Dolfan in NYC Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 Happy MLK Jr Day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Moose Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 in before lashley gets curbstomped Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumanChessgame Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 Maryse was right about one thing - nobody wants to see that mixed tag match. With Sheldon and Cedric continuing to attack Lashley and still refer to themselves as The Hurt Business, could that be pointing to MVP turning on Lashley at the Rumble? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 The Liv Morgan/Bianca vs Doudrop/Becky Lynch was the number two ladies match in the RAWdarkELEVATiON wrestle wad- behind Ruby Soho vs Kenzie Paige, though Liv Morgan looked slightly better than Ruby Soho tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 https://www.wwe.com/shows/wwenxt/article/walter-collides-with-roderick-strong-in-colossal-main-event-showdown WALTER vs. Roderick Strong on NXT 2.0! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 So is both Rollins and Reigns heels in this "feud"? I can't really see Rollins being a face anymore especially with this gimmick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 Oww. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarheel Moneghetti Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 46 minutes ago, hammerva said: So is both Rollins and Reigns heels in this "feud"? I can't really see Rollins being a face anymore especially with this gimmick. SD crowds seemed to be siding with Reigns, though he was definitely still acting like a heel. I assume he'll be the heel in the Brock match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Dragon Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 School girl into Magical Anime Girl? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.K.o.S. Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 Seems like that "Gunther Stark" name they trademarked is, in fact, going to WALTER. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 Roderick Strong just re-opened his PWTees store. Which I thought WWE signed wrestlers weren't allowed to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Dragon Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 Probably shortened to Gunther. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 A winner is GUNTHER! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted January 19 Author Share Posted January 19 I thought they were chanting "Ivy" for a minute. It's good they weren't though, Marcel Barthel doesn't deserve to die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofuture Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 I eagerly await Sarray's Henshin sequence. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 That Roderick Strong/....Gunther? match was pretty good. Ivy Nile vs Kay Lee Ray edges out Leila Hirsch vs Katarina Perez and Skye Blue vs Robyn Renegade in the NXTdark Ladies wrestling wrestle batch. Ivy Nile is getting there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 Does WWE still have the license for Ride of the Valkyrie’s as entrance music? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L_W_P Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 I hope WALTER is getting paid a massive contract to work say Rumble to Mania as Gunther, and then GTFO and go home. I understand the name change if WALTER refused to sign over trademark rights (as he should being an INDEPENDANT CONTRACTOR)and so WWE have handed this to him. A quick Google search kills Gunther Stark dead on arrival so I wonder if they are going to present this as GUNTHER ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 Ivy/KLR was decent. Ivy is coming along nicely. Creed Bros vs. Briggs/Jensen was fun. I want Creeds to take the whole tournament. Legado being out first round sucks though it is nice to see Escobar finally going after the NXT title. Strong/WALTER was good stuff. I hate the unnecessary name change to Gunther. I do kind of hope they at least keep it at that. WALTER with a last would feel odd at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenyabaxterZXW Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 (edited) Based on this week, I am not surprised they don't call her something like Tokyo Rose or some Pokémon character they find opening a pack If this is what they thought of WALTER, I can only imagine what was the idea of for Ali that was the final straw Edited January 19 by hammerva Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReiseReise Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 9 hours ago, S.K.o.S. said: Seems like that "Gunther Stark" name they trademarked is, in fact, going to WALTER. I really hate this idiotic company. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuntmanCrowley Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 I was super impressed with Strong/Walter. Actually, I genuinely enjoyed this episode more than I have a lot of the 2.0 stuff....then...Gunther and I'm like "Of course, why wouldn't they immediately destroy the goodwill they just earned with me" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 5 hours ago, kenyabaxterZXW said: This company. This freaking company. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarheel Moneghetti Posted January 19 Share Posted January 19 (edited) Show was decent. I expected to swear off 2.0 by now, but Strong-Walter lured me back in and the match delivered. Not really interested in too many of Bron's potential opponents, but Escobar-Brekker has me intrigued. Too bad Bron probably isn't going to lose his first feud. Escobar has more potential than just cannon fodder. He should be on the main roster and, instead, I expect he's probably going to fall into the same limbo that Strong, Gargano, and Ciampa are in. Hilarious that LA Knight and Cameron Grime are the grizzled vets of NXT now. Lot of "new" faces tonight. Anyone know who the big dude that looked like Brody is? For a second, I thought Sylvester Terkay was back in WWE. Wasn't familiar with either guy Duke Hudson jumped, and didn't recognize him at first either. Sarray's repacking is odd. Vince finally watched Sailor Moon? The segment with Kacey, Kayden, and the not-Smoking Gunns was bad. Am I the only one that thought the nervous guy was going to come out? I guess that's not where they're going, but I briefly thought that was going to be the payoff to the segment. Solo Sikoa is an intimdating-looking dude. Looking forward to him and Boa throw bombs at each other. Was surprised to see KLR lose. WO recap says Mandy was on the apron distracting her, but I missed that, i guess. Walter match was good. Name change is needless. I guess WWE tries to lock down rights to gimmick names in perpetuity (or at least a lot longer than the person involves expects to be on the roster)? I feel like the solution is to negotiate a deal where the rights revert back to talent when talent is released, but I can see why the company may not want to agree to that (don't want to make "Grayson Waller" a star, then see him take the name to AEW. Could potentially lead to rights issues with other properties). I assume Walter didn't want to sign over the rights to his name. Makes sense, but he'd make more money if they could sell "Walter" merch instead of "Gunther" merch. I don't mind renaming him, but "Gunther" isn't an interesting imo. Hilarious that the name they trademarked belongs to a Nazi war criminal. No one in the WWE marketing dept. knows what Google is? Walter and Bron/Escobar will probably keep me tuning in for a little while longer. Edited January 19 by Tarheel Moneghetti Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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