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Originally Posted by JimHalpert
Extremely disappointed that they managed to take someone as over as Johnny Gargano was against Chiampa and handle his reign so badly that in his second attempted defense the crowd went nuts for him losing to a heel
for anyone that still has the belief that HHH is the savior in waiting, take note that nxt still can't book a babyface champion
Yeah, NXT gets praised endlessly for its character work, but they basically botched Johnny's character with the Aleister Black angle/weird heel turn and I don't think he's ever recovered in terms being that hugely over fan favorite. Even if Ciampa had stayed healthy and they'd seen the story through, I think it would have been an issue. I also think Adam Cole kind of sucks at being a heel which complicates it further.
The last few minutes of Gargano/Cole were preposterous but I liked the rest of this show quite a bit. Breeze/Dream was really good. The booking of the women's match was weird with Shirai losing clean then being a sore loser as a babyface moment of some sort, but I guess Shayna is despicable enough that it worked. Shayna's run has me a bit riled up in a way that I think is effective heel work. I'm just sick of her finding a way to win at every Takeover but will mark out when she loses (hopefully to my girl Dakota Kai).
My least favorite NXT trope: when a guy takes a superkick or something else to the head, acts really dazed and stumbles into the ropes, then suddenly regains all of their strength/senses and hits their own superkick/clothesline/whatever.
Last edited by SarcasticRat; 06-02-2019 at 04:27 AM.