Another day, another divas botch

Wow, that is incredibly bad.

Why was NXT an hour and a half this week?

If that was Charlotte's botch, didn't she just have one on SD? If so, her last name may be saving her at this point. You can't keep having the wrong finish no matter how good you are.

Love the idea of bringing back the Crockett Cup every year and calling it the Dusty Memorial. It's got to be something that the talents want and make it feel important though. Which makes me happier that it's on NXT rather than the main shows. If done right, they can incorporate and run other angles off this too.

Was really hoping we'd see a completely transformed, or at least some sign of physical change from Bull after a few months off TV.

Baron Corbin the 3rd member of the new Shield? I doubt anyone here is high on him, but anyone else in NXT fit that role?

I've heard (not wrt this match in particular, but in general) that WWE doesn't like it's refs to cover for botches. If someone else misses their cue to interrupt the count, it's on them, not the ref.

The "be happy. you won" instruction could just be the ref reminding her to stay in character.

Dusty tourney sounds like it was awesome for the first 5 first round matches from some live reports.

I've read the same and it's exactly how I took it too. NXT training ground for refs and announcers as well as wrestlers.

BTW, Meltzer is reporting that Becky was supposed to kick out, but was knocked loopy.

Never mind.



Today's NXT episode (295) at about 35 minutes.

I'd like to hear Heenan's commentary on that. He'd finally be right about a ref "being on the take" .

Johnny Gargano and Tomacco Ciampa debuted on NXT this week. Gargano is still signed to Evolve and Tomacco is advertised for GFW. Looks like NXT is starting to do what Jarrett wanted by bringing in people from all over the place for small programs here and there.

Jordan and Gable looked great in that tag match. Good team. Finisher looks cool too.

My guesses for the rest of the tournament:
Enzo/Cass over Dawkins/Fulton
Finn/Joe over Lucha Dragons
Blake/Murphy over Vaudvillians
Dawson/Wilder over Knight/Samson
Hype Bros over Louis/Wolfe
Gargano/Ciampa over Breeze/Dempsey

Enzo/Cass over Finn/Joe
Dawson/Wilder over Blake/Murphy
Jordan/Gable over Hype Bros
Gargano/Ciampa over Rhyno/Corbin

Enzo/Cass over Dawson/Wilder
Jordan/Gable over Gargano/Ciampa

Enzo/Cass over Jordan/Gable

If WWE history has taught us anything regarding random tag team pairings, then Breeze and Bull are winning this and the tag titles by end of the year

NXT spoiler from Kana's debut. Good to see they're booking her strong.

I have been watching for a while and atm I find nxt to be as fastforwardable as raw

It was great for a while but right now they don't really have any interesting feuds going on. Before I used to enjoy watching the whole episode but now I find myself skipping through most of it without feeling I am missing anything.

I attribute a lot of that to Finn Balor being extremely boring

NXT seems to be in kind of a rebuilding phase with so many people having been called up.

Saw the Bayley/Sasha confrontation on NXT. Almost seemed like Sasha was too close to breaking character. Just too friendly with Bayley. She seemed like she was about to cry when she was talking about the praise her match got. Then she was full of smiles when she got the match with Bayley. Such a contrast to her saying that she wants to beat Bayley again and again.

She was such a good heel on the NXT Brooklyn special. Hopefully she tones down the friendliness towards Bayley.

This isn't really how it was portrayed on television at all.

Yeah, she left, but the look on her face on the ramp suggested that she was going to leave them in a pool of blood.

I need to catch up on actually watching NXT. Did she debut on the latest ep?

Yes

Ah nice, thanks.

A few days ago I read that the NXT London special is sold out already...without a single match announced. That's not bad.

What in the ****

Seriously, watch the episode. I know the spoiler sounds bad, but I think it was done really well.