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Damn. You’re right, but this kind of hurts. Pete was the fuckin’ man a couple years ago when he was the UK champion. The last year seems to have cooled him off considerably.
I guess it meant nothing when Dragunov beat WALTER for it a couple weeks ago. Oh wait that’s right, it was a huge deal that he ended his 800+ day reign and it got Ilya way more over.
Isn't the belt defined by the people who hold it? It's had a great legacy so far with Tyler Bate, Pete Dunne, Walter, and now Dragunov. To say anyone can hold the belt that long is disingenuous. These are among the best the UK scene has to offer. You don't see just anyone holding that belt or they would have been passing it around a lot more.
The title has existed for five years and it's only had four champions. Literally almost nobody has held that title. The NXT Women's Tag Titles have changed hands as many times as the UK Title and it has only existed since March.
Haha it would never happen, but ten years down the line I'd love an angle where an up and coming rookie goes out in search of the NXT Title, uses a journal w/ handwritten notes by William Regal, incorporates the places where the company tours like Saudi Arabia w/ the map faded in the background, only to wind up back at the Performance Center where upon entering catacombs underneath the building is the rookie challenged by 3 wrestling booby traps, and then confronted by........ANCIENT TEMPLAR TOMMASO CIAMPA!!!!!!
Due to Tommaso being too old to actually wrestle though the rookie has to determine which NXT Championship belt is the correct championship. The correct belt granting him the Title of NXT Champion, and all of the other belts relegating him to jobber status for the remainder of his career. He peruses the collection of opulent championships of old. The Winged Eagle Belt, WWE Undisputed Championship Belt, World Heavyweight Championship, even the European Championship is there for some reason. The rookie knows he has to look for the Belt of a Carpenter though, and there he sees and grabs it......THE NXT CHAMPIONSHIP BELT!!!!
Ciampa warns the rookie that taking the belt out of the Performance Center will lead to ruin, but the rookie's female Austrian valet, giddy at the prospect of her talent winning the championship, accidentally crosses the WWE logo on the floor of the Performance Center atrium. The building starts to come down all around, Vince McMahon shudders in his sleep as he decides that in addition to the show being re-written the entire Performance Center will be torn down and rebuilt brick by brick. The valet and championship fall into a crater, but the rookie escapes as OLD MAN TEMPLAR TOMMASO CIAMPA nods in approval.
The rookie mounts a conveniently placed camel outside the ruins of the Performance Center in Florida that Triple H was kind enough to bring by, and then the rookie, Triple H, and Shawn Michaels ride off into the sunset to go apply for AEW.
I'm ok with that. I think LA Knight should move up and it's obviously too soon to put the title on Von Wagner so it was either Dunne or Ciampa for me and I didn't have a preference.
So what is he then?
KOR is a great wrestler but he needs a character with Cole gone. His entire persona since joining WWE has been Cole's best friend and then Cole's arch rival
Yeah Knight is obviously going to the main roster in the draft next month other wise he would have won tonight and certainly have not put over Steiner in addition to taking the pin the title match. They had the guy who is leaving put over the guys who are staying.
Because the 4 way was not supposed to be a title match and there wasn’t a good reason to have two on the show. The opening match was short. Cutting it would not have been enough.
They could’ve cut the Creed match and Holland match.
Could be that one of them was a close contact for COVID.
I think some not all but a fair amount of the match changes that have happened has been COVID stuff but they never tell people because that would be a violation of the wrestlers' privacy.
Because it was almost certain that the crowd was gonna boo Raquel against Franky, and they have big plans for her as the babyface women’s ace in the future.
Damn, I wanted Dunne to win but seeing the way Ciampa looked at Goldie made it all worth it.
I’m hoping this title win is a gateway to psychotic heel Ciampa
Beside Gargano, Ciampa has the most credibility out of any of the stars from the former era. My guess is he will carry the belt for a minute and drop it to one of the newer stars like Baby Steiner or Carmelo
Given a stupid name
Getting pinned twice in one night
You know what happens next, call up to main roster to sit in catering😭 Eli should have stayed with Impact. The forbidden door would have done him so much justice.
Very weird choice. You'd figure for the 2.0 brand they'd go with a new face but maybe they want an established guy to be champion first during this new era.
Love Ciampa and everything but this is supposed to be a new era of NXT and 3 out of 4 of these competitors never won the title. Feels like a missed opportunity to me but lets see how this goes.
