10 Problems Nobody Wants To Admit About NXT
3. Unforgiveable Main Roster Tropes
KUSHIDA stole one from Cameron Grimes after Cameron Grimes forced his way into the match, impromptu-style.
The following week, KUSHIDA's distraction allowed Raul Mendoza to steal one over Grimes with a roll-up pin, and if all of this took place on RAW, you would read countless takes of how WWE has ruined KUSHIDA with awful main roster booking. F*cking Vince, making Japanese wrestlers steal hats, etc. But it's NXT, and their actual match - built via matches, which is backwards - will absolutely bang, and so the immense talent of NXT's roster will once more come to the rescue.
On the October 30 episode, Tyler Bate succumbed to the distraction of Killian Dain and lost his match with - yes - Cameron Grimes, who obviously didn't learn a bloody thing. Ahead of the Triple Threat North American Title match a week prior, Roderick Strong interfered in the Keith Lee Vs, Dominick Dijakovic "Rubber" match - that didn't end conclusively (!) - by attacking both would-be contenders. Regal, being a babyface General Manager, naturally foiled this scheme. The November 6 main event didn't even go to a non-finish. It just ended without the referee calling it following yet more distractions.
The reality is that NXT is graded, with incredible generosity, on a curve relative to WWE's main roster - and is increasingly reliant on its currency as a brand to wave away parallels to it.