NXT
Date: August 28, 2014
Location: Full Sail
University, Winter Park, Florida
Commentators: Rich
Brennan, Alex Riley, Jason Albert
Reviewed by Tommy Hall
We've got something to
look forward to now with Takeover II just a few weeks away. All of
the titles will be on the line but the champions need some
challengers. As for tonight, the main story is the debut of the new
General Manager to replace JBL who left for undisclosed reasons.
Let's get to it.
Opening sequence.
Ascension
vs. ???/???
If the jobbers have
names they weren't mentioned. Fans: “LET'S GO JOBBERS!” Konor
runs over Jobber #1 with a shoulder before Viktor launches #2 in over
the top rope. Fall of Man ends #2 at 1:06.
Post match Ascension
says the tournament ends next week and they'll find their latest
victims. Konor says they will rise.
The new General Manager
is......WILLIAM REGAL! He says he's been here since the beginning
and as his first action, he's going to name the main event of
Takeover II. First up though, he'd like Adrian Neville to come down
to the ring. Neville congratulates him on his new job and asks who's
next. Fans: “GOLDBERG! GOLDBERG!” Regal is about to announce
the opponent but Tyson Kidd (in a Mike Tyson hoodie) interrupts.
He accepts the title shot but before Regal can confirm it, here's Tyler Breeze to interrupt as well. Breeze: “Are you serious? This uggo? Everyone deserves a title shot before him. EVEN HIS WIFE!” This brings out Sami Zayn to say that he deserves the shot above Kidd and Breeze. Neville wants to face all of them because this is NXT. Regal approves and we have a main event.
He accepts the title shot but before Regal can confirm it, here's Tyler Breeze to interrupt as well. Breeze: “Are you serious? This uggo? Everyone deserves a title shot before him. EVEN HIS WIFE!” This brings out Sami Zayn to say that he deserves the shot above Kidd and Breeze. Neville wants to face all of them because this is NXT. Regal approves and we have a main event.
After a break, Regal
makes Zayn/Neville vs. Kidd/Breeze for tonight.
Sasha
Banks vs. Bayley
We immediately get the
best chant ever: “BAYLEY'S GONNA HUG YOU!” Sasha sends her into
the buckle to start and drops Bayley with a knee to the ribs. We hit
the chinlock and get yet another awesome chant of “LET'S GO BAYLEY!
CENA SUCKS!” Back up and Sasha chokes away in the corner, only to
walk into the Belly to Bayley for the pin at 3:16.
Rating:
C-. The match wasn't much but
it's hard to not like Bayley. She's got this sweet innocence about
her and it's like watching an eight year old in an adult's body. The
awesome belly to belly helps as well as it makes her almost like
Eugene: she's so happy to be here but can be deadly when she gets the
chance.
Bayley
says she's like kitten stuck on a branch that tells you to hang in
there. She's going to turn her dream into a reality and win the
Women's Title at Takeover. This brings out Charlotte to say that she
would laugh at a kitten stuck on a branch. She tells Bayley to stick
to hugs because she's going to destroy her at Takeover. Bayley
doesn't want a hug (Fans: GASP!) because she's going to take the
championship. Charlotte leaves and says she warned her.
Bull
Dempsey vs. Angelo Dawkins
Dawkins is still a
nerd. Dempsey takes him into the corner to start and drops a bunch
of elbows for two. Some knees to the ribs have Dawkins in trouble as
this is totally one sided. Dawkins gets in some jobber offense
before the Bulldozer gets the pin at 2:50.
The Legionnaires laugh
about shaving Enzo's beard and speak a lot of French.
Tyson
Kidd/Tyler Breeze vs. Sami Zayn/Adrian Neville
Neville and Breeze get
things going with the champion grabbing the arm for early control.
Adrian and Sami start cranking on the arm until Sami stays in for a
wristlock. Neville uses Sami's back for a corkscrew splash and the
heels bail to the floor. Kidd comes back in but it's Breeze
superkicking Neville as we take a break. Back with Kidd getting
covered for two before Kidd puts on a chinlock.
Breeze comes in again
and stomps on the champion before putting on a chinlock of his own.
