Original Airdate: Wednesday, July 15th, 2015
Full Sail University
Winter Park, Florida
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Jason Jordan & Chad Gable vs. Elias Samson & Steve Cutler
We finally get the debut of Jordan and Gable here. They dominate the match, with the crowd already liking Gable. We get a cool finisher where Jordan put up Cutler for a back suplex and released so that Gable could catch him and finish the move and pick up the easy win.
Match Rating: 1/2*
They show clips of Sasha Banks, Charlotte and Becky Lynch on Raw. Remember, this was 100% all because of Stephanie McMahon. She invented women's wrestling.
Samoa Joe vs. Axel Tischer
Tischer is Alexander Wolfe. Joe dominates, as you would expect. He hits the Muscle Buster and then finishes him with the rear naked choke. Two matches, two squashes.
Match Rating: 1/2*
We get a Baron Corbin vignette talking about his past achievements.
Eva Marie comes out to boos and lets us know that she will be making her NXT in ring debut next week.
Blake & Murphy vs. Sawyer Fulton & Angelo Dawkins
Well, I guess when you have as big of a main event as we do here this week, you just put squash matches up for the rest of the show. Blake trips up Dawkins before he can make the tag in. Murphy hits a running suplex and Blake hits a frog splash for the easy victory. After the post-match celebration, Alexa tells them to get them. They attack Fulton to tease that Bliss is pulling the strings. They then launch Bliss from their hands and she hits the spinning splash.
Match Rating: 1/2*
Sami Zayn is out to the ring to give us a medical update. He says that 2014 was the best year of his career, but 2015 has been his worst. He expects to be out the rest of his year and then talks about his goals. He says that he is coming for Kevin Owens when he comes back.
They show us highlights of last week and how we got our main event for tonight.
We see the finish of Finn Balor winning the NXT Championship from Kevin Owens. We then go to a press conference with William Regal announcing Kevin Owens will get a rematch against Finn Balor at the next TakeOver in Brooklyn. This was announced at Comic Con.
NXT Women's Championship Match
Charlotte vs. Sasha Banks
Well, it looks like we may actually get a women's match that gets more than just a few minutes here. Both ladies get in some offense to start and most notably, Sasha hits the double knees to the midsection into the commercial break. We get more of a mat based match here and the crowd is enjoying it. Charlotte hits a powerbomb even after Sasha tries to get out of it and both ladies are down. Charlotte hits a Spear, but Sasha kicks out at 2. Sasha gets in her face about being better than her and Charlotte snaps. She goes for a Figure Four, but Sasha rolls her up for a 2. Charlotte gets the Figure FOur slapped on, but Sasha reaches the bottom rope. Charlotte rolls under the bottom rope and Sasha's throat hits the bottom rope. Back in the ring, we get a couple of quick pin attempts and then Sasha hits the Backstabber and slaps on the Bank Statement. Charlotte eventually taps out and I have to say I'm a little surprised there. I just assumed we were going to get a countout or something here. The match was solid, but I didn't like it as much as the crowd seemed to.
Match Rating: **3/4
This was all about the main event and it was an entertaining match. It was nice that they actually got some time to tell a story. The talent seems to save their best stuff for TakeOver and even in a match like this one, where the talent is all in, they are booked to have more of a TV match. The rest of the show is basically 1990s Superstars and there isn't much to see there.
Overall Rating: 50%
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