NXT 7-24-14 Review

Original Airdate: Thursday, July 24th, 2014
Full Sail University
Winter Park, Florida

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Ascension vs. Aaron Solo & Jonny Vandal

This is one of those matches that feels like it would take place in a high school gym. For some reason, the crowd is into this. Unfortunately, the tag team division is pretty much the low point of 2014 NXT. They hit a few moves, it's over. 

Match Rating: 1/4*

Tyler Breeze vs. Mojo Rawley

Breeze shows off his hangnail a little bit, which is in a cast. He then catches Mojo by surprise with the Beauty Shot and that's all. I'm a little surprised by that. 

Match Rating: 1/4*

NXT Women's Championship Match
Summer Rae vs. Charlotte

Charlotte mocks Summer's dancing and they go at it. Charlotte gets Summer in a Figure Four headlock as we go to a quick commercial break. This one has been pretty light on action so far. Summer baits Charlotte and she falls through the ropes. Summer takes control and works on the leg with a half crab. Charlotte hits a spin kick and gets a 2 count. Charlotte hits a sort of awkward Natural Selection and picks up the victory. This was a really disappointing match. They had a story to work off of and it just didn't deliver. 

Match Rating: 3/4*

Vaudevillains vs. Kalisto & Sin Cara

Both of these teams are still learning how to team with one another. We get some decent wrestling to start and Sin Cara hits a nice one armed powerbomb on Aiden English. In comes Kalisto and he hits some of his signature offense. English breaks up the pin attempt on Gotch after a springboard kick fro Kalisto. Sin Cara takes out English with a dive and Kalisto hits Salida del Sol for the victory. I'm surprised they didn't go for some sort of cheap finish here with both teams being new. This was a pretty good introduction to both teams. 

Match Rating: **

Adrian Neville vs. Rusev

We get the Putin picture on the screen here for the first time I believe. Rusev catches Neville and he hits some knees to the ribs before hitting the fall away slam. They do a nice variation of the usual big man/smaller opponent match and Neville hits a dropkick. Out comes Tyler Breeze who interferes, but the ref doesn't see it. Neville hits a kick to the head and goes up to the top. Breeze knocks him off the turnbuckle and the ref rings the bell. Rusev attacks Neville and puts him in the Accolade. He celebrates as they go off the air. The match never got much of a chance to get going, but was pretty good for what it was.

Match Rating: *3/4

This show was pretty bland this week despite having a lot of the bigger names on the card. It just didn't do much to progress anything outside of the interference from Tyler Breeze in the main event. The Charlotte/Summer match was a real disappointment, as it was just a generic match instead of a blow off to a feud. 

Overall Rating: 48%