Watching NXT from the start (2012 - ???)

[Crippler]

NXT Champion: Adrian Neville
NXT Tag Team Champions: Lucha Dragons
NXT Woman's Champion: Charlotte

NXT Episode 118
October 9th, 2014
Full Sail University: Orlando, Florida

Tyler Breeze vs. MoJo Rawley
Breeze toys with him for a minute before locking in an armbar on Mojo's injured arm for the win.

Earlier in the week, Enzo and Cass go into GM Regals' office. Enzo asks for a favour to get eyes on Mella and maybe give her a tryout. Regal sees through it and asks if he wants help to get a date. The go to the gym and Mella does some drills, Regal seems impressed and says bring her next Thursday. She hugs Cass and pushes Enzo away as he goes for the hug.

Victor vs. Hideo Itami
Not good, not good at all. Victor doesn't bump or even sell for Hideo's kicks which is 90% his offense, so fuck him. He then proceeds to do his shitty portion of heat, like he just takes what he does in tag matches and adds it to this. It's about the same time too, this is so bad. Hideo makes a comeback, but Connor comes out on the stage with a KO'ed Funaki but that distraction fails and Hideo hits a shitty one-legged dropkick for the win. After the match; Connor runs down and lays Hideo out again. They tie Hideo up to the ropes and beat on him some more. Funaki tries to make the save, but they drop him with the Fall of man. UGH!

During the break, Funki gets stretchered out. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL! Stretcher job for that shitty double team.

Before the match, Enzo and Cass come out. They do their stuff before Cass says "They come out here flexing like they're Arnold, more like Heyy Arnold. You should never has stepped off the stool" And it was this very night in 2014, I became a fan. Oh, how times have changed.

The VaudeVillians vs. Enzo Amore & Colin Cassady
Super short, they run the same match they've been doing and it works. Cass kills them on his hot tag, but Enzo gets distracted by English which allows Gotch to throw him into the middle turnbuckle and they finish him off with that's a wrap for a win. Enzo and Cass are like the most over jobbers.

Backstage: Sami says he's feeling pretty good about his match with Titus tonight, he says Titus should be a monster and he kinda is. But this is also the guy who is currently embroiled in a battle with a bunny. So, you know. If he thinks he can turn NXT into a proving ground he's wrong.

Becky Lynch vs. Sasha Banks
Becky now has dark red hair, so she doesn't look so "Irish" Sasha now has her BOSS music and her swagger is on 100, it's not quite when she was at her peak heel champ run in 2015 but it's pretty close. This is good but not what it could be with the short time, Becky isn't on Sasha's level but she's not really built to be just yet. This is mostly to get Sasha on the map for a future title match. She ends up winning with the bank statement. **

Titus O'Neil vs. Sami Zayn
This gets over 10 minutes and by far the worse Sami match in NXT, it's got a great story in the match with Sami who is a little over confident cause Titus is in HIS house, and he doesn't think Titus is good or on his level. But he quickly learns that it's not easy to take him off his feet, and he's even more powerful than he thought so Titus dominates way too long, and that' when the match dips. Titus isn't good at all, he will find greatness in his hot tags in about a year but now. He's just the generic jacked up guy that throws pretty shitty blows. He's very 93-95 RAW main event talent and would be perfect against Hogan in Hogan's prime. Sami bumps all over for him, which helps but it just drags on and on before the Sami comeback, but Titus survives it all and blocks the tornado DDT into a sweet looking Clash of the Titus powerbomb and pins Sami CLEAN~! *3/4

This doesn't seem like the call-up trial match that NXT has done in the past, but it's all part of the bigger picture

After the match; Titus tries to murder Sami with a squash from off the top to Sami who is on the apron, but Neville makes the save.

 

[Crippler]

NXT Champion: Adrian Neville
NXT Tag Team Champions: Lucha Dragons
NXT Woman's Champion: Charlotte

NXT Episode 119
October 16th, 2014
Full Sail University: Orlando, Florida

Corbin debuts the all black white spotlight entrance He's no longer a biker smurf.

Elias Samson vs. Baron Corbin
All of 4 seconds before Corbin hits the end of days for the win.

Sami Zayn comes down to the ring, he says he lost to Titus O'Neil last week fair and square and he's a little sick of that. He's sick of saying losing fair and square is fine because it's not and he's better than that. And he's proven it time and time again in this building in front of them. It's time for him to refocus and that's becoming NXT champion. Tyson Kidd comes out wearing a Sami t-shirt, he says it's about time Sami start facing some of the facts, and the fact is he will never become champion. Any chance he has, he squanders. He drops the ball every time, and now he's lying to the NXT Universe? HIS PEOPLE? He won't turn his career around, Sami says he has no problem with the interruption and the rant but asks if Nattie gave him permission to do this. He tells him to go home and cry himself to sleep again watching Total Divas re-runs and Kidd says at least he's not a Total Loser. He'll win some matches and moral victories, but he'll always fall off the top of the mountain. Just like last week. Kidd says maybe Sami just isn't good enough to be here and calls him the most pathetic person he's ever met. Sami says the now begins his road to redemption, and he's good enough to be here and good enough to beat him. He'll prove it tonight, and says to go borrow Tyler Breeze's cell phone to call Nattie and make sure it's alright. Tyson asks why he would have her number but says he's fine with it. He DOES have to go check on his cats though, so he'll see him tonight, and this road to redemption hits a roadblock. FACT!

Wesley Blake & Buddy Murphy vs. Lucha Dragons
Champs showcase, Buddy is a lot better than I remembered being. He has a nice spot when he stops a tornado DDT, and counters into a suplex giving his team control. A-Ry tries to dub them as "Team Thick" PAUSE! Cause they're jacked, ripped and ready to hurt or some weird shit like that. Kalisto has a fun hot tag and cleans up Cara's mess before tagging him back in, and Cara hits a sunset bomb from into the pin for the win.

Replay airs of Breeze injuring Mojo's arm last week, Mojo is gonna be out for several months. YES!

Becky Lynch vs. Charlotte
This is their weakest match this year, mainly because Charlotte is working more babyface coming off the Bayley rub hug. So we don't get any killer legwork, but we do get is a nice mat sequence with both woman battling over arm positioning. Becky uses her speed to frustrate her, but Charlotte puts a stop to all of it with a backbreaker, she does her headlock stuff just to get it in, but it goes nowhere and Becky makes a comeback. Her big moves are running legdrops which is hilarious, the match just ends when Charlotte his the sit-down neckbreaker followed by the natural selection for the win. **1/4

Enzo Amore & Colin Cassady vs. The Legionnaires
Not much of a match like at all, Marcus tags in but as Syl goes to leave he accidentally pulls Louis wig off exposing his bald head. Louis ens up snapping and beating the piss out of Syl before leaving.

