BRM Reivews the 8/31/2021 NXT

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BRM Reivews the 8/31/2021 NXT

Post by Big Red Machine » Sep 3rd, '21, 17:01

SARRAY vs. MANDY ROSE (w/Jacey Jane & Gigi Dolan)- 4.75/10
I had no idea what Sarray’s music was. That’s a sign that she’s not being featured on TV enough.
The match was okay. I debated rating it as a segment because it was really all about the finish, which was Sarray hitting her running dropkick to the face of a seated opponent and Mandy selling it big, with her henchwomen coming over and covering her face with a towel and ushering her to the back to take a count-out loss. This would set up a revenge backstage attack later.

TOMMASO CIAMPA PROMO- great!
Thatcher’s chair is empty as a reminder of the injury inflicted on him. He wants revenge on Ridge Holland, Pete Dunne, and pals.

KYLE O’REILLY vs. DUKE HUDSON- 5.75/10
Kyle ribs are injured. Beth Phoenix told us that a rib injury “radiates all the way around from the front to the back.” Things don’t radiate around. They radiate out from a central point, like the radius of a circle. Kyle fought through the injury getting worked over and won via submission.

ILJA DRAGUNOV PROMO- good babyface stuff

ARASH MARKAZI’S SIT-DOWN INTERVIEW WITH KAY LEE RAY- mostly good, but someone needs to tell Markazi to not interrupt the wrestlers when they’re saying something that is perfectly reasonable to say.

MCKENZIE MITCHELL INTERVIEWS CARMELO HAYES- good
He teases going after the different titles. Legado del Fantasma interrupt him and tell him to stay away from the North American Title because Santos Escobar is going to win that. Hayes stood up to them. Escobar said he would give Hayes a one-time pass for this disrespect.

DRAKE MAVERICK AND WALLER PROMO- Waller is an overconfident goof.

DRAKE MAVERICK & WALLER vs. IMPERIUM (Fabian Aichner & Marcel Barthel)- 4.5/10
Imperium beat the overconfident goof cleanly.

THE GARGANOS BACKSTAGE- Indi wants Johnny to give Dexter Lumis a chance. Johnny wants Lumis to stop sneaking up on him and “be normal.” This was the best any segment in this story has been. It was passable.

BRITISH HEELS & ONEY LORCAN PROMO- good

MOMENTS AGO, GIGI DOLAN AND JACEY JANE JUMPED SARRAY BACKSTAGE- good

L.A. KNIGHT vs. JOHNNY GARGANO (w/Indi Hartwell & Dexter Lumis)- 6.5/10
These two could have had a better match left to their own devices, but instead we have to deal with this BS. Lumis distracted Knight to get Gargano an advantage, but then he wanted a high five and Indi distracted Johnny to tell him as such, so Johnny reached out to give Lumis a high five, but Lumis was standing nowhere near close enough to get one. This clown show gave Kight the time to recover, so he grabbed Johnny, hit his finisher, and got the win. No one came off well here.

MSK TELL WILLIAM EWGAL THAT THEY WANT TO GIVE BURCH & LORCAN A TITLE SHOT- good
MSK managed to not be annoying for once. They want to give Burch & Lorcan a title shot because they had to vacate the titles. Regal said he was going to take that shot away from them as punishment for injuring Thatcher, but if MSK want the match, he’ll make it.

THE ANNOUNCERS PUT OVER XYONN QUINN AS A LONER WHO MOSTLY JUST TRAINS AND SITCKS TO HIMSELF- good

RAQUEL GONZALEZ vs. JESSI KAMEA (w/Franky Monet & Robert Stone)- 2.25/10
A solid win for Gonzalez.

MCKENZIE MITCHELL INTERVIEWS EMBER MOON- good
A fine response to Kay Lee Ray’s comments earlier. It’s amazing how much more tolerable Ember becomes when you remove Shotzi Blackheart from her immediate vicinity.

WADE BARRETT’S SIT-DOWN INTERVIEW WITH SAMOA JOE- good
This was mostly just Joe talking tough, but Joe is great at that. Also, comparing this to the two segments with MJF/Schiavone and Jericho/Ross on Dynamite this week where I praised the promos but noted that the announcers felt completely pointless, this was the opposite of that, where Joe did 99% of the talking, but it felt like he was talking to Wade.

IKEMAN JIRO PROMO- fine
He wants revenge on Roddy for attacking his idol, KUSHIDA.

IKEMAN JIRO vs. RODERICK STRONG (w/Diamond Mine)- 5.25/10
Stokely has recruited two dudes name the Creed Brothers. Jiro took a sick-looking bump onto the steps early on. Roddy won clean. He’s coming for KUSHIDA’s Cruiserweight Title.

MCKENZIE MITCHELL INTERVIEWS ZOEY STARK, IO SHIRAI, AND TEAM KC AHEAD OF NEXT WEEK’S TITLE MATCH- bad
Yes, they got across the idea that Team KC are a team and the other two aren’t, but everyone who wasn’t Io came off like a total loser. Io could probably kick all of their asses at the same time.

MCKENZIE MITCHELL’S INTERVIEW WITH CAMERON GRIMES IS INTERRUPTED BY GYV- Dumb clown sh*t


TOMMASO CIAMPA vs. RIDGE HOLLAND (w/Pete Dunne, Danny Burch, & Oney Lorcan)- 7.5/10
Ciampa carries Holland to a great main event, then gets jumped by the heels. MSK came out to make the save, building up to their title defense against Burch and Lorcan next week.


This was a meh show at best from NXT, but without the main event, I probably would have called it outright bad.
Hold #712: ARM BAR!

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