10 Ups & 2 Downs From Last Night's WWE NXT (Nov 20)
1. Better Best Forgotten
Continuing to be the most tragic act in wrestling by living down to a name describing their failure, The Forgotten Sons still aren't that over or threatening. That fundamental issue didn't half damage an overlong, drab brawl with The Viking Raiders.
The former NXT Tag Team Champions had returned to Full Sail with new belts and an updated name, but this didn't echo some of the classics they assembled during their time on the show. The work was worthy, but none of it particularly fed into Sunday's Survivor Series, and on a night with super hot fire everywhere on screen, this only threatened to extinguish the flames.
Of all the moments in the show that burst back into life as result of the Brand Warfare, this was a match that required some and got none. Almost as if Cutler, Ryker and Blake had been forgotten, again.
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