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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2022 12:10:53 GMT -5
I can't for the life of me understand how Vince McMahon is impressed with Bruce Pritchards work.
Like... How does he look at these shows and think "Yes pal! So much better than HHH's NXT!"?
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Post by Feyrhausen on Jan 11, 2022 12:14:01 GMT -5
Absolutely makes sense. NXT is the WWE developmental territory so WWE writers should be creating the characters and giving them stories like they will see on the main roster. That way someone who has been successful in NXT with one character wont get saddled with something new when they get called up.
It just sucks that they have the current "creative" team.
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Post by mistery on Jan 11, 2022 12:16:15 GMT -5
I can't for the life of me understand how Vince McMahon is impressed with Bruce Pritchards work. Like... How does he look at these shows and think "Yes pal! So much better than HHH's NXT!"? Because Vince hates shorter men and prefers giant beefy men? Nevermind the fact that we can see it has much larger downsides (no pun intended) considering how absolutely wretched Omos and Azeez are. The problem is that the moment someone from the new NXT gets bad booking on the main roster (and it WILL happen), and gets repackaged or taken off of TV for whatever reason, it'll pretty much paint NXT 2.0 in just as bad of a light as Black and Gold supposedly was. Because now WWE has literally zero excuses if someone flops on the main roster. It also doesn't help that this are supposed to be bringing in younger viewers, but the opposite seems to be happening. Because 60 year old men have no idea what is cool these days. It also doesn't help that 2.0 has been worse than Black and Gold at retaining younger viewers. Their demo outside of specials is almost always dangerously low.
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Post by polarbearpete on Jan 11, 2022 12:18:57 GMT -5
I can't for the life of me understand how Vince McMahon is impressed with Bruce Pritchards work. Like... How does he look at these shows and think "Yes pal! So much better than HHH's NXT!"? It’s more to Vince’s tastes than Triple’s show was.
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Post by Legion on Jan 11, 2022 12:34:00 GMT -5
I can't for the life of me understand how Vince McMahon is impressed with Bruce Pritchards work. Like... How does he look at these shows and think "Yes pal! So much better than HHH's NXT!"? It’s more to Vince’s tastes than Triple’s show was. Exactly this. Bruce knows how to run a show that Vince likes, and it would appear that the head of writing knows how to write one that Vince likes. They are directing a show written for, with edits by, an audience of one - Vince McMahon. Vince isn't in the wrestling business, so HHHunter's show, which firmly was a wrestling show, was not going to be to his taste. In some ways it almost feels like it was a prolonged audition - can HHHunter make a show Vince likes so Vince can feel comfortable leaving him to run the big shows - the answer to which was no. Vince feels WWE is above wrestling, it's a form of entertainment all on it's own and Bruce and Lubrano appear to get that. It's why the room is stacked with TV writers and not old wrestlers. Vince wants a soap with some fighting, he doesn't want a wrestling show. HHHunter did.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2022 13:03:52 GMT -5
It’s more to Vince’s tastes than Triple’s show was. Exactly this. Bruce knows how to run a show that Vince likes, and it would appear that the head of writing knows how to write one that Vince likes. They are directing a show written for, with edits by, an audience of one - Vince McMahon. Vince isn't in the wrestling business, so HHHunter's show, which firmly was a wrestling show, was not going to be to his taste. In some ways it almost feels like it was a prolonged audition - can HHHunter make a show Vince likes so Vince can feel comfortable leaving him to run the big shows - the answer to which was no. Vince feels WWE is above wrestling, it's a form of entertainment all on it's own and Bruce and Lubrano appear to get that. It's why the room is stacked with TV writers and not old wrestlers. Vince wants a soap with some fighting, he doesn't want a wrestling show. HHHunter did. You are leaving out one major thing. The show isn't entertaining. Far from it. It's boring and the crowd are sitting on their hands every week.
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Post by Kalmia on Jan 11, 2022 13:20:41 GMT -5
Having NXT under the same booking umbrella as Raw and Smackdown makes sense as it's developmental for those shows. Part of the problem has always been that NXT talents get called up and they're not what the main roster wants, so they fail.
From the point of view of the viewers who liked NXT's old style and that it allowed some talented wrestlers to do their thing instead of doing WWE's thing, it sucks.
So these changes are sensible and good for WWE, but they don't suggest that NXT is going to be any more fun to watch.
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Post by asuka007 on Jan 11, 2022 14:09:22 GMT -5
I can't for the life of me understand how Vince McMahon is impressed with Bruce Pritchards work. Like... How does he look at these shows and think "Yes pal! So much better than HHH's NXT!"? Bruce is the ultimate suck up. Vince wants people who will do what he tells them and stroke his ego. And these old timers will do that.
