Original Airdate: Thursday, October 30th, 2014
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We open with a backstage interview asking Sami Zayn about Adrian Neville's comment about not being able to win the big one. He says he has lost some big ones, but the road to redemption ends when he beats Neville. In walks Titus O'Neil and he challenges Zayn to a match. Zayn says that it's another roadblock on his road to redemption, but he's going to run right through it.
NXT Tag Team Championship #1 Contender Battle Royal
Only one team member has to be eliminated here to eliminate the team. This thing starts off with all of your normal battle royal spots, which is to say it's pretty boring. After a few minutes, we finally get a double elimination. The Ascension push out all four members of Blake & Murphy and Dillinger & Jordan. It's now the Ascension and Big Cass and Enzo going at it. The Ascension takes care of them and as soon as that happens, Hideo Itami's music hits and he's out. The Vaudevillains come from behind and knock them off to win the match. This felt like this was everyone's first battle royal, as there was no excitement throughout the entire match outside of Itami. After the match, Itami comes down and attacks, but of course the two-on-one leads to the inevitable Ascension beatdown. They grab the mic and tell Itami to go back home to Japan where he belongs.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Emma vs. Carmella
Carmella slaps on an unconvincing body scissor that Emma struggles in before hitting her with a right hand to break the hold. It's time for an Emma sandwich and that gets a 2 count. It's kind of crazy how little of a reaction that Emma is getting after being so over before. Carmella puts on the Code Of Silence for the victory. This one had no intensity to it at all.
Match Rating: 1/2*
They show the Muscle & Fitness editor working out at the Performance Center.
Justin Gabriel vs. Bull Dempsey
I kind of forgot Bull Dempsey existed. I'm kind of disappointed that there's no Halloween theming for this episode. Bull dominates the majority of the match until Gabriel is able to counter with an inverted DDT. He follows up with some kicks to the back. He goes off the second rope, but he gets caught and he dumps him over his back. Bull steamrolls him and then goes up to the top rope. Dempsey hits the headbutt off the top and picks up the victory. Gabriel tried.
Match Rating: 1/2*
Bayley talks about what happened with Becky Lynch last week. Bayley says that if they want to come next week, she'll bring her friend Charlotte.
Baron Corbin vs. Tony Briggs
The crowd counts as Corbin hits End Of Days to win the match. I like these Corbin matches better than modern Corbin.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Sylvester Lefort vs. Marcus Louis
I'm not sure why we are supposed to care about this feud when it's pretty clear that they don't. Louis is enraged and is way over the top in an indie wrestler kind of way. He hits a standing Rock Bottom for the victory. Again, this was so short and meant nothing.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Hideo Itami says that if the Ascension wants a fight, then he'll bring a friend next week.
Sami Zayn vs. Titus O'Neil
It's up to Sami to save this turd of an episode. It is too bad that they were never really able to get anything out of Titus because he is a huge human being. Zayn tries to bring some intensity, but O'Neil just body slams him instead. He mocks him and then dumps him out of the ring. Titus hits a nice backbreaker on his shoulder, but Zayn kicks out. Zayn slows down a charging Titus and hits the exploder suplex into the turnbuckle. I didn't see that coming. Zayn hits the Helluva Kick and that is all. The match itself was just decent, but it accomplished the goal they set out to achieve.
Match Rating: **
After the match, Tyler Breeze is out and says that if he wants to actually be the #1 contender, he has to beat him. He says that he talked to William Regal and that they will square off next week.
This was the definition of a filler episode. It was nice to see Zayn get a victory over a bigger opponent, but the rest of the show was filled with mostly stuff that no one cared about. On the bright side, next week is looking like a stacked show.
Overall Rating: 38%
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