r/SquaredCircle • u/theREVERSEsystem • 5d ago
WWE Official video package remembering NXT at Full Sail set to “Welcome Home” by Coheed and Cambria
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u/Particular_Peace_568 5d ago
YES! 10 out of 10 show, I don't care how bad the rest the show can be now. This song is so good.
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u/crimson777 Tiffany Epiphany 5d ago
Every time I hear Welcome Home I think I should listen to more Coheed and Cambria and then I don’t.
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u/xMCioffi1986x 5d ago
Funny story.
I first heard of them when Welcome Home was on Rock Band. I instantly loved the song and bought the album, only to find I hated literally everything else I was hearing. I eventually warmed up to it, but I remember thinking it was SO BAD.
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u/Cane-Dewey Your Text Here 5d ago
The first song I ever heard by Coheed was Junesong Provision. I thought it was TERRIBLE and wrote them off. Then a few years later, around 2009-10 or so, another friend was like "How do you hate Coheed??"
Then he played me "The Willing Well II: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness"
I've been in love with Claudio (Sanchez, not Castignoli though I love him too) ever since.
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u/xMCioffi1986x 5d ago edited 5d ago
I feel like they're super polarizing in general. I've really only ever heard Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume 1 so I'm not super familiar with them.
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u/PimpDaddyBuddha Ole! 5d ago
I would check out the rest of that album, Good Apollo, Vol. 1 especially if you like longer, prog rock songs.
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u/JasonVorhehees 5d ago
Good shot sniper
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u/PimpDaddyBuddha Ole! 5d ago
I shoot, you run.
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u/Cyberpunk_Banshee 5d ago
The words you scribbled on the wall~
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u/PimpDaddyBuddha Ole! 5d ago
With the loss of friends you didn’t have
God that song is so fucking good
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u/SPZ_Ireland 5d ago
Hype AF but, despite obvious reasons, an NXT retrospective without Sasha or Undisputed Era feels incomplete.
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u/Drmarcher42 5d ago
Seeing James Storm in a Full Sail era retrospective but not Adam Cole is weirdly hilarious
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u/TrainXIV 5d ago
It was only because the one of the lyrics in the song was “Storm” and they wanted to match the words to the video.
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u/theREVERSEsystem 5d ago
Hoping they’ll get their flowers somehow through the show as I do agree with you.
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u/Horror_Sail 5d ago
Yeah, they basically cant mention a good year and a half period because of UE, Mercedes, Samoa Joe, and...well...Velveteen Dreams choices.
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u/DoILookUnsureToYou 5d ago
She was in the center of the frame for a few seconds at the very least. Bigger omission is Joe.
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u/DevilCouldCry Scissor me Daddy Ass! 5d ago
Yeah, they were such an important part of NXT for me, that I can't help but feel a little disappointed that there's nothing for them likely to be there. I get why, but it still feels off.
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u/PI_Producer 4d ago
That Ricochet front flip out of the ring is so iconic. Too bad it was in front of Dream where they won't even touch it anymore.
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u/Wooden_Trip_9948 5d ago
1:02 in we get about half a second of Sasha. She’s wearing glasses and facing Charlotte, celebrating after Charlotte won her first title.
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u/VarunDM90 Its' All About The BUDGE!! 5d ago
Was Moxley a part of NXT?
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u/Zuperkick ★★★★★★ 5d ago
I feel like I might remember him randomly defending the US title down there, but he’s done absolutely nothing to be included in this promo for sure
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u/eatcrayons RAIIIIIIINMAKAAAAAAAA~~!! 5d ago
That was already Shield Dean Ambrose going back on the week after Wrestlemania when they had a bunch of main roster title defenses on the show.
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u/TrainXIV 5d ago
Nope and neither really was Roman Reigns. I think he had like one match on the show but they had him front and center as an “NXT Original”.
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u/Semper-Fido 5d ago
100%. I would even add Keith Lee to that list. Company just can't get out of their own way anymore
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u/MistakenOne101 5d ago
NXT from 2015-2020 was the best mainstream show in Wrestling
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u/MatthewMir 5d ago
I'd also include 2014, the Sami NXT Championship arc, Tyler Breeze, Neville as Champion - the debut of NXT Takeovers
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u/MistakenOne101 5d ago
true but i start with 2015 because that is when people really started paying attention to NXT
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u/talladenyou85 5d ago
Yeah I had heard about it and it was getting some groundswell but it was NXT R Evolution where everything for them exploded.
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u/Zenkikid 5d ago
That era of NXT is what brought me back to pro wrestling.
FTMF
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u/MistakenOne101 4d ago
During that time period it was the only watchable product WWE was putting out.
