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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome to your NXT review here on the
Speaker 2: WWE podcast. This is Jay. I am coming at you
Speaker 2: from an undisclosed location in the Hudson Valley, So I
Speaker 2: guess I kind of disclose a little bit in the
Speaker 2: Hudson Valley of New York, probably like a mile away
Speaker 2: from the Hudson River and probably even less actually, And
Speaker 2: we are here to give you your weekly dose of
Speaker 2: wrestling reviews, news, and all kinds of fun things to
Speaker 2: talk about. And I have a couple of fun things
Speaker 2: to talk about. The other night on Tuesday, we had
Speaker 2: the NXT show following New Year's Evil. And I tell
Speaker 2: you the two shows one night and day New Year's Evil.
Speaker 2: I mean, I spent the longest I've ever spent on
Speaker 2: a review talking about New Year's Evil. Last week I
Speaker 2: asked my father what he thought of the podcast. And now,
Speaker 2: you know, guys know, I bring up my father up
Speaker 2: every now and again, and he thought I maybe have
Speaker 2: gone a little bit, maybe went a little too overboard
Speaker 2: with the with my back and my back and forth
Speaker 2: with the rock segment. To be honest, maybe I did.
Speaker 2: But I don't ever really get to talk about the
Speaker 2: Rock because the Rock is never on NXT except this time.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna tell you exactly how I feel. And
Speaker 2: I did, and I am unapologizing for it, not that
Speaker 2: I think that, not that my father said I should apologize.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying that at all. What I'm saying is
Speaker 2: that it's It's not my usual shtick. It was a
Speaker 2: little bit more intense, and you know, I got to
Speaker 2: complain a little bit about the way things are playing
Speaker 2: out on the main roster, and you know that's usually
Speaker 2: Matt's gig, so it was kind of nice to be
Speaker 2: able to do that a little bit. Anyway, So we
Speaker 2: had the NXT show on from this on the CW
Speaker 2: from on Tuesday night, which would be oh my goodness,
Speaker 2: it was January fourteen. We are already two weeks into
Speaker 2: this new year, and yeah, it's just gonna keep going.
Speaker 2: We get the World Rumble, and what two weeks from
Speaker 2: Saturday we have Well Latin. Then next week from Saturday
Speaker 2: we have Saturday Night's main event. On February fifteenth, we
Speaker 2: have Vengeance Day, which is the next n XT pay
Speaker 2: per view, which of course I will be reviewing that
Speaker 2: as well, just so you all over And yeah, so
Speaker 2: but when I say that, when I say that New
Speaker 2: Year's Evil and this week's n XT show was like
Speaker 2: night and day, it really was. This week last week
Speaker 2: was I mean, we had three new champions crowned, we
Speaker 2: had the Rock come in, we had an awesome, awesome
Speaker 2: other matches, and you know, another match beyond that with
Speaker 2: the fatal four way for the North North America, which
Speaker 2: I will get into in a second because I have
Speaker 2: a big, huge problem with that and I mentioned it
Speaker 2: last week, but you know it played out this week,
Speaker 2: so I want to mention it again. And this week
Speaker 2: was just okay. It was really just okay. And I
Speaker 2: feel like it goes to show you that there are
Speaker 2: so raw has basically an unlimited not unlimited amount of time,
Speaker 2: but they basically have all the time they need to
Speaker 2: play with. First week it was three hours, second week
Speaker 2: it was two and a half two hours and thirty
Speaker 2: seven minutes. Roughly, SmackDown has three hours, you know, both
Speaker 2: with commercials, and NXT has two hours a week. And
Speaker 2: they have a huge roster. I mean, you know, they
Speaker 2: have They have a huge women's roster, decent sized men's roster,
Speaker 2: the tag team roster is getting bigger now, and they
Speaker 2: still only have two hours. So it seems like to me,
Speaker 2: it seems like what they're doing is they're doing. You know,
Speaker 2: they may highlight the the big winners, they may highlight
Speaker 2: the ober Femies this week. They may highlight Roxanne Perez,
Speaker 2: who's not the winner, but you know, she still is Listen,
Speaker 2: She's still one of the top gals, regardless of whether
Speaker 2: she has a piece of metal strapped to her body
Speaker 2: or not. So and but this week we got a
Speaker 2: lot of the people that couldn't be on last week.
Speaker 2: So it seems to me like they're kind of they're
Speaker 2: kind of like they highlight some of the bigger storylines
Speaker 2: week to week, but generally they you know, they don't
Speaker 2: talk a lot of I don't know, maybe I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: They seems like they just kind of waver her back
Speaker 2: and forth between storylines because they only have two hours,
Speaker 2: and they got to get in everything they got to
Speaker 2: get in, but they also got to talk about the world,
Speaker 2: the you know, the big champions and even you know,
Speaker 2: I mean last week they didn't even mention they barely well, yeah,
Speaker 2: they didn't even mention Tony D'Angelo in the North American title. Anyway,
Speaker 2: let's move forward because I feel like I'm just ranting
Speaker 2: already and I need to actually talk about the show.
Speaker 2: What happened. So we have the results from January fourteen,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, from the WWE Performance Center, and it
Speaker 2: is in Winter Park, Florida. And next week I heard
Speaker 2: they said they were going to be in Atlanta. I
Speaker 2: think it was next week, so that would be interesting
Speaker 2: or maybe in two weeks. And I don't remember exactly
Speaker 2: the comments. So the commentators were Vic, Joseph N. Booker.
