Its funny how a crowd of 10,000-plus can completely buy into an NXT womens match so completely as the fans did for the Asuka/Emma bout. It destroys the theory that its just the 400 fans that jam into Full Sail for NXT tapings who are fired up for matches involving the women. It also shows that womens wrestling can be an exciting draw in 2015 if done right. Emma and Asuka put on a fast-paced, entertaining match. Even the hammerlock trade-offs near the beginning went rapid-fire. Knowing she was in there with an excellent striker, Emma stepped up her game with some hard-hitting moves herself. But Asuka, who let out primal screams whenever Emma hit her, threw some vicious spinning backfists, and later seamlessly transitioned from an anklelock to a German suplex and into a running kick to the face. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jjOluG3pmE Fans were way into this opening match, as they would be later for Bayley/Nia Jax. Having two womens matches on a six-match card shows that NXT has faith in its women to carry their weight and then some. Now, if only the WWE Divas division could get the same treatment and respect.
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 fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.
