>>16749204You really got to move on from the archaic mind set that everyone who does the preshow title match for x where it'll get close to a million views is somehow doomed forever and being punished.
Yes, it happens and it happened to Dijak and few others that they were in Speed before they got fired, that wasn't the only reason they got nipped, it's backstage bullshit and what not contractual things you aren't privy to.
Dempsey is a nepo from Regal, he's good, he's got personality, a style to his work and he's no ring scub. The trajectory is that he'll be moving up from NXT someday and they need to put that xp on him so you put him in with a vet to see if he can handle it.
Nor is fucking losing a match anything at this here biz for that matter. The job is to do a work, it always is. Ask not how many titles one has won, ask how many titles, how many title shots, how many feuds and stories they've been on tv for because you can't have the other stars draw if you don't work with people who know their shit and make them look strong.
Lord have mercy and make them comprehend this.