Tuesday, March 23, 2010

WWE NXT Review: Rookie tag matches; Daniel Bryan goes 0-5; seriously, you guys...WrestleMania

NXT in Review

If you're catching this on Hulu sometime over the next few days, you can watch all the wrestling in about 15 minutes. No vignettes that we haven't seen before and no shocking news.

The matches weren't bad, but this show was heavily used to pump WrestleMania.

Next week, the pros vote.

Heath Slater & Justin Gabriel d. Skip Sheffield & Wade Barrett by pinfall when Slater pinned Sheffield.

Darren Young & David Otunga d. Daniel Bryan and Michael Tarver when Otunga pinned Bryan.

NXT: Shot By Shot

Regal came out with his rookie's team, but Christian watched from the ramp. I wonder where the rest of the pros where.

Sheffield's retro stalling vertical suplex into the facebuster was a unique twist on an old move.

On looks alone, I think Wade Barrett has the look closest to a typical WWE wrestler.

Cool finish of Barrett hitting a boot to Sheffield on accident. This was a fun opener.

With the rest of the rookies in tag team action later, that probably means lots of videos and WrestleMania promos tonight. I didn't read spoilers yet, since this was taped last night.

Cool Undertaker/HBK package. Still not as cool as that one a few weeks ago right after Elimination Chamber, though.

This Bret Hart vs. Vince McMahon video was a nice recap of their story. I wonder why they don't put these on their YouTube account.

You think the live audience had to sit through all these videos? Man that would be boring. I hope not...that'd be five hours.

Carlito and Punk are the pros out for the main event tag team match. They should really follow up with the Miz. I guess David Otunga was with the Miz on the red carpet in Hollywood...weird.

Josh giggles like an 8-year-old that CM Punk is talking with the Straight-Edge Society instead of watching the match.

Daniel Bryan pinned again? Wow.