just come post here with us during comercials >_>
i ended up not taking to the program very well!
i watched all of the first match—the university boys vs some long-haired dude and a luchador—and i
was impressed by a lot of the wrestling. it was rougher around the edges but there was a ton of intensity which gave it a visceral feel different from the big league wwe shows. but from the second match onward (wes lee vs something or other wentz) i quickly lost interest, mainly due to the characters. the video packages didn't do much to make me care about the fueds
i was still interested in seeing perez and hendry, as those are the only two nxt wrestlers i've heard of thanks to their online buzz. and going into roxanne's match, i had a very high opinion of her based on the few things i'd read/heard about—i was under the impression she was some sort of future hall of famer who's starting a meteoric rise in nxt before her career launches into the big leages
but then her video package started and her mic skills immediately turned me off. she didn't strike me as badass or a force to be reckoned with—an opinion immediately reinforced by the announcer at the start of her match when he said something about how people online think she overrated and not worthy of being women's champion before booker replied with some dumbass thing about how he can understand thinking that if you see her from far away (i.e. watching on television like 99% of the viewers), but up close and personal she's totally great, trust me bro! that's when i realize i'd been had and that, at least in my (admittedly hastily-formed) judgment, she probably wasn't on track to amount to anything more exciting than a lyra valkyria. her wrestling didn't blow me away by any stretch either. it was good, but nothing that stood out compared to anyone else i had seen. though i guess whoever that chick is who showed up at the end is also supposed to be a big deal, so maybe that's the one i want to keep an eye on
the bits of joe hendry's stuff i saw confirmed my suspicion that i've already categorized him as a meme wrestler who i can't take that seriously. it's awesome that he's been smart enough to pull off marketing his character into viral glory, so i definitely don't fault him for my crotchety-old-man take, but i think his whole schtick with the catchphrase and the song and the clap and the hand waving is all extremely lame and eye-roll worthy. also the rythym with which the guest ref counted distracted me with how off it felt, even though i'm sure it was an intentional part of his character or the match flow or whatever
i'm well-aware that my snap judgments aren't all that meanigful since i'm analyzing all this stuff without any of the context of what's shown within nxt itself, and my opinion has swung wildly with main roster stars from when i first started watching vs. now (for example, tiffy time was much higher on my list early on while drew was much lower). so maybe i'd end up loving hendry or perez or even wes lee if i kept watching week after week, but alas, the show didn't do enough to make me want to watch again anytime soon. though i will admit they've already interested me in the october show simply by virtue of its name; i didn't watch wcw all that much growing up, but i remember loving the halloween havoc stage in wcw vs nwo revenge. though the fact that this program was called 'no mercy' is also what originally caught my interest, again because of my nostalgia for the n64-era of wrestling games. so if i have nothing else going on that weekend i can see myself scrubbing through the event the next day to see if anything catches my interest
