Original Airdate: Wednesday, September 18th, 2013
Full Sail University
Winter Park, Florida
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Sami Zayn vs. Curt Hawkins
Sami hits a flurry of arm drags to quickly remind us that Zayn is the best on the roster. Unfortunately Hawkins slows things down and eventually slams Zayn into the ring post as we head into a commercial break. Hawkins pulls off a nice trip after trailing Zayn to the ropes. Zayn makes his comeback and hits a pop up dropkick. He misses with the Helluva Kick, but hits a crossbody for a 2 count. Hawkins battles back and hits a big kick to the head and then a DDT. Hawkins starts slapping Zayn, but that only enrages Zayn. He quickly hits a big boot, the tornado DDT and picks up the victory. This was nowhere near the quality of his matches with Cesaro or Jack Swagger, but it's still Sami Zayn.
Match Rating: **1/4 (out of 5)
Aiden English is here to tell us that he is the only artist here and starts singing on his way to the ring.
Aiden English vs. Michael Q. Laurie
English is selling the thespian mannerisms here and hits a nice leg drop. He hits a variation of a sit down side suplex and gets the victory. It's nice to see them working more on characters here to break up some of the monotony of the early days.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Bo Dallas is backstage with Renee Young. Bo rips on Curt Hawkins for not winning a match any time recently. He says that he has an announcement to make next week. Apparently so does Triple H.
Tyler Breeze, Leo Kruger & The Ascension vs. Xavier Woods, CJ Parker, Corey Graves & Adrian Neville
This sure is a hodgepodge of an 8 man tag team match. The babyface team uses quick tags to work on Rick Victor in the early going. After Victor tags in Kruger, we get the same philosophy. Connor eventually gets tagged in and goes to work on Graves. Breeze is the only competitor that hasn't been in the match yet. Xavier Woods gets a hot tag and hits the Honor Roll on Kruger. Kruger rolls out of the ring, which naturally leads to the faces hitting moves to the floor into the commercial break. When we come back, Victor is working on Woods. During the break, Kruger hit a spinebuster on Woods after Connor grabbed his leg on his way back into the ring. Breeze finally tags in to a huge pop and wisely tags right back out. Of course the crowd loves that as well. Breeze eventually gets back in for an extended time and Woods hits a vertical suplex on him. Parker and Connor get tagged in and Parker hits double knees to the corner. Victor comes in and Graves attempts to clothesline him over the top rope, but only Graves goes over in an oops moment. Neville breaks up a Connor pin attempt. Breeze tags himself in after Connor hits a face-first slam on Parker, but Parker kicks out of the pin attempt. Parker kicks Breeze in the face and then Woods hits Lost In The Woods. Graves comes in and takes out Breeze's leg and then Neville hits the Red Arrow for the victory. I'm not sure that I'm a big fan of Breeze taking the pinfall there. Honestly, I would have booked the Ascension to beat Graves here. Even if it was due to his team abandoning him, I still think he should have walked away undefeated. The match was pretty good, but nothing spectacular.
Match Rating: **1/4
This wasn't a great show, but it was enjoyable enough and an easy one to watch. The roster is starting to feel a little bit deeper now and also a lot more talented. Give me Zayn and/or Neville every week and I am good.
Overall Rating: 60%
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