🎨🆕📅😈 NXT 2.0 1/4/22 - Everything is New Year's Evil

[Lizuka #BLM]

Truly the most important wrestling show happening on January 4th! Announced for tonight -

- NXT Championship: Tommaso Ciampa (c) vs. Bron Breakker
- NXT Women's Championship: Mandy Rose (c) vs. Cora Jade vs. Raquel Gonzalez
- NXT North American & Cruiserweight Championship Unification: Carmelo Hayes vs. Roderick Strong
- Riddle & MSK vs. Imperium
- AJ Styles calls out Grayson Waller

And probably other things!

[mistery]

That women's triple threat match is going to be the weakest on the card by a fairly wide margin tbh. Like Raquel is...okay. Mandy just exists, and Cora is still insanely green. It's like mixing three incompatible elements together.

That is ignoring the elephant in the room of that Jacy and Gigi are definitely going to interfere.

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If that six man tag does not end up being match of the night I will be completely flabergasted.

With that said I am far more interested in what comes out of this womens triple threat since I am 99.99% sure Mandy is retaining.

And there better be a Broserweights reunion tonight...Stallion pete you beautiful man.

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

Yeah, Mandy's retaining. She'll pin Raquel while Gigi and Jacy screw over Cora.

This way they can continue the story that Mandy can't beat Cora, and Cora can say she was screwed out of the win.

[mistery]

Jan 4, 2022 9:48:32 GMT -5 Jedi-El of Tomorrow said:

Yeah, Mandy's retaining. She'll pin Raquel while Gigi and Jacy screw over Cora.

This way they can continue the story that Mandy can't beat Cora, and Cora can say she was screwed out of the win.

Yup, although I don't even see Cora beating Mandy. The problem is that Cora isn't really clicking as the supposed top babyface. And won't as long as Io Shirai is around.

It doesn't help that...you know, they haven't given Cora any sort of real actual credibility considering all of her wins have been flukes basically. It's why I think if Io isn't getting called up soon, she's likely getting the title back.

[häšhtå.gdālėÿ]

I’m really not looking forward to Breakker winning. He’s extremely talented at this sport, but I don’t love him,

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IO , KLR , DAKOTA , CORA

That is all they got because Raquel is most certainly getting the call up and Dakota is just not someone they seem to wanna do anything with and she all but but seems to be eyeing the exits.

Cora IMO huge mistake strapping her up right now she needs much more time in the preverbial air fryer IMO she would be better off in a teaming with someone to flesh out a character and let the audience really come around to her whether she continues as a babyface or turns heel.

That leaves KLR and Io as an interesting choice between the two as champion to dethrone Mandy and IMO if your goal is to have 1 woman bring everyone she faces up then you have to go with Io because there is no denying her reliability and consistency to make every single woman look better after they have faced her...just look at the small skirmish her and Cora had last week and it ended up being the best Cora has looked during her entire run in NXT thus far.

I would include Sarray as an honorable mention but I am with Mistery on this one I am all but sure she is gone when they start releasing talents in packs again.

[JoDaNa1281]

New Year's Evil, huh?

Hopefully, Dexter(or someone else) at least dresses like this..

[Fade is a CodyCryBaby]

Six man and ME have me looking forward to it.

The title unification could be good too.

[mistery]

Jan 4, 2022 10:27:08 GMT -5 @sigmax said:

IO , KLR , DAKOTA , CORA

That is all they got because Raquel is most certainly getting the call up and Dakota is just not someone they seem to wanna do anything with and she all but but seems to be eyeing the exits.

Cora IMO huge mistake strapping her up right now she needs much more time in the preverbial air fryer IMO she would be better off in a teaming with someone to flesh out a character and let the audience really come around to her whether she continues as a babyface or turns heel.

That leaves KLR and Io as an interesting choice between the two as champion to dethrone Mandy and IMO if your goal is to have 1 woman bring everyone she faces up then you have to go with Io because there is no denying her reliability and consistency to make every single woman look better after they have faced her...just look at the small skirmish her and Cora had last week and it ended up being the best Cora has looked during her entire run in NXT thus far.

I would include Sarray as an honorable mention but I am with Mistery on this one I am all but sure she is gone when they start releasing talents in packs again.

I think the only possible way Sarray avoids the axe in the next round of cuts is if there is either a sudden groundswell of support for her, or they decide she's worth keeping around to make the greener talents look good. But it's pretty clear that WWE doesn't really care how bad green talent look right now.

["Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik]

Tonight will have "limited commercial interruptions" - which could mean a lot of different things so we'll have to see how that works.

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Cora Jade winning NXT Championship will be the climax of my (late) birthday! Light my fire, gurl! ❤️

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Breakker better W the championship also, I am not digging Ciampa as champ at all... it is such an old story.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

I haven't been paying much attention to the show, I assume Imperium here includes WALTER since the other team is 3 guys?