Speaker 2: T Now I'm stopping there for a second because there's
Speaker 2: been a little bit of news this week about commentators
Speaker 2: in the WWE. If you've been paying attention all if
Speaker 2: you haven't, I'll kind of explain. So that was kind
Speaker 2: of thinking this actually, So we all knew that Pat
Speaker 2: McAfee was going to be back on Monday Night Raw
Speaker 2: after the college football season, which he is. And you know,
Speaker 2: because it's the Netflix show, they wanted to put the
Speaker 2: A team on Netflix. So they put on Corey Graves
Speaker 2: at Pat McAfee, which, let me tell you, the two
Speaker 2: of them together are gold. They are gold. They should
Speaker 2: be on Netflix, they should be on Money World. There's
Speaker 2: no reason why they shouldn't be. Okay, So now you
Speaker 2: have those two, Now you still have Joe testatorra who
Speaker 2: who mind you just started out? You know after Pat
Speaker 2: McAfee left in the fall and has done a pretty
Speaker 2: bang up job. He does a pretty bang up job.
Speaker 2: So you gotta tora. Who's got to go somewhere? So
Speaker 2: they put him on SmackDown? Makes sense? Then who So
Speaker 2: he's the playlight play guy for SmackDown. I know who's
Speaker 2: gonna be The big question is going to be who
Speaker 2: would be the who would be the the the color
Speaker 2: commentary guy next to them on SmackDown. Turns out we
Speaker 2: found out last week it's going to be Wade Barrett.
Speaker 2: Now here's the problem. Where does that leave Corey g Right?
Speaker 2: So last week Corey Graves helped call New Year's Evil
Speaker 2: and I have to tell you, I don't know I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go back and listen to it again, maybe at
Speaker 2: the whole or watch it. Maybe at the whole thing,
Speaker 2: but maybe the whole thing. Corey Graves seemed just a
Speaker 2: little grumpy last week. I mean, I'm trying to I'm
Speaker 2: trying to not use a swear word, but kind of
Speaker 2: grumpy during the I mean, listen, he's I love Corey Graves.
Speaker 2: Sometimes he can get in his own way, he just
Speaker 2: talks too much, but generally speaking, I like his passion.
Speaker 2: I think he plays off Michael cole well, not as
Speaker 2: well as Pat McAfee. So Corey Graves ending up on
Speaker 2: NXT next to Vic Joseph and Booker T and I
Speaker 2: have to tell you, Booker T and noise the heck
Speaker 2: out of me. So I was very happy to have
Speaker 2: somebody else besides Booker T sitting in commentary and Vic
Speaker 2: Joseph to me is great. I think he's great. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's he's good for a next for sure. But now
Speaker 2: this week, so there was a tweet or whatever they're
Speaker 2: called now an X by Corey Graves complaining about his
Speaker 2: status as in doing color commentary or doing commentary for WWE,
Speaker 2: because apparently he's not happy with the fact that he
Speaker 2: was sent down to NXT and in and he was.
Speaker 2: From what I hear, he was supposed to be here
Speaker 2: this week as well, but he ended up not being
Speaker 2: on the show and from and I also heard a
Speaker 2: rumor that there that somebody saw him get on a
Speaker 2: plane out of Orlando the day of the NXT show
Speaker 2: on Tuesday night, So it's gonna be interesting to see
Speaker 2: how that plays out. I really hope Corey Graves doesn't
Speaker 2: leave WWA. I hope they find him something to do.
Speaker 2: I think they have a great group of guys minus
Speaker 2: Booker t. I'm sorry. I can't can't do it with him.
Speaker 2: I can't. Fortunately, I have to watch it every week
Speaker 2: to review the show. I don't have to want to.
Speaker 2: But still, critig just drives me nuts. I mean, there
Speaker 2: are times where he's great, he's fine, not great, fine,
Speaker 2: but with the whole like Champagne wishes and caviars, he's
Speaker 2: got to say that every single time, every week he's
Speaker 2: gonna say it at least once and all the like.
Speaker 2: Sometimes the way he talks, I can't really understand what
Speaker 2: he's saying. All overall, I do like Bookert, but I
Speaker 2: don't know so anyway, so as of now, it looks
Speaker 2: like it's Booker T and Vic Joseph's still on NXT
Speaker 2: because Corey Grady's wasn't there, and then I told you
Speaker 2: who else is on It was on the other shows.
Speaker 2: So I'll be interesting to see how this plays out,
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna keep an eye on it between now,
Speaker 2: between this week and next week to see how it
Speaker 2: plays out and kind of give you guys an update
Speaker 2: next week. So and as always for NXT, the ring
Speaker 2: announcer is Mike Rome. So my friends and I we
Speaker 2: went to see it was I don't know, it was weird.
Speaker 2: It was an organization called Awesome Championship Wrestling and it
Speaker 2: was in Poughkeepsie at the former mid Hudston Civic Center.
Speaker 2: It's now called the Neshawatts Civic Center or something like that,
Speaker 2: and let me tell you, it was a great show.
Speaker 2: They incorporated nw A matches, they incorporated t n T
Speaker 2: or t now they incorporated TNA matches, NWA matches, and
Speaker 2: then and then they had their own so they actually
Speaker 2: that night, the nw A title world title was defended.
