Wednesday, July 29, 2020

NXT 7-31-13 Review

Original Airdate: Wednesday, July 31st, 2013
Full Sail University
Winter Park, Florida

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Enzo and Collin Cassidy are here for a dance party. Out comes Tons of Funk. What is this? Enzo and Cass try to head to the back and then Mason Ryan forces them back to the ring and Tons of Funk take both out. Ryan then comes in and attacks Enzo. Ryan is heading out of the ring, but he's forced back in to do some dancing. You could not start a wrestling show any worse than this.

Dusty Rhodes is backstage with Emma and Paige, congratulating them on their match. In walks Summer Rae and she's her usual annoying self. Summer challenges Emma to a dance contest. Emma says that it will be a dance battle. Ugh.

Charlotte vs. Sasha Banks

I have to say that it's pretty cool that Charlotte's first two matches were against Sasha and Bayley. We get a quick glimpse of their future characters, as Charlotte shows a little bit of arrogance and Sasha unloads with some open palm slaps. Sasha hits double knees in the corner, but Charlotte shows off more of her gymnastic ability and hits Natural Selection for the victory. This was too short to be much.

Match Rating: 1/2*

Tyler Breeze is admiring himself in his phone and Renee Young comes up to him. He lets us know how gorgeous he is while some dude in the back makes funny faces. This episode is really just the worst so far.

Aiden English & Mickey Keegan vs. The Wyatt Family

The Wyatt's do their main roster entrance with the lantern. The crowd is super into them this time too. Rowan hits a splash on English for the victory. Cool. Bray cuts a promo saying goodbye.

Match Rating: 1/4*

Adrian Neville lets Corey Graves know that Neville will be at Graves' side for his match tonight.

Scott Dawson vs. Corey Graves

Dawson gets a few stiff shots in to start things off. They're working a pretty quick pace, which pretty much tells you this one isn't going to last too long. Graves hits a chop block out of nowhere and puts him Lucky 13 and gets the win. Why would that match only get two minutes? Things were going well and then it just ended. I'm not sure what that accomplished for either guy.

Match Rating: 1/2*

The Shield's music hits and the crowd goes crazy for them. Ambrose challenges Neville. Neville says he wants the match tonight for the United States Championship. Ambrose says they'll do it, it will just be next week.

Leo Kruger & Antonio Cesaro vs. Sami Zayn & Bo Dallas

Each week seems to get louder and louder with the "No more Bo" chant. Zayn and Kruger start things off. Zayn hits a trio of arm drags and has Kruger reeling. Bo tags himself in and in comes Cesaro. Cesaro takes control and then kicks Zayn off the apron for good measure. Dallas hits a dropkick and he tags in Zayn who goes after Cesaro, but Kruger gets to him first. They isolate Zayn and continue the attack. Zayn gets a boot up on Cesaro and he makes the tag to Bo. Bo cleans house and then Zayn clothesline Cesaro out of the ring. The two of them brawl up the ramp and to the back. Bo hits his exploder suplex. Kruger gets his knees up on a charging Bo and then hits a clothesline and that is all. The crowd eruprts. This was good action, as they tried their best to save this episode.

Match Rating: ***

Well, this episode was terrible. Just about everything outside of the main event was weak here and one of the worst in some time. I am hoping this one was a fluke.

Overall Rating: 39%

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