5 Ups And 5 Downs From NXT 400

1. Billie Kay And Peyton Royce Are LayCool

The partnership and especially the latest segments with Antipodean grapplers Billie Kay and Peyton Royce are queasily familiar to people who suffered through the tedium of the WWE's late 2000s Divas division.

They are horribly similar to LayCool, the partnership of Michelle McCool and Layla whose mean girl best friends gimmick dominated an anaemic division that was deliberately extinguished when the Divas became Women again.

It's an annoyingly generic heel gimmick more likely to put more heat on the creatives behind it than the squealing Aussies themselves. It certainly doesn't do anything to make them look like competent threats to the Women's title scene or anyone else.

Kay & Royce are a throwback to the grimmest days of the pre-'Women's Revolution' era where feuds were booked as High School catfights. With luck they'll turn on each other and develop their own, less depressingly predictable characters and go on to far, far better things than this.