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Post by AwamoriRock on Oct 27, 2020 18:23:02 GMT -5
She made the announcement at a press conference yesterday, via Tokyo Sports, but Fightful has a writeup about it. She hasn't said it's a full-on thing, just that she is limiting her appearances in Sendai Girls going forward (which I suppose could lead to a full leave): This is interesting as she was (along with Daisuke Sekimoto) rumored to be one of the coaches for NXT Japan had it been successful. |
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Post by eJm on Oct 27, 2020 18:32:16 GMT -5
Imagine wanting to hire Meiko Satomura for your wrestling promotion, someone who is world travelled and regarded as one of the best of her generation, and shoving her to your least important brand that wasn’t drawing when there were crowds.
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Oct 27, 2020 18:47:52 GMT -5
Imagine wanting to hire Meiko Satomura for your wrestling promotion, someone who is world travelled and regarded as one of the best of her generation, and shoving her to your least important brand that wasn’t drawing when there were crowds. WWe acquires talent like I acquire games on the Steam Summer Sale, and that's not a good thing. |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Oct 27, 2020 18:48:42 GMT -5
Oh for f***'s sake WWE.
Good job Meiko, you deserve the fat payday you will hopefully get from this.
But the NXT UK women's division is crammed full of some of the best wrestlers in the world, and none of them get to f***ing do anything.
At least most of the people they have signed are young enough that their contracts can expire and they can go somewhere else, but Meiko has been wrestling a Japanese style long enough that she was on WCW in the 90s.
This is going to be such a tremendous waste. I'm not sure I have ever seen a wrestler with more poise in the ring, and nobody will be watching.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Oct 27, 2020 18:58:37 GMT -5
If being on NXT UK was so beneath her, she wouldn’t have signed a deal. Sorry if I don’t think one of the most well-travelled and experienced wrestlers in the world is stupid enough to sign a deal with WWE/the devil without getting some idea of where she’s going.
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Post by eJm on Oct 27, 2020 19:04:23 GMT -5
If being on NXT UK was so beneath her, she wouldn’t have signed a deal. Sorry if I don’t think one of the most well-travelled and experienced wrestlers in the world is stupid enough to sign a deal with WWE/the devil without getting some idea of where she’s going. Hey, they’re probably paying her a lot of money to upheave her life and live in the UK to train and she knows enough people to make the transition more comfortable so that probably factored in. But NXT UK has the reputation it has for a reason and the main roster hasn’t exactly treated anyone there with any real importance so, like, I don’t know what else you expect us to say “Enjoy the money, just be prepared for fan apathy”. |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Oct 27, 2020 19:12:08 GMT -5
If being on NXT UK was so beneath her, she wouldn’t have signed a deal. Sorry if I don’t think one of the most well-travelled and experienced wrestlers in the world is stupid enough to sign a deal with WWE/the devil without getting some idea of where she’s going. That isn't what I was implying. It is obviously more beneficial to Nina Samuels, Jinny, Toni Storm, Meiko, Viper, Kay Lee Ray, and God knows who else to be NXT UK than to not be. Most of them were main eventing indie shows on a weekend and going back to day jobs on a Monday. They're mostly in the best shape of their lives now. They get to wrestle for a living. Any wrestler who gets that offered to them, I cannot fault them for taking it. And WWE's women's divisions are way better than AEW's. I am moaning because I am a fan of her work, and would like to see more of it. Even when I did still watch WWE, including NXT UK, I barely saw any of these people get TV time. In principle, WWE is below nobody. They're the biggest wrestling promotion in the world, probably ever. |
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Oct 27, 2020 19:14:21 GMT -5
There's a lot of reasons to not be enthusiastic about NXT UK as a real developmental system; the sincerity of why it's happening, whether anyone is meant to really move on from there, the fact anyone who has crossed over has thus far only crossed over into regular NXT which makes it a sub-developmental developmental. If Satomura was penciled in to a similar position for NXT Japan, a concept looked upon with even less enthusiasm still than NXT UK had, then that's still speaking to the idea that they have someone incredibly talented at their disposal and they're putting her at the bottleneck holding pen so she can use that experience to train scores of people who aren't really ever supposed to go anywhere and are meant to be a franchise indie alternative that WWE can allegedly profit from. She's going to be paid well for it, but that's just not a good use of her talents at all, even compared to her just being a regular NXT coach where she can train people the company actually maybe intends to maybe money off of at some point.
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Post by Hurbster on Oct 27, 2020 19:33:23 GMT -5
This is great news!
