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Lopen posted...

I don't associate things like
heel faction beatdowns
bad guest commentators
pointless celebrity appearances
dumb unclean finishes (that don't involve distractions/interference into a schoolboy)

With WWE. I associate them with wrestling. WWE overuses them but like it's not inherently a WWE trait for me. It's mostly the stuff I mentioned specifically that gives WWE specifically negative associations for me. That doesn't mean it doesn't have other dumb stuff it does but on the presentation layer those are the important things to avoid and AEW did that and NXT doesn't as much it's mostly the commentary really and I said as much (NXT cutting to commercials during matches more often is also a big thing-- though they did it less last night for at least part of the show I'm not convinced that'll be the norm)

But the thing is that NXT does that stuff far less than WWE or (at least based on their first episode) AEW. Outside of the main event, the finishes were clean (I guess you could argue Cole with the cast-shot put into the shenanigan category), the only celebrity was a rapper rapping to wrestlers who have a rap entrance theme, I don't think we've had any guest commentators (let alone bad ones) since NXT has moved to live TV, and has the UE beatdown anyone yet, either?

It's really hard to argue AEW bucks all the trends and NXT is WWE Jr based on the presentation so far.
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