💛🏅 NXT/Mae Classic 9/5 Thread: Down Since Round One Ish

[Bang Bang Bart]

Sept 6, 2018 5:42:46 GMT -5 wakko said:

Bit late, but the Gargano/Dream match on NXT was freaking awesome. Anyone Gargano cant have a good match with? I mean damn.

The match itself was great, but the story bits during and after the match were phenomenal. I'm actually very invested in Johnny's fall from grace and seeing where he goes from there.

[PKO]

Don’t know much about Zatara or Tegan Nox (other than that Nox has quite a following). Alright match, made logical sense to go after the knee. Good choice to go on first as it was a happy start to the tournament to have Nox win. After many years as a wrestling fan I think I’ve concluded I don’t like the shining wizard as a move. It just looks messy. Didn’t know Nox suffered another injury earlier this year...not looking good for her...

I know MJ Jenkins was with TNA for a cup of coffee and showed good athleticism, and Rhea was one of the standouts for me in the first MYC. Great little video package to sum up Rhea’s change in attitude. MJ has a great baby face energy about her, and celebrating her blackness is pretty great and relevant in 2018. Really good little match, told a good story, it was a glorified squash but MJ still got some shine. Rhea looks like a star; her growth in a year is incredible.

Lacey Lane and Vanessa Kraven are two more I don’t know much about. Lacey’s look is a mess, she’s just been signed so hopefully they work with her ASAP. Kraven had a weird charisma in her interview, she’s well spoken and simultaneously looks sweet and scary. The match was...not the best. Kraven looks to have a lot of potential; she’s got great size and would work well as a bodyguard for someone. Lacey needs to slow down, she looked like she was rushing to do everything (probably nerves) which was summed up with that hilarious springboard...something. Judging on just that match I wanted to see more Kraven and thought Lane looked the worst of the tournament so far, so not fussed with the winner

Funnily enough I watched the Meiko Satomura WCW match a few weeks back. Killer Kelly didn’t impress me much in the NXT UK triple threat match, but she was one of the few who stood out during the MYC name call they did. Good preview videos for both. Great match. Satomura looked on a different level from everyone else, but Kelly held her own and I see a lot of potential in her now. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Satomura in the finals at this early point.

[Futureraven: Beelzebruv]

Just a little note, I love the ref patting down Rhea for foreign objects when her tights, boots and wrists are covered in metal.

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Just now catching up, and I could 100% be jumping the gun here since there have only been 4 matches.... but I think this year’s tournament is going to blow last year’s out of the water. I don’t know if the talent is that much better or if they just have better matchups, but there wasn’t a dud in first four matches, or a bad showing in the bunch. Last year while I enjoyed it pretty universally, you were pretty much guaranteed to get at least one stinker in the bunch, and one episode in we’ve already avoided that. Tegan/Zatara was probably the weakest, but even then it was at least average. Lacey Lane was impressive, Kraven shocked me, MJ had tons of spunk and charisma, Rhea completely reinvented herself, Meiko is a freaking monster, and Killer Kelly came out of the night as the person I most look forward to following in the future. I thought from top to bottom, it was a stellar night.

And I have to add something I never thought I’d say, but f***ing thank god for Michael Cole. I love JR, but he and Lita just had no energy last year and did a bad job of selling a lot of those matches. Cole went out there and captained a successful ship, and actually seemed to care about what he was putting over. He and Renee have a great chemistry, and I really hope they get to keep working together and fleshing out their dynamic. Beth was pretty solid as well, and definitely a step up from Lita’s work last year.

Loved it. Loved all of it.

NXT was solid too. Of course Dream and Wrestling delivered. They both should be massive, massive stars. I was also really impressed with Angelo Dawkins’ hot tag sequence. Everyone loves Montez (and for good reason), but I like what Dawkins can do when he gets into gear. I hope the Forgotten Sons can develop and become another great addition to the tag team ranks, but hot damn I hope they do it with a different theme song. What they have now made my ears bleed.

Another thing I noted, was that that had to have been the most legit badass filled episode of wrestling to happen in a while. There were four people on this one episode that had previously served in the US military. Steve Cutler, f***ing Gunner, and Montez Ford are all former Marines, and Trish Adora was in the Army. Thought that was pretty dope.

