Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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Yep, I concede!
Not giving the main roster storylines the benefit of the doubt again until Vince is dead.
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WWE Draft |OT| A McMahon on every show
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Not giving the main roster storylines the benefit of the doubt again until Vince is dead.
I guess what I meant was Rock/Austin/Jericho would just tell her to shut up if she tried that last word shit to undercut a face getting the better of her
abstract alien
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I had no idea that David Otunga was still a thing. Where has he been?
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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ME TOO MAN.
Marvel
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It'll still be run by his idiot daughter and his doofus son-in-law.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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Remember when I joked about them drafting Mojo Rawley over Shinsuke Nakamura.
They are never asked to adlib.
Keyser Soze
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I fell asleep an hour into the draft, woke up, went to actual bed, and only now read about stuff long after I woke up. IMO the draft failed at getting me intrested in watching anything on the main product regularly. They had a unique option to differentiate the brands with the draft, but instead made each product seem diluted - which is a total failure of the task they gave themselves.
My current stance of looking at Youtube the day after RAW for short clips probably won't change, although now I might do the same for Smackdown now too. I will still keep my WWE Network subscription going as I like NXT and bits of pieces of the original content.
I am not asking for RAW or Smackdown to turn into NXT but my one hope for last night was to make RAW and/or SD distinct from each other - and they fell at the first hurdle of accomplishing that. The roster of each show feels like it was determined via a lottery system, with no sensible human overlooking the situation. That is a horrible start.
It's a pity that WWEs big effort to make things different resulted in everything staying pretty much the same - at least for me.
My current feeling on WWE is not hate, I gave that up a long time ago, It is now more a sense of apathy. They can get things so right every now and then, but it is surprising to when they do so. The draft was certinly a low point, when it had every chance of been much more.
My current stance of looking at Youtube the day after RAW for short clips probably won't change, although now I might do the same for Smackdown now too. I will still keep my WWE Network subscription going as I like NXT and bits of pieces of the original content.
I am not asking for RAW or Smackdown to turn into NXT but my one hope for last night was to make RAW and/or SD distinct from each other - and they fell at the first hurdle of accomplishing that. The roster of each show feels like it was determined via a lottery system, with no sensible human overlooking the situation. That is a horrible start.
It's a pity that WWEs big effort to make things different resulted in everything staying pretty much the same - at least for me.
My current feeling on WWE is not hate, I gave that up a long time ago, It is now more a sense of apathy. They can get things so right every now and then, but it is surprising to when they do so. The draft was certinly a low point, when it had every chance of been much more.
whatevermort
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I'm assuming they're going to try and run the Hype Bros or whatever they were called. (Mojo and Ryder are both on the same show, right?)
Stephanie will still be trouble no doubt, but Triple H has shown that he could be good for the WWE through things like NXT and the CWC.
Oh please. Vince knows what a money maker Bayley is. She is almost assuredly the top merchandise seller on NXT, and might be top 10 for the whole company.
Bayley has a match vs Asuka at Takeover Brooklyn, and drafting her now might make that pointless since we know what the outcome is going to be (I'm sure Asuka is going to win, but still). Besides, in kayfabe, it's possible that NXT selected a number of people as free agents that could be drafted, just like how you have to enter the NBA and NFL drafts to be able to be drafted. Since Nakamura, Joe, et. al are in the title picture, they were not put up as draftable, while people who weren't doing anything like Alexa and Carmella were entered.
If they announced this beforehand, the surprise of who got drafted from NXT would have been much lessened since you already knew who could be drafted.
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Hmm, right now we have Trips apperently arguing with Vince on certain things then backing down. Would the same happen when Vince is gone? will the king of kings be chopblocked by the Queen?
Yeah, that'd be great if Smackdown had the tag titles.
HeisenbergLannister
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They now can have 30 minutes of every Raw just being Steph slapping Cesaro over and over again.
#MakeStephLookStrong
They'll probably make their own, just like how they'll make their own Woman's title.
Hmm, right now we have Trips apperently arguing with Vince on certain things then backing down. Would the same happen when Vince is gone? will the king of kings be chopblocked by the Queen?
Receipts please
daemissary
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I kept my expectations low for this and somehow still came away disappointed. My favorite part was when Shane and Bryan couldn't even feign excitement for their picks about halfway through.
Marvel
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Ahahaha.
fucking love how austin would just say "SHUT UP" any time someone cut him off, babyface or heel
except they would actually shut up when they said that. if someone told steph to shut up i'm pretty sure she'd just talk more in order to get her little word in
newdayrocks
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He was great during his MITB cash-in, and saving that Survivor Series match, but he's been garbage ever since.
