David Harding
Kaine JacobsNXT Thoughts February 23, 2010
February 27th 2010 08:39
An interesting debut for the newest addition to the "WWE Universe" programming, a good main event there for the show made me look forward to when Daniel Bryan gets promoted from the NXT Roster to the WWE roster. Hopefully by then we see the Daniel Bryan name dropped and he can return to Bryan Danielson, or at least someone comes up with a creative name,
I was amused by CM Punk and his annoyance at being the mentor of a party boy Darren Young, maybe on a future Smackdown Young can become a member of the straight edge society, mentoring at it's finest turn a party boy into a mindless zombie in a cult, David “A-List” Otunga didn't look too bad, Otunga has a fair bit of charisma, looked good in the ring, I look forward to seeing more of him in the future of NXT.
Michael Tarver appears to at this moment lack charisma, and just has nothing there at the moment, he will probably take the longest out of the ones mentioned to get a call up unless he is in a stable with someone, Heath Slater has a lot of charisma, needs some more in ring skils here and there but I like the look of him, and he tagged well with his mentor Christian, and I think Tarver may learn a lot from this experience, though I don't think you can teach charisma.
Daniel Bryan and Chris Jericho was the match of the show, high quality match and showed that Daniel Bryan is pretty close to being a WWE midcarder and not stuck on this show. Sadly and I know Cole was mentioned to get on the nerves of the fans by his attacks on the Internet Wrestling Community, but they just blew what was a great match with shit announcing. I am not a fan of Michael Cole on a good day and when you have a match like this that showed off great skill and you have a guy preaching about his hate for the wrestling fans on-line who bag him.
By mid match I had just started to ignore the rantings of Cole, Bryan came close to a wipe out on the announce table his back welted up after the match and he was lucky not to leave the match without any further injuries.
My final thoughts on the show was it was good, but it was just like ECW minus Washington and a few "out of character" promos for the wrestlers, a 1.85 rating has many anti-TNA fans really to kick TNA in the guts over this, and I just think to myself....who cares? The rating was going to be good this week, due to it being a debut show, the bigger test for the WWE is to keep the rating up, over time it can and will drop.
TNA has still a lot of fans to make WWE is still a well known product, regardless of the new shows they put on, once you debut a new show, the fans will watch, unlike WCW, TNA was created with no fans, and no TV deal, much like most wrestling promotions, it is hard to start up a company and have the product pulling in massive amounts of fans.
WCW was established in the Georgia Area before the purchase of the company by the McMahons and then sold back and eventually Ted bought it and it became WCW but the point is, it had a following, a small one, but it was a following nonetheless and from there it got bigger by going international, TNA has started trying to get their own fans thus, they have taken an extra period.
NXT has a ways to go to be considered a success a good debut show is nothing if they have bad ratings for the rest of the series.
I was amused by CM Punk and his annoyance at being the mentor of a party boy Darren Young, maybe on a future Smackdown Young can become a member of the straight edge society, mentoring at it's finest turn a party boy into a mindless zombie in a cult, David “A-List” Otunga didn't look too bad, Otunga has a fair bit of charisma, looked good in the ring, I look forward to seeing more of him in the future of NXT.
Michael Tarver appears to at this moment lack charisma, and just has nothing there at the moment, he will probably take the longest out of the ones mentioned to get a call up unless he is in a stable with someone, Heath Slater has a lot of charisma, needs some more in ring skils here and there but I like the look of him, and he tagged well with his mentor Christian, and I think Tarver may learn a lot from this experience, though I don't think you can teach charisma.
Daniel Bryan and Chris Jericho was the match of the show, high quality match and showed that Daniel Bryan is pretty close to being a WWE midcarder and not stuck on this show. Sadly and I know Cole was mentioned to get on the nerves of the fans by his attacks on the Internet Wrestling Community, but they just blew what was a great match with shit announcing. I am not a fan of Michael Cole on a good day and when you have a match like this that showed off great skill and you have a guy preaching about his hate for the wrestling fans on-line who bag him.
By mid match I had just started to ignore the rantings of Cole, Bryan came close to a wipe out on the announce table his back welted up after the match and he was lucky not to leave the match without any further injuries.
My final thoughts on the show was it was good, but it was just like ECW minus Washington and a few "out of character" promos for the wrestlers, a 1.85 rating has many anti-TNA fans really to kick TNA in the guts over this, and I just think to myself....who cares? The rating was going to be good this week, due to it being a debut show, the bigger test for the WWE is to keep the rating up, over time it can and will drop.
TNA has still a lot of fans to make WWE is still a well known product, regardless of the new shows they put on, once you debut a new show, the fans will watch, unlike WCW, TNA was created with no fans, and no TV deal, much like most wrestling promotions, it is hard to start up a company and have the product pulling in massive amounts of fans.
WCW was established in the Georgia Area before the purchase of the company by the McMahons and then sold back and eventually Ted bought it and it became WCW but the point is, it had a following, a small one, but it was a following nonetheless and from there it got bigger by going international, TNA has started trying to get their own fans thus, they have taken an extra period.
NXT has a ways to go to be considered a success a good debut show is nothing if they have bad ratings for the rest of the series.
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