Original Airdate: Wednesday, September 11th, 2013
Full Sail University
Winter Park, Florida
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Enzo Amore & Colin Cassidy vs. Alexander Rusev & Scott Dawson
Cass hits a big knee to the gut of Dawson and goes to work. Enzo comes in and Dawson destroys him with a clothesline. In comes Rusev and he continues the attack. I will say I am glad that he changed up his look on the main roster. Rusev hits a spinning heel kick variation of the Hart Attack, which was pretty sweet. But then the bell rings? They are saying the referee disqualified them for double teaming for more than 5 seconds. Absolutely terrible booking there. In 30 years of watching wrestling, I believe that is the first time I have ever seen that finish.
Match Rating: 3/4* (out of 5)
Bo Dallas is here in the ring and is thanking his Bo-lievers. I kind of liked it better when the fans weren't supposed to not like him. He says that he has no problem giving Sami Zayn a match when he is healed, but it won't be a title match because he hasn't earned it yet. The crowd is not listening to a word he is saying.
Renee Young is with CJ Parker. He goes off on his hippity dippity gimmick until Tyler Breeze attacks him from behind and then takes a selfie.
NXT Women's Championship Match
Sasha Banks vs. Paige
Sasha hits a nice roll up out of a bow and arrow early on, proving that she is already better than what you probably expected at this point. Paige starts stomping in the corner until Sasha rolls her up and the back of Paige's head hits the bottom turnbuckle. Sasha puts in a rear headlock with a bodyscissors twice here during her heat segment. Paige makes a comeback and hits 10 knees to the head of Sasha. Paige misses with a dropkick and Sasha hits a crossbody. Paige rolls through on the crossbody and gets the pinfall. Sasha denies Paige's condolences and then attacks her from behind. Sasha hits a neckbreaker and heads to the back. The match was kind of dull and another finish that I'm not that crazy about.
Match Rating: *1/4
Sasha is shown in the back and Summer Rae says that she knew she had it in her. Sasha thanks Summer for bringing out the rage inside of her and hugs her.
Leo Kruger vs. Xavier Woods
We get a lot of stalling to start. Kruger grabs Woods arm and snaps it on the rope. Kruger immediately goes to work on the arm of Woods. Woods finally breaks out of it and hits a running headscissors. He goes for a dive over the top rope, but Kruger moves out of the way in time. Kruger goes on offense seemingly forever again. Woods pulls a dropkick out of nowhere, but Kruger is right back with a vertical suplex. Kruger misses off the second rope. Woods fights back, but again it's not for long because Kruger catches Woods out of the Honor Roll and turns it into a spinebuster. Woods comesback and hits the Honor Roll this time. He hits Lost In The Woods and gets the pinfall victory. This wasn't really my style, as Kruger controlled too much of this match and it didn't let Woods be Woods.
Match Rating: *
This episode just didn't work for me. It's nice to see them give Sasha some purpose on the show, as it is clear that she is deserving of more TV time. The Kruger/Woods match just didn't click for me especially in comparison to some of the Sami Zayn matches we've had lately.
Overall Rating: 41%
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