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Post by gr1990 on Feb 8, 2015 13:10:53 GMT -5
We're always hearing about mortifying, degrading, undercard crap Vince and his team have allegedly proposed for major players in NXT (Adrian Neville as Mighty Mouse, Tyler Breeze as Heath's replacement in Slater Gator, Kalisto as a gay hair stylist), and it's generally agreed that the majority of NXT talent aren't the kind of guys who would be Vince's automatic choices for a main eventer. But at the end of the day, this is where his future talent is going to come from, it's not a rival promotion, he's not going to bury everybody just to spite NXT and its fans despite what some people think. Surely he has some say over the hiring policy, seeing as these are the people he'll be working with going forward? Surely there must be some people he has an eye on as a potential headline act in the years to come? Even he's not so short of foresight that he'd allow his developmental division to consist entirely of guys he only sees as B-plus players, right?
I just find it so odd that we're constantly told 'Vince doesn't like small guys/fat guys/guys with accents' etc, and it's been proven in the continual marginalising of Bryan in favour of Reigns, Vince's 'too Swiss' comment about Cesaro, and the general fact that non-archetypal performers only seem to make it to the very top in exceptional circumstances. And yet the developmental division centres around a group of guys who are mostly under 6 feet tall and less than 220 pounds, several of whom have strong foreign accents, and several others are what Vince would consider to be 'out of shape.' Plus NXT is extremely wrestling-focused, whereas anything major on Raw seems to be told through promos and wacky stunts, meaning it's not really preparing the talent for the realities of the main roster. As awesome as NXT is, it's almost unfit for purpose while Vince still calls the shots; a load of guys he probably won't want to push working with a style of booking he probably doesn't care for.
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Post by CeilingFan on Feb 8, 2015 13:13:45 GMT -5
Baron Corbin
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Feb 8, 2015 13:15:14 GMT -5
While it would be easy for me to say that guys like Big Cass, Bull Dempsey, and Mojo Rawley are what Vince would see as stars, I bet Vince really would start seeing dollar signs if he got a look at Baron Corbin.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Feb 8, 2015 13:29:58 GMT -5
Jasper Orton.
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Post by thetower52 on Feb 8, 2015 13:50:55 GMT -5
That was my first thought as well
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Post by Just call me D.j.m. on Feb 8, 2015 13:51:46 GMT -5
Probably Mojo Rawley.
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Post by Abdullah on Feb 8, 2015 13:55:03 GMT -5
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Post by jetsonic on Feb 8, 2015 13:58:58 GMT -5
Baron Corbin who is NXT's Roman Reigns
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Post by PrinceD on Feb 8, 2015 14:00:23 GMT -5
Corbin Charlotte Sasha Banks
It's hard to ignore Fin Balor's star power, but his size & accent could unfortunately hinder any potential Vince see's in him. Same with Itami.
I'd say Sami Zayn, but Vince might see him as too cartoony to be pushed into the main event.
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Post by Hypnosis on Feb 8, 2015 14:11:28 GMT -5
He was signed in 2013, but there hasn't been an update since. He's also not even listed under Unassigned WWE Personnel on Wikipedia, either.
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Post by gr1990 on Feb 8, 2015 14:37:46 GMT -5
He's definitely the most obvious one. It's just weird how in the past, developmental would have been full of Baron Corbins, whereas now big ex-football player types are few and far between in NXT, yet Vince's tastes don't appear to have changed all that much. With the Divas, Charlotte is a definite can't-miss, but sadly I could see him bypassing Sasha, Bayley and Becky and attaching a rocket Alexa Bliss regardless of whether she's ready or not like he did with Kelly Kelly. Not like he seems to care too much about the women putting on good matches on the main roster after all.