Speaker 2: The TNA World title with Nick Nemath was defended against
Speaker 2: Matt Riddle whoever you know. So the main event was
Speaker 2: was Nick Nemath former Doff Zigler against Matt Riddle, which
Speaker 2: was a great match. It was a it was a
Speaker 2: great card. I have to tell you, if you ever
Speaker 2: see anything about Awesome Championship Wrestling or a c W,
Speaker 2: check it out. They don't. They're still kind of getting going,
Speaker 2: so they don't. They're not doing a lot. But for
Speaker 2: those of you that were in Poughkeepsie, if you happen
Speaker 2: to be in Poughkeepsie that day, it was a great show.
Speaker 2: And you know, let me know what you think. Anyway,
Speaker 2: So back to I keep going off on tangents and
Speaker 2: I apologize, but unfortunately I haven't taken my add med
Speaker 2: since this morning and they're starting to wear off. True story.
Speaker 2: So we have first Oba Femi coming out after they
Speaker 2: of course they did the review highlights of New Year's Evil,
Speaker 2: how everything went the rock, everything like that. The title changes,
Speaker 2: so we have Oba Femmi come out first, and he
Speaker 2: says he said, he addresses the the n X two
Speaker 2: universe and he says, dreadit, run from it. Destiny will
Speaker 2: always arrive just like I have arrived, and now it's
Speaker 2: time for me to take my rightful place upon the throne.
Speaker 2: You know, many many of men would win something as
Speaker 2: big as this, and they would say they've come out
Speaker 2: here to say they have come out here to say.
Speaker 2: I never believed I could do it. I've always believed
Speaker 2: this is oba Femi. I always believed I could do
Speaker 2: it because ever since day one, when I walked through
Speaker 2: these doors, I told everybody I was backed by Destiny.
Speaker 2: And some of you thought it was just a catchphrase,
Speaker 2: a gimmick, a joke. Nope, I've been I've been backed
Speaker 2: by Destiny all along. I was backed by Destiny when
Speaker 2: I won the Breakout Tournament. I was backed by Destiny
Speaker 2: when I won the North American Championship. I was back
Speaker 2: by Destiny when I became the longest reigning North American Champion.
Speaker 2: And I was definitely backed by Destiny when I became
Speaker 2: the NXT Champion. Because all of this, all of this
Speaker 2: is all mine now, and it belongs to the ruler,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to rule as I see fit. But
Speaker 2: let's talk about Trick Williams for a second. Let's acknowledge
Speaker 2: Trick Williams. He's put a lot of hard work into this.
Speaker 2: He broke so many records as champion. But just like
Speaker 2: every other guy back there, Trick Williams has a ceiling
Speaker 2: and Oba Femi has no ceiling right now. I tend
Speaker 2: to agree with that definitely about I don't know about
Speaker 2: Trick Williams having a ceiling right now. I mean he
Speaker 2: will eventually, but he does, I don't know if he
Speaker 2: does right now. And interestingly, Trick really didn't come out
Speaker 2: at all during the show this week. They briefly showed him,
Speaker 2: but they he didn't. He didn't. I don't know for
Speaker 2: sure if he was actually there. So that's gonna be interesting,
Speaker 2: especially with the Royal Rumble coming out coming up soon.
Speaker 2: Everybody as a possibility showing up there, especially with the
Speaker 2: women the Women's World Rumble. Like again, there's a there's
Speaker 2: a plethora of great women's wrestlers right now in NXT,
Speaker 2: and there's a lack of them in the main rosters.
Speaker 2: So there's gonna be spots in the World and the
Speaker 2: Women's World Rumble for people to come out from either
Speaker 2: NXT or even possibly TNA, which I'm gonna talk about
Speaker 2: in a second. Well at the end probably, Then he
Speaker 2: goes on to talk about Eddie. He's like a cockroach
Speaker 2: that won't die, like a gum on your shoe that
Speaker 2: won't go away. And Eddie, I'm gonna issue you my
Speaker 2: first and final warning. You can go and annoy somebody
Speaker 2: else in the locker room. And then out of nowhere,
Speaker 2: Tony D'Angelo comes out. So we've got Oba Femi in
Speaker 2: the ring with his anx T championship, and we got
Speaker 2: Tony D'Angelo coming out with the North American title, and
Speaker 2: he says, Oba, my power, my guy, how are you doing? Hey, listen,
Speaker 2: congrats on the victory. But by the way, you're in
Speaker 2: the big seat now, so listen. I was in the
Speaker 2: back with the family and we were listening to all
Speaker 2: you listen, all your accomplishments, but my personal favorite is
Speaker 2: you being the longest rating North American champion. But in
Speaker 2: my opinion, when it comes to the title, it's the
Speaker 2: Don too and the ruler one. See, there is no
Speaker 2: question about it. You are the ruler right now. But
Speaker 2: just remember I am the one one man to defeat you.
Speaker 2: And when I decide to go for that championship, you
Speaker 2: and I both know that I'm walking out of the
Speaker 2: ring the two title. Don and Nova says Tony, I
Speaker 2: see that you found your confidence here, and that's good
Speaker 2: for you. That's amazing. But the last time I checked
Speaker 2: last week, you didn't you get didn't you get your
Speaker 2: ass dropped by Santa Claus? So if I were you,
Speaker 2: I would start worrying about the North American Championship a
Speaker 2: lot more and leave me be. Tony D'Angelo then says, listen,
Speaker 2: nobody gets on, nobody gets one on the done without consequences.
