Friday 2 August 2013

NXT 1st August Review: Goodbye to the Wyatt Family


It's a day later than planned but here is my review of NXT. Now all I can remember that was advertised for this show was Bo & Sami vs. Cesaro & Kruger but in the thumbnail I saw Mason Ryan next to Tensai so I'm worried when that starts.
Enzo Amore & Colin Cassidy vs. Tons of Funk (Sweet T & Brodus Clay) : Enzo comes out talking, he introduces himself and Colin talks as well, he says as a team they're undefeated and that they're not soft. Enzo says he sees this as a dance floor for some reason, leading to Brodus Clay & Sweet T coming out. Remember when Tensai was rumoured to be feuding with John Cena for the WWE title? How he fell so quickly. Enzo & Colin try to leave but Mason Ryan brings his yelling pointing self out to put them back. The duo walk into double punches and double corner splashs and a double splash on Colin. Mason comes in and hits a cobra clutch slam on Enzo and that's it. No pin nothing. Mason tries to leave but Funk wants him to dance and he does. Pretty much no reaction here and I'm thinking “You brought Tons of Funk here for this” and this pretty much kills Ryan's “touch guy” gimmick. No Contest
Backstage and the Dream is with new NXT women's champ Paige and Emma who had one hell of a great match last week. Dream puts last weeks match over and calls them the future, Summer Rae comes in and calls herself the first lady of NXT and demands the title. Paige threatens to break her face and Rae claims Emma stole the win from her, Emma says whatever and makes fun of Rae being Fandango's dancer. Rae comes up with them having a dance contest, Dream says it's the most ridiculous thing he's heard and makes it so. Paige tells them to shut up and no matter who she faces she'll beat them. We then see a graphic for the main event tag match and an advert for the War Games DVD, I hope they release a new one soon I'm tired of this. We come back to Tony Dawson and Regal talking about the dance off next week and Regal starts dancing as well.
Charlotte vs. Sasha Banks: Tie up to start our first proper match, Sasha gets a headlock but gets lifted up and hangs on for a headlock takedown. Charlotte gets up and escapes a tilt-a-whirl headscissors but eats a dropkick for a 2 and gets put in a armbar. Charlotte floats over Sasha in the corner and gets her splits school girl float over pin which looks fantastic and is called Charlotte's Web. Charlotte hits a nice loud chop which she probably learnt from Ric, sadly Sasha's return chops look extremely weak in comparison and she hits a lucha style arm drag off the top rope for a 2 and immediately grabs a camel clutch to make her humble. Sasha hits a nice double knee attack in the corner and Charlotte floats over the ropes to the apron to hit Sasha she jumps back in hits a jumping clothesline and her flipping low ace crusher for the win. Charlotte has a ton of potential in my book and a really unique style to her. Charlotte is still getting woo's from the crowd but she will for a while. Winner: Charlotte
Backstage Renee Young is with Tyler Breeze she compliments his debut but he just stares at his phone and keeps complimenting what he did more and more, a wrestler photobombs the interview and I'm more interested in what he's doing than Tyler's boring promo. It's 3 weeks in and this gimmick truly sucks and I don't think Tyler is the right guy for it either. A vignette about the Wyatt's play another out there scary video with the basis being Mary's little lamb, I love those videos so much.
Aiden English & Mickey Keegan vs. Wyatt Family (Luke Harper & Eric Rowen): Wyatt's come out to their WWE style entrance and a massive pop meaning this was taped after their debut, I love that lantern entrance. When the lights come on the fans explode and chant “Wyatt”. The family attack from the go, Luke hits a corner splash, a spinning clothesline and Eric hits a splash for the win in a complete squash. Bray hits sister Abigal on Aiden after the match. He grabs the mic he says they're different types of men those who dream and never leave their couch, those who dream and fail and those who dream and change the world like him. He asks if the fans are tired of the things being as they are and says today is when he's going to change things. Today is the day Bray is going to bring down the machine leading to chants of “bring it down” and he says goodbye to NXT but if they need him you just have to follow the buzzards and ends singing “time is on my side” Winners: Wyatt Family
Backstage Corey Graves and Adrian Neville are talking about Graves one on one match with Scott Dawson and Neville says he'll be out there to back him up but Graves asks why? Looks like they're pushing the reluctant tag partners angle but he agrees to have Neville out there.
