4 Ups And 4 Downs From NXT In Your House 2022

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4. A Brisk Show

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For the rightful criticisms of NXT 2.0, if the brand is going to get back into doing periodic PLEs, then this is probably the way to go: a six-match card with five title matches and a 2-hour (plus a few minutes) runtime.

Nothing on the show really overstayed its welcome, save the main event (which could have shaved five minutes easily) and the women’s tag match, which really was more a function of the quality than the length.

Stuff happened – two titles changed hands, Legado Del Fanstasma lost and will be forced to join Tony D’Angelo’s crew – so there will be fallout to witness on Tuesday’s program.

Sure, this is a far cry from AEW Double or Nothing, but we’ve long since given up on wistfully wishing for an NXT TakeOver-quality show. This is a developmental brand with mostly young, inexperienced wrestlers learning their craft.

And if we’re going to watch that kind of show, two hours with no 20-minute pseudo-epics is probably the way to go.

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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.