The NXT Thread

[Mr. Mojo Risin]

The crowd goes absolutely apeshit.

[JTCole]

That event apparently drew 5200 fans.

Holy shit

[Northwoods_Nightmare]

That event apparently drew 5200 fans.

Holy shit

That's almost as good as a Smackdown taping, and from the few fan videos the crowd looked like one of the hottest crowds ever, especially considering it was 1AM. Granted, it's special circumstances, but still awesome...

[Mr. Mojo Risin]

That attendence number is insane.

[JTCole]

That attendence number is insane.

And it was pretty much all grass roots, word of mouth hype via the internet. No national TV ads.

[Mr. Mojo Risin]

That's what makes it insane.

[JTCole]

Two big pieces of news; Network now has 1.3 million subs worldwide so that's good for NXT. Second, they are advertising monthly live specials now. That might not be good news but we'll see.

[Robareid]

Still under 1 million paying average in Q1. For a quarter that has both Mania and the Rumble, that's not good. As a result, there's been a huge stock fall.

[Thelone]

Two big pieces of news; Network now has 1.3 million subs worldwide so that's good for NXT. Second, they are advertising monthly live specials now. That might not be good news but we'll see.

Ugh, this sucks. They're gonna have like 3-4 hours to build a two-hour special every month, that's way too short. Great way to cheapen your product and the importance of the supercards.

[Robareid]

WWE screwed up their press release, Takeovers are remaining quarterly.

[JTCole]

That's good news. Honestly I think they could up their live specials to 6 a year and be OK.

[Northwoods_Nightmare]

Agreed that the two hour live specials are good at 4 per year. They could do a live broadcast monthly though, that wasn't necessarily a "special." Have a regular TV taping with one episode broadcast live and the other episodes taped for the rest of the month. For the live episode you could have a big main event, but one that didn't need to be built to ala Owens vs Balor.

[DXvsNWO1994]

According to a report contributed to PWInsider, CJ Parker has been released.

[JTCole]

That's a shame. Personally I thought he could have worked as an annoying heel on Raw and his ring skills weren't that bad.

Maybe he can get a spot in ROH since he was initially trained by Truth Martini.

[Robareid]

Asked for his own release apparently

[Pogo]

He is a Truth Martini guy.Maybe we will see him in ROH!But with a different gimmik i hope!

[DXvsNWO1994]

CJ Parker will now be going by the name of CJP on the indies. He's already been booked for CZW's Best of the Best 14 next weekend.

[JTCole]

Official attendance of the San Jose show was 4700. Not quite 5200 as reported earlier but still bugnuts crazy.

[Northwoods_Nightmare]

I read somewhere (sorry, I forget where) that WWE isn't considering the ECW Arena because they want a bigger venue given the live success so far. Anyone else hear this?
If true, I think it's a little premature. Yeah, NXT is popular, but a Wrestlemania weekend show is sure to get a much better draw than usual, right?

[BTW10]

From last week's Observer:

Expect more major events from NXT. There is talk of running NXT shows on Saturday nights in markets that WWE does a PPV on Sundays in. That would mean another head-to-head confrontation with ROH on 8/22 if they do this in New York for SummerSlam. Originally they were going to book smaller arenas, but rumors in Philadelphia is when they debut there, they are no longer looking at the 2300 Arena which holds 1,000, but instead the Liacouris Center at Temple University, a 10,000-seat arena.