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How about the ultimate TL
R with a three up, three down article?
Negatives:
Sounds crazy given the rest of this thread is almost saying "This is a waste of a Bayley debut at Battleground" - fuck off with that anyway - but I think it's too BIG of a spot. The whole appeal of Bayley is in the writing. She's a dork. She's over because she's so likable despite her best friends turning on her and being left behind as the rest of the great girls get called up and dealing with all these terrible people and AHH I WANNA SEE HER SUCCEED SO BADLY AND... That's part of why we know this character has less of a main roster chance than Tyler Breeze did, because she's a HUGE deal on NXT and therefore has to be treated as a big deal on the main roster and... just in a snap, Bayley gets pretty exposed as someone who's largely a "subpar talent". Eventually putting her with Ryan Ward on Smackdown is a great idea though, but I assume Bayley's being delayed until after she gets her rematch with Asuka.
Seriously though, "Emma as a surprise mystery opponent to turn on Dana" could work on paper but even I don't care about that. :blackshock:
NO on Paige. NO no no no no do NOT. Nothing against her but you spent at least 2 weeks of build just for Sasha to say "I've got a mystery partner!" after we all assume the tag match with Paige is happening anyway and nobody gives a shit about the drama of the mystery partner, so now if you're like "dundundaadaa, it's Paige!" we were rewarded for our apathy towards this pointless circlejerk of nothing. Seriously why announce the mystery partner if it's going to be lame? That's why the mystery partner thing doesn't draw, this is just getting our hopes up for no reason because someone in the back thought it would be funny to troll the internet with OMG IT MITE B BAYLEY Y'ALL
Sidenote: No, don't have Lita or someone be the mystery partner and then pin Charlotte and disappear, unless you want Ashley Flair to also show up at UFC 203. Fuck off with that lol
anyway, positives:
Shadow said it. Carmella as Sasha's sidekick? That.... could... work quite well! Hell Carmella's the perfect callup right now. She's lost in the NXT shuffle, improved at an alarming rate, and is so small a name that there's so little pressure on her to perform/underwhelm on the main roster. And that's a really cool way to debut her. Sticking her with Enzo and Cass is a waste of time unless they're going to re-meet in new viginettes, neither act really needs the other, so lets do this!
Timing doesn't matter for Asuka. She can just arrive anytime and kick faces. Yay! And this is such a great time because of the look on Dana's face will be priceless... Hey, they can even call Dana back up to NXT so she can "dominate the NXT Diva's Division" or whatever while the commentators make clearly veiled references on her ducking Asuka.
The best idea I've seen for this, though, would be Becky just going berserk. Crush Natalya. Take little offense, just ground and pound and T-Bone Suplex the life out of her, get a dominant win, show the heels looking impressively at her performance and Sasha saying "Oh btw, that's my partner..."
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