Tremendous Tirades: WWE NXT 9.05.14

Introduction
As a reminder, this will not be another traditional recap, but instead it will be a mash up of the Rs, Instant Analysis and my usual Twitter ramblings I would do during the shows; completely uncensored and as the ideas flow unfiltered to the old keyboard. Remember, this is a review; and I am here to review the show. As always, I encourage discussion and even disagreement, just do so in a respectful manner. I will be doing the review for Raw and most PPVs and iPPVs going forward.

WWE NXT 9.05.14 (Episode 238)

OFFICIAL RESULTS

Non-Title Match: Charlotte © defeated Alexa Bliss @ 2:30 via pin [NR (Match Was Under Three Minutes Long)]

Tyler Breeze defeated Tye Dillinger @ 2:35 via pin [NR (Match Was Under Three Minutes Long)]

Tyson Kidd defeated Adam Rose @ 4:10 via submission [**]

Sami Zayn defeated Marcus Louis @ 3:32 via submission [**]

Non-Title Match: Adrian Neville © defeated CJ Parker @ 3:05 via pin [**]

NXT Tag Team Tournament Finals Match: Sin Cara and Kalisto defeated The Vaudevillians @ 5:15 via pin [**½ ]
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From Full Sail University.

Charlotte ©vs. Alexa Bliss: Alexa Bliss has a ton of potential, she is athletic and has a good idea of what to do and when to do it; unfortunately it is far from smoother or fluid in there. If she can continue to improve, she has tremendous babyface potential. Charlotte was fairly dominant, Bliss had a few hope spots to keep the crowd into it, but the champion remains dominant heading into the big show. Charlotte has a great presence in the ring, and her reaction to Bayley appearing after she won was awesome. Post match, Bayley came out and wanted Charlotte to take her seriously. She feels she has earned respect because she defeated Sasha Banks twice, and walked a nice line of being serious but still the same silly Bayley that the crowd loves. Charlotte disagreed and gave her the old pie-face. Bayley hit the belly to belly to send Charlotte packing. Overall this was a good way to build next week’s title match, but they really could have done this last week considering how this show feels overstuffed.

Tyler Breeze spoke about the title match at Takeover. He’s Prince Pretty, he’s better looking than every person in every room he has walked into during his entire life, and when he gets in the ring, he gets the job done.

Devin Taylor interviewed Sin Cara and Kalisto. They say that the Ascension is a strong team, but that they are also a strong team. They have the determination to win the tournament and the Tag Titles.

Tyler Breeze vs. Tye Dillinger: You know that saying, “yup, that was a match”? Well this was a match. It was there, it didn’t suck but it wasn’t really that good, of course with such little time invested, it was hard for them to do anything or to get the crowd into it. Breeze won clean, as he should have, but this was completely forgettable.

Tyson Kidd comments on the title match at Takeover. Kidd was fantastic here, noting that, “there are four people in the match. One individual is the greatest high flyer in the industry who developed that in the UK, another is someone with heart who developed that in Japan, another man who is considered arrogant and cocky, but he looks great and can get away with it. Finally there is one person who is cold, callous, and ruthless. Something that person learned in the Dungeon. And then there’s Sami Zayn, Adrian Neville and Tyler Breeze.” This was easily the best thing in the first 20-minutes of the show.

KENTA makes his “NXT debut” next week.

We get a wacky promo from Enzo and Big Cas at a place called hair. They went to get a secret weapon, “the cream”. Carmella is nice to look at. They end up spilling the cream on a dog, and well, “it works”. This is some serious build to this hair match.

Tyson Kidd vs. Adam Rose: They had a match a few weeks back, during the Tyson angle with Natalya which was dropped without notice, and Rose won that. He also won over Kidd in a tag match, so they had some history to work with. Kidd won clean with the sharpshooter, which is obviously the right call. The match was fine, but I felt Rose got a little too much considering that Kidd is in the title match next week.

Sami Zayn talks about next week’s title match. He’d love to defeat Neville next week because he is the champion, but it is a fatal four way and he will beat anyone he has too to get that title.

The Vaudevillains are up next for an interview, and they even get the old timey gimmick for their interviews, which is a nice touch. They will prove they are a cut above Sin Cara and Kalisto, because Aiden is a man of artistic caliber and a physical specimen. His tag team partner is the strongest strong man in NXT.

Sami Zayn defeated Marcus Louis : The theme of the night continues, a fine, but very basic match. Zayn wins clean with the koji clutch, and obviously he should have won because he’s in the title match next week. Unfortunately like the other segments, while it did serve a purpose to set the table for next week, but it largely comes across as just another segment.

Post match, Lefort checks on Louis and that allows Big Cas and Enzo to attack. This leads to them trying to shove Lefort’s head into the bucket of cream. He escapes. Yup.

Interview time with Neville. He knows that his title is at risk next week, and that he is at a disadvantage. But he took the risk by choosing the match because while he has beaten all three individually, he can be even greater by beating all three at the same time.

Adrian Neville © vs. CJ Parker: This felt like the previous matches with Kidd, Zayn and breeze; the right guy won, it had a purpose, but didn’t feel important. They really would have been better served to set up the title match a week earlier, do the tag match and then spread out these matches.

NXT Tag Team Tournament Finals: This is the finals of the NXT Tag Team Tournament, with the winner getting the title shot next week. This was the best match on the show, but in a way, that’s not saying much. The NXT tag division has been weak, and the tournament was a good chance to rebuild that, but instead they fell into the TV trap of short and forgettable matches. I feel the right team won, and the show closed with the champions standing on the ramp, posing with the titles as the new challengers looked on.

End scene.

Thanks for reading.

The Tirade
This show felt like one of those old episodes of TNA Impact, when they were only an hour long, and wrote three hours of material and tried to stick it all into one show. I am not a fan of cramming five matches into an hour-long show, so six was pushing it for me. While most of the show did include build to the Takeover special next week, mush of it could have been accomplished through video packages to allow other segments to have more time. All of the matches with the four competitors felt the same, and thusly became interchangeable and largely forgettable. I just felt as if they threw so much stuff out on the show, and really, none of it felt important simple because there was so much trying to be accomplished. The “build” to the hair match felt like complete comedy, similar to El Torito and Hornswoggle, which in my opinion completely kills a serious stipulation. The tag tournament finals were fine, but could have used more time. Overall, I can see what they tried to do, but this was two weeks of TV crammed into one, and at the end of the day, I feel the show wasn’t so good.

Show Rating: 5.5

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0 – 0.9: Torture
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3 – 3.9: Bad
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7 – 7.9: Good
8 – 8.9:Very Good
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