Cass grabs the mic and says they could get another match here. He says he saw someone back there with blue pants on and calls her out here. Enzo demands Blue Pants come out. Cass sings the "Price is Right" song as Enzo makes a bunch of blues jokes. They then bring out Carmella for her debut with "Fancy" adjace theme.

Blue Pants vs. Carmella
Mella wins with the bridging head-scissors thing.

Backstage: Sasha is doing her makeup when Becky comes in, and says what Sasha did to Bayley was disgusting and she hopes she gets what's coming to her. Sasha says what's coming to her is the NXT championship because she'll do whatever it takes to make it. Unlike her and Bayley. She asks where being nice has gotten her? Losing to Charlotte again? Maybe she needs to look in the mirror herself and think about what she needs to do to make it to the top. Sasha leaves and Becky looks in the mirror for a while. These NXT thots and mirrors.

Backstage: Veronica is with Neville and she says he has a title challenge from Titus O'Neil next week. Neville says the biggest thing that annoys him is since he's won this, there are WWE superstars that come down and think because they're on Raw and Smackdown that they should be intimidated. He's not. Titus' bark IS loud, but his bite is worse. So next week when he comes to NXT, he won't budge an inch, and he will not leave as NXT Champion against him.

Next Week: Sasha/Bayley 5 & Titus/Neville - NXT Title

Sami Zayn vs. Tyson Kidd
Good time, as usual, it takes a while to get going but it's part of the story with Kidd thinking Sami's confidence is shot, so he doesn't expect Sami to be on his game like he is, so Kidd stalls a bunch and now it's Sami with the head games. But Sami's over-aggressiveness gets the better of him again as he can't wait for Kidd to come to him, he has to go after Kidd. Well, that backfires and Kidd drills him with the running apron kick to the head and Kidd takes over. Kidd doesn't have much of a weardown segment, it felt rushed and cut short due to the break. Sami has a nice comeback, he hits all his stuff for near falls, Kidd blocks a suplex and counters into a swinging neck breaker for two. He follows up attempting and finally applying the Sharpshooter but Sami makes the ropes. Kidd misses the apron legdrop and hurts himself, so he doesn't have the same speed when he tries a running charge, Sami catches him into the exploder into the corner. He follows up with the Helluva kick for the win. **3/4

 

[Deezy]

Forgot Elias was a biker before.

 

[Crippler]

NXT Champion: Adrian Neville
NXT Tag Team Champions: Lucha Dragons
NXT Woman's Champion: Charlotte

NXT Episode 120
October 23rd, 2014
Full Sail University: Orlando, Florida

The Ascension vs. Jason Jordan & Tye Dillinger
Shitty Ascension squash.

After the match; Hideo runs out for some revenge, but falls to the shitty 2-1. They hit the fall of man and leave him laid out for the 3rd week in a row.

CJ Parker vs. Tyler Breeze
The bookers clearly have no idea what to do with Breeze, like they wanna keep him heel but the's over with the fans, so they alternate having him work the babyface-to-heel, and have him keep his aggressive stuff as he's still upset at being out of the title picture. It's just a mess. They're clearly waiting for post-mania raw to debut him, so until then just have him do stuff on TV until it's time. They do stuff for 4 minutes and both take turns on offense, Mojo comes out to try to distract Breeze but it fails and Breeze hits the beauty shot to win.

Tyler leaves and keeps rolling his arm around to mock Mojo's shoulder, this must have been shot before Mojo got a sling cause last week he did and now this week he doesn't, plus when does WWE have it's injured talent on the show?

Backstage: Veronica is with Titus, he says he's gonna abuse Neville's body, damage his mind and most importantly take his NXT title.

Barcon Corbin Vignette airs.

The Vaudevillains vs. Wesley Blake & Buddy Murphy
Villains come out to a new heelish version of their music, and new heelish manner which is mad random but fuck it. Villians showcase with their new attitude. Wes and Bud do some okay heel things, nothing groundbreaking but they are better than the Villians. VV end up hitting Blake with their new double team finisher which is a Northern European Uppercut into a Swinging Neckbreaker, named the Gentleman's Congress and cover for the win. *3/4

Bayley vs. Sasha Banks
Once again this so damn good. Sasha does the standard NXT stall as Bayley keeps rushing in and attacking her, it's a different story but it's still a good one, and they're still the best two woman on the roster. Banks weathers the storm, before kicking Bayley's knee out on the apron and taking over. Sasha is in full on embarrassing Bayley mode again. She busts out the FAKE runs the ropes spot and just straight up slaps Bayley, tons of cheating but again she loses focus in her attempts to punish her which allows Bayley to make a comeback. But Sasha counters a backdrop and locks on the Bank statement and finally gets Bayley to tap. FUCK YEAH! **3/4

After the match; Sasha goes to attack Bayley again, but Becky makes the save. Becky helps Bayley up, BUT THEN ATTACKS HER FROM BEHIND! FUCK YEAH! THE NXT DIVA'S MIRROR PROMO STRIKES AGAIN! Sasha watches on and applauds. Backy raises Sasha's hand on the floor and they leave. BFF's 2.0.

Backstage: Enzo, Cass, and Mella are talking. Enzo tells Mella he got her a match against Emma. Mella says she doesn't care who it's with cause she's going to the top.

NXT Championship: Titus O'Neil vs. Adrian Neville
So this starts off well, with Neville using the headlock to try to keep Titus grounded and to wear him down, but Titus keeps powering out, so Neville uses the speed. They have the awkward run with Neville doing all his flips but Titus runs at him too quickly and almost butts heads, but the funny thing is as he's running he seems like he's running 0 mph. Anyway, Titus takes over and does his clubbing punches, knees and choke boots. He really isn't a good single at all, and really fucked up what could have been his rebirth. E.G. Like Cesaro and Kidd did to show the world how good they are, but Titus is just basic with 1 impressive power move a match. Neville bumps his ass off for him though, before making a brief comeback and hitting the Red Arrow for the win. *3/4

After the match; Neville celebrates on the stage when Sami Zayn comes out to shake his hand. He says he wants to be the first one to congratulate him on another title defense and says he's on fire. But he's on a mission himself and it ends with that NXT Championship. He challenges him and Neville says he can have it whenever he wants it, and Sami says he'll hold him to that, and tells Neville to hold onto that title because he won't have it too much longer. Neville says he's not too worried about that because they all know Sami can't win the big one. Neville pats him on the back/arm and leaves. FUCK YEAH!