The Elite
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I get the impression they were being handed their picks straight from Vince during the breaks. You can see the excitement fade away by the end of Smackdown.
And generally when they do get in situations where they can go off the cuff, they are pretty good, see literally any WWE.com interview, Raw Fallout interview etc. etc.
Obviously we have the Kalisto's of the world but every generation needs a Steve Blackman, right?
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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It's like when hype gets too big before an Apple or video game event, and their PR says something a week before to shut down wild expectations and keep us realistic. WWE needs that.
If they just said the NXT picks could be anyone but the champs and the #1 contenders, we could have stayed hyped knowing what we would get. I'd be somewhat happy with Bliss, Jax, Mojo, and Carmella now instead.
If they just said the NXT picks could be anyone but the champs and the #1 contenders, we could have stayed hyped knowing what we would get. I'd be somewhat happy with Bliss, Jax, Mojo, and Carmella now instead.
JehutyRunner
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In fairness, Daniel Bryan seemed pretty pumped for American Alpha (though who wouldn't be).
The Elite
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It's one of the few good picks for Smackdown.
Smackdown needed more picks like that. The problem is the perception between most Raw and SD picks. When you pick Baron Corbin before Raw takes Kevin Owens, there's a problem.
While it's obvious Raw's the "A" show, it's not even balanced to make them look comparable.
I enjoyed the draft for what it was; a pre-scripted event to add some different talent to the different shows.
I felt like they created a decent enough story around the kayfabe reasoning for a draft split and I like a lot of the talent on the different shows.
I'm excited to see Balor on Raw with guys like Rollins, Owens and Cesaro.
I'm excited to see Styles and Cena on Smackdown and see how they manage being extremely experienced dudes on a 'B' tier show.
I also enjoyed the fallout from all the 'interviews' with the Superstars after finding out their draft picks. The amount of threads/posts I saw on Reddit talking about the "pipe bomb" of Cesaro made me happy.
I felt like they created a decent enough story around the kayfabe reasoning for a draft split and I like a lot of the talent on the different shows.
I'm excited to see Balor on Raw with guys like Rollins, Owens and Cesaro.
I'm excited to see Styles and Cena on Smackdown and see how they manage being extremely experienced dudes on a 'B' tier show.
I also enjoyed the fallout from all the 'interviews' with the Superstars after finding out their draft picks. The amount of threads/posts I saw on Reddit talking about the "pipe bomb" of Cesaro made me happy.
Future Cruiserweight Champ
Corey: Was there any guy that you didn't pick during the draft but was very happy was still available after the show?
Shane: (I don't know how to answer that)
DB: Apollo Crews.
He got the number 5 pic, ahead of Lesnar, Cena, Reigns, etc, he's not gonna be just in the cruiserweight division.
When he and Lana did a romance angle last year. They had no chemistry whatsoever and Ziggler's performances both in-ring and promo wise took a drop. Around the same time Ziggler started doing stand up comedy as a hobby and his tweets became unbearably bad with unfunny jokes. That along with him thinking he should be on top when his in-ring form said otherwise turned him into an unlikable figure to some of us.
Getting picked ahead of Roman Reigns is a pretty big endorsement
Alright
http://shop.wwe.com/nxt/#srule=best_sellers&sz=48&start=0
Just for NXT, went to best sellers, besides 2k17 Bayley's shirt is no. 1.
http://shop.wwe.com/women-superstars/#srule=best_sellers&sz=48&start=0
All women superstars. Best sellers, Bayley's shirt is #3 behind Brie Bella bracelets/headbands which are like $3. Thus, for overall women, Bayley is #2.
http://shop.wwe.com/t-shirts/#srule=best_sellers&sz=48&start=0
For all t-shirts. Bayley's shirt is #24, and counting only superstars and not individual shirts, she is #9 overall (not counting the smackdown/raw shirts and WM shirts either).
And she is only on NXT. That's pretty fucking good.
Tom Nook
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HazySaiyan
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Say what you want about Vince but at least he understands that he needs to look foolish now and then and put the babyfaces over. Steph somehow has an even bigger ego than he does.
Even HHH, the guy who has a massive reputation for burying talent and keeping himself over, has been doing this in recent years.
Reigns unless they were put off by his wellness test failure. We'll see what role he's in after Battleground.
Anyone have that clip of Booker burying Roman?
HazySaiyan
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If you're worse at putting people over than HHH then that's saying something.
Marvel
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Top Seller lists on most sites is just shit they're trying to push on you. It's advertising.
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Steph is a mark for herself, they wouldn't script those comments.
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