The Man Known as Dan Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Really fun NXT this week. Adam Rose is money, fantastic entrance with a talent that can pull it off in ring, just needs some time to step into it. Charlotte clearly has improved in her time training, and I really enjoyed her match with Emma, and the finish was damn smooth set up that was well done. I honestly think Paige should hold the belt for a long long time, at least hit the year mark, but Charlotte could be a conceivably solid challenger. Main Event was really fun, and Graves looked solid and added some fun stuff, though Zayn was still the man in the match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidKash202 Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 I guess I am the only one that thought the new Leo Kruger gimmick was garbage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Man Known as Dan Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 I guess I am the only one that thought the new Leo Kruger gimmick was garbage. Yes. Yes you are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARMDRAGON Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Crowe is still doing the hacker gimmick on Twitter so I'm thinking the DJ gig is a lot like Punk's debut with the tommy gun. Adam Rose was tremendous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 The fact that the Adam Rose angle actually make Devin Taylor seem human should be enough to show how great that was 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggulator Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Having a great entrance goes such a long way. NXT is really pushing that. Some guys don't/shouldn't need one (Sami, Neville) but their more gimmicky guys are getting some great stuff to walk out, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stay Gold Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 The fact that the Adam Rose angle actually make Devin Taylor seem human should be enough to show how great that was Haha spot on. I was shocked by her energy/enthusiasm in that segment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Another NXT guy with a great entrance? Awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 This is the first time I remember seeing Devin Taylor and I thought she played the role of "OMG!" party douche very well. She has charisma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 This is the first time I remember seeing Devin Taylor and I thought she played the role of "OMG!" party douche very well. She has charisma. There is no way you have seen NXT pre WWE Network and say that she has "charisma". There are times when you can't tell if she is breathing she is so emotionless on most of those backstage interviews. Maybe she was just waiting for the right gimmick. If I have a negative on the show (a small one) is that if you are going to switch announcers in the middle of a show, you probably should tell people. I don't think they even mentioned that Tensai was doing the adam Rose match Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Mann Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Maybe I need more than 20 minutes of perspective but in the 30+ year history of my fandom that's one of the greatest entrances I've ever seen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 That Adam Rose entrance on RAW or, at hopefully, Wrestlemania will be goddam epic! James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick B. Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 The Rose match was from the previous taping, thus the announcer switch...was odd for Tensai to be there instead of Regal with no warning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Mann Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 The only thing I would say is either he needs a better finsher than a lariat OR he needs to dial his setup to 11. Either is fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 If NXT is going to be a brand, there should be an NXT title match at Mania. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimLivingston Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 I love that they got Corey Graves to go a bit meta with the whole Punk situation ("Why aren't I a part of the big show?") and then jobbed him out to Zayn. That was a nice little touch. And HELL YES, CHARLOTTE. That was some A+ heeling right there. Give her a bit more time on the mike, have her pick up some of Ric's mannerisms and she'll be as good as gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go2Sleep Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 I really hope Flair sticks around with a "Over-involved dad living vicariously through his athletic kid" gimmick. Seems like the perfect thing for him to do at this stage of his career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 God fucking damn, was that a great wrestling TV show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamBroken Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Wow had no idea what to expect with Adam Rose but that was spectacular. Glad this time something here lived up to the hype seen previously. Really liked Leo Kruger before and thought he was an excellent character then but this looks to be great in a totally different way, definitely looking forward to more. Charlotte was awesome all around, enjoyed the backstage interviews with Emma and Paige. Emma/Charlotte was solid and my favorite match of the show.. the divas are always a highlight on NXT. Also a shame indeed they got rid of Coheed & Cambria's "Welcome Home", great intro song that was. Imagine that Adam Rose entrance at Wrestlemania, you could have a hundred party people carrying him out. If he can improve his wrestling a bit, he's going to be a big star with this gimmick. Was one of my first thoughts as well, an amazing Mania entrance one day. Hope it happens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Ric Flair as the biggest dick Little League parent is great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Charlotte is a dirty rotten cheater. Booooo! No seriously, I am so into this show again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggulator Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 ADRIAN NEVILLE against CAMACHO. Neville is doing good work presenting himself as a babyface hero -- standing on the ropes, holding the belt, etc. It's a small thing but it's important. This was a fun Neville showcase. Camacho had a few nice looking things -- his slaps to the chest were properly dickish -- but this was Neville coming in as the champion showing everyone why he's champ.Neville's not much in the promo department but I'm giving him props here for trying. He's putting over how much winning the belt means to him and how it validates his career. ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. I like his self-depracation a ton, including mocking his accent. He's starting to make himself more than just "HIGH FLYER FROM ENGLAND!" and more into an actual person/character.BO DALLAS comes out styling in a high-end Target suit, with some great douche earrings. I love his excuse -- he wasn't pinned.RENEE YOUNG is backstage with EMMA. Emma is so great. "I guess we can be friends after all." Then RIC FLAIR comes out all creepsville and talks up Charlotte, who comes out with faux-pity for Emma's loss. I love Emma walking off with her dance move, with Ric then gloating. "You got her! She cracked!" The quick-style WOO right in Renee's face was gold, too. I love the idea of Charlotte taking on her dad's tricks. RENEE is also talking with PAIGE after her match. I love that Paige, too, agrees that her and Emma are friends. That's really cool. Flair comes out, along with Charlotte, who does some really great bullying trash talk, all with Naitch in the back as a proud father. This is so cool. They have to be careful, though. I don't think they can ever have anything live with Ric and her -- not out at ringside and not in a live promo. He's one of the few true icons in wrestling and he overshadows EVERYONE. But these backstage bits like this are great. I love Regal and Renee's relationship so much. It's the best.This is a good little match, naturally. I love Sasha Banks holding a tongue depressor with Summer Rae's face on it. I love the end so much, with Charlotte feigning an ankle injury into her finisher. I also love how Charlotte's agility is evident in it, too. She's a really great athlete. I think Charlotte has a lot of potential to really become something special. It's starting to come together. I liked the Corey Graves segment a lot. He comes off like a total douche. I like the simple explanation of his motivation -- he should have been on ArRIVAL and has to hear non-stop about Sami Zayn, who LOST his match. It's a very sound heel-based argument. And Corey, being so arrogant, thinks he could beat Cesaro and only needs one chance to do so. I love how he thinks he's too big a deal to face Yoshi, but then takes out Mr. Fighting Spirit. I wish the countout was a bit more vicious than just a nasty toss into the ringsteps. But the post-match beating and usage of his submission was great. So awesome for Regal to mention that Sami fell right into Corey's trap -- Sami, being Sami, DOES have to come out and stand up for himself in a situation like that, but Corey's making him respond. Nice little head game.Ah, the Adam Rose segment. I've watched this a bunch already. There are so many awesome things to this. I've never seen Sami Callahan wrestle but he has the cokehead Eurotrash DJ look down cold. "Oh look, a Roman Gladiator!" Devin Banks saying, "I know him!" Adam Rose talking about how, if he trained, he could do some glow stick stuff. This is going to be of "Jurassic proportions!" "OOOH OOOH OHH! THAT'S MY SONG!" Devin also does such a great job setting up the character when she says "I wouldn't think of anything less at an Adam Rose party!" The character already has some sort of backstory -- he's a well-known party boy about to make his debut. That's such a great little touch. He's not coming out of the lava with this. He's been partying forever while he's getting ready for his NXT debut.The song itself is so great. It sounds like that Fratellis song they use for hockey goals. It's absolutely perfect -- it's something kids can sing along to and really gets attention.Renee is interviewing Xavier Woods last week, minutes after he got beaten up by Rusev. Xavier lays down a challenge to that Ivan Drago looking piece-of-trash. Renee then interviews Rusev, who rambles in Bulgarian. Lana translates: "He accepts." Lana, BTW, has such an awesome wrestling trash look with her pantsuit that somehow still shows cleavage. They're pasting her hair on Raw to make her look more like Bridgette Nelson in Rocky 4 or some Democratic congresswoman from a northeastern state. Either way, man, she is my favorite diva (I haaaate using that word) ever, though.The Adam Rose entrance is so great. I actually hope he has this whole party stable. If he gets some tag team behind him (a modern day Jimmy Garvin???) , they could become a really great trios. Rose is about six months away from being bigtime. Dude knows how to work and just has to get Adam Rose together. I also love that he can be a huge fun-loving babyface or a prettyboy heel without any real effort. It's a pretty perfect template of a character.The main event is a decent match. Sami wins after Graves goes for his nasty backbreaker a second time, resulting in him getting rolled up. This heel version of Graves has some potential. The thing he lacks for me are the little add-ons to his moves. I love how Sami kicks his legs in pinfalls, for instance. Or how Cesaro cranks in his chinlocks. Corey has to do some more stuff like that to get over his submission specialist. He had Sami in some sort of armlock thing and just kept him in it -- no trash talk or yelling to the ref or moving it back and forth to make it look like it's hurting. That's my favorite thing about Erik Rowan -- he's taken a bear hug and made it look brutal just by doing his shake with it. But I think they nailed down how Corey Graves CAN work. He just has to make it work, now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazlo Woodbine Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Add me to the Adam Rose love-in. Check out when he got into the ring and you see that older guy in the crowd just shaking his head at the whole thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goodear Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 The main event is a decent match. Sami wins after Graves goes for his nasty backbreaker a second time, resulting in him getting rolled up. This heel version of Graves has some potential. The thing he lacks for me are the little add-ons to his moves. I love how Sami kicks his legs in pinfalls, for instance. Or how Cesaro cranks in his chinlocks. Corey has to do some more stuff like that to get over his submission specialist. He had Sami in some sort of armlock thing and just kept him in it -- no trash talk or yelling to the ref or moving it back and forth to make it look like it's hurting. That's my favorite thing about Erik Rowan -- he's taken a bear hug and made it look brutal just by doing his shake with it. But I think they nailed down how Corey Graves CAN work. He just has to make it work, now. There was a start to this when he fish hooked Sami for a second but it went past the announcers so it was easy to miss. Something like that would be really good for Graves since it sort of fits his gimmick nicknames (Leader of the Filth Parade?) and is somewhat unique for the company. This was far and away the best I've seen Graves work his character and it wasn't all on Zayn. It was like someone sat him down at Arrival and really got to him on how to work a good match without giving the fans anything to cheer for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w. josh Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 So watching tonight's NXT. I never realized just how much like her old man Charlotte looks. I think she looks like a prettier Ann Coulter, actually. I feel like you're both saying the same thing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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