5 Ups And 5 Downs From WWE NXT 2.0 (Dec 7)

4. A Limp Bunch Of Contenders Emerge

As your writer has noted a few times in recent months, a once-stellar NXT tag team division has found itself increasingly suffering as of late, largely due to a lack of any real contenders of worth stepping into the spotlight to push the Champions to the limit.

It was business as usual again on the latest edition of the Tuesday night fright as instead of giving Legado del Fantasma the platform to wriggle their way into a match that should've been theirs at WarGames, a match between Brooks Jensen & Josh Briggs and The Creed Bros. felt very much like the latest number one contender's skirmish.

Unfortunately, despite one half of this brawl being supremely gifted and promising, impressing just about every time they've stepped in-between the ropes, the more disappointing side of the contest ultimately came up trumps. But it was the nature of the defeat that left a particularly sour taste in many a mouth. In true main roster fashion, a finish which could've garnered a boatload of praise, involving a nicked tag string being foreshadowed and executed well in the closing stages, set the stage for a screwy roll-up for Jensen to seal the flukey deal.

If Jensen and Briggs are now being considered as the next in line, which is an appropriate enough assumption based on Imperium's reaction to the "shock" win, then the two stale brawlers look undeserving from the get-go. The Creed Bros. feel like weak fools, and GYV were left with egg on their mugs after their deception came back to bite them on the *ss.

Everyone's a loser!