Posted May 21, 201510 yr comment_5669060 Bayley & Charlotte vs. Emma & Dana Brooke Baron Corbin vs. Rhyno Finn Balor vs. Tyler Breeze vs. Hideo Itami Blacke & Murphy vs. Enzo Amore & Colin Cassady Sasha Banks vs. Becky Lynch Kevin Owens vs. Sami Zayn SHow's about to start. Who out there is expecting something big to happen on this show?
May 21, 201510 yr Author comment_5669065 Itami attacked in the parking lot!!! Going old school to keep him out of the match.
May 21, 201510 yr comment_5669068 Owens with the "That's a shame" line was perfect. Even if he had nothing to do with the attack he is such a dick that everyone thinks he does
May 21, 201510 yr Author comment_5669069 Finn Balor vs. Tyler Breeze - I love both entrances. Good shit all around. - I saw a guy wearing Finn’s jaws. Is that a new merchandise item? - I think the crowd chants are distracting me from the match since they aren’t happening in ideal places… just randomly throughout - Really fun opener. Nothing deep. Nothing MOTYC about it but fun either way.
May 21, 201510 yr comment_5669070 Real life got in the way and my plan to catch up on NXT failed horribly. I made it about half the way there but I still have 3-4 episodes I didn't get to. Ah well.
May 21, 201510 yr Author comment_5669071 Bayley & Charlotte vs. Emma & Dana Brooke - Man, Emma pulling Bayley off the top rope was nasty - Energetic but you can tell they aren’t used to tagging with each other as there were some timing miscues. - I do like mean Emma though.
May 21, 201510 yr comment_5669072 Emma might have missed her calling as a heel. I mean she has always been kind of jerk but it was dismissed as just being weird.
May 21, 201510 yr comment_5669073 Dana is definitely not ready for primetime, especially when she was feeding for Charlotte after the hot tag. I thought that Emma was really good in getting her character across though and Charlotte was having so much fun with the Bailey pairing. Match needed one more cut off during the heat and a lot less Dana miscues.
May 21, 201510 yr comment_5669076 This match is making me want to see a Valiente/Rhyno tag team. Unfortunately, they'd probably be up against Corbin/Thunder.
May 21, 201510 yr Author comment_5669077 Baron Corbin vs. Rhyno - I missed it. Did Rhyno get attacked early on or is he forced to wrestle with his shirt on? - Rhyno took a nasty spill from the top rope to the floor. - Corbin still doesn’t impress me as a whole but the finishing lariat and End of Days combo looked impressive.
May 21, 201510 yr comment_5669078 There was almost nothing to that match. Nothing meant anything. The match was basically just Rhyno getting clotheslined when he went for the gore and the End of Days. That could have happened one, five, or ten minutes in. There was some stuff like the weak corner barrage and Rhyno's power moves but none of it had any ebb or flow to it. A match like that can work with enough intensity but Corbin can't begin to bring that yet. You can learn clever wrestling and good execution, but you can't really learn that. The switch just has to flip and there's no promise it ever will.
May 21, 201510 yr comment_5669079 Owens is so great. "I'm sorry to bother you..." "But you did anyway."
May 21, 201510 yr Author comment_5669082 Blacke & Murphy vs. Enzo Amore & Colin Cassady - What the hell was that intro from Enzo and Cassady??? I am guessing that is a regular thing on the TV show. - Man, Blake & Murphy’s hair… digging it. - B&M were no great shakes on offense but the DDT counter by Enzo was nasty. - The setup for that ending felt like it belonged on a local indy show but not on an NXT special.
May 21, 201510 yr comment_5669083 People who think that the Alexis Bliss heel turn is completely random isn't really watching the weekly show.
May 21, 201510 yr comment_5669084 Enzo and Cass' entrance deal is one of my favorite things in wrestling.
May 21, 201510 yr comment_5669086 Will, you should watch NXT tv if you get the chance. It's a well-paced studio show and i think there are elements of it down your alley. I'm sure Johnny would agree that it's a lot of fun generally.
May 21, 201510 yr Author comment_5669090 Sasha Banks vs. Becky Lynch - Man, just not fucking up the early rollup and pin exchanges feels like a huge victory for NXT womens wrestling over main roster divas. - I like how Becky Lynch breaks out the fancy offense only to get dropped by Sasha being smarter. - Banks is a torture machine and her straight jacket offense was awesome - That work on the left arm is just amazing. Dick Murdoch would be proud. - When Becky finally powerlifts out of the armbar, she fucking earned her escape. - Christ, the armwork from Lynch on Banks was nearly just as awesome and nasty. - Holy shit, that finish was awesome. Banks was done, Lynch had the momentum and she blew it by going up top and setting Banks up for that falling armbar leading to the submission. - Amazing match. Easily the best of the night so far and the best NXt women’s match I have seen yet. Nothing else comes close.
May 21, 201510 yr comment_5669092 Lynch/Banks was great, but Lynch completely dropping her selling of the arm when on offense, after Banks went out of her way to work it so well, brought it down a bit.
May 21, 201510 yr comment_5669094 They both did enough to sell their arms at the end of the match. I mean Sasha won the match and holding one arm and becky lost the match and she was dragging her arm. When was the last time you saw after match selling that strong. Zayn vs Owens is going to be interesting because this is going to be mostly an angle building match like the first and has no chance to compete with Sasha vs Becky
May 21, 201510 yr comment_5669095 Just finished the woman's match. I loved it. I thought the opening stuff might have been 10% or so too choreographed/practiced but by the end of the match I really didn't care. At first watch, I'd call that the best NXT women's match too. I can see the argument that Becky may not have sold her arm quite enough at first, but once things got going, she definitely did. I've no real qualms about that since it was progressive.
May 21, 201510 yr comment_5669098 Just finished the woman's match. I loved it. I thought the opening stuff might have been 10% or so too choreographed/practiced but by the end of the match I really didn't care. At first watch, I'd call that the best NXT women's match too. I can see the argument that Becky may not have sold her arm quite enough at first, but once things got going, she definitely did. I've no real qualms about that since it was progressive. I thought it was. I just wasn't a huge fan of Charlotte/Natalya. That match was more about athleticism. I liked the nasty in this one.
May 21, 201510 yr Author comment_5669099 YEah, I was paying attention to the arm selling and everything she did was with her good arm in terms of impact. I have no problem with either women selling.
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