Thursday 19 December 2013

NXT December 18th Review: The American Wolves aka the 200th


I took the week off last week as was very ill and couldn't handle that show, reading the results and hearing a review it sounded just dreadful. Anyways this is the 200
Show opens with Triple H coming out to address the crowd. He appreciates the chant for him but he asks the fans to chant for NXT, he says he's here to celebrate the 200th episode. He goes on to say that we've seen some amazing things and talent come through NXT in 200 episodes and runs a number of them down. He promises this will just get better and better, the shows will be something to remember as this is NXT and this is where the future begins. He thanks the fans for their support and say it's their show. He does his “Are you ready” thing and we go to the opening video. Complete babyface promo and no real substance to it, could have done it off air to be honest.
Sami Zayn & Tyson Kidd vs. Leo Kruger & Antonio Cesaro: Tom, Bryon and Tensai on commentary this week a random mix of guys. Mr. Kruger is actually getting a new gimmick I hear, hopefully it's something with an actual character. Leo & Kidd to start, boot by Leo into a headlock and a shoulder block. Float over, leap frog leads to an arm drag by Kidd and tag to Sami Leo also tags Cesaro. Fans chant “Match of the year” with these 2 just standing there, feeling out process leads to overhead hammer lock by Cesaro. Cesaro gets a boot to the gut and some shots, Sami reverses a whip with punches and the 2 fight in the corner trading blows. Sami goes for the 10 punches but gets pushed off getting a tag to Kidd who does a float over Oklahome roll. Kidd attempts a leap frog but Cesaro turns it into a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker leading to break. We come back with Leo having control on Kidd, Kidd starts fighting back and gets another Oklahoma roll but runs into a great spinebuster for a 2. Tag to Cesaro who hits a body blow then a European uppercut and a deadlift Gutwrench suplex for a 2. Cesaro grabs a rear chinlock with Kidd trying to fight back but Leo is tagged. Another tag leads to a double back elbow for a 2, fans chant for Sami. Kidd escapes a rear chin lock but eats a clothesline and Cesaro boots Sami then tags Leo. Leo then grabs a rear chin lock, Kidd fights back again but a tag leads to Kidd kicking Cesaro who was attempting a back body drop, low bridging Leo to the outside and ducking a splash in the corner by Cesaro. Leo gets the tag grabs the leg but Kidd rolls through and gets the tag. A series of clotheslines and a leg lariat followed by his double jump cross body for a 2. Sami goes for the Mafia kick but eats a knee, Sami ducks the Slice and gets a Blue Thunder for a 2, Kidd then sends Cesaro to the outside hitting a Suicide Dive Heelio which allows Sami to hit the Mafia kick on Leo for the 3. A very good, heated opening match. No complaints from me. Winners: Sami Zayn & Tyson Kidd
We go backstage with Natayla looking at a screen and Emma coming in dancing, Nattie says she's watching Tyson's match and Emma almost poked her eye out. Emma with an attitude apologises to the big reality star. Nattie comes back saying she was watching a match, Emma says she was just having a little fun and some people have changed, they don't have time for NXT unless their getting a title shot. Nattie says Emma became No.1 contender from dancing. They go off about dancing and wrestling leading into them challenging each other for a match which they agree on. This is the 2nd time they've done something like this with Nattie claiming she's “changed” because of Total Divas and I think something like that works for the Bellas but not Nattie. We then see the main event is Bo Dallas defending the title against Adrian Neville in a Lumberjack match. Then a video for the good Santa vs. bad Santa, that is getting to much time. We then get a NXT moment being the first eipsode highlighting Daniel Bryan facing Chris Jericho in what was a fantastic match. We then get highlights from a meet & greet from earlier in the day.
Sasha Banks w/Summer Rae vs. Paige: When are they going to do Paige vs. Emma? Hasn't Emma been No.1 contender for 6 months now, it feels like forever. Paige grabs Banks who fights back with awful looking slaps, Banks get lifted onto the apron, Rae distracts Paige allowing Banks to slingshot Paige's head off the top rope. Banks with childish stomps in the corner, she then jumps on her back grabbing a chinlock leading to Paige going down. Paige fights back after a couple of minutes but runs into a big chop and Banks attempts a lucha climb up arm drag but Paige just yanks her down. Paige hits a series of short-arm clotheslines followed up by a running dropkick, Rae misses her cue to grab Paige's leg so she has to hover there for a second. Banks runs in to hit a kick but hits Rae by mistake letting Paige hit the Paige turner for the win. This was good but there's just something about Bank's offence that I just don't like. Again Paige vs. Emma, do it now! Winner: Paige
Backstage we see Enzo Amore in a wheel chair as he has a broken leg, him and Cass are talking now with their own t-shirt which says “SAWFT”. They here singing off on the side and there's Aiden English. They say Aiden is funny, he says one day he'll be singing on broadway while they are collecting tickets, Enzo says Cass is a better singer they then argue over “Moi” and they make a singing contest. Random comedy but was pretty good. I then groaned as I saw the Ascensions open challenge was next, I don't want them on my screen! Another NXT moment this one being the move to their current arena.
The Ascension (Conor O'Brian & Rick Victor) vs. The American Pitbulls (John Cahill & Eric Philbin): People say the Ascension have a great entrance, I disagree and it appears the producers agree as their already on the apron by the time we come back. For those who don't know the Pitbulls are actually the American Wolves in Davey Richards (Eric) and Eddie Edwards (John). Eric and Rick start with a tie up and Rick pushes him off but Eric ducks a clothesline. Eric gets a rear waistlock into a arm ringer but Rick comes back with a shoulder block, Eric ducks a clothesline and gets the tag, John comes in with a double axe handle to the arm. Conor gets tagged and hits a short arm shoulder block, blind tag leads to a double Japanese arm drag and a low bridge to Rick to the outside. Eric then runs into a flapjack, tag to Rick who hits a upeercut and in an ugly moment Rick goes for a back suplex and Eric tries to float over but he drops straight down pretty much on his head, that gets a 2 so he must be ok but that was nasty. They then repeat the spot with Eric landing on his feet, Rick grabs the leg though, Eric misses the Enzuigiri but hits a mule kick and gets the tag to John. Punches and back elbows followed by a running low knee that is broken up by Conor who is then low bridged out, Rick then follows and the Pitbulls hit twin suicide dives. 2 count on Rick then a tag to Eric who hits a diving headbutt for a 2, Eric misses a clothesline allowing Rick to hit the running knee, a tag and the Fall of Man for the win. I heard the Wolves were slaughtered in this match but they looked great in my view, probably the only time I've enjoyed an Ascension match and it wasn't because of them. Out come Hunico & Camacho (because that feud just HAS to continue doesn't it?) they do a stare down, John comes in and gets hit by the H-Bomb an the Fall of Man OK that made them look dumb. I don't think anyone cares for those 4 in the title program. Winners: The Ascension
We go backstage were Kofi Kingston is getting interviewed, he's asked how he feels about being in NXT for the first time. He says it's amazing and he's wanted to come here for so long, out comes Lana speaking something Lana then speaks in English and then a match between Kofi and Alexander Rusev is made for next week. Didn't care one bit about this. Next week is NXT Rewind but we also get Regal vs. Cesaro!
Bo Dallas (c) vs. Adrian Neville in a Lumberjack match for the NXT championship: They have Howard Finkel announcing this match, man that guy has a golden voice! Tie up to start and Neville drives Bo back, another tie up with Bo hitting a knee he tries to throw Neville out who hits a handspring back and a leg lariat, Bo tries to escape but gets thrown back in allowing Neville to get a bridging Oklahoma Roll for a 2. Bo hits a shot to the gut and a club to the back. Neville gets thrown out and Tyler Breeze tries to throw him back in, Neville blocks twice and then slaps him which I think is screaming out something for later. Neville ducks a clothesline and gets a arm drag into a arm bar. We go to break with another NXT moment this on being Seth Rollins winning the NXT title to become the first champion. We come back with Bo driving Neville into the corner, whip to the corner leads to Neville getting his boot up Bo drops to his knees and Neville hits several kicks to the chest. Neville misses a kick and is school boyed to the outside where he's thrown back in. Bo hits a series of knee drops for a 2 then grabs a kravate. Fans chant “Bo-ring” during the kravate, I like that. Bo hits a scoop slam but gets hit with a kick to the head when he tries to pick Neville up. Bo hits a kick to the leg and a kick to the head off the ground for a 2 count. Bo hits short-arm back elbows and a short-arm clothesline for a 2. Bo goes for the Bo-dog but he's pushed off and Neville hits a few leg kicks, ducks a clothesline and hits a couple of flying forearms and a sobat kick followed by a low dropkick for a 2. Bo hits a back elbow but runs into a jumping kick then a enzuigiri and standing shooting star for a 2. Neville scoop slams Bo and climbs to the top, Bo goes to escape but the lumberjack swarm him and Neville hits a top rope swanton to the outside, everyone except Tyler Breeze is down. Neville goes for the Red Arrow but Breeze pulls Bo out of the way letting him get the 3 and he retains. An Ok match but wasn't too impressed, I would have liked Bo to hit something after the miss instead of pinning him from a mistake but he's the lucky heel I guess. Winner & still champion: Bo Dallas
No real complaints from me on this show, a very hot opener and while everything else didn't blow me away it didn't suck which is saying a lot when you see the Ascension on the card. I guess we'll be moving forward with Breeze vs. Neville, the awful Ascension vs. Hunico/Camacho and we'll be getting Natayla vs. Emma. We're also getting Regal vs. Cesaro next week which should be great.

