Last week’s NXT saw a new NXT
champion crowned in the form of Bo Dallas and after that a lot of people’s
online reaction has been “What the hell? NO!” not big fans of one Bo Dallas.
Let’s see how they follow that this week.
My show opens with a “Don’t Try
this at Home” warning which after this past week’s news I’m not surprised to
see, what is surprising is it’s in Spanish! That’s what I get for watching
online thankfully the show is in English. Show officially starts with a video
highlighting the title change last week and the awful contract signing the week
before. I still find it funny that Big E said he’s the biggest guy in NXT when
he’s not even 6 foot. After that we get the opening and I have to say I love
NXT’s theme. Sadly Brad Maddox is back on commentary this week no connection to
the last point but it brought me down a little.
Adrian
Neville vs. Bray Wyatt w/The Family: Neville aka PAC is a great flyer and he’s
taking on a man who quickly became one of my favourites in Bray Wyatt. Neville
eliminated Wyatt in the battle royal to crown a no. 1 contender a few weeks
back. What a beard on Wyatt and the entire family. Neville ducks a clothesline
and hits some kicks but Wyatt gets the clothesline after Neville runs off the
ropes. A nice bodyslam by Wyatt, Neville fights back with kicks but is cut off
with a sharp punch. Wyatt taking his time and this leads to Neville being able
to fight back but is constantly cut off. Wyatt hits 2 elbow drops and goes for
the pin but as if he’s tea bagging him, rather unique I guess. Wyatt attempts
to throw Neville out but he stays on the apron and hits a kick, he jumps up to
the top rope to hit his flippy splash (the Red Arrow) but Luke Harper pushes
him off and the family attack leading to the DQ. Corey Graves and Kassius Ohno
then come out for the save, they send Harper into the steps and then Eric Rowen
into the post leading to them going after Bray but he escapes. Out comes the
American Dream Dusty Rhodes (baby) the general manager of NXT and he makes a 6
man tag for the main event. Winner:
Adrian Neville
Angelo
Dawkins vs. Sami Zayn: I love how the jobbers in NXT get music. Sami’s
music sounds like the Beastie Boys. Tie up to start and Angelo shoves after
they get in the ropes. Chain wrestling to start ending with Sami hitting a
number of armdrags including his around the world one. Sami runs into an elbow
and gets bodyslammed leading to a chinlock. Angelo looks like Donald Glover
that’s how long the chinlock was on. Sami fights back and gets a float over and
a leg clothesline leading to his hand hold DDT for the win. I guess that’s his
new finisher in NXT but would have made more sense to keep the Brainbuster in
my view as it’s easier to hit out of nowhere. Honestly for my liking this match
should have been more Sami on offence I know he’s the babyface and all but it’s
obvious they don’t have anything planned for Angelo. But Sami is better when
fighting from behind. After the match he yells out for Cesaro so they’re
obviously going to continue that feud Winner:
Sami Zayn
Sasha
Banks vs. Summer Rae in a 1st Round Match in Women’s title
tournament: A
rarity a divas match where both women have 2 names! Rae is being compared to
Stacey Keibler and you can see why they are very alike. Short tie up to start
another one with Rae pulling Banks to the mat and putting the boots in. A choke
on the rope and then a nice dropkick by Rae. Rae throws Banks into the corner
and then uses her long legs to choke Banks and follows with a hairmare. It’s at
this time Brad points out George Clooney dates blonde girls with long legs aka
Keibler. Rae does the pull up out of the corner move for a 2, she then yells
endless insults to Banks face and does a face plant for a 2. I was going to say
Rae is great as a heel but after that 2 she did a weird scream of frustration
that just made me laugh. More choking with her long legs, she pulls Bank across
the mat but falls on her butt, don’t think that was planned. She does a seated
surfboard and as Banks tries to reverse she’s caught in a pin. They both get up
and Rae gets into a standing guillotine that leads to a DDT which looked nice
but she floats over and the 2 do a typical cat fight spot which took me out of
it a bit. Banks hits some chops to start fighting back, followed by a climbing
arm drag for a 1. Rae comes back quickly though with Evan Bourne’s standing leg
drop thing, imagine a reverse DDT combined with a leg drop for the win. This
was pretty good even with the odd flaw here and there. Rae is really good as a
heel and I can see why they have more hopes for her over Fandango. Winner: Summer Rae
We go backstage to Xavier Woods
who looks like he should be in 70’s porn film. He talks about the previous
episodes he was on and that he’s going to return tonight. He ends with got to
go morphing time. A little weird but I like weird. This is followed by a
vignette about CM Punk just showing how far he has to come I guess.
Xavier
Woods vs. someone: The
guy he’s facing must be bad as he’s not even keyed. Woods is a dancer I guess I
have no clue but he starts by doing a dance move towards his opponent, I’ve
never danced so I have no idea what this is. Start with a tie up into an arm
ringer then arm bar. Jobber pulls some hair and whips Woods off but gets a
shoulder block for his trouble followed by a tilt-a-whirl head scissors.
