5 Ups And 2 Downs From WWE NXT (Sep 8)

Something that's bothered me for the last two weeks is that, 1, 'Super Tuesday' was also something they used to have at my old High School to denote that there were not one, not two, but three choices of soup on the cafeteria menu. Memorable mostly for the palpable resentment the dinner ladies held over our enthusiasm for this not matching the levels of pep in the pun. Also, 2, it should be Super Twosday.

Anyway, pro-wrestling.

Super Tuesday remains a strange footnote in NXT's first year on television. On the one hand, they want it to be received as a quasi-TakeOver spread across two weeks but, on the other, rougher, more calloused hand, virtually none of the matches have any build or heat behind them. Only Martinez vs Ripley feels like it's been in the pipeline for anything other than a few tweets.

Still though, as with every slight misstep the brand has made in its first 12 months, there's some degree of faith that the execution will resoundingly drown out the expectation. Yeah, nobody wanted last week's NXT Championship match to end in a draw after an hour, but nobody's complaining about getting Cole vs Balor one-on-one as a result.

So with a new champion to crown and a steel cage to look forward to, let's see what delights were in store for us lucky few.