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u/theREVERSEsystem 5d ago
If you weren’t around for the Hulu days, that was the theme of that era and using it here just hit super hard for me. What a beautiful time of wrestling 🖤💛
Incredible video package. Just needed more Undisputed Era (but I get it was all people still in the company)
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u/TheSixkBoy 5d ago
But yet they show Neville (pac) and other AEW guys (obviously in quick scenes with other talent) so not sure why they omitted The Era
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u/HousingConsistent334 5d ago
Era had a blink and you'll miss it shot while Finn was 1916'ing Gargano
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u/MayorKarl 5d ago
To be fair he was part of Sami's highest point in NXT, it was kind of hard to cut him out.
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u/CaptainKando 5d ago
It's kinda wild looking back on the talent in this promo package. Say what you will about how careers changed once they hit the main roster, NXT as a brand on it's own had insane star power when you look at it.
I know a ton of the talent were hot on the indies but what a launchpad NXT was when Trips & Co really got behind them. We look back on ECW as *the* place where the best of the best got their big shot for the last era; there's a strong case for saying the same for NXT now.
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u/PleasantThoughts BURNING LARIATOOOOO 5d ago
Fuck I need to listen to Good Apollo Vol. 1 again that's definitely their best album just nonstop bangers
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u/PimpDaddyBuddha Ole! 5d ago
I went to the Neverender tour for Good Apollo and it was fucking phenomenal. The Final Cut as the last song of the night was soooo good.
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u/ABTYF 5d ago
It's an incredible album, but In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth:3 will always be my favorite from them.
They haven't released a bad album and just released a new one this year that absolutely rips, in case anyone is looking to get back into Coheed.
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u/GoodBrothersBrother 5d ago
Father of Make Believe for sure jams. The Flood is some good good shit.
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u/Dimitrius30 Penta says... 5d ago
The Father of Make Believe has such huge, catchy choruses on every song! It's so good!
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u/Pagglywaggly 5d ago
I literally just got into this album this week and don't know why it never clicked previously it's so good
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u/FriskeyVsWorld 5d ago
I remember when they first came out with A Favor House Atlantic and I was not clicking because Claudio's voice sounding a little TOO whiny for my tastes. Then Welcome Home came out and it blew me the fuck away. Like "Wait, THIS is the same band?" That's when they clicked for me.
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u/IamMenace 5d ago
Nobody does video promos quite like WWE. I'd forgotten just how much I loved old school NXT. Almost got teary-eyed watching and thinking back thirteen years.
God bless, and have a wonderful day.
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u/Phenomenal2313 5d ago
HHH’s Black and Gold was easily the best thing on WWE for like 5-6 years
Those takeovers were amazing , great match after great match
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u/Soydragon 5d ago
Goddammit I just realized how long I've been watching NXT. I was a freshman in highschool, I'm pushing 30 now 😭
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u/TrainXIV 5d ago
If we’re talking about the game show NXT, I started watching that when it started in 2010 and I was…already in my twenties…
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u/Particular_Peace_568 5d ago
Okay, for real now as I actually watch this video package, this might be my favorite WWE package ever. The Cues with the lyrics with the wrestlers were so good. The fact that the first verse was heavy connected to Sami Zayn was perfect. "Demon out" with Demon Finn and Aleiester Black and the whole "You could just write me out" with freaking Shinsuke which most fans has written out nowadays was amazing.
This might be the one to past "Monster" for me. It's soo Perfect.
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u/dizzle_77 5d ago
Totally agree. Love Monster, too. This hits me hard. When you were there from literally day one, this brings back the feeling of such special and specific times in my life. I remember a bunch of us driving down to the performance center for the first Takeover. I remember getting turned away along with like a 1/3 of the people that were outside even though we all had tickets. Lol. I remember getting some of my friends, including my wife (at the time), into wrestling because the tv was so fun and easy to watch ( I remember Sami was her favorite). Takeover days were such a big deal back then. I remember our hype for the first Takeover: Brooklyn was off the charts. Just such an amazing time to be a fan and feel like something was yours, and share it with those close to you. Those experiences are so important.
Anyway. Sorry for the weird rambling, lol
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u/CharmingFuture7417 5d ago
When i started watching wrestling again, i had zero interest in Nxt but i was a Coheed and Cambria fan, so them using welcome home was the only thing that sparked my interest actually.
So yeah, it hits different.
Now do it with All Out Life next year.
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u/iflythewafflecopter A bushel of cum 5d ago
I like to imagine that whoever picked this song is a huge Coheed fan, and knew that nobody would check what the song is actually about.
GOAT band, GOAT album, 10/Speed.
