10 Ups & 2 Downs From Last Night's WWE NXT (Nov 20)
5. Insane In The Brain
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...it was absolutely f*cking bananas.
Easy to despise if it was all a bit much for the discerning disposition, this, in your writer's opinion was the one week and one episode they could get away with throwing every bit of blue, red and black-and-gold sh*t at the wall just to see what stuck.
On evidence of crowd reactions for the bulk of the first hour and final 15 minutes or so (more on that later), steering into the b*llocks on top of b*llocks was exactly the right way to go.
It'll all miraculously be over next week, but it was OVER this week. And if it really was all too much to take, NXT had the best match of the wrestling week lined up just minutes later.
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