6 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE NXT Spring Breakin' (30 April - Results & Review)

3. At Least They Tried

With several NXT superstars being called up to the main roster during the WWE draft this past week, it was clear that the developmental brand would need to dip into its less-experienced group of trainees and bring them up to the main show.

One of those acts made their NXT proper debut Tuesday night when Tyson Dupont and Tyriek Igwe faced Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson. Probably the best, most polite way to describe them would be very basic and very energetic, but also very green.

The duo hit a series of double-team moves on Anderson early on, but it was all very simple and also awkward. Dupont’s corner splash, where he ran at Anderson and leapt when he was two feet from the corner, almost straight up into the air and crashed gently into his opponent, was particularly bad.

Tyson and Tyriek hung with the OC as best as they could, but the veterans put them away with a Magic Killer, which was the right move when facing a tag team with fewer than 10 televised matches and still so far to go.

NXT seems content to put very green new talent on television when they’ve got just a couple dozen total matches under them and let them grow and learn in front of the cameras, rather than on the Largo loop. That’s their choice, but if they’re putting these wrestlers on TV, they’re going to be critiqued as such.