The Vaudevillains were in action as well, Kenta got his ass kicked by the Ascension again, and three delightfully offensive Italian stereotypes mixed it up in the WWE performance center.
Here are my thoughts segment by segment.
Adrian Neville Vs. Tyson Kidd
Tyson Kidd came to NXT to revive his career but never really won anything important down there. His biggest achievement is beating Neville in a tag team match.
Still, he got another title shot. This time because his wife, Natty Niedhardt asked commissioner William Regal for it. That just seems like a very loose system for booking title shots.
Ridiculous even! Look at Andre the Giant. Went undefeated for twenty years and never got a title shot. Because he didn't ask for one. Gorilla Monsoon said so at 'Mania III.
There was a catch this time around. If Kidd doesn't win he won't get another shot. Not as long as Neville is the champ.
I actually liked that Kidd got the title shot in these ridiculous circumstances though. Honestly, it added a lot of drama to the match. You could see Kidd was underpreassure.
And it doesn't hurt that the match was freaking amazing! A true back and forth contest between two guys who know how to put on a show with great high flying and technical wrestling.
Neville escaped a top rope powerbomb with a back flip. Soon after he delivered his own, possibly the sickest powerbomb I've ever seen.
Kidd did great too. At one point Neville tried to counter a springboard attack with a falling dropkick. Kidd simply grabbed his legs in mid-air and locked on a sharpshooter. Friggen fantastic!
Titus O'Neil eventually interfered. Sitting in the first row, he grabbed Neville's magnificent locks and slammed his head against the arena floor. Somehow Neville recovered though. And thankfully Sammy Zayn kept Titus from interfering further by coming out of nowhere and kicking him in the head.
Seriously! One minute we were watching Titus leaning over the guard rail, talking shit to a concussed Neville ... the next minute he had Zayn's foot in his mouth. It was fantastic television!
As if to put a little cherry on top of this sundae, the segment ends with Kidd slumped in the corner defeated, and ring announcer Jojo gets on the mic and reminds the Full Sail Arena that Tyson Kidd would not get another title shot.
For a guy like me who was rooting against Kidd so hard? That was awesome. Nothing like watching a hated wrestler's face fall! Suck it, Kidd!
Charolotte Flair Vs. Bayley
I think women's wrestling is in a better place now then it's ever been. These two girls are part of the reason why.
They always put on good matches, just like we saw a few weeks ago at the Takeover event. This match was a rematch for that, which Charlotte awarded to Bayley out of respect for her performance in that match.
This match was all one sided though. Charlotte put the hurt on Bayley early and kept going throughout.
It was amazing watching Charlotte yank on Bayley's knee until her leg was perpendicular to the mat. And while I have to admire Bayley's flexibility that shit had to hurt! The lady's spent a lot of time on the mat but it never seemed boring.
She got in a little bit of offense, hit a good back elbow off the middle rope and reversed a figure four. I also liked the way Bayley wrist locked Charlotte to the mat and dropped an elbow while still keeping the hold. Very cool.
But Charlotte eventually took the pin fall.
Good match though. Really something to watch because of Charlotte's dominance.
Kenta Vs. Victor Never Happened
This segment was shit. I thought we were getting a Kenta match but instead I got two dudes beating the shit out of a guy who made a bad decision.
You see, Kenta was powerful pissed about the Ascension jumping him last week so he just went in there and started beating on the other acesnsion dude. The guy who wasn't in the match. So Victor joined in and the numbers game worked against Kenta.
That was the whole segment, eventually they stopped and that was it. Never underestimate the power of five referees yelling at vampires. Vampires don't like that shit.
Backstage though, in another segment WWE
I found that odd. If Funaki told me he had my back in a fight, I'd just shrug. It's better than nothing but it's not Christmas in July.
Christmas in July would be a cool Holliday. Somebody should make that a thing.
Carmella in the Performance Center
I'd watch Enzo Amore and Big Cass do anything. Those guys are entertaining as hell, and while you can teach that, it doesn't often get done in the WWE.
This week we got a cool peak into the much talked up performance center as they trained up Carmella, a former hair dresser who lost her job due to the shenanigans of Enzo and Cass.
Being one third Italian myself, I was a little offended by these three fresh of the boat gumbas. But the other two thirds of me don't give a fuck about Italians so they thought it was great watching Enzo perv out on Carmella and seeing Carmella dropkick him out of the ring.
The Vaudevillains took on some other guys.
Rooster fave Ryan Drago, AKA Simon Gotch and the other guy from this tag team took on another tag team that kind of sucks. Match was just decent. Whatever.
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