Mauro > a watered down, phoning it in, slurring his words on commentary JBL though.

Just now, C.S. said:

What did he say?

From what I can recall, since I can't find the video, he made remarks about how Mauro was giving way too much attention to internet popularity and spent way too much time making bad references.

Well JBL issue was that internet really liked him originally while they REALLY hated him.  And he let people know about it.  Plus I really wonder how much JBL understand or give a shit about Mauro's mental condition.   Now that we have heard about 2 years straight of this, we know how extremely excessive it was

Mauro puts effort into every syllable. JBL phones it in and counts the minutes until happy hour. 

It's weird, because JBL was much better years ago. But by the end, he was clearly overproduced and didn't give a shit.

Legends With JBL was amazing though. It's a shame WWE cut its own nose off by cancelling that, the Stone Cold Podcast, etc.

I had to tap out. The opening women's match was fun but I can't take Mauro. He's just too much. He actively made me shut the show off. I can't do it.

Cole marking out to Meiko Satomura >>>> anything Mauro ever did on commentary.

 

This is Toronto, nothing but nuts!!!!!! This is shorter than a Tik Tok video!!!!!! Mamma Mia Yim!!!!!!!

Seriously. I think about this tweet everytime.

Horrible, horrible. Plus the fact that him and Beth/Nigel barely interact make the NXT commentary team AWFUL.

That tweet was awful and in completely poor taste, but I have to admit, it made me laugh out loud.

Is that you, @KawadaSmile? 

1 minute ago, C.S. said:

That tweet was awful and in completely poor taste, but I have to admit, it made me laugh out loud.

Is that you, @KawadaSmile? 

I wish I made a tweet half as funny as that, my dude.

I love Roddy but those thigh slaps were awful

Fun main event, but this wasn't the blow away show it needed to be IMO.

I no longer have the Network, so the second hour is irrelevant (as it will be to most of the viewing audience watching this on USA). 

Then again, AEW's first show on paper doesn't look amazing either, so we'll see...

 

A little surprised there was no "WHAT IS HE DOING HERE" moment but I assume they will save that when they are going up against AEW  

I think this was a good 1st show. We got a strong women's division, Dream looked GREAT, and the Undisputed Era hold all the belts and are absolute bastards, which makes it easier to follow.

Next week they'll have the big boys go at it, too!

It seems people are having trouble using the Network. They either didn't see this number of people would enter the site simultaneously or didn't bother to make sure the site wouldn't crash. Either way, pretty bad move.

Yeah it is weird it looks like they logged everyone out and when you try to log back in and click SIGN IN you are stuck.  

After many refreshes I finally got in to see the video.  It is strange how it would be a problem now.   Are there that many people watching the USA show going to the network

Don't tease me with the idea of Killian Dain and WALTER being together in the same faction.  

Good to see Lio Rush in a really long and competitive match against Oney Lorcan 

So, LIO RUSH is back? Awesome news IMO!

I thought the show was good enough.  I'm not a regular follower of NXT.

Positives: lighting, production, good promo packages on guys, the 2 matches were both good (nothing blow away but it's TV not Takeover), pacing/easy to watch hour (wondering if it might get old in a 2-hour format); rabid crowd

Negatives: I did have enough of Mauro by the end.  I understand he's usually excitable so that will take some getting used to.  But the constant pop culture references and metaphors got old.  Not sure if that's part of his normal shtick or not.  It's funny for years people complained about announcers not making current pop culture references but with this guy it comes off forced or like an old man desperately trying to seem hip.

I didn't think Dream got to show much of anything tonight in the ring but his character was strong.

1 hour ago, WrestlingPower said:

Not sure if that's part of his normal shtick or not. 

It is, and it's even worse during Takeovers. The last one, Takeover Toronto, was pretty much one of the worst experiences I've had regarding commentary.

I did not realize it was the first "fuck AEW" NXT already. I would watch it out of curiosity, then you all talk about Mauro and I go "eww, no"... That's how much of a turn-off this guy is to me because whereas I can shut off most bad announcing (I did not even notice Bloodsport's for instance), Mauro you just can't ignore, which makes it even worse.

I love how that person in the tweet was all "one show in and they're turning on Mauro" when people have been down on him for a while. Or is PWO just ahead of the curve?

Nice to see that he's taking a page from Seth's playbook and play the "check the bank account" card though.

25 minutes ago, sek69 said:

Or is PWO just ahead of the curve?

I think we're ahead of the curve, like with most things. Like for example on SquaredCircle on Reddit, they LOVE Mauro & will downvote people to hell & back if they say something bad about him. Of course, they also think Kurt Angle & Shawn Michaels are two of the best all-time, that Seth Rollins is great & that Roman Reigns sucks. They also seem to heavily favor WWE as a whole.

SquaredCircle ain't real good...

I'm not sure there is a single good play by play left in the company

No-one has any individual charisma

45 minutes ago, sek69 said:

I love how that person in the tweet was all "one show in and they're turning on Mauro" when people have been down on him for a while. Or is PWO just ahead of the curve?

Nice to see that he's taking a page from Seth's playbook and play the "check the bank account" card though.

I defended him for a long time and liked his commentary for a long time. He's been unbearable since the New York Takeover. He doesn't actively ruin shows like the main roster announcers do but there are a lot of shows where I end up thinking "why is he yelling at me?" The pop culture references can be okay but he throws them out with the finesse of an ox more often than not. He also matches Nigel and Beth worse because they then feel the need to yell. I think his commentary is also getting more exposed because the NXT product has kind of been mediocre since New York and it feels like he's trying to make mediocre content look better by being loud.

1 minute ago, Dale Wolfe said:

I'm not sure there is a single good play by play left in the company

I would argue there are no good commentators left in the company. Renee is good in that Mean Gene kind of role but she's terrible as the third announcer in the three man booth. The three man booth is death and I think it's awful that it seems to be the standard now with WWE and AEW.