WWE has no plans on bringing Balor up atleast in 2016. They want to keep him in NXT to build it as the top face in the company. Their doing a great job with AJ, Zayn, Owens, Corbin, Crews, Enzo & Cas, Anderson & Gallows, Vaudevillains, Charlotte, Becky, Sasha Those are a lot of new characters to introduce and they've done a lot getting them over to an audience that was 75% unfamiliar with them all
Finally got to watch most of RAW. That pop for the New Day was great. London loves them some Booty-Os
What do you want him to say? "Oh yeah, we're gonna bring Finn up for a surprise Balor Club debut when Styles and Reigns face off!" They're not gonna spoil a huge angle like that for some interview no one cares about.
They aren't going to debut someone who half the audience won't know in a huge angle either. They'll bring him along the same way they've done w/ Styles and Zayn. NXT needs to replenish the talent they've lost from the recent wave of call-ups before losing the draw of Finn Balor if they want to continue to elevate the brand. Nakamura & Aries are nice starts but there still new. Itami's been hurt forever and there's not a whole lot besides that right now. I think Swann and Girard could be nice in the next few months. Joe's probably more likely a call up as his WWE run is a lot more of a limited window time wise
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It sucks that the WWE and the 9th wonder of the world couldn't manage to put aside their differences before she died. Honestly she might have lived a bit longer if they had.
Man, life expectancy of pro wrestlers from the 80's and 90's has to be among the lowest of any occupation in the world. I think they've been force to clean it up now (and some people complain that guys aren't roided up monsters). But it was a brutal profession, and extremely seedy. On the road constantly, and despite a lot of them having name recognition, only the mega stars actually became wealthy.
So next week on RAW they obviously HAVE to acknowledge her death, but how much time do you think they'll dedicate to it? I hope they have a nice video montage for her because she did have some awesome highlights through her wrestling career.
Probably just start the show off with a dedication to her... Really sad to see her go, DX was my thing as a kid and it wouldn't have been the same without her. Hated seeing her these past couple years though, you knew she wasn't in a good place and it was only a matter of time. Rest in Peace!
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Seems like Balor will be up on Monday or at payback... I'm super interested in this storyline now! This whole Bullet club/AJ/Finn storyline has the potential to be one of the memorable times in WWE history, if they can keep this thing interesting they could truly be stumbling onto a new era.
Keep it going to Payback, have Anderson and Gallows cost Styles the match. On RAW, Styles calls them out and they basically go, "What, you think we were helping you? Why? Remember you last night in Japan? We kicked you out. The real boss is calling the shots." Music starts up, out comes Balor in his leather jacket. Boom, instant feud.
This is great for Raw & SD but terrible for NXT. I can't believe their doing that. And why not give Joe the title last TakeOver. Or next? Hopefully they can sign Ricochet, Sabre, etc
Not crazy about Balor coming up right now, Let him ride in NXT for a while. I rather call Joe up, and you have an easy made feud with Roman already. Good call rocks_fan. You get a good feud with AJ and Balor going. AJ doesn't take the title off of Roman. You kinda make AJ a main eventer for facing Roman, and now that AJ is in the "main event scene," it makes the feud with Balor look better.
I really hope they don't debut Balor in freaking Hartford, Conn. Save it for Chi Town where the crowd will be hot.
