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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