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Old 07-04-2018, 08:12 AM   #65
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Originally Posted by xrodmuc316 View Post
Never has a truer statement be made. Vince is the genius of taking interesting over characters and turning them into midcard bores.
But the thing is, Triple H coddles the fuck out of them in NXT because he can afford to. Like, yeah, that's good booking to an extent (and Triple H doesn't book the shows), but they aren't trained to be good workers or reflexive performers. They are just well produced versions of the sports entertainment characters they eventually become. And you have to see them every week. Against the same people. With five plus main hours to fill. Triple H isn't going to be able to fix that logistics problem and that everybody works the same way and that without clever booking they aren't going to be able to survive in such a vast landscape with shitty punches and poorly rehearsed scripts that betray they don't really know how to hold a bunch of strangers that have never seen them over before.

Honestly, if Triple H were given full control of the WWE, I do think that some things would get immediately better. If he fired Dunn, for example, then I think the aesthetics of the show might get better, including commentary, because they would have free reign and probably do fine. In terms of performance, things might get a little better. I think mic work will get a little bit better, and generally speaking, people in the main events would be hyped better. But I think he would drown so fucking fast. He can't afford to keep Sasha and Bayley off TV every week. So what are they going to do this week? Ummm...shit. And those own lofty standards will come back to bite. "We've seen this match" will still be a problem. When you watch Takeover shows, you can already start to see the same things repeat themselves. Every match had those new post-modern verbiage tropes in them. Black/Sullivan and Baszler/Cross both ended with a "bring it motherfucker" finish. I appreciated that stories were there, and that they were simple, but you can see how they step on each other's toes a lot. That will only get worse with more hours to fill.
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