1 Up & 4 Downs From WWE NXT (January 4, 2016)
2. A Silly Triple Threat Match
The triple threat outing between Ember Moon, Liv Morgan and Billie Kay started innocently and logically enough, what with Kay in the face role taking the customary, heat-seeking breather during the opening stretch. But it soon descended into farce.
Kay, when she eventually did enter the fray, didn’t spot an opening and lay waste to one of her weakened opponents; she instead ensnared Morgan in her leg trap rolling pin, incongruously, with zero in the way of grace. She saw a sitting duck and danced with it. Not to be outdone, after dropping Kay and Moon with a double bulldog, Morgan went to cover the former. She had moved, suspiciously, into position for a dumb sequence in which Morgan was bounced between her opponents and back again to foil her pin attempts, somehow contriving to break comedy’s golden rule of repetition in the process.
The quality - and credibility - picked up when Morgan was dispatched to the outside. But the duration, again, compromised any semblance of logic. She didn’t incur anywhere near enough punishment to justify it.
Ember Moon won the bout, with her still-awesome diving corkscrew stunner, but we are far from the Kansas of the Four Horsewomen Era.