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Thursday 5 December 2013

NXT December 4th Review: The Tale of the Random Finish


Last week saw a fantastic match naming Adrian Neville as the no.1 contender and he'll challenge Bo Dallas for the title this week.
Natalya vs. Paige (c) for NXT Women's championship: So the match they teased last week is happening this week. For those who missed it the most random backstage segment set up this match. The 2 stare off before the match even starts but then shake hands. Tie up and headlock takedown by Nattie which Paige gets out off with a headscissors, this is repeated but the other way round. Nattie grabs a leg but Paige gets out with a hammerlock. Nattie comes back with a suplex then grabs an arm, Paige rolls through and hits a headbutt then roll up for a 2. Nattie gets a backslide and then her kick is caught but she rolls through and grabs a Indian Deathlock with her hands. Paige gets out with a headlock but Nattie returns the favour. Nattie hits a shoulder block then flips over and gets a school girl for a 2. Nattie attempts the sharpshooter but Paige crawls to the ropes and to the outside leading to break. We come back with Paige just throwing clubs at Nattie which gets her a 2 she then grabs a chinlock and yanks Nattie down when they get back up. Paige grabs an abdominal stretch. Nattie reverses into her own and even lifts up Paige's other leg. Paige comes back with a hip toss and hits stomps in the corner. Nattie gets hit with a boot on the apron and Paige gets her knee lifts but Nattie grabs one and hits a dragon screw then boots. The 2 hit each other with a cross body for a double down. Paige gets up at 7 but misses a leg drop allowing Nattie to hit a clothesline, slap and suplex followed by a michinoku driver for a 2. Nattie hits a discuss clothesline after missing a back body drop for a 2. Nattie gets the sharpshooter and drags her away from the rope but she rolls through sending Paige into the corner, a nice counter. Double down with both getting up at 8 but straight into the Paige turner for the win. A really good match here hurt a bit by a quiet crowd honestly but still good. The 2 hug after and celebrate. Winner and still champion: Paige
We get a .com exclusive from Antonio Cesaro about Regal. He says Regal shouldn't stick his nose in his business, Leo Kruger pops in to thank him for what he did to him. He asks to be a Real American. Cesaro says he'll talk to Zeb if Leo does him a favour, they then whisper to each about it and mentioning Sami Zayn meaning that it will be something against him. This makes a little sense except last time these 2 were together Cesaro was beating the hell out of Kruger.
Aiden English vs. ???: We come back to see Jobber A in the ring and before he's announced Aiden interrupts. He actually gets his full entrance this week. Tie up and Aiden keeps getting caught in a arm ringer. Headlock by Aiden who pulls the hair and then boots to the gut followed by a swinging neckbreaker and 3 falling clubs. Suplex by Aiden and the Director's Cut for the win in a quick squash. Bit of rehab for Aiden after the past couple of weeks. Winner: Aiden English
Before Aiden goes to the back Antonio Cesaro comes out, he lets Aiden leave. He apologises to Bryon Saxon saying he lost his cool and wants him on the stage to apologise in person. Bryon does come on stage and the 2 shake hands, Cesaro apologises again saying he lost his temper and does it in 5 languages. Saxon accepts it, Cesaro asks him to do the “we the people” with him which he reluctantly does and Cesaro asks if he's making fun of him leading to him pushing Saxon about and keeps looking for Regal to come out and then slaps Saxon down. Another .com exclusive with Sami Zayn, he says the better man won and it's hard to come so close but be so far leading to Leo attacking him from behind.
Tyson Kidd vs. Leo Kruger: Apparently back in February Leo tried to attack Kidd who was talking about his injury. Kidd hits a back elbow, leg kicks, spinning heel kick, spinning gut kick and low dropkick quickly. Leo kicks him off and nails some punches. Kidd blocks a body drop and hits a suplex, he grabs the leg but Leo gets to the ropes. Kidd hits a neckbreaker for a 2 followed by forearms and chops. Shoulder blocks in the corner leads to Leo hitting a knee lift then chokes with his boot. Leo grabs the leg and hits a stunner on it then a leg kick leading to break. We come back with Leo in control with a dragon screw, double leg and Leo gets the sharpshooter. Sami comes out and gets on the apron distracting Leo allowing Kidd to get a roll up for a 3. Bit of a flat finish here actually bit of a flat match between the 2. Winner: Tyson Kidd
It's announced that Sami will face Leo next week. Another .com exclusive this time with Sin Cara sorry Hunico and Camacho they say they have to take everything they want and they will take the title. They end speaking in Spanish and I still don't care one bit about this or the champs.
Adrian Neville vs. Bo Dallas (c) for NXT Championship: In ring introductions. At this point I'd like to say Alex Riley has been extra annoying tonight, he's trying to be like Regal and play of Renee but it's just not working. Tie up and Adrian grabs a arm ringer, Bo reverses but Adrian gets out after several flips and Bo goes on the apron. Back in and Bo hits a boot to the gut, Adrian floats over and does several flips to the other corner hits a slingshot crossbody and then a dropkick making Bo go to the outside again. Bo hits a forearm while the ref tries to get a clean break, another forearm for a 2 and the 2nd turnbuckle pad flies off somehow. Bo grabs a kravate and hits a knee lift when Neville finally fights back. Bo hits a clothesline in the corner and a bulldog for a 2. Scoop slam and a series of knee drops for a 2. Bo pulls down a knee pad and misses a 2nd rope knee drop. Series of leg kicks and jumping forearms followed by a spinning kick and low dropkick for a 2. Neville hits a twisting tope con heelo to the outside which gets him a 2 coming back in. Neville gets a scoop slam and climbs up to the top but Bo escapes to the outside allowing Neville to hit a crossbody of the top to the outside. Both men are outside and Neville gets in at 9 but Bo fails to do so leading to Neville winning. Kind of a weak finish honestly and the match stopped when it was actually picking up a bit. Winner: Adrian Neville
I'd say this was a better flowing show than last week's but pretty average in ring. A lot of finishes tonight just seemed odd and pretty much out of nowhere. I think they made 2 mistakes in terms of the booking of the show, 1 was putting both Natalya & Tyson Kidd on the same show as we got more sharpshooters then we should have and 2 was putting the title match this week as all we could think about was the Sami match for the week before.

