NXT
Date:
February 5, 2014
Location:
Full Sail University, Winter Park, Florida
Commentators:
Byron Saxton, Tensai, Tom Phillips
Reviewed by Tommy Hall
We're
getting close to the end of this taping cycle but things aren't
looking all that sluggish for a change. The big stories continue to
be Neville vs. Dallas for the title and Sami Zayn wanting another 2/3
falls match against Cesaro. I'm hoping that's it for Zayn in NXT as
there's just nothing left for him to do, other than winning a title
that he doesn't need anymore. Let's get to it.
Welcome
Home.
Sin
Cara vs. Alexander Rusev
Gah
with the stupid lighting. This is fallout from Cara saving Xavier
Woods from Rusev a few weeks back. Rusev throws him around to start
but Cara gets in a kick to the chest and tries a moonsault press.
The camera does its best job to hide how short Cara leaves it before
Rusev dropkicks a diving Sin Cara out of the air for one. Cara is
easily powered down and Rusev stomps on him even more. A quick
springboard cross body and a Tajiri elbow get two on Rusev but he
counters a victory roll into the Accolade for the win at 4:43.
Rating:
D+. Rusev is being treated like
the monster he needs to be and that's all that you need to do at this
point. The guy is going to be a big time monster on the main shows
and it's goingt to be awesome. Cara was fine out there and the short
moonsault was an error rather than the norm like it was for Mistico.
Alicia
Fox vs. Emma
Renee
Young joins commentary to add a little flavor. Even Tensai gets up
to do the Emma dance and Renee does it as well but not on camera.
Fox grabs an arm to start and takes Emma to the ropes but Emma dances
a bit. A dropkick puts Emma down again and an elbow to the back
breaks up a Dilemma attempt. The great looking bridging northern
lights suplex gets two on Emma but she avoids a charge in the corner.
The seated cross body in the corner crushes Fox and Emma catapults
into the Emma Lock for the win at 3:19.
Rating:
C-. Renee summed the Divas
division up on commentary: they're good looking women in nice outfits
and made up very well going out there and trying to entertain people.
That's exactly what you had here and the fans were entertained.
What more can you ask for besides good looking women in small outfits
having fun and putting on a passable match?
Post
match Emma says she wants her match with Paige for the Women's
Championship but the BFFs hit the ring to beat her down. Natayla and
Bayley make the save.
Sylvester
LeFort vs. Mason Ryan
If
Sylvester wins, Mason joins his organization. LeFort is actually in
great shape and fires off some right hands but walks into a hot shot.
Ryan hits a quick big boot and cobra clutch slam for the pin at 50
seconds. This should keep going for awhile. Lucky us.
Aiden
English gets a spotlight in the back and talks about threatening Enzo
last week. He celebrates this action because it was retaliation to
Enzo for running over his foot. That being said, he's looking
forward to Tyson Kidd tonight and hopes to make O Canada cry.
LeFort
swears revenge on Ryan.
Tyson
Kidd vs. Aiden English
English
takes Tyson's knee out and drops a series of elbows for a fast two.
A belly to back suplex gets the same and we hit the chinlock. Tyson
fights up and hurricanranas English into the buckle to take over. A
running dropkick to the side of Aiden's head gets two but he comes
back with a knee lift and a suplex for two. Here's Big Cass at
ringside to steal Aiden's scarf and beret, allowing Kidd to hit a
Blockbuster (No Kidding) for the pin at 2:43. Fun match.
Corey
Graves vs. Adrian Neville
Adrian
grabs a headlock to start before flipping over Corey and hiptossing
him down. Graves bails to the floor and baits Adrian in to stomp the
Brit. The pace slows down with Adrian in trouble in the corner but
looking more annoyed than in pain. Adrian avoids an elbow drop and
puts on a headlock before dropkicking Corey out to the floor.
Corey
takes another breather so Neville cartwheels into a plancha to take
him down. Yet again Graves beats Adrian to the punch as he gets back
in and we take a break. Back with Corey working on Neville's leg in
the corner and dropping a leg on the leg for good measure. He
cannonballs down onto the leg a few times before pulling back on it
to make Adrian scream. When Adrian doesn't submit, Graves simplifies
things a bit by just hitting him in the face.
Back
to the leg lock for a bit before Graves changes targets with a
fireman's carry backbreaker for a series of two counts. They head
outside again with Graves' piledriver being countered via a backdrop.
