Original Airdate: Thursday, April 24th, 2014
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JBL approaches Paige backstage and tells her that it's not fair that she's the NXT Champion with her being the Divas Champion now. JBL is being all babyface during this, but Paige isn't happy. She reluctantly relinquishes it and there will be a tournament to crown the next champ.
Alexander Rusev vs. Travis Tyler
Tyler hits a dropkick, but Rusev just squashes him anyways. He hits the high knees to the ribs and then a modified Samoan Drop. He slaps on the Accolade and that's all for poor Tyler. The presentation for Rusev and Lana was always really good. Meanwhile, the announcers make a bunch of lame jokes.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Adam Rose is backstage and calls Camacho a party pooper and boring.
Charlotte & Sasha Banks vs. Emma & Paige
Emma gets off to a hot start and hits a monkey flip on Charlotte. Her and Paige hit a double suplex, but Charlotte comes back and works on the ankle of Paige. Charlotte does the Flair fall and then is tossed around the ring. After a blind tag, Sasha unleashes some anger and then Charlotte shows off her leg strength. Emma is able to make a hot tag to Paige, but Charlotte slows down her momentum with a low dropkick. Charlotte hits Natural Selection and she pins the Divas Champion. This was a pretty good little tag team match. It was pretty clear that Charlotte was the focus of this match.
Match Rating: **1/4
Tyson Kidd vs. Mason Ryan
Ryan methodically starts off the match until Kidd catches him with a kick to the head. Kidd hits a nice guillotine legdrop by leaping over the top rope to the floor. Ryan grabs him before he can hit a springboard and drops him face-first. Kidd hits a top rope somersault neckbreaker and gets a fairly easy win over Vince's failure of this era. After the match, Renee Young interviews him on the ramp and Kidd lets us know that this is his rebirth. I'm surprised that this was basically a squash, but they had already given up on Ryan at this point.
Match Rating: 3/4*
Angelo Dawkins vs. Tyler Breeze
Dawkins apparently has a new look with a backpack and glasses. File that under things I had no clue existed. Dawkins gets in a little bit of offense, but this is basically a Superstars squash. Breeze hits the Beauty Shot and that's all. They were finally getting serious about pushing Breeze here.
Match Rating: 1/2*
Corey Graves & Ascension vs. Sami Zayn & Usos
This is an interesting main event. Things start off nicely and I'm enjoying this enough to where I don't feel like typing about it. After the commercial break, Graves finally gets in and immediately goes to a rest hold. Jey Uso is the one singled out and is finally able to throw Konnor through the ropes and makes the hot tag to Jimmy. Graves gets a kick to the head and then Zayn hits a top rope crossbody for a nearfall. Zayn hits the Blue Thunder Bomb, but the Ascension makes the save. Zayn and one of Jimmy double clothesline them out of the ring. Zayn hits the Yakuza Kick and then a double dive to the outside. Jey hits the top rope splash and picks up the victory. This was a nice main event here for NXT, as the Usos were down here to have a good match.
Match Rating: ***
This is the type of show that NXT was supposed to be in this era. They featured a few of their better talents and then had an enjoyable main event. They even gave the women's match a few more minutes than usual. I'll definitely take more episodes like this.
Overall Rating: 68%
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