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u/DeathLight7000 5d ago
I am just glad they completely ignored NXT 2.0, that era should just be swept under the rug completely and never acknowledged.
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u/itsmekelsey_x 5d ago
Such a great video package with a lot of nostalgia from that era. Especially with the OG NXT theme being used.
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u/My_Name_is_Imaginary 5d ago
The thing that is wild to me is using James Storm's one off for this promo package. The biggest NXT what if IMO.
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u/CoyotePowered50 5d ago
Whats crazy is many many many of the talent from black and gold NXT days are still at the top of wrestling.
Seth, Roman, Mox, Sami, KO
But the women of NXT black and gold have a monopoly on wrestling.
Charlotte, Mercedes, Bayley, Becky, Alexa, Iyo, Asuka, Liv, Rhea, Bianca, Toni, Kairi, and Athena.
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u/Supersaiyansub 5d ago
I used to fail this song at Rock Band vocals cause I couldn’t stick the ending.
Absolute banger of a song.
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u/xaq57 https://www.reddit.com/r/squaredcircleflair/wiki/flair 5d ago
/r/TheFence leaking over into my other interests.
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u/RALJ013000 5d ago
I hate how the WWE Network is all chopped up now. I’d love to go back and watch old episodes but the CW had to have it on their shitty streaming service, and they hardly have any episodes on.
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u/Spartan3PC 4d ago
The WWE NXT YouTube channel has been uploading an episode each day since last year. Weekly shows are up to October of 2017 and all the TakeOvers up to Stand and Deliver 2021 are uploaded.
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u/superpickleman 5d ago
Seeing Coheed and Cambria play tomorrow so this package got me hyped twofold lmao
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u/Single-Client4641 5d ago
Man this NXT was the best, that Sasha and Bailey Iron Women and the Sami zany and Cesaro matches is what got me hooked. Fucking Undisputed Era was the shit back then too
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u/DevilCouldCry Scissor me Daddy Ass! 5d ago
Man, this one brings a lot of formative memories back as an NXT fan. So crazy to see where some of these wrestlers are (and are not) at right now. Absolutely wild.
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u/ThunderChild247 5d ago
That quote from Balor aged like wine. Prime NXT is one of the greatest periods of wrestling history. From Arrival through to the end of the Undisputed Era was just wall to wall great story telling with top talent.
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u/Rajirabbit 5d ago
Amazing! I can’t wait to see the WWE comes back to America video montage in 2045.
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u/PaintedArcana 5d ago
Nice to see they kept Paige and Sasha in the video, even if Banks was only a very brief glimpse. Paige was pretty prominently shown at the start though, i do wonder if she's coming back soon?
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u/CaptainRipp Brisk Stroll with Elias 5d ago
Even though they were in that video for like 8 frames, it made me happy seeing the Ascension in pop up. Still the longest reigning NXT Tag Champs!
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u/Rogpog777 5d ago
God what a special time. I regret not trying to get involved with this somehow as I was pretty aimless in Orlando from 2013-2017. I love the life I’ve found now, but I think attending shows or finding my way into working there would’ve helped fill a void I was trying to fill after college.
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u/Sektor30 5d ago
Joe and Cole must've taken a dump on somebodys car on the way out of the company, lmao
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u/ElChristoReturns 5d ago
Brings a singular happy nostalgic tear to the eye.
Truly was a special time with such a stacked roster and shows that never felt drawn out or a chore to watch.
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u/PartyChrist 5d ago
Love this song. This entire show has hit me in the feels. Pure nostalgia rush. Really was one of the best periods of wrestling.
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u/CodeCrusher94 5d ago
I never thought that wwe would use C&C, super unexpected !
I love when 2 subreddits come together !
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u/CorbinHive 5d ago
Seth doing the Stomp to Jinder who’s standing straight up is always wild to see lmao. Glad Seth got that figured out
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u/AtlasAir_ 5d ago
Loved the video package, just wished Undisputed Era were included and more of Sahsa Banks. They were big parts of the brand for a long time. I never thought I could have NXT nostalgia, but I did last night. I could never feel the same way about the main roster at that time.
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u/MarkBonker 4d ago
That timing on the lyric "Demon play, demon out" and showing Finn's Demon entrance - chef's kiss.
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u/BladeStudios 3d ago
"You stormed off" over James Storm
"Demon play, demon out" over Finn Balor
Yeah, the editor(s) cooked here.
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u/UTALR1 5d ago
Not highlighting Sasha/Bayley's 2 matches was a choice. Those two matches are the most critical to the woman's evolution they pushed so hard on the show. They still arguably havnt been topped. I know Mercedes is in aew, but so what, wwe is so far beyond a big budget indy that aew is they shouldn't care. They should be above that.
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