This is the 2^nd match of the best of 5 series and this is more like the bite sized cruiser matches that plagued Nitros at points instead of the longer stuff we got the week before between these two. Tony tells Tygress is a 10+ which is gross sounding and from the Madden playbook. Konnan gives a cool lucha libre lesson that involves Flair defending his title. Juvy hurts his leg on a monkey flip from Rey. Juvy calls for a timeout and the match is stopped which is disappointing after only 2 minutes. ½*

Tony Schiavone says that this is the second in a ‘best of five’ series. Last week’s match was a number one contender’s bout, so we’re either missing something from Nitro or, due to how good their previous encounter was, over the course of seven days they’ve decided to turn it into a ‘best of five’ instead. Lightning fast arm drag from Rey to escape a wristlock and Juvi takes to the floor. Mike Tenay reminds everyone that “the Juice is up one zip, he won this last week” so that answers my question from earlier. Lucha style surfboard that Rey transitions into a pin attempt for two. Headscissors from Juvi who then clotheslines Rey over the top rope to the outside. Just as things are starting to heat up, Juvi blows out his knee, catching it on the middle rope after Rey monkey flips him and the match is stopped due to the injury.

 

This was building nicely and looked like it was going to be better than last week until the unfortunate injury put a halt to things.

I was getting behind this and looking forward to this building off the previous week and instead Juvy got injured on the monkey flip. Disappointing. The first few minutes looked good, though, and looked to be setting up a good match.