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Thursday 28 November 2013

NXT November 27th Review: Just get to the Main Event Already


I'm pretty hyped for this main event of Sami Zayn vs. Adrian Neville, this should be fantastic to say the least.
We start off with a video highlighting the Beat the Clock Challenge from last week which resulted in the making of this weeks main event.
Yoshi Tatsu vs. Antonio Cesaro: Boy did I forget Yoshi Tatsu existed. Big pop for Cesaro who runs down and then throws the flag in. Thankfully this week we have Regal & Renee on commentary with someone else, those 2 are always great together. Cesaro gets in the ring announcers (Bryan Saxton) face for picking up the flag Cesaro threw in. This leads to Regal running down and pulling the announcer out. Bell rings and Tatsu gets a school boy for a 2, then kicks and chops followed by a Mongolian chop. Cesaro catches a spinning heel kick and powerbombs him. Punches in the corner followed by a spinebuster and the Giant swing for about 30 seconds. This gets a “You are Awesome” chants while Cesaro stares towards Regal. European to the back and he grabs his rear naked choke into the Neutralizer for the win. Through out all of this Cesaro kept looking towards Regal which I believe is going to lead to a match between the 2. Impressive squash match but Cesaro always looks great. Winner: Antonio Cesaro
Backstage with Devon and Bo Dallas. She asks who does he think will win. He says we're all winners tonight as we get to see talented wrestlers collide tonight, it's like the Voice but without Cee Lo Green. He then says that either way they can't beat him leading to the awful CJ Parker walking in all “drugged” up. Bo says “Excuse me Captain fantastic” and CJ responds with “I didn't realise I was harping your mellow” which is responded to with “I didn't realise you were still employed”. He then calls him Pauly Shore and CJ challenges him to a match and Bo just laughs him off and CJ ends with some random garbage. Well CJ you've done one thing right, I hate you more than Bo and Bo looked good here because of you.
CJ Parker vs. Bo Dallas: One thing I love about NXT is that they don't over exposure their champion, this is Bo's first match since he beat Sami Zayn over a month ago. It gets mentioned that Bo's reign is the longest ever now. Tie up leads to CJ throwing Bo into the corner and getting a roll up for a 2, Bo then kicks out the leg while still on his back and then another kick to the face. Back elbow by Bo then 2 more leading to a short arm clothesline for a 2 count then a 1 count. Bo grabs a kravate, gets a 2 count and CJ then rolls him off. CJ hits a clothesline, a punch then his double knees and scissors kicks. CJ then hits a drop out face plant for a 2, CJ then gets caught on the top rope as Bo hits the ropes. Bo then hits a climb up bulldog for the win. Fans didn't care for this one bit and it wasn't a great match. Personally don't like either guy and it seems the fans have the same opinion. Winner: Bo Dallas
Backstage and Devon is with Emma, she asks about her injuries she says it's no big deal and the Emmalution will continue to grow. Paige comes in and says that's good as there will be no excuses for when the face. The 2 go back and forth about their accidental attacks to each other and Emma leaves dancing. They did this a couple of weeks back and it was the same thing here really. After adverts we come back to Paige with Natalya bakcstage asking her why she was so rude to her (did I miss something here?). She says she still cares about the divas since being on Total Divas and she still cares about the titles. Paige says they should have a match tonight with the title on the line and Natayla agrees. This was so random and out of no where.
Tyler Breeze vs. Kassius Ohno: For someone who no longer works for WWE he sure has got a lot of TV time lately. Alexander Rusev attacks Ohno from behind with the Vader splash and then walks off. Officials attend to him and Ohno goes into the ring against their will but the ref rings the bell and Breeze hits the beauty shot and wins in seconds. This really makes me think they didn't plan to fire Ohno as it seemed he was going to work a feud with Rusev after this although I can understand why Ohno was upset with how they were using him. Winner: Tyler Breeze
Backstage and the 3 BFFs are looking at Charlotte's phone and guys. Bayley comes in and Charlotte runs off, she asks where Charlotte is. Summer says Charlotte doesn't want to talk to her as she's moved on and that her friends Paige & Emma can't get along. Bayley demands Charlotte and Summer repeats herself. She challenges them to a tag match and says she has friends for it, leading to a “mystery” partner I imagine. I can't feel for Bayley at all to be honest, she's just too childish. ANOTHER backstage thing! This time Devon is with Sami & Neville, she asks how Adrian feels. They both say they go back a long ways and that tonight is about the NXT championship and points out this is a shot to the main roster. Sami agrees with him basically and claims he wants it more than Neville who brushes that off. Not great here mainly because Neville spoke way more than he should in my view.
Hunico & Camacho vs. The Ascension (Rick Victor & Conor O'Brian): Oh this show is dragging so much and it just got so much WORSE! Rick and Camacho start with the 2 trading punches. Rick chokes in the corner and the 2 mess up an Irish whip, not even lying about that. Camacho then gets a back suplex after boots in the corner and a jumping leg drop. Hunico is tagged, Rick is slammed and then hit with a slingshot senton for a 1. Hunico hits a springboard crossbody but runs into an STO leading to a tag to Conor. Conor with boots and an Irish whip to the corner for a 2, he then runs Hunico into the corner to hit more boots. Rick gets tagged with more boots, another tag and a punch by Conor leading to another tag. H Bomb by the Ascension which Hunico kicks out at 1. Tilt-a-whirl into a small package by Hunico on Rick for the win. Sweet lord we're getting more of this! This was awful and once again the fans didn't care one bit! Winners: Hunico & Camacho
Sami Zayn vs. Adrian Neville: Regal leaves and Bo Dallas replaces him on commentary, big trade down. Hand shake off the top, Neville shots for a leg but misses. Sami grabs an arm ringer and the 2 trade off reversals. Their history on the indies is brought up, they had some classics. The reversals end with Neville getting a 1 after a sweep. Neville grabs an headlock and hits a shoulder block after a push off, a leap frog and a series of arm drags by Sami ending with the around the world version. Sami gets a double leg and an ankle pick until Neville kicks him off, Neville flips over a back body drop then a running headscissors ends with Sami on the outside, Neville goes for a dive but is cut off with Sami running in with a back elbow. Neville goes out and Sami hits a tope con heelio leading to break. We come back with Neville blocking being thrown into the corner and hits chops, resulting in a trade off. Snapmare and a chin lock by Sami. Neville gets up and fights back but runs into a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker for a 2. Sami sets up for the Mafia kick in the corner but misses and flips to the outside allowing Neville to kick Sami off and hit a gorgeous top rope Asai moonsault. Neville hits a springboard dropkick for a near fall which Sami sold by folding himself in half. Sami grabs Neville's foot, Neville misses a kick but blocks the back suplex and hits an Enzuiguri. Neville goes for a cartwheel elbow in the corner but Sami catches him mid jump turning it into a Blue Thunder bomb for a very near fall. Neville floats over a scoop but Sami reverse eating an elbow, Sami then catches Neville with a sick Michinoku driver for another near fall. Sami teases the Mafia again but runs into a boot. Cartwheel by Neville who lands on Sami's shoulders then twists into a Hurricanrana for a near fall. Neville gets on the apron with Sami trying to stop him but Neville hits him with a jumping kick even after that Sami catches him on the top rope. Sami tries a superplex, although many were yelling for the Brain buster which I doubt we'll see ever, Neville blocks and hits a headbutt into the Red Arrow for the win. A fantastic match between these 2 like I knew it would be. So next week we'll be getting Neville vs. Bo for the title, I still think Sami is going to be the man to end the reign though. After the match the 2 hug ending the show. Winner: Adrian Neville
This show dragged something fierce! Until the main event began this was a bit of a chore to get through, don't know what it was maybe a combination of bad backstage stuff that just kept going on or bad uninteresting mix of opponents for matches. Also one backstage segment teased Paige/Natalya for the show even saying “We'll do it tonight” but it didn't happen, maybe it will happen next week. Check out the main event for sure it was great.

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Thursday 21 November 2013

NXT November 20th Review: How Time Flies


Had a week off last week as life just got in the way but have to say I did miss watching NXT so happy to be watching it this week. Saying that means I have no clue what is set for this week's show and I like it like that.
The show I'm watching just starts off with Bo Dallas in the ring wearing a party hat having returned. He says there's no place like home and he says everywhere he went everyone loved him. Out comes JBL, he says the company is so proud of him and Bo is the face of NXT. Out comes Sami Zayn in a Misfist t-shirt and a suit jacket, nice combo. JBL says Zayn should learn respect, Bo adds “I told him that”. Zayn asks to be reinstated and have a chance to take the NXT title from that delusional cheese ball. JBL says he could suspend him forever if he wanted, fans chant Cheese ball which angers JBL. He reinstates Zayn and Bo congratulates him, he says he already beat him. Zayn says he has no problem working from the bottle back up to the top and he promises to win the title. JBL announces a beat the clock challenge to name a new No. 1 contender and Sami is in it.
Colin Cassidy vs. Alexander Rusev w/Lana: Poor Cass he's all alone for a while as Enzo is out with a broken leg for 6 months, let's see what he can do as a singles star. He's not got a good chance against Rusev. Lana does a introduction to “What” and the Rusev looks very different with his hair slicked back. They tie up and go to the corner where Rusev hits a knee and a punch, this is already longer than most of Rusev's matches lately. Jumping headbut for not even a one and Cass comes back with kicks and punches, Rusev reverses a whip and hits the running Vader splash for a 2. Another headbutt and another 2, then 3 falling headbutts for a 2 to “You can't wrestle” chants by a handful. Rusev misses a jumping headbutt and Cass gets a 1 off a punch, then a 2 from another punch. Cass goes for a scoop but Rusev pushes off and Cass hits a high knee like Harley Race for a 2, an elbow drop for another 2. Cass misses a Stinger splash, Rusev throws him in the corner and locks in the Accolade and Cass actually hangs on and gets the ropes, first guy to do that. Shoulder blocks in the corner by Rusev then follows with his knee strikes on the rope for a 2. Rusev keeps attacking the back and no sells elbows, then hits a headbutt to the back of the head and another Accolade for the win at 5:33. Think it was a mistake using Rusev here when you've had him kill everyone so quickly in the past month or so. An OK match between the 2 here could have been so much worse. Winner: Alexander Rusev
Backstage with Devon Taylor (a new girl I'm guessing) who is with Adrian Neville and asks him about his match last week. He says they always take risks when they're in the ring and he's not thinking about Graves but the Beat the Clock. He says he's a thrill a second and a human rollercoaster. Bless that man he tries but he's no talker. Another backstage segment with Bayley all alone after Charlotte turned on her last week, Devon asks how's she's feeling. Bayley doesn't know why Charlotte did what she did and she hasn't spoken to her since then but will next week. Bayley asks if Devon wants to do the robot with her and she walks off, rather goofy but that's Bayley.
Tyler Breeze vs. Kassius Ohno: Something tells me Ohno won't be winning here. Ohno walks into a punch by Tyler who attacks after and keeps trying to get a pin but is only getting 1's. Boots in the corner. Bryan Saxton asks William Regal want he'd do in this situation and Alex Riley adds “Why do you keep asking Regal about in ring stuff” because he's one of the all time greats and you are a nobody, Regal pretty much says the save in response. Ohno gets a series of rolls ups and backslide for 2's, a big chop by Ohno. Ohno goes for a big boot on the apron, Tyler grabs it and hits a jumping kick sending Ohno to the outside. Tyler struggles to get Ohno on his feet and they just get in at 8. Tyler hits a suplex for a 2, Ohno keeps pushing Tyler away until Tyler hits a dropkick. Tyler misses the beauty shot and follows with a series of roll ups. Ohno catches a boot and whips it back planting Tyler face first in a nice looking spot. Ohno misses the Ohno Blade, Tyler gets a rolls up for a 2 but Ohno rolls through with a roll up for another 2. Ohno gets another roll up for the win with 45 seconds remaing. Well I was wrong , time to beat 4:48. Good match here liked how pretty much all of Ohno's offence was roll ups telling the story of he wanted the win quickly which would become a running theme in everyone match after.
Aiden English vs. Adrian Neville: We literally come back with Aiden in the ring, killing his gimmick in my view. Tie up and Neville gets a school boy for a 1 then a chop. Aiden gets a snapmare for a 1 then an elbow for another 1. Neville floats over a slam and does a leg sweep for a 1, he back flips a leg sweeps attempt and hits a dropkick for a 1. Aiden fights back and hits a suplex for a 1. Aiden drops 3 clubs for a 2 then boots in the corner. Scoop slam by Aiden and jumping leg drop for a 2. Aiden hits a headlock takedown and punches for another 2. Neville gets a back suplex and a jaw breaker, followed by leg kicks and a series of running forearms. A low dropkick for a 2, scoop slam and he climbs up but Aiden rolls out hits a back elbow and a swinging neck breaker for a 2. Aiden sets Neville on the top but he fights back and hits the Red Arrow with 3 seconds remaining for the win, time to beat 4:45. A really good finish that was pushing it a bit in terms of time. Again another good match that was worked very well and to be honest I wouldn't be surprised if they did something in Zayn's match to stop him winning and they go with Neville for a week. Winner: Adrian Neville
We cut backstage with the Ascension talking about Hunico & Camacho (oh that's a winning program if I ever heard of it). They accept the challenge and continue talking, basically saying they will beat them. Just meaningless garbage, man I hate this team so much.
Leo Kruger vs. Sami Zayn: Out comes Bo Dallas before things start and he's in his gear but is sitting on a chair on the ramp, angle alert. Leo hits a knee and a club but Sami gets a crossbody for a 1. Sami reverses a hip toss with a backslide for a 1, then floats over and a school boy for a 1 but Leo hits a punch getting up and a scoop slam for a 2. Leo nails a snap suplex for a 2, then a back suplex for a 2. Sami gets sent to the corner but gets a elbow up, Sami does his jump up crossbody for a 2. Leo keeps going for pinfall after pinfall. Sami fights back with clotheslines then hits lift up dropkick for a 2. Sami misses the Mafia kick and Leo gets a 2 out of it, Sami floats over a back suplex but runs into a spinebuster for a near fall. Leo hits the Slice for a 2, keeps going for pins but Sami gets a cruicifix for the win as the clock hits 0 as the 3 is counted. JBL comes out and says he'd love to blame the ref but can't and says next week Zayn will face Neville and the winner of that will face Bo. A rather unique ending that I liked and we should get a fantastic match next week between the 2. Winner: Sami Zayn
Overall a good show, I personally don't know if I would have gone with a beat the clock challenge in such a short show but it's a easy way to get people invested in a match and they all worked the matches well. I'm really looking forward to Neville/Zayn but I have a small feeling that Graves & Dallas could get involved during it.
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Thursday 7 November 2013

