MightyMuff Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 Agree with above comment that entrance was cool as fuck! Anyone above slating it please just stop watching the product you are clearly not a fan and cant be arsed with people slating stuff just for the sake of it! Just for the record i enjoy both NXT & AEW... Shocker right!! Because you cant watch both! š± Wrestling Fans!!! ššš Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TildeGuy~! Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 (edited) Saw the entrance last night on Twitter and thought it was cool, then watched the show this morning and decided it was more cringe then cool and hoped it was a one off. Seeing Charlotte on Raw the other night had me hoping she was dropping the title to Io but now sheāll probably drop the title without being pinned in a triple threat between her, Io and Ripley. Ā What a shitĀ way to end a title match that could have been huge though. Edited May 7, 2020 by TildeGuy~! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snitsky's back acne Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 12 minutes ago, TildeGuy~! said: Saw the entrance last night on Twitter and thought it was cool, then watched the show this morning and decided it was more cringe then cool and hoped it was a one off. Ā So it started cringe and then became cool?Ā Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted May 7, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted May 7, 2020 1 hour ago, Supremo said: Yeah,Ā I thought the Kross/Scarlett thing was terrible. From what little of them Iāve seen, between the look and the charisma, thereās definitely something there. This wasnāt it though. It was typical of modern-day NXT, going through the system and coming out the other end all wanky, melodramatic and over-rehearsed. I canāt putĀ my finger on it. Has it always been this bad but everyone was more forgiving without a proper alternative? Or has it seriously gone downhill? Is it the lack of crowds? Kross, even when I've seen him outside of NXT, has always had an air of Create-A-Wrestler to me. He feels like someone who has a lot of the component parts of a good wrestler, just not put together in the right way. In days past, I'd hope NXT would be able to find that balance, but now they just tend to accentuate wrestlers' worst instincts. It's definitely gone downhill. I watched American Alpha vs. The Revival from TakeOver: The End last night, and it wasĀ superbĀ - action-packed, energetic, real heat from the audience, and AA as just one of the best babyface acts in years. Same show had Joe vs Balor in a cage, Nakamura vs. Aries, Andrade's TakeOver debut, and so on. Every match had purpose, and most went to around the 15 minute mark, rather than hour long main events. That was the last Takeover at Full Sail, and it seems that might be the tipping point before it became all indie darlings, TNA cast-offs and melodrama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Supremo Posted May 7, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted May 7, 2020 I forgot about FinnĀ Balorās shoot~! promo as well! āYou want a push but Iām gonna give you aĀ squash!āĀ Fuck me. Heās gonna win by hitting his attackerĀ with a copy of Powerslam magazine. āConsider yourself buried, ya jobber!ā Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrodyGraham Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 It was a bit wank. It has the same performing arts GCSE stink that the Balor stuff had, and Scarlett flapping about like a podium dancer at an S and M themed metal night was a bit embarrassing really. Kross looked appropriately menacing in ring and Scarlett can be an asset, but yeah, it's all just a bit overwrought isn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 (edited) 53 minutes ago, MightyMuff said: Agree with above comment that entrance was cool as fuck! Anyone above slating it please just stop watching the product you are clearly not a fan and cant be arsed with people slating stuff just for the sake of it! Just for the record i enjoy both NXT & AEW... Shocker right!! Because you cant watch both! š± Wrestling Fans!!! ššš What the hell are you on about? Thereās plenty of people who like both NXT and AEW. And hereās the real shocker for you....people are allowed to dislike something Edited May 7, 2020 by WyattSheepMask Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Cutting Edge Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 Only things I wasn't keen on with Kross was Scarlett signing, a smirk as she walks knowing what's about to happen would've been better, and a longer squash, not 5-10 mins but just a few more moves or stalling to get more of taste of him. Between the video packages and entrance I think its quite clear there intentions and characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 52 minutes ago, Supremo said: I forgot about FinnĀ Balorās shoot~! promo as well! āYou want a push but Iām gonna give you aĀ squash!āĀ Fuck me. Heās gonna win by hitting his attackerĀ with a copy of Powerslam magazine. āConsider yourself buried, ya jobber!ā Has he not been doing that the whole time since he went back to NXT? He was definitely doing it when he first moved back there - his first promo was something like āIām sick of being used to put over the new rising star.āĀ Balor has always been representative of the shitty side of NXT, really. Little workrate bloke with noĀ ability to convey a character, no confidence when speaking,Ā and a campĀ goth entrance.