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I don't know about all that but my unpopular opinion is that Melo had fine first year on the main roster and is still in position to be a major player in the future

did he come in wrecking shyt and winning titles like most of us probably wanted? nah lol


but I think he's established himself. Took Cody Rhodes, Damien Priest etc. (people positioned waaaaaay higher than him) to their limit, got enough ring time to establish that he's one of the best in-ring guys in the company, and also got enough screen time (promos/segs) to get his character over.. Managed to start getting cheered and even got "We Want Melo" chants in some cities. Right now his character is basically - exceptionally talented kid that gets in his own way by being too cocky. He's basically Shedeur Sanders lol.. I think the biggest disservice with melo is that people constantly compare him and Bron Breakker, but their trajectories are so different that Its pretty unfair to him. they occupy completely different spaces as wrestler. expecting a workhorse like Danielson or Finn Balor and a brute like Brock Lesnar to be booked the same in their rookie years is unrealistic.

Miz getting hurt kinda prolonged that shyt they're doing longer than it needed to go, but this idea that Melo is just dead in the water is not accurate to me. I think he still has a big future ahead.. but like I said, maybe I'm buggin by not overreacting lol

idk, he wrestled Cody twice and lost,, took the pin at the us title triple threat at crown jewel, and had a best of 7 with no payoff with a dude who's not in the e anymore.. also when miz turned on Melo 2 weeks ago,, no one booed miz, in fact miz was getting some cheers..

bron won the ic title on a big 4 PLE last year while Melo has been taking Ls on PLEs and I guess got an Andre Battle Royale win that historically don't mean nothing..

the Orton win last year to qualify for mitb was cool, but dude needs a solid PLE win and some character direction badly..
 

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Jade, Jaida Parker, Lola Vice and Jordynne Grace having difficulty winning a title is getting ridiculous. :francis:

At some point it's not even believable anymore.
The crowd really "You Deserve it" at Jacy Jayne of all ppl.

Lash Legend can't even win the NA Title.
 

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idk, he wrestled Cody twice and lost,, took the pin at the us title triple threat at crown jewel, and had a best of 7 with no payoff with a dude who's not in the e anymore.. also when miz turned on Melo 2 weeks ago,, no one booed miz, in fact miz was getting some cheers..

bron won the ic title on a big 4 PLE last year while Melo has been taking Ls on PLEs and I guess got an Andre Battle Royale win that historically don't mean nothing..

the Orton win last year to qualify for mitb was cool, but dude needs a solid PLE win and some character direction badly..
Comparing buddy to Bron gon be the death of him

I see Melo at his best having a Seth, AJ Styles, Sami type career trajectory. At worse, maybe a Finn Balor type of turnout. Bron is in a Brock Lesnar type of space that really only he, Reed and maybe Jacob Fatu occupy in terms of new faces. AJ, Seth etc. will never ever be booked like Lesnar. it’s silly to even expect.


A better career for career comparison once he hits main is Oba Femi. Oba and Breakker occupy the same space. Melo is a small workhorse who wrestles incredibly well. He should be in conversations with Rey Fenix, JD McDonagh, Penta types as far as new dudes in their first years on main. Throwing him in a convo with a freak of nature brute heel type is not the way lol
 

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Pete Dunne vs Lil Mustache is still one of the greatest WWE matches i’ve ever seen and I went into the shyt completely blind on both guys.

The fact Gunther, Dunne, Mustache, Sheamus, Kaiser, & Dragunov never really mix it up on Raw is straight booking malpractice. You can add it McIntyre too.
Man I was all up in the NXT threads thinking in couple years we were gonna get some real premium ancestral beef driven white on white violence.
:unimpressed:

Shawn woulda already booked "SummerSlam: The Seven Years War" in Paris by now.
:camby:
 

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I actually like Tiffany. She’s still wet behind the ears in the ring like Jade. But what’s holding her back is what holds a lot of champions back in the current era…. Once you win the title triple H has nothing lined up for you

But what’s funny is them wanting to protect certain wrestlers but do damage in the process lol

I have no idea why they didn’t line up vets like Nattie and Nikki Bella to work with her. Charlotte and Becky are the highest paid women so I don’t understand why they’re both doing irrelevant shyt with new less popular characters. That’s why I had the Becky & Jade idea.
 

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Jade, Jaida Parker, Lola Vice and Jordynne Grace having difficulty winning a title is getting ridiculous. :francis:

At some point it's not even believable anymore.

I don’t understand long title runs in NXT ever. Whoever gets buzz and bring in the views should have their run and keep the shyt moving. All 4 should’ve been nxt champ by now. Jade could’ve dominated nxt for those few months before the rumble.
 

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I actually like Tiffany. She’s still wet behind the ears in the ring like Jade. But what’s holding her back is what holds a lot of champions back in the current era…. Once you win the title triple H has nothing lined up for you

But what’s funny is them wanting to protect certain wrestlers but do damage in the process lol
Tiffany fukking sucks, she doesn't do anything that Mariah May doesn't already do better.
 

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Wish there more of those type of women characters. Would be the biggest heel in NXT from day one :pachaha:





Man………A Rock/Ivy promo battle had ZERO REASON being this awesome :wow:

A rock vs ivy promo is a crazy ass sentence to even pitch :russ:

If you watched Ivory's shoot interview then you'd know why this is so funny. Rock was basically trying to make Ivory his road wife, but she refused and he started hanging out with Trish. :pachaha:
 

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Jade, Jaida Parker, Lola Vice and Jordynne Grace having difficulty winning a title is getting ridiculous. :francis:

At some point it's not even believable anymore.
It's really not that big of a deal. Bianca never won the NXT Women's Title and Raquel was the one who ended Iyo's reign. Look how much that mattered on the main roster.
:manny:
 

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Gahdamn Billy Gunn was over af :wow:


Them rebrands killed him.

“The One” Billy Gunn :scust:

Billy & Chuck :dame:

Kipp James :scust:

Daddy Ass :ehh:

"The One" Billy Gunn was actually over. Very over for some reason for a random match guy. When the pops died down the pivoted to the gay heel tag team with Chuck which had some legs but they cut them off at the knees for "a moment."
 

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It's really not that big of a deal. Bianca never won the NXT Women's Title and Raquel was the one who ended Iyo's reign. Look how much that mattered on the main roster.
:manny:
Hm, I see that. We'll see how they play it. Booking was different back then.
 
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