4 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE NXT New Year's Evil (Review)
3. Setting Up Other Feuds
Even a decent battle royal, if booked properly, can set the stage for several matches or mini-feuds that can carry your programing for several weeks. It’s really not that hard to set up someone eliminating a wrestler to trigger a match the following week to settle the score.
Aside from the co-winner debacle, the big development from the NXT Women’s Championship #1 contender battle royal was Cora Jade being tossed just seconds into the match by Lyra Valkyria. Jade didn’t take this well and returned multiple times to try unsuccessfully to throw Lyra out. When Valkyria finally was eliminated, she immediately attacked a laughing Cora and they brawled out of the arena.
There also was a possible match coming with Wendy Choo and Elektra Lopez. Choo was knocked off the apron and landed on her pillow, saving her from elimination. But Lopez, already tossed, ran over and snatched the pillow, toppling Wendy and eliminating her. That’s an easy follow-up match next week.
Throw in a continuation of the Zoe Stark/Nikita Lyons feud and you’ve got three matches/feuds that you can book off this battle royal that don’t involve the winner(s). That’s a pretty decent outcome.