3 Ups And 5 Downs From Last Night's WWE NXT (Dec 9)

4. Freddy Krueger Can't Save Blake And Murphy

So Blake, Murphy and Alexa Bliss have taken to dressing themselves up like Freddy Krueger. That is... odd. Last night, in their match against The Hype Bros (the Mario Bros but with more fist-bumps and fewer mental aspirations) Blake and Murphy (the tag-team equivalent of a slightly damp patch of grass) showed up rocking the dark red and green woollen look. The announcers commented that it was also an attempt at festive attire. Erm... sure. I've got nothing against Old Fred - Wes Craven's New Nightmare is one of the best horror films ever made and that's an actual true fact - and Alexa Bliss's hand-claw thing is on theme, by this is all just so much window dressing and not confronting the deeply-felt problem with Blake & Murphy. Their characterisation has been so vague and weak that no one really knows who they are. Still. They used cunning to pick up the belts in the first place, then they turned heel and spent a weird amount of time trying to seduce Carmella, then they became doofus sidekicks to Alexa Bliss and now they're ... I don't know. Both men are fine workers, but they're an odd characterless void in a world populated by victorian strongmen, psychotic submission monsters and New Jersey wideboys, and no amount of movie referencing can fix that.