NXT 6th November Review: Night of the Endless Squash


Time to watch the easiest 45 minutes of TV every week, good or bad it's always easy to watch. We're getting Sylvester LeForte facing Alexander Rusev and a rematch between Luke Harper and Kassius Ohno on tonight's show.
Show starts with a WWE.com exclusive (they do a lot of these now) with LeForte confronting the blonde women he says he doesn't know who she is and what's up with Rusev and he never had a problem with him. She speaks Russian and sends him away and that's that, so we get yet another accent on this show!
Sylvester LeForte vs. Alexander Rusev w/Lana: Renee Young is now on commentary regularly it seems as this week Alex Riley is on the booth. Lana comes out and does the introduction in Russian unsurprisingly she gets “What” from the crowd but in this case that is probably a legit question. LeForte has money in his hand and offers it to Rusev while staring at the group, Rusev meanwhile is doing this weird breathing really overselling just standing there. Bell rings and he whips LeForte hits the Vader running splash and the Accolade for a rather quick submission. No point to this match other than to push Rusev as a killer. Rusev didn't even take off his skirt! Winner: Alexander Rusev
Backstage Bayley and Charlotte are talking about fixing Bayley's headband and Bayley Wooo's getting a “I'm not my Dad” from Charlotte, you're damn right your not and we thank you for that. In come the BFF's and apologize for breaking the headband and give her a new one, Charlotte brushes off Rae. Charlotte says her issue is that they run around like they run NXT. Rae talks about how she's on the main roster now and they try to get Bayley to join them and Bayley stops Charlotte from attacking. Not a good segment but I guess this is the new feud for the BFF's.
El Local vs. Leo Kruger: This is Leo's return and I haven't missed him one bit, for those who missed it Leo was hurt (in angle) in his great match with Antonio Cesaro four weeks back. Leo misses a clothesline and Local gets some kicks but Leo pushes him off and hits his beautiful spinbuster for a 2. A series of whips and kitchen sinks by Leo he then whips Local to the corner but eats a boot, Local goes to the 2nd and Leo pulls the leg out with Local lands on the turnbuckle. Leo throws Local into the corner, hits the Slice lariat then a snap suplex and another. Leo keeps pointing and wagging his finger at Local for some reason. A 3rd suplex floated through to a front Guillotine for the tap out win. Leo has taken up pointing a lot and wagging his finger, that's his new gimmick. Nothing special here. Winner: Leo Kruger
We get another WWE.com exlcusive after a video highlighting the recent Paige and Emma accidental hits on each other. There's yelling, Paige says her's was an accident and Emma's was on purpose. Emma says it's not her fault that in the heat of the moment she hit her. Paige yells that she's not in the mood and she'll rip that face off and Emma just says “something wrong with that girl”.
Travis Tyler & Troy McClain vs The Ascension (Conor O'Brian & Rick Victor): Jobbers already getting “let's go these guys” chants and don't blame them. I don't want to watch this match one bit. Rick throws down Tyler and kicks him then tags, series of shoulder blocks in the corner then Conor does 5 headlock takedowns in a row without letting go. Tag to Rick who hits an STO then tag out, flapjack by Conor and another tag. Straight jacket double team and the Fall of Man for the win. Best part about this match was that they forgot who was legal after the Fall of Man so both left the ring and both came in at the same time which made me laugh. 3rd match in a row that was meaningless to me. Winners: The Ascension
Mojo Rawley vs. Tide Dillinger: I said this show was easy to watch and their pushing me tonight! Tie up and you can't help but notice that Mojo is sucking in air badly from the start. Tide hits a chop but Mojo comes out with a shoulder block he attempts a bodyslam but Tide floats over and hits a Russian Leg Sweep then chokes him on the ropes. Tide grabs a rear chinlock with a knee to the back but Mojo quickly gets up but Tide brings him down for crossfaces. I know they want to get his catchphrase of “I don't get hyped, I stay hyped” over but don't make Alex Riley say it! Mojo gets a bodyslam, he then gets down on all 4's rolls over a couple of times to block Tide from running then picks up Tide and runs him into the corner. Irish whip and 2 Stinger splashes followed by the Butt-Butt and the jumping Earthquake splash for the win. I fear they will push this guy and I don't think they should. Once again this match was pointless in my view. Winner: Mojo Rawley
We get a Raw Rebound about the Big Show angle and setting up the main event for Survivor Series a match I don't really want to see with Orton. It's then shown that next week Bayley & Charlotte will face the BFF's and Adrian Neville will face Corey Graves in 2 out of 3 falls match.
Luke Harper vs. Kassius Ohno: This match is getting some time it seems. Jumping kick by Ohno to start, the 2 then trade shots until Ohno gets the advantage. A couple of knee lifts by Ohno and some boots then chops. Ohno runs into a back body drop and Luke gets control he grabs a kick and hits a nice forearm. A bodyslam by Luke then a whip to the corner, low impact kicks to a downed Ohno. Ohno pops up with chops but eats an uppercut then a headbutt by Luke. Luke grabs a kravate and brings Ohno down, he fights up but gets brought back down. Luke hits some shoulder blocks in the corner and a nice sounding uppercut. Luke whips off Ohno who grabs the ropes and hits his amazing rebound elbow sending Luke to the outside, Ohno follows with a baseball slide leading to a break. We come back to Ohno hitting a Senton to Luke for a 1. Luke reverses a whip and Ohno floats over to the apron but Luke runs in and nails a big boot sending Ohno to the floor. Ohno just gets in the ring by 9 and Luke drops 3 elbows when he gets in. Luke hits a loud chop in the corner and just stands over Ohno after. Whip to the corner and misses a splash leading to Ohno getting a school boy for a 2 but Luke hits an uppercut when he gets back up. Luke then grabs a front facelock and does a pair of Gator rolls. Ohno fights back with knees but Luke fights back and hits a slingshot on the rope. Luke runs off the ropes but Ohno hits the other rope and a kick to the face, he starts fighting back with punches. Luke pushes him off and Ohno hits a side bulldog followed by a low dropkick to the side of the head, a jumping forearm in the corner followed by the blockbuster for a 2. Ohno goes for a neckbreaker, he gets pushed off and Luke runs into a boot but quickly recovers with the blackhole slam for a 2. Luke hits another big boot for a near fall. Luke hits a splash in the corner but Ohno pops up and hits the Ohno Blade aka a Rolling Elbow for a near fall. Ohno hits a series of boots to the face runs off the ropes into the discuss clothesline for the win. Again an odd choice of winner unless they really want to get into this feud more which I'm guessing is the case. This match was really good and the only thing worth watching on this show. Maybe next time Ohno won't be in WWE's bad books any more and he'll finally win but saying that he still looked great in a lose. Winner: Luke Harper
The main event is worth a look but nothing else on this show was, just a series of meaningless squash matches with guys you don't care about nor will you after. To save you some time Rusev is big, Leo wags his finger, Ascension yell in dark lighting and Mojo runs a lot. Watch the main event and enjoy.

