Did you watch the whole show? If not deffo watch the Alistar Black vs Velveteen Dream match. 2 immediately iconic looking wrestlers with clear gimmicks and a clear story in their match. It’s something the main shows just seem utterly hopeless at achieving.
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In fact just watch the whole show if you have time. The variety in the nxt roster and gimmicks make it really easy to get invested in even if you don’t watch weekly.
Only the war games match. Will check this out, cheers
Is Velveteen Dream the name of the wrestler? Thats something you dont get now
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Deffo do if not the whole show i feel like wwe should watch thid match in particular as a case study into how to make people invested in wrestling.
Yes it is hes like a prince rick rude hybrid
Black’ll be massive, yeah. That silent metalhead calmness combined with the legit looking work will mean basically all their core audience will want to be him, so he’s a great babyface. Bit of fantasy booking but with Game of Thrones as big as it is he’d be a convincing sadistic heel with that kinda black metal/viking aesthetic too (imagine if they hired War Machine as his backup too).
Remember when Paul Burchill was a pirate
Wasn’t watching then but have heard of it and it sounds magical. I did manage to catch him in that gimmick implying he was incestuous. Class acts them McMahons.
big fan of post wwe burchill shaving his belly hair to look like abs
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Yeah i didnt see it but knew from.a Smackdown game
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Always get him and Paul London confused
Oh good lord
Hard to forget London’s stint in the greatest tag team of all times, the Hybrid Dolphins
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He looks like the bass player in the Charlatans
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(Dunno what the bass player looks like)
video’s worth it for Bryan corpsing alone
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Loved Survivor Series, my favourite PPVs since I started watching again about a year ago. Enjoyed every match. Bar vs Usos & Shield vs New Day were both great, AJ vs Brock was even better. Charlotte vs Alexa was good, Miz vs Corbin was fairly good and far exceeded my expectations. The women’s 5-on-5 match was fine and did a decent job of building Asuka.
Didn’t really have a problem with the booking on the 5-on-5 men’s match; the nature of the stipulation means that not everyone can come out looking great, but Braun was put over strongest by far (was totally wrong in my fears of him being derailed by the match against Brock), which is good. The Triple H/Angle stuff was a pretty obvious way of building towards what seems to be happening there, and I found the way Trips sold the whole thing really quite funny. Main problem was just that the match fell so flat in the middle, not the booking of the end, imo. Kurt doesn’t look particularly sharp.
Watched bits of RAW and Roman seemed more over than he’s been in a long time?
(Really enjoyed every match on Takeover).
That is one of my favourite comedy promos ever. I still laugh at how much Bryan cracks up and I’ve watched quite a number of times
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It’s the “…hello” that gets me still
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