Back in and some forearms have Corey in trouble before a middle rope
dropkick gets two. Graves kicks the knee out again but
Adrian rolls to the apron and kicks Corey in the head, setting up the
Red Arrow for the pin at 11:08 shown of 14:38.
Rating:
B-. Nice long match here with
both guys getting to show off a bit. It's a simple story and Graves'
work on the leg makes sense from more than one perspective. Nice TV
main event here which is something NXT can do at the drop of a hat it
seems. I'm still not wild on Graves though as he's just kind of
there to me.
Post
match a very serious Bo Dallas slowly walks to the ring and takes off
his jacket. Before anything can happen though, here's HHH because
NXT doesn't know how to operate without him. Somehow it takes him
two minutes to make the title match a ladder match.
Overall
Rating: C+. My fear for this
company's future grows every week as the main show's influence grows
more and more. With stuff like the distraction finishes, the boss
having to make the major matches and feuds
going on longer than they should, I'm starting to feel like I'm
watching another Raw. That's not good but it's not past saving yet.
Results
Alexander
Rusev b. Sin Cara – Accolade
Emma
b. Alicia Fox – Emma Lock
Mason
Ryan b. Sylvester LeFort – Cobra clutch slam
Tyson
Kidd b. Aiden English – No Kidding
Adrian
Neville b. Corey Graves – Red Arrow
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ReplyDeleteThere is nothing cool about being a wrestling fan. I try to downplay it but even just attending summerslam twice and BFG has opened me up for ridicule.
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ReplyDeleteYou're absolutely right but I'd bet anything Batista and the wwe essentially agreed he'd be a face until his movie came out. It's hard to promote a movie when everyone's booing you
ReplyDeleteYeah, the distraction finishes and multiple authority figures are getting to be a drag. I could forgive the distraction finish when they did it once, but it's becoming a regular deal and it's not what I want out of the show.
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I'd absolutely think so. The first part about the RR and a WM main event are confirmed if you believe the reports. It seems like alot but i could absolutely see Vince grabbing his ankles in negotiations with Batista just to try and get his "mainstream" star.
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*ducks*
"Batista just needs to go away"
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"TNA has been awesome lately, especially the past 2-3 months"
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I was saying boo-urns...
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*crickets sound*.
ReplyDeleteDeepest apologizes
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ReplyDeleteShannon brown is playing for the spurs on a 10 day contract?
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ReplyDeleteI liked Todd Kenely
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ReplyDeleteHi Janice!
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ReplyDeleteIt's Planky.
ReplyDeleteI can't stand Tenay
ReplyDeleteAbyss is Joseph Park?!??!?!
ReplyDelete:: High Society Handshake ::
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WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT?
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ReplyDeleteThis is a pretty appropriate way to pay the angle off.
ReplyDeleteYep. No one trashes this place but US.
ReplyDelete:: High Society Handshake ::
Yep. Just several months too late.
ReplyDeleteThis whole park is Abyss should have been done months ago.
ReplyDeleteTonight, the role of Randy Orton will be played by Bobby Roode.
ReplyDeleteOn no deron Williams sprained his ankle.
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Good good. Can't let the inmates run the asylum
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ReplyDeleteEh, you're cool. Remember the Gods view your folly as entertainment...
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ReplyDeleteA year ago was already a pretty bad time for TNA. 2013 did so much damage to TNA so fast
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ReplyDeleteMVP is using a mashup of his WWE and New Japan theme?
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ReplyDelete"MISS MANAGEMENT..."
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Rockstar Spud!!!
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ReplyDelete"HE'S GETTING OVER WITHOUT DANCING!!"
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So my work is having a stupid picnic thing in pasedena (far away from me) with free hotel rooms and different kinds of party stuff going on. Now I'm not the type of guy that would drive two hours plus for a lame party with free food/dinner at a steakhouse/free booze/family stuff and free hotel room etc. Especially if its work related. I'm under no obligation to go.
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People forget how good MVP was at the mic
ReplyDeleteDoes "fair" mean I can blow my load in her mou-
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Now Tanahashi is the champ,that guy is a beast.
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ReplyDeleteWhat's with the Godzilla roar?
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ReplyDeleteBully Ray doing Coolio? Okay, sure.
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ReplyDeleteSavage was the only one I can think of, surprisingly.
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ReplyDelete"... please be Dixie, please be Dixie.."
ReplyDeleteFTFY
One day i'm gonna watch a njpw event live,it's the only place I wanna go wrestling related.