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Friday 1 November 2013

NXT October 30th Review: The Promo Edition


Before I even started watching this show I groaned a little realising what was set up for it. While I think Paige vs. Summer Rae should be good I'm not looking forward to yet another Tyler Breeze vs. CJ Parker match, think that feud has been horrible from the beginning if I'm honest.
Enzo Amore & Colin Cassidy vs. Alexander Rusev & Sylvester LeForte: Starting off straight away with Enzo & Colin, they come out talking about Sylvester LeFort and how he uses everyone to fight his battle for him, fans are always into this entrance. For those who don't know Scott Dawson was out with a knee injury during these tapings and that's why LeForte is in the ring. I'll be honest LeForte is jacked. Rusev & Colin to start, Rusev drives him into the corner and hits knees then a headbutt. Running Vader splash and Rusev brings in Enzo and hits the same splash then Rusev hits it on LeForte. Rusev locks in the Accolade on Colin who taps out in seconds. They really want to push Rusev. The blonde woman from last week is on the ramp and she leaves with Rusev. This was basically done to make Rusev a monster but you hurt a really hot tag team in the process however honestly that will be forgotten by fans next week. Winners: Alexander Rusev & Sylvester LeForte
A vignette for the Real American's plays a nice little video. Then a Raw Rebound is shown highlighting the Hell in a Cell main event and Randy's celebration that was interrupted by Big Show. The biggest downfall of this angle is that it will leads to Big Show vs. Randy Orton which I don't think will be good, also all the heat is on Triple H Randy is just there.
Aiden English vs. Jason ???: Regal reveals he has a man crush on Aiden. Jason (who's last name is said by Brian Saxon & Renee Young but I can't make it out) gets a rear waist lock and does 2 beautiful take downs but then eats an elbow and Aiden hits a snap neckbreaker which looked great. Aiden grabs a sleeper and sings “Lullaby” while he does it. It's now revealed that it's Jason Jordan at the time he hits a dropkick but Aiden hits the Directors Cut for the win. A competitive squash match with Jason Jordan looking pretty solid and Aiden just looked better from it. Aiden sings an encore and the fans eat it up. Roses even get thrown into the ring and the fans chant “Yes”. Winner: Aiden English
The commentary team talk about last weeks main event and Graves attacking Neville after, a WWE.com exclusive with Neville has him congratulating Graves for the attack and he says it's only just begun between them. As good as Neville is in the ring, he's a bit blah on the mic. A vignette for Daniel Bryan plays and then a video highlighting the recent tour of Abu Dabai, this dragged a little.
Summer Rae w/Sasha Banks vs. Paige: Paige jumps from the start and does a hairmare twice leading to Rae running off. Paige comes out and Banks is used as a shield, Rae hits a cheap shot that Paige brushes off and comes in with a sunset flip, Rae sits down for a 2 but Paige gets the roll up for another 2 followed by a headbutt. Paige throws Rae chest first into the ropes and hits another headbutt then boots in the corner. Banks tries to trip up Paige and this leads to her being kicked out and a break. An promo for the Bellas plays, jeez nothing can make them look good. We come back with Paige still in control, she goes for her knee lifts on the apron but Rae breaks away and sweeps her with Paige landing on the apron. Rae locks in a modified Indian Death lock and then hits a dropkick when they get up. Rae yells and goes for the pin. Rae goes for her climb up DDT but Paige turns it into a Fisherman suplex for a 2. Paige hits a series of short arm clotheslines and a one legged dropkick for a 2. Rae pushes off and hits a spinning kick for a 2. Paige gets a mid kick and the Paige Turner for the win kind of out of no where. Banks attacks from behind but Emma makes the save but she then hits Paige as she tries to join in. The 2 face off and then Paige leaves. A good match here between the 2 but I'm more looking forward to Paige/Emma 2 when they finally do it. Winner: Paige
A quick promo from Breeze about Parker, he says he's going to send him back to the streets where he belongs and it's time to shot the breeze, a nice tag line there. A promo for Curtis Axel plays, bad timing since he's out hurt. Then a promo for Big E Langston plays and then one for Luke Harper talking about Kassius Ohno you can see why Bray does the talking in that group, anyways next week is Ohno vs. Harper and LeForte vs. Rusev
Tyler Breeze vs. CJ Parker: Tyler come out with the dreadlocks he cut off last week. CJ runs in and shakes his knees like Jimmy Valiant or Colt Cabana. Tyler runs from the bell and is chased, CJ grabs him and tries to throw him into the corner, Tyler puts his leg up and CJ chops it down hits a gut shot and then throws him into the corner. CJ hits a delayed vertical suplex for a 2, fans are into Breeze. CJ hits a cross body and punches to the face followed by a headbutt. CJ gets an airplane spin and goes for the “Third Eye” aka a uppercut to the face but Tyler escapes the ring. We got to break with a promo for the Survivor Series with Bray Wyatts, a nice video. We come back with CJ hitting a back suplex and goes for the double knees in the corner, Tyler falls down and CJ lands on the 2nd rope allowing Tyler to hit a low powerbomb. Tyler literally stands on CJ's face and then again. Tyler checks his phone and puts boots in for a 2. Tyler grabs a head twist but CJ runs him back into the corner and then eats a kick to the face cutting him off. Tyler goes to the top rope but CJ throws him off, the Ric Flair way. CJ does a double leg take down and punches followed by a series of clotheslines and a scissors kick for a 2. Tyler gets a jaw breaker and goes for a piledriver, he then misses the beauty shot and CJ hits the 3rd Eye for the win. Oh please let this be the end of this feud! I'll be honest this was probably the best out of their trio of matches but it still wasn't great. CJ grabs the scissors and goes to cut Tyler's hair but Tyler gets out and runs off. Seeing the scissors come out makes me think they'll be doing a hair vs. hair match but I just want this whole thing to be done with. Winner: CJ Parker
Man there were a lot of promo videos in this episode! As for the actual NXT stuff I'd have to say it was pretty good, the matches had a point none of them dragged and it was all pretty good. Having said that I wouldn't go out of my way to see this show, yes it wasn't bad but nothing was a stand out and it had just too many promos that killed the flow of the show for me.
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Thursday 24 October 2013

NXT 23rd October Review: What's Best for Business! Again


Going in blind for NXT this week and by that I mean I have no clue what to expect and not that I can't see the show, this review would be stupidly short if that was the case.
Emma vs. Sasha Banks: Smack talk and a push by Sasha. It's a 3 man booth this week with Tony, Alex Riley and someone else I have no clue who the guy is. Emma with a double leg takedown and head pounds. Emma gets a School girl for a 2 then arm drag and arm bar. Emma then gets her slide in sunset flip for a 2 and a cradle for another 2 then right back to the arm bar. Sasha hits a knee and makes fun of Emma's dance, looking like a little child in the process. Emma keeps getting thrown into the corner, Banks doesn't have much offensive moves here. Unsurprisingly Emma blocks the 4th attempt and throws Banks in there a number of times. Banks moves out of the way from a splash and Banks gets control back grabbing a rear chinlock leading to a break but we come back to the same hold on. Oh Tensai is on commentary what a strange thing to do with him and not even mention it off the top. Emma bridges back for a pin but Banks kicks out and grabs hold again. Emma finally gets out after forever but runs straight into a back elbow for a 2. Emma gets a slap and Banks goes crazy with clubs to the back but again she comes off as a little kid when she does it. Tensai brings up that Emma was trained by Lance Storm surprised that got in. Banks grabs the reverse chinlock again but Emma (like me) has had enough of it and break out immediately and starts fighting back with clotheslines. The dilEMMA gets put on followed by the Emma Sandwich for a 2. Catapult transition to the Emma lock but Rae jumps up, Paige makes the save but this distracts Emma allowing Banks to get a small package for the win. After Paige tries to clothesline Banks but hits Emma by mistake. This then just cut away randomly, a decent match between the 2 I think Banks has a longs way to go still and there was very little crowd reaction throughout. Winner: Sasha Banks
WWE.com exclusive is then shown, which negates the fact but whatever, with Bo Dallas from last week. He says he's still NXT champion and that's what matters and he's going to take a well deserved vacation. Such a geek but this character is working I will admit that. A video then plays highlighting the Corey Graves turn from last week, they added crowd noise for the match as there was none!
Graves is on the ramp and is going to give an explanation but Neville atacks from behind and the 2 brawl until referees break it up. Neville breaks away and hits a plancha. I know we're suppose to be really invested in this team breaking up but they were a thrown together team of a thrown together team this was meant to be Ohno & Graves.
Casey Maron & Tommy Taylor vs. The Ascension (Conor O'Brian & Rick Victor): Jobber A & B in the ring already. Please let this be quick! Chants of “Let's Go these guys” from the crowd proving my point that no one cares or likes the Ascension. Tie up by Casey & Conor leading to a body splash by Conor and tag to Rick with boots followed by chops & uppercuts. Firemen's carry slam to a tag and the Warrior shoulder blocks leading to another tag. Rick hits Taylor with a jumping knee, the Ascension then hit the H-Bomb and Total Elimination, which finally gets a name of The Fall of Man, for the win. The typical Ascension match here and by that I mean nothing of worth. Winners: The Ascension
WWE.com exclusive with Sami Zayn now, he says he had the title in his hands and he understands why JBL restarted the match for Bo with his foot on the rope but can't understand why it wasn't restarted when he got thrown into the exposed turnbuckle. He relates this to the Daniel Bryan storyline in WWE, meaning we'll be getting the same thing in NXT and he promises to get the NXT title in his hands for good. Renee Young is backstage with JBL and she asks for his reaction for what Sami said. JBL says he can't be brought and he did what was best for business and you won't see Sami again for a while and he needs to learn respect. JBL focused on Renee's shirt here for some reason, as a red blooded male I have to say it looked mighty fine.
CJ Parker vs. Alexander Rusev: I would much prefer the original CJ Parker here and by that I mean Pamela Anderson. Rusev alone here and with no board, I'm happy to see both of these things. Tie up and knees by Rusev then a kick. Falling headbutt and then the Vader running splash, followed by a running splash in the corner during which a random blonde women in a red dress walks out. Rusev grabs the accolade for a quick submission, man did CJ look like one of the putty portal here. It's funny that I mentioned Pamela Anderson as we got a random blonde women walking round and CJ was treated like a defenceless women in the match. The woman just walked round the ring and then left. This was nothing. Winner: Alexander Rusev
They show during the break Tyler Breeze hit the beauty shot, took his phone back and cut off some dreadlocks. It's then announced that next week they will have yet another match and it's just a normal match, a gimmick should have been added. Also next week is Paige vs. Summer Rae.
Corey Graves vs. Adrian Neville: After that attack earlier I personally would have booked this for another weeks main event, this program has been rushed so much. Neville hits a dropkick to start, the commentators are stating that Graves has put both losses on Neville in their tag title matches which is fine but Graves was the one pinned in the first match. Neville is all over Graves with kicks and dropkicks Graves to the floor he then hits a twisting heelio to the outside. Graves grabs a kick and starts to attack it, in a very nice spot he places the leg on the rope and goes for the jumping sit down on it but Neville moves and gets a school boy but rolls through and hits another kick for a 2. Graves gets a couple of kicks to the leg and puts Neville's legs awkwardly on the ropes where he drops a knee onto it. Leg snap by Graves and boots to Neville. Shin breaker by Graves with a fist drop after for a 1. A standing Figure 4 by Graves is now counted as a rest hold it seems. Neville gets some kicks but eats a headbutt after. Another shin breaker attempt leads to a sunset flip but Graves drops a leg on the leg after kicking out and back to the standing Figure 4. Neville fights back with elbows and some running forearms, he goes up to the top rope but Graves stands up leading to Neville jumping over and tweaking his knee but he recovers when Graves goes for the leg and gets a school boy for the 2, fans are awake for this now at least a little. Graves gets a chop block and Lucky 13 leads to the tap out. This seems to be the end of the program, a tap out win like this pretty much ends it as Graves didn't cheat once in this match and this was completely clean. After Graves puts the hold back on outside so maybe it's continuing but Neville looked pretty weak by the end. Overall this match was OK but nothing great, I expected more from these 2. Winner: Corey Graves
A very, very skippable show in my view. They rushed Graves/Neville so much in one show it was like an episode of Nitro back in 2000! CJ Parker got treated like a complete jobber, the Ascension got TV time again for some reason. The divas match wasn't bad though and the main event wasn't either but not worth searching out to watch. More importantly they're doing a storyline of no Sami Zayn on NXT! What the hell am I meant to do, there goes one of the best reason for watching NXT right there. Thankfully NXT has a great roster but still Sami is the MVP of NXT and should be on more shows and not less.
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Thursday 17 October 2013