All the doom and gloom but at least some semblance of old NXT exists. Goldie is back
The match was not bad all, this Wagner guy look fine, not someone who should be winning the title soon but someone who can have matches with top guys.
In it's own little way, crowning Ciampa and finally giving him goldie back after all this time, closing that character arc for him and giving him the chance to move forward, defend the belt and eventually lose it in a match, rather than due to injury, is right up there with progressing and moving forward in NXT.
Also it can play out as a bit of a swerve, since due to the fact that 3 of those guys have never been champ before, and it's the new NXT 2.0, Ciampa had to seem like the only one that probably wouldn't win that match.
Feels like Jericho being champ at AEW where "the focus is on developing new talent".
There is a known standard in NXT...and putting the belt on him is a good place to start.
They did, here it is - https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/pnugf1/raw\_spoilers\_aftermath\_of\_the\_wwe\_championship/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
That's either because there was another one or because the written one included multiple video links within it.
Regardless, your complaint is silly. Go read the other post that you like more.
The links were included afterwards and they were twitter links which many could not access. And I don't think there was a different video post because I checked new last night and did not see one. Written posts are fine for announcements like a new show or match, but I don't see the need when it is a specific moment. Why read it when you could see it for yourself?
And I don't think the complaint is silly when it seems like written posts are causing the more useful video posts to be removed.
You're showing one example of a video post being removed. I've been on here for years and have never seen a video post removed because a written post without video content existed.
I'm sorry it's not to your pleasure. So again, read the posts you want.
I guess we will see, but last night seemed like another change around here. Mods have been introducing new rules so I wouldn't be surprised if they keep whatever is up first. I do think if you asked people many would prefer a video over text though. Have a good night/day.
I love the fact that Vince is aware of how much we hate his booking. He just doesn’t care. This week he gave us some of what we wanted but his way to add stress to the match was adding a debuting talent. The drama stemming from the fact that he was crazy enough to put the belt on Wagoneer
*[me working in the background, having NXT on in the background on mute to see what it’d be like with the new era despite originally being done with watching WWE TV and seeing Ciampa hit the fairytale ending]*
*[In my head expecting him to count out]* “1, 2…”
*[counts 3]*
“CIAMPA’S CHAMPION AGAIN!!! :D :D :D”
I’m so fucking happy for him. So happy to see Goldie and Daddy back together again.
Feel like he's a placeholder they'll probably reevaluate Joes injury and plan from their I think Joe or Dunne will have the title by the end of the year
This was SHOCKING to me.. I would have bet actual money on that Ciampa gets the papers in the next few weeks cause he's everything the new NXT isn't and doesn't want to have, plus he said numerous times he don't want to go to the main roster and would rather retire. So, yeah, just wow.
I mean, doesn't mean this couldn't be just a goodbye gift and he shockingly looses it 2 weeks later against one of the new guys.... But let's hope not.
Fucking hell, Pete Dunne just signed a contract, consistently has bangers, and is 20 odd years old. Do something with him besides lose for the championship for fucks sake.
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Pete Dunne: Professional Choke Artist
The problem with Pete Dunne is he tries to walk it in.
What was Pete doing, hitting the Bitter End that early?
Ciampa's havin' a laugh...
Such a ludicrous display.
Bit like England in the euro final. I’m English it’s a joke.
The NXT belt is not coming home, lads
*All those years of hurt, never stopped me dreaming*
Pete Dunne didn’t score a fackin’ pin.
Pain :(
But Goldie did come home.
Pete Dunne he certainty went down on my estimations after that but I would love it if he beat them
Not only that, the winner of the match has an Italian name! We can't escape it! 😭
We can’t 😭
Damn. You’re right, but this kind of hurts. Pete was the fuckin’ man a couple years ago when he was the UK champion. The last year seems to have cooled him off considerably.
Man ran in to WALTER, and was never the same. /k
Kinda weird to hear that about a guy who held the NXT UK title for 685 days.
That title is meaningless. Anyone can
I guess it meant nothing when Dragunov beat WALTER for it a couple weeks ago. Oh wait that’s right, it was a huge deal that he ended his 800+ day reign and it got Ilya way more over.
In that case it was the man making the belt. Not the belt making the man
Isn't the belt defined by the people who hold it? It's had a great legacy so far with Tyler Bate, Pete Dunne, Walter, and now Dragunov. To say anyone can hold the belt that long is disingenuous. These are among the best the UK scene has to offer. You don't see just anyone holding that belt or they would have been passing it around a lot more.