Kidd gets the tag but Neville dropkicks the knee out, setting up the
hot tag to Sami. Everything breaks down and Zayn cross bodies both
opponents down at the same time. A Michinoku Driver gets two on
Breeze but Kidd fights out of the Blue Thunder Bomb and gets two off
a DDT.
Sami suplexes Breeze
into the buckle and crawls over to Adrian for the slightly cooler
tag. A dropkick followed by a standing shooting star gets two on
Breeze. There's a kick to the gorgeous head but Breeze breaks up the
Red Arrow. Sami accidentally kicks Neville off the top but the heels
argue over who comes in. The Blue Thunder Bomb plants Breeze and
Kidd pins Neville at 9:58.
Rating:
B-. Oh man the fourway is going
to be awesome. Sami could still pull off the big win but any of the
other three are solid options as well. They've built Neville up
enough so that the pin on him is going to mean something. This was a
good tag match with the ending setting up a few more stories for the
main event of the big show. Good stuff.
Sami
gives Kidd the Helluva Kick post match and holds up the title to end
the show.
Overall
Rating: B. This is the kind of
show that NXT has been needing for a long time. It was the kind of
fun that I've been missing from this promotion and it made me want to
see the Takeover show more than ever. The main event is going to
rock and Bayley winning the title could be amazing. Really fun show
this week that flew by.
Results
Ascension b. ???/??? –
Fall of Man
Bayley b. Sasha Banks –
Belly to Bayley
Bull Dempsey b. Angelo
Dawkins – Bulldozer
Tyson Kidd/Tyler Breeze
b. Adrian Neville/Sami Zayn – Kidd pinned Neville after a kick from
Zayn
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"The match wasn't much but it's hard to not like Bayley. She's got this sweet innocence about her and it's like watching an eight year old in an adult's body. "
ReplyDeleteCreepiest statement I've read on here in awhile.
Tell that to Benoit.
ReplyDeleteHEY TOMMY, IF YOU MAKE A BENOIT JOKE IN A REVIEW THAT NO ONE EVER READS, DOES IT REALLY EVEN EXIST?
ReplyDeleteAll that work rate he used. Reminded him of being in Japan.
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ReplyDeleteHEY TOMMY, I FEEL LIKE IM BEING HANGED OUT TO DRY HERE. ON A WEIGHT MACHINE.
ReplyDeleteGET IT?
ReplyDeleteI'm just hear to to get put of the Benoit thread....
ReplyDeleteHEY TOMMY, DO YOU EVER FEEL LIKE SUFFOCATING YOURSELF WITH A PILLOW WHEN ZANADUDE SHITTY REVIEWS GETS MORE HITS THAN YOU DO?
ReplyDeleteShould have used Don for that one.
ReplyDeleteHe's a pervert that takes videos of you when you at least expect it. He's Rowdy Roddy Peeper!
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ReplyDeleteNow that should have been a wrestling name.
ReplyDeleteTommy is going to have a lot of questions that will need to be answered...
ReplyDeleteHEY TOMMY, YOU ARE KEVIN SULLIVAN, BAYLESS IS CHRIS BENOIT, AND WE ARE WOMAN. SO DONT WORRY, EVENTUALLY YOULL HAVE THIS PLACE ALL TO YOURSELF AND IT WILL BE DEPRESSING.
ReplyDeleteYou're killing it in here. A regular Benoit. Hide your children and wives everyone.
ReplyDeleteAll the more chance for Caliber to return.
ReplyDeleteBetter than I imagined it to be.
ReplyDeleteI didn't mind that part at all either. Because Bryan had technicaly lost the series against Orton, so new contenders had to step up for a while. the Wyatts feud was perfectly good filler, until got got back into contention again at the chamber. He couldn't just chase the title for 6 months straight.
ReplyDeleteas long as this is consider something "hot" I don't think it's creepy.
ReplyDeleteCena the Worker: Always brings his A-game and busts his ass.
ReplyDeleteCena the Man: By all account a good dude.
Cena the Onscreen Character: Pandering, insincere dork.
It wouldn't have been so bad if the crowds hadn't been so adamantly opposed to anything other than Bryan winning the title and holding it for a significant length of time. It made the booking look even worse than it actually was. Batista coming back with divided loyalties and then coming out on the side of right against the Authority would have been a great storyline, but it was the wrong time to tell that particular tale.
