Guest Edwin Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 1 hour ago, Craig H said: If NXT house shows were hard to get tickets for before, it's going to be damn near impossible now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 Not a single person tweeted that they were coming after the title. The age we live in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 If someone told me two years ago that in 2016 Joe would be WWE's developmental champion I might have believed them. But there is no way I would have ever believed that in 2016 Joe would have definition in his abs. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyld Samurai Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 I doubt Nakamura is in NXT long enough to get a title run. Though I'm sure we are all hoping Itami can get back into the ring before Nak goes to NY. I would think that in an ideal scenario they build up to Nak vs Joe at their August Summerslam Takeover, with Joe going over. In the meantime they build someone like Gargano who has a good size following already in NXT and could realistically defeat by the Royal Rumble Takeover before Joe gets called up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 Finn moving up to the main roster helps the main roster and does not hurt NXT at all. Nak will be there for a little while. You got guys like Manny ready to fill in. Don't forget, some dudes will probably be getting signed out of the tournament they have coming up. Also, there's interest in Ricochet, the list goes on and on and on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRGoldman Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 So in Hunter's ongoing fantasy rebooking of Golden Age ROH, who gets the Punk role of midcarder who pushes Joe to the limit with a couple hour long draws? In this analogy, Balor is "Xavier with facepaint", which actually works surprisingly well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 Johnny Gargano! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggulator Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 Finn also teased this in his last promo. He put over "surviving" against Joe bigtime and said he didn't know if he couldn't do it again. He was right. Joe solved the problem. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirSmUgly Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 I think Nakamura will be down until Rumble time at the earliest, but if they fast-tracked him to the main roster, that would not surprise me. I bet they keep him down to get used to the schedule and, since he can speak decent English, work on his promos (which should be minimalistic anyway because of his mystique, but still, this is a promo company). Not that I think Nakamura needs the title at all, but I do think he'll get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 Manny Andrade is an upgrade on Finn Balor in every way other than English language speaking, ab definition, and Lego knowledge. Let Joe, Nakamura, and Sombra loose on NXT and things will be in-fucking-credible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted April 22, 2016 Author Share Posted April 22, 2016 Fuck abs - Manny is way dreamer than Balor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cristobal Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 I don't think NXT is a conscious attempt to recreate ROH so much as good, simple wrestling angles will resemble past ones because they are good and simple. In terms of pushing up the card, of the guys they've had on TV so far, really only Nakamura and Aries make any sense for contending with Joe. Andrade could, but they've gotta put some time into debuting him for TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCM Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 2 hours ago, Wyld Samurai said: I doubt Nakamura is in NXT long enough to get a title run. Though I'm sure we are all hoping Itami can get back into the ring before Nak goes to NY. I would think that in an ideal scenario they build up to Nak vs Joe at their August Summerslam Takeover, with Joe going over. In the meantime they build someone like Gargano who has a good size following already in NXT and could realistically defeat by the Royal Rumble Takeover before Joe gets called up. I'd rather see The Drifter in a title program than Gargano. If he has anything to offer I've yet to see it in his NXT work. I'd also replace him in the team with Ciampa with Girard. Total pretend pro wrestler going through the motions nothing he does looks convincing to me. He has a long way to go to even be a threat to Joe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnyLaw Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 14 hours ago, nofuture said: Official video. Love that they panned over for the crowd reaction. That's cool, but when fans are too busy filming with their phones to mark out... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolidGoldBomb Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 Now Joe needs to drop the title to someone else immediately at the next taping or another house show and get called up as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamBroken Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 Crazy that it happened on a house show, the end of the longest NXT Title reign. Very unexpected but a cool way to do it. Awesome moment for Joe, in the same city that he won the TNA title 8 years ago. Loved Balor's reign and looking forward to a hopefully fairly long Joe reign. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted April 23, 2016 Author Share Posted April 23, 2016 Well they are wasting no time TMDK is working the Florida swing as they are in Tampa tonight 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 9 hours ago, JRGoldman said: So in Hunter's ongoing fantasy rebooking of Golden Age ROH, who gets the Punk role of midcarder who pushes Joe to the limit with a couple hour long draws? In this analogy, Balor is "Xavier with facepaint", which actually works surprisingly well. I'd like to see more matches between Joe and Tomasso Ciampa. I loved the one match they had already. Who should dethrone Joe? Once again, Austin Aries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 I've been lukewarm on Aries so far. He needs to be a complete asshole for me to like him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turk128 Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 It's really too bad they already called up Baron Corbin because he would have been a perfect candidate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norwegian Rudo Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 9 hours ago, RIPPA said: Well they are wasting no time TMDK is working the Florida swing as they are in Tampa tonight Nikki Storm as well. Wondering if they will throw them right in at the tapings next week. Should be a lot of debuts and re-positionings going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterien Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Ive only been checking in on NXT news sporadically since Takeover but have been watching some live event videos on Twitter and seeing the reactions Nakamura has been getting fills my heart with joy. I will mark the fuck out when he gets the call up to main roster. Hopefully the main fanbase will receive him as well as the NXT one does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trocar Slush Weasel Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 6 hours ago, Niners Fan in CT said: I've been lukewarm on Aries so far. He needs to be a complete asshole for me to like him. I'm sure there are a host of therapists that would like to see you. I can't see Aries being anything more than a stepping stone at this point. Put him in a tag team with Roode and let them help these young guys get over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonteCarl Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Yeah, Bobby Roode and Eric Young are supposed to be on their way to NXT soon, and shouldn't Itami be back at any time? So that will help fill out the top of the card and contenders for Joe while other guys are built up in the meantime. With a developmental system, I guess things like this are bound to happen where the roster gets "raided" when all the guys get too good. We'll just have to see how this rebuilding process goes. It will be an interesting year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolidGoldBomb Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Who is TMDK? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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