Original Airdate: December 12th, 2012
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We get a hype video for the Jinder Mahal/Seth Rollins match tonight.
Paige vs. Sasha Banks
The debut here of Sasha Banks. She gets an entrance, but had no vignettes or anything prior to it. Even without the "Boss" persona, Sasha jumps off the screen to me here. Sasha gets in some of her current signature offense and this is a 50/50 match so far. Seemingly out of nowhere, Paige hits the Paige Turner for the victory. That was a good example of a match that was a bunch of moves with no real story. They both worked hard and Sasha's potential was easy to see.
Match Rating: * (out of 5)
Roman Reigns is backstage cutting a generic promo and insults the announcer for going to the dollar store. Reigns' phone rings and he decides to take the call and walk away.
Kassius Ohno and Leo Kruger get the boiler room promo spot here. Ohno tells Regal that if he sticks his nose in their business again that he'll see him in the ICU.
Oliver Grey vs. Erick Rowan
Is it a rule that all jobbers have to point their hand up when their name is announced? Wyatt announces Rowan as his son. This is Rowan's debut here on NXT. He immediately hits a big boot to the face of Grey. He hits some of the usual big man stuff. I'm not a huge fan of Rowan's character, but this did what it was supposed to do.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Dusty Rhodes is here and wants to talk about Vickie Guerrero. Dusty tells her that she can't make decisions on NXT and that there is no bounty on Big E as long as NXT is under his watch. Camacho is out to interrupt. He tells Dusty he needs the bounty money. That brings out Big E and Dusty says next week Big E will take on Camacho and a partner of his choice in a handicap match.
Big Show answers the challenge of Bo Dallas in an interview making fun of him. We'll get that classic on next week's show.
NXT Championship Match
Jinder Mahal vs. Seth Rollins
Jinder is now 3 Man Band Jinder. I am glad that Rollins got rid of this entrance music and persona in general. I have to say that I'm at least a little bit more excited for this match with it being 3MB Jinder. Barring a post-match angle, this is going to be a longer match based on the amount of time left in the show. Rollins dominates the first few minutes until Jinder pushes Rollins off the top rope and down to the floor. Knowing what Rollins was already capable at this point in his career, it pains me to have to watch him slow things down so much. Jinder works on Rollins for what feels like forever. Rollins finally makes his comeback. Rollins hits the top rope hurricanrana, but Jinder rolls through and almost steals the match. Rollins hits a superkick and then a Skywalker for the victory that kind of came out of nowhere. This was a 20 minute match just to have a 20 minute match. You would have ever have known that it was a title match, because it just wasn't entertaining. Seth deserves better here.
Match Rating: *
Corey Graves is in the crowd and is mocking Rollins. Rollins shows off a little and then heads out.
If you're going to devote half of your show to one match, it better be a good one. Well, unfortunately it wasn't and as a result this episode was pretty bad. Sasha had a nice showing in a debut that had no hype, but other than that there was nothing worthwhile. You can skip this one.
Overall Rating: 33%
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