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

2. Some Blood Feud

Fallon Henley Thea Hail
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Thea Hail has been great at selling her rage toward Jacy Jayne in recent weeks, almost coming unglued like Scrappy Doo when he wanted to fight every monster out there and having to be held back.

But then the bell rang, and it just felt like another developmental match. Hail’s fire pre-match didn’t carry over into the contest itself, which used more of a paint-by-numbers approach, right down to the attempted interference on the outside with Jazmyn Nyx and Fallon Henley. That fed directly into the finish, which saw Thea immediately grab a Kimura for the anticlimactic tap-out.

Maybe this is due to the limitations of the wrestlers, but a months-long angle that involved such a betrayal deserved a better payoff than this. Instead, fans witnessed an average match to presumably finish off the Jacy/Chase U fiasco.

If anything, the Fallon Henley betrayal might be more interesting because of how Hail immediately reacted, demanding to know why people keep turning on her. That’s the sort of thing that could be a fun character development if she becomes more jaded and distrusting, finally wising up and shedding her youthful innocence.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.