Originally Posted by ags_rule:
“I would have a lot more respect for posters like AlexiR if they just admitted that NXT is a smark show, written for a smark audience, comprising a small section of WWE's audience. Instead they proclaim it as the second coming and the future of wrestling, gleefully ignoring the fact half the things they do on NXT, and half the wrestlers they push, would go down like a lead balloon on Monday Night RAW.”
Please do show me where I have proclaimed NXT as the “second coming”. In fact I would point out that I'm currently the only person in the WWE thread criticising last nights NXT show.
With that said I would completely disagree with your assertion that half the wrestlers being pushed on NXT wouldn't get over on WWE television. I'd agree that there are some for which that is likely true although I'd also point out that its a development territory for WWE and that nobody is actually suggesting that the entire roster is ready for prime time. There are however a lot of guys on the NXT roster that could easily get over on WWE television if they were given the chance. The key there of course is whether or not they'd get the chance and be correctly positioned but that's true of absolutely any talent regardless of their connection to NXT.
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“NXT is what it is, and it does it very well. But it's just a high-budget indie show with the shackles put on it in terms of what you might see/hear. It's never going to be, nor could it ever be competition for, Monday Night RAW. Take the 'WWE' tag and production off it, put it on Destination America, and you could bet your bottom dollar it's not going to draw anymore viewers than TNA in the same position.”
Who on earth is suggesting that NXT is or should be competition for Monday Night Raw? This is a ridiculous strawman argument. Its a WWE development league its purpose isn't to compete with Raw. Also this would imply that someone, somewhere thinks TNA can be competition to Raw.
I'd also just point out that this woe is TNA argument rather misses the point that TNA are in a mess of their own making. They were founded nearly 13 years ago and in that time have promoted countless shows and had a television deal with a supportive network that's available in an almost identical number of homes to that of USA Network. That its failed to gain any kind of traction and is now relegated to Destination America is entirely its own fault and the terrible product that it has spent years churning out. That NXT wouldn't draw as well as TNA is hardly a feather in TNA's cap. NXT is a development territory. If that's the new yardstick by which we're supposed to measure TNA by then fine but it doesn't say much about TNA. Its supposed to be the number two company. That it can't gain more traction than a WWE development league isn't good.
And lets also be clear on something NXT isn't gaining traction because its a WWE development league. Its gaining traction because its good.