 

[Crippler]

NXT Champion: Adrian Neville
NXT Tag Team Champions: Lucha Dragons
NXT Woman's Champion: Charlotte

NXT Episode 121
October 30th, 2014
Full Sail University: Orlando, Florida

Backstage: Sami Zayn says he's lost a couple of big ones, but that's all in the past. but he's focused on what's in front of him and his road to redemption and that is the Neville and the NXT title. Titus O'Neil comes over and asks if his road consists of planes, trains, and automobiles because he's in the way. Sami asks if he's challenging him. Titus says he wouldn't call it a challenge so much as an open invitation and leaves lmao

#1 Contenders Tag Team Battle Royal
the teams are of VV, Team TJ, Wes/Bud, Enzo/Cass and the ASScension. This is super boring because everyone is garbage, and no one is that Battle Royal wrestler, that can do the fake toss outs, close calls and take a beating so what we get is 10 guys clubbing on one another until it's time to go. One right on time the Ascension throw Team TJ and Wes/Bud out, we get Enzo/Cass vs. ASS for a bit, as the VV hide on the floor for a bit. Before they throw them out. Hideo comes out onto the stage and distracts them long enough for VV to toss them out for the win.

After the match; Hideo runs down and attacks them again and for the 4th time he gets laid out. BRUH! Connor grabs a mic and says to go back home to Japan where he belongs before they send him back in a box.

Emma vs. Carmella
This happens, Emma gets to do some of her stuff but it's mostly a Mella showcase it's terrible, Mella wins with the bridging headscissors lock.

Justin Gabriel vs. Bull Dempsey
NOPE! FUCK YA'LL

Backstage: Bayley says her friends have turned on her before, but she never expected that from Becky. Sasha has brainwashed Becky, but if they want to be friends, then next week she'll bring a friend too to fight them, Charlotte.

Tony Briggs vs. Baron Corbin
SQUASH! The crowd debuts the counting how long it takes, 17 seconds.

Sylvester LeFort vs. Marcus Louis
This happens it's terrible, NXT is back to being terrible. Louis beats him up the whole time and yells "YOU DID THIS TO ME" before hitting Uranage for the win. I don't think Syl has even won a match lol.

Backstage: Hideo says he's tired of the 2-1 attacks if they want to fight he brings a friend next week.

Sami Zayn vs. Titus O'Neil
Goes around 8 minutes Sami takes him serious, but Titus is pissed off and does all his Titus stuff again. But at least he's finally adding new power moves and has no problems throwing Sami around like a small child. He goes back to the bearhug as his main offense, it's fine but Sami makes it sound and look worse than it really is. Sami makes his comeback but gets killed with a sitdown backbreaker over Titus's shoulder for two, he catches a Titus charge and hits the corner exploded followed by the Helluva Kick for the win. **

After the match; Tyler Breeze comes out. He asks if he thinks he gets a title shot because he beat a couple of uggos like Tyson and Titus. It doesn't work that way. If he wants to be #1 Contender, he has to beat the one person he's never beat, Prince Pretty. and he's talked to William Regal, and this road to redemption takes a detour down into Cuteville next week.

 

[Crippler]

NXT Champion: Adrian Neville
NXT Tag Team Champions: Lucha Dragons
NXT Woman's Champion: Charlotte

NXT Episode 122
November 6th, 2014
Full Sail University: Orlando, Florida

Tyler Breeze vs. Sami Zayn
This gets about 10 minutes, maybe more. Sami comes in this taking Breeze more seriously, but Breeze surprises him by being a better mat wrestler than he expected and totally throws him off. Breeze continues to show his new found aggression, and seemingly having an answer for everything Sami tries to throw at him. Breeze is a lot slower and deliberate with his offense, like he's cut all the flashy shit out and just wants to wear Sami down. It's kinda like what Justin became but Justin's was just boring. Sami high impact moves keep getting cut off as Breeze did a fantastic job having him scouted, to the point where it looks like Sami might not be able to beat Breeze. Sami never gets a comeback, he just catches Tyler coming in and hits the corner exploder and follows up with the Helluva Kick for the win. ***

Backstage: Renee Young interviews Neville, he says he was impressed and in his mind, he considers Sami the #1 Contender. That makes him happy and he'll give him a title shot any time and any place. He's said it before and everyone knows by now that Sami Zayn can't win the big one. Sorry Mate.

Dash Wilder vs. Tyson Kidd
FUCK YEAH! The other half of my kids. Real good showcase for Kidd, and Dash does his best Tully impression and bumps well for all of Kidd's stuff. Kidd is working the slow headlocks, sleeper, chinlocks stuff. He's clearly trying to gloat the crowd into chanting stuff at him but it doesn't work, Dash sells well and throughout, he has a solid 10-second comeback but falls to the swinging neckbreaker and taps to the sharpshooter. *3/4

Backstage: Renee Young is with Sami Zayn, she asks whats going through his head coming off a big win against Tyler. He says he feels good. Like the Count of Monte Cristo. Renee is uneducated, and Sami says this road to redemption is real and he's righting all these wrongs in people he's lost these big matches to this year. He's coming back one by one by one and he feels like this road to redemption is coming to an end. He wants it next week, and he wants a shot at Adrian Neville for the NXT Title. He leaves and Renee says she's gonna go to talk to William Regal about confirming this later.

Sasha Banks & Becky Lynch vs. Bayley & Charlotte
Mostly an angle match, Sasha wants nothing to do with Charlotte so she stalls and lets Becky get beat up by her, and picks her spots when she feels the champ is worn down enough. BFF's 2.0 eventually isolate Bayley and we get the usual Bayley/Sasha goodness, with Sasha doing all of Charlotte's moves to Bayley taunting her. Becky is good in this, but she's the weakest link and hasn't really found herself and her fun suplex throwing self yet. Kinda a weird night, Becky pulls Charlotte off the apron so she doesn't get the hot tag, and the match ends when Sasha reverses an O'Connor Roll into one of her own on Bayley and pulls the tights to win. First Sami doesn't make a comeback, and now no hot tag. Weird. **

Backstage: Renee Young goes to Commissioner Regal's office and asks him about a Sami/Neville match. Regal says he doesn't wish to sound callous, but he has to worry about business over talent. But in consecutive weeks, Sami Zayn has beaten three important contenders in a row, so why not? and announces Neville vs. Zayn for the title next week.

The Ascension comes down to the ring and calls Hideo out. Hideo comes out........................AND FIN BALOR MAKES HIS DEBUT! They beat the Ascension down and pose to end the show.

