4 Ups & 4 Downs From Last Night's WWE NXT (Nov 18)

2. Joe And His Shirt

The hot feud of the moment is Samoa Joe challenging Finn Balor for his NXT title, after turning heel and attacking him a few weeks back. The feud has betrayal, ambition and in-ring credentials for days, which makes it doubly painful that the only glimpse of either man this week was Joe giving an interview in a mundane outdoors location, wearing a lime green polo shirt. After all, nothing says submission machine like a buttoned-up, pastel-coloured reebok number. This was a weird choice. I get that not every week can prominently feature every storyline (in fact, not over-exposing stars is part of NXT's charm) but this interview was just so strange in its mundanity, that it let quite a bit of air out of the feud's tires. The company could have spent their editing budget here instead, perhaps with a hard-hitting retrospective of Joe's career, and all of his most vicious moves. But no. Instead, he rocked the lime tee. Thrilling stuff.