Speaker 2: I'll take care of rich Holland, don't you worry in
Speaker 2: and then say his name, and here comes out Rich Holland. Hello, Tony,
Speaker 2: good to see you again. You were looking in a
Speaker 2: lot better shaped than the last time I saw you. Oh,
Speaker 2: before I forget, I brought you a belated Christmas gift.
Speaker 2: What do you think any pulls out a picture. It
Speaker 2: pulls out a picture of if you can hear the sirens,
Speaker 2: I'm in my living room, there's sirens in the background.
Speaker 2: So he uh pulls out a picture of himself dressed
Speaker 2: as Santa Claus beating up Tony D'Angelo from I guess
Speaker 2: New Year's Evil. You know what, that's pretty funny. You
Speaker 2: let me sign that for you. That's what Tony Dangelo says,
Speaker 2: and then the two of them start growing towards the
Speaker 2: backstage area. And then as that's happening, Eddie Thorpe attacts
Speaker 2: from you from behind, drop kicks the Lefnia Femi, and
Speaker 2: then viciously attacks Femi with a leather strap. Now, out
Speaker 2: of nowhere, he brings out a leather strap. So are
Speaker 2: we looking at a strap match again in the future? Interesting?
Speaker 2: Then we have we head back to the Lockman's locker room,
Speaker 2: where Ethan Page brags about his segment with the Rock
Speaker 2: last week. Page says that he can smell the jealousy
Speaker 2: from the locker room, and then Dante Chen why barely
Speaker 2: remember his name? He tells Ethan Page that he did
Speaker 2: that nobody wants him in the locker room after what
Speaker 2: he did to Javon Evans and Cedric Alexander. Dante shows Evan,
Speaker 2: says Ethan sorry, Dante shoves Ethan after he jokes about
Speaker 2: breaking Devon's joe, and Dante goes to A's office for
Speaker 2: a match. So now there's a Match's going to be
Speaker 2: a match between Ethan Page and what's his name again?
Speaker 2: Dante Dante Chen again? Yeah, please keep Ethan Page a
Speaker 2: heel forever. He is so good like he is, I
Speaker 2: don't know if I could never see him as a
Speaker 2: babyface ever. The first match, so, the first match we
Speaker 2: have is stephanieva Care versus Shatzi and a number one
Speaker 2: contenders match for the NXT North American Women's North American Championship. Again,
Speaker 2: I said this last week, I don't understand, like, okay,
Speaker 2: Stephanie of a Kerr won a fatal four way match
Speaker 2: for the opportunity to fight for the NXT Women's North
Speaker 2: American Championship. Because Shatzi happened to be the one that
Speaker 2: pinned fallon Henley and a six man six woman tag match,
Speaker 2: she gets a step up, Like I don't get it,
Speaker 2: but you know what, I guess I like Shatzi. I do.
Speaker 2: I Actually I'm glad that spoiler alert She's gonna win
Speaker 2: the match, but I'm hoping this just kind of this
Speaker 2: is just to kind of draw out the process of
Speaker 2: Stephanie either winning the North American Championship or eventually again,
Speaker 2: I honestly think that Stephanie and Julie are gonna either
Speaker 2: go against each other at Standard Deliver or possibly main
Speaker 2: events Stand and Deliver and I keep saying that, and
Speaker 2: I'm holding on to that anyway, So we got this match.
Speaker 2: He goes back and forth again, I kind of ruined it.
Speaker 2: Stephanie Shatzi ended up winning the match after Shala Henley
Speaker 2: came down, distracted the referee and ended up using the
Speaker 2: North American Women's title and kind of bashing it over
Speaker 2: Stephanie's back. And then Shots well, so she came out originally,
Speaker 2: and SHOTSI and Stephanie kind of started beating on Oh
Speaker 2: J C. Jane first, and then Falan Hawley came out.
Speaker 2: It was it was a crazy match anyway. At the
Speaker 2: end of the day, Shatsi won the match. What is
Speaker 2: going on in around this neighborhood? SHOTSI won the match.
