BRM Reviews the 8/14/2019 NXT UK

[Big Red Machine]

“FLASH” MORGAN WEBSTER (w/Mark Andrews) vs. MARK COFFEY (w/Wolfgang)- 4.5/10
Good for the time it got. The guys on the outside were a big factor. Webster won via roll-up.

RADZIE INTERVIEWS TONI STORM- Toni did a good job of getting across the fact that, for perhaps the first time, she is not confident that she will retain her title.

JORDAN DEVLIN’S INTERVIEW IS INTERRUPTED BY PIPER NIVEN AND RHEA RIPLEY BRAWLING- good
Many referees and backstage personnel were required to separate them.

KENNY WILLIAMS vs. TRAVIS BANKS- 5.75/10
Noam Dar provided guest commentary for this match, and turned in possibly the greatest heel performance in the history of guest commentary. The match itself was good for the time it got. Banks got the win and jawed with Dar on his way to the back.

ISLA DAWN vs. NINA SAMUELS- 4.5/10
Solid for the time it got. Samuels worked the neck and got the win.

JOHNNY SAINT & SID SCALA MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT- Joe Coffey vs. Dave Mastiff in a last man standing match has been booked for TakeOver: Cardiff.

WALTER TRAINS STUDENTS AT THE wXw WRESTLING ACADEMY- meh
He lectures them for not putting enough effort and tells them that if they want to “goof around” then they can “go to England” where goofing around is accepted. He begins to tell one of his students that the kid reminds him of Tyler Bate and so he starts to beat him up, then turns to the camera and dares Tyler Bate to meet him in the ring face to face next week.

ILJA DRAGUNOV vs. KASSIUS OHNO- 7/10
Ohno had to win one sometime, and this was a fine time for it. Even better, while positioning himself behind the referee the way he did might not have been 100% in the spirit of honest competition, I’m having a hard time calling it cheating, so Ohno picks up a clean win here, which he badly needed to do.


A decent episode of NXT UK.