4 Ups & 7 Downs From NXT Spring Breakin'
Mission accomplished: Toxic Attraction in bikinis. Also, barn-burner of a triple threat.
Spring break might have been nearly two months ago for the vast majority of American colleges, but that never stopped WWE from trying to misappropriate something for their own purposes, as Spring Breakin’ became the latest NXT 2.0 TV special on Tuesday.
The two-hour show was bookended by two title matches and featured two matches that saw main roster superstars coming down to compete against NXT performers, plus the debut of another new superstar. It wasn’t up to the level of a TakeOver, but it was clear that they were trying to make this a special show.
And for the first 40 minutes or so, it actually felt like they might pull it off, albeit with some NXT 2.0 silliness. The opener, a North American Championship triple threat, was all action, and Nathan Frazer’s debut was pretty well done.
But after that, things fell off a cliff. The matches weren’t actively bad – though the main event certainly wasn’t good. But the angles, particularly the “comedy” with Wendy Choo and Toxic Attraction, were really bad. But hey, we got the women in bikinis, which is what the writers really wanted for all the horny teens – er, perverted AARP card-holders – who watch the show.
Let’s get to it…