6. Women Take Center Stage
Of the six matches on the card Wednesday night, two featured women, while a third match was decided by the involvement of a woman. You definitely cant say that NXT shortchanges the females on its roster. Bayley and Charlotte teamed up to down Dana Brooke and Emma in a short but energetic match. Although it was brief and featured a super-green Brooke, the women had a fun bout that the fans loved. A couple matches later, Blake and Murphy were defending their NXT Tag Team Championships against Enzo Amore and Big Cass, with Carmella on the outside. Leading up to this match, Blake and Murphy had been trying to woo Carmella, leading to speculation that she would turn on Enzo and Cass to cost them the match. Instead Alexa Bliss, who had been feuding with Carmella, interfered and cost the challengers their shot. And of course, Sasha Banks and Becky Lynch brought down the house with their NXT Womens Championship match. There isnt enough praise to go around for this match. Suffice it to say, if you were looking for one of the best womens wrestling matches WWE has put out there, this would have to be in the conversation. It was that good. Can we just promote the entire NXT womens division and punt two-thirds of WWEs Divas roster? Everyone is already thinking it.
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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.
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