1. Four-Man Commentary Is The Worst
What did two-man commentary do to offend people? Why does everything have to feature a third guy, and why does that third guy always have to be Byron Saxton? Does he just show up and no one has the heart to tell him to go home?That's a joke, Saxton's fine, but NXT's adherence to the RAW/Smackdown three-man-booth formula is deeply frustrating. It's messy and, for a show that seems to have a keener aptitude for wrestling fundamentals, it feels entirely unnecessary. Which makes it all the worse when they are joined by Kevin Owens. This is a point that has been made many, many times in these NXT articles, but it bears repeating: four voices is too much for an audience to cope with. Now, Kevin Owens is a fantastic talker (more on that later), but he destroyed the commentary for this match. Perhaps that was his MO, what he was explicitly instructed to do, but he seemed to genuinely annoy Byron Saxton and Rich Brennan with his constant hectoring of the team. Every 20 seconds he would ironically interrupt them calling the match by asking them loudly to 'call the match', and then mock them for their observations. Owens is an amazing heel, he doesn't need to butcher another match's commentary in order to sell that idea.