Speaker 2: She said that she seemed like she didn't she had
Speaker 2: a problem with the way she won it because she
Speaker 2: didn't realize till after the fact. But again, at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, she's getting a title shot. So
Speaker 2: I think it's next week or two weeks. I'm not
Speaker 2: exactly sure. I think it's next week. And Stephanie is
Speaker 2: still Stephanie. She's awesome. That's just me. So later on
Speaker 2: we have soul Ruka telling Colonie Jordan that things are
Speaker 2: going to turn around, and Zaria says that Klannie should
Speaker 2: use her recent losses motivation more like motivation to the
Speaker 2: back of the line. According to Kora Jade, Cora has
Speaker 2: no doubt. Cora has no doubt that she's gonna be,
Speaker 2: She's gonna be, She's going to win a title before
Speaker 2: Klanie wins another Cora says that Klonie can have all
Speaker 2: the attitude in the world because she is still going
Speaker 2: to be the same little girl from Michigan State. And
Speaker 2: Klanie got ticked about that and started just beating the
Speaker 2: crap out of Coora Jade and eventually turned into a
Speaker 2: match later on. Stephanie Vicora then attacks JC Jane in
Speaker 2: the trainer's room during the commercial break, and then Oba
Speaker 2: Femi storms into Ava's office and wants a match against
Speaker 2: Eddie Thorpe for the NXT title. Ava is not gonna
Speaker 2: reward Eddie's bad behavior. Mister Stone says that Eddie is
Speaker 2: playing Oba like a fiddle, and Oba lifts Stone up
Speaker 2: against the wall. Ava then tells Oba that to put
Speaker 2: Stone down and grants Oba what she wants. So apparently
Speaker 2: you can manhandle a manager or whatever. Stone is in
Speaker 2: order to get what you want. That's that's fine. That's
Speaker 2: basic parenting skills, like, no, you don't do that, that's
Speaker 2: just me. Next match we have is Ethan Page versus
Speaker 2: John Dante Chen. This match was okay. I mean it
Speaker 2: was a quick match at the end, it was very quick. Actually,
Speaker 2: at the end, Ethan Page wins. He uh, he puts
Speaker 2: his right leg. So after he wins the match, he
Speaker 2: takes Chen puts his right leg inside the steel ring
Speaker 2: steps and viciously kicks the steps, which potentially, I guess
Speaker 2: broke his leg. I mean he's already broken Javon's jaw,
Speaker 2: he's broken Cedric's wrist, fingers, whatever, and maybe he broke
Speaker 2: Dante Chen's leg. I don't know for sure. Then Javon
Speaker 2: comes out wire John and starts teeing off on Page
Speaker 2: and then Page perceives the punch efforts in the draw
Speaker 2: and that stops that so so and Page Page starts yelling,
Speaker 2: you know it's jaw's wired. Shud, he just got bunch
Speaker 2: in the face. Heavens or. Ethan Page starts saying, he
Speaker 2: give me a smile, give me a smile. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's such a good heel. He's so good, all right,
Speaker 2: So Ethan Page wins the match. Then we have Sean
Speaker 2: Spears trying to recruit Adriana Rizzo away from the family,
Speaker 2: and is He Dame tells Spears that she doesn't need him,
Speaker 2: and Spears highly doubts that. And then and then uh
Speaker 2: Rizzo starts to get ticked off at is He Dame
Speaker 2: saying that she hadn't handled, which I don't doubt. And
Speaker 2: then meanwhile we go over to Chante Didonnas doesn't want
Speaker 2: to play games anymore then and then kisses Karmen Petrovitch
Speaker 2: so fine. Then we have a little vignette about Julia
Speaker 2: half of it, half of it was in Japanese, and
Speaker 2: basically Julie is awesome. She's the champion. She's awesome. That's
Speaker 2: what That's basically what it boils down to. It's true.
Speaker 2: Sarah Schreiber then has a backstage interview with d I Y.
Speaker 2: So d I Y shows up, and so the reason
Speaker 2: why d I Y is there is because everybody's raving
Speaker 2: about phraxium, right, which I have to tell you, the
Speaker 2: every the more I watch Phraxium, the more I'm on
Speaker 2: the train. Right, So everybody's been recently, people have been
Speaker 2: calling Phraxium the the best w w E tag team,
Speaker 2: the best NXT tag team ever, which you know, for
Speaker 2: those of you that know, d I Y was a
Speaker 2: tag team in NXT a while ago, so they had
Speaker 2: they take they're there. You know, they're a little offended
Speaker 2: by the fact that the people are calling Phraxium the
Speaker 2: best tag teams. So they come to get a closer
Speaker 2: view on because TV is not close enough, right, They're
Speaker 2: getting a closer view on to see what Phraxium is
Speaker 2: all about. So Sarah Striver's interviewing d I Y and
Speaker 2: Johnny Gargana says that one day the world will rejoice,
Speaker 2: the world where we will rejoice watching DIY battle Phrasium
Speaker 2: and Tamasa Champion promises that they are not there to
Speaker 2: cause problems, and to be honest, they didn't. All they
Speaker 2: did from what I remember off the top of my head,
Speaker 2: all they did was stand in the balcony just to watch.
Speaker 2: So interesting for those of you that don't know, Frasium
Speaker 2: was defending the titles against OTM later on, then we've
Speaker 2: got the best match of the night. So so I
Speaker 2: have I have this. This is the best match of
Speaker 2: the night by far, although Phraxium against OTM was good,
Speaker 2: but it's because Fraxie is really good. I don't want
Speaker 2: toarticularly care for OTM. It's just my own personal opinion.
Speaker 2: But this was the best match of the night. But
Speaker 2: here's the problem. So the match was not gonna go
Speaker 2: back the match. The match was meta for the women,
Speaker 2: so Jakara Jackson and Lash Legend versus the Unholy Union
Speaker 2: Albi Fire at Ile Dawn for the number one contenders
Speaker 2: match for the Women's Tag Team Champions. Now here's my
Speaker 2: issue with this match before I get into it. My
Speaker 2: issue with this match is it shouldn't have been on NXT.
Speaker 2: I don't understand. So there's there's almost there's up to
Speaker 2: six hours of main roster time to do them to
Speaker 2: do this match, and they for for one women's tag
Speaker 2: team who is assigned to Monday Night Raw and the
Speaker 2: other women's tag team who's not assigned to the main
Speaker 2: roster but has been in the main roster and has
Speaker 2: actually me who's actually fought for the Women's Tag Team
Speaker 2: Champions Championship in Saudi Arabia. So I don't understand why
Speaker 2: we're taking up NX the two hours that's it. Two
Speaker 2: hours of NXT time for a match that really should
Speaker 2: have or could have been on Raw or SmackDown in
Speaker 2: one of the six hours that you have. I hope
Speaker 2: this means just to kind of give him a shot.
