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What’s the show that got away?
“Tag Team.” When I was at ABC, we did an action drama pilot called “Tag Team” that starred Jesse “The Body” Ventura and Rowdy Roddy Piper as two wrestlers who happen to be in a 7-11 when it’s being robbed. Before the cops get there, the two of them quickly and stylishly dispatch all the robbers. The cops say, “you guys should be on our team.” So the two of them become wrestling cops who tag team each other for justice and the American way. It was an entertaining and mindless but joyous show. We ordered it to series, but it happened to coincide with when Bob Iger became president of ABC. Bob came in and was thrilled to take on “Twin Peaks,” “Thirtysomething” and “China Beach.” But he came from the sports world, and the idea that one of the first shows he would greenlight would be a wrestling drama was just abhorrent. So he killed it. But I think he’s made a few good moves since.

Iger became President of ABC in 89 so it would have been somewhere around there time wise.

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PWInsider has been told there’s a pitch for NXT to be moved to Wednesdays on the USA Network starting this October; series to start on 10/2, same date that All Elite Wrestling launches on TNT.

Meltzer had reported on this prior to them as well. Looks like 10/2 will be some fun.

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NXT would turn into hot garbage and get crushed, IMO.

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08-19-2019 , 04:38 PM

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Listening to Observer Live now and Bryan said that tonight on RAW there will be an announcement that NXT will begin on September 18th, not October 2nd as PWI Insider announced.

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Originally Posted by antidan444

NXT would turn into hot garbage and get crushed, IMO.

Why, NXT has been consistently better than anything AEW have done.

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Why, NXT has been consistently better than anything AEW have done.

You must have missed the part when it was said that Vince and Kevin Dunn would be in charge. What makes NXT so much better than everything else is that they were completely hands off.

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08-19-2019 , 06:30 PM

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Do people watch weekly NXT? The show is a mess, considering it's an hour long it's mostly not good. It has great matches and it's nice that they have direction for characters and stories but as for being a show it doesn't come close to raw or smackdown.

I'm not going to assume that Vince putting more effort into making it a TV show is going to be a bad thing when Vince is wrestling on TV.

I'm genuinely excited for NXT to become a two hour weekly show, can't wait. More excited than for AEW tbh.

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08-19-2019 , 08:16 PM

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I agree-- NXT has a reputation for being better than it actually is on a weekly basis. The shows are sort of all over the place, and even at 50 minutes an episode I often find myself choosing to turn it off.

I think that's largely based on the current roster, though, and my personal preferences (obviously). I don't find lots of the top wrestlers interesting at all, so it's currently just not for me.

But I stand by the opinion that in general, it's not as awesome as its reputation.

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08-20-2019 , 02:10 AM

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I watch NXT every week and think it's great most of the time. Extending it to 2 hours is not something I'm excited about. Vince and Kevin Dunn having any part of it has me very, very worried about its future.

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08-20-2019 , 02:42 AM

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It's game over if Vince and Dunn are in charge.

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OT- just watched the Goldberg/Sting title match during the streak and it was a highly entertaining, suspenseful match. It actually felt like Sting could go over. And then Hogan, who Goldberg had just beaten for the title, interfered, and...helped Goldberg? Is this talked about at all? Why did Hogan need to be a part of this at all? Even if they were setting up Hogan/Sting this match deserved a clean finish. Truly a missed opportunity.

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08-26-2019 , 05:59 AM

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If Hogan randomly interjecting himself into anything hot for no reason bothers you, I'd recommend steering far away from NWO era WCW

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09-26-2019 , 12:23 PM

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It appears Johnny (insert name of the month here) is back. Interesting because his wife is still the Impact women's champion. Hoping he goes to NXT rather than the main roster. Would expect him to show up somewhere next week as a surprise.

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09-26-2019 , 12:27 PM

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Who?

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09-26-2019 , 12:45 PM

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Johnny Nitro Morrison Mundo Impact

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ty. Not a fan. I know lots saw potential in him but

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At first I thought you literally meant the name of a month. Johnny January is back everyone! Or is it Johnny July this time?

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09-27-2019 , 06:11 AM

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New announce crews for SD! and RAW next week.

SD!: Cole, Graves, Renee
RAW: Vic Joseph, Dio Madden, Jerry Lawler

RAW: WHAT? Apparently Dio's commentated for one month of 205 Live and besides that has no experience.