6 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE NXT Spring Breakin' (23 April - Results & Review)

3. You Can See The Strings

NXT might be WWE’s developmental brand, but it’s still a nationally televised wrestling show where athletes engage in the emulation of a competitive sport.

For that reason, it’s vitally important that whatever NXT puts on the air at least maintains the veneer of a competition, even with its less-experienced superstars involved. Sadly, Jaida Parker and Fallon Henley didn’t deliver that Tuesday night.

Too often during their match, viewers could see one of them getting into position for the next sequence, or waiting for their opponent to get into proper position. There wasn’t really selling in the sense that someone got hurt or was slowed down due to their opponent’s offensive onslaught. They just exchanged punches, kicks, neckbreakers and strikes in a soulless sequence of moves.

This wasn’t some business-exposing Jackie Gayda match. More likely, it’s a reflection of the gulf that exists in NXT and how its Performance Center is not some factory churning out ring generals on the regular.