Speaker 2: I hope this means that the winner of this match
Speaker 2: will face Bianca and Naomi and NXT. I would assume
Speaker 2: if that's what it means, but nothing's been said. Now
Speaker 2: there's only one women's tag team champions for all three shows,
Speaker 2: so we'll have to see. But anyway, this one against
Speaker 2: once again by far, this was the best match, and
Speaker 2: then these four women are great. I last last legend
Speaker 2: is will be will be a top tier champion in
Speaker 2: five years, within five within five years, I'll say she
Speaker 2: is strong, she's powerful. Full. Put her against Jade, put
Speaker 2: her against reaplea well Rea for certain, please, because she
Speaker 2: is so good and so powerful and she looks great
Speaker 2: and she wrestles great. Like just think think about all
Speaker 2: the all the stuff that Jade Cargill has gone through
Speaker 2: for the for the first, for the last, for the
Speaker 2: last you know year, and now they're tay they've taken
Speaker 2: her off TV and you could could be for an injury.
Speaker 2: It could be. It could be because she's not very good.
Speaker 2: Lash Legend is, and so is Jakara Jackson, but Lash
Speaker 2: Legends definitely the better of the two. Listen, this was
Speaker 2: a great match. It went back and forth, great great chemistry.
Speaker 2: The four of them have great chemistry together. And at
Speaker 2: the end we have Legend body slams Dawn splashed with
Speaker 2: two count. Dawn fights out the fireman's car position, Dawn's
Speaker 2: throwing haymakers. Legend x Storm with the forearm smashed, Fire
Speaker 2: attacks Legend behind the referees back. Dawn applies a sleeperhole.
Speaker 2: Fire attacks yourself in. Fire repeatedly stomps on legends chest,
Speaker 2: Fire then choking Legend with her with her boot, and
Speaker 2: Dawn island down, tigs yourself in. Eventually, Legend sends down
Speaker 2: to the spilling of the floor. Um Dawn jumps on
Speaker 2: Legends back. Legend puts Jackson on his shoulders. Fire sends
Speaker 2: Jackson face first in the top turbucle pad and Dawn
Speaker 2: pulls Jackson out of the ring and fire and eventually
Speaker 2: fire wipe wipes out Metaphor with a flying cannonball sent
Speaker 2: on to the outside. Like I said, it was back
Speaker 2: and forth it's a great it was a great match.
Speaker 2: Eventually it went and it went a long time to
Speaker 2: actually it was a it was a long match. Uh
Speaker 2: the Actually we got Dawn tagging in fire. Fire goes
Speaker 2: for the for the glory bomb, but Legend tags herself
Speaker 2: in nails Dawn with a pump kick, which, let me
Speaker 2: tell you, if you've seen Last Legends pump kick man Wow.
Speaker 2: Metaphor connects with their running cutter, sit out, facebuster combination
Speaker 2: to pick up the victory. Basically, it's uh, their move
Speaker 2: is it's a it's a it's a true tag team move.
Speaker 2: It's a great move anyway, So the winner was Metaphor.
Speaker 2: They are gonna supposed to be facing Bianca and Naomi
Speaker 2: at some point again I don't know where and I
Speaker 2: don't know when, but they're supposed to. So good job Metaphor.
Speaker 2: Like I said, best match of the evening as far
Speaker 2: as I'm concerned. Ren Sinclair then demands demands a rematch
Speaker 2: for the Heritage Cup for Charlie Dempsey because she feels
Speaker 2: a Lexus intentionally kicked Charlie Dempsey in the Jules We'll
Speaker 2: say Jewles last week, and Davis says that Charlie does
Speaker 2: deserve a rematch. The Don and Ridge Holland are growing
Speaker 2: in the parking lot. After right after that it's done,
Speaker 2: then we have Okay, so now I'm gonna go over
Speaker 2: to Tangent again, but for a purpose. Then we have
Speaker 2: the TNA current TNA Knockouts Champion, Masha Slamovich in the
Speaker 2: crowd scouting competition. Now, at the time, I was like,
Speaker 2: that's interesting. Why would it think? You know, obviously Jordan
Speaker 2: Grace has been there, but it's Jordan Grace. It's different.
