As we get further into the episodes of NXT (Well, three deep now for my Flashback Reviews) we have reached a much anticipated point where Seth Rollins defends the NXT Title for the first time since winning it against Curtis Axel. It's kind of funny because this is a showcase of those who are currently on the WWE main roster and those who, well, are no longer employed by WWE.
The first match saw Bo Dallas defeat Johnny Curtis. Bo Dallas is being built up as a tough kid, but h doesn't seem to have much of a gimmick right now other than having his liver split in half. Johnny Curtis is... strange, but I still like his weirdness in this setting better than Fandango because no one wants to be a ballrom dancer and professional wrestler.
Okay, sure, Fandango is a good throwback gimmick to the 1980's because even though others should come closer it really does remind me of something like El Matador (I know, Los Matadores are closer than that, but you get the idea, right?) I mean, you have a guy who fight bulls, fighting humans. Ballroom dancer just doesn't make sense as a gimmick in professional wrestling. At least The Goon got tossed out of professional hockey for getting into too many fights!
Match number two was a divas tag match with Audrey Marie (?) and Paige defeating Alicia Fox and Kaitlyn. As we all know by now, in the future present, Kaitlyn has had her run with WWE and is gone and forgotten. The only thing I really know Kaitlyn for is being one of the few WWE divas I've actually seen an action figure for at mass retail but passed on it because I still don't even want it. (I've only seen maybe three diva figures at mass retail and one of them I did end up buying) Alicia Fox is still kicking around and I have no idea who Audrey Marie is, so there's that. At this particular moment in NXT, Paige is the hot shit so needless to say her team got the win because she was pretty much untouchable at this point it would seem. (Or at least my history books will paint her as such. I don't mind Paige as much as the other divas, but I really don't have a favorite WWE diva anyway so it's a losing battle no matter what)
In the third match Leo Kruger crushed Dante Dash and actually had some words for NXT afterwards. I vaguely remember those Adam Rose vignettes about when he was going to debut and up until now even with his string of pointless matches on the main roster, a lot of which have been on either Superstars or Main Event... I just can't help but feel that if done properly, the vignettes leading up to Leo Kruger's debut could have been miles ahead of anything Adam Rose has done thus far in his WWE career. You know how WWE (or whoever in there is responsible for it, probably the man himself) took a huge, steaming pile of crap such as Husky Harris and turned him into this generation's Undertaker in Bray Wyatt? Yeah, it's *almost* like the reverse of that by having Leo Kruger replaced by Adam Rose.
Our main event of course was Seth Rollins retaining the NXT Championship over Curtis Axel and why wouldn't he keep it in his first title defense since winning? CM Punk made a special appearance on this show and said that Seth Rollins should beat the respect into Curtis Axel. It's kind of funny since Seth Rollins has kind of become the CM Punk of WWE. In any case, this isn't about Rollins because he is really talented and this match only shows that further, but what about poor Curtis Axel?
The guy has been a part of more failed attempts in WWE than... Well, there is no comparison because of how many chances he's had. He couldn't get over as a Paul Heyman Guy! This match made me wonder why someone like Jake Carter or Richie Steamboat could no longer be with WWE and yet Curtis Axel still is. They can't be keeping him around for his lineage and so if it's for something else then what? You know what Richie Steamboat and Jake Carter have done on the indies since being released from WWE? Exactly. If WWE can't bring out the best in Curtis Axel then he surely isn't going to find his groove in Impact Wrestling, Mexico or even Japan. They just need to cut him loose. This match is over two years old but he hasn't improved since it. He needs to go.
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