 

[Crippler]

NXT Champion: Adrian Neville
NXT Tag Team Champions: Lucha Dragons
NXT Woman's Champion: Charlotte

NXT Episode 123
November 13th, 2014
Full Sail University: Orlando, Florida

Finn Balor comes out to open the show, he introduces himself and calls himself the future, but Tyson Kidd and Nattie interrupt. Kidd says he's sure Finn has a great story, but nobody cares, especially him. FACT! He's been here for a cup of coffee and he's supposed to pretend he's The Guy? He was brought up with the Hart way, which means he has respect, which Finn clearly lacks. FACT! Justin Gabriel then comes out and says it seems like every week, a new big international star comes out with new music and thinks he's a top guy. They have to get through them first. The enter the ring, but Hideo makes the save. And we get an impromptu tag match playaz.

Tyson Kidd & Justin Gabriel (w/Natalya) vs. Finn Balor & Hideo Itami
Kidd now has his cats faces on his attire god bless that man. This is fine, it mostly about establishing Finn more than anything. Justin continues to be the weak link in all these matches he has no business being in. Finn has a good showing, lots of flashy shit but it ends of costing him as he would take a cheap shot on Kidd which allows Justin to dropkick him off the apron allowing the heels to take over. Kidd/Finn is really good and makes me hope that we get a match in the future, Justin is just Justin. Hideo has a fun hot tag, and with Kidd not being a pussy he allows Hideo to stiff the shit out of him with kicks and strikes, Finn tags back in and hits Coup de Grace on Justin for the win. **1/4

FUCK YEAH! Devin is back and she's with Sami, she asks for his thoughts on his match tonight and Neville. Sami says he has a lot of thoughts. He thinks Neville's been a great champion for close to a year now, but he feels like this is different from his other opportunities. This road to redemption isn't just a clever way to label some wins, but this feels like destiny coming together. And the thing about destiny is that it never ever makes mistakes, and this thing's going to unfold just like it's supposed to.

Some queen of the ring movie trailer airs, it's like the movie version of season 1 of glow.

Sasha Banks (w/Becky Lynch) vs. Alexa Bliss
Super short Sasha showcase, she's such an awesome boss bully bitch it's great. Bliss continues to come along super nicely at bumping, but she's still pretty bad on offense outside her rollup and sneak pin attemps which seems to be her only offense. Sasha survives them and hits the backstabber into the Bank Statement for the win. *3/4

After the match; Sasha says she hopes Charlotte was watching. She has what she wants, the NXT Women's Championship. So how about they finally make it official, or she could just HAND her the title before she beats and embarrasses her. She'll show her and the entire NXT Universe why she's the baddest Diva in NXT.

Backstage: Devin is with Neville, she asks for his thoughts on the title match tonight. He says Sami is a good friend and an incredible competitor, he will always give it his all and that's why everyone loves him. But the difference between them is Sami can't win the big one, and we'll see it again when I leave with my title.

Lucha Dragons vs. Wesley Blake & Buddy Murphy
Blake&Murphy debut v1 of their EDM molly popping theme music. Kalisto does great against them as it lets him go into his Lucha bag with flips and stuff, Buddy busts out the block tornado into the suplex spot again to give his team control. Solid iso, nothing special they wear Kalisto down to fill time. Cara is fine but he's not even close to how good Kalisto is, he takes Murphy out and Kalisto hits this awesome fucking dive taking him out, which allows Cara to hit the senton for the win. **1/4

Backstage: Devin interviews the Vaudevillains, Aiden says they are #1 Contenders of course, and they have a message for the Lucha Dragons. Keep the gold shined and the leather oiled, for those titles will not stay with children but will go home with two men.

NXT Championship: Sami Zayn vs. Adrian Neville
I love that Sami's gimmick is he's humble, but as soon as he starts putting some wins together he falls right back into the trap of being cocky and overconfident. It's so funny. But yeah, Sami feels like it's his destiny, and he's been through so much these past 3 weeks overcoming the demons of beating Tyson, Titus, and Tyler that this is his moment. Sami gets the better in the early going and is one step ahead he then gets super cocky and holds the ropes for Neville who doesn't fall for it and leaps over the top to get in, Nevill waits for his time and takes advantage of Sami's lack of focus and breaks him down with kicks/running dropkick to take over. At this point Neville isn't a great control guy, he will in a few years when he becomes EVIL 205 Neville but for now, he's babyface flippy Neville and resorts to NXT goto which is a headlock, it's like every match someone does a headlock for rest. Sami fights back and it's kinda weird that he's the one that would want the quicken the match, and he be the one to do dives, when Neville has been built as the faster and better spot guy. But that's cool, they eventually get to the high impact dives and moves for near falls towards the end of the match. Good spot with Sami hitting two rolling German's and fakes out the 3rd, but turning it into a half and half dragon suplex for two. He sets Neville up for the Helluva kick, but Neville gets the boot up to counter. He goes for Red Arrow but misses and Neville hurts his knee on the landing. Sami has him set up but Neville sells the knee good enough for Sami to lose focus and worry about his friend, that allows Neville to inside cradle him for the win. ***1/4

After the match; Sami does his amazing heartbroken facial expression, just like he did against Cesaro, Breeze and the 4-way, as he just sits in disbelief. Neville sells the knee to the point that refs and EMT's come out to check on him so it looks like he thought fast and went off instinct instead of FAKING an injury.

 

[Crippler]

NXT Champion: Adrian Neville
NXT Tag Team Champions: Lucha Dragons
NXT Woman's Champion: Charlotte

NXT Episode 124
November 20th, 2014
Full Sail University: Orlando, Florida

Bayley vs. Becky Lynch (w/Sasha Banks)
Becky isn't a heel at all and all her stuff feels forced and weird. Like Sasha she is a natural heel, Becky doesn't get much of a control at all like 30 seconds before Bayley makes a comeback and the comeback is longer than the heat. But Becky rolls her up and grabs the tights for the win.

After the match; Sasha and Becky taunt Bayley, but Charlotte comes down to even the odds. And the BFF's 2.0 bail.

Backstage: Bayley thanks Charlotte and Charlotte says she won't be here next week so Bayley needs to not go near Sasha or ask for a match because she's a bully, and she needs to just stay away. Bayley says okay and hugs her and Charlotte has this awesome UGH! Distained look on her face the whole time.

The Vaudevillians come out and Aiden gets the mic. He says they know they are patient gentlemen, but when they've earned what they have as #1 contenders, they deserve to have it now. They then bring out midget Lucha Dragons for a match.

The Vaudevillians vs. Midget Lucha Dragons
Comedy shit, VV win.

Baron Corbin vs. Elias Sampson
22-second squash.

Corbin leaves and Bull comes out for his match. DAT TEASE~!

Steve Cutler vs. Bull Dempsey
The crowd gets to 22 seconds before boooo'ing and starting a "Baron's better" God bless the nxt fans, they will turn on you in a heartbeat for the newer thing. And will never look back, Bull wins with his shitty diving headbutt, Benoit is rolling in his.....nevermind.