NXT October 16th Review: A Night of Champions

For the first time I can safely say I'm looking forward to a Bo Dallas match granted that's mainly because he's working with Sami Zayn but it's a key upside to someone who has been lacking such a thing.
Show starts with a promo package highlighting the feud with Bo and Sami for tonight's title match mainly showing Sami pinning Bo as the masked El Local 2 weeks ago.
The Ascension (Conor O'Brian & Rick Victor) (c) vs. Adrian Neville & Corey Graves for the NXT Tag titles: I've mentioned before that changing Neville's music was an awful move it's so generic. Renee Young is on commentary I think she's going to be doing more commentary. Rick and Corey to start, Rick keeps missing punches with Corey getting a couple of shots in and keeps throwing him into the turnbuckle. Corey gets a hanging leg scissors over the ropes, Neville gets the blind tag and springboard dropkick with 2 running elbows. Bodyslam by Neville who jumps to the top rope, Conor runs towards him on the apron but gets kicked away, Neville then jumps over Rick and runs off the rope leading to Conor low bridging the ropes and Neville flying to the outside and he grabs his leg. We go to break and come back to see Conor attacking the leg and tagging Rick, Conor then holds Neville open for a gut shot I guess they must read this and learnt to stop lifting them up for that double team. Tag right back out and Neville gets the boot up and tries to run under and then over Conor who throws Neville out but he gets the tag to a little reaction, Corey nails some elbows and an STO. Corey sets up for the chop block and gets it then locks in Unlucky 13 but Rick makes the save again little reaction. Corey crawls over and tags Neville who is still visibly hurt and reluctant to get in, he does while limping and Conor dropkicks the leg. Rick gets tagged, Rick goes to pick him up but eats a kick. Neville goes for the tag but Rick hits a knee and they collide heads leading to Total Elimination and the 3. They need to name that move and once again this match got little reaction and was probably worse than they're match 2 weeks ago. I don't see any upside to the Ascension even their entrance, which got them attention in the first place, isn't anything special. After Corey comes in and has a go at Neville, who apologises but Corey chop blocks the leg and attacks him, my only problem here is that Corey ran the ropes before the attack why would Neville still stand there he should have just kicked him. This was expected from the start of their team and Corey is probably better served as a heel. Winners and still champs: The Ascension
Promo for Hell in a Cell and Cena's return plays, it's a demonic video but I have 2 problems. 1) why does he have beef with Del Rio and 2) As Jim Cornette put it the return doesn't mean much, “He hasn't been gone long enough for us to miss him”. We come back with the commentators talking about the Graves attack.
Tyler Breeze vs. CJ Parker: Tyler gets a big reaction when he comes out. This feud is dreadful and it has been from the start. CJ gets booed. The 2 argue in the ring and CJ chops him to start then an airplane spin, Tony brings up the finish of their last match where it ended via iPhone shot and Renee brings up the good point of “Are they even dangerous they're tiny now if it was the 80's style phone it would be heavy”. Tyler goes outside and CJ follows, then gets a sunset flip for a 2 coming in and Tyler fights back with a shove to little effect. CJ misses a dropkick and Tyler gets a boot and grabs his phone then endless clubs only stopping when they hit the ropes. CJ pops up and goes for a punch which stops Tyler. CJ gets a cradle for a 2 then a dropping clothesline and Tyler begs off, Tyler then gets a thumb to the eye and a spinning heel kick for the win. A dreadful match and I don't want to see these 2 interact ever again! After Tyler goes for a selfie with CJ but CJ wakes up and uppercuts Tyler to boos, he then grabs the phone and takes photos with the crowd. Winner: Tyler Breeze
Paige & Emma vs. BFFs (Summer Rae & Sasha Banks): Matching gold gear for the BFFs. Paige and Sasha to start with Paige & Emma arguing who will start. Thez press by Paige and head pounds, quick tag out to Rae and Paige stays in control. Emma gets tagged and Rae runs into the corner getting the tag, Banks runs into a drop toe hold and then into the turnbuckle. Emma gets a sunset flip for a 2 then a cradle for another 2 and Banks gets a boot to the gut and Rae gets Emma's attention leading to the heat. I'd like to say at this point that the commentary has been pretty great on the show, Renee & Regal are just busting Tony's balls and making jokes but are also paying a lot of attention to the work in the ring. Rae gets tagged and a leg choke which is 80% of her offence. Inverted pedigree by Rae for a 2 followed by a laying down surfboard, Emma rolls out and gets a roll up for a 2. Rae keeps stopping the tag until she rolls out of the grip this lasted too long in my view, Paige hits her knee lifts on Rae and Banks grabs her when she attempts to get in the ring but she kicks her off and hits a dropkick for a 2. A Perfectplex by Paige, Tony calls it a snap and Regal corrects him. Emma comes in but gets throw out by Banks who is then thrown out by Paige allowing Rae to hit her Matt Sydal leg drop move for the 3. I don't know where they're going in terms of a title match maybe a Triple threat. This was pretty good match no complaints really. Winners: BFFs
Bo Dallas (c) vs. Sami Zayn for the NXT Championship: Surprisingly no promos from either man on the show before this. “No More Bo” chants from the start then it moves on to “Sami” chants. Bo seems to slip on his own feet to start, Sami grabs an arm ringer and Bo reverses it but Sami quickly gets an arm drag. Chant of “Bo has cooties”, random. Bo gets a cruifix pin and then a roll up and a school boy all for 2 counts. A tie up and headlock by Sami into a hammerlock back to a headlock until Bo escapes and grabs a headlock then hammerlock and strikes from behind. A series of knees to a downed Sami by Bo for a 1 , then more knees for a 1 and another pin. A great bit of story telling of Bo taking advantage of the first real bit of offence he got and not letting Sami up. Bo grabs an kravate and Sami gets gut shots but is cut off. Whip to the corner but Sami runs out with 2 clotheslines and a back body drop, he sets up the running mafia kick and hits it for the 3 but Bo put his foot on the rope leading to JBL coming out and restarting the match saying “This will not happen under his regime” and says “Referee don't make me learn your name”. Bo attacks from behind leading to a break, honestly I don't know if I would have done that false finish especially since Bo had his foot from the beginning of the pin he should have done that at the 2. Another demonic promo for Hell in a Cell plays this time for the WWE title match, sadly this program was killed by bad booking. We come back with Bo having a kravate and then hits a clothesline for a 2 then grabs the kravate back. Bo runs at Sami who low bridges him to the outside and nails a tope con heelo, back in and Sami goes to the top rope and hits a great cross body for a near fall. Sami sets up the kick again but Bo grabs the leg but is nailed with a Blue Thunder bomb for another near fall. “Let's go Sami” chants starts and Sami picks up Bo who gets a kick to the gut and a running side kick then a climb up bulldog for a near fall. Bo hits a reverse DDT for a 2, fans a super into this. Bo whips Sami and misses an armdrag, Sami then gets the boot up and a spear for a really good near fall. Sami sets up his climb up DDT but Bo escapes and crotches Sami on the ropes, Bo hits the spear but Sami kicks out to a huge pop. “This is awesome” chants, both struggle up and Bo hits a forearm he puts Sami on the top rope and attempts a superplex but Sami fights back and hits a sunset bomb for a real near fall. A German suplex by Sami who hangs on during which the turnbuckle pad on the low right corners top rope comes off, they head towards that corner but Sami gets another suplex, the ref removes the pad allowing Bo to throw him into the exposed buckle and school boys for the win. Easily Bo's best match I've seen and I just hope they do a rematch with Sami winning but a rematch in general would be good. This was a great match and they had the false finish to keep Sami as a title contender and Bo looked like the desperate heel by winning like that. Winner & still champion: Bo Dallas
The main event was a great example of what can happen when you put your top babyface (who is actually getting the reaction of a top babyface) against your top heel, the fans were invested from the very beginning until the very end and it only added to the match which to be far was a fantastic match regardless. Outside of the main event this wasn't a great show, we got some story progression for some feuds but the in ring stuff was just lacking and the fans reaction was with it, it was a pretty quiet crowd for the most part but an upside was the commentary this was one of the first weeks I really paid attention to them usually it's just background noise to me. So basically what I'm saying is listen to the show don't watch it.

