Hi there, Jake here! I am bringing in another edition of Today I Learned From… This episode of NXT opened a lot of doors and shut a few. Let’s dig a little deeper, shall we?
*The Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic is back on again! So far, a few teams have been announced, and it is already shaping up to be exciting and less than predictable.
*The opening shot of the crowd shows Izzy, Bayley’s #1 fan. It’s nice to see that even though The Hugger isn’t there, Izzy still shows up.
Tye Dillinger vs. Angelo Dawkins
*I don’t know what it is about Tye but he always holds my atTENtion
*Angelo Dawkins’ entrance would be loads better if he had some ground up chalk to throw in the air.Especially if it’s in the opponents face.
*Tye Dillinger is now winning matches in squash form, which means his NXT stock is on the rise.
*The worst thing to say to Tye is that he is “not a 10”. That seems to bring the most anger out of the man.
*Bobby Roode said that the main reason he is in NXT is to win the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic.
*Roode and Dillinger will join the tournament as the team ‘Perfectly Glorious’.
*Connor’s Cure commercials are a heartwarming touch to the show, even though anything featuring Connor makes me cry.
*Hideo Itami may not speak perfect English, but he can still cut a promo putting over his opponent for tonight and continuing his beef with Austin Aries seamlessly.
*What was supposed to be the Ealy Brothers vs. The Revival turned out to be Samoa Joe wrecking shop on the Ealy’s. The Ealy’s? More like The Mulkey Brothers.
*I imagine Joe as a father who could cut amazing disciplinary promo’s on his children.
*Dan Matha is coming to NXT and he looks like ALL THE 80’s MUSCLE WRESTLERS
Ember Moon vs. Mandy Rose
*Graves infatuation with Mandy makes me upset. Which I guess is heat on the wrestler and announcer who are supposed to be heel.
*Whenever Ember vs. Asuka happens, I will already have the popcorn popped.
*Mandy gets in a solid punch which surprises me. She has offense!!
*Rose yelling at Ember about how Moon will never look like Mandy makes me wonder if, succeeding in hinges on good looks.
*Moon’s finisher is amazing, but the set up never seems natural. Also, how much can Ember’s tailbone handle? She has to have back problems on the daily.
*Ciampa and Gargano are in the Dusty Classic, which is where they debuted as a team. They are kind of like the team we watched grow from boys to men.
*Sanity is a new person coming to NXT. The video package to hype their debut seems to say the gimmick is ‘rioting’?
The Authors of Pain w/Paul Ellering vs. Jesus Yurnet and Jonathan Cruz
*The Authors of Pain are managed by Paul Ellering, which makes him the Editor of Pain.
*AoP’s offense is so believable that I legit worry about their opponents. Like a gorilla press slam to the outside? Yeeesh!
*If I were facing the AoP, I would tell those who care about me to not watch the show.
*Paul Ellering talks quietly and makes us all pay attention to what he has to say. That is an undervalued skill.
*William Regal says he can’t get ahold of Shinsuke Nakamura. C’mon Regal! You’re the GM.. Know how to contact your talent!!
Liv Morgan vs. Asuka
*Liv doesn’t know how suspenders work. She comes to the ring with them hanging from her sides, and when the match starts she takes them off??
*People in the arena stand up when the first few chords of Asuka’s music plays, that is a star right there.
*I bet Izzy’s favorite wrestlers are Bayley, and whoever is wrestling Asuka.
*Asuka destroys Liv in a matter of minutes and then says “Nobody is ready for Asuka!”
Hideo Itami vs. Lince Dorado
*If Hideo kicks that hard in fake fighting, how hard does he kick when going full force?
*This is a sports entertainment match. Hideo wrestles like it is a real sport. Lince style is more entertainment. Like, Hideo is the Battle of Atlanta while Lince is Ricochet vs. Osprey .
*Why does NXT run commercials? Especially mid-match. The Network is paid for and the advertisements aren’t any non-WWE product. It has to be for the production team training right? It doesn’t help the match, that’s forsure.
*Based on how much wrestlers have to remember spots and parts of matches, I wonder what wrestler is the best at the card game Memory.
*The GTS is a move that no one has kicked out of and is a true definition of a finisher.
*Austinwas brought up multiple times throughout the night, so he had to make an appearance.
*Aries is someone I love to hate and who I constantly want to see beatin up and lose. He is good at his job.
*NXT is a great show but weird. We watch the show differently than Raw or Smackdown and we give NXT a lot more leniency as a wrestling show. It still deserves the praise that it gets, it’s just noticeable that NXT is not marketed towards the fan base that Raw and Smackdown are marketed to.
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