Further comment: I too liked how each fall felt "important" and "like actual matches"..... most of the time in these matches you will have falls that occur where it is like "yeah if this was one fall, no way would that be the end of the match"..... or like anti-climactic first two falls just to get to the one that "matters".....

Zayn never fell. We'll never know if it's because he's so pure a face, or because he was champion for so short a time.

He's the Samwise of NXT

Watching this week's NXT now. The card for NXT Takeover: Dallas should be confirmed by the end of this episode.

Sami Zayn seems so much more comfortable in front of the smaller NXT crowd.

Mixed reaction to Nakamura vignette, feels like most of the crowd had no idea who he was. I couldn't even figure out what he said entirely either. But damn.. goosebumps even though I knew this was coming.

Corey Graves is right. Going from Nakamura to Hype Bros is the worst.

Well at least it was a short match.

I still don't care about most of the newer Divas. :heart: Evil Emma though.

Another random Sorenson appearance. Are he or Ciampa signed on yet?

Not sure why Eva Marie took the pin, looks like they are protecting Nia Jax as much as possible now. Bayley-Asuka should be amazing if they get a decent amount of time.

Alrighty then, American Alpha vs The Revival for the tag titles. I don't know if these 4 guys will have the same chemistry as Revival/Enzo-Cassady but I am extremely excited to find out.

How awesome was that rolling german suplex Gable busted out? That was the highlight, and so was Aiden's powerbomb on Gable. And yes, the new singlets definitely give American Alpha a Steiner Brothers vibe, which ain't a bad thing at all.

Again, must say the entire show feels like it's been thought through. Graves and Philips do an excellent job weaving stories, entertaining, and calling the action. The show's pacing is rock solid, and not a single minute feels wasted.

Must talk about Ciampa's new attitude. Like Graves / Philips said, it seems as if he's dialling the intensity up to 11, but felt he needed a few more big-impact moves in his arsenal to justify the intensity.

And Asuka is the female Brock. She's legit, crisp, realistic. Looking forward to Bayley VS Asuka, where Asuka should get the win, thereby enabling Bayley to move up to the main roster. If Asuka wins though, who really can challenge her to make it seem like a fair contest?

Nobody. You have her get shafted out of the belt. After months of dominating, she loses to Eva Marie after Nia Jax hits her with a leg drops and have Asuka go on a revenge tour.

He meant seeing the graphic of Eva Marie not Nakamura.

It was awesome to see Asuka pepper the piss outta Eva Marie (even though she sells like shit - to no one's surprise).

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so good

Also love this match and JBL is a Wrestling GAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWDahh

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Yeah those were some mean fucking kicks to Eva. My wife joked that Asuka was gonna bust an implant.

If your name is Deonna Purrazzo, it's probably not the best idea to put your initials on your ass.

That does make her 10x more interesting now though.

I love that the ones that were in the know chanted holy shit to a mobile phone filmed bad English promo. Commentary sold him as well as a death sentence and the best in the world. Much better than Cole with Styles. IS IT?! COULD IT BE?!

Thought for a second they wouldn't keep his name since Regal didn't mention it, but commentary said it enough for it to stick. King of Strong Style will stay too, at least on NXT.

Was Austin Aries wearing contacts? They were some green ass eyes.

Too many shit threads keeping this off the front page.

Ugh.. I still don't care about Elias Samson. One of the commentators went "We don't know anything about him" and he is absolutely right. This is not a good thing months into the gimmick.

Gargano getting a bigger reaction from the crowd too.

LOL Gargano won :D

Heel Drifter with his first loss is suddenly a lot more interesting.

Rich Swann needs to be on NXT more. This is what? His 3rd match in 2 years?

Yeah evil Emma

Yeah evil Alexa Bliss

Ouch.. That Sparkle Splash looked hard on the knees.

Bull Dempsey :'(

I wonder if he knew about his release at this point. Not sure when this was taped.

Great promo package for American Alpha

WTF is this No Way Jose vignette

Probably considering he got released about a week after those tapings and also very quickly decided to reboot his image for the indies.

That ankle lock into German suplex was pretty cool. 17 min main event segment w/14 min match for two women is always top in my books.

I can't blame him for reworking his gimmick.

I loved Bull Dempsey, he had good charisma. Now we're stuck with Alex Riley and the fact that Corey Graves collects a paycheck

I don't think Asuka v.s. Emma would ever get old this year, although Emma's gimmick is polished up and ready to go on the main roster.

Don't be so quick there. So far, NXT stars have been put into mid-card hell, for the most part.

Neville seems to have been the one who has lost the least amount of screen time, but Breeze (who was/is? over as fook in NXT) was not well received despite having a very solid gimmick.

American Alpha hype package was beautiful.

Emma was on Main Event this week apparently. Could be a dark match because I didn't care about Main Event enough to watch it.

Evil Emma vs. Paige feud on the main roster please.

Austin Aries reminds me of the Devil for some reason.

Rich Swann proved to me that he could be something in his match with Balor... He's not the biggest guy around, but he has something.... He strikes me as a better Xavier Woods, which is saying something....