Thursday 10 October 2013

NXT October 9th Review: SPOTLIGHT!


So RVD's on NXT, I'll be honest right now not the biggest fan of his in ring work so don't have high hopes but when put with the right guy he can be good let's see how they use him.
Speaking of Van Dam like last week they play the promo video for the guest tonight to start the show, the video makes Van Dam look awesome but all clips are a decade old or older. They've added Cesaro and Sandow to the NXT opening which makes little sense to me as they're seen as WWE guys and Sandow hasn't been in NXT for months now.
Leo Kruger vs. Antonio Cesaro: This match is a result of last week when both wanted to answer the Bo Invitational. Cesaro is pretty much a babyface in NXT without ever doing the Giant Swing. Bell rings and Cesaro hits a running dropkick and rips Leo's shirt off. Forearms and kicks until Leo hits a series of chops he then whips Cesaro to the ropes but he grabs them and ends up eating a clothesline to the outside. Leo follows and back racks then throws him into the apron and again. Leo chokes Cesaro with the ring skirt and drops an elbow, Cesaro rolls across the ring and hits a shoulder block then runs in with some knees. Fans are chanting “Push Cesaro” kudos to that! Cesaro hits a big boot and a double stomp then chokes on the rope, this is really coming off as a hard fight instead of a wrestling match. Cesaro hits a running football kick to the back follows with 2 suplex attempts but Leo gets the suplex and some gut shots. Leo puts the boots in the corner and a Russian Leg Sweep for a 1. Cesaro reverses the whip in the corner and nails a running European Uppercut for a 2. Cesaro hits an odd urinagi slam and climbs to the top but Leo catches him and gets a Superplex leading to the break. We come back with Cesaro getting knocked off the apron leading to a suicide dive. It's announced by the commentators that Aiden English is getting the match against RVD. Back to the ring and Leo hits his beautiful Spinebuster, when that move is done right I love it. Leo goes for the Slice Lariat but Cesaro escapes, Leo goes after him but gets thrown into the steps. Cesaro throws Leo back out of the ring and hits a back suplex onto the apron. Leo gets back in at 7 but again gets thrown out, Cesaro is going for the count out win. Cesaro hits a Gutwrench suplex on the ramp and Leo gets back in at 9. Cesaro hits a long series punches and uppercuts and then the Waterslide (haven't seen that in years) for a 2. Cesaro goes for the Neutralizer but Leo gets a body drop and then hits an elbow but runs into the pop up European for a 2. Cesaro grabs his choke sleeper with a body scissors, Leo starts fighting back but Cesaro hits a short arm clothesline and the Neutralizer for the win. A great match between these 2 with both looking great at the. After Cesaro hits a top rope knee drop and Leo grabs his throat, Cesaro looked like a killer by the end of this and Leo looked good by surviving so much abuse by Cesaro. Winner: Antonio Cesaro
Charlotte w/Bayley vs. Santana Garrett: Renee Young is one commentary for this one. I'd like to say again that WWE are sometimes awful with coming up with names! Tie up to start and they trade roll throughs while remaining tied up, Charlotte then gets an arm ringer which Santana rolls through and then Charlotte does a gorgeous cartwheel to reverse that. Santana pulls the hair and gets an elbow then drops Charlotte into the corner and hits a weak low running kick. Santana hits a Russian Leg Sweep into an arm lock during which Summer Rae & Sasha Banks come down for some reason. Charlotte gets out with a roll up and hits some chops into her drop down roll bridge move. Charlotte gets distracted and rolled up for a 2 but hits a firemen's carry flapjack and her flip low diamond cutter for the win. I've said before that a little bit more experience and Charlotte will be great, she has such a unique style and good look. Rae gets in the ring with a mic and says They are the first lady and the boss of NXT. They will run NXT and WWE and no one can do anything with Paige being out, this leads to Paige running in an attack them both but the numbers game gets her fans chant “Emma” and she does make the save. This kind of overshadowed Charlotte's match. Winner: Charlotte
A video for Goldberg's DVD play, spoiler alert there's a lot of spears and Jackhammers. We go backstage with Rae & Banks I'm so tired of them talking. They say the same thing they did in the ring and then challenge Paige & Emma to a match for next week.
Mojo Rawley vs. Danny Burch: Is Danny Burch Martin Stone? After checking he is and how did I not notice this before? I did wonder what happened to that guy. I guess Mojo's gimmick is he's always excited and full of energy, so a new age Ultimate Warrior minus the paint. Tie up leads to Danny hitting a shoulder block in the corner and a club to the back, Mojo blocks and the reverses a whip to the corner but Danny gets the elbow up. Mojo fights back and sends Danny into the corner but Danny gets a stiff punch to the face for a 2 then grabs a rear chinlock. Danny hits 3 elbows for a 2 and then grabs a arm trap head twist. Mojo ducks a clothesline and hits 3 shoulder blocks and 2 stinger splashes followed by a running butt butt and the Earthquake splash for the win. My one compliment is that finisher, he does get some nice height but he doesn't have the size to make that believable in my view he was only slightly bigger than Danny. Winner: Mojo Rawley
Backstage we see Emma with Paige and Paige says she didn't need her help but Emma disagrees. They get told about the challenge and both recap why they don't like the 2 so they both agree to the match.
Legionnaires (Scott Dawson & Alexander Rusev w/Sylvester LeForte) vs. Enzo Amore & Colin Cassidy: The team have a name and new music sadly LeForte still talks for them. I knew Enzo & Cass were the opponents as Enzo was written on the board. Enzo & Cass both have mics and cut promos, they interact with the crowd so well. Rusev and Cass to start with a tie up, Cass ducks a punch and gets one himself but then runs into an elbow but gets a knee and club. Tag to Enzo and Rusev no sells a punch and hits his knees on the ropes move leading to Scott getting the tag and a running back elbow for a 2. Elbow, knee and leg drop by Scott, a suplex and short arm clothesline for a 2. Back suplex by Scott for a 2, Rusev gets tagged and hits a running shoulder block in the corner and locks in the Camel Clutch which he calls the Accolade for the quick submission. Not much of a match here, Legionnaires attack Cass after the match and he locks on the Accolade on him with Scott getting in his face. With heel tag champs I would have put the faces over here to build them to challenge one week. Winners: Legionnaires
Backstage with Renee and she's with Sami Zayn, he says he feels great and now he has the spot and his plan is... Bo then walks in and says last week was uncool and he thought they were friends, it hurt his feelings. Sami apologises for that and says he has no problem with Bo and he wants that championship. Bo says they should team up instead and go for the tag titles, Sami says that's a good idea and he's in but they'll do it after he wins the NXT title.
Aiden English vs. Rob Van Dam: A little weird putting Aiden in this match, you're in the process of establishing him as a main guy but there's a good chance he'll lose here. Aiden does his singing entranc, he's now called the Artist Aiden English. Oh this was when Ricardo was still RVD's ring announcer. Another week with Alex Riley on commentary and I have to say he's been good all night at trying to put pretty much all these guys over one way or another. Tie up and RVD grabs a headlock and Aiden hammerlocks out. RVD shoves Aiden after and Aiden gets a headlock then RVD gets his leg scissors school boy. Aiden ducks down from a kick and we get the thumb point because well it's RVD and that's the majority of his work. RVD catches a kick and does his float over kick followed by his front roll monkey flip and clotheslines Aiden out. Van Dam then jumps over the ropes to the apron and hits a moonsault resulting in “ECW” chants. Back in the ring, another finger point and RVD his a slingshot legdrop on the apron for the 2. Aiden begs off and RVD gets a scoop slam and attempts Rolling Thunder but Aiden escapes. RVD tries to get into the ring and Aiden kicks the rope giving a low blow but no DQ here. Suplex by Aiden for the 2 and he grabs a chinlock. Aiden goes for another suplex but gets small packaged, RVD blocked being thrown into the corner with his leg and hits a kick. Series of clotheslines by RVD and a kick to the face followed by Rolling Thunder. RVD jumps to the top, another finger point and the Five Star Frog Splash for the win. This was pretty one sided, I knew Aiden would lose but this was mostly RVD if he had been given more offence for longer I think he could have come out looker better for hanging with Van Dam instead he was just the guy who lost to RVD in NXT. Winner: Rob Van Dam
I found this show slowly got worse as it went along and I'm not saying any of these matches were bad but if you had put them in the opposite order I think the show would have flowed so much better. Cesaro/Leo was main event quality while the main event came off as a squash really. At the end of this we know 2 things for next week we have the Women's tag match and Sami finally gets his title shot against Bo. Next week should be good.

