7 Ups And 2 Downs From Last Night's NXT (Aug 26)

1. The Kai's The Limit

You could write a thesis on the differences between Dakota Kai in this match and Dakota Kai the last time she was in a tag-team main event. Challenging for the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship with Tegan Nox against Sasha and Bayley.

Back then she was the ultimate face-in-peril, just selling and selling and selling to build up the expectation of Nox's inevitable hot-tag. She took the pin, ate the loss for the team and, while you could see what a good job she'd done from an industry perspective, she felt a million miles away from both her opponents and her own partner.

Here, despite being up against the brand's two most physically imposing women, and the reigning NXT Women's Champion, she felt like the biggest deal of them all. Her recent push hasn't been all that in-your-face, but what a year it's been for her. It says everything that this felt like *her* win despite Gonzales actually getting the fall.

As we've already mentioned, there is so much going on in the Women's Division right now. Shirai is champion, and has just beaten Kai, but now Gonzales has a big win to her name. Ripley's in between all three of them and wants a title shot, but Martinez, now represented by Robert Stone who was crushed under Shotzi Blackheart's tank, is clearly standing in her way.

That's without even mentioning Tegan Nox and Candice LeRae, comfortably two of NXT's best workers and also entitled to a shot at the gold somewhere down the line. Charlotte was champion in June...

Anyway, what's my point here? Oh yeah, the match was great and the possibilities are endless. More of this please.