Live NXT Stand & Deliver Discussion Thread - Saturday April 6th 2024

[Kross Rhodes]

to me, the hunter stuff was very small pee pee energy like the guy at the bar who got rejected by a hot chick and says he didn't wanna fuck her anyways.

Completely agree with your assessment that both places have different mantras and mission statements, I feel like he come off very poorly with his wording and arrogance, however.

HBK's humble and positive nature is much more my speed.

Oh, there’s definitely a butt hurt energy there as well for sure. But I think he’s using that to also speak how he really feels as far as like the talent that he’s pursuing. That he wants people that genuinely want to grind for the machine.

 

[Canadian Dragon]

I will even add that TK can be an ass like this too - I like tongue in cheek jabs and fun ribbing. I feel however you can put your own company over and put your workers as the best and hardest working in the industry without implying that people who chose another path are essentially lazy or shit. And that goes for all companies

 

[Kross Rhodes]

to me, the hunter stuff was very small pee pee energy like the guy at the bar who got rejected by a hot chick and says he didn't wanna fuck her anyways.

Completely agree with your assessment that both places have different mantras and mission statements, I feel like he come off very poorly with his wording and arrogance, however.

HBK's humble and positive nature is much more my speed.

basically I feel like Hunter punches down a lot and it comes off pretty bad to me

And I also don’t think he knows how to turn off his character lol

 

[Kross Rhodes]

He’s basically worked himself into a shoot brother

 

[Canadian Dragon]

And I also don’t think he knows how to turn off his character lol

yeah I get the feeling he has a hard time turning the promo portion off too lol

 

[Jimmy King]

I don’t even mind the hunter quotes if we’re referring to the comments he made about the free agents that he didn’t sign. I think on one hand, Hunter and Tony having different views on the business as well makes them alternatives to each other so I like the fact that they don’t think the same way. And then on the other, I think, the reason why Hunter feels that way is that that’s the business he grew up in. Everyone did it that way back then. In order to make money you had to run houses and they typically ran like 200 and like 50 houses a year, not counting TV or pay-per-view.

It should also be taken to Account that Shawn doesn’t have the same responsibilities that Hunter does as far as running the main roster that runs those houses so he can be a more pragmatic brand ambassador especially considering when you run developmental you often scouting people from those alternatives.

This is how I feel, it’s how he saw it going down in his day when he was an active member of the roster so it’s fair to see why he would feel that way about today’s roster.

 

[Canadian Dragon]

like I would have said something like "That's what it takes to be a wwe superstar. Nobody works harder than our athletes and that's why we're the best in the industry and the most successful. Nobody takes days off here" - easy stuff

 

[Chris]

He gave Nakamura 3 whole months of a push to convince Okada to join and it didn't work, he's gotta cope with that somehow

 

[Kross Rhodes]

like I would have said something like "That's what it takes to be a wwe superstar. Nobody works harder than our athletes and that's why we're the best in the industry and the most successful. Nobody takes days off here" - easy stuff

Even though just as a viewer, I think Hunter far succeeds Vince when it comes to creative, I do think he’s ingrained a lot of Vince’s business stuff so he’s of the mindset that if you got let go it was your fault, but we want you to go out there on the Indies and make a big splash for yourself and if you’ve earned it, we’ll let you come back.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

He gave Nakamura 3 whole months of a push to convince Okada to join and it didn't work, he's gotta cope with that somehow

What’s funny is he doesn’t even have to push Nak because nobody is happier to just be in the mid and get paid when he’s getting paid than him but the problem is is that AEW started paying WWE money so that’s not really an incentive anymore

 

[Canadian Dragon]

He gave Nakamura 3 whole months of a push to convince Okada to join and it didn't work, he's gotta cope with that somehow

ok this made me laugh

 

[Canadian Dragon]

What’s funny is he doesn’t even have to push Nak because nobody is happier to just be in the mid and get paid when he’s getting paid than him but the problem is is that AEW started paying WWE money so that’s not really an incentive anymore

I still have a weird gut feeling Nak might retire in AEW / NJPW. I cannot elaborate any further as it's just my gut. I feel like there's still gonna be a lot of swapping this year and in 2025 and both rosters are still in flux

 

[Chris]

Fwiw I don't really care what shit he talks about AEW, he can bury them all day long and bonus points if it's actually funny. It's ridiculous to me that this is now two WWE people going on interviews this week talking about how talent making more money has these negatives. Very obvious narrative that's trying to be put out to me and it's not "AEW sucks," that would be much less harmful

 

[Kross Rhodes]

I still have a weird gut feeling Nak might retire in AEW / NJPW. I cannot elaborate any further as it's just my gut. I feel like there's still gonna be a lot of swapping this year and in 2025 and both rosters are still in flux

If Tony puts in a decent enough press, I could see him going to AEW but I would be pretty confident saying that I don’t think Nak isn’t leaving the states again, but he loves his Florida home.

 

[Canadian Dragon]

Fwiw I don't really care what shit he talks about AEW, he can bury them all day long and bonus points if it's actually funny. It's ridiculous to me that this is now two WWE people going on interviews this week talking about how talent making more money has these negatives. Very obvious narrative that's trying to be put out to me and it's not "AEW sucks," that would be much less harmful

yeah the light schedule and more money bad argument is a fucking choice for sure lol