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Thursday 3 October 2013

NXT October 2nd Review: Funny works for me

On this week's show we are going to see the in ring return of Kassius Ohno and the Bo Dallas invitational. Out of the 2 I care about Ohno's return. Oh as the show starts I'm reminded that Fandango is going to be on the show in a mix tag match.
Fandango & Summer Rae vs. Emma & Santino Marella: Renee stops Emma as she comes out and asks who is her tag partner and out comes Santino, say what you like about the guy but fans are into him. They combine her dance with Santino's power walk. Renee then joins the commentary team. Fans chant “This is awesome” before it even starts. Santino & Fandango to start they do some dance moves and Fandango goes for a kick but it's caught so is Santino's and then Fandango gets a knee and punch. Santino floats over and goes for the cobra and then Emma comes in to have Santino do her dance with the cobra leading to break. We come back with Fandango kicking off Santino, Fandango then gets a boot to the gut but Santino gets 2 arm drags and tag to Emma by mistake as he just wanted a high five. Emma and Rae are now in but Emma tags straight back out and then again and again, Santino keeps high fiving Emma and the ref is counting it as a tag. Fandango then punches Santino when he turns around and hits a back elbow followed by choking on the rope. Suplex by Fandango for a 2, at this point I'd like to add that I really like Renee on commentary she's funny and is adding a lot unlike Alex Riley but he's better this week than previous. European uppercut by Fandango and a choke in the corner letting Rae slap Santino, Emma then goes to the floor after Rae letting Santino roll through and jump for the tag but no one is there. Santino attempts to nip up twice, fails and Fandango hits a boot. Fandango climbs up but Santino rolls to far out, he goes to the other corner but rolls again and then again until Fandango picks him up letting Santino get a backslide for a 2 Santino finally nips up and gets the tag, Emma with 2 clotheslines to Rae then locks on the dilEMMA and a low cross body for a 2. Santino gives Emma the cobra and Santino teaches her how to do it but Rae does her climb up DDT into head banging which is the one thing that takes me out of that moves if it was just a DDT it'd look so much better. Fandango is leaning on the top rope Emma throws Rae into his legs leading to him flipping in and clipping Emma with his legs, don't think that was meant to happen. Santino comes in to check, Fandango & Rae miss clotheslines and get hip tossed and double diving headbutts. Santino gets the cobra and hits Fandango for the win. Who said funny don't draw money! I loved this match, not only was it a fun comedy match but it got really hot and the fans were invested from the beginning. Winners: Emma & Santino Marella
Oh the tag titles are on the line tonight against the Ascension, thankfully Ohno vs. Luke Harper is next. We get a promo for Battleground, nothing can sell this show to me. The Ascension get a promo, they try to sell their win last week as something horrific, it wasn't not even close. They say they will take the tag titles home and that the heroes will fail and they will rise.
Kassius Ohno vs. Luke Harper: I'll be honest Ohno looks to be in a little better shape but nothing crazy. What I find funny is that last night I watched Chris Hero vs. Brodie Lee from IWA Mid South's Night of Champions show. Luke pushes Ohno into the corner and attacks, he then throws Ohno out violently. Ohno gets whipped and rolls over the ropes onto the apron to hit a shoulder block, and a big jumping kick but Luke comes back by getting his knee up and a big clothesline. Luke hits a headbutt and elbow drop followed by a reverse chinlock. Ohno comes back by running Luke into the corner, he starts fighting back and hits a jumping knee then a baseball slide to the outside. Back in and Luke hits a big boot and a corner splash followed by a discuss clothesline for the win, odd choice to go over here unless they'll be doing more Ohno vs. the Family which I kind of doubt either that or they're still punishing Ohno for some reason. Either way a good short match here, I don't think Luke shows how good he is in WWE. Winner: Luke Harper
Backstage Enzo Amore and Colin Cassidy get a promo, Enzo says they were as close as twins to getting a title shot until the Ascension gave them they're first lose. They'll bounce back and Colin does endless insults to everyone and he keeps telling Enzo to shut up. A weird promo to be honest that just came off as random by the end. Another advert for Triple H's DVD plays, they really want to sell this thing. We then see a vignette for someone talking about hype mixed with him working out, I don't know who he is. Apparently his name is Mojo Rawley which sounds dreadful just makes me think of the Powerpuff Girl villain Mojo Jo Jo. He debuts next week.
Ascension (Conor O'Brian & Rick Victor) vs. Corey Graves & Adrian Neville (c) for NXT Tag team Titles: Still no reaction for the Ascension from the crowd. Neville and Rick to start, Neville ducks a clothesline and does a flip over a drop downed Rick followed by a leg sweep for not even a 1 and a back flip over Rick's leg sweep attempt and a dropkick for a 1, a really impression over segment from Neville. Neville hits a series of kicks to the chest and a headlock until Rick pushes him off and hits a jumping shoulder block allowing him to tag out. Conor with the Warrior style endless shoulder blocks and by that I mean 3. Conor with a knee to the gut and a suplex attempt but Neville floats over and tags to Corey. Corey hits a series of punches and then a dragon whip kick but Conor won't go down and hits a flapjack for a 2. Rick gets tagged and they do their stupid lift up double team. A few kicks and a tag to Conor again. A neck snap for a 2 and tag back to Rick leading to a break highlighting the Susan G. Komen charity and them having pink shirts all month long, a worthy cause. We come back with Rick locking in a camel clutch, Rick then whips Corey who gets a crossbody but not the tag. Riley says the Ascension remind him of the Road Warriors, I'd agree but these guys aren't over like they were not even close. Conor gets tagged and hits a leg drop while Corey is in a single leg Boston crab. Conor locks on a body scissors and then traps the arm around Corey's neck until he starts fighting back but Conor stops this by lifting him up in the body scissors and dropping him on his ass twice, that must be hard to do. Tag to Rick who does his chop/uppercut combo in the corner and hits a Firemen's carry drop for a 2 followed by grabbing a chinlock. Fans are chanting “You can't wrestle” to Rick, it's probably aimed at both but Rick is in the ring right now. Rick with a series of shoulder blocks in the corner but he misses a running one and hits the post. Neville gets tagged and hits a combo of kicks and dropkicks Conor, then throws Rick to the outside allowing him to hit a running twisting splash to the outside to them. Neville hits a springboard dropkick for a near fall, his offence is so pretty to watch. Neville then floats over Rick and does several flips/roll throughs to the opposite corner where he hits a kick to the head and climbs to the top but misses the Red Arrow as Conor pulls Rick but Corey breaks it up and drags Neville to get the tag. Corey goes for the leg clip but Rick hits what is now Daniel Bryan's knee strike aka Bushido knee. Tag back out and they hit Total Elimination for the win and the titles. Once again to no reaction as no one cares. Well I'm not surprised they won, Graves & Neville were thrown together and at least the Ascension are a team I imagine now Enzo & Cassidy will be put with them in the title program. But back to this match honestly it wasn't even that good of a match I expected a little more. Winners and new champions: The Ascension
We get a video showing that Rob Van Dam will be on NXT next week, that's cool I guess.
Bo Dallas Invitational:
Why does Bo have one black glove on? It must be a tribute for his family. Bo grabs the mic and the fans are all over him from the get go. Bo explains the rules basically saying if he gets beat then in 2 weeks they'll be a title match, his promos seem so forced. A skinny guy walks down and fans chant “Let's go this guy”. This guy has no name apparently. Tie up and a school boy by this guy for a near fall with the fans into it, they really hate Bo. Bo with a kick to the gut, a forearm and strikes in the corner. This guy eats a spear for the 3. Bo grabs the mic again he says he feels great and asks for someone else and out comes Leo Kruger but then Cesaro comes out and they stop each other from getting into the ring until both go in at the same time. Cesaro attacks Leo from behind and they start fighting letting Bo throw them both out. Out comes a luchador who leaps over Bo and hits a running Mafia kick in the corner for the win, he takes the mask off to show it's Sami Zayn. I think we were all expecting this kind of angle to happen in this invitational and at least now we're getting Zayn vs. Bo which hopefully will lead to Zayn as NXT champion.
I don't know how to feel about this show, there wasn't anything bad but nothing really stood out to me outside the first match. I am very annoyed that the Ascension have the tag titles but they make more sense then the former champs. Also very little was set up for next week except RVD being on the show. Again this show was good but nothing special outside the first match which I recommend if you like comedy matches.

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