6 Ups And 2 Downs From Last Night's NXT (April 7)

1. Cinematic Pro Wrestling

There was a lot not to like about tonight's main-event, but this developing trend in WWE of using Cinematic Pro-Wrestling is absolutely a positive. This new(ish) style of match is one that largely takes the action away from the ring and allows for cuts, retakes, visual effects, and other cinematic wizardry that's just not possible in front of a live crowd.

While boiler room matches and even the Hollywood Backlot Brawl were all spiritual forerunners to this new genre, only very recently have wrestlers thrown the contests purely into the realms for filmmaking and, so far, to incredibly mixed results. The House of Horrors was a disaster, the Firefly Funhouse was a masterstroke, everything else has been somewhere in between.

Leaning into the soap-opera style with Candice (just about) worked, and the way it was all shot and put together kept an overlong match interesting. Those are about the only positives to take from the thing but they were at least there.