I hope this is the end of these two. Not just as a tag team, but as major league players.
Why? I'm sure you'll explain below.
I disagree there. Sure, Slater's mediocre but he's a damn good seller. And Justin is not even close to awful.
Justin Gabriel is probably the least natural talker on the planet,
He's ahead of Yoshi Tatsu (and the "English isn't his first language" arguement doesn't apply here seeing as it isn't Gabriel's either), Evan Bourne and possibly John Morrison in my books. Sure he sucks but he does have rare flashes of being average (see: his elimination promo from NXT).
and Slater is as annoying as they come.
Then that makes him a natural heel
Both are mediocre in the ring, at best. Outside of that flip, what does Gabriel have? Nothing.
From a moveset perspective:
- Top rope lionsault
- Russian legsweep => Octopus combination
- Reverse STO => Koji clutch combination
- Slingshot senton
- Standing SSP
- Blue thunder bomb
- Hurricane DDT
- Springboard Japanese armdrag
And that's off the top of my head. Don't try to imply that he's a one trick pony, because you haven't been arsed to look at the matches he had before he was on NXT, where he WAS a one trick pony (but then, DBD's only offensive move on NXT was the heel hook so clearly there were other forces at play there).
And seeing as the moves a wrestler does is a tenth of what's important, he's also pretty good at getting a crowd behind him as a face when he's given the chance to (which isn't a surprise, seeing as he played one for over a decade), which is something he hasn't had the chance to do until now.
Well, that flip is a hell of a lot more than Slater has in the ring, which is absolutely nothing.
He's about as good at selling as Dolph Ziggler. That's something. Not something useful if he's looking to get pushed, but something none the less.
Back to the minors, both of you.
I don't think they're going anywhere, whether you like it or not.
I do not think these two should feud because they could help rebuld the tag team division.
The tag division is an obsolete, unfeatured, overrated division. Both men would do better without it.
However a split seems to be the direction WWE is headed here.
That was fairly obvious after last week's Smackdown.
Gabriel will likely be a face due to his moves being more suited for a face, which leaves Slater as the heel.
Your grasp of the obvious is uncanny.
I hope tha Slater wins the feud and goes on to a singles run as a heel because I have liked him since day one of NXT season one.
Day one of NXT, that was the episode where DBD had a good match with Jericho and Slater was in an average tag match and you took away that Slater was a great wrestler? He's alright, but above average at nothing other than selling.
I don't like Gabriel, he can get demoted back to developmental or be a jobber.
Funny, because that's what's probably going to happen to Slater. Gabriel's look and in ring skills are far less suited to being a jobber than Slater. And unlike Slater has things going for him other than being a good seller. The outcome of last week's match made it pretty clear who WWE prefers (hint: it's not the guy who got squashed).
Both would be better off without splitting up though. They will probably get lost in the shuffle after their feud ends.
I doubt it. The tag division is dead and they've both unlikely to get lost in the shuffle. Slater's going to be a jobber, so the shuffle's irrelevent for him since he's not getting shuffled anyway.
Gabriel on the other hand has a unique niche in the ring that he fills. Name one other high flier who can also powerbomb John Cena and trade holds with submission guys. I certainly can't. Which puts him in a good position to be used in the midcard since he can play multiple roles in different types of matches.
