More Plans for WWE NXT Revealed, Inoki-WWE Update, Backlash

Posted by Marc Middleton on Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Partial source: PWInsider.com

- Devin sent the following: Tickets for the 4/25 WWE Backlash PPV at the 1st Mariner Arena in Baltimore, Maryland will go on sale on 3/6 with tickets ranging $200 down to $20.

- Antonio Inoki noted at the WWE Hall of Fame acceptance ceremony in Japan that he would also be attending WrestleMania that week. WWE’s Ed Wells presented Inoki with a Hall of Fame certificate at the ceremony.

- As noted before, WWE has been going back and forth on whether or not to have veterans on the new NXT show. Word now is that the show will still feature veterans from other brands to help draw ratings. Apparently there will be regular appearances from WWE Superstars on the show to “mentor and hinder” the new talents on NXT.


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12 Responses to More Plans for WWE NXT Revealed, Inoki-WWE Update, Backlash:

  1. Valo487

    Date: Feb 09, 2010 at 12:27 PM

    Triple H already hinders new talent, does he need a whole roster to play with now?

    Or even better, someone debuts on NXT, they work out with him and then suddenly they’re the new world champion. So many wonderful possibilities.

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  2. Hindred

    Date: Feb 09, 2010 at 12:44 PM

    Triple H really hindered Sheamus and Drew McIntyre.

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  3. Scooter

    Date: Feb 09, 2010 at 1:19 PM

    valo to me he only hinders guys who had a pretty good career prior to wwe (r-truth and cm punk to name two) I guess he never realized that Sheamus and Drew are pretty big names in the UK and Ireland

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  4. AJ

    Date: Feb 09, 2010 at 2:04 PM

    Yeah he really buried Legacy when they had 3 great PPV matches against them or the fact that until WrestleMania 25, he hadn’t won a WrestleMania match since WrestleMania 19 or the fact that Cena, Orton, & Batista were elevated with programs with Triple H

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  5. Valo487

    Date: Feb 09, 2010 at 2:20 PM

    Whoa, you boys sure showed me. Perhaps if some of you had a memory longer than 6 months you’d understand what I’m talking about. Scooter hit the nail on the head, because if anyone remembers when they first created the World Heavyweight Championship and the reign of terror Triple H had at that point, you’d remember how they buried Chris Jericho, Booker T, RVD and Kane by having all of them get built up just so they could fall under the awesome power of the Nose. And Randy Orton got all of his momentum killed by Triple H, Mick Foley and Chris Benoit made Randy Orton, Triple H showed up the day after Orton wins the title, spends four weeks beating the crap out of him and then beats him for the title. Way to make a new star there. Orton’s where he is now because he has incredible ability, not because Triple H helped his career. The only new guys he wants to elevate are his buddies. Legacy? Yeah, they’ve really gone places because of him, considering the few times they beat him he jumps on the microphone to make sure everyone knows they didn’t really beat him. Or are you forgetting that HBK typically takes the 1-2-3 in these affairs?

    But whatever, I’m wrong. It’s purely a coincidence that monotony and stagnation follow him to whichever brand he’s on.

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  6. Robert

    Date: Feb 09, 2010 at 4:09 PM

    Triple H does things that piss me off but I think people are just so quick to judge him one way or the other with hating him and loving him. Honestly, I find him really boring, but he still gets really loud pops, you can’t deny that. Things I’ve hated that he’s done recently: eliminate C.M. Punk from the Royal Rumble; beating Randy Orton at WM 25. That’s it, really. (Giving the DX merch to the kid at ringside really pissed me off, too, but we’re just talking about storyline-wise right now.)

    You’ve gotta remember that when Triple H got drafted to Smackdown, he took a real backseat to Edge, Jeff Hardy, and Undertaker for a really long time. The storyline was Edge/Vickie, Jeff Hardy’s ascension to the title, Edge’s return and then PINNING Triple H, Jeff Hardy FINALLY becoming champion at Armageddon, and Triple H getting eliminated from Royal Rumble by Cena. He spent a long time out of the spotlight. He had a match with Great Khali at Summerslam ’08 for crying out loud. I wish he would stay out of the spotlight more, but this reign of horror stuff hasn’t been going on for 5+ years now. Get over it. Focus on things he does recently that piss you off. I named two.

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  7. Osi

    Date: Feb 09, 2010 at 4:49 PM

    Lol, stupid HHH hate. Orton wouldn’t be where he is now without HHH.

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  8. RyanMKZ

    Date: Feb 09, 2010 at 5:34 PM

    Orton hinders more then HHH

    HHH = Batista, Orton, Sheamus, McIntyre
    Orton… the Mr. Kennedy situation anyway ? Orton said Kennedy broke Ortons nail or something, threw a fit and got him fired

    Trip was actually on Tough Enough i saw that episode recently actually teaching Maven and the rest about bumps and intesity

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  9. Valo487

    Date: Feb 09, 2010 at 11:06 PM

    OK guys. I love how I hear on this site over and over again that Raw sucks, that everyone’s sick of this and that, that Orton and Nose at WM25 sucked, and blah blah blah, but people will jump up to accuse me of blindly hating Triple H, ordering me to get over it, and no one actually stops to think. But whatever, I now no longer see anything but brilliance in his 100′s of title runs, his diminishing ability to have a good match, the fact that at their biggest show of the year he bombed unbelievably. If you like that the biggest company, who can have their pick of any talent on Earth can’t make a good show and will push a guy to the world title based solely on his ability to become friends with the right people even though the fans don’t care.

    Drew McIntyre could become a success because they’re starting to actually make him a credibly guy, but if your biggest claim to fame is who your friends are in the company, and you’re satisfied with WWE becoming with one person’s playground, then godspeed. Because that’s what you’re going to get.

    I realize I’m a fool, I just want someone who is part of the family that owns the business to understand that his wishes aren’t what’s best for the business he’s married into. Silly me.

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  10. Valo487

    Date: Feb 09, 2010 at 11:07 PM

    *credible, not credibly

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  11. Bazerko

    Date: Feb 09, 2010 at 11:16 PM

    We can go back and forth arguing…but literally I think it’s a 50/50 split. You have half the people backstage saying that HHH holds people down and only looks out for himself and his buddies. Then you have the other half who say that he is still really popular and makes his “dad” lots of money.

    Can we all agree that NO ONE will ever agree on how much or how little this guy has helped the industry?

    P.S. In a shoot interview Ken Anderson aka Ken Kennedy said that HHH, John Cena and Shawn Michaels do in fact hold talent down on the RAW brand

    P.P.S. How come no one ever mentions the fact that the Undertaker used his power to elevate his sex toy/girlfriend Michelle McCool? Just saying lol

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  12. scooter

    Date: Feb 10, 2010 at 1:47 AM

    Bazerko because taker does more good for young talent yeah he got mcool pushed but look at the young guys he’s put over (or at least tried to) orton,kennedy,heidenreich,jeff hardy, nathan jones, a-train, brock lesnar matt hardy and thats certainly not all of them

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