odessasteps Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 they prob want to have Ralph and Marshawn Erickson wrestle at Mania next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Granted, Wrestlemania is a much bigger deal than working Kanemaru or Kendo Kashin 3 minutes in a battle royal is a bigger deal than a 20 minute match for the GHC Jr championship? That said, whatever is "bigger" doesn't mean what we saw wasn't genuine. Kenta'd been working in front of NOAH crowds for years. Maybe a mostly-American Mania crowd in a football stadium seems like a whole other world for him. I was mostly just burying Kendo Kashin. All kidding aside, I can see where it's a massive deal for him, because he made it to a level that very few of his countrymen have. He's done something that even the most legendary names in Japan haven't done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagan Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Well, aside from the crowd you also have the million or so people watching it on the Network...so it's a pretty big deal. Fantastic feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turk128 Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Hideo's got an incredibly cute family. I wouldn't mind more NXT filler episodes like this at all, spotlighting a wrestler or group (or aspects of the Performance Center). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuroresuFan Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 I could have done without Hogan's "I couldn't believe everyone that was there just to see me cheered for this Kenta dude, bruthur." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playa Shunna Ver 3.0 Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 I could have done without Hogan's "I couldn't believe everyone that was there just to see me cheered for this Kenta dude, bruthur." Ha...I was just coming to say that Hogan actual out over Itami, of course in a most Hoganesque way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnyLaw Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 That seemed completely believable to me. You think Hogan keeps up with Japanese wrestling enough to know how big a star Kenta was? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolidGoldBomb Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 I could have done without Hogan's "I couldn't believe everyone that was there just to see me cheered for this Kenta dude, bruthur." I didn't realize all my Hulkamaniacs knew who this KENTA dude was, brother! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StretchMediatedHypertrophy Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 I just watched the Breeze-Itami match from last week. It wasn't really an epic, so I don't really see it as a 'feud-winner' - everyone knows Itami hit the GTS on Breeze in a later match and so it was just a match with a slightly surprising finish. The Beauty Shot is over, but NXT's main-event style is 'war of attrition' style bomb-dropping, more ROH than ECW, and that doesn't suit Breeze much. I think he'll get called up this year anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolidGoldBomb Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 "Corey Graves is the fucking shits" - comment from Meltzer on observer radio I haven't seen last night's show but based on the last couple shows he has really downgraded as an announcer. Not that he was that great to begin with. It is clear that he is taken the Alex Riley role of the heel announcer who will just say stupid stuff because that is what Michael Cole did in 2010 I think he got him confused with Byron Saxton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 "Corey Graves is the fucking shits" - comment from Meltzer on observer radio I haven't seen last night's show but based on the last couple shows he has really downgraded as an announcer. Not that he was that great to begin with. It is clear that he is taken the Alex Riley role of the heel announcer who will just say stupid stuff because that is what Michael Cole did in 2010 I think he got him confused with Byron Saxton They all look alike. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salads Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 'He won. He won. In every way imaginable he won.' is one hell of a line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Z Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 WWE just officially announced their newest recruits, including Uhaa Nation and Axel Tischer, the first German wrestler to make it to WWE since Brakkus as far as i know. I'm pumped. http://www.wwe.com/shows/wwenxt/wwe-performance-center-welcomes-new-class-of-recruits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 I posted this in the main thread without seeing this. One of my boys made in there. Levis Valenzuela(dude to the right of the big mother fucker in the middle), he went by Manny Garcia around here. Definitely look him up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Radomir Petkovic looks like an absolutely monster. Radomir Petkovic (Belgrade, Serbia) — European Vice Champion at the 2010 European Wrestling Championships and was a two-time bronze medalist at 2009 Mediterranean Games in Greco-Roman and Freestyle. Speaks Russian and English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Radomir Petkovic looks like an absolutely monster. For reference, the guy to the right of him in the picture is a legit 6'5, so yeah, that fucker is huge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Z Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 I posted this in the main thread without seeing this. One of my boys made in there. Levis Valenzuela(dude to the right of the big mother fucker in the middle), he went by Manny Garcia around here. Definitely look him up. He definitely has the most interestling résumé of the bunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 LOL who is the guy who shows up to the performance center in a hood? That is Jerry Lawler wearing a crown and cape to an empty arena levels of goofy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted April 13, 2015 Author Share Posted April 13, 2015 Does anyone have the full breakdown of who these people are (ie: their old wrestling names) At quick glance - I only recognize Nation and Jessica McKay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted April 13, 2015 Author Share Posted April 13, 2015 God - I totally spaced that was KC Cassidy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/fighting/article18388127.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Uhaa Nation seems like such a sure fire hit that I'm almost positive WWE will completely fuck it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Uhaa Nation seems like such a sure fire hit that I'm almost positive WWE will completely fuck it up. If this were 5 years ago, I'd point out how the giant dude with zero experience is the only one they care about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoeCristyV.1.6 Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 But he really looks like someone who could be great in the future. That wasn't the case back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggulator Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Radomir Petkovic looks like an absolutely monster. Radomir Petkovic (Belgrade, Serbia) — European Vice Champion at the 2010 European Wrestling Championships and was a two-time bronze medalist at 2009 Mediterranean Games in Greco-Roman and Freestyle. Speaks Russian and English. I'm already dreaming of the angle where a betrayed Lana reveals her new monster to take down newly turned babyface Rusev. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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