Original Airdate: Wednesday, June 19th, 2013
Full Sail University
Winter Park, Florida
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Adrian Neville vs. Bray Wyatt
Neville avoids Wyatt's initial charge, but still ends up eating a clothesline. Wyatt works on Neville with his methodical offense. Neville gets a kick in and goes up top. Harper and Rowan interfere and the ref calls for the bell. Corey Graves and Kassius Ohno come out to make the save. Out comes Dusty Rhodes in the Teddy Long role and he makes a tag team main event later tonight. This was just an angle to set up the main event.
Match Rating: 1/4* (out of 5)
Angelo Dawkins vs. Sami Zayn
Dawkins looks like he is like 18 years old here in his NXT debut. Zayn hits a flurry of hip tosses, but runs into an elbow and a body slam from Dawkins. Dawkins stays on offense with a headlock. Unfortunately, Brad Maddox is announcing again this week and I keep trying not to hit the mute button. Zayn scales the ropes and hits the leaping tornado DDT for the victory. Zayn is in a league of his own here in 2013 NXT.
Match Rating: 1/2*
NXT Women's Championship Tournament First Round Match
Sasha Banks vs. Summer Rae
It's pretty hard to believe that Summer Rae was considered the favorite here against Sasha. Summer tosses Banks around a bit to start. Sasha sneaks in a pin attempt and then both women start brawling. Sasha hits some slaps and then walks the ropes for her signature toss, but Summer counters it and hits her variation of the leg drop for the victory. Yet another first round squash.
Match Rating: 1/2*
Xavier Woods reminds us of the few episodes that he was on.
Jake Carter vs. Xavier Woods
The announcers talk about Woods being a geek. I'm so glad I have to listen to it. Woods hits a spinning headscissors and goes to work on his arm. Carter goes up to the second rope, but Woods hits him in the mid-section. Woods hits a forearm and a dropkick. Woods hits the Honor Roll and Lost In The Woods for the victory. Woods looked pretty good here and the crowd was into it.
Match Rating: 3/4*
Renee Young is with Sami Zayn. Zayn says that his match tonight was a message to Cesaro. Zayn wants a third match.
Dawson, Dylan and LeFort are backstage wondering why they aren't the #1 contenders. In walks Dusty and tells them that next week they will take on Kassius Ohno and Corey Graves to determine the #1 contenders.
Bo Dallas is shown filming himself leaving the gym saying thank you to his fans. He says that he isn't at NXT tonight because he is so busy. They show a picture of him at Disney World and then he says that he will be there next week.
Adrian Neville, Corey Graves, Kassius Ohno vs. The Wyatt Family
Ohno flips over the ropes and hits Rowan with a boot and then hits another kick. Wyatt and Neville begin brawling, but Wyatt gets the better of him. He goes for a catapult, but Neville counters it with a stomp. Graves puts Harper in a Tarantula type maneuver. He goes after Bray after that, which allows Harper to take him out as we go into a commercial break. During the break, Wyatt hits his crossbody and the Wyatt clan is still in control. Graves makes a tag to Ohno after Wyatt missed a splash. Rowan sends Ohno into the corner and over the top. Now it's Ohno's turn to take a beating. These Wyatt matches are just so slow. Rowan hits a pump handle backbreaker for a 2 count. Ohno gets the hot tag to Neville and we finally get some life in this match. Neville hits a standing shooting star press on Wyatt for a 2 count. He goes for a move over the top rope to the floor, but Rowan blocks him. Ohno makes the save and knocks him out of the ring. Neville hits the move, even taking out his partners. He knocks Wyatt down and then goes up top, but Harper moves Wyatt out of the way. He misses the Red Arrow and Wyatt gets the pinfall victory. Well, the minute the Neville was in there was good. The rest of the match was pretty boring overall.
Match Rating: *3/4
I liked that they had a focus on this episode between the episode long storyline, the women's tournament and Sami Zayn/Cesaro feud. Unfortunately, most of it just didn't click. The women's match was once again a quick squash and the main event was very slowly worked. We all know that there are better days ahead for NXT, but they can't come soon enough.
Overall Rating: 42%
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