Tyson Kidd vs. CJ Parker
Kidd showcase, sharpshooter wins it.

Kidd says as a 3rd generation Hart member lmao he has a lot of responsibility as the last ever Dungeon graduate, and his uncle Bret told him that it's better to not wait for challenges to be made, but to go out and make the challenges. So Finn Balor, if he has the courage, he'll see him in this ring next week and he'll be excellently executed. FACT!

Enzo, Cass, and Carmella come out for a match. They do all the intros and then Enzo says they're not the Parker Brothers. NO GAMES! But, they'll Scrabble your dome piece. Monopolize you. Connect Four your eyes. And never feel Sorry for you. Because that's only one word to describe these two guys about to come down here. S-A-W-F-T. SAAAAAAAWFT.

Enzo Amore & Colin Cassady (w/Carmella) vs. The Mechanics
FUCK YEAH! MY KIDS ARE NOT INJURED! This isn't as good as their 2015/2016 matches, but it's a good start. The beat up and throw Enzo around before Cass gets the hot tag and cleans house, the hit Dawson with an atomic drop followed by a Cass big boot for the win.

After the match; The Ascension runs out and attacks both teams, UGH! JUST FUCK OFF ALREADY! They hit Dawson with the Fall of Man. Viktor gets on the mic and says they are not dead, but Hideo Itami and Finn Balor soon will be. Konnor says words and shit. I hate these two so much.

Backstage: Sami goes into Regal's office and thanks him for giving him in ring time to get some things off his chest.

Sami Zayn comes out to the ring, he says his entire life and career he thought he knew he had what it took to be champion, but watching the footage of last week clearly proves otherwise (insert video package here) Sami says that isn't easy to watch, but after the match he didn't get it but watching that video he gets it now and aks Adrian Neville to come out here because there's something he needs him to hear. Neville comes out limping still selling the knee, fuck yeah. Sami says to hear him out, if he really can't win the big man like he's said and lots of people have said, then he doesn't know what he's doing here. He doesn't owe him anything and he doesn't owe him a rematch, but if their friendship means anything, he'll give him ONE more chance at the NXT Championship, and if he can't beat him, then "I AM DONE" Neville says he'll give him a rematch any time he wants, even tonight, but that's William Regal's job. Besides that, he's his friend and he admires and respects him. He's proven time and time again that he's one of the best in the world, and he has nothing to prove...........BUT SAMI CUTS HIM OFF AND YELLS "HE DOESN'T NEED TO TELL HIM ABOUT WHAT HE NEEDS TO PROVE AND WHAT HE DOESN'T NEED TO PROVE. BECAUSE THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING AND IT'S ON HIS SHOULDER. THIS IS MY LIFE AND IM LIVING IT" If I can't beat you for that, then I don't need to be here. GM Regal comes out onto the stage, he tells Sami he is far from being a failure and he's VERY worthy of an NXT Championship rematch. He can't think of a bigger or better main event for Takeover than Neville vs. Zayn for the NXT Title as they continue their evolution. That rematch will take place on Thursday, December 11th. R-Evolution. Neville says he's not prepared to let Sami put his career on the line and he refuses to be responsible for ending his dream. Sami says he doesn't need to feel any burden. Whether it's in the contract or not, if he can't beat him and become NXT Champion, then he is done.

 

[Crippler]

NXT Champion: Adrian Neville
NXT Tag Team Champions: Lucha Dragons
NXT Woman's Champion: Charlotte

NXT Episode 125
November 27th, 2014
Full Sail University: Orlando, Florida

Tyler Breeze vs. Marcus Louis
Angle stuff, Tyler gets on the mic and asks if he's expected to fight the uggo of all uggos. He says this is disgusting and outrageous and he will not. He takes off Louis' towel to reveal his "bald" head, i guess Marcus is an alien as his hair hasn't grown since September, anyway Tyler asks if he's an idiot too and says to leave. He says he's hideous, disgusting, and he's a freak and nobody will ever love him. He then hits the Beauty Shot to win immediately.

Lou yells stuff out of frustration and it's terrible, awkward and just all-out appalling.

During the break, Lou walks out on Full Sail, PLEASE BE THE END!

Carmella (w/Enzo & Cass) vs. Blue Pants
Same deal as their first match, Mella wins.

The Lucha Dragons vs. Jason Jordan & Tye Dillinger
Dragons showcase, Jordan again looks impressive, he and Kalisto have a fun exchange that leaves me wanting more. Kalisto beats Jordan with the Solina Del Sol.

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Bayley comes down to the ring, she says she doesn't have a match tonight, but she wants to be here. Charlotte told her to stay home this week because she won't be here, but she's dealt with bullies her own life. Every day at school, she got picked on and came home in tears but her mom said she needed to go back tomorrow and stand up against bullies because bullies are cowards. Sasha Banks and Becky Lynch then come down to the ring now, Sasha immediately shoves her but Bayley elbows her but then gets taken down by Becky from behind. They stomp on her knee and injures it. Referees run out to get them to leave after some taunting. Becky tells her to go call her MOMMA!

Tyson Kidd (w/Natalya) vs. Finn Balor
They have a really good mat sequence to start, it's one of the few things NXT guys really excel at, which is the mat work to start their big matches. Kidd pulls his wife in front of him to stop Finn from hitting a dive to him on the floor, fuck yeah. Back from break, Kidd snaps Finn's neck on the top rope, before hitting a neckbreaker on the floor to take over. Kidd's control segment is fantastic he's not doing the headlocks, chinlocks for chants he's now getting into early Kidd offense, flashy running attacks, hard kicks to the back and he even does one of my favorite heel things which is hung a wrestler upside down int he corner, and pull at his/her neck from under the turnbuckles from the floor. Finn fights out of a headlock and makes a comeback, he hits a suplex and the Pele kick for near falls. Kidd has the running corner dropkick scouted, both men counter one another's signature moves which forces the other to change their setup. Finn goes for the double stomp, but The Ascension run out and attack him for the DQ. UGH! Hideo Itami runs out and the two teams brawl to end the show. **1/2

 

[Cwalker]

Ah I remember the days of thinking Blake and Murphy would be a legit team on the main roster...poor Blake

 

[Crippler]

NXT Champion: Adrian Neville
NXT Tag Team Champions: Lucha Dragons
NXT Woman's Champion: Charlotte

NXT Episode 126
December 4th, 2014
Full Sail University: Orlando, Florida

Mia Yim vs. Charlotte
Squash for the champ, Natural Selection ends it.

