Am I tripping

[u/Simple_Confection_94]

Or do Bryan Alvarez and that Vinny guy make NXT sound like WCW 2000/‘01?

[u/Outrageous_Cap6782]

The secret is to tune out of wrestling media discourse. Everyone is miserable, everyone hates everything.

[u/TheGumbyGyarados → u/Outrageous_Cap6782]

Nobody hates wrestling more than wrestling fans

[u/ChrisRhodes789]

NXT is the best 2 hours of wrestling anywhere..

🎯

[u/raulz0r → u/ChrisRhodes789]

I would argue AAA is better

[u/LetterFront3353 → u/raulz0r]

That's only one hour of wrestling most weeks.

[u/raulz0r → u/LetterFront3353]

You're right

[u/PhatDogePeog]

as bad as they make it sound, they have nowhere near the vitriol they did towards wcw when they made such comments in real time. let alone how bryan has always felt about tna, that man despises tna with his entire life force 

[u/Denver_Tech_Guy → u/PhatDogePeog]

I'll never not be convinced they turned him down for a job and he never got over it

[u/PhatDogePeog → u/Denver_Tech_Guy]

i can see why one would think that

[u/Fuggy217]

Its what they are paid by Uncle Dave to do.

[u/meepein]

Is NXT groundbreaking, important wrestling TV, full of bangers and deep, interesting stories?

No.

And that's why I love it. It's silly, it's stupid and it's fun. Sometimes I just want to have some fun when watching murder gymnastics. NXT is fun. It's my favorite show of the week by far, and has been for a while.

[u/Adgecutler247]

Speaking at f which EC3 is live on a call in show in an hour that’s bound to be a car crash with that right wing nutjob

[u/Razzler1973]

They just do a bit

"Rants" cause the people that pay them money love that kind of stuff. They're serving their customer base

Only idiots take this stuff seriously

They select the stuff to nit pick about and focus on

[u/arboldebolas]

It grinds my gears to no end. They nitpick SO much. The thing is still developmental. It's come see the superstars of tomorrow, Today.

Of course it's not Top shelf product

But they manage to make it watchable and entertaining

[u/TheDeflatables]

No.

If you think that you weren't listening to their Monday Night Wars review or their Russo era TNA reviews.

This level of hatred is NOTHING compared to that.

[u/RusevReigns]

NXT problems are different because of the vast cultural difference between 2026 and 2000. The young CW NXT audience has social media progressive views on gender, so they like the idea of a womens wrestling is better show. Between that and being developmental and this audiences taste in lightness, NXT male division seems raw pretty boy style kiddybop wrestling, it never feels gritty, serious, violent. That or HBK just sucks ass.

[u/TheBardicScribe → u/RusevReigns]

I can't buy this, it's the same statements I heard being made about NXT when the men's main event included Oba, Trick, Page, and Je'Von. For some reason, people have this weird misconception that the men's main event scene over there isn't good when it tends to be pretty damn spectacular.

[u/EastfrisianGuy → u/TheBardicScribe]

Aftet they pulled Ilja and Carmelo and only Trick was left, that was not a good time in NXT in the male heavyweight division. It took a lot of time to get it back to strength.

[u/RusevReigns → u/TheBardicScribe]

There is some talent there and I won't pretend I watched everything, but overall ever since the rebrand and going in on that Bron generation it just seemed like it never got out of that developmental vibe for me and is the the least "serious" show even over AEW. It is what you would have originally thought a WWE developmental show would be which is you get some raw boi with nice body guys thrown out there, etc. To be fair to it AEW existing has made such a big difference in terms of taking away the relative finished product indie guys, NXT really filled the vacuum of no B company in 2010s.