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Will Hideo Itami ever get out of NXT?

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#1 ·
Feels like this guy has been in NXT for like 4 years, i mean jesus is this dude ever gonna see the main roster?

He has a very noticeable pattern, he has some squash matches, he starts to get a little momentum going, a rivalry gets set up, then he gets injured and is out for like 5 months. He returns from injury and he has some squash matches, builds a little momentum, sets up a rivalry, gets injured and is out for 5 months.

I say they should just release him at this point, he can't stay healthy long enough to even finish a feud at NXT, to me its obvious the guy is never gonna see the main roster.
 
#3 · (Edited)
I think he'll end up on 205 Live sooner than later.

Before Riddick dropped him on his head, he was beating up a lot of the CWC guys on the weekly NXT show (Lince, Ali, Gulak, etc) and was going to feud with Aries.

I think he'd consistently be able to have good matches with the other cruiserweights, add (some) name value to the division and he his finish is over.

The division got off to a rocky start with love triangles and whatnot, but it's been getting better and guys like Itami, Aries, Neville, Tozawa, Metalik, etc. will spice things up for sure.

Besides, the bar is pretty fucking low for the cruiserweight division anyway. If you're gonna put Daivari and the Bollywood Boyz in the division it's not like Itami needs more hard camera awareness training.
 
#8 · (Edited)
Yeah i can't see him going any further than the CW division with his size tbh, i remember when he was in the ATGMBR at WM that time, he looked like a little kid in there surrounded by all the big guys from the main roster.

But if the guy comes back to NXT and gets injured AGAIN i think WWE will give up on him and just release him. When Mr. Kennedy kept getting injured they fired him, so i can see Hideo suffering the same fate if he doesn't stay healthy this time.
 
#4 · (Edited)
Probably. You have to take into account that Itami has been pretty much been start and stop. He was the first big star outside of WWE they got, if you don't count the few ROH guys. Bryan and Punk probably being the reason why WWE started looking outside the WWE factory for talent.

He comes in, is pretty much stripped of everything that made him great, and told to go out there and prove his worth. That failed. They reboot him allowing him to be more of the man he was, and that started working. Then he got injured. Came back. Got injured again.
 
#5 ·
Well, you got to go back to 2015. At the time, WWE was having their Beast in the East show on July 4th. Before that, there was #1 contender’s match to determine who was supposed to face Kevin Owens for the title at Beast in the East. Itami was in that match. And I think it’s pretty obvious he was going to win that match.

The show was in Japan, it would have been a homecoming, it would have been a big title win. But he got hurt and Balor got the push and the rest is history. It took him over a year to get back. And even when he did, just when they working a storyline with him and Aries, he got hurt again on a bad bump.

He’s been in NXT for 2 ½ years, and he’s spend more than half that time on the injured list at different intervals. It’s hard to build up momentum for a call up when that happens.

Wrestling is all about timing and the timing of his injuries during his NXT career have been horrible. There’s no reason he couldn’t at least be in the CW division. But because of the injuries working an NXT schedule, that doesn’t exactly entice someone to bring him working a WWE schedule.
 
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