8. Enter Samoa Joe
The following week, Cesaro, Axel and Sandow kick off NXT by entering through the crowd, and not through the NXT entranceway. Cesaro gets the microphone and says that he, Sandow and Axel are all in NXT because they're afraid of losing their jobs and that they're going to do all they can to keep down the next generation. Axel and Sandow then also say that they have NXT deals now too, and that there's nothing that anybody can do to get any of these three men to leave. Commissioner Regal walks out with Triple H and they're angry. They say that they're surprised by this, and that this is the first time this plot has been revealed to them. Triple H takes the microphone and says that he's not going to have anarchy like this in HIS company, but that he's confident that if he lets NXT defend itself, that they can win. He books a main event of Cesaro, Axel and Sandow versus Finn Balor, Samoa Joe and Tyler Breeze, where if the former main roster trio loses, they're gone from WWE forever. At some point in the main event, Tyler Breeze hits the Beauty Shot on Cesaro and goes for the pinfall. Suddenly Samoa Joe enters the ring from the apron and breaks up the pinfall by putting Breeze in the Kokina Clutch. At this moment, Sandow and Axel enter the ring and assault Balor and Breeze, with Cesaro getting back up to his feet and a beatdown occurring. Joe then gets up to his feet and raises his hands alongside Cesaro, Axel and Sandow.
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Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
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