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Post by Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) on Oct 27, 2020 19:46:49 GMT -5
She signed the deal knowing what she was getting into
If she didn't want to be a coach she wouldn't have signed, I think that is simple. Yes, WWE signs people left and right but this looks black and white and knew what she was getting into. If she wanted to go elsewhere and be featured she would have, otherwise the complaints are just that for no reason
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Post by eJm on Oct 27, 2020 19:56:41 GMT -5
She signed the deal knowing what she was getting into If she didn't want to be a coach she wouldn't have signed, I think that is simple. Yes, WWE signs people left and right but this looks black and white and knew what she was getting into. If she wanted to go elsewhere and be featured she would have, otherwise the complaints are just that for no reason Again, whose saying that? If she wants to make money, awesome, good for her, she’s earned it. I’m just speaking as someone whose had to see Toni Storm, Tyler Bate and countless others have to pull out of OTT shows a week beforehand just to do TV tapings that the target audience mostly gives zero craps about besides Takeovers that I just wish it wasn’t NXT UK. |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Oct 27, 2020 19:59:48 GMT -5
She signed the deal knowing what she was getting into If she didn't want to be a coach she wouldn't have signed, I think that is simple. Yes, WWE signs people left and right but this looks black and white and knew what she was getting into. If she wanted to go elsewhere and be featured she would have, otherwise the complaints are just that for no reason I have this reaction whenever NXT UK signs people - NXT UK especially - and listed numerous reasons above for why. And if you want to ignore the thing I am most upset about, which is that a promotion I refuse to watch keeps signing wrestlers I like, WWE's hoovering up of all the viable talent on Earth for coaching as well as wrestling is bad for the industry as a whole. It's not like they're under-resourced for talent. NXT UK only exists to kill off the promotions that I watch. Also saying that anybody knows what they're getting into when they sign to WWE I think is just plain untrue when you expand the parameters of that outside of what the job title is. Like, 'irrelevant' I'll take, 'pointless' I'll take, but it ain't no reason. |
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Post by DrBackflipsHoffman on Oct 27, 2020 20:04:14 GMT -5
I mean she knows she's signing with an openly corrupt company with little disregard for anyone working for them, and moving to somewhere as horrible as this place is insane, but I assume this is something to do with a Sendai Girls deal, but if it means new talent then whatever, hopefully they go the way of Deonna Purazzo and crew once they've just used up these morons high level resources and equipment for their own gain so NXT UK hopefully just goes the way it was meant to - away
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2020 20:07:52 GMT -5
She likely chose this over having to uproot her life for a US move like Walter and also because it is likely way easier to travel between the UK and Japan than it is having to endure that life sapping flight traveling between US and Japan especially if she plans to bring over some of the sendai girls to work NXT UK.
Hope it all works out for her and means bigger things for the NXT UK women.
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Post by MrElijah on Oct 27, 2020 21:45:11 GMT -5
Will she teach her pitching skills? She struck out Minoru Suzuki during a Empty Arena Tokyo Dome match.
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Post by Display Name on Oct 27, 2020 22:43:13 GMT -5
She likely chose this over having to uproot her life for a US move like Walter and also because it is likely way easier to travel between the UK and Japan than it is having to endure that life sapping flight traveling between US and Japan especially if she plans to bring over some of the sendai girls to work NXT UK. Hope it all works out for her and means bigger things for the NXT UK women. This is the first thing I thought. So much crap talk in this thread already lol |
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Post by AwamoriRock on Oct 28, 2020 2:22:38 GMT -5
I can understand both points of view on conflicting opinions in this thread--Meiko is a legend and it seems a bit underwhelming for her to be on what comes across as an underpromoted/niche brand. But at the same time, I feel like she can do great work and maybe this is like...a holding pattern for her before she goes to Raw/Smackdown/NXT or NXT Japan, which I feel WWE has not given up on.
We are living in a timeline where we might get a Meiko vs. Sareee MOTY in WWE though, so that is crazy.
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Post by Hurbster on Oct 28, 2020 2:40:17 GMT -5
I mean she knows she's signing with an openly corrupt company with little disregard for anyone working for them, and moving to somewhere as horrible as this place is insane, but I assume this is something to do with a Sendai Girls deal, but if it means new talent then whatever, hopefully they go the way of Deonna Purazzo and crew once they've just used up these morons high level resources and equipment for their own gain so NXT UK hopefully just goes the way it was meant to - away So what's wrong with living in the UK? |
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Oct 28, 2020 3:09:14 GMT -5
I mean she knows she's signing with an openly corrupt company with little disregard for anyone working for them, and moving to somewhere as horrible as this place is insane, but I assume this is something to do with a Sendai Girls deal, but if it means new talent then whatever, hopefully they go the way of Deonna Purazzo and crew once they've just used up these morons high level resources and equipment for their own gain so NXT UK hopefully just goes the way it was meant to - away So what's wrong with living in the UK? I think any of the answers to that are going to get the thread locked. |
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Post by eJm on Oct 28, 2020 4:06:16 GMT -5
So what's wrong with living in the UK? I think any of the answers to that are going to get the thread locked. We can just say weather and ignore...*waves arms around*. |
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