Scott Dawson vs. Corey Gaves: Sylvester LeForte comes out and cuts his incoherent promo I think about money and constant “What's” from the crowd. I hate this duo so much. Regal again compares Scott to Arn Anderson, a disgrace to Arn in my book but trying to put him over I guess. Dawson gets an arm ringer and as soon as Corey reverses he hits a forearm and throws Corey into the corner, places him across the middle rope and hits a kick and then a back elbow for a 2. Dawson's usual endless strikes begin until Corey blocks a back body drop, probably in fear of what would happen if this guy used an actual wrestling move. Corey hits a chopblock and locks in Lucky 13 for a very quick tap out. After the Shields music hits and out they come with all their gold. Seth says that they're back and last time they left Corey laying in a heap. He congratulates him on their tag titles and says they're almost like them but not quite. Ambrose says Neville stole Ohno's spot (a true fact) and says that is an injustice he then challenges Neville to a one on one match to a big pop and Neville accepts as long as it's for the US title and right now. Ambrose puts over his US title and says they'll do it next week. Neville says fine and he plans to destroy the Shield bit by bit. Winner: Corey Graves
An ad for next week plays showing the 2 matches made tonight as well as the NXT title match between Bo & Leo.
Leo Kruger & Antonio Cesaro vs. Bo Dallas & Sami Zayn: I just pray Cesaro & Zayn do most of the work here. Sami gets a big pop as well. I'd like to note that the 2 in the title match next week got very little reaction, except Bo who got tons of boos like usual. “No more Bo” chants from the start. Leo and Sami to begin, tie up to the corner Leo attempts a cheap shot but they go straight back to the tie up and Leo gets an arm ringer but Sami gets an armdrag out of it. Another tie up but Leo gets a knee and starts clubbing but Sami floats over and hits a couple of beautiful arm drags then his around the world arm drag. He looks over to Bo and the fans yell no just by a look, sadly he gets tagged and Cesaro gets tagged breaking out a “We the People” chant. Bo gets a couple of arm drags and tries to tag Sami but Cesaro boots him and hits a running uppercut and then nails Sami on the apron with a big boot. Bo gets a dropkick leading to a double tag, Sami chases Cesaro letting Leo get a cheap clothesline and a tag. Cesaro hits a mean short arm clothesline and puts his foot on Sami for a pin attempt. Sami gets driven to the corner and a tag when we go to break. We come back with Leo in control and hitting a snap suplex for a 2 and tags Cesaro. Sami gets some punches but Cesaro gets some knees and a big European Uppercut in a 2, Regal explains that the punch is illegal back in the day hence why the Uppercut was created. Cesaro gets his rear choke but Sami fights out and Leo gets the tag back in keeping the control over Sami. Leo grabs a chinlock but Sami fights back quickly and gets a sunset flip for a 2 but Leo grabs his foot as he attempts to tag, even that lead to “no” from the crowd. Cesaro comes in and we get the wishbone double team which must kill. Cesaro hits a series of forearms in the corner and Sami tries to hit a boot but Cesaro grabs it and hits a powerbomb for a 2 and a tag. Leo hits a standing double stomp for a 2 and tags out. Cesaro immediately grabs a chinlock and Sami gets a boot but Cesaro gets the tag while falling, Leo stops him but Sami gets a roll up and jumps out of it into a tag and boos as Bo comes in. Bo hits his forearms and jumping clothesline, a running corner bulldog for a 2 as Cesaro makes the save but Sami clotheslines Cesaro out and the 2 fight to the back. I wouldn't have done that myself. Bo hits his crappy belly-to-belly which is so bad Tony Dawson calls it a powerslam. Leo tries to escape but Bo throws him back in, he runs to the corner but Leo gets his boot up and hits the Slice (Lariat) for the win. Sadly this means Bo will retain next week, I would have had Leo beat Sami to be honest so that next week we go in clean as this kind of calls the finish for next week. A pretty decent match here. Winners: Leo Kruger & Antonio Cesaro
Not a great show if I'm honest a lot of none matches and little less, the Wyatt's goodbye came off well but weird since the week before they were positioned as the worst heels and this was a total babyface send off. Next week's show looks pretty weak to be honest outside the US title match. I'd say this was a pretty skippable show overall.

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