Original Airdate: Thursday, July 17th, 2014
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Enzo Amore & Big Cass vs. Vaudevillains
This is the first time in a long time that Enzo and Cass have teamed up due to Enzo's injury. Aiden English works on the arm of Enzo to start. Enzo is able to fight out and make a tag to Cass and he overpowers English. In comes Gotch and he suffers the same fate. Cass does the S-A-W-F-T chant, but then out comes Sylvester Lefort and it distracts Cass, allowing Gotch to roll him up and get the victory. They weren't having a good match, but they also never really got a chance to get going.
Match Rating: 1/4*
The Ascension cut a promo about no one being able to stop them or something.
They show a recap of the Charlotte/Summer Rae storyline.
CJ Parker vs. Xavier Woods
Woods hits a dropkick early on and tries to work on the arm. Woods ducks some clotheslines and hits a tilt-a-whirl headscissors. Parker throws Woods to the ground and Woods hits the bottom rope with his throat. Parker hits a clothesline and follows up with some left hands. Woods is able to make a comeback and hits a kick from the apron. He hits a DDT, but Parker kicks out at 2. Woods misses a crossbody off the top rope, Parker misses a heel kick, but Parker is able to roll up Woods. He was supposed to grab the ropes, but he was too far away, so he gets the clean victory. They packed a lot of match into a couple of minutes, but why not just have them wrestle a few minutes longer?
Match Rating: *3/4
Sami Zayn is backstage for an interview to talk about Tyson Kidd. He says that he's going to embarrass him tonight.
Alexa Bliss vs. Sasha Banks
We're only 23 minutes into the show and we're on our third match. Bliss hits a sunset flip for a 2 count, but then gets hit with a knee to the midsection immediately after. Sasha hits the double knees to the midsection while Bliss is on the ropes. Bliss goes for a somersault off the top rope, but rolls through when Sasha moves out of the way. This leads to Sasha putting on the Bank Statement and a victory. Again, this was too short, which tends to be a theme here on NXT.
Match Rating: *1/4
Tyler Breeze says that he isn't going to rush to face Adrian Neville for the NXT Championship. He says that his agent is working on the contract for the match and says that instead we will see his award winning music video again.
They show highlights of how Kidd won his match last night. They try to talk to Natalya, but she doesn't want to talk about. They go to Tyson Kidd and he doesn't want to talk about his wife. He said accidents happen, but when he beats Sami tonight, it won't be an accident.
Adam Rose vs. Jason Jordan
This is Rose's first match in NXT since TakeOver. Jason Jordan gets an entrance and a bubble promo saying that his partner Tye Dillinger is hurt, but also was last seen with the Rosebuds. Jordan gets a little bit of offense in after Rose goofs around a bit. Rose hits a leaping 2nd rope hurricanrana, which I don't remember ever seeing him hit before. He hits the Party Foul and that's all. This one got about as much time as the last couple matches, but didn't do as much with it.
Match Rating: 3/4*
Kalisto gets a rare backstage interview, but quickly gets interrupted by the Vaudevillains. He said his partner El Local and him have parted ways. Kalisto says he'll find a new partner to face the Vaudevillains next week.
Tyson Kidd vs. Sami Zayn
After some stalling, Kidd dominates the match after a suplex on the entrance ramp. Kidd puts Sami in the tree of woe and hits the running dropkick. Zayn is able to knock Kidd out of the ring and hits a springboard moonsault on Kidd on the floor. Back in the ring, Zayn goes up top and hits a crossbody for a 2 count. Kidd hits a drop toe hold into the bottom turnbuckle and hits a leg drop for another 2 count. Kidd goes for the top rope elbow drop, but Sami gets the knees up. He hits the Blue Thunder Bomb and Kidd kicks out. Kidd hits a top rope Blockbuster and this time Sami kicks out. Kidd puts on the Sharpshooter in the center of the ring. Sami gets close to the bottom rope, but Kidd pulls him back to the center. Sami is able to once again crawl and this time reaches the rope. Kidd goes up top, Sami catches him and puts him in the Koji Clutch for the victory. This was a good match between the two and I'm actually a little surprised that Sami won here.
Match Rating: ***1/4
This was a pretty entertaining episode that tried to cram in more than it had time for. They could have easily just saved one of the other matches for next week and gave more time to either the Sasha or Parker matches. With that being said, NXT continues to deliver consistently solid episodes here in 2014.
Overall Rating: 60%
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