Sasha Banks comes out wearing her "DO IT LIKE A BOSS" t-shirt, she says to hand her over HER title since she's just going to beat her for it anyway. Charlotte dares her to come to the ring, but Sasha says NO! shes gonna do it when she wants and will save it for TakeOver. Huge RATCHET chant led by Charlotte, Sasha says Charlotte thinks she's special because her last name is Flair, but she has more flair in her pinky finger than Charlotte does in her entire body. More than her AND her daddy combined. WOOOOOOOOOOO! Bayley comes out on a crutch and says Charlotte won't say it, so she will. She needs to shut her stupid ratchet face up. So, Sasha kicks out her injured knee and bails as Charlotte runs up the stage. Sasha comes back out and tries to blindside attack her but Charlotte sees it coming and catches her, she carries her to the ring and Sasha begs off but Becky runs down, Charlotte knocks her off the apron but from behind Sasha hits the lungblower and posses with the title.

Wesley Blake & Buddy Murphy vs. The Vaudevillains
This is way better than I thought it would be, VV has a great leg segment on Blake, they use the ropes to hurt the knee before dropping vicious knees, elbows and just slamming the leg into the mat. Wes's selling is fantastic too, and so is Buddy's hot tag, what the fuck is going on. He cleans house on Aiden, they dump Wes to the floor and his Buddy with Whirling Dervish for the win. **1/2

William Regal is talking to Tyler Breeze. He says he hasn't been able to find Louis after what Breeze did last week, so the rematch is off. Breeze says that's one less uggo and thanks him with the night off. Tyson Kidd comes over and he wants a rematch with Finn unless the other option is a title shot against Adrian Neville Regal immediately denies him but says he needs opponents for Finn and Hideo, so the two of them can team up to do that. Kidd looks at Breeze's jacket and says that better not be cat fur.

Bull Dempsey vs. Elias Sampson
20 Second squash, Diving headbutt wins it.

Bull leaves, as Baron makes his entrance. Bull stares him down but Corbin ignores him.

Baron Corbin vs. Steve Cutler
13 Second squash, End of days wins it.

This game of one-upmanships is great, just a shame both men are trash.

​

Tyler Breeze & Tyson Kidd (w/Natalya) vs. Hideo Itami & Finn Balor
Good time, wish it went longer and had more at stake. It's an obvious showcase for Finn and Hideo to have them look strong for the TakeOver match against the Ascension. Breeze continues to show why he's mile ahead and better than Gabriel ever will be, and Kidd is Kidd. They iso Finn, and wear him down a bit working the neck, back and leg. Hideo has a dope hot tag as he kicks the shit out of Tyler and Kidd cause they ain't pussies. The match breaks down and Finn hits the double stomp to Breeze's back and Hideo follows up with the Low Ki Buzzsaw Kick to win. **1/2

After the match; Finn grabs the mic and says he's bringing something the Ascension has never seen before.

NXT Champion Adrian Neville comes down to the ring, he says next week he faces long-time friend Sami for his NXT championship. He says people say he should be conflicted about this, but he's not. His goal is exactly the same as always, to win at any cost. Some people feel like he should be ashamed of his recent actions and behavior. He asks the question do you think I'm proud of what I did at TakerOver 4-way? And how he hurt his knee last month and had to win the way he did, and says he's not. The fundamental difference between the two of them is that he's prepared to do what it takes for the victory, while Sami Zayn lacks a certain killer instinct and edge, that's why he will never be the NXT Champion. He's too nice, and it's cost him. Sami Zayn comes down to the ring, and Neville tells him he's taken it upon his shoulders to consider himself done if he does not win his title. And he says what Sami does post-match is his prerogative and he will not be held responsible. Sami says he's been doing a lot of thinking and listening too, and he's starting to really piss him off. The nerve he's displaying saying he's too nice. Like he's his baby sister or something? He has to tell him how to live, how to work, and how to do what he has to do. He's done pretty well for himself, alright. Whatever he chooses to do after the match is based on HIM and his decisions and his life, and it's not about him. He decides his fate. Neville says he respects him more than anybody else and next week will be an honor and undoubtedly the match of their careers. He offers a handshake and Sami stops himself and says NO! This is where he goes wrong every single time. Because Sami's gotta be the good guy and show respect, this isn't about respect, it's not about that between them. SAMI THEN SLAPS THE SHIT OUT OF HIM AND YELLS "DO YOU UNDERSTAND, THAT?" HE DOESN'T GET TO END HIM. HE ENDS HIM AND HIS STORY AS NXT CHAMPION. HE'S TAKING THAT TITLE. Sami throws the mic and leaves. This road to redemption

 

[Chris]

I was so off and on with NXT during this time I think I can point out the episodes I actually watched since I don't remember shit from most other ones

 

[Crippler]

NXT Champion: Adrian Neville
NXT Tag Team Champions: Lucha Dragons
NXT Woman's Champion: Charlotte

​

NXT TakeOver: R-Evolution
December 11th, 2014
Full Sail University: Orlando, Florida

Cory Graves joins Alex Riley and Rich Brennan on commentary.

Kevin Owens vs. CJ Parker
This is the best squash/showcase in NXT to date, everything is literally perfect. From Owen's music and the crowd is completely silent cause they have no idea who it is, then the monster pop when KO's name is on the tron to the even bigger ovation when they see him walk out. Kev comes out hot, as he's waited 14 years for this so he immediately hits the running cannonball, and senton over the top. Parker looks more legit than ever before with his only bit of offense being a spin kick and a palm strike which breaks Owens' nose, Kevin sells it like it's nothing, which makes him look super badass. He comes back and fucks up CJ with moves before ending it with the pop-up powerbomb for the win. **1/2

Graves announces his retirement from wrestling due to concussions and is a part of the commentary booth full time now.

Lucha Dragons vs. The Vaudevillains
Only 6 minutes long, that seems to be NXT's thing they don't really care about tag teams but have to give the champs something to do on these TakeOvers so here it is. I'm gonna guess this gets a rematch on TV in the coming weeks and will get 10 minutes or so. As for this, it's fairly basic, Cara busts out all 3 of his lucha springboard moves in the first 10 seconds and the champs control early until Cara doesn't see the blind tag and English hard pulls him to the floor which hurts his back giving VV control. Control doesn't touch the one they have on TV a week ago, it's like this match it's fine nothing great, everything is solid and clean they wear Cara down and stuff. Kalisto's hot tag rules and outclasses everyone, the match breaks down and the cool double plancha onto Aiden on the floor. Back in, Kalisto drops Gotch with SDS for the win. **1/4

Backstage: Becky is getting Sasha warmed up for her match.

Tye Dillinger vs. Baron Corbin
40 second Corbin squash, End of dayz for the win.