Ā IāveĀ not seen this Kross characterās entranceĀ yet, though. Iām hoping itās good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snitsky's back acne Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 1 hour ago, BrodyGraham said: it's all just a bit overwrought isn't it? Have you seen wrestling before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members I Bent My Wookie Posted May 7, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted May 7, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, MightyMuff said: Agree with above comment that entrance was cool as fuck! Anyone above slating it please just stop watching the product you are clearly not a fan and cant be arsed with people slating stuff just for the sake of it! Just for the record i enjoy both NXT & AEW... Shocker right!! Because you cant watch both! š± Wrestling Fans!!! ššš Comes on discussion board of wrestling that is discussing if the entrance was a bit campy and over the top, or worked. Tells people if they don't like one particular bit, it must be an entire grate on the product as a whole and therefore they should stop watching. Assumes that valid reasoning posted in comments about not liking the entrance is "slating stuff just for the sake of it". Clearly uses a misconception that if someone is defending one company they automatically must hate another, and that they're so modern and contemporary and cool, they in fact like both products because they're just so zany that way. Extended use of punctuation for effect. Use of emoji that conveys shock, but in reality looks more like Tatanka's facepaint when he turned heel and kicked Bobby Lashley in the dick in 2006. People with access to a computer but lacking in the knowledge of not everyone stereotypically following the same thing. Exclamation mark. (+2 for further effect). Ā Ā Anyway... I watched Kross' entrance this morning and I do see some of the negatives to it, like he looked an absolute bad ass, and with a crowd it probably will be awesome in NXT/Post PPV shows etc with the crowd getting into it as well. I love Scarlett, the whole Smoke Show thing was great, but the lip synching which at times seemed out of sync, the moshing around the ring was all a bit bizarre and overall it just felt a bit too disjointed.Ā There is scope for Kross to be the best thing on the Roster though, NXT wise. They just need to work out some of the kinks in the entrance and character because he was a really good talent in Impact and Mexico and he has a bit more size than most the NXT guys.Ā Dream vs Cole seems like its been going on forever with Dream just never getting the W. At this rate, its going to have to be a Cage match or a UE banned from Ring Side level job to let Dream have the win as he's consistently being outsmarted and bested by the number's game. Edited May 7, 2020 by Shy Dad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrodyGraham Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 31 minutes ago, Snitsky's back acne said: Have you seen wrestling before? Nope, just been hanging around on here for best part of 18 years because I love shitting. I've seen more out there cartoonish stuff done in wrestling that didn't feel half as try hard as this. To me it feels reminiscent of Mil Muertes and Catrina in Lucha Underground but clumsier and I'm pretty sure that's not what they're going for. Ā Ā Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Butternut Squash Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 KarrionĀ Kross, Ciampa, The Forgotten Sons, Dexter Lumis . . . its getting harder to tell these shitty, scowling, generic 2003 CAWĀ white dudes apart.Ā Cameron Grimes, though. He's a keeper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 (edited) The difference being that he has a hat. Take that away and heās right there in that pack of guys too. Iāve never seen KrossĀ wrestle before, literally all that I know about him is that he got introduced in Impact as part of a mystery attacker angle and has some pretty naff tattoos. Heās a bit bigger than a lot of guys they have, but he could still do with adding some muscle mass for whenever he gets called up. He might look big in NXT, but once heās on the main roster, heālllook small. Aleister Black suffers from a similar issue, he has a look that sets him apart, but heās a little too lean.Ā Iām not saying either man has to aim to get to 300lbs of pure muscle, but adding some wonāt do them harm. The entrance- it was OK. The ring being filled with smoke coupled withĀ the light effect was pretty cool, but Scarlett lip-syncing has to go immediately. Edited May 7, 2020 by WyattSheepMask Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snitsky's back acne Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 7 minutes ago, BrodyGraham said: Nope, just been hanging around on here for best part of 18 years because I love shitting. I've seen more out there cartoonish stuff done in wrestling that didn't feel half as try hard as this. To me it feels reminiscent of Mil Muertes and Catrina in Lucha Underground but clumsier and I'm pretty sure that's not what they're going for. Ā Ā Fair enough. I didn't get a 'try hard' vibe from it personally but okay. My point was it's wrestling. Saying 'It's all a bit overwrought' is like watching Hollyoaks and going 'God the acting's a bit crap isn't it?'Ā Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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