8 Ups & 9 Downs For WWE NXT In 2020
2. One Final Beat
A comically overthought and patronisingly undramatic mess, One Final Beat was a troubling exhibition of the brand's increasing penchant for booking for minuscule audiences rather than the one that was merely shrinking.
Triple H, Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa presumably loved it. It's easy to imagine them high fiving as they remember yet another detail from the lengthy feud that can be easily inserted into a match that was already being held together with the used chewing gum on the shoes of other past moments.
It's likely the match and stipulation would have gone over magnificently in front of a Tampa Bay ticket-buying public, but that suddenly wasn't the setup. They can be blamed for either failing to pivot, or pivoting to this. It did give us the gift of the Garganos heel turn, but it'd be easy to give that back under threat of sitting through this stinker again.