4 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE NXT New Year's Evil (Review)
5. Tag Team CHAOS
It’s not that there weren’t some creative ideas tossed around with Pretty Deadly’s desperate attempt to earn an NXT Tag Team Championship match by running the gauntlet at New Year’s Evil.
But cramming multiple ideas into one segment didn’t work. It was “stuff happening” for the sake of it with no flow.
Pretty Deadly finding jobber tag teams to obliterate as part of “running the gauntlet” was funny and very on-brand, and using The Rockers’ entrance music was a nice touch. New Day immediately calling them out made sense, with the veterans anticipating the shenanigans and having two actual NXT tag teams on standby.
But then we had Gallus returning from suspension unannounced laying out Briggs & Jensen at the perfect time and immediately taking their place – Alicia Taylor announced Gallus as opponents literally seconds after it was discovered they had jumped the country boys – and ultimately winning, thus apparently making them “next” for a tag title shot.
That’s a hell of a lot happening in just a few minutes, all to set Gallus up for a tag title shot. Okay then.