It's Official: WWE NXT 2.0 Already Sucks
The "then" from which WWE has drawn all century long?
Why, t*tties, of course!
Enter Toxic Attraction, a barely-dressed mean girl gang who don't play by the rules. Everybody was ass-obsessed in the Attitude Era. Kicking ass, whooping ass, and, in the case of Mr. Ass, shoving ass. Sticking ass. Kids are into swearing - rebellion, etc. - so Attitude Era Dean Douglas exists, as Andre Chase, an F bomb-lobbing university professor. Grayson Waller is Marc Mero now - on the October 12 show, he suddenly brought up his Golden Gloves boxing background - but he was an extreme sports dude the week before. Cora Jade rides a skateboard, maintaining the radical theme of the skate-punk '90s. Her boyfriend, Trey Baxter, feels like he must become a superhero to hold onto her, since he's a loser in the ring. Marvel. Avengers. Engagement. The poor f*cker is going to wear a cape any week now.
As a strategy, the show has already failed. As a show, the show f*cking sucks.
NXT 2.0 takes the whacky bullsh*t of the New Generation, removes the artistry of Bret Hart, replaces it with a minor upgrade on the boilerplate WWE style taught in Florida Championship Wrestling, and paces it like Vince Russo with the old, somehow enduring Vince Russo tropes: opening promo segments, two minute matches, promo trains that lead to matches that change twice over the course of the following week. NXT 1.0 was far more like RAW than most were willing to admit, but this is something else. New stars become redundant instantly when they debut alongside about 18 others in the space of a month.
As a result, NXT 2.0 is not yet boring, but then, neither was WCW 2000.
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