Whats up wrestling-peeps. This is The NXT Review and after my disappointment of last week, I’ll say that the yellow brand got back to its feet with a progressive episode. Wow big word.

If last week was all about treading water than this go-around push things forward, laying groundwork for possible future rivalries.

The action got off to quick start with the newly christened American Alpha against the former Tag Champs Blake & Murphy. Now of course the Dub-step loving duo were escorted to ring by the rebel-pixie Alexa Bliss as-per-usual but lets just highlight that without Bliss, these guys would be pretty vanilla heels no? Bliss brings that extra something-something that really makes them pop or sparkle if you would have.

Now I need to fess up that I’m on an amateur wrestling kick at the moment after having watched the fantastically creepy Foxcatcher with ol’ Channing ‘Step Up’ Tatum himself. And boy I’m I looking at some of those moves in a different light. Especially seeing how Jason Jordan and Chad Gable combined their background in the sport with high-flying and eye-catching spots that make the pair an exciting prospect not only for the NXT Tag Team titles but the main roster. These guys are really something special, they sparkle as Bliss would say. Are maybe not given her obvious distain for the pair, I mean that look she gave Jordan at the start of the match. Boy if Pixies could kill, she’d BAMF him all the way home … did that sound dirty?

Nia Jax made her terrifying return to the ring to basically rag doll the petite Liv Morgan. Jax won, big surprise but I can’t help but think that Nia has got that it factor. That TakeOver London match, boy did she make me a believer. Now I don’t want to put the title on her straight away. Lets go the fun route shall we. Maybe even a Karma route of destroying the entire roster of NXT ladies … perhaps without the tears in the ring though. We ain’t got time for tears.

I can’t be alone in wanting the two most dangerous ladies in NXT to meet right? Asuka vs Nia Jax … make it so Regal.

Bull Dempseys back and I’m sorry but I’m not a Bull-levier. Ha Ha … witty. But anywho, Bull-Fit did his Bull-thing and faced up against a returning Alex Riley with longer-darker-hair which of course means. Duh-Duh-Duh … Heel Turn!

Talking of Heel, hello Elias Samson. Now I want to like this guy, I’ve always been a lover of Heels, wrestlers not women’s footwear. But damn does this guy make it hard to cheer for, primarily ’cause this guy is boring. So boring. I need something, anything, add an extra dimension to this drifter character. Don’t just tell me, show me.

The commentators ask themselves “what does Samson bring to NXT”, If you guys dunno, I’m at a lost.

The Triple-Threat Match that has been on everyones mind closed the show but did it live up the hype? I dunno, I enjoyed it fine and if anything it showed that Samoa Joe and Sami Zayn have chemistry when in the ring together but Baron Corbin was pretty much pointless. An annoyance that seemed to scupper the flow of what was clearly Zayn and Joe’s match.

That sounds harsh, which is misleading because I enjoyed the match. Its frickin Zayn and Joe for cry-out-loud but I guess thats my point. A Triple-Threat that could have worked better as a one-on-one competition. Which makes me a fan of that confused ending that I’m in no doubt will lead to another Zayn-Joe face-off.

Now that FTW!

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