ReplyDeleteHe did Motley Crue when he attacked Kennedy and had villain music in the background
ReplyDelete10/10, would ogle again.
ReplyDeleteIf the only reason you wouldn't go is you won't be able to post as much, I would go :)
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You're better than me at least,way better.
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ReplyDeleteEast 99
ReplyDeleteWell, once the cat's out of the bag, might as well give USA a stiffy with a nice rating. His reaction wouldn't have been any different had he returned at the Rumble with weeks of build as opposed to doing it on Raw.
ReplyDeleteBut had he been a real surprise at the Rumble? I think the reaction would have been significantly different. People still would have wanted Bryan to have won, but more of them would have been swept up in the mark out of the return than were by the WWE basically running pretapes for weeks saying "BATISTA IS WINNING THE RUMBLE. DAVE BATISTA. HE'S WINNING THE RUMBLE."
Anybody have the AXS channel? I have DirecTV, and it's channel 340. Gotham Comedy Live has Mick Foley doing some standup. 10 EST, 9 CST.....whenever PST.
ReplyDeleteHe has some good training videos as well.
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But I thought Kurt didn't want to be in the Hall of Fame....
ReplyDelete"Batista vs hhh was a great feud before that (the matches sucked though)" The hell in a cell match they had was pretty damn good. Name a cell match in the last 6 years that was better (other than maybe Taker/Hunter, and I'd still take Batista/Hunter)
ReplyDeleteTanahashi should do a match with Joe.
ReplyDeleteThe greatest of all time!
ReplyDeleteMan.. that sounded like Nitro Girl music. CURRY MAN!!!
ReplyDelete... He won two in a row, so apparently he's ready to go in. And poor Chris...
ReplyDeleteShe's quite the hippy and a lush though. Plus lotsa talking
ReplyDeleteAnd Bryan,Cena.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Daniels gets paid twice for the Curry Man gimmick?
ReplyDeleteMost of the ridicule is for attending BFG. And rightly so.
ReplyDeleteCURRYMANIA RUNNIN' WILD
ReplyDeleteChris gets sucked off by Velvet every night. I have no sympathy for him.
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ReplyDeleteIf not, he and Jack Victory should file a class action suit.
ReplyDeleteDaniels/Curry Man vs. Abyss/Joseph Park
ReplyDeleteI meant Daniels, not Sabin. Fuck Sabin.
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ReplyDeleteKAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHNNNNN!!!!
ReplyDeleteNo more Curry Man?
ReplyDeleteNice solid piledriver. I approve, even though I disapprove of the target.
ReplyDeletePitbull #1
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ReplyDeleteSo, what did I miss, and was that special room of Sabin's a strip club?
ReplyDeleteBully is going to end Anderson's career! FACE TURN!
ReplyDeleteAs Curry Man limps to the back Spud runs up and says, "Get changed, You and Kazarian have a match against Joe and Angle....NEXT"
ReplyDeleteHow presumptuous of me to assume that you were only seeing one.
ReplyDeletePeople Power!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHe's gonna strip himself for velvet.
ReplyDeleteIt must be hard to get that coffin though baggage claim every week.
ReplyDelete"KEN ANDERSON I AM GOING TO END YOUR CAREER"
ReplyDeleteI wasn't expecting a Bully face turn so soon!
I was wrong. Tonight the role of Randy Orton will apparently be played by Magnus.
ReplyDeleteHe's been face for a month if that's the logic.
ReplyDeleteI was actually digging his hardy feud in 2011.
ReplyDeleteThat should be interesting.
ReplyDeleteWell I have been just seeing the one... the other 2 developed the last 2 days... I am actually not interested in either of them... but when you are in the zone you just fucking ride the wave
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ReplyDeletego go Power Rangers!
ReplyDeleteToo soon.
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ReplyDeleteThat EC3 conversation felt little strange.
ReplyDeleteThey won't be able to top that.
ReplyDeleteSay what you want about Dwill but that is a world class cross over
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ReplyDeleteRemember when "who's better - Deron Williams or Chris Paul" was actually a thing?
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ReplyDeleteI feel like I would hate Brooklyn
ReplyDeleteWatched Time force again,Pink Ranger owns,still the best character of the franchise with Tommy oliver,I remember watching this being 6 year old and having a huge crush on her.
ReplyDeleteYep,incest style strange.
ReplyDeleteAJ is saying the same thing.
ReplyDeleteYou homos are watching TNA when you could be watching Olympic figure skating?? What the hell?
ReplyDeleteFlair coming still makes me laugh.
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