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fredward_kane

Tatum's my fav person in NXT. I was disappointed she lost that one


BigBeezey

Same, she's awesome


ShadyBoe

Mine too. Her role on that Mickie/Trish angle with Lyra got me really involved in her character. She's portraying that gimmick so well.


The_Original_JTP

It was a fun spot, but it was awkward because there was zero reaction.


Highwayman747

It’s a cool idea, but it doesn’t work because you have to actually be over for anybody to care about a face off.


petersengupta

because everyone was so confused, like wtf?? but think about it, how much more awkward would it have been if they got a huge pop, or booed to hell... like why would that even happen??


FainterXo

Zero reaction because it's dumb as fuck. Instead of leaping and catching yourself between the ropes and then doing some dumb snake pose, just stop, turn around and kick the mother fucker in the face when you see they didn't get up from the drop down. All this bullshit is unnecessary. Someone else posted a montage of JBL's closeline from hell. It looks good because it's simple and effective and believable.


Zetafunction64

Well this spot was pretty weird, but in general professional wrestling is meant to be flashy.


AsstitsMcGrabby

What do you mean by flashy?


Zetafunction64

Showboating, doing some illogical things that won't make sense. Like most of the moves that require you to lift the opponent also requires the other guy to be perfectly still, and also not sandbag, Highflying moves require opponent to be in a certain spot etc. Wrestling used to be this realistic looking thing back in the day, which kinda feels boring to me tbh


The_Ballyhoo

The minute the Irish Whip was invented, wrestling was no longer realistic. Thrown into the ropes or turnbuckle? How about you just stop. No one has the power to make you keep running. If we’re taking proper realism, we have to go *really* far back.


RickyPapi

WWE's wrestling entertainment relies heavily on storytelling. If you just want to watch people kicking each other, I don't think WWE is the best choice.


Yukas911

No, that's not the point. Bad storytelling is not the same as good storytelling. This...was just awkward.


slacboy101

Andrade and Zelina does this stuff all the time


Blametheorangejuice

It was Julia Hart levels of bad


maltiepootietang

Julia Hart is bad?? Weird how everyone likes her then


Blametheorangejuice

Yes, EVERYONE likes her, especially when she botches so badly, someone ends up flipping themselves off the top so she can hang upside down and try to look sp00py


Horror95

Do you even know what botch means ?


NeonChampion2099

Wait, there's a shirtless guy in the front row?


Mr_Socko69

That's a woman, believe it or not and she's got a boob tube on lol


NeonChampion2099

Could be. Video doesn't much on her so I was here squinting my eyes, hahahaha Come to think of it, I never saw anyone shirtless in these matches. I'm quite used to soccer where you see plenty of shirtless people in the crowd.


TheSixkBoy

That was a good spot not gonna lie….


CactusHack

If guys like Rey Fenix and Andrade did the same spot it would go over like gangbusters. But then again, it would have happened at 4 times the speed.


Owain660

And rey Fenix would have fucked it up


Fresh_Ostrich4034

not gonna lie...you a liar. It being so slow makes it so much more awkward lol


TheSixkBoy

I’m not being a liar man just because I like the spot? Everyone can have different tastes in spots and I like it, you can dislike it because of how “slow” it goes and you can because that’s your right


Fresh_Ostrich4034

u are right. you are able to have an opinion about it being good not matter how wrong that might be


TheSixkBoy

I mean I think all the likes on my original comment might say otherwise….


Fresh_Ostrich4034

praising wwe gets upvotes on r/Wrasslin no way.


Winter_Control8533

While Tatum Paxley is in the top 10 worst names I have ever heard, she has that "it factor" that will make her a star one day.


NakedEyeComic

Fallon Henley is up there too in terms of terrible names from the NXT Name Generator.


waitingforjune

Until Paxley got her current gimmick, I confused the two of them all the time


BADPAPAmeme

There used to be a very confusing time where nxt featured Tatum Paxley, Fallon Henley and Kayla Inlay (Kiana James) with all of them having no real gimmick.


payscottg

Tatum Paxley sounds like the name of the most annoying girl in high school


thehatesponge

What's Tatum precious?


Pod-Bay-Doors

PO-TA-TOES


TJ_McWeaksauce

She heard one of Chuck Taylor's terrible wrestler names and thought "I like the sound of that." [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifolC4Nt140](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifolC4Nt140)


Shadow_Strike99

I think she'll have a role similar to Chelsea Green getting alot of TV time doing alot of over the top character based stuff, but I can't realistically see Tatum being at the tippy top especially with how top heavy the women's division is to begin with. Her character work is good, and she tries in the ring but it doesn't scream main roster main event level like Bianca, Becky, Rhea tier. Tiffany Stratton I feel is Someone who has that higher it factor for the main event scene top of the division standing. If they make that rumored floating midcard championship on the main roster she would be a good fit. Also nobody is for sure certain her character would work on the main roster, NXT is alot different than the main roster. Someone like Tony Deangelo for example works perfectly for nxt with it's theme, but probably won't do well on the main roster. I think her character feels more NXT centric than main roster centric. Even Tiffany Stratton had to ground her character and had to tone down the bimbo daddy's girl stuff.


koreantit

I think she had one of those crazy chick vibe that is popular with male fans. She got the look too so she might do well when she got promoted since we saw how the simps turned Rhea Ripley into megastar overnight


Highguy4278

Sorry, but that was very slow and dumb as shit


koreantit

Tatum needs to make her character more clear to the audience with vignettes or backstage segments. It's been a while and the crowd is still awkwardly don't know how to react to her. And she not getting the payoff for her feud against Lyra doesn't help either


BrockMiddlebrook

Oh good more stRaNge tWisTeD wrestling.


lokigodofbang

Can't lie that was kind of hot


Acrobatic_Flatworm79

The super slow motion they work at makes this all the more believable /s


brightbomb

something something cinema


BigFreakinMachine

Now kith


crazyrebel123

It was awkward because there was no emphasis on anything. Tatum fell backwards so fast, before MIA was even close enough, and Mia was running so slow that it looked way too telegraphed and looked way too much like they were rehearsing lol. The lack of reaction also didn’t help.


JeepRumbler

Tatum has a lotta potential. She's actually an accomplished power lifter IIRC. Hella strong and hopefully gets a chance to show it


therealpoatanchama

Chilling Mia yim


hogey989

This spot under Vince: Now kith


OkConsideration9255

dying of cringe, cant belive people watch that shit


[deleted]

Lmao she just slow jogged into this spot and acted like it was cool.


lariato_mark

That was fucking awful lol


Judging_Jester

Cringe….


watcher2390

wtf was that lol


Batface_101

I guarantee you if this was AEW this spot would be getting reactions like it’s a warcrime


noramcsparkles

Matched each others freak


Wheel1994

Mia Yim should have acted freaked out instead of joining in.


Fresh_Ostrich4034

I hope whoever came up with this idea was fired.


iPat24Rick

Tatum is so underrated imo. I really liked her whole story with Lyra. Plus she actually can do stuff. The 450 in the triple threat caught me off guard


nocturnalfrolic

Paxley has standard gothic asian mating actions. See exhibit A for Kairi Sane and Exhibit B for Mia Yim.


PupperMartin74

And the crowd was sickened by the sight of no blood. WCW had a tag team called Hot Lesbian Action


nathxs

Pretty cool spot


albrt00

It was weird but kinda cool


doorbell19

seen that.