Original Airdate: Wednesday, June 10th, 2015
Full Sail University
Winter Park, Florida
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Zack Ryder & Mojo Rawley vs. Elias Sampson & Mike Rallis
Ah yes, the Hype Bros. We get lots of dancing from Rawley, if that's your thing. He hits his 3 moves he has and then they hit their double team, which is the Rough Ryder off of Rawley's shoulders. They go in the crowd to celebrate their big victory. This was a thing that existed.
Match Rating: 1/4*
We get a Finn Balor demon vignette for Tokyo.
We get a Dana Brooke video package and try to make her seem important.
Emma vs. Blue Pants
I think Blue Pants is the definition of "you had to be there". Emma is not amused. Emma keeps on Blue Pants, but she keeps kicking out of the pin attempts. Emma misses with an elbow drop and Blue Pants hits a few low impact kicks. Emma quickly bounces back and puts on the Emma Lock for the win. Blue Pants didn't seem ready for prime time here in my opinion.
Match Rating: 1/2*
We go to Enzo, Cass and Carmella. They say that NXT would be a lot better without Blake and Murphy and they'll take care of that next week.
Tyler Breeze vs. Bull Dempsey
Bull gets the better of Breeze early on. He goes up to the top rope, but Breeze wisely rolls out of the ring. He chases Breeze around and then Bull acts as if he has a cramp. The crowd starts chanting "Car-di-o". They continue the chase and Bull is completely winded now. Breeze throws him in the ring and hits the Beauty Shot for the easy win. My impression as someone who didn't really watch NXT at all during this time was that Bull was a top player for a short amount of time. I guess that was not the case. This was just shenanigans.
Match Rating: 1/2*
They talk about the TakeOver match between Becky Lynch and Sasha Banks.
Becky Lynch vs. Jessie McKay
It's Billy Kaye here and she actually gets some offense here. Becky comes back with the exploder suplex and a unique submission that she ends up slamming McKay face-first into the mat. She slaps on the Dis-arm-her and gets the fairly easy win here. It's another one of those Superstars style episodes of NXT here tonight.
Match Rating: 1/4*
William Regal is ready to make an announcement and then Dempsey walks in eating Doritos. Regal says that he thinks Bull has a problem and Bull says he was doing really well until the end. Regal takes the Doritos and walks away. Bull pulls a chocolate bar out of his tights. What could go wrong here?
We go to Jason Jordan and he says that he has a new partner. Chad Gable comes in and Jordan says it's not him. Gable tells him that when he's ready, he'll be ready, willing and Gable. Jordan walks away and then he writes his name on Jordan's locker room tag.
Baron Corbin vs. Angelo Dawkins
This show can't get any worse....oh wait. It can. At least we get some Dawkins here. Dawkins goes for a modified bulldog, but Corbin counters and hits a big clothesline. He hits End Of Days and picks up the win. Next.
Match Rating: 1/4*
Samoa Joe vs. Scott Dawson
Kevin Owens is guest commentator for Joe's in ring debut. I find it to be kind of crazy that all 3 of the timelines that I'm watching are in a slump. I'm sure people didn't think of 2015 NXT as being in a slump, but there is not really too much going on outside of Kevin Owens as champ that is interesting. They let Dawson get in his minute of offense before Joe hits the Musclebuster for the victory. I mean, it was what it was meant to be.
Match Rating: 1/2*
After the match, Owens walks away but Joe calls him out on the mic. Owens tells Joe that he has to earn a NXT title match and he simply hasn't done that yet. Out comes Regal and he agrees. He says Joe has earned the right to a fight though and says Joe will face Owens next week.
This episode was really poor. They have a tendency to have one of these episodes every couple of months where it is 1980s/1990s Superstars and it doesn't always work that well.
Overall Rating: 31%
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