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

[Kross Rhodes]

So…Stand and Deliver

Is tomorrow.

 

[Canadian Dragon]

I hope Dijak wins the title and gets me a lot of points

 

[Kross Rhodes]

I think they might be making a bit of a mistake with this attitude as well, a lot of people have friends in AEW and have partners there or worked there themselves. I don't think, for example, slightly talking shit about Okada is gonna make him consider signing with you when this contract is up. Catch more flies with honey, as they say!

I absolutely agree but to be fair to Hunter I don’t think he’s even gonna try. I think he’s written off anyone that signed with AEW under those agreements that we’ve seen lately where they’re like 3 to 5 years for $15 million. He assumes that by the time you get all the way out there AEW would probably offer an even bigger contract to stay. And he’s not really worried about also like waiting five years to sign someone.

But sending this message does definitely going to hurt chances signing future free agents. But I don’t think he’s too worried about that either. Like I said, I think he was being very intentional with words here. He wants people that want to do house shows to come to the WWE.

 

[Cwalker]

Is tomorrow.

Thanks for the reminder

 

[#Waddles]

I hope for you too Jeff, that Dijak comes through for your team.

 

[Canadian Dragon]

I absolutely agree but to be fair to Hunter I don’t think he’s even gonna try. I think he’s written off anyone that signed with AEW under those agreements that we’ve seen lately where they’re like 3 to 5 years for $15 million. He assumes that by the time you get all the way out there AEW would probably offer an even bigger contract to stay. And he’s not really worried about also like waiting five years to sign someone.

But sending this message does definitely going to hurt chances signing future free agents. But I don’t think he’s too worried about that either. Like I said, I think he was being very intentional with words here. He wants people that want to do house shows to come to the WWE.

just a funny contrast with TK saying he's gonna be aggro as fuck with free agents the whole year even though he got sasha and okada and will. Different strategies is interesting, maybe Hunter is mad he's making them break the bank for becky and seth

 

[Kross Rhodes]

just a funny contrast with TK saying he's gonna be aggro as fuck with free agents the whole year even though he got sasha and okada and will. Different strategies is interesting, maybe Hunter is mad he's making them break the bank for becky and seth

I think that could be a part of it. I would assume anyone that is coming up for negotiations right now, has that AEW card to make sure they get paid fair to stay. And I do think they would be willing to pay people they’ve already invested in to stay rather than paying it to bring in new people.

I think the other reason why Hunter isn’t too worried about it is because they refocused on utilizing the PC and it seems to be working so far. A lot of really good talent have been developed in house so it’s just two entirely different strategies.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

Thanks for the reminder

 

[Canadian Dragon]

I think that could be a part of it. I would assume anyone that is coming up for negotiations right now, has that AEW card to make sure they get paid fair to stay. And I do think they would be willing to pay people they’ve already invested in to stay rather than paying it to bring in new people.

I think the other reason why Hunter isn’t too worried about it is because they refocused on utilizing the PC and it seems to be working so far. A lot of really good talent have been developed in house so it’s just two entirely different strategies.

The PC is most def a thing I've considered too no doubt. That's wwes pipeline. The indies is aews main pipeline

 

[Kross Rhodes]

I’m honestly surprised it took WWE so long to think about creating their own in-house PC when WCW more or less did it first in the 90s and it produced the big show and Goldberg and handful of midcard acts.

 

[Canadian Dragon]

I’m honestly surprised it took WWE so long to think about creating their own in-house PC when WCW more or less did it first in the 90s and it produced the big show and Goldberg and handful of midcard acts.

I wonder if aew will ever do it. Nightmare factory is not really a good option either as you can't really have aew prospects in a gym w wwes top babyface. Gotta protect ur assets a bit

 

[Jimmy King]

So…Stand and Deliver

Looks like a great show. Melo and Trick are about to steal the show, that or Bron if he busts out something crazy in that tag team match.

 

[POLAR_BEAR]

Dijak will defeat Joe Gacy, and put the duct tape onto his head! Then have dinner with D'Angelo! Then they will all sober up!

 

[Cwalker]

Looks like a great show. Melo and Trick are about to steal the show, that or Bron if he busts out something crazy in that tag team match.

I’m saying. Trick getting so over with the crowd; dude is bout to run NXT.

Melo is on his way to the main roster and I know some people don’t see him doing well due to his size but there’s no reason he’s not a future IC Champ/challenge for the World title someday

 

[Dale]

13k people doing Trick's entrance is gonna be absolutely ridiculous.

Frazer & Axiom will undoubtedly do some wild shit with Bron aswell, have him go out with a bang(er).