Bull Dempsey comes out to the front row and slowly applauds. Corbin goes out and they again stare each other down.

In the locker room, Sami is talking with Enzo and Cass, but the leave and it pans over to Kevin Owens staring at Sami. Sami notices and looks back before getting up and leaving. DAT TEASE~!

Finn debuts Demon Finn, as much as I don't like him, the Demon entrance has such a cool allure to it.

The Ascension vs. Hideo Itami & "The Demon" Finn Bálor
Before the bell even rings, team Finndeo take the fight to the Ascension and do their running dropkick deal, and clear the ring of them. The bell rings and Finndeo continues to control, mostly Finn cause DAT PUSH is coming. Hideo tags in and runs right into a Connor flapjack allowing them to take over. A lot of the usual clubbing blows, powerslams and holds. This moron Alex Riley tries to say he doesn't think Hideo or Finn even speak English, so I take it doesn't watch the show as he's commentating cause on TV last week when Finn spoke perfectly good English. And 3 weeks ago when Hideo cut a broken English promo calling them out? IDIOT! Oh, but he wants to stay on ASScensions dick, of course. Fuck this guy. They do a terrific job building the hot tag, with the Ascension cutting it of 3 or 4 times to when Finn finally gets the tag the place explodes, and it's really good. He hits the flipping senton dive and takes out both men before rolling Victor back in, Hideo teases GTS! MOTHERFUCKERS! But Connor breaks it up, they go for Fall of man but that gets broken up and both men hit double foot stomps, but Finn covers for the win. Best Ascension match to ever. **3/4

NXT Woman's Championship: Sasha Banks vs. Charlotte
Total Sasha breakthrough match, she chops Charlotte early and tries to get in her head early to throw her off but it doesn't work and Charlotte uses the size to control. So Sasha goes to plan b, and uses her smarts, she lures Charlotte to the floor before whipping her into the steps. These two have so much chemistry, it's just under Sasha/Bayley but it's such a good pairing at this point that will only get better. They have no problems just hitting one another as hard as possible. Sasha is so good in these with her swagger and cockiness, from throwing chops, to doing the Flair strut, trash talking all of it is good. She also uses her craftiness to counter and be one step ahead of Charlotte. Sasha also again uses Charlotte own figure-four headlock and face fuck to continue to get into the mind of Charlotte but, the Charlotte counters into the electric chair to break it, that leads to Charlotte making a brief comeback. But Sasha avoids a charge and sends Charlotte to the floor, she follows up with a Tope Suicida, but Charlotte is too far out to hit looks more like a flying crossbody. Back in, both ladies exchange moves and counters out of one another big stuff e.g. Charlotte shoving Sahsa off when she tries the bank statement, and Sasha rolling up Charlotte as she goes for the figure four. Charlotte lands on her feet when going for the moonsault, when Sasha rolls forward and Charlotte thinks on her feet and hits a rolling senton for two. She then tries a Razors Edge but Sasha counters and sends Charlotte into the middle turnbuckle, they fight over a superplex but she gets dumps to the mat and Charlotte hits the Natural Selection off the top for the win. Awesome freaking match, best one of the year. Total breakout match for Sasha and to some degree Charlotte. This will only get better in 2015/2016. Shit, this whole division gonna become a thing next year. ***1/4

Video Package for the main event airs.

FUCK YES! THEY DO THE MAIN EVENT BACKSTAGE WALKS BEFORE ENTRANCES

NXT Championship: Sami Zayn vs. Adrian Neville [Title vs. Career]
The crowd is super jacked for Sami, it's like 99% on Sami's side, and that calms him down as Neville doesn't pay it any mind as he has 1 goal. They start off with some really awesome mat wrestling, everything smooth and precise both men win exchanges but Neville keeps popping up first and getting right in Sami's face, like yeah, I'm here and you can't beat me. It's a great intimidation tactic. Neville uses his speed to frustrate Sami, but it doesn't work as he uses the hight and power to hit a backbreaker, but unlike their title match a few weeks ago when Neville bails to the floor Sami doesn' gloat or take too long to follow up, he immediately hits the moonsault to the floor. I love Neville's demeanor here, he teases taking a countout and dragging it to 8 before going back in. He manages to gain the advantage with a flying back elbow and tries to wear Sami down with a chinlock, working the head but more importantly the jaw, which he first hit the back elbow on. fuck yeah. Graves is already the best NXT commentator as he brings insight as he's been around both men not only in the ring but at the performance center and in the back so he tells us that these two don't even talk anymore and have changed Performance Center schedules so they don't have to be in the same rooms as one another. Neville gets more and more frustrated that he can't seem to put Sami away, so in turn that makes him get more aggressive. Sami uses that and makes a comeback, they cleanly do the flip into the electric chair counter into the blue thunder bomb spot, but Neville kicks out. Both men go back and forth with the pressure mounting, and they do some awesome counter spots with both guys knowing each other so well that they have to bust out new stuff to transition into the move they want. Sami refuses to DIE! And gets the knee up on Red Arrow and locks in the Koji Clutch, but Neville gets his foot on the ropes to break it. Neville counters the corner exploder, into a rollup but when Sami kicks out Neville lands on the ref. Awesome ref-bump, OH SHIT! Sami stops to check on him and it ALMOST costs him, when Neville drills him with a superkick and follows with a sick standing back 'rana spiking Sami on his head for two. BRUH! THAT WHOLE SET UP AND FALSE FINISH! WOW! Both men start trading forearms, and Sami busts outs the 2 Germen's into the half and half Dragon suplex, he goes for the Helluva kick, but Neville falls to the floor so Sami hits the running between the turnbuckles tornado DDT. Back in, Neville is in the corner and Sami finally hits the helluva kick, but as he hits Neville pulls the ref in so he again gets bumped. Neville then grabs the title, FUCK YEAH DESPERATION! But Sami kicks it away, he then picks it up, he struggles with using it. BUT HE THROWS THE BELT DOWN. NEVILLE ROLLS HIM UP BUT SAMI KICKS OUT THIS TIME! HE HITS THE CORNER EXPLODER AND HITS THE HELLUVA KICK AND COVERS FOR THE WIN. YES! UNBELIEVABLE MATCH! STILL HOLDS UP! THAT' MY BABYFACE GOAT! ****1/2

REDEMPION~!

After the Match; Sami celebrates with the belt, all the weight lifted off his shoulders, the monkey off his back all the emotions come flowing out. The locker room comes out, cause Sami is the man of the people and the first man in the ring is KEVIN OWENS!

Jordan and others hoist Sami up and he celebrates with gold confetti. I should point out as this whole thing is happening Neville is sitting in the corner, and he has the heartbroken facial expression.