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Post by xCompackx on Feb 8, 2015 14:40:09 GMT -5
He's definitely the most obvious one. It's just weird how in the past, developmental would have been full of Baron Corbins, whereas now big ex-football player types are few and far between in NXT, yet Vince's tastes don't appear to have changed all that much. With the Divas, Charlotte is a definite can't-miss, but sadly I could see him bypassing Sasha, Bayley and Becky and attaching a rocket Alexa Bliss regardless of whether she's ready or not like he did with Kelly Kelly. Not like he seems to care too much about the women putting on good matches on the main roster after all. I have a feeling that when Charlotte, Sasha, Bayley, etc. are called up to the main roster, HHH will be pretty heavily in charge of booking them.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Feb 8, 2015 14:43:20 GMT -5
He's definitely the most obvious one. It's just weird how in the past, developmental would have been full of Baron Corbins, whereas now big ex-football player types are few and far between in NXT, yet Vince's tastes don't appear to have changed all that much. With the Divas, Charlotte is a definite can't-miss, but sadly I could see him bypassing Sasha, Bayley and Becky and attaching a rocket Alexa Bliss regardless of whether she's ready or not like he did with Kelly Kelly. Not like he seems to care too much about the women putting on good matches on the main roster after all. I have no problem with an Alexa Bliss rocket push. Alexa > KELLEH.
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Post by gr1990 on Feb 8, 2015 14:44:40 GMT -5
He's definitely the most obvious one. It's just weird how in the past, developmental would have been full of Baron Corbins, whereas now big ex-football player types are few and far between in NXT, yet Vince's tastes don't appear to have changed all that much. With the Divas, Charlotte is a definite can't-miss, but sadly I could see him bypassing Sasha, Bayley and Becky and attaching a rocket Alexa Bliss regardless of whether she's ready or not like he did with Kelly Kelly. Not like he seems to care too much about the women putting on good matches on the main roster after all. I have a feeling that when Charlotte, Sasha, Bayley, etc. are called up to the main roster, HHH will be pretty heavily in charge of booking them. Paige's rudderless title reign followed by quasi-lesbian antics and generic bitches be crazy/girls are mean shit says otherwise. I don't think Hunter cares enough about the women's division to go to bat for them. Maybe it'd be different with Charlotte cos of who her dad is, but I worry for the others.
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Feb 8, 2015 14:55:52 GMT -5
Not sure about Corbin. Yeah he's big, but he's also flabby and not very intimidating. He's never struck me as a guy that would give Vince a boner.
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Post by bearned on Feb 8, 2015 15:07:07 GMT -5
Corbin for sure. I bet if you showed a bunch of the NXT roster to Vince, the one that would grab his attention would be Corbin. He might not be a ripped adonis but neither is Reigns...
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Post by Professor Chaos on Feb 8, 2015 15:17:14 GMT -5
Bull Dempsey as the next Big Show.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2015 15:17:30 GMT -5
Not sure about Corbin. Yeah he's big, but he's also flabby and not very intimidating. He's never struck me as a guy that would give Vince a boner. You forgot balding. But yeah, he's tall and pretty jacked, but he definitely doesn't have that Vince-approved bodybuilder look.
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Post by Juice on Feb 8, 2015 15:19:15 GMT -5
I have a feeling that when Charlotte, Sasha, Bayley, etc. are called up to the main roster, HHH will be pretty heavily in charge of booking them. Paige's rudderless title reign followed by quasi-lesbian antics and generic bitches be crazy/girls are mean shit says otherwise. I don't think Hunter cares enough about the women's division to go to bat for them. Maybe it'd be different with Charlotte cos of who her dad is, but I worry for the others. HHH has said on record MANY times including on the Stone Colf Podcast that he wants women to be feature more and in better light than what Vince does now.
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Post by gr1990 on Feb 8, 2015 15:21:19 GMT -5
Bull Dempsey as the next Big Show. I'm not sure Dempsey's even six feet tall, that would probably hold him back. I often wonder if that's what made Vince change his mind about taking Big E all the way. As soon as he got placed alongside the 'real' monsters he looked really dinky. When he was teaming with Henry, E looked like he could fit inside Mark like a Russian doll.
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