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BRM Reviews the 1/20/2016 NXT

Posted: Jan 21st, '16, 19:50
by Big Red Machine
SAMI ZAYN vs. ADAM ROSE- 5.25/10
Fine for what it was.

JOHNNY GARGANO PROMO- great! And despite being given such obviously scripted words to say.

JORDAN & GABLE PROMO- great!
And now they have their official team name.

APOLLO CREWS vs. TYE DILLENGER- 5.5/10
Like the Zayn match, this was perfectly fine for what it was.

APOLLO CREWS PROMO- good promo, and good booking. I always like given the champion for than one thing to do at a time.

ALEXA, BLAKE, & MURPHY BACKSTAGE- the seeds of dissension begin to be sown.
Alexa is SOOOOO great! Also, I will never, ever get tired of heels making terrible puns and telling us all how funny and clever they are for it.

THE VAUDEVILLANS VIDEO- I guess they’re going heel again. Why is this gimmick even still going on?

RECAP OF KEVIN OWENS’ APPEARANCE AT THE NXT HOUSE SHOW- the entire point of this was the MAKE SURE that everyone knows that you never know what sort of cool, crazy surprises you’ll get at an NXT house show… which is a stark contrast to WWE house shows.

BARON CORBIN vs. RICH SWANN- 5/10, but great for the time it got.
The people are going nuts for Swann and singing All Night Long for him. I was hoping the All Night Long thing would stop now that he’s in NXT.
They did a great job of getting Corbin a dominant win while still giving Swann the few spots he needed to get over.

RICH BRENNAN INTERVIEWS BAYLEY & CARMELLA- decent
Apparently these two are best friends. You could have fooled me, seeing as how they’ve almost never been seen together.
Dash & Dawson showed up to make fun of Carmella for being a loser like Enzo & Cass.

BAYLEY & CARMELLA vs. ALEXA BLISS! & EMMA (w/Dana Brooke)- 6.5/10
Immediately Alexa is a jerk to Emma. It doesn’t look like this will go so well for the heels. GREAT heat on Bayley by just constantly working over the ribs. Awesome antics from all three heels, but Dana and (especially) Alexa were particularly excellent. Carmella finally gets the hot tag, makes the comeback and gets the win to set up for her title shot next week.

ALEX REYES INTERVIEWS FINN BALOR- good.

JOHNNY GARGANO vs. SAMOA JOE- 6/10
Fine for the time it got.

An enjoyable show from NXT. This was definitely a “building” episode, but it did a good job of building up what it needed to build up while also delivering fine wrestling and being very entertaining.