7 Ups And 4 Downs From Last Night's NXT (April 15)

2. Thatch' Entertainment

There are two key elements to Timothy Thatcher's debut and while one of them is bad, the other is good.

The problem here sort of in the very essence of what makes a wrestling debut and that, unfortunately for NXT, is the crowd. You can have a perfectly proficient technical wrestling match without it being a deal-breaker that the crowd is feeding into it, but big moments like this live or die by the electricity they generate in the stands.

In front of a capacity Full Sail you likely wouldn't remember much of the actual match, just that Thatcher was Riddle's mystery partner and he arrived, set the place on fire, and beat up their opponents. Here, it elicits an "oh, that's interesting" and then we immediately move onto the contest itself.

Thing is though, said contest was not only Pretty Good, but Thatcher was the standout performer. They'll never get another chance to debut him properly, that's gone now, but for those seeing him for the first time this was a great introduction to why he's such a big deal.