More Drama (NXT ep102 review)

NXT would kick off with Titus O' Neil complaining about Alex Riley and asked him to come to the ring, however it would be a former nemisis, Mr No Days Off, Darren Young. Darren said that he did not respect Titus or like him, but he did respect him, for turning his back on the fans. The two would then shake hand. Percy Watson would come down to the ramp and stated that he would never under-estimate Titus again. They would both banter about fans, Titus insulting, Percy defending them. Titus asked for Percy to come into the ring, instead Alex Riley would come down to the ramp with Percy. Alex Riley would compare Titus to the Miz when he took a drastic career fall. The two teams then exchanged blows, until Riley and Percy threw Titus and Young out the ring. Matt Striker came down and announced a tag team match, between Percy & Riley vs Young & O' Neil.

The tag team match between the two began with Young and Watson. Darren would control  Percy with submission until Watson countered with a hip toss followed by a outside dive. Darren Young would hit a side suplex on the apron. This gave the team complete control with a tag to Titus. After a Hot Tag to A-Ry, Riley picked up some major offense. Titus would breaj the cover, this lead to Titus being thrown out by Percy, Titus would throw Percy into the against the apron, he then made a blind tag to Young, Titis would hit his sit down spinebuster for the win.

The tag match was good, not the best quality compared to PeR and The Usos. I believe WWE are trying to make Titus a dominant competitor on NXT. I was a little annoyed that he and Darren who had been fueding for weeks made it up just like that. Bad writing there.

Up next would be a match between two great cruiser-weights, Trent Barreta vs Tyson Kidd. The two would showcase technical and flexibility. Trent would take control with a hip toss. Kidd would reverse with an arm drag sending Barreta outside and followed up with a dive. Back in the ring Barreta took control with an enziguri and built up some offense until Tyson Kidd would counter with a spinning back kick.Trent would build up some offense again with a running dropkick. Kidd would reverse the tornado DDT, and would hit another kick to the head, Barreta quickly climbed the rope hitting a tope rope Hurracarana on Kidd, however Kidd rolled through getting the 3 count.

My opinion of this match was great cruiser-weight action, I miss it so on the big brands. Both Trent and Tyson are amazing in the ring. I wish WWE would bring back the cruiser-weight title, they have quite a few cruiser-weights, but I believe they need more athletes in order to restore the title. This match was the best match of the night.

Heath Skater would come down and repeat the footage of  his win last week over and over again. Bateman would interrupt this and insult Slater, Slater would return with some trash talk, and announced that he would be causing damage. Bateman would show some losses that Slater had had on Smackdown, with loser annotations. Bateman and Slater would fight, Bateman would knock Slater outside with a dropkick. Maxine would come down to the ring for her match against Alicia Fox.

The match was mainly a cat fight between the two, very short Johnny Curtis would distract Maxine so Alicia could hit a roll-up for the win.

Post match Maxine would be searching for Johnny Curtis, however ran into Kaitlyn. Maxine would say to Kaitlyn, then reacting jealously to Kaitlyn, "you like Derrick" Kaitlyn said nothing and walked off.

This match was just a promo for the rivalry, yawn.


Overall I would rate NXT 4/10
1) Kaitlyn
2) Barreta match
3) A-Ry decent in ring wrestling
4) Annotations