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Where on earth is Tye Dillinger?

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#1 · (Edited)
So where is he?
 
#3 ·
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He was on Smackdown this week in a Sonic commercial/product placement bit with Sami Zayn.

It seems like he's just kind of gotten lost in the shuffle, which is a shame. This interview Road Dogg did about Smackdown on X-Pac's podcast a few weeks ago speaks to that.

The discussion turned to the length of the show, and James insisted that it’s easier to watch and write a two show. He said no one understands “the monumental task” of writing three hours per week, but thinks RAW has a fresh start and look now after the shake-up that is helping. “Do I wish I could get a two hour and twenty-minute show? Sure, because I could get the Luke Harpers and Tye Dillingers on,” he admitted. “I don’t want a third hour, but I’d love to have an extra fifteen minutes.” X-Pac admitted he wasn’t a fan of the brand split years ago, he is this time around. James joked that he didn’t understand it the first time mainly because he was high, but he thinks the split gives people “opportunity” to shine.
 
#16 · (Edited)
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I feel like Dillinger JUST got promoted, yet he's ALREADY lost in the shuffle. That's awful. This is worse than Breeze. They just randomly gave up on him.
"Randomly gave up"? :mj2

There was nothing random about any of this. It's just been par for the course.

NXT offloads the people they don't have plans for when they threaten to derail the product they have planned (there was a Bryan-like upswell benieth both Breeze & Tye befrore they were offloaded), and they're left to tread the waters of purgatory on the main roster indefinitely.
 
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I don't believe anyone should be called up without a long-term plan for them, and that's obviously the case here. He SHOULD be feuding with Kevin Owens over the US Title.

Breeze and Tye both (and now it'll be Ohno, Roddy, etc carrying the same burden) really present a strong argument for a midcard title in NXT, something akin to the old FCW 15 Championship. Because they could at least be doing something if there was a midcard title.
 
#24 ·
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There is nothing wrong with Dillinger getting a midcard title run. And he isn't generic. His character just seems simple from the outside, but his character and personality is actually somewhat multilayered from his time in NXT. You don't get that over just because of a catchy chant, there was a reason he became NXT's hometown hero. Don't let his seemingly basic character fool you otherwise, there ain't no one like the Perfect 10 in WWE or the indies.
 
#29 · (Edited)
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:mj4 come on now, we all knew he'd get lost on SmackDown because he was treated like shit in NXT despite the fact he got over on his own even when he jobbed to the next new shiny indy toy, we all knew this would happen, indeed this is WAY too soon but I knew it anyway. At least he's getting a nice paycheck :draper2
 
#31 ·
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Yea I knew he wasn't going to get a real push but you figure as hot as he was they would've tried to calitalize on it a little bit before burying him.

At the end of the day though, I'll always maintain that it's better to be a 6 figure nobody on the main roster than a 5 figure jobber in NXT. And like others have mentioned, dude is still winning just by getting to bang Peyton Royce regularly.
 
#7 ·
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Clearly another NXT guy who was called up without any real plan or direction for him.

Which is a great shame since he's never had any problem getting over with people.
 
#23 ·
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WWE's plans were to not have plans for him. There's only so long you can realistically leave someone like him in NXT and he was getting to the point where it was absurd to have him down there. So they called him up with plans for him to be a lower card guy that gets good crowd reactions when he's in the ring. That's his spot and I don't see that changing any time soon for him. I think he's OK but I don't see him getting anywhere near the main event. His ceiling is probably the US or IC championship.
 
#25 ·
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I cant even remember how he was called up to the Main Roster?

The "10" thing ran its course I guess, decent talent but he's ultimately just another NXT guy who had one single element of their gimmick over and nothing else.
 
#26 ·
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He gets to bang
every time he can and gets paid decent money for doing nothing. Call me crazy but that's winning for me (especially the first part)
 
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