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Post by Perd on Jan 11, 2022 14:24:55 GMT -5
I can't for the life of me understand how Vince McMahon is impressed with Bruce Pritchards work. Like... How does he look at these shows and think "Yes pal! So much better than HHH's NXT!"? I had a very similar thought. I can’t imagine looking at the full scope of your programming; analyzing the strengths and weaknesses, and concluding that the solution is to give Bruce Prichard more power.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Jan 11, 2022 14:54:20 GMT -5
Exactly this. Bruce knows how to run a show that Vince likes, and it would appear that the head of writing knows how to write one that Vince likes. They are directing a show written for, with edits by, an audience of one - Vince McMahon. Vince isn't in the wrestling business, so HHHunter's show, which firmly was a wrestling show, was not going to be to his taste. In some ways it almost feels like it was a prolonged audition - can HHHunter make a show Vince likes so Vince can feel comfortable leaving him to run the big shows - the answer to which was no. Vince feels WWE is above wrestling, it's a form of entertainment all on it's own and Bruce and Lubrano appear to get that. It's why the room is stacked with TV writers and not old wrestlers. Vince wants a soap with some fighting, he doesn't want a wrestling show. HHHunter did. You are leaving out one major thing. The show isn't entertaining. Far from it. It's boring and the crowd are sitting on their hands every week. It entertains Vince apparently and that is all that matters. Well that and it draws enough ratings in the right demographics to satisfy the networks.
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Post by Bo Rida on Jan 11, 2022 15:12:13 GMT -5
I get why you'd want to change things on screen, no point doing the same as aew.
But behind the scenes it's all backwards. Unless they're allowed to actually be a well booked, consistent character that's involved in interesting angles on the main roster then it doesn't matter what approach they take in NXT.
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Post by This Player Hating Mothman on Jan 11, 2022 16:20:07 GMT -5
I can't for the life of me understand how Vince McMahon is impressed with Bruce Pritchards work. Like... How does he look at these shows and think "Yes pal! So much better than HHH's NXT!"? The big thing is that I don't think Vince will actually be watching it. He's not paying that much attention to what's going on with NXT, he just wants it to stop being Paul Levesque's indie wonderland and wants to know that what's going on in there is no longer that failure shit that didn't beat Turner AEW. It doesn't get to Prichard's work or the idea that Prichard will out on a show Vince will like better. Vince will just trust that Prichard and company will 'do it right' and he'll keep running the main shows without another thought for developmental.
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Post by asuka007 on Jan 11, 2022 16:58:54 GMT -5
Also just logistically, Bruce is going to get burnt out essentially trying to run three shows at once.
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Post by eJm on Jan 11, 2022 17:02:23 GMT -5
Like, I feel like I have to say, ignoring how uninspired the main roster seems to a lot of people, uniformity is not in principle a bad thing. It's something NXT has needed likely since its inception, or even right after they took the strategy of "offer every major independent star the money to just do what they did there on WWE TV" (besides a handful here and there).
What annoys me is just...we could have avoided so much and I can't help but think that if I had the choice between the NXT we got and an NXT where the main roster gets more pushed stars that suit what the company wants and we're not where we are where there's only a handful of decent names and a bunch of jobbers...I'd likely go for the latter. Because at least with that, we wouldn't have had so many careers thrown under the bus for it, you know.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jan 11, 2022 17:07:12 GMT -5
Bruce running the women's division almost guarantees to me that Io and Sarray are either gonna walk or get cut eventually. That's not a good mix.
Overall the show keeps making changes almost designed so it fails. USA I can't imagine is happy with the fact the show they signed up for (And stole from FOX) has completely changed from what it was, and is getting WORSE ratings than it was before.
This feels like an attempt to get it onto Peacock in the near future, because nothing about this show, its decisions, or its current look feel like it should be two hours of live nationally broadcast TV, it's turning into an eyesore.
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Post by Terry McConkey on Jan 11, 2022 17:25:28 GMT -5
Bruce Prichard is going to kill NXT outright.
Dr.Tom Pritchard is still the best Pritchard.
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Post by Fade on Jan 11, 2022 17:42:34 GMT -5
Kross glowed about Russo on Oral Sessions w/ Renee but if he’s under Prichard’s thumb, then, well, doot doot doot.
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Post by xCompackx on Jan 11, 2022 19:38:38 GMT -5
I see the logic of doing this in a company that has long-term plans for talent, but WWE isn't that. The problem of talent being good in NXT only to often fail on the main roster isn't because shit's not synergized; stop taking things away from them that worked. Why wouldn't Karrion Kross' entrance work on the main roster? Why wouldn't Shotzi's tank? Let them grow in NXT, come up with a game plan for them when you're ready for them on the main roster and execute the game plan. This isn't hard.
And get someone better than Bruce Pritchard. That's step one.
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Post by john84 on Jan 11, 2022 19:53:46 GMT -5
Bruce Pritchard is involved...The thirst is explained
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2022 23:43:44 GMT -5
After watching NXT 2.0 I guess we'll still have to see these changes in full effect. Good news is that if we're going by Melo & Trick's promos tonight there's no way this was written by anyone other than them. All the references, language used, subject matter, nah, it's all them lmao.
I don't think all the others will get the same treatment but at least for these two, they're good.
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