The NXT Universe passionately love their product and rabidly support it because they feel like their responses to promos, matches, debuts and defeats matters. It's really that simple. When Sasha Banks interrupted Bayley, all it took was for Bayley to accept Sasha hinting at a rematch for a rematch to happen, and for the rematch to be an Ironman match was a cherry on top of the pie. As well, the crowd so passionately cares about the quality of the product that they actively advocate for matches that they know aren't going to stink in the ring, too. By comparison, I can't imagine too many people in the WWE Universe who (a) wanted Sting to come back and (b) to face Seth Rollins. Same goes for the Miz, Big Show and Ryback Feud, as well as anything that involves Seth Rollins handcuffing bi-polar and personality-disordered Kane to a turnbuckle, either. But Cesaro vs. Kevin Owens, Brock Lesnar chasing Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose making a scrappy comeback after getting Superman punched in the grill by Roman Reigns, and John Cena/Dolph Ziggler fending off The New Day only for Cena to eat a Zig Zag? Yeah. That should be on TV right now. But it's not, much to the detriment of the main roster being better than the polar opposite of a brand that refuses to listen to the fans, NXT.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
