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Post by Doctor No on Feb 18, 2019 2:33:45 GMT -5
I mean, it's not like anyone cared about Lacey Evans in NXT either. While I get that, seriously look at NXT's track record with callups and see how many have actually had steady success. Which raises the question. What is the purpose of NXT? To be a WWE branded indie or to get people ready for the main roster. It’s good at one of those things and not very good at the other.
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Feb 18, 2019 3:10:27 GMT -5
While I get that, seriously look at NXT's track record with callups and see how many have actually had steady success. Which raises the question. What is the purpose of NXT? To be a WWE branded indie or to get people ready for the main roster. It’s good at one of those things and not very good at the other. Nah it's teaching people how to wrestle just fine. Problem is that there is no getting ready for the main roster because the final boss is Vince McMahon's specific brand of madness.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Feb 18, 2019 4:16:21 GMT -5
Which raises the question. What is the purpose of NXT? To be a WWE branded indie or to get people ready for the main roster. It’s good at one of those things and not very good at the other. Nah it's teaching people how to wrestle just fine. Problem is that there is no getting ready for the main roster because the final boss is Vince McMahon's specific brand of madness. Yeah people are getting taught to wrestle even so how to wrestle for tv. It's just that Vince doesn't care about nxt.
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Post by Prince Petty on Feb 18, 2019 4:57:44 GMT -5
Vince seems more and more like a spoiled kid, who looks at someone in NXT and says, "I want that. Gimme!" But as soon as he has them, he loses interest, or realises he didn't need them after all.
It's hardly a wonder that several NXT stars have pretty much said they don't want to go to the main roster, and I imagine Triple H does all he can to talk Vince out of taking certain people.
With Lacey Evans, I imagine he saw a tall, beautiful blonde woman with a distinct look and thought she was just what he needed. But there's no space for her, and they have no plan for her.
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Post by theironyuppie on Feb 18, 2019 5:10:10 GMT -5
She was not ready for the spotlight she got at the rumble and that might have killed her at least for the foreseeable future.
It was a shame she underperformed and/or got nerves in that spotlight. She had a dark match with Natalya a few weeks prior in which she looked really good, but of course that's a much different thing to #1 in the Rumble.
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Post by RadcapRadsley on Feb 18, 2019 5:15:11 GMT -5
While I get that, seriously look at NXT's track record with callups and see how many have actually had steady success. Which raises the question. What is the purpose of NXT? To be a WWE branded indie or to get people ready for the main roster. It’s good at one of those things and not very good at the other. There is a lot of valid criticism about NXT not preparing wrestler's for certain aspect's of the main roster. However one of the biggest aspects of the Main Roster is that all final decisions come down to the wants of an Eccentric Billionare,one who changes his opinion on the whim and has a ton of oddball idiocincratic rules that often contradict other idioncincratic rules. I am not sure how you ever prepare anyone for walking that tightrope.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Feb 18, 2019 7:35:08 GMT -5
She was not ready for the spotlight she got at the rumble and that might have killed her at least for the foreseeable future. It was a shame she underperformed and/or got nerves in that spotlight. She had a dark match with Natalya a few weeks prior in which she looked really good, but of course that's a much different thing to #1 in the Rumble.
I'd also say whoever told her to try a couple of more flippy spots than I've ever seen her do. Like when has she ever flipped out of a hiptoss? She's a powerhouse, book her like that. Or at least have her do spots regularly before her debut so she doesn't look like a screwup.
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Post by The Foreigner™: OffSZN on Feb 18, 2019 7:37:39 GMT -5
Lacey's the new Emmalina!
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Post by schma on Feb 18, 2019 7:41:59 GMT -5
Lacey's the new Emmalina! I thought that was Lars?
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Post by The Foreigner™: OffSZN on Feb 18, 2019 7:48:54 GMT -5
Lacey's the new Emmalina! I thought that was Lars? Lacey is the recast Emmalina picking up exactly where the Emmalina character left off. Lars is the grimdark reboot.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Feb 18, 2019 7:53:42 GMT -5
Funnily enough I put that entire segment down to tiredness and my pain meds. It really happened? Unless time froze and Lacey looked dead at you through your screen and started denying the Holocaust, it not only happened, but happened exactly as you saw it. She morphed into Brian Kendrick right before our very eyes? I might have been in a different dimension then.
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Post by Spider2024 on Feb 18, 2019 9:10:38 GMT -5
I'm officially calling her Lacey Non-Erich until further notice.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2019 9:14:52 GMT -5
It was a shame she underperformed and/or got nerves in that spotlight. She had a dark match with Natalya a few weeks prior in which she looked really good, but of course that's a much different thing to #1 in the Rumble.
I'd also say whoever told her to try a couple of more flippy spots than I've ever seen her do. Like when has she ever flipped out of a hiptoss? She's a powerhouse, book her like that. Or at least have her do spots regularly before her debut so she doesn't look like a screwup. Agreed, not saying they should go full Brock with her but she should be mostly throwing women around. She can bust out her high flying shit only every now and then.
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Post by Pushed to the Moon on Feb 18, 2019 9:16:52 GMT -5
Can't wait to get her new T shirt from WWEShop.com!
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Feb 18, 2019 9:29:44 GMT -5
I'm just confused by her gimmick. She's a southern belle who's a former Marine who's also a narcissist. It's a lot.
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Post by héad.casé on Feb 18, 2019 11:25:58 GMT -5
I kinda get the feeling she was maybe meant to cut a promo but they cut the actual promo due to time issues but still wanted her to appear on the show?
I don’t know. I’m probably wrong, but it was pointless.
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Post by CMWaters on Feb 18, 2019 11:29:49 GMT -5
I kinda get the feeling she was maybe meant to cut a promo but they cut the actual promo due to time issues but still wanted her to appear on the show? I don’t know. I’m probably wrong, but it was pointless. I'll say it again, she was probably just out there to distract from the ring clean-up after the Braun/Corbin match.
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Post by héad.casé on Feb 18, 2019 11:32:39 GMT -5
I kinda get the feeling she was maybe meant to cut a promo but they cut the actual promo due to time issues but still wanted her to appear on the show? I don’t know. I’m probably wrong, but it was pointless. I'll say it again, she was probably just out there to distract from the ring clean-up after the Braun/Corbin match. You’re probably right. I don’t remember them playing a build up video package for the Chamber before the match (which is where they’d usually do the clean up)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2019 11:33:20 GMT -5
Meltzer on WON said that Lacey's supposed to get a super big push so this was part of that...welp, get ready.
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Feb 18, 2019 11:33:30 GMT -5
I kinda get the feeling she was maybe meant to cut a promo but they cut the actual promo due to time issues but still wanted her to appear on the show? I don’t know. I’m probably wrong, but it was pointless. That's what I thought too and the order to cut the segment didn't get to the Gorilla position until she was already on the ramp way.
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