The Wrestling Thread: WWE Elimination Chamber -2/21/21 WWE Network moving to Peacock in March

Vince is famous for pulling the rug out from underneath stars just to “see how they’ll react”.
How anyone thinks this is HHH I have to assume doesn’t listen to his interviews or watch the program.

No way it’s HHH, he seems to give a shit about his NXT peeps. Vince is the one who habitually buries them for reasons I don’t get

Reason is easy. Vince only approves if the wrestler got over on his watch. If he’s not responsible, he will nip it in the bud real quick.

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I actually have a diff opinion. I think every since nxt lost to aew post 2019 SS. I think Vince has been on the warpath to fuck nxt people. Vince didn’t make Charlotte, she’s also a nxt girl. Don’t forget that’s where she built her brand. Trips also got demoted after too

Man those were some rough few weeks where Triple H had to try and justify the Charlotte win, when you could tell he really didn’t want to. The Charlotte stans were just as bad.

Edit: God that short reign was such a dumpster fire that it didn’t help anyone.

If I remember correctly they put the belt on Charlotte because Rhea was having visa issues and they needed a reason to take her off TV. Vince saw it as hitting two birds with one stone when they decided to move NXT to primetime to compete with AEW and put the belt on Charlotte to get more viewers for NXT. Quite hilarious that they thought Charlotte of all people would get people to tune in. That idea was all types of terrible.

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This past summer showed that Charlotte is the least drawing of the 4HW. Sasha, Bayley and you can also add Asuka to the list were workhorses and carried the WWE.

Hmm…was Reckoning unmasking intentional?

Bianca was buried in this fued as well

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Because Charlotte needed to look good…

No she didn’t need to. Nor do you need to bury people to make another look good

Blame the bookers for their flawed logic :man_shrugging:t4:

If vince wanted her he would have brought her up

Vince want his next big stars to be black

to the first part. no shit sherlock. the whole discussion is about vince fucking people.

to your second point. what are you talking about? all of hurt locker are mid cards. keith is doin ok not great. no black person has a rocketship strapped to them.

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Big E and Bianca. And street profits

Keith Lee has also got protective booking

Has anybody got that drew or roman spot? Nope. But damn nobody can stand with roman right now

street profits are a tag team they are automatically not strapped to the moon. you already know this.

big e is also in mid card.

bianca is just starting a fued. we’ll see how this plays out.

not one black person is in the main event picture atm. keith is arguably there but hes not really shown as rocket ship status.

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Big E still being pushed hard

I think if the Rock match falls through for wm. BIG e takes the belt off roman

Last black person who had a rocket was Kofi, and even then he still wasn’t in the main event. And we see how that ultimately ended with how he lost and never got a rematch, then stuck back in a tag team division

I’d like to think Big E or Lee will be the ones to break the cycle and be THE guy, but idk if it’ll happen. Inclined to agree with Maxx on this one

Kofi’s reign as champ may have been heavily lackluster in the long run, but you have to admit the actual moment of him winning the title will forever be hype. You had people who didn’t give two fucks about wrestling tuning in to watch that match and essentially saved WM35 from being an overall forgettable show. Now we just need to hope that WWE can find a way to replicate that hype with a Big E or Lee.

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Big E and Lee have charisma, size; promo, and believability

Why is Swerve not being pushed in nxt? He should be north american champ building to a finn balor match