Show starts with an “Earlier today” with Brad Maddox backstage checking himself in his phone when Tyler Breeze walks in and he begins to talk about an idea when CJ Parker jumps in out of nowhere, both talk about being in the tag turmoil they argue and Brad mentions they have no partners. Tyler said he should be cloned for the match, Brad says he's found a partner Breeze jumps in with “Brad Pitt?” Maddox says no and makes CJ & Tyler a team, both moan like children and Tyler says “Anyone but him, I said I'd clone myself” CJ comes back with “That doesn't exist” and they're made a team like that. I thought this was pretty funny.
Tag Turmoil: Show officially starts with tag turmoil. Enzo Amore & Colin Cassidy come out and do their stick, they play off each other very well and are pretty over. They're facing Breeze & CJ, Tyler is still pretty over with the crowd. Fans chant “Breeze is gorgeous” and they boo CJ Parker, fans really do go their own way. Enzo and CJ to start with a tie up and CJ grabs a headlock, take over and headscissors out, they repeat the other way around and CJ then grabs a kick attempt and spins Enzo around. CJ does an airplane spin and throws him down, I notice at this point that Tyler is sitting on the steps not even on the apron. CJ hits his double knees in the corner and Tyler asks for the tag when Colin hits the Catatonic on CJ for the win moving on. Sylvester LeForte comes out to do his usual garbage which means Scott Dawson & Alexander Rusev are the next team, I expected that. Colin and Scott to start, Colin grabs Scott's strike and hits a knee and club for a one. Scott gets a back elbow and tags to Rusev and the 2 trade punches until Rusev runs into a big boot for a 2. Enzo gets tagged and runs into a Samoan drop leading to a tag to Scott who hits a kick. Scott puts Enzo over the ropes in the corner and hits a kick followed by a spinebuster but Enzo gets a school boy for the win. Rusev attacks after hitting a running shoulder block in the corner and the Ascensions music plays and they're probably going to win now but we go to break before the match begins. We come back with Conor in the ring and he hits a clothesline to Colin, followed by a neck snap leading to a tag to Rick. Rick does very little then tags back out, Conor hits boots and tags out having Rick go for the pin for a 2. Chop and Uppercuts by Rick, he runs into a back elbow and Colin tries to fight back but gets cut off. Tag to Conor who hits the Ultimate Warrior style endless shoulder blocks until Colin comes back with a big boot for a 1. Colin tags Enzo who runs straight into a flapjack, the Ascension doing a weird double team leading to Total Elimination for the win. This means we'll be getting the Ascension vs. Graves & Neville, a match I'm not looking forward to mainly because of the Ascension who are not over at all in any form and are pretty bad in the ring. Winners: the Ascension
Bayley vs. Sasha Banks w/Summer Rae: Renee Young joins Regal and Tony on commentary. I guess now Banks is a heel she's automatically in a team with Rae. Tie up to start, Bayley high fives for the break and Banks goes crazy with chops. Banks goes to whip but Bayley gets a drop toe hold and then a Cradle for a 2. Bayley grabs the arm and gets whipped to the corner, she attempts a float over but messes up badly luckily Banks grabbed her legs and dropped her to the mat for a 2. Bayley gets thrown into the turnbuckle then a snapmare and grabs a reverse chinlock with a body scissors. Bayley bridges back for a 2 but Banks kicks out then hits a suplex for a 2. Bayley starts fighting back and nails a forearm and axe handles, Banks gets another sick sounding chop followed by a lucha arm drag. Banks misses a body splash in the corner and Bayley hits the Hug-plex for a very near fall. Banks whips Bayley into the corner but then runs into a back elbow, Bayley jumps up to the 2nd rope but Banks yanks her onto the top rope and hits a neckbreaker for the win. This was a really good match that got very hot by the end. Rae grabs the mic and immediately fans chant “No”. Rae says she has a huge announcement and that next week Fandango will be at NXT, she also says that they will run all over NXT and the women's division and they're going to move to the WWE this leads to Emma running in and the heels running off. I should also mention that I quite liked Renee on commentary, she contributed a lot and knew what she was talking about. Winner: Sasha Banks
Aiden English vs. Bull Dempsey: Aiden asks for a spotlight and sings as he comes in, I really like this gimmick. He grabs a headlock, gets pushed off and nails a shoulder block leading back to the headlock. Aiden gets pushed off again but gets the headlock back. Bull then gets a shoulder block but Aiden nails kicks and mounts with punches while yelling “This is my show”. He grabs his composure and hits a leg drop. He then hits a twisting side effect for the win, fans chant “Encore” and he gives it to them. Winner: Aiden English
Backstage Renee tries to get a word from Summer Rae, Rae says if Emma thinks she's gonna lie down like that she's wrong, she then challenges Emma to a mix tag for next week she then asks Renee if she knows why the fans will go home happy next week and without missing a beat Renee says “Because of your outfits”. Rae says she didn't need an answer and that the reason is because she's the first lady of NXT.
