Yes, Alpha Academy is their label.
Not to mention that I think Iyo's work against Bayley was good an people did care. She was over against Bianca at Backlash last year and the match was fantastic, she was over when she won MitB and the match (particularly the ending) was fantastic and she was over when she cashed in. They just did a poor job capitalizing on it until she lost the title in the match against Bayley (which was fantastic and my match of the show). Dmg ctrl being kind a jobber faction certainly didn't help. All of the people invovled in that deserve better.Iyo had no memorable matches or feuds because all of her actual major feuds were largely against Bianca, who never makes anyone else look good, because she always has to get her shit in, even if it makes no sense and makes others look terrible. Look at Iyo in NXT, she was over as hell, and a huge draw for the show. And her segments do incredibly well on the main roster viewership wise as well. As for charisma, she's better as a loner than in a stable. Look at how they presented her with that promo segment she did two weeks before Mania. If they present her as a badass worldbeater (like they did in NXT) instead of a chickenshit heel, she would be one of WWE's most over stars. And Charlotte rarely has good matches these days, because she puts forth only the bare minimum unless she's either pissed at management and wants to prove them wrong, or is going over.
Meanwhile Liv can't cut a single promo without sounding completely inauthentic, and has pretty much no charisma at all, on top of being pretty fucking below average in the ring despite wrestling for so long. The fact that you are implying Iyo has no charisma and her reign was bad was her fault is fucking laughable, when she's shown what she can do in NXT and literally any other promotion. Meanwhile Liv Morgan has shown why she SHOULDN'T be champion, for the better part of like four or five years at this point.
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I guess Matt will be part of this Uncle Howdy bullshit with Rowan and Braun? I mean, on one hand that sounds horrible, on the other hand, I guess Bo wants to honor Bray so I'm torn :(
Giulia and WWE update, per Fightful:
On Monday morning, Rossy Ogawa announced his new promotion, Marigold, in a press conference. Among the talents introduced for the promotion was Giulia, who has long been expected to be a part of the launch of Rossy's venture.
Fightful Select's Corey Brennan has learned from sources close to the situation that Giulia is expected to work at least "a handful" of matches in Marigold before hopefully reporting to the WWE Performance Center in late June/early July.
Brennan has also learned from sources in NXT production and creative that while WWE could obtain the rights to Giulia's current theme music, there are currently no plans to do so at this time. As far as presentation goes, Brennan has also learned that Giulia is currently planned to keep her ring name in WWE.
As far as when fans can expect to see Giulia on NXT programming, the belief within NXT is that she will have her debut match at NXT Heatwave on July 7th, and is expected to be challenging for one of the NXT Women's Championships at the event. Brennan was also told that Giulia visited the WWE Performance Center during her recent time in the United States.
What if it's gonna be Charlotte comeback tour while Rhea is away đŸ˜”
Charlotte won't be back until at least Fall in the best case scenario. They don't let people come back early from ACL surgery. It's a 9 month minimum.What if it's gonna be Charlotte comeback tour while Rhea is away đŸ˜”
HHH has kept the Vince tradition of jobbing out an NXT contender before a title match alive.I just realized they had Ivar in his viking shit losing to Shaemus when he was on NXT last week in civies interrupting Oba Femi >_>
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since the internet is being the internet about this (including right here last night in fact!)
I find odd how the second Cody became The Ace people have been shitting on him on the most trivial stuff
Is like the second someone becomes the face of the WWE fans want some reason to have them, like previously people were shitting on Roman for barely appearing, now Cody is being criticized by how he holds the title appearing too much and dont having a feud the second after he finished wm
Oh tru, forgot she still got a long while till she's back.Charlotte won't be back until at least Fall in the best case scenario. They don't let people come back early from ACL surgery. It's a 9 month minimum.
Why would wwe want Matt Hardy? He can't even walk, let alone wrestle. He offers nothing unless he's bringing Jeff
To be fair, none of the guys related to Bray Wyatt were known for their wrestling skills, that includes Bray
My only issue is that spooky matt only works when he is in his funny broken mode, and I dont even know if people want to watch that
It was, much, much better done in TNA. WWE Broken Matt was basically trying to speedrun the greatest hits of the gimmick in a neutered form without proper build, context, or time.Not sure how it was done in TNA but a friend kept hyping it and after it happened in WWE, I thought that Matt "Broken" gimmick was the best example on how people hype stuff just because it isn't in WWE. It was one of the worst things I've seen tbh.
It was, much, much better done in TNA. WWE Broken Matt was basically trying to speedrun the greatest hits of the gimmick in a neutered form without proper build, context, or time.
It's sort of the same problem that Senile Vince main roster booking had with black and gold NXT. Entire characters with long feud histories etc would get boiled down to a single gimmick and never get a chance.
Yeah, that too. Because of the rights issues and whatever else, they waited way too long after the initial nostalgia run buzz faded to pull the trigger. Besides getting a neutered version of the character, they absolutely failed to take advantage of the immediate popularity - you had a gigantic Mania crowd doing a DELETE chant when they showed up and were unable to cash-in on it.The other problem was, when they got to WWE, Matt didn't had the rights of his Broken Universe on Impact, so they couldn't take advantage of his moment and popularity at that time. When Matt got the rights he was already "Woken", so it was too late.
So, on NXT they just wrote Gulak out by saying No Quarter Catch Crew went to Di'Angelo Family to get rid of him.
If Dempsey's going to take over the lead of the group, he's gonna need to work on his mic skills.
Not a new thing for the family lol
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Tony D’Angelo deals with a traitor: WWE NXT, June 28, 2022
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