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No, I don't believe so. The t-shirt that WWE has released for Joe reads "Submission Specialist." My guess is that's how he will be branded in NXT and even beyond that, if he makes his way to the main roster.
Also, what do you think of Jose Mathews' comment about Samoa Joe's WWE debut: How did the @WWENXT announcers know who @SamoaJoe was if we are #obscurity in their world? Sick of hypocrisy.?
I don't really have any issue with what Mathews wrote. He's not wrong in pointing it out. It is hypocritical, but it's not like WWE is ever going to plug TNA. I am sure WWE will explain it away as saying something like, "Samoa Joe has been wrestling all over the globe" like they do for Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn.
Is it too late for TNA to opt out of their agreement with Destination America and return to Spike TV?
Now, that's funny. TNA can't go back to Spike unless they want TNA and while Spike has been keeping it's eye on the pro wrestling business, I don't believe we'll see TNA back on there anytime soon, if ever.
XT is awesome right now and wrestling fans are responding accordingly. My concern is that as the product grows, WWE will bastardize it and turn NXT into another version of Vince's vision of the business, just as he did with ECW. Based on history, how concerned should we be and how long until that happens?
Dave Scherer and I discussed something along these lines last week in the Elite section here on the site. It's obvious that at some point, the culture of WWE is going to have to change and adapt as these NXT talents move up or the talents and the NXT style is going to be assimilated into the way WWE runs things. Which way it goes will depend on several things - when Triple H gets to make the final call over how the main roster product is presented and if he will ever go to war with Vince McMahon when their philosophies clash. Whether that happens, I can't say but it's obvious NXT is starting a big shift within WWE on the talent side.
Has there been any indication that the WWE Network will add old series like Mid-Atlantic Wrestling or Mid-South/UWF anytime soon? I'm growing impatient.
I wish there was definitive word but so far, nothing official on either series. I really, really think it would benefit WWE to pick a territory and begin rolling out their episodes weekly at the same time. Fans want to watch that material episodically and hopefully, we will all get that chance. For right now, though, the current thought process is that producing original content will be what drives buyers to the Network and makes stockholders happy.
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