ReplyDeleteLol Cult
ReplyDeleteReminded me of a Puro-style strike exchange.
ReplyDeleteNot hardly. Cactus and Stunning Steve were incredibly over, Cactus as a heel and a babyface. Stunning Steve would have probably worked with Flair through the summer and early fall had Hogan not come in.
ReplyDeleteRe: the chants you transcribed.
ReplyDeleteSo, the NXT crowd is basically the Impact Zone crowd?
The wording was all off. I can maaaaayyybe see where he coming from but the way it's worded just came across all wrong.
ReplyDeleteWith what they spend on him and his box office drawing power I think the numbers the early 2013 run did were pretty underwhelming. I didn't think WM29 finished anywhere near 1 million buys either. I recall it doing something like 700 domestic max.
ReplyDeletePlus there was only uphill from WM26 where they were really brilliant and scheduled Wrestlemania the day after a Georges. St Pierre fight at the peak of his and the UFC's drawing power with a co-main event for the interim heavyweight title that determined who would fight Brock Lesnar.
I feel like they are kind of treading water with this show. Zayn, Kidd, Breeze, and Ascension are as ready for the main roster as they are ever going to be. I thought the idea was to cycle talent through, not leave them two years like Zayn. Plus they'll need spots for Steen and KENTA.
ReplyDeleteTJ... Jake Roberts story confirmed. Apparently us in a coma and has double pneumonia
ReplyDeleteAnd that's how you get into the top five, everyone.
ReplyDeleteI hope my smarkiness came through in that statement.
ReplyDeleteSince CultStatus is doing it, remember this:
ReplyDeleteNow this is the story all about how
My life got flipped-turned upside down
And I'd like to take a minute to talk off-stage
And tell you how I became the victim of a thing called roid-rage.
In the pro wrestling industry, born and raised,
Choking other men is how I spent most of my days.
Headbuttin', cross-facin', as a technical king,
All while shootin' some steroids outside of the ring.
When I got an iPhone, I was up to no good.
Skipped a match and flew back to my neighborhood.
I took one too many roids, my wife gasped for breath,
I said "Stop moving your little *** while I choke you to death!"
I whistled for my son and when he came near,
He still had "Fragile-X" and the physique of a queer.
If anything I could say that this kid was rare,
But I thought "Nah, forget it" and deprived him of air!
I went down to the gym around 7 or 8,
And I yelled to myself "Yo Chris, smell ya latah!"
Hung myself to death, at a very young age,
Now I'm burning in hell, all because of roid-rage.
Haven't listened to the one with Heyman yet.
ReplyDeleteAustin treats everyone with respect regardless of who it is. Fans were calling him all upset about the Daniel Bryan thing last year. He was like a counselor talking people off the ledge.
I like how they censored the word bitch to keep this from being too offensive.
ReplyDeleteHe comes off not just genuine but he also had a very empathetic vibe, you get the idea he feels burned by it too and isn't blowing you off. It's kind of a shame it's just a podcast where he's shilling dubious supplements to keep it free. I could see him being a great cable host. You could honestly put him on TBS after Conan for a late night block and he'd fit right in.
ReplyDeleteExcept creative and not as distracting.
ReplyDeleteThis was my email, Ryback has 100% won me over with his twitter and occasional videos, genuine entertainment. In the ring? ehh its ok
ReplyDeleteHERE COMES THE BIG GUY
for real
ReplyDeleteSeriously, nobody has taken that move that well since
ReplyDeletetss tsss HOME RUN, KIETHERSON!
ReplyDeleteNobody tops Michaels, but yes Cena is absolutely up there.
ReplyDeleteBret too, he really isn't the type of worker whose style lends itself to short TV matches, but 15+ on PPV? He brought it pretty much every time.
Bryan is an overrated jobber...Cena deserves a lot of credit for carrying all these random indy guys like Bryan, Punk, and Cesaro to good matches.
ReplyDeleteAgreed.
ReplyDeleteNope. Skip sucks.
ReplyDelete***** and the 2013 moty imo
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