Original Airdate: Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
Full Sail University
Winter Park, Florida
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Triple Threat Elimination Tag Team Match
Primo & Epico vs. The Wyatt Family vs. Bo Dallas & Adrian Neville
Ugh, Brad Maddox is back on announcing duties. Bray Wyatt is not out with Harper and Rowan here. Bo has a little bit more pep in his step here tonight. Neville and Dallas get the early advantage by getting the better of Harper, Rowan and Epico. Dallas hits a back body drop on Epico that sends him over the top rope and to the floor. Back from the break, Harper hits a body slam on Dallas outside of the ring. Primo finally tags in and continues the attack on Dallas. The NXT crowd has turned on Dallas and is chanting "No more Bo". Bo finally makes the tag to Neville. Epico breaks up a pin attempt, but takes a spear from Dallas. Neville hits a Red Arrow on Epico and eliminates them. Harper comes in from behind and hits a big lariat and that is all. The beginning and end were both well done, but the Bo Dallas beatdown went on too long.
Match Rating: ** (out of 5)
We get a recap of the Paige and Summer Rae feud.
Paige vs. Summer Rae
Summer Rae attacks Paige from behind as she is making her entrance. Summer Rae doesn't stay with her and Paige immediately takes control. Summer shows off some intensity, as they brawl back and forth. Maddox is so bad on announcing that it really is hurting these matches. We get some submission wrestling from Summer, which is not a sentence I expected to type here tonight. Summer tries to leave to the back, but Paige tosses here into the apron instead. Paige catches Summer's kick and hits the Paige Turner for the victory. The match was nothing great, but they did show a lot of intensity and it was much better than you would expect.
Match Rating: *3/4
Bray Wyatt vs. Chris Jericho
Jericho was so trim here on this run. Jericho hits a dropkick through the ropes to the outside as Wyatt was consulting with Harper and Rowan. Rowan attempts to trip up Jericho and the referee sends him to the back. For some reason Harper gets to stay out and he hits Jericho with a boot outside the ring. After a bunch of rest holds from Wyatt, he hits a snap suplex, but misses a senton. Jericho follows up with an ax handle off the top rope. Harper tries to get involved again, but Jericho hits a springboard dropkick. Wyatt hits a clothesline and gets a 2 count. Wyatt hits a nice lower variation of the crossbody for another nearfall. Jericho hits the Code Breaker, but Wyatt rolls out of the ring. As Jericho is rolling Wyatt back in the ring, Harper throws him into the ring post. Mike Chioda catches Harper getting involved and does nothing about it. Wyatt steamrolls Jericho in the corner and goes for Sister Abigail, but Jericho reverses it and hits a slingshot into Harper on the apron. He gets the Walls of Jericho in and Wyatt taps. That was about as good of a match as we have had on NXT up to this point.
Match Rating: ***1/4
NXT has found a little bit of a groove here in the spring of 2013. They have been allowing a little bit more of main roster interaction and it is working. The tag team match could have been better, but it certainly wasn't bad by any means. The women tried hard and delivered an intense battle that we weren't quite accustomed to seeing just yet during this time. Jericho worked hard and put on a good show for Wyatt. I'm looking forward to seeing what we have next week.
Overall Rating: 60%
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