Speaker 2: The Jordan Grace is like transcends TNA, like Joe Hendry does,
Speaker 2: like you know a lot of guys do. But I
Speaker 2: was thinking to myself, why would this Why would the
Speaker 2: TNA Knockouts champion be in the in the in the
Speaker 2: audience now, and not only that during during the next match,
Speaker 2: which was Klonnie Jordan versus kora Ja. During the match,
Speaker 2: not only was she in the in the in the audience,
Speaker 2: but also I noticed and this was fascinating, fascinating. Vic
Speaker 2: Joseph plugged the next t NA pay per view, What
Speaker 2: Wow Wow? Which is I believe it's the It's the
Speaker 2: pay per view where Joe Hendry's going for the TNA
Speaker 2: Championship against Nick Nemath. I think it's January nineteenth. I
Speaker 2: forgot what it's called, but it's huge NXT. So I'm
Speaker 2: wondering what's going on. I'm really wondering what's going on
Speaker 2: with this? This is this was huge even even though
Speaker 2: they've had partnerships in the past with TNA, Like they're
Speaker 2: plugging a TNA show. Why are they plugging the show? Well,
Speaker 2: the TNA pay per views around Friday nights. I don't
Speaker 2: know that's a good question, but I guess these days
Speaker 2: you can watch everything whenever you want because you know streaming. Then,
Speaker 2: come to find out today this is today's Thursday, January nineteenth, right,
Speaker 2: no sixteenth, sorry, January sixteenth. Come to find out today
Speaker 2: that the WWE and TNA have signed an agreement continuing
Speaker 2: to have much cross promotion between the TNA, between TNA
Speaker 2: and between NXT. So that's super exciting. I have to
Speaker 2: tell you every time someone from TNA came over. Now,
Speaker 2: I didn't watch TNA. I don't I don't have the
Speaker 2: channel that TNAS on, which stinks, and I'm sorry, I
Speaker 2: can't see myself spending spending ten dollars a month for
Speaker 2: TNA for their app But but where was I going
Speaker 2: with this? Oh? Yeah, but every time a TNA wrestler
Speaker 2: came over at NXT it was exciting every time. It
Speaker 2: didn't matter who it was. I mean, yes, Joe Hendry,
Speaker 2: Jordan Grace to me, huge, Right, I'll be interested to
Speaker 2: see if Nick Menmuth comes over. So Nick Nenmoth for years,
Speaker 2: for years, a decade and a half was Dolf Ziegler.
Speaker 2: And the WWE now is the TNA champion. They're doing
Speaker 2: cross promotion. That's gonna be interesting. What are they gonna
Speaker 2: call him? Probably Dolf Ziegler, probably actually Nick Memmoth. Anyway,
Speaker 2: So more information, more news. See, this isn't just about
Speaker 2: the review. This is about all the things that you
Speaker 2: need to know. We got Colonie Jordan versus Courage aid.
Speaker 2: This match was okay. It was just okay. It wasn't
Speaker 2: It wasn't anything like to call your MoMA and say, oh,
Speaker 2: watch this match, this is a great match. It was.
Speaker 2: It was really just okay. In the end, uh, Colonie
Speaker 2: Jordans was Mollie Jade Jade Coryjate in the corner and
Speaker 2: she rakes her eyes and connects with the double underhook
Speaker 2: DEDT to pick up the victory. So your winner is
Speaker 2: courage Ade via pinfall. Then you have Eddie Thorpe bragging
Speaker 2: about Obafemi constantly falling for his baits. He he's happy
Speaker 2: that Ava gave him the uh An NXT title match
Speaker 2: for next week, and it's almost makes up for her
Speaker 2: for her calling him a liar. This was on they
Speaker 2: showed an Instagram video uh and you could see it
Speaker 2: was in his number one. It was it was, it
Speaker 2: wasn't It wasn't horizontal. It was vertical. You know when
Speaker 2: you put something on TV, like vertically on from your phone,
Speaker 2: looks weird. Then they had like Instagram Instagram, like you know,
Speaker 2: the little camera thing for Instagram. They had that on
Speaker 2: the side. So this was clearly an Instagram post. So
Speaker 2: I guess he wasn't there that night either. I don't know. No,
Speaker 2: he was. He he attacked Obama earlier. I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's just kind of weird anyway. Then you've got Josh
Speaker 2: Briggs and Yoshiki in Amora in right telling Fraxi and
Speaker 2: they got next week following tonight's main event, and then
Speaker 2: OTM comes and says, you should be talking to us
Speaker 2: because we're gonna win the titles. And then you have
Speaker 2: the fifth match, which is Axiom and Nathan Frasier versus
Speaker 2: OTM for the NXT Tag Team Championships. This was definitely
Speaker 2: the second best match of the night, and again it's
Speaker 2: because of Phraxium. The Phraxium is like, OHTM, they're okay,
Speaker 2: but they're kind of like they're big guys and they
Speaker 2: move like big guys. Axiom is great. It was a
Speaker 2: great match because of Phraxium. Again to me, second best,
Speaker 2: second best match of the night. And Phraxium does all
Speaker 2: of their moves. They did all the moves that they
Speaker 2: normally do. And at the end, which we're gonna get
Speaker 2: to the end of the second so it was a
Speaker 2: pretty fairly long match. Who so oops. So in the end,
Speaker 2: Axiom connects with the Avalanche Spanish Fly and and then
Speaker 2: and then that was a Fraser and Axium connects with
Speaker 2: the Golden Ratio and to pick up the victory and
Speaker 2: retain the NXT Tag Team Championships. I don't see I
Speaker 2: honestly don't see Phraxium losing those titles any time soon.
