1. NXT...But For Kids!
Have you ever listened to a wrestling match and thought You know what would make this better? If a couple of kids who know nothing about wrestling were announcing instead! Sure, we may have those thoughts briefly when Michael Cole and JBL are speaking, but in reality its even worse than imagined. We found out this week about a pilot of WWE's potential forthcoming show NXT for Kids. It proved the long held belief that children and wrestling are a terrible mix. No, not only terrible, but really, really painful. Apparently WWE's TVPG programming wasn't child like enough, so NXT for Kids has been born. On commentary we had Corey Graves and two actual children. Theyreferred to Jessie McKay as kangaroo lady because she's from Australia, and because that's something someone under 10 would say. Graves, bless his heart, played along with this. Look at that referee's face. He looks like an older Vin Diesel! said one of the announcer children who should instead be at school instead of trying to think of funny or interesting things to say on a world wide television show. NXT for Kids is one of those things, like Grown Ups 2 that you dont even need to experience to know its horrendous. If this gets picked up, run. Get away as fast as you can! The NXT brand is pretty strong, but Vince McMahon must want to drag it down to Superstars and Main Event level because he doesn't like fun. Somebody find these kids a babysitter. Time to kick out.
Andrew Soucek
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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