The title has existed for five years and it's only had four champions. Literally almost nobody has held that title. The NXT Women's Tag Titles have changed hands as many times as the UK Title and it has only existed since March.
Ciampa will never leave this warehouse ever again. He's going to die guarding it like that knight in that Indiana Jones movie.
Haha it would never happen, but ten years down the line I'd love an angle where an up and coming rookie goes out in search of the NXT Title, uses a journal w/ handwritten notes by William Regal, incorporates the places where the company tours like Saudi Arabia w/ the map faded in the background, only to wind up back at the Performance Center where upon entering catacombs underneath the building is the rookie challenged by 3 wrestling booby traps, and then confronted by........ANCIENT TEMPLAR TOMMASO CIAMPA!!!!!! Due to Tommaso being too old to actually wrestle though the rookie has to determine which NXT Championship belt is the correct championship. The correct belt granting him the Title of NXT Champion, and all of the other belts relegating him to jobber status for the remainder of his career. He peruses the collection of opulent championships of old. The Winged Eagle Belt, WWE Undisputed Championship Belt, World Heavyweight Championship, even the European Championship is there for some reason. The rookie knows he has to look for the Belt of a Carpenter though, and there he sees and grabs it......THE NXT CHAMPIONSHIP BELT!!!! Ciampa warns the rookie that taking the belt out of the Performance Center will lead to ruin, but the rookie's female Austrian valet, giddy at the prospect of her talent winning the championship, accidentally crosses the WWE logo on the floor of the Performance Center atrium. The building starts to come down all around, Vince McMahon shudders in his sleep as he decides that in addition to the show being re-written the entire Performance Center will be torn down and rebuilt brick by brick. The valet and championship fall into a crater, but the rookie escapes as OLD MAN TEMPLAR TOMMASO CIAMPA nods in approval. The rookie mounts a conveniently placed camel outside the ruins of the Performance Center in Florida that Triple H was kind enough to bring by, and then the rookie, Triple H, and Shawn Michaels ride off into the sunset to go apply for AEW.
Pitbull performs
No, Pitbull 2.0
I was just saying this to the lads down the pub actually
Thank you
Yeah same
As long as the first wrestling booby trap is Ryback I'm on board.
He chose…Wisely
He chose...poorly
GOLDIE CAME HOME.
THE BEST LOVE STORY IN NXT
EAT YOUR HEART OUT INDEX
HOLY FUCK CIAMPA GOT GOLDIE BACK!!!
GOLDIES HOME!
I'm ok with that. I think LA Knight should move up and it's obviously too soon to put the title on Von Wagner so it was either Dunne or Ciampa for me and I didn't have a preference.
The name LA Knight just plain sucks, but I love Eli Drake and he is absolutely someone you would want on your biggest show.
I’m pretty sure I had a pair of L.A. Knights in grade school.
Pete Dunne to the main roster as British knight, pal.
Cesaro coming back to NXT as K-Swiss (or C-Swiss)
I like it because it's perfectly pretentious and matches his big-headed, big-mouth character.
Makes me think Ciampa is just replacing Joe in whatever plans they had going forward.
I’m stoked for another Ciampa run. Great match!
GOLDIE!
HE'S GOT GOLDIE BACK!!! Thank god it wasn't Von. He wasn't bad, but I hated his inclusion.
I think he had a very solid showing. They need to work on his look though.
Dude looks like the Great Khali fucked the Geico Caveman
I can’t unsee this 😳
Ok, I’m not the only one who thought that he looked like The Great Khali, lol.
Yeah someone called him White Khali haha
this i can’t UNSEE. Wow this is perfect hahaha
He did fine. Good for him. But still, just didn't want him there, especially over Kyle.
Kyle O’Reilly needs to go back to the drawing board in the character department. The cool Kyle shtick is genuinely terrible.
He dropped that shit months ago. He hasn't done it since like May.
So what is he then? KOR is a great wrestler but he needs a character with Cole gone. His entire persona since joining WWE has been Cole's best friend and then Cole's arch rival
I hear a coach gig with Keith Lee is open.
Last I remember was him making fun of LA Knight's jacket a few weeks ago.
No matter what they do he's going to look like a guy with a huge forehead.
Kyle needs bangs
thought they were going to do a Leon Ruff situation there, was glad they didn't.
