5 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE NXT: Roadblock (Results & Review - 5 Mar)
Trick whoops Melo; Roxanne snaps; Regal, Spears and Ruca return; The Family celebrates.
Welcome to NXT Roadblock, where it most decidedly doesn’t say “wrestling” on the marquee.
Tuesday’s developmental television special delivered some average to solid wrestling and a plethora of backstage segments that varied from cringe to entertaining. In short, a typical NXT program.
Roadblock set the table for several matches for Stand and Deliver next month, making the NXT Championship match official while dropping strong hints for a few more contests at the WrestleMania weekend show.
The show also welcomed back a superstar who has been out of action for nearly a year in Sol Ruca, and offered the first match for a returning wrestler in his first WWE/NXT match in more than five years, Shawn Spears.
But far and away, the biggest developments came in the closing match, with Tony D’Angelo earning his first NXT Championship match and a returning Trick Williams battering Carmelo Hayes to ignite their feud just in time to culminate at Stand and Deliver.
Being a two-hour program where things move at a sometimes breakneck pace, even when NXT is trash in several spots, it flies by and doesn’t take itself too seriously. That’s why it’s easier to recommend an average or subpar show over a solid three-hour Raw.
Let’s get to it…