El Local vs. Sami Zayn: Local aka Ricardo. Sami is super over as always. Tie up and Sami gets an arm ringer, Local rolls through but Sami comes back with a hammerlock and Local gets a headlock then shoulder block. Sami does a leapfrog then his 3 arm drags and the fans pop big time, Sami then floats over and hits a step up hurricanrana for a 2. Local hits a STO backbreaker for a 2 then a running kick to the chest. Local with a suplex for a 1 and a seated abdominal stretch. Sami fights back goes to whip Local but eats a back elbow, Local runs off but into a leg lariat. Sami gets a back body drop and a running Mafia kick in the corner for the win. Pretty good match here but as I always say what do you expect when Sami's in the ring. Bo then comes out to massive boos, he congratulates him and he's happy that Sami is listening to his mentor. Fans have actually started saying “Boo” instead of booing after Bo said in a previous promo he believed they were saying his name. He says he's finally healed and he forgives him for injuring him and then says he's ready to defend his NXT title and is having the Bo Dallas invitational next week and if he's pinned they will get a title shot. Sami interrupts him to massive cheers and says he's the first one to sign up and they can do it now, Bo says this business is about respect and he shouldn't interrupt the champ. He then announces that Sami isn't invited to the invitational at this point a fan yells “My ears are bleeding”, well lucky for him that was the end of the segment so he can go get help. Winner: Sami Zayn
Maddox is on the phone talking about Triple H and how he'll be here in any time. A man then walks in and it's Kassius Ohno and he asks why has he been gone for so long, Maddox says he believes it's because he was hurt by the Wyatt's. Ohno says he's been clear for a while so there must be another reason aka. Hey internet fans you know why! Maddox says Ohno is a D+ or C- player and Ohno comes back saying he's going to interrupt every match he then threatens to knock Maddox out. Maddox gives him a match for next week against one member of the Wyatt's and they shake on it.
Triple H comes out for his announcement. I guess this is the “main event” of the show. He welcomes us to NXT and says it's your show. He's amazed every time he comes here by the fans and the talent he then runs through some names, he's says if something happened to the main roster he could replace them with NXT and they wouldn't miss a beat and this is the future. He brings up the Rhodes family issues and Dusty being the GM, he has done what's best for business and has given Dusty time off as he's very emotional right now. He introduces the new GM (for now) John Bradshaw Layfield, a good choice in my view as he's a great promo and a great character. JBL puts himself over and what he's done, he then tells the fans to shut up, and then puts over NXT. That's pretty much it and the show ends. That screamed middle segment if I ever saw it.
Well I was wrong when I though this show would be mostly talking and I'm glad about that. Tag Turmoil wasn't much and in my view it went the wrong way of putting over the Ascension, I personally would have had them kill several teams to win hell have them beat every time their gimmick is unstoppable monsters although they've already lost to the champs twice now. Aiden was great in his role, the divas stole the show like they usually do and Sami looked good in his match. A good show in my view and it's well worth a look, like a lot of time with NXT the show flys by easily.
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