Apparently this jobber is called Jake. Jake has Buff Bagwells tights and he
gets the Mr. Perfect neck snap for a 1. Jake gets a punch in the gut after trying
an axe handle. Woods gets some punches, a flying forearm and a dropkick. He
does a front flip into a clothesline and then hits Chuck Taylor’s Sole Food for
the 3. Woods has a nice style but I think if he gets called up that gimmick
will have to change otherwise he’d get thrown with Brodus Clay & Tensai. He
celebrates by dancing. Winner: Xavier
Woods
Backstage with Sami Zayn being
interviewed by Renee Young. He glosses over the fact he beat Angelo earlier
(take that jobber guy) and says that it was a message to Cesaro, he says their
one for one and he wants a round 3. Good promo by Sami. We the go to the French
guy (whose name I forgot) with his 2 rednecks. He says they should be the no.1
contenders for the tag titles, here comes Dusty who makes fun of the French guy’s
name which is Sylvester something, so many accents it’s hard to understand. He
makes a No.1 contenders match with those guys against Ohno & Graves for
next week, my money’s on Ohno/Grave. We then get a video of Bo Dallas from his
car thanking the fans and then photos of him at Disney world, then announces he’ll
be back next week. He sings a song with BOlieveing in there. God make this guy
shut up he’s awful and that BOlieve should never have been made up. Also
announced is Big E Langston so a lot is set for next week.
Neville,
Ohno & Graves vs. Wyatt Family: Luke and Graves to start, tie up into
the corner but Grave gets some punches and hooks onto the beard, he gets a
float over and tags in Ohno. Luke gets a punch and tags in Eric but Ohno gets
some punches. A knee by Eric and a club to the back leads to a whip with Ohno
doing his nice flip over to the apron, he delivers a big boot between the ropes
and comes in to hit his drop down boot for a 1, a lot of 1 counts tonight. Tag
to Neville but his kicks are ineffective leading to Bray being tagged. Neville
jumps onto him with punches but Bray runs him into the corner and into a
spinebuster, he attempts a slingshot into the turnbuckle but Neville grabs the
top rope and rebounds into a double stomp in a beautiful transition between the
2. Neville follows with some kicks but doesn’t even get a 1. Bray gets a punch
and tag to Luke who comes in while stepping on Neville, I love the minor things
he does in a match. Neville ducks 2 clotheslines and gets a running head
scissors leading to a tag to Graves, back to where we started. Graves gets his
boot up and does a hanging headscissors over the ropes, he goes for Bray but
that lets Luke hit his big boot. We go to break and we see our 3rd “Don’t
Try this” advert, they’re taking this seriously since that incident. We come back with Luke hitting a back elbow
on Graves for a 2. Tag to Bray who hits a headbutt and then a seated senton off
the ropes leading to a chinlock with the arm trapped. Graves quickly fights
back and goes for a sunset flip, Bray attempts the same senton from earlier but
misses leading to Eric and Ohno getting tagged. Ohno with his jumping elbow but
gets whipped over the corner to the outside, Luke gets tagged and rams him into
the apron. Tag to Bray who stomps onto and over Ohno. Eric and Luke fight for
the tag in the corner but Luke gets it and hits a European uppercut when he
comes in follows with 3 elbow drops. Back into the Wyatt corner and Luke whips
Ohno into Eric’s knee. Eric hits another knee into a pumphandle back breaker
for a 2. Luke back in, a lot of work from him tonight. Ohno stops himself from
going into the corner but the 2 hit heads, Bray gets the tag and knocks Graves
off but he fails to do the same with Neville who does get tagged and hits a
gorgeous springboard dropkick followed by a leg clothesline and a standing
shooting star for a 2, he then dropkicks Luke and goes for a dive but he stops
when Eric gets in the ring. Ohno then dropkicks Eric out and hits a baseball
slide. Neville hits the Fosberry Flop (I believe) which is him jumping over the
top rope to the outside into a moonsault to take out the 3 people. He goes back
in to Bray where he hits a jumping kick and attempts the Red arrow but Luke
pulls Bray out leading to Bray getting the pin on Neville. Show ends with the
family posing on the ramp. A really solid main event and while I wasn’t the
biggest fan of the finish it helped to show that high risk is exactly that.
Also prepare for this to become clear when RVD comes back and oversells that
Frog Splash every time out. Winners: The
Wyatt Family
I did find it odd that
Neville/Bray opened the show and that they did so little but seeing it was to
set up the main event which they made up for their earlier match I’m fine with
it. This also really showed me how good Summer Rae can be, a really good heel
and not bad in the ring she had to be the stand out on this show to me. Like
the past couple of weeks a good show I think NXT is the show to watch at the
moment. While I didn’t like the Bo segment at least they had something to say “Our
Champ isn’t here but here’s why” he was still a part of the show and I think
that’s a key to a champion. This show also set up a lot for next week the no.1
contenders tag match with Ohno/Graves against the rednecks with a French guy,
Bo will be back as will Big E but I imagine all that will equal most of the 45
minute show.
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