Phrederic Reviews NXT

Welcome all as I am the temporary fill-in for NXT’s show due to some personal happenstances for our regular reviewer (all love to Niz right now, IYKYK) and this is going to be a very truncated review as I worked very late and couldn’t watch it live and am not feeling up to any PBP.

We’re in Texas! The crowd looks decently sized, we run down the whole deal and WWE’s video packages are great.

We start with Ricky Saints defending his NXT world championship against Oba Femi. They play off their prior match (where Ricky beat Oba for the title) with the spammed DDTs but this time Oba is just too powerful and powerbombs Ricky into oblivion.

So going to pop in with another snap thoughts after NXT. It’s my favorite show after all and I just wanted to get some quick opinions in there. This is SUPER informal and I probably am going to miss stuff.

Fallon Henley (c) vs. Stephanie Vaquer – NXT North American Women’s Championship

Just sorta whatever it needed to be. A perfectly fine match where Steph got her shine, took heat with Fatal Influence’s interference and then fired back for a win, shave 5 minutes off and it’s much better but as is it’s totally acceptable wrestling.

This was Meh.

Hello all as I try out a new article type as my various intrusive thoughts (and my mountain or puro I have waiting) have lead me to do a quick and dirty breakdown of my thoughts on the NXT debut. This is very informal and I’m trying not to step on the toes of our own Tommy as he will assuredly deliver a much more in-depth and detailed review, but these are just my brief Good, Bad, Meh thoughts on the debut of NXT on CW!

Roxanne Perez (c) vs. Giulia – NXT Women’s Championship

MOTN as Roxanne and Giulia clearly had some learning curves to overcome, but Roxanne is a top-tier worker and Giulia is a top-tier wrestler and they managed to figure something out. There were clunky bits but it felt like a big deal and I definitely want to see them lock up 1-2 more times at the very least. Also pleased that I called the Cora Jade interference win and while I’m not a Cora Jade fan, I like the booking decision and I’m glad Giulia is debuting on her back foot, she’s a person who thrives in ugly conflict, not an Asuka-esque winning streak.

This was Good.