Original Airdate: Thursday, January 8th, 2015
Full Sail University
Winter Park, Florida
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NXT Champion Sami Zayn is here to kick off the show and gets a standing ovation from the NXT crowd. He goes out by the crowd to soak it all in. He tells the crowd that this title is not his, it's ours. He has the crowd in the palm of his hand, 100% just like he does in 2023. He says that he is ready to defend this title anytime, anywhere. Out comes Adrian Neville. He congratulates Zayn on being the better man in the ring that night. Sami says that he may not know all the rules, but he knows that he's entitled to a rematch. Out comes GM William Regal and he says that we'll get that rematch next week.
The Vaudevillains say they will be NXT Tag Team Champions.
Hideo Itami vs. Curtis Axel
Itami gets some kicks to the head in the corner, but Axel shifts the momentum and hits a dropkick. A knee to the jaw from Axel gets him a 2 count and Axel then continues to slow the match down as if it was going to be a 20 minute epic. Itami battles back with a clothesline and a tornado neck snap on the ropes. He hits a top rope clothesline and that's good for a nearfall. Itami reverses out of the Perfect Plex and hits a spinning Shining Wizard and that's all. Axel just never really had enough in the ring to keep up with guys like Itami.
Match Rating: *
They interview Natalya and Tyson Kidd. Kidd tells us that he feeds his cats like birds feed their young. Kidd sends her off to feed his cats and says that he will eventually be the face of NXT.
We get a highlight package of Bull Dempsey and Baron Corbin that ends in the reminder that we'll be forced to watch them wrestle each other next week.
Alexa Bliss vs. Sasha Banks
Bliss goes right after Sasha as the underdog here. Sasha is able to counter a headscissors into a backbreaker. Bliss goes for a couple of sneaky pin attempt, but ends up with knees to the midsection. She hits the backstabber into the Bank Statement for the victory. Sasha keeps the hold on for a few extra seconds for dramatic effect. Both ladies looked good here in their limited time.
Match Rating: 3/4*
Tyler Breeze vs. Chad Gable
Gable gets a good reaction from the crowd and we even get a dual chant here. Pretty impressive for his TV debut. Gable puts on an arm bar while draping over the top rope. As he gets back in the ring, Breeze hits the Beauty Shot and that's all. They were trying to put Breeze over here, but the Gable love threw it off a little bit.
Match Rating: 1/2*
Finn Balor talks about how much he's looked up to Tyson Kidd over the years, but Kidd will need more than nine lives to survive against him next week.
They show a mysterious person in the background of Tyler Breeze during his celebration.
NXT Tag Team Championship Match
Vaudevillains vs. Lucha Dragons
After falling through the ropes, Sin Cara is able to pull English out of the ring and it leads to a double dive by the champs. During the break they show that Daniel Bryan is returning after his injury and that was probably the highlight of the show so far. When we come back, the Vaudevillains are in control. These matches have been pretty standard stuff and this one isn't any different. Sin Cara gets the hot tag and he hits some of his vanilla aerial offense. As I say that, he hits a cool variation of the top rope sunset bomb with the pin attempt being broken up by Gotch. They hit a nice corkscrew combo finisher and that's all. The last minute was good, the rest was your typical tag team match. I'm not really sure where either team goes from here.
Match Rating: **
This was a decent show, but didn't have anything that you really needed to watch. Next week seems to be the stacked episode, so I expect that to be a TakeOver Light.
Overall Rating: 48%
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