Kallisto is in the tournament????

[weaselboy]

Look I love the little fella but does anyone else find his inclusion somewhat perplexing?

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

More perplexing than friggen Titus O'Neil?? No

vs Ryback? Yes...

[CATCH_US IS the Conversation]

Kalisto and Titus are in the tournament because they wanted it to be a 16 man tournament and ran out of "big name" talents to shoehorn into it.

The lowest ranking "top guys" are Ryback, Miz, and Barrett, and after that they gotta start digging into the lower card just to fill spots.

[MrElijah]

Nov 9, 2015 20:49:57 GMT -5 weaselboy said:

Look I love the little fella but does anyone else find his inclusion somewhat perplexing?

Who cares, where's Kofi?

[Sephiroth]

Nov 9, 2015 21:10:47 GMT -5 MrElijah said:

Nov 9, 2015 20:49:57 GMT -5 weaselboy said:

Look I love the little fella but does anyone else find his inclusion somewhat perplexing?

Who cares, where's Kofi?

Yeah, there should have been at least one member of New Day in there. And a member of the Wyatt Family too.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

I'm all for it. Outside of him being the "low name" fans will get to see what he can do on a one on one environment and maybe that momentum will get creative behind him and Sin Cara.

[RI Richmark]

Personally I would of had Mark Henry & Jack Swagger replace Titus & Kallisto. At least they are former World Champions.

[Vice honcho room temperature]

Its a settlement from that time they didn't allow him to answer the under 6 ft 200/lbs open challenge that Rollins had because of a Spanish mistranslation

[dreidemy]

Kalista está listo

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IMO it's ridiculous to have Kalisto, Titus, Miz, and Stardust in a world title tournament. No Kane or Kofi, NXT guys? Surprises? It just looks thrown together, and it looks like Reigns is winning it just like he was probably going to do at the PPV anyway. I guess Reigns vs. Ambrose in the finals will be interesting.

[SenorCrest]

I like the idea that solomonster had about putting big e vs kofi that ends in a double count out.

[Stu]

Nov 9, 2015 21:50:51 GMT -5 @nyg1970 said:

IMO it's ridiculous to have Kalisto, Titus, Miz, and Stardust in a world title tournament. No Kane or Kofi, NXT guys? Surprises? It just looks thrown together, and it looks like Reigns is winning it just like he was probably going to do at the PPV anyway. I guess Reigns vs. Ambrose in the finals will be interesting.

But it was just thrown together. Rollins was just injured

[Slammy Award-Winning Cannibal]

Nov 9, 2015 21:50:51 GMT -5 @nyg1970 said:

IMO it's ridiculous to have Kalisto, Titus, Miz, and Stardust in a world title tournament. No Kane or Kofi, NXT guys? Surprises? It just looks thrown together

Um, it kinda IS thrown together...

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Nov 9, 2015 21:50:51 GMT -5 @nyg1970 said:

IMO it's ridiculous to have Kalisto, Titus, Miz, and Stardust in a world title tournament. No Kane or Kofi, NXT guys? Surprises? It just looks thrown together, and it looks like Reigns is winning it just like he was probably going to do at the PPV anyway. I guess Reigns vs. Ambrose in the finals will be interesting.

Kalisto was hired specifically to be a "future big name Latino star" so a great performance in the Tournament could be the boost he needs. Miz is a former WWE Champion and despite having been nowhere near the main event in four years and being largely demoted to a joke character, he is still a "top star" in the eyes of the little jimmies/casual fans.

Kane is tied up in the Taker/Wyatt feud so you can't just have him come back to TV to "do other stuff". And they aren't going to call any NXT guys up without an actual storyline for them, just to lose a throwaway match. You do that with the Blake and Murphys/Angelo Dawkins/Sawyer Fultons of the world, not to the guys like Finn Balor, Samoa Joe or Apollo Crews; If you're upset that a top NXT guy got passed over for a "worthless jobber", then you're probably not gonna like seeing them added to the Wheel of Aggression or being made to Make Roman Look Really Strong^TM.

I get the idea that certain guys are "too jobberific to be near this tournament", but WWE is already paying them money, so they might as well use them and make them actually earn their paycheck.

[Reflecto]

Hey. You may mock this, but you didn't see the WWE Lucha Libre Conference Tournament they held last Friday in Rio de Janeiro where Kalisto upset Alberto Del Rio in the final to receive their automatic bid. It's weird, and it probably knocked New Day off the bubble watch, but that's what makes tournament time so special!

[schma]

Honestly I did a double take after finding out Titus and Breeze were in it. Breeze just joined the main roster and Titus hasn't done much since the tag title run. That said, maybe they wanted to give them a minor spotlight. They'll be out on free tv anyways so why not. Sad thing is, while many of the people in the tournament are not people you'd think of in a world title tournament, many of them could be.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

It seems bizarre that Titus and Kalisto are in, but not Darren or Sin Cara.

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Nov 10, 2015 2:32:07 GMT -5 Oh Cry Me a Screwball said:

It seems bizarre that Titus and Kalisto are in, but not Darren or Sin Cara.

WWE wants to give Kalisto a bigger push one day, while WWE doesn't care much for HuniCara.

Also Titus is vaguely credible as a JTTS because of his size, while Darren has nothing to stand out other than being gay.

[Martin: #TeamBella Treasurer]

Not to mention that they have to book the second half of the tournament first round while a second house show is taking place in Dublin and SmackDown is being taped in Manchester at the same time.

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New Day should had replace Breeze and stardust in the tournament with Kalisto fighting Del Rio instead and R-Truth replace Titus in the Owens match.