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Post by Stone Coke Miami Watson đ„ on Apr 15, 2021 17:55:01 GMT -5
I found this picture shared in a Discord I'm a part of on the state of the Smackdown Women's Division, and it's painting a pretty grim picture: Realistically, Bianca has maybe ONE feud there before she's out of people to face already. Smackdown desperately needs new blood. âThey need more kids!â
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Post by koreycaskets on Apr 15, 2021 18:10:51 GMT -5
I think Shotzi should be brought up to the main roster. I say that but I also cringe knowing what makes her cool in NXT could become cringe worthy on Smackdown. So who knows đ€·
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 15, 2021 18:28:13 GMT -5
It seems amazing to say but they donât have the time to service menâs and womenâs divisions and all 8 or so champions between them. You donât have time for an undercard when you have 8 or more titles to concentrate on.
They need to trim the roster down to about 50 people total, especially if they really do cease being a touring company and are just a TV show.
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Post by mistery on Apr 15, 2021 18:34:17 GMT -5
I think Shotzi should be brought up to the main roster. I say that but I also cringe knowing what makes her cool in NXT could become cringe worthy on Smackdown. So who knows đ€· Shotzi isn't being brought up any time soon. She's one half of the women's tag champs for NXT, and will likely get a major Takeover women's title match at some point as well.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Apr 15, 2021 18:36:45 GMT -5
I think Shotzi should be brought up to the main roster. I say that but I also cringe knowing what makes her cool in NXT could become cringe worthy on Smackdown. So who knows đ€· Shotzi isn't being brought up any time soon. She's one half of the women's tag champs for NXT, and will likely get a major Takeover women's title match at some point as well. Yeah, she's only getting called up if they immediately fold the two Women's tag titles into themselves... and if they were going to do that they wouldn't have brought them in like a month ago.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2021 18:41:01 GMT -5
I think Shotzi should be brought up to the main roster. I say that but I also cringe knowing what makes her cool in NXT could become cringe worthy on Smackdown. So who knows đ€· Shotzi isn't being brought up any time soon. She's one half of the women's tag champs for NXT, and will likely get a major Takeover women's title match at some point as well. Yea we wont really be hear anything about Shotzi getting called up untill around the end of next year as seems to becoming the norm WarGames for the women ends up being a good indicator of who is getting called up.
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Post by PKO on Apr 15, 2021 18:42:54 GMT -5
I think Shotzi should be brought up to the main roster. I say that but I also cringe knowing what makes her cool in NXT could become cringe worthy on Smackdown. So who knows đ€· They will do a re-do of that amazing GLOW-worthy promo she did early on with the tank and take away all the camp and tongue in cheek and it will be terrible. And theyâll have an awful adjective to describe her, like âexcitableâ or âpeculiarâ
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Post by fw91 on Apr 15, 2021 19:18:36 GMT -5
I mean... I hate the releases as much as the next guy but I think this is a good number for the women.
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Post by James Fabiano on Apr 15, 2021 19:21:16 GMT -5
And that's counting Becky Lynch who's been out for a year and Lacey Evans who's going to be out for a year, as well as Reckoning who hasn't wrestled since December and Nikki Cross who's only had two matches this year. And this crew that basically consists of 18 people at the moment is supposed to sustain three divisions. So that's why no battle royal? (That and still needing a "safe" icon I guess)
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Post by James Fabiano on Apr 15, 2021 19:22:13 GMT -5
I think Shotzi should be brought up to the main roster. I say that but I also cringe knowing what makes her cool in NXT could become cringe worthy on Smackdown. So who knows đ€· They will do a re-do of that amazing GLOW-worthy promo she did early on with the tank and take away all the camp and tongue in cheek and it will be terrible. And theyâll have an awful adjective to describe her, like âexcitableâ or âpeculiarâ No. Tanks are Triple H's thing.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 15, 2021 19:24:46 GMT -5
Hiring women like GiGi (Priscilla Kelly) does mean that I could see NXT losing some women to call-ups. That was likely to be the case, anyway, granted.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2021 19:25:44 GMT -5
I mean... I hate the releases as much as the next guy but I think this is a good number for the women. I mean, it's across two singles divisions and a tag division. Say you want to make them clearly distinct and you have five tag teams, suddenly you're down to 6 singles women per show assuming they're equal (and in actuality SmackDown doesn't even have that many). Your potential match options would be completely exhausted in no time. It'd maybe be workable as the novelty act piss break the division was a decade ago where you got like one five minute match a week, but with it supposedly being taken seriously now it's pathetic.
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Post by fw91 on Apr 15, 2021 19:27:33 GMT -5
I mean... I hate the releases as much as the next guy but I think this is a good number for the women. I mean, it's across two singles divisions and a tag division. Say you want to make them clearly distinct and you have five tag teams, suddenly you're down to 6 singles women per show assuming they're equal (and in actuality SmackDown doesn't even have that many). Your potential match options would be completely exhausted in no time. It'd maybe be workable as the novelty act piss break the division was a decade ago where you got like one five minute match a week, but with it supposedly being taken seriously now it's pathetic. Well in theory NXT call ups could solve a lot of these issues
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Post by J is Justice on Apr 15, 2021 19:32:27 GMT -5
I really hate that they're doing nothing with Nikki. She was great with Alexa, and was even having title shots at one point. Then she broke up with Alexa and that was that. What happened???
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Post by mistery on Apr 15, 2021 20:05:39 GMT -5
I really hate that they're doing nothing with Nikki. She was great with Alexa, and was even having title shots at one point. Then she broke up with Alexa and that was that. What happened??? Unfortunately she's likely not seen as marketable by Vince.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2021 21:11:13 GMT -5
I think Shotzi should be brought up to the main roster. I say that but I also cringe knowing what makes her cool in NXT could become cringe worthy on Smackdown. So who knows đ€· They will do a re-do of that amazing GLOW-worthy promo she did early on with the tank and take away all the camp and tongue in cheek and it will be terrible. And theyâll have an awful adjective to describe her, like âexcitableâ or âpeculiarâ They'd probably make her a heel, too. That's what they did with Ruby Riott for a few years, even though everything about her screams babyface.
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Post by gl83 on Apr 15, 2021 21:22:20 GMT -5
I really hate that they're doing nothing with Nikki. She was great with Alexa, and was even having title shots at one point. Then she broke up with Alexa and that was that. What happened??? Unfortunately she's likely not seen as marketable by Vince. They didn't see AJ Lee as being marketable either saying that she was unf***able and she ended up being a top merch seller alongside Daniel Bryan, John Cena, CM Punk and the Shield.
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Post by adamclark52 on Apr 15, 2021 22:55:30 GMT -5
23 too many for Laurentitis and Princhard
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Post by DDonaires on Apr 15, 2021 23:03:27 GMT -5
Still not sure why they added NXT Women's Tag Team titles in the mix. Overall Women's Tag Team titles worked fine and if they were going to add a new title, a mid tier (ex. IC, US, North Amer.) women's title would've worked better imo. Could've been shared across all brands as well
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Post by thehottag on Apr 16, 2021 2:34:31 GMT -5
The fact the Women's division on the main roster is as shallow as a puddle doesn't speak well of the company in general, but it rings even more hollow when they Barry Horrowitz themselves about the 'Women's Revolution'.
With that said, I don't think it would matter if they hoarded female talent like a dragon hoardes gold. They'd simply have more wrestlers under contract they don't book well.
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