NXT Champion: Big E. Langston
NXT Episode 32
January 23rd, 2013
Full Sail University: Orlando, Florida
Shawn Michaels is in the ring, he says Dusty isn't here but has allowed him to show off the NXT TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS! And the Tournament starts now.
NXT Tag Team Championship Tournament First Round Match: The Wyatt Family (w/Bray Wyatt) vs. Yoshi Tatsu & Percy Watson
A lot like last weeks match, but this time the faces try to take the fight early to the family but that backfires and the Wyatt's beat them down. Harper hits the Discus Lariat for the win. *3/4
Backstage: Dusty is here, SHAWN YOU LIAR! He's with Alex Riley and Derrick Bateman, he says next week they will face Leo Kruger and Ohno in the tag tournament. Corey Graves comes over all upset, he rants about not getting a rematch after the Shield got involved and now he's not even involved in this tag tournament. Alex simply says "Your feeling froggy, then jump circus boy"
Thanks Alex well to nail that one. He does nothing, and A-Ri and Bateman leave. Dusty tells Graves that nobody wanted to be his partner, not even Jake Carter anymore, and Dusty then books that match tonight since he wants to prove himself.
Alicia Fox vs. Sasha Banks
This isn't good, Foxxy leads but everything feels rushed they work the vet vs. rook story, so Alicia is one step ahead and has counters for almost everything, outside Lucha Banks stuff. Sasha's bumping is what really makes the match, she then counters a bodyslam into a roll through into a small package and gets her first win. *1/2
Paige video package airs. She says the less you know about her, the better.
FUCK YEAH! Renee Young DEBUTS! Ahhh man she was adorable, damn you Dean. She interviews Aksana, she asks her about her match with Paige next week. Aksana says Paige has stolen her look but made it much trashier and says she doesn't know why Paige is all the rage, but she's going to end that next week. And everyone will find out Paige is out, and I'm in.
Fucking Conor O'Brien says everyone will find out he is the true "ASCENSION" and they will see him rise.
Jake Carter vs. Cory Graves
Regals claims in a few years, Jake is gonna leave wrestling and go studying around Europe. Thank god. Graves doesn't have his lowkey dope music, now it's just this grunge shit. This goes around 3 minutes or so, Jake controls early but Graves hits a pretty sweet back suplex and takes over working the neck. Jake sells the neck at first but just forgets so Cory drops it and takes out his knee before locking in the 13 steps for the win. *1/2
Graves says if he can't be in this tournament, he's declaring anarchy on NXT. And says the next time he see's Alex Riley he's gonna make him stay down. Oh no.
Backstage: The B Team are talking, Bo asks why he helped him. Michaels says it's a new year, which means he needed a new attitude. He says what he was doing before wasn't working and needed a change. Bo says what about their past, Michael says the past is the past, they need to focus on Primo and Epico and when they win it means they are 1 step closer to the NXT titles. B-TEAM!
NXT Tag Team Championship Tournament First Round Match: 3MB (Drew McIntyre & Heath Slater) vs. Adrian Neville & Oliver Grey
Drew/Neville to start was dope, just a shame Drew is doing this awful rockstar adjace shit, Oliver is dope, he carries Heath on the mat with awesome looking arm transition holds and counters. During the break, 3MB took control of the match and begin isolating Grey. They work the chest with holds, and boots/knees it's really solid. Neville has a good little hot tag and he beats Drew with the Red Arrow. **1/2
Axl Keegan vs. Big E. Langston
SQUASH! Big Ending gets the win, he hits it again and counts to five...........He picks him up again, but the lights go out and.........................................FUCK! Conor O'Brien challenges Langston to a title match in two weeks.
And just like that, I remembered this was the last NXT show I watched for like 5 months. Or until Sami debuted.
2013 is gonna be a rough year.