Sami finally notices him, they have stare at one another and this time Sami extends the hand, but Neville kicks it away and embraces him with a hug. Neville raises his hand but leaves as this loss hurts. The roster all start departing until it's just Sami and Kevin left.

They leave together.......................BUT KEVIN TURN ON HIM AND SLAMS HIM ON THE STEEL RAMP!!! AND DEBUTS THE APRON POWERBOMB!

Kevin leaves as refs and GM Regal runs out to check on Sami.

this wasn't on the show, but remember watching it after. Good shit.
​

What a story, what a final hour and change. I just watched the Kevin Owen's doc and it tells this perfectly, these two are best friends. And this was supposed to be Kevin's big night, his debut but what happen he gets overshadowed again by his best friend, the best friend that got signed before him and what made it worse sign his deal in front of him. So fuck him, this is my NXT now. It was like the ROH version of "I HATE YOUR FUCKING GUTS"

 

[Crippler]

NXT Champion: Sami Zayn
NXT Tag Team Champions: Lucha Dragons
NXT Woman's Champion: Charlotte

NXT Episode 127
December 18th, 2014
Full Sail University: Orlando, Florida

Adrian Neville comes down to the ring, he says it should be Sami Zayn out here right now. Last week, they went to war and he had the best match of his career and he's proud of his performance, but Sami Zayn was the better man and he won. And he can honestly say at TakeOver the better man won, and it was a bitter pill to swallow, but Sami Zayn deserves to be the NXT Champion. He wishes he could introduce Sami and pass the microphone off and shake his hand and have his moment, but he can't. He's not here and that's all thanks to Kevin Owens. He hopes Kevin is proud of what he did because he is not. Kevin Owens comes out, Neville cuts him off and says what he did was shameful. He debuted, had an opportunity, and chose to do that. "SHAME ON YOU, MAN," Kevin says he doesn't care what he has to say because his opinion is irrelevant to him. What he cares about is being here, and the fact that Sami Zayn is NOT here, because HE IS. He doesn't have a problem with Neville, but he came here for one reason, and that's to get to the absolute top. He says he'll fight anyone and everyone on his way there, so if he has a problem with him and wants to fight, he's got it.

Backstage: Decin Taylor is with Becky Lynch, she asks her whats with this change of attitude. Becky says Sasha opened her eyes to what it takes to get to the next level in NXT. Her eyes were opened to getting cheered by the fans means nothing when she's losing week after week after week. He eyes were opened to if she needs to get anywhere she needs to rely on herself, and Sasha and if Bayley has a problem she has no problem taking her out for good.

Live via his phone, Breeze says he's taking a little time off from NXT due to some modeling gigs in Europe. But he'll keep them updated.

Bayley vs. Becky Lynch
Becky debuts her theme music here, this is pretty much an angle match. Bayley has one of those big knee braces on over her ring attire. She takes the fight to Becky early, really aggressive we've only seen her this mad against Sasha. Becky weathers the storm before finally kicking the knee out, she tries to work it but Bayley fights and she never really gets to work it, she sneaks in a Four-Legged Clover and Bayley taps.

Sasha/Charlotte rematch, next week on the Christmas day special.

Backstage: The Vaudevillians show Commissioner Regal the footage of Takeover, where the illegal man was pinned. Regal says he has to give them a rematch, but not tonight.

Mr. 450 vs. Bully Dempsey
Bull squash, goes about 40 seconds he ends it with his shitty diving headbutt

Bull leaves, and again Baron Corbin comes out for his match. They stare one another down, as Corbin goes to the ring. Bull watches on from the stage.

Jobber vs. Baron Corbin
14 seconds, End of dayz for the win.

They have another staredown, but Bull shoves him and quickly jumps off the stage and heads to the back like a pussy.

Enzo, Cass, and Mella come down to the ring, Enzo does his bit before Cass gets the mic. He says The Ascension wants to jump them from behind, but they've got diss for them. They "freestyle" 12 days of Christmas.

"On the 7th day of my Christmas, my true love gave to me. 7 fists are swinging, 6 will leave them laying, 5 GOLDEN RINGS! 4 letter words, 3 in a BENZ, 2 FOOGAZY STUDS................AND BEATING FROM THE CERTIFIED G'S"

Enzo Amore & Colin Cassady (w/Carmella) vs. The Ascension
Cass beats on Victor, but Enzo blinds tags in and tries to show off for Mella who doesn't pay him any attention so Victor drops him with an STO for the win.

Adrian Neville vs. Kevin Owens
Good stuff, KO stalls a bunch early wanting to do it on his own time and to try to get Neville out of his rhythm. Owens eventually suckers him in on the floor and drops him with a big meathook lariat to the back of the head to take over. Good dickish KO offense, forearms, knees to the face, wearing Neville down and he's hands down the best shit talker in the ring, he tones down the funny one-liners though. Neville has a nice comeback, lots of fast-paced kicks and springboard attacks. He goes for one too many, so Owens catches him and drops him with a gutbuster followed by a back senton for two. He follows up with a sick spike DDT off the top for another two, Neville again fights back and hits his Sydal leaping twisting in mid-air to a side dive moonsault looking thing to KO on the floor, Owens recovers and shoves him into the ringpost and both men are counted out. **3/4

After the match; Owens powerbombs Nevile on the apron and leaves to end the show.

 

[Crippler]

NXT Champion: Sami Zayn
NXT Tag Team Champions: Lucha Dragons
NXT Woman's Champion: Charlotte

NXT Episode 128
December 25th, 2014
Full Sail University: Orlando, Florida

Another one of those end of year highlights/recap/BTS shows, hosted by Renee and Graves.

Ric Flair comes out and introduces his daughter, as they desperately try to get her over.

NXT Woman's Championship: Sasha Banks (w/Becky Lynch) vs. Charlotte (w/Ric Flair)
Charlotte waste's no time and immediately goes to work on the leg, but she gets too cocky and does the WOOOOOO! instead of following up of wrapping the leg around the post so Sasha pulls her in, face first into the ringpost as we go to break. When we return Sasha is in control and we get awesome shit talk Sasha, she taunts Ric and bunch and has Charlotte scouted. While this isn't as good as the first match, they play off some stuff from the Takeover match. Charlotte has the straightjacket hold scouted so she counters into a backpack chin breaker before making a comeback, Sasha eventually hits the bank statement, but Charlotte is too close to the ropes. She also has the Tope Suicida scouted and counters with a forearm. Both ladies fight up top, and this time Sasha hits the top rope superplex for two. The match ends when Charlotte faceplants Sasha, and locks in the figure-eight, cause Sasha, already countered the figure-four counted into a roll-up earlier. Sasha taps. **3/4