Then sign me up.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

Jan 4, 2022 13:17:42 GMT -5 YAKMAN is ICHIBAN said:

I haven't been paying much attention to the show, I assume Imperium here includes WALTER since the other team is 3 guys?

Then sign me up.

Yes.

[ThankGodForSidJustice]

Jan 4, 2022 10:27:08 GMT -5 @sigmax said:

IO , KLR , DAKOTA , CORA

That is all they got because Raquel is most certainly getting the call up and Dakota is just not someone they seem to wanna do anything with and she all but but seems to be eyeing the exits.

Cora IMO huge mistake strapping her up right now she needs much more time in the preverbial air fryer IMO she would be better off in a teaming with someone to flesh out a character and let the audience really come around to her whether she continues as a babyface or turns heel.

That leaves KLR and Io as an interesting choice between the two as champion to dethrone Mandy and IMO if your goal is to have 1 woman bring everyone she faces up then you have to go with Io because there is no denying her reliability and consistency to make every single woman look better after they have faced her...just look at the small skirmish her and Cora had last week and it ended up being the best Cora has looked during her entire run in NXT thus far.

I would include Sarray as an honorable mention but I am with Mistery on this one I am all but sure she is gone when they start releasing talents in packs again.

They do have a problem in that they don't really have any good face options to beat Mandy and while I'm higher on her then most I don't know if Mandy can be a long term champion. Cora isn't ready and putting it on her any time soon would be a big mistake, Raquel just had a title reign and it wasn't exactly that great either. KLR while super talented isn't over at all, and Io should really be on the main roster at this point.

Honestly I think the best move would be to do a slow burn face turn for Gigi and having her win it from Mandy as she's pretty over and while young looks pretty polished and doesn't look as green as the other youngsters probably because she started really young and worked the indies a while before signing with WWE. She definitely seems like a much more well rounded talent then Cora does at this point. Only problem though again is I don't know if Mandy is a strong enough talent to keep the belt for another six months or more. Unless I guess maybe you can have her and Io hot potato back and forth a bit with Io winning it and then Mandy winning it back before setting up the Gigi angle.

[asuka007]

I really think they should just go ahead and put the belt on Bronn tonight.

[Lizuka #BLM]

Honestly Breakker does absolutely nothing for me.

[One-Armed Drummer of Defrebel]

I think Bron's definitely winning the belt tonight. Ciampa's hardly been featured since War Games I feel like. 

[gl83]

Jan 4, 2022 15:12:56 GMT -5 ThankGodForSidJustice said:

Jan 4, 2022 10:27:08 GMT -5 @sigmax said:

IO , KLR , DAKOTA , CORA

That is all they got because Raquel is most certainly getting the call up and Dakota is just not someone they seem to wanna do anything with and she all but but seems to be eyeing the exits.

Cora IMO huge mistake strapping her up right now she needs much more time in the preverbial air fryer IMO she would be better off in a teaming with someone to flesh out a character and let the audience really come around to her whether she continues as a babyface or turns heel.

That leaves KLR and Io as an interesting choice between the two as champion to dethrone Mandy and IMO if your goal is to have 1 woman bring everyone she faces up then you have to go with Io because there is no denying her reliability and consistency to make every single woman look better after they have faced her...just look at the small skirmish her and Cora had last week and it ended up being the best Cora has looked during her entire run in NXT thus far.

I would include Sarray as an honorable mention but I am with Mistery on this one I am all but sure she is gone when they start releasing talents in packs again.

They do have a problem in that they don't really have any good face options to beat Mandy and while I'm higher on her then most I don't know if Mandy can be a long term champion. Cora isn't ready and putting it on her any time soon would be a big mistake, Raquel just had a title reign and it wasn't exactly that great either. KLR while super talented isn't over at all, and Io should really be on the main roster at this point.

Honestly I think the best move would be to do a slow burn face turn for Gigi and having her win it from Mandy as she's pretty over and while young looks pretty polished and doesn't look as green as the other youngsters probably because she started really young and worked the indies a while before signing with WWE. She definitely seems like a much more well rounded talent then Cora does at this point. Only problem though again is I don't know if Mandy is a strong enough talent to keep the belt for another six months or more. Unless I guess maybe you can have her and Io hot potato back and forth a bit with Io winning it and then Mandy winning it back before setting up the Gigi angle.

Dakota would be a good choice but they seem extremely gun shy with A. Giving her any big wins or a string of wins to build any sort of momentum and B. Turning her Face despite how over and popular she is. Turning GiGi and having her break off from the rest of Toxic Attraction only works after she drops the tag titles. The problem is they don't really have any tag teams to drop them to. Kacy & Kayden have once again disappeared off the face of the earth; Indi and Persia they're teasing a split and breakup. That basically is their entire tag division right there. The tag titles are basically just glorified props right now with GiGi and Jacy approaching their 3rd month as champions with no challengers in sight and not having had a single title defense yet.