{"id":44965,"date":"2017-07-07T12:40:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T16:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44965"},"modified":"2020-08-02T12:40:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T16:40:28","slug":"nxts-current-best-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44965","title":{"rendered":"NXT\u2019s current best talent"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ever since I\u2019ve started watching NXT with some regularity, I feel like I jumped aboard during a pretty stale period.\u00a0 Guys like Shinsuke Nakamura, Finn Balor and Samoa Joe have all left at pretty much the same time, and in their place has been a main-event pool of guys that I\u2019m not remotely interested in, such as Bobby Roode, Roderick Strong and Hideo Itami; aside from Roode\u2019s arrogance, there\u2019s literally no intrigue, personality or narrative that anybody brings to the table, creating stories that are hard to get vested in.<\/span><\/p>\n

As much as I disliked the name \u201c#DIY,\u201d the talent of Johnny Gargano and Tomasso Ciampa shined through, but now they\u2019ve been broken up and taken off television for the time being, and taking their place in the tag team division are a bunch of mammoth hosses like the Authors of Pain and Heavy Machinery, who will undoubtedly have a stinker of a program when they inevitably collide for the belts.<\/span><\/p>\n

But if there\u2019s been one thing worth tuning into recently, it\u2019s NXT\u2019s women\u2019s champion, Asuka<\/strong>.\u00a0 Week in and week out, she\u2019s the brightest star in all of NXT, and it\u2019s going to be a dark time for the brand\u2019s women\u2019s division once she gets the demotion<\/em> to the main roster.\u00a0 She\u2019s undefeated, and WWE\u2019s even gone as far as to declare that she\u2019s surpassed Bill Goldberg\u2019s old WCW record of 163 wins before first defeat, and given NXT\u2019s women\u2019s talent pool it doesn\u2019t seem likely that it\u2019s going to end that soon, especially with her most recent victory over Nikki Cross in a Last Woman Standing match.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Asuka has demonstrated a tremendous amount of depth in both persona and as a performer, as she\u2019s demonstrated capabilities of hanging with more technically adept women like Bayley and Mickie James, and the ability to outright brawl with a slogger like Nikki Cross.\u00a0 She showed a hint of heel against Ember Moon, but the fans will probably respect her too much to do anything but cheer for her after the outstanding Last Woman Match where she took some pretty impressive bumps in her well sold performance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Without a question, Asuka is the brightest spot in NXT, and she\u2019s really the only thing worth watching at the moment while other storylines are still in incubation.\u00a0 For obvious reasons, things tend to move a little slow in NXT, and this could very well be a formula of the product, which may very well be an extended focus on one division at a time, since they only operate a weekly hour.\u00a0 But given the alternative from Asuka being fairly uninspired and uninteresting talent like Velveteen Dream, Sanity and Kassius Ohno among other Performance Center greenery, the farm system is running a little depleted these days.<\/span><\/p>\n

Again, it\u2019s going to be a really bad time for NXT when the time comes for them to dethrone Asuka so that she can soak in the brighter lights of the main roster, but frankly I\u2019d rather not see her ever lose, because as long as NXT is one of the only things I can really watch outside of PPVs, I\u2019m hoping she double\u2019s Goldberg\u2019s record and never has to do the job.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever since I\u2019ve started watching NXT with some regularity, I feel like I jumped aboard during a pretty stale period.\u00a0 Guys like Shinsuke Nakamura, Finn Balor and Samoa Joe have all left at pretty much the same time, and in their place has been a main-event pool of guys that I\u2019m not remotely interested in, … Continue reading NXT\u2019s current best talent<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,54,55],"class_list":["post-44965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-observations","tag-wrestling","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44967,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44965\/revisions\/44967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}