{"id":11270,"date":"2019-02-15T11:19:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T16:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/?p=11270"},"modified":"2019-02-15T11:50:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T16:50:46","slug":"nxt-review-13-02-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestlingjournal.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/15\/nxt-review-13-02-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"NXT Review 13\/02\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NXT\n2\/13\/19<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy Friday Eve, my wrestling fam! It\u2019s\ntime to go over the yellow brand. There\u2019s no Takeover event accompanying this\nweek\u2019s Elimination Chamber pay-per-view so things were not so high-octane.\nThere was also the notable absence of Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa on this\nweek\u2019s power hour. Let\u2019s jump in!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dominik\nDijakovic vs Shane Thorne<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The much larger Dijakovic physically\ndominated the match early on, but Thorne managed to get some offense in,\nfocusing on his arm. However, even with selling the arm injury, he was still\nstrong enough to throw Thorne around. Dijakovic did a fantastic corkscrew\nplancha and won the match with his Feast Your Eyes maneuver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Winner: Dominik Dijakovic<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Thoughts: Every time someone says \u201cDijakovic\u201d, I\nwonder how they\u2019re going to shorten this dude\u2019s name if and when he gets called\nup to the main roster. He still looks quite imposing so I hope something good\nis in the works for him.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Grade: C<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Backstage: Undisputed Era said that they\nwill be dripping in gold. Kyle O\u2019Reilly and Bobby Fish are getting back\ntogether and Roderick Strong will go back to singles competition. Io Shirai has\nher eye on the NXT Women\u2019s Champion, but Bianca Belair says the title is hers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Thoughts: Where does Undisputed Era go from here? At\nsome point they\u2019re going to have to break up, hopefully not in the near future.\nMaybe there will be a power struggle or something. I am excited for O\u2019Reilly\nand Fish to team again though. And I\u2019m interested to see how a feud between\nShirai and Shayna Baszler would play out.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Grade: B<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Humberto\nCarillo and Stacey Ervin Jr vs The Street Profits<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, first Kassius Ohno came out and said\nhow much he hated the NXT universe and he was going somewhere else. Keith Lee\ngave him the rolling elbow and said to keep the show rolling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carillo and Ervin\u2019s actual opponents came\nout and the match started. There were a lot of hot tags and both Carillo and\nErvin are able to pull off some great flippy stuff in the ring. The Street\nProfits won the match with a super blockbuster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Afterwards, the Street Profits called out\nWar Raiders. The European Union and Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch came out\ninstead. Then the War Raiders came out, got blindsided by the Undisputed Era,\nand then laid waste to all the other teams in the ring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Winner: Street Profits<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Thoughts: Bye, Kassius! Carillo will probably end up\non 205 live but his gymnastics prowess will fit right in with the cruiserweight\ndivision. I think we\u2019re going to continue the feud between Undisputed Era and\nWar Raiders, which makes me also think that the feud between the Forgotten Sons\nand Street Profits also isn\u2019t finished.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Grade: B<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Taynara\nConti vs Aliyah<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This match was somewhat okay. Conti got in\na few judo throws and pretty good bicycle kick. Aliyah used her tag team\npartner Vanessa Borne to help her win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Afterwards, Shayna Baszler and her crew\ncame down and beat up on all the match participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Winner: Aliyah<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Thoughts: Aliyah has been on NXT for so long; I really\nhope she finds something that sticks soon. Conti has had some good moments\nsince arriving in the inaugural Mae Young Classic, but she still needs a lot\nseasoning before she\u2019s ready to leave NXT. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Grade: C<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ricochet vs Adam Cole<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former NXT North American Champions\nwere back again once again with a rematch. As always with Ricochet matches, he\nwas doing things he really didn\u2019t need to do like top rope &nbsp;suicide dives. His ankle got caught in the\nturnbuckle so of course, Cole took advantage of it. They had a lot of good back\nand forth and we saw a pretty good, albeit wince inducing, reverse huricanrana.\nRicochet eventually won the match with a Northern Lights suplex, vertical\nsuplex, and Vertigo sequence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Undisputed Era attacked. Aleister Black\ntried to help Ricochet but got taken out by Roderick Strong. The show ended\nwith the Undisputed Era doing their pose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Winner: Ricochet<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Thoughts: Adam Cole has really been eating the losses\nlately. I hope the top brass haven\u2019t lost faith in him. I think having\nUndisputed Era involved a lot on this episode was a way to re-establish them\nthough. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Grade: B+<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Final Thoughts: Again, there\u2019s no Takeover\neven to drive toward this week so it was just a regular weekly show. I did like\nthat Gargano and Ciampa weren\u2019t physically on the show because it forces the\nother talents to step up. It seems like we\u2019ll be seeing the Undisputed Era even\nmore going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Overall\nGrade: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Wynter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NXT 2\/13\/19 Happy Friday Eve, my wrestling fam! It\u2019s time to go over the yellow brand. 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