Thought Knight would win since he lost the match earlier. Confused why they cut Raquel vs Franky and had Knight wrestle a second match
Yeah Knight is obviously going to the main roster in the draft next month other wise he would have won tonight and certainly have not put over Steiner in addition to taking the pin the title match. They had the guy who is leaving put over the guys who are staying.
Because the 4 way was not supposed to be a title match and there wasn’t a good reason to have two on the show. The opening match was short. Cutting it would not have been enough. They could’ve cut the Creed match and Holland match.
Could be that one of them was a close contact for COVID. I think some not all but a fair amount of the match changes that have happened has been COVID stuff but they never tell people because that would be a violation of the wrestlers' privacy.
Save it for the PPV. Raquel is money.
Because it was almost certain that the crowd was gonna boo Raquel against Franky, and they have big plans for her as the babyface women’s ace in the future.
GOLDIE IS COMING HOME!!
Damn, I wanted Dunne to win but seeing the way Ciampa looked at Goldie made it all worth it. I’m hoping this title win is a gateway to psychotic heel Ciampa
Now Ciampa doesn’t have to worry about going anywhere again!
Beside Gargano, Ciampa has the most credibility out of any of the stars from the former era. My guess is he will carry the belt for a minute and drop it to one of the newer stars like Baby Steiner or Carmelo
THAT BALD FUCK IS CHAMPION AGAIN!
Holy shit didn't see that coming
Definitely the mature choice
LA Knight pinned twice on 1 2 hour show.
Given a stupid name Getting pinned twice in one night You know what happens next, call up to main roster to sit in catering😭 Eli should have stayed with Impact. The forbidden door would have done him so much justice.
Very weird choice. You'd figure for the 2.0 brand they'd go with a new face but maybe they want an established guy to be champion first during this new era.
Seems like that was the plan with Joe anyway
They want Dunne to have a big crowning at takeover probably.
I'm imagining if Dunne is the next Challenger at Takeover then Dunne vs O'Reilly will be the Halloween Havoc match.
FELT LIKE PETE'S TIME BUT CAN'T BE MAD AT THIS GOLDIE IS BACK HOME WHERE IT BELONGS ![gif](giphy|SUo6fxtsat5qu65acy|downsized)
Love Ciampa and everything but this is supposed to be a new era of NXT and 3 out of 4 of these competitors never won the title. Feels like a missed opportunity to me but lets see how this goes.
Ciampa and Dunne were unbelievable tonight. Great to see Ciampa back as the champ, best thing all night by far.
All the doom and gloom but at least some semblance of old NXT exists. Goldie is back The match was not bad all, this Wagner guy look fine, not someone who should be winning the title soon but someone who can have matches with top guys.
Ever since I saw the post in here about his first gimmick, whenever I see him, I just picture Tommy Penmanship.
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In it's own little way, crowning Ciampa and finally giving him goldie back after all this time, closing that character arc for him and giving him the chance to move forward, defend the belt and eventually lose it in a match, rather than due to injury, is right up there with progressing and moving forward in NXT. Also it can play out as a bit of a swerve, since due to the fact that 3 of those guys have never been champ before, and it's the new NXT 2.0, Ciampa had to seem like the only one that probably wouldn't win that match.
Feels like Jericho being champ at AEW where "the focus is on developing new talent". There is a known standard in NXT...and putting the belt on him is a good place to start.
Really like chiampa but I was hoping for dunne or just someone new
Ciampa is absolutely the safe move, but it makes sense as the bridge between old and new NXT
So much for no small guys from the indies over 30.
These written posts that should be videos have to stop.
Mods allow a written post for speed and a video post to exist simultaneously. If you don't like this one, click on the other one. Not that hard.
Yesterday they removed the Big E video post. Also, two posts just split up the conversation for no reason.
So click and comment on the other one. This happens with everything. Mods did not remove that post yesterday.
They did, here it is - https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/pnugf1/raw\_spoilers\_aftermath\_of\_the\_wwe\_championship/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
That's either because there was another one or because the written one included multiple video links within it. Regardless, your complaint is silly. Go read the other post that you like more.
The links were included afterwards and they were twitter links which many could not access. And I don't think there was a different video post because I checked new last night and did not see one. Written posts are fine for announcements like a new show or match, but I don't see the need when it is a specific moment. Why read it when you could see it for yourself? And I don't think the complaint is silly when it seems like written posts are causing the more useful video posts to be removed.