[Hypnosis]

Nox/Zatara was decent, but it's looking like Nox may have to adjust her ring style to prolong her career at this point.

Satomura/Kelly was a great main event.

[thetower52]

Is MJ Jenkins Gimmike Foxy Cleopatra from Austin Powers?

[trollrogue]

so omg, I had a surreal moment since I'm black and my gov'ment last name is "Jenkins" in the Rhea Ripley/MJ Jenkins match. Cole kept calling the babyface "Jenkins" THE CORRECT PRONOUNCIATION (--not, for instance, like constantly saying "Sammy Jankis" but spelling his name "Jenkins" and irritatingly mispronouncing it all throughout the damn movie in Christopher Nolan's "Memento" grrr... sorry a pet peeve!)

I totally identified with MJ Jenkins, despite kinda wanting Ripley to win all throughout the match, half because my mind was being blown with me imaging that it was me getting SUCH A GREAT SPOT as a jobber to a former Quarter-Final contestant in the MYC in like my first match as a green-as-grass rookie. MJ was green but she got as big a pop as Johnny Gargano did for her offense at Full Sail, whatta debut for the Jenkins clan!!

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

I thought this was a much stronger opening episode than last year.

Meiko/Kelly was great. I hope Meiko at least makes the semis, she is outstanding.

Ripley is going places and is still so young. Love her new gimmick.

I thought Lacey Lane sucked ass. A budget brand version of Ember Moon, and Moon's gimmick already makes no sense. Weird hair? Cover your face in your entrance? Contradictory character work? Contact lenses? Slide into the ring between two roles rather than just walking in? I was quite irritated she went over.

[Allie Kitsune]

Sept 10, 2018 5:19:01 GMT -5 "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay said:

I thought this was a much stronger opening episode than last year.

Meiko/Kelly was great. I hope Meiko at least makes the semis, she is outstanding.

Ripley is going places and is still so young. Love her new gimmick.

I thought Lacey Lane sucked ass. A budget brand version of Ember Moon, and Moon's gimmick already makes no sense. Weird hair? Cover your face in your entrance? Contradictory character work? Contact lenses? Slide into the ring between two roles rather than just walking in? I was quite irritated she went over.

I've got to the point where I'm just accepting that they don't have a gimmick, and they're just using their status as a wrestler as an excuse to dress like that.

[Abdullah]

I like that the MYC is bringing closer attention to weekly NXT.

Smart choice to pair them together.

[lionheart21]

Sept 10, 2018 13:37:34 GMT -5 Abdullah said:

I like that the MYC is bringing closer attention to weekly NXT.

Smart choice to pair them together.

Also makes it easier for us to have discussions when the majority of us will be watching it live and commenting on it instead of watching blocks of content

[salz4life]

I’m catching up so I’m sorry for bring this back from the dead. I really think Kraven is green, but she looks like a legit giant.... I’d love to see her after some seasoning.

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Sept 12, 2018 21:43:54 GMT -5 salz4life said:

I’m catching up so I’m sorry for bring this back from the dead. I really think Kraven is green, but she looks like a legit giant.... I’d love to see her after some seasoning.

She’s been wrestling for 14 years. I think that she’s already hit her ceiling at this point.

I was impressed with her, but not can’t-miss level or anything.

[salz4life]

Sept 13, 2018 0:48:56 GMT -5 @notoriousnd22 said:

Sept 12, 2018 21:43:54 GMT -5 salz4life said:

I’m catching up so I’m sorry for bring this back from the dead. I really think Kraven is green, but she looks like a legit giant.... I’d love to see her after some seasoning.

She’s been wrestling for 14 years. I think that she’s already hit her ceiling at this point.

I was impressed with her, but not can’t-miss level or anything.

Ahhh... I must've not paid attention to the interview. That's not good.

[kidkamikaze10]

Sept 12, 2018 21:43:54 GMT -5 salz4life said:

I’m catching up so I’m sorry for bring this back from the dead. I really think Kraven is green, but she looks like a legit giant.... I’d love to see her after some seasoning.

Eh... I think the green one was Lacey. Kraven's been around for a very long time. And she's good, but the performance center could help in the character department.