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Post by autisticgeordie on Dec 22, 2019 14:30:08 GMT -5
Now, I'm a fan of Dakota Kai regardless of her alignment, if she's a heel or a face and her heel stuff is something that I'm genuinely looking forward to, like her eventual feud with Tegan Nox, I just hope they don't drag it out as long as they did Ciampa and Gargano.
But, that said, the NXT women's roster is really heel heavy and I think that Dakota is just a naturally good babyface, like her selling is amazing, especially against someone like Shayna, now, I love Rhea and her defeat of Shayna was one of the feel good moments of the latter part of 2019, but I would've had Dakota win it considering there seemed to be a narrative of Dakota getting closer and closer to defeating Shayna every time they got into the ring.
It just seems like NXT can use all the good babyfaces that they can get and Dakota could've been one of them, hell, a feud between Dakota and the amazing, loose cannon heel Io Shirai would be f***ing dynamite!
That said, I am interested in seeing where heel Dakota goes, I just hope she actually starts, you know, winning decisively.
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Post by Steveweiser on Dec 22, 2019 14:38:47 GMT -5
Now that Shayna's likely heading to the main roster, and babyface Rhea Ripley is champion, Dakota as a heel is in a really good position, and she has three feuds on the go, the current one with Mia Yim, the one with Rhea over the title, and the eventual big one with Tegan Nox. She's set up nicely.
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Post by BatPunk on Dec 22, 2019 15:41:14 GMT -5
I’m actually pretty happy they’re doing this now, as opposed to 6 months to a year or longer down the track when she could be ‘the babiest of all baby faces’ and we REALLY have a hard time believing it.
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Post by 4real on Dec 22, 2019 15:55:15 GMT -5
I didn’t care about her at all as a face but as a heel now I do. The attack on Nox was so well done and made her look so vicious and crazy. And hot. Ahem.
Plus Candice kinda already filled the wholesome babyface gimic for me. Dakota is in a much better position as a heel now.
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Dec 22, 2019 16:10:50 GMT -5
Is their roster really that heel heavy? As far as people with cred all they had was Shayna, Bianca, and Io with the former two being kind of stale due to being there a while. Io is really the only other heel that's on a positive upswing. It looked like they were maybe going to give Taynara Conti a push when they randomly gave her a showcase win about a month ago but haven't followed up on it at all. Then after that you just have Jessamyn and Marianna who are more just flunkies then people who have actual matches. On the face side they have Santana Garrett and Kayden Carter as their two enhancers and then Rhea, Candace, Tegan, and Mia Yim as their four pushed talent. Three of the four are fresh and newish to the NXT scene except Candace who is atill over and is fine in her role as the reliable gatekeeper face (basically a better Natalya). Not as much as help is needed there imo unless you worry that Tegan won't be able to stay healthy.
Turning Dakota is a move I don't know if I would've made but I think it's worked well for her especially since she's been able to adjust and transition into it pretty well. It's been a better turn then say Bayley, another natural face who has done pretty poorly imo in being a heel. Also like I said I think they needed more help on the heel side.
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Post by dbrussel on Dec 22, 2019 19:10:35 GMT -5
Being set free from that stale boring babyface character is the best thing that could've happened to her.
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Post by gl83 on Dec 24, 2019 9:14:48 GMT -5
NXT really isn't as Heel-heavy as you'd think. You have Shayna, Io and Bianca, but after that there's a huge dropoff, with basically bottom-tier NXT girls such as Taynara, Vanessa Borne and Aliyah and PC girls. And with Shayna moving up soon(as late as the Rumble) and Bianca possibly as well(who's been in NXT for years now and has been trapped in limbo for the past few months), they probably are going to need more top-tier Heels.
Moving forward, I think that the top girls in NXT will probably be Rhea/Dakota/Io/Tegan.
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Post by gl83 on Dec 29, 2019 9:27:17 GMT -5
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