NXT 4-3-13 Review

Original Airdate: Wednesday April 3rd, 2013
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Bo Dallas & Adrian Neville vs. The Wyatt Family

The Wyatt's quickly isolate Bo in their corner, but Bo sneaks away to make a tag to Neville. Neville hits two dropkicks to the knees and then hits a standing shooting star press for a 2 count. After some distraction, Harper hits a big boot on Neville. After the commercial break, Rowan is working on Neville. Neville ducks a boot attempt by Harper and hits the hot tag to Bo. Bo hits a kick to the head and follows it up with a forearm. Big tornado bulldog by Bo and he dumps Rowan out of the ring. Bray tries to get involved, but Neville does an awesome dive to the outside to take out Rowan and Bray. Bo hits the belly to belly suplex for the somewhat surprising victory. Pretty standard tag team match with a good finish.

Match Rating: **1/2 (out of 5)

With WrestleMania just a few days away, they show a Rock/Cena hype package. Both Kassius Ohno and Brad Maddox are guest announcers this week. They pan to them and William Regal is out here to get his revenge on Ohno.

Summer Rae & Audrey Marie vs. Sasha Banks & Paige

Paige and Audrey start off, although Paige wants Summer. Sasha gets a few moves in before getting herself into trouble. I have to say the NXT crowd here for this episode is a little bit more raucous than usual. Sasha counters for a pin attempt and gets a 2 count. She rolls and makes the tag to Paige. Summer runs to the back. leaving Audrey alone. Paige hits her finisher for the victory. That wasn't bad, but way too short to be much more than that.

Match Rating: *

NXT Championship Match
Conor O'Brian vs. Big E Langston

Not a lot happens before the commercial break. When we come back Langston is in control, but O'Brian quickly changes that. We get some pretty standard heavyweight stuff and then O'Brian hits a clothesline from the second rope for a 2 count. O'Brian goes to the dreaded nerve hold, which should be banned because no one is buying it. Big E begins to hulk up and fires back with two clotheslines and then repeated knees to the gut. Big E goes off the ropes, but O'Brian gets the big boot up and gets a really close call. Langston makes another comeback and this time the straps are down. Big E hits the Big Ending and he gets the victory. Well, that was a pretty basic match there. It's pretty clear that O'Brian isn't ready for the big time. After the match Big E hits another Big Ending and counts to 5.

Match Rating: 1/2*

The show started off with a lot of promise and then just declined from there. We finally got a meaningful NXT Championship match, but O'Brian just wasn't ready for a big time match and as a result we got a paint by the numbers heavyweight match. Adrian Neville continues to be the most promising thing on the show and we all know that he only continues to get better from here. It's also nice that they are continuing to kind of build a women's division as well.

Overall Rating: 47%