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I’m just gonna get this out of the way here: WWE messed up big with the treatment of the Cruiserweight Division starting the day after the Cruiserweight Classic ended.
Instead of focusing on developing characters and treating them the same way they did throughout the CWC, they apparently only signed Brian Kendrick and TJ Perkins to re-enact the “Old Pirate (?) vs Old Video Game-er” Broadway classic.
With a small cameo from Rich Swann every once in awhile. I really wish they’d just take the whole division off of Raw and make it an exclusive Network show where it can live and breath like NXT. If they’re gonna be bouncing around between Raw and NXT anyway, just take Raw out of the equation and make Cruiserweight Wednesday a sister show for NXT.
Seriously, if you’re not gonna make Jack Gallagher the biggest star of the company, I don’t know why you’d even bother having a company in the first place.
Another thing before I forget: William Regal is THE BEST. He was always a favorite of mine in the ring and when he was a main roster GM his use of the word “sunshine” as a pet name for everyone was the coolest thing ever.
Remember when JBL was NXT General Manager for a bit? He would just show up and tip his hat and flash that horrible smile, before leaving for Big Time commentary. There he would act like he didn’t know what an NXT was and he’d bury anyone called up from there during their debut match. It was the worst.
But Regal does something that no other General Manager for WWE has ever done. He generally manages the promotion he’s working for. It’s amazing how little has to be done to make such a difference.
He doesn’t book matches because someone showed up in the ring, and crybabied until they got a match. He’ll book a match because it makes sense for the whole brand. If you go to his office with a request, he’ll listen and do what he thinks is fair for not only the wrestlers, but the fans and the company, too.
If a bunch of dudes show up in a ring and argue at each other, he doesn’t make a tag team match right there! He will kick you the !@$% out of his building for interrupting planned matches, while they’re trying to film a television show. Regal is my sunshine. Not my only sunshine, but he sure does make me happy.
I can’t tell you how happy I am that Graves has stuck around to berate Tom Phillips. His insistence that Tom is the dumbest person on the planet is fun every time. If Tom were a punching bag, Corey would be the guy that walked into the gym and knocked the punching bag’s lunch out of its hands and then blamed the punching bag.
Heel commentators are rarely done right. Graves is on a short list.
But anyway, yeah, NXT is in a downswing right now, no doubt. But that’s it’s nature. It didn’t start at the top, it built it’s way there, and it was a farm league for the main roster by design. It just so happens that everything they build can disappear at any given moment.
So when so much talent got swooped up by Raw and Smackdown it stung. It showed. But we’re kind of at the point now where NXT started. We don’t really know these wrestlers save a handful, and they haven’t been given the time to develop characters and storylines.
I’ve heard people say a lot of things about the product of late like it’s “weak” or it’s “lost it’s shine” or whatever. I’ve even heard them use the term “rebuilding period” as a negative.
Except that’s not a negative and that’s exactly what’s happening, just more people are watching. People always like to say they were there from the start, but often times they don’t like to do the work. NXT is actually giving you an easy in.
The brand is proven, the current product, for the most part, is not. Jump in now with gusto, but don’t expect instant gratification. Give it some time, pay attention, and come Wrestlemania season you, too, can tell your friends “I was chanting ‘NO WAY! JOSE!’ before it was cool.”
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