4 Ups And 3 Downs From NXT Worlds Collide

1. Not Ready For Primetime

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Yes, we understand that NXT is a truer developmental brand these days, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that everyone who has learned to take a flat-back bump should be on TV.

Case in point, Briggs & Jensen. The stereotypical cowboys have been an odd fit in NXT 2.0 during the past year. They were heavily featured as a new act when the show rebranded, but they never really caught on in the way other new acts did. Probably the biggest “storyline” they had was that Brooks Jensen has never gotten laid.

The duo went into the four-way elimination tag title unification match (that’s a mouthful) as the defending NXT UK Tag Team Champions, and they were the first team eliminated. Worse, they didn’t look like anything special. They can passably brawl, but that’s really about it. Their departure from the match took nothing away from it, and probably added more because it was less crowded.

That’s a bad vibe to give off, and when that’s the case, it’s probably for the best that they focus on the Largo loop rather than being a TV act. There’s potential there, but watching the “growth” on TV isn’t appealing.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.