6 Ups & 4 Downs From Last Night's NXT (March 11)
"THIS IS A TEACHABLE MOMENT!"
Going to keep it short and sweet this week friends because we have a lot to get through. NXT, coming to you live from the Performance Centre this week, threw together what it called a "Fan Appreciation Night" with a card that looked tasty on paper without being headline-grabbing. Two titles on the line, more qualifying matches for the women's ladder match, and the promise of a clash between Ciampa and Gargano.
After last week's ending saw Velveteen Dream's true motivations revealed, and things begin to heat up across the rest of the TakeOver card, this promised to be a significant night on the road to WrestleMania so, let's begin...
Downs...
4. Sorry, What?
Absolutely nothing about this match made any sense to me. NXT has been positioning Dakota Kai as something of a breakout mega-villain in 2020, as someone whose dastardly ingenuity and relentless viciousness could carry her way, way, way in excess of her actual ability, argubaly into the Women's Championship picture.
They had her take Mia Yim out of WarGames, then put her alleged best friend Tegan Nox on the shelf for months, then recruit Raquel Gonzalez, then win her big TakeOver match and the subsequent TV rematch, all just so she could fail to qualify for this ladder match? What have they been building her for if not a place in this spectacle?
We can't do another singles match with Nox this soon, and surely the logical way for the Welsh Wonder to finally get her win over her greatest rival was by beating her (and four others) when it genuinely mattered? Also, the history between Kai and Yim surely necessitated a far more bruising encounter, rather than the wrestling match we got here?
A baffling slice of booking, this.