I'll be honest: I think this year's WrestleMania weekend burned me out in a way from which I'm still recovering. The fall of Evolve as my reliable local promotion with a high quality product hasn't helped; I miss the days when Evolve had Keith Lee, Riddle, and Sabre on the roster. And since I'm off Twitter, I don't get that pro graps discourse and match recommendations from there that I once did.Nobody visits us.
Remember how much everyone always/does hated/s us.
I guess too many people went too hard on their favourite people who pretend to fight for a living.
The girl has been hot for all of two weeks and you guys are already bitching about it.
Shut the fuck up.
I don't really know why the AEW thread exists with a prefectly fine wrestling community thread.
No, he's in a program on NXT UK now, he's signed. His partner Romo seems to have decided not to go for itIs A-Kid still independent?
The match should be great, maybe better than the ZSJ one
That thread has a cult mentality, keep it away from here where I can stan NXT and Io.You don't want to have people discussing the two most popular wrestling shows at the same time, makes for some bad times. And the OT gives better visibility to AEW, this place is a dump q:
I kinda doubt they'll follow up Shayna's reign of terror with one by Rhea. Especially since Rhea is unfortunately a babyface. And outside of Velveteen Dream (who was more a tweener than anything), babyfaces don't get long reigns in NXT these days. Plus with as strongly as they put Rhea over a lot of the main roster women, you have to imagine Vince will want her up there sooner rather than later.
The crazy thing to me about wrestling is apparently the women matches get really high viewers but they are rarely featured. I don't get it.Raw was just like SD last week in that it failed to make me care about most of what was going on except Randy/Drew and Kabuki Warirors/Charlotte. At least NXT and AEW always give me multiple matches/feuds to look foward to.
Also, 3 hours and only 1 women's match is lame.
They were trying to get Asuka over as a heel in NXT once she started feuding with Ember, but it just backfired entirely because she was significantly more charismatic than Ember.Eh, Asuka had the first one and she was face the end of her Ember feud.
Anyway, after 6 months of making Rhea look strong she'll be called to the main roster so she can have handicap matches with Io against Charlotte to make her look strong.
Hence losing Sareee to the void. At least if she goes out with a singles match against Mayu it should be a banger.
Women are generally the most over segments in WWE. However only NXT really capitalizes on that in terms of screentime.The crazy thing to me about wrestling is apparently the women matches get really high viewers but they are rarely featured. I don't get it.
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Ah, Peak Heyman. It's good to remember that he produced as much shit as anyone else.The Lana Rusev Lashley stuff is 100% heyman.
It's peak ECW/early 2000s Smackdown
He's been hard as fuck.How's Ridgeway doing in NOAH by the way? As I don't watch, my only metric is seeing him come back to the UK after his first or second tour and noticing how much harder his kicks seemed
WWE is less popular than it used to be. That the reason whyThis thread barely moves these days, even just after the move from GAF I'd wake up to at least 10 pages of discussion. The great wrestling depression is upon us :(
Nxt reign of terror itself is long term booking, change mah mindCalm down friendo, I'm just joking because of how NXT books their reign of terror champions. I've got no real stakes in how well she is/isn't booked, just the WWE schedule sucks.
Nxt reign of terror itself is long term booking, change mah mind
I'm pretty sure the unrelenting gimmick posting at WrassleGAF's height took years off my life.There was a couple of really good wrassleGAF years where everyone got on pretty well and we had some good and crazy posters who have since left. Things are still ok though. I'd rather talk about cool shit with wrasslefriends then the dozens of pages of people wringing hands over WWE booking like it was back then. There are only like 3 people who still give a shit and haven't moved on.
We talk about so much more varieties of wrestling and so many more promotions. Lucha gets more and more accessible thanks to people posting, people talk about joshi more, DDT, people actually watch death match promotions and post about them while they are live.
Things are different, but for wrestling fans they are probably better and yeah the gimmick posting stuff is still a bit obnoxious now but is fucking NOTHING compared to a few years ago. Saying that though, people are way more touchy about their favs or promotions being criticized or jumping on people who like other shit for whatever reason, but whatever.
We blame Vince for a lot of things, but I'm wondering if Paul Heyman wrote this.
She became the most over performer in all of WWE during that time, NXT or main roster. She was a legit star.Asuka's reign came out of necessity, cause nobody was in the division until the end of her reign.
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It's so stupid. Becky Lynch is literally their most popular star and she's not even on the show. Hell she doesn't even have a feud.Women are generally the most over segments in WWE. However only NXT really capitalizes on that in terms of screentime.
There was a backstage interview uploaded as a WWE.com exclusive where Becky basically all but says she's coming after Asuka to "collect a debt". Which means Becky is going to roll over Asuka. Because its pretty obvious at this point WWE is waiting for Shayna to get called up, or Ronda to return. Becky's reign in general is starting to quickly run out of steam.It's so stupid. Becky Lynch is literally their most popular star and she's not even on the show. Hell she doesn't even have a feud.
It's so stupid. Becky Lynch is literally their most popular star and she's not even on the show. Hell she doesn't even have a feud.
Cause they need to build a division that has nobody. Becky being on the show adds nothing when she's got nobody to fight. Unless you want Becky vs. Charlotte #754
Becky is doing the whole being held down thing and being kept off the show cause they wont give her Asuka.It's so stupid. Becky Lynch is literally their most popular star and she's not even on the show. Hell she doesn't even have a feud.
All that talent in NXT. I find it hard to believe they couldn't call up 1 or 2 female talents to give us some fresh feuds. WWE seems utterly incapable of having more than 1 or 2 storylines involving women on a 3 hour show.Cause they need to build a division that has nobody. Becky being on the show adds nothing when she's got nobody to fight. Unless you want Becky vs. Charlotte #754
The same Asuka that struggled to beat Charlotte 2 v 1?Becky is doing the whole being held down thing and being kept off the show cause they wont give her Asuka.
I mean, we know from reports that Vince wants Shayna and Bianca. But I'm pretty sure Triple H is holding that off until his NXT storylines are done.All that talent in NXT. I find it hard to believe they couldn't call up 1 or 2 female talents to give us some fresh feuds. WWE seems utterly incapable of having more than 1 or 2 storylines involving women on a 3 hour show.
same Asuka that's beat Becky in every match they've had.
Damn she's got no chance of ever beating Charlotte in her lifetime
Then they should star building some. They have talented wrestlers like Sane, Naomi, Asuka and Iiconics, but they have established none of them as legitimate threat to the main event scene.Cause they need to build a division that has nobody. Becky being on the show adds nothing when she's got nobody to fight. Unless you want Becky vs. Charlotte #754
Not this week but NEXT week. Weird, but okay.
Nobody visits us.
I guess too many people went too hard on their favourite people who pretend to fight for a living.
That'll get the ratings back up.