NXT 2-5-14 Review

Original Airdate: Wednesday, February 5th, 2014
Full Sail University
Winter Park, Florida

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Sin Cara vs. Alexander Rusev

Sin Cara still gets the special lighting here in NXT. Cara kind of hits a moonsault which gets called out by the announcers. He goes for a springboard move, but Rusev hits him with a dropkick on the way down. Sin Cara makes a comeback and this time hits the springboard crossbody. Rusev has Sin Cara up in an electric chair position, but throws him down face-first instead. He puts on the Accolade and that is all. Sin Cara looked pretty flat here. 

Match Rating: *

Seeing advertisements for the "new" WWE Network on here is sad going into the change to Peacock. 

Alicia Fox vs. Emma

Fox hits a big dropkick, but misses her in the corner and Emma puts on the Dil-Emma. Fox gets out pretty quickly and hits a northern lights suplex. Emma hits an Emma sandwich and the Emma Lock for the shorter than expected victory. After the match, she gets on the mic to send her best wishes to Paige for a speedy recovery. When Paige comes back, she wants her rematch. Emma starts dancing and in comes Sasha Banks, who she throws out of the ring. Then in comes Summer Rae and Charlotte. Alicia Fox joins in too. Natalya and Bayley come out and make the save. This was a little too short to be much of anything. 

Match Rating: 3/4*

Sylvester Lefort vs. Mason Ryan

*Dream match alert* Ryan drops Lefort on the top rope and hits a big boot. Ryan hits whatever his finisher is and that's all. I'm not really sure what the point of this was. 

Match Rating: 1/4*

Aiden English is backstage and cuts a promo for his match against Tyson Kidd next. 

Lefort says he will get revenge on Mason Ryan. 

Aiden English vs. Tyson Kidd

English hits a back suplex early, but Kidd hits some kicks to slow him down. English hits a knee and then a vertical suplex for a 2 count. Out comes Big Cass and he puts on English's hat and scarf. Kidd hits a top rope reverse neckbreaker for the victory. This was all storyline.

Match Rating: 1/2*

Adrian Neville vs. Corey Graves

Things start off a little slowly until Neville hits a dive to the outside. Graves is now working on the knee and then he works on the knee even more. Graves hits a cool backbreaker for a 2 count. Graves goes for a piledriver on the outside, but Neville counters with a back body drop. Neville hits a missile dropkick, but moments later gets hit by a clothesline. Neville barely climbs up to the top rope and hits the Red Arrow for the victory. This match made sense, but it wasn't really anything more than that. After the match, Bo Dallas is out, but before he does anything to an injured Neville, now Triple H comes out. He announces that their match at Arrival will be a ladder match.

Match Rating: **

This was a thumbs in the middle type of show. Nothing really bad, nothing really good. That happens a lot on here and that's okay. Not every show needs to be a home run, but I'd like to see them aim for it more often. 

Overall Rating: 51%