This Gotta Be The Dumbest Reason Not To Sign Someone

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According to The Wrestling Observer, top Indy star Ricochet was not offered a WWE deal following a recent tryout at the Performance Center. Despite his ring work reportedly being excellent, a source in developmental noted Richochet was a victim of timing and circumstance.

Apparently when Ricochet came in for the tryout, younger wrestlers in developmental reacted to him like he was a big deal, but to WWE, he's just a guy who they don't know. Because officials knew little of Ricochet, and he received the reaction he did, that was strike one:what:. NXT producer/agent Jamie Noble then outright told officials Ricochet is something special, but apparently Noble's vote of confidence did little to help Ricochet.

In the end, while Ricochet received high marks from those who judge talents at the tryouts, the decision was NXT already had too many guys of Ricochet's size in developmental and they had more than their quota of high flyers, so Ricochet was not offered a deal.

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Not wanting to clog your roster with high-flyers is one thing, but being penalized for being praised as an unknown to higher ups never fails to mystify me. Why bring him in if you're going to kill him for being an indy guy only your scouts know about? Isn't that what scouts are for in the first place? :snoop:

(Bet you anything that if Uhaa Nation were getting the tryout and the same types of reactions, we'd have a different story here :sas1:...BTW, they really need to take a look at him... :sas2:)

I mean, Ricochet's not hurting or anything, since he has a very stable spot in Dragon Gate right now, but this is ludicrous.
 
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That shows the bullshyt mentality won't change with the Vince to HHH transition. And shows that the Steve Austin "show them whose boss and take the bull by the horns" mentality doesn't either. You have no say unless u make em $, and you need tv time and a push to even start doing that
 
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They have enough workers that can do this huh

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Honga Ciganesta said:
They have enough workers that can do this huh

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No, but they wouldn't let him ever do that if they signed him.

I don't care what size someone is as long as they are either a good talker or worker (preferably both). IMO, you can never have enough talented people but it's the E and they will always be size-obsessed so this is not surprising.

It's funny though because I think the days of the roid heads are over. There are always exceptions but there's a reason NXT has a lot of guys with smaller frames. The next generations of guys that want to wrestle ARE the Ricochets of the world. WWE should embrace and capitalize on that and readjust how they present their product accordingly, but they never will.
 
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Juanito said:
It's incredible how they'll pass up on a gifted nikka like this but try to make us believe in a nikka like Curtis Axel :wow:
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:what: @Juanito you just successfully made me depressed. So much talent thrown away, and they let Axel still on the roster. :mjpls: Is there a chance Axel isn't Perfects son? Can we get Maury for a paternity test? :to:
 
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