like I enjoyed the weird Japanese promotions, but most everything WWE touches turns to shit. And then I'm looking at Lumis and I'm like, there's a definitely a way to use this guy who does a really good blank psycho stare and is very sound as a big man worker IMO, a good athlete, and really turn him into something without all the WWE fuck bullshit anyway, I got more to say when I'm done with the show, but halfway into it spoiler alert it had me wanting to fast forward so I could get to watching AEW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cm funk Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 quick thoughts, first show I've watched since last takeover loved Io and Candace. I never watched a lot of Joshi but Io looked so comfortable in a match like that it made me feel she was probably a fan of Onita/FMW, Big Japan and stuff like that. I'd dare say she's better in gimmick matches than straight up one on one. I bet she was a Tajiri fan too. i haven't seen much of Atlas but he seems to be a big fan of Steamboat and has a good babyface presence. This match served it's purpose. I think I'd want to see Atlas in a good babyface tag team, not sure who on the NXT roster would be the right pair. I enjoyed Ripley and Gonzalez a lot. I've seen very little of Gonzalez but I was impressed with her. They had good chemistry and the dynamic between them worked because it isn't easy to get believable heat on Ripley. It was striking to me tho how a year ago it seemed Ripley was on the verge of being a mega superstar, super over live, and now a year later she's basically in the same position but without the crowd. It's been a wasted year for her unfortunately. The piped in crowd noise is super noticable and annoying that's all I got for now, I gotta go watch AEW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 To be fair, Lumis was already doing basically the same gimmick in TNA/Impact under his real name. WWE just tweaked it to be less "possible sex predator" and more "possible serial killer". He's one of the rare few people that WWE probably is the best place for him to be. He's really good at his character, and unlike Bray it doesn't hold him back in the ring. Hell, if anything it was Cameron Grimes's overacting that was hurting the match for me. Instead of being a character in a horror film trying to escape the monster, he was hamming it up to the point William Shatner would probably tell him to reign it in a little. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 1 hour ago, cm funk said: It was striking to me tho how a year ago it seemed Ripley was on the verge of being a mega superstar, super over live, and now a year later she's basically in the same position but without the crowd. It's been a wasted year for her unfortunately. Also this. It's been sort of mind boggling to me how little it gets mentioned how Rhea was the top star on the brand and it was flushed down the tubes to give Charlotte another Mania Moment that didn't even end up being all that great because it ended up in the PC instead of a stadium. I suppose there's probably folks in the company who don't think she can handle being a big star due to the issues rovert mentioned, but god damn that was some promotional malpractice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cm funk Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 22 minutes ago, sek69 said: To be fair, Lumis was already doing basically the same gimmick in TNA/Impact under his real name. WWE just tweaked it to be less "possible sex predator" and more "possible serial killer". He's one of the rare few people that WWE probably is the best place for him to be. He's really good at his character, and unlike Bray it doesn't hold him back in the ring. Hell, if anything it was Cameron Grimes's overacting that was hurting the match for me. Instead of being a character in a horror film trying to escape the monster, he was hamming it up to the point William Shatner would probably tell him to reign it in a little. the Grimes overacting was terrible and I FFd a lot of it. The bottom line is if I was booking a wrestling promotion to my tastes I'd have Lumis as a guy in a heel stable who usually tags with someone, but when he gets into a blood feud it pays off with an FMW style chainsaw match with bombs and electric eel pits surrounding the ring Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cm funk Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 Lumis fits as a random geek in my territory style heel group with Cactus Jack, Terry Funk, Tajiri and The Great Khali I would have put together in an old EWR game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 Lumis would be great in a role like what Jake Hager has in the Inner Circle, just stand behind the leader of the faction and look intimidating while being the heavy in a tag match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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