Scouting Developmental - aka the WWE NXT Thread

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

"Kassius Ohno v. Luke Harper - Ohno is back, not wearing a one-piece body suit...thats always good. Ohno gets some offense in, but ultimately, a five minute win by Luke Harper. I guess this is the part where Kassius Ohno "learns to eat shit...plates and plates of shit.""

How'd the body look?

Not peak, but a lot better than the last time we saw him.

I was reading on another forum, where they have a few guys in Central Florida that go to NXT shows and NXT house shows, that Ohno has been in a funk and it wasn't just his body, but he's just not really motivated for some reason and that was another reason why he got put on the sideline.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

NXT is getting into a bad habit of cutting matches short.

Leo Kruger v. Antonio Cesaro, clearly cut at the break. Supposedly, this was a great match, but its only "good" on TV. I've read they legitimately cut 10 minutes from this match for TV. Terrible.

Check that one out as well as Sami Zayn making Bo Dallas look a lot better than he is.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

So, what do ya'll think is the prognosis on our boy Kassius Ohno?

He had to have pissed someone off really bad with how he went about his business earlier in the year. Its been 7 months since this guy did anything significant, and since then, they dropped him from a featured tag team that would have elevated him to becoming the #2 heel or #2 face in NXT (essentially, the same push Graves/Adrian Neville is now getting) to taking a long hiatus and coming back and being a job for three straight tapings.

They are obviously having him "learn to eat shit"...but...let me ask this...

Does Ohno ever make it to the main roster? He has been in FCW/NXT for a while now...working on almost 2 years (which is long in the tooth for an Indy guy in developmental)...and he's at the bottom of the totem pole. Guys that go to the NXT house shows are saying he's doing dirty squash job duty now, too, losing to guys like Leo Kruger in 3 minute get-no-offense-in jobber squashes.

So...thoughts?

[Warner2BruceTD]

He's done.

He'll be let go in the next round of cuts.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

He's done.

He'll be let go in the next round of cuts.

I hope not, but the longer he goes digging ditches in developmental, the more I am to believe that is his fate. Indy4Life. Seven months of digging ditches is way too long to be doing in developmental, especially when the hallmark of those guys is that they move through it rather quickly, and he's been down there for two years now. Not good, bruh.

[SuperKevin]

I wonder if he is a guy they would keep around as a trainer

[Warner2BruceTD]

I wonder if he is a guy they would keep around as a trainer

I doubt it.

If they are serious about this tag team thing, they should put him with Cesaro. I don't think Cesaro & Swagger have any chemistry. Of course, I doubt anybody in the company with power knows about the King of Wrestling team or how great they are together, so its just a pipe dream. This is where being so arrogant that you ignore the rest of the wrestling world hurts them.

[SuperKevin]

NXT guys I saw today while jogging past the WWE Performance Center

Mojo Rawley
Xavier Woods
Kassius Ohno? (Long hair, beard, glasses, Kentucky liscence plates)

Still no luck with Yoshi Tatsu

[Warner2BruceTD]

NXT guys I saw today while jogging past the WWE Performance Center

Mojo Rawley
Xavier Woods
Kassius Ohno? (Long hair, beard, glasses, Kentucky liscence plates)

Still no luck with Yoshi Tatsu

Do they still have 19 guys who look like Ohno?

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

NXT guys I saw today while jogging past the WWE Performance Center

Mojo Rawley
Xavier Woods
Kassius Ohno? (Long hair, beard, glasses, Kentucky liscence plates)

Still no luck with Yoshi Tatsu

Creepy.

[SuperKevin]

I jog past it daily because it makes for a perfect 7 mile loop from my house using backroads so I don't get slowed by traffic

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

I jog past it daily because it makes for a perfect 7 mile loop from my house using backroads so I don't get slowed by traffic

I would avoid it at all cost...just jogging around, every day, to catch a peek of the wrestlers...then one day, you bump into them...and you're like "Hey, obscure wrestler no one really knows named Mojo Rawley...sup?" ... kinda creepy markish.

Warner goes jogging outside of the Inspire Pro Performance Center and yeah, Biss sent me a PM that was in a similar vein.

[SuperKevin]

They were all in cars. I don't run into any of them in person where we can chat.

[Warner2BruceTD]

Warner goes jogging outside of the Inspire Pro Performance Center and yeah, Biss sent me a PM that was in a similar vein.

Trying to catch Depression without the mask.

Saw LaMotta & Dalton in the same car together and it killed kayfabe for me forever.

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Trying to catch Depression without the mask.

Saw LaMotta & Dalton in the same car together and it killed kayfabe for me forever.

I'm telling you, dude, its fucking Biss, man.