I Didn't Think The Ascension Could Get Any Cornier

[cabbageboy]

The video was silly but having seen a decent amount of these guys on NXT I can safely tell you they won't work at all trying to riff on the LOD. These guys just aren't that big. I forget which is which, but one guy is a typical midsized pro wrestler, actually probably on the small side for the era in which the Road Warriors competed. The other is a bit bigger but not remotely a scary force.

[EoE: Workin On My Night Cheese]

Yeah, Viktor is 6'1" 217 lbs, which is the same billed height and weight as Seth Rollins is. Possibly the smallest guy to work power wrestling without it being a pisstake like it was with "super heavyweight" Crash Holly.

Konnor is billed at 6'5" 265 lbs, which is a couple of inches taller than Hawk of the Road Warriors/Legion Of Doom, and only a couple of pounds lighter.

[mcstoklasa]

Dec 13, 2014 11:22:20 GMT -5 cabbageboy said:

The video was silly but having seen a decent amount of these guys on NXT I can safely tell you they won't work at all trying to riff on the LOD. These guys just aren't that big. I forget which is which, but one guy is a typical midsized pro wrestler, actually probably on the small side for the era in which the Road Warriors competed. The other is a bit bigger but not remotely a scary force.

I was going to ask how big they were.

You'd need to be Cenas size at least to pull this off. Lesnar and Cena should be the ascension.

[keezy]

Dec 13, 2014 11:28:13 GMT -5 EoE: Workin On My Night Cheese said:

Yeah, Viktor is 6'1" 217 lbs, which is the same billed height and weight as Seth Rollins is. Possibly the smallest guy to work power wrestling without it being a pisstake like it was with "super heavyweight" Crash Holly.

Konnor is billed at 6'5" 265 lbs, which is a couple of inches taller than Hawk of the Road Warriors/Legion Of Doom, and only a couple of pounds lighter.

Viktor is still a lot bigger than a lot of NXT guys he's typically against, he can play a powerhouse convincingly against Lucha Dragons, Itami, Enzo, etc.

[Andrew is Good]

Damn. I know Vince and company loved making Road Warrior clones but this is ridiculous.

[mrbananagrabber]

Nah,I liked it. Cheesy and silly, but ill take that over two generic guys in trunks and tribal tats.

[brettappedout (BLM)]

Dec 13, 2014 12:06:07 GMT -5 mrbananagrabber said:

Nah,I liked it. Cheesy and silly, but ill take that over two generic guys in trunks and tribal tats.

Yep. I liked it as well.

[froggyfrog]

This is gonna own. We haven't had a power tag team in WWE in a while. I love one Ryback so I'm jazzed for a team of two Rybacks

[Sephiroth]

Dec 13, 2014 12:32:13 GMT -5 froggyfrog said:

This is gonna own. We haven't had a power tag team in WWE in a while. I love one Ryback so I'm jazzed for a team of two Rybacks

Three Ryback's? The catering bills will be through the roof!

[Redbeard's Ghost]

Damn, one 60 second promo and we are already burying them. I adore NXT, but in the current WWE very few of the NXT gimmicks will work when they move up without subtle changes. Ascension may be corny, but compared to current WWE tag teams, they are fantastic tag-team workers. I think they will tinker with their look a few times until they scale back to their final NXT look. I also think that they will catch on with the current WWE main programming demographic - which isn't us, unfortunately.

[Magic knows Black Lives Matter]

OOOHHHH, WHAT A RUSH!!!

[Hit Girl]

They aren't corny. They are an old style dedicated tag team like the Luchas, Los Matadores, Vaudvillains, The Dusts, New Day etc... That's what WWE needs more of, rather than that "JeriShow" bullshit

[Jam]

That was awesome. Nice throwback. We need a good Power & Paint tag team in current WWE. A little cheese never hurt anyone.

[Hit Girl]

They are fine by me. Just saw them having a killer match with Finn and Hideo. Classic heels.

[Raskovnik]

Dec 13, 2014 11:49:45 GMT -5 keezy said:

Dec 13, 2014 11:28:13 GMT -5 EoE: Workin On My Night Cheese said:

Yeah, Viktor is 6'1" 217 lbs, which is the same billed height and weight as Seth Rollins is. Possibly the smallest guy to work power wrestling without it being a pisstake like it was with "super heavyweight" Crash Holly.

Konnor is billed at 6'5" 265 lbs, which is a couple of inches taller than Hawk of the Road Warriors/Legion Of Doom, and only a couple of pounds lighter.

Viktor is still a lot bigger than a lot of NXT guys he's typically against, he can play a powerhouse convincingly against Lucha Dragons, Itami, Enzo, etc.

That's because they're all like 5'5". I don't know how it'll go on the main roster.

[Richard]

Dec 13, 2014 12:32:13 GMT -5 froggyfrog said:

This is gonna own. We haven't had a power tag team in WWE in a while. I love one Ryback so I'm jazzed for a team of two Rybacks

Don't set yourself up for a fall like that. Konnor cannot hold Ryback's jock and Viktor is more of an Ambrose type than Ryback.

[Juice]

I'm going to just skip the 5 pages of hatred for this and say this is f***ing awesome and what wrestling is supposed to look like. I liked them already, but now I really like them.

[bootytea]

I feel like Tatanka should be managing them!

[N E O G E O B O Y S]

I found them cool, I love when the WWE does tribute gimmicks but without using the original name

[Digital Witness]

To be fair, Viktor's offense has always been agility based. I don't recall him doing too many power moves. To that end, I'd almost say The Ascension are sort of a hybrid of The Road Warriors and The Eliminators.