Speaker 2: I can't think of who would beat them, maybe Hank
Speaker 2: in Tank and I always I only say Hank in
Speaker 2: Tank only because there are a few other tag teams
Speaker 2: that I know their names, and they're fun. They're the
Speaker 2: opposite of Phraxium, to be honest. They're big guys to
Speaker 2: just beat. They're like, they're like if I mean, I
Speaker 2: grew up during the eighties and nineties wrestling, so they're
Speaker 2: so to compare them, I compare them to like the
Speaker 2: Nasty Boys, if you know what I'm talking about. So
Speaker 2: next week on XT, Tony Dangelo will put the X
Speaker 2: the NXT North American Championship up against Ridge Holland. Then
Speaker 2: Roxanne Perez comes out, and I'm not gonna go through
Speaker 2: everything that she says, but she starts off sounding kind
Speaker 2: of humble and you know, and then she's then then
Speaker 2: it ends up turning because Roxy and Perez is what
Speaker 2: she does. She ends up turning and starts saying that
Speaker 2: basically the women's division is not gonna be as good
Speaker 2: because she's not the champion anymore, which you know, of course,
Speaker 2: of course she's gonna say that, and then all of
Speaker 2: a sudden she starts talking about, you know, hey, back
Speaker 2: when they had the four horse women. They needed four
Speaker 2: people to run the division and now they only need
Speaker 2: one me. And then Bailey's music hits and Bailey comes out. Now,
Speaker 2: Bailey's had a busy week, so Bailey, She's been everywhere
Speaker 2: this last week. Bailey on Friday Night won the fatal
Speaker 2: four way match to become the number one SEK titler
Speaker 2: for triple Tiffany Stratton's title. She then was because I
Speaker 2: was at San Jose. She was in San Jose on
Speaker 2: Monday and did a little little a little bit there
Speaker 2: with Riya Ripley and Naya Jacks. And then now she's
Speaker 2: on n XT talking to Roxanne, and Bailey says, because
Speaker 2: you know, I'm gonna say what Bailey said, I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna say with Roxanne. Roxanne went on incessantly. I'm not
Speaker 2: even gonna go into it. Bailey says, ding Don, Roxanne,
Speaker 2: Happy Tuesday, rox thank you, Thank you, guys. I'm excited
Speaker 2: to be back. And I had to come out here
Speaker 2: because knowing you, I knew you were gonna be upset
Speaker 2: about your title loss with Julia at New Year's Evil.
Speaker 2: But look to me, I see that you're at a
Speaker 2: crossroad in your career right now. So you can either
Speaker 2: act like you are right now, or you could adapt
Speaker 2: to the situation and grow from it. And Roxanne says,
Speaker 2: I did not ask for your advice, and then Bailey says,
Speaker 2: you didn't ask for my advice. I'm pretty sure you've
Speaker 2: been asking for advice since the day the day you
Speaker 2: walked into w WE. You've been asking you for advice
Speaker 2: since the first day we met, when you were a
Speaker 2: little bit shorter than you are now right now, which
Speaker 2: is crazy, Roxanne's very tiny, and when you were fourteen
Speaker 2: in Austin, Texas. Look, I love NXT. Everyone knows how
Speaker 2: much this means to me. And you know how much
Speaker 2: I've followed your career and I believed in you since
Speaker 2: day one. But Sister, the division is going to be fine,
Speaker 2: all right with Klanie, Jada, even Cora, They're all going
Speaker 2: to be fine without you. And it doesn't mean that
Speaker 2: that what you did wasn't important. It just means that
Speaker 2: we're bigger than that. You know, your title run was amazing.
Speaker 2: It was one of the best that we ever had.
Speaker 2: And Roxanne says, you're just like Natalia, and you're just
Speaker 2: like the like Sea. I'm punk and I hate that
Speaker 2: You're out here trying to tell me the same things
Speaker 2: that they did, because you know, you know what that
Speaker 2: shows me? It shows me that you are just like
Speaker 2: everyone I used to look up to. Why are you
Speaker 2: even here, Bailey? Do you even do you think the
Speaker 2: NXT owes you something? Yeah? You set records, but guess
Speaker 2: what I broke them. Let's face it, Bailey, you were
Speaker 2: my role model, but I think I can be yours now.
Speaker 2: Bailey says, you know what rocks The difference between you
Speaker 2: and me is that you're gonna remain the same way. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm going to WrestleMania after I win the title from
Speaker 2: Tiffany Stratton this Friday, and Roxanne slaps Bailey in the
Speaker 2: face and Roxanne and Bailey get into a brawl as
Speaker 2: the show goes off the air. Who so that that
Speaker 2: was a great segment? Always loved Baily. Let me tell
Speaker 2: you I was cheering for Bailey last year at the
Speaker 2: World Rumble. They really screwed I'm gonna talk about Bailey
Speaker 2: for a second. Even though she's a main roster, they
Speaker 2: really screwed her over last year. They give her the
Speaker 2: highest of highs winning the World Rumble, going on to
Speaker 2: WrestleMania and beating EO Sky had a fantastic match, fantastic match,
Speaker 2: and then they did her dirty. They just they didn't
Speaker 2: do anything with her after that. It's like highest of
Speaker 2: highs and then I'm not gonna say low. Well she
Speaker 2: was a low She was champion for un till SummerSlam,
Speaker 2: but just was just like, okay, no, Bailey's champion. That's it.
Speaker 2: It was weird. The whole thing was weird. Anyway. That
Speaker 2: was the show again, wasn't nearly as good as New
Speaker 2: Year's Evil. It was. It was an okay show, you
Speaker 2: know it. It's a show that you watch and you
Speaker 2: watch it next team you watch it. It's good, but
Speaker 2: hopefully next week will be better. There is a title match,
Speaker 2: at least one title match next week, and then they're
Speaker 2: gonna be in Atlanta. I don't remember they said Atlanta
Speaker 2: was next week of the week after, but every time
Speaker 2: they seem to not be in the Performance Center. It's
Speaker 2: it's the stories tend to move the needle more so
Speaker 2: it'd be interesting to see how that works out. Anyway,
Speaker 2: Thank you very much for listening. Lots of stuff going
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