Original Airdate: Thursday, November 27th, 2014
Full Sail University
Winter Park, Florida
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Tyler Breeze vs. Marcus Louis
This is a weird pairing. Louis is still wearing a towel over his head and is embarrassed of his bald look. This leads to lots of stalling to start the match. Breeze gets on the mic and asks if he's actually expected to take on this uggo. He says he's not doing some Lord Of The Rings cosplay and then takes off the towel. Breeze then calls him a freak and that no one will ever love him. Breeze hits the Beauty Shot and that's all. This was storyline only.
Match Rating: 1/4*
They show Louis walking out of the arena in a trance.
Carmella vs. Blue Pants
Carmella gets the Enzo and Big Cass intro. They then say that they have a surprise for Carmella and the crowd chants "Blue pants". I feel like this is just one of those things where you had to be there. I just remember being at Monday Night Raw and some guys behind me talking about Blue Pants non-stop throughout the night that it made me actually look it up. Carmella hits a couple of dropkicks and then locks in Code Of Silence for the victory. They did give Blue Pants a few extra seconds to tap this time.
Match Rating: 1/4*
WWE.com talks to Finn Balor about his singles debut against Tyson Kidd.
Lucha Dragons vs. Jason Jordan & Tye Dillinger
This is a non-title match. The Lucha Dragons will defend their titles at R Evolution against the Vaudevillains. Dillinger and Jordan actually get in some offense here. It's probably a wise decision to actually have some good tag teams. Sin Cara reverses an Irish Whip and he runs into Jordan's boot. In comes Kalisto and he hits a springboard corkscrew. Cara hits a dive to the outside and Kalisto hits the SDS for the pinfall victory. This episode of Superstars continues.
Match Rating: 1/2*
They show highlights of the Charlotte/Bayley/Sasha Banks/Becky Lynch story from last week.
We get another Kevin Owens vignette.
Bayley lets us know that Charlotte told her to stay away from Sasha and Becky this week with her not here. She calls them bullies and says that a bully is just a coward. Out come Sasha and Bekcy and Bayley tries to attack, but she isn't able to withstand the two-on-one advantage. Some referees come out to break it up.
WWE.com talks with Tyson Kidd and Natalya. Nattie tries to put Tyson over, but Tyson wants to talk about himself since he's right here. Tyson then says that he needs to Facetime with the cats.
We get a old timey Vaudevillains vignette, which is fun. It ends with the mini Lucha Dragons blowing themselves up. They run down the card for R Evolution.
Tyson Kidd vs. Finn Balor
We get some good mat wrestling to start. Balor hits a dropkick and Kidd rolls out of the ring. Balor goes for a dive, but he hides behind Nattie and Balor puts on the brakes. We come back from commercial break and Kidd hits a neckbreaker outside the ring. Kidd gets Balor in the tree of woe and hits a running dropkick. Balor fires back with some chops and then hits a Pele kick. He hits a suplex, but only gets 2. Balor climbs to the top, but Kidd rolls out of the way of Coup de Grace. Kidd hits a drop toe hold into the bottom turnbuckle. Balor gets his knees up on a springboard elbow and then he hits a running kick. The Ascension run out and attack Balor to cause the disqualification. Out comes Hideo Itami to even the score. The referees try to break them apart and then some NXT wrestlers try to break it up as we go off the air. The match was pretty good overall, but was designed to mostly introduce Balor and continue the feud.
Match Rating: **1/2
This was very much a 1990s era episode of Superstars. One feature match and the rest were all squashes. We got the bonus interview with Bayley, but other than that it was mostly a forgettable episode. Balor did look good in his main event opportunity and I have a hunch he'll make an impact.
Overall Rating: 47%
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