Original Airdate: Wednesday, August 28th, 2013
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Corey Graves is talking with Renee Young when Rick Victor approaches him. Conor O'Brian attacks him from behind and they lay him out by using the steel set. This was pretty poor as far as backstage attacks go.
CJ Parker vs. Tyler Breeze
It's interesting to see that almost exactly 7 years after this match, Tyler Breeze is now a NXT Tag Team Champion. Parker goes after Breeze's phone, so Breeze attacks him from behind. Parker uses an airplane spin and then drops him face-first. Parker then hits double running knees. This Parker gimmick is beyond lame. Breeze uses the phone to hit Parker in the face and gets the victory. This was not very good. Luckily for both men, they would go on to have much better days.
Match Rating: 1/4* (out of 5)
Renee Young is with Emma to talk about Summer Rae. Emma says that her destiny will have to wait, as she has to go kick Summer's rear end. We are firing on all cylinders here tonight.
Emma vs. Summer Rae
They trade slamming each other's heads into the mat. Both of these women do a nice job of playing their characters. Summer puts Emma in a pretty unique submission move by using her legs to pull Emma's arms back. She rolls and turns it into a nearfall. Emma hits the DilEmma. She follows that up with a splash in the corner and a slingshot to the center of the mat. Emma puts on the Emma Lock and gets the fairly easy victory. They just do not love giving the women more than a few minutes on this show. After the match Summer attacks Emma and then dumps the bottle of bubbles on her. Her mockery of her dance on the way out was pretty spot on.
Match Rating: *1/2
Scott Dawson, Sylvester Lefort, Big Cass and Enzo are talking backstage. Lefort wants them to join forces with them, but Enzo and Cass want nothing to do with it.
Summer is approached by Sasha Banks. Summer says that she is on Raw and SmackDown every week and tells Sasha that she is irrelevant. Summer says she's willing to do whatever takes to get to the top, unlike Sasha. She has a match with Paige in two weeks and Summer is sure that it will be a clean match and Sasha will lose. If it was her, she would attack Paige.
Scott Dawson vs. Enzo Amore
Enzo is definitely starting to get over with the NXT crowd. Dawson dumps Enzo on the top rope out of a suplex and then slams him face-first. Enzo hits a headscissors, but on the outside of the ring Alexander Rusev attacks Cass. This distracts Enzo and Dawson hits an Angle Slam for the victory. We have had three matches so far, none of which were jobber matches, and we haven't gotten 11 minutes of action.
Match Rating: 3/4*
After they show highlights of Sami Zayn vs. Cesaro last week, Renee Young calls Sami Zayn out to the ring. I am a huge fan of both Zayn and Cesaro, but I'm not sure that match lived up to the hype for me. Zayn isn't happy with the result of the match because his goal is to become the next NXT Champion. Somehow Bo Dallas's music was ready to play at the exact time he said that. So does Bo just hang out in Gorilla Position all day and wait for someone to say something about him. Bo says that just because a few people on the internet say that he had a good match, doesn't mean he is championship material. They don't interview the losing team in the Super Bowl because that's depressing. Being the gentleman that he is, Sami asks Renee to leave. They argue about what the fans think about Bo and then Sami asks for a title shot, but out comes Zeb Coulter. Coulter wants proof that Zayn is a legal citizen of this country. Zayn says that as soon as he's done becoming the NXT Champion, he's going to get both Coulter and Cesaro deported back to Hell. Jack Swagger then attacks Zayn from behind, while Bo heads to the back. Swagger hits a gut wrench powerbomb. Zayn did a really nice job here in his role.
They show highlights of NXT at SummerSlam.
Adrian Neville vs. Conor O'Brian
Neville uses his speed to avoid O'Brian and then hit a crossbody. He gets distracted by Victor and O'Brian takes advantage before the early commercial break. They announce that Zayn will take on Swagger next week. Neville avoids a charging O'Brian in the corner and both men are down. Neville makes his comeback, but it doesn't last long as O'Brian counters a springboard leap into a Codebreaker. Neville hits a back suplex for a close call. Neville hits the Red Arrow and gets the victory? I have to say, I didn't expect that result. After the match, Victor attacks Neville. Out comes a bandaged Graves to try to make the save, but the Ascension destroy him. The match was much shorter than you would have expected a main event to be, but the action was pretty good for the most part.
Match Rating: **
This episode was all over the place. The Parker/Breeze match was probably the low point and Sami Zayn's performance was probably the highlight. Unfortunately, we didn't get much in the way of good wrestling. Fortunately, next week has some potential with Zayn/Swagger and they did set up a few storylines that have my interest.
Overall Rating: 43%
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