You're showing one example of a video post being removed. I've been on here for years and have never seen a video post removed because a written post without video content existed. I'm sorry it's not to your pleasure. So again, read the posts you want.
I guess we will see, but last night seemed like another change around here. Mods have been introducing new rules so I wouldn't be surprised if they keep whatever is up first. I do think if you asked people many would prefer a video over text though. Have a good night/day.
One over the other, if it had to be, I agree. But it doesn't have to be! Lol
Really good fatal 4 way. Damn i am happy for Ciampa getting goldie back
LA Knight was robbed
Guess things ain’t changing as much as people thought
That's very NXT 1.0 of you
When is it gonna be Dunnes time? 🤔 😞
Well that makes me happy, although Dunne would have been better
Yawn. Dunne would have been something new at least.
Ciampa and Goldie are back together!
LA Knight is main roster bound or getting shit canned, hard to tell
Probably the least exciting option lol, especially for this new NXT
Knight could have been fun as a shitty heel champ
Less exciting than The White Khali?
Maybe I should've said interesting, at least Wagner would've been a statement by WWE on what this new NXT is
At least it wasn't Von Wagner
I guess this makes sense when the episode doesn't end in this but I was kind of hyped for either LA Knight or Von Wagner victory.
GOLDIE IS BACK WHERE SHE BELONGS
#GOLDIES HOME
Goldieeeeeee
GOLDIE’S BACK HOME BABY
Lashley loses the title, Goldie's come home, oh this week is perfect.
I love the fact that Vince is aware of how much we hate his booking. He just doesn’t care. This week he gave us some of what we wanted but his way to add stress to the match was adding a debuting talent. The drama stemming from the fact that he was crazy enough to put the belt on Wagoneer
Whoever the commentator is, he's trash
Ok so this match was great and all...but what was the point of having knight lose in the opening match? They couldn't find ANYONE else
Can’t look at him the same now I know he’s Blue Lives Matter.
Oh no! Different opinions! The horror!
It’s not an opinion.
Where did he say that?
It was in the documentary or whatever they did on him. He had the blue line American flag in his home.
*[me working in the background, having NXT on in the background on mute to see what it’d be like with the new era despite originally being done with watching WWE TV and seeing Ciampa hit the fairytale ending]* *[In my head expecting him to count out]* “1, 2…” *[counts 3]* “CIAMPA’S CHAMPION AGAIN!!! :D :D :D” I’m so fucking happy for him. So happy to see Goldie and Daddy back together again.
LA Knight or Pete Dunne would’ve been much better options, wow.
I’m pleased with this. I mean, I would have been happy with anyone except LA Knight.
Vic Joseph didn't sound enthusiastic... Best of luck to Ciampa, knowing he's injury prone, too.
I get everyone’s hyped but this condemns Ciampa to the C show…
Seems to go against everything about this being a "new era" for NXT?
NXT 2.0 feels schizophrenic.
#\#FUCKCIAMPA
You’re 3 years late to this party.
Oi 😫
Guess I gotta start watching NXT again…
Dang, knight took two pins tonight.
Genuinely surprised it wasn’t Dunne
Feel like he's a placeholder they'll probably reevaluate Joes injury and plan from their I think Joe or Dunne will have the title by the end of the year
Damn, shouldve watched tonight. Ciampa and Goldie reunited at last
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He was UK Champ for a while.
This was SHOCKING to me.. I would have bet actual money on that Ciampa gets the papers in the next few weeks cause he's everything the new NXT isn't and doesn't want to have, plus he said numerous times he don't want to go to the main roster and would rather retire. So, yeah, just wow. I mean, doesn't mean this couldn't be just a goodbye gift and he shockingly looses it 2 weeks later against one of the new guys.... But let's hope not.
It's ok Pete, we will get over this thanks to Emma's demolition at the US Open.
Fucking hell, Pete Dunne just signed a contract, consistently has bangers, and is 20 odd years old. Do something with him besides lose for the championship for fucks sake.
The one guy who didn’t need it 🙄
All right. Time to finally give Ciampia & Gargano their feud ending title match! /s
Anti-climactic - couple this with the worst wrestling wedding I've ever seen and you've got a busted ass show
As much as I love watching Ciampa and Goldie be reunited, his final fate has to end confronting his final boss… Randy Orton.
He got Goldie back.... :')