** Paige defeated Emma in an NXT women's title match. They have a good look, work well together, and could quickly get over with the crowd. The Ascension is another group I could see tabbed for a call-up soon, particularly with some of the teams on the main roster breaking up. Granted, with injuries, the NXT tag division is a little bit bare, but they could have used someone that, quite frankly, posed more of a threat, and could move a little better than Too Cool. I understand mixing in some wrestlers that the common fan would know, but I think this was a mistake. ** The Ascension (Connor and Viktor) defended their NXT tag titles successfully against a mystery team, which turned out to be Too Cool. Mojo is still raw, as he only has been wrestling for about 18 months, but he continues to show improvement. ** Following that match, Mojo Rawley (Dean Muhtadi, who played football for the University of Maryland) beat CJ Parker in a pretty standard match. It would not surprise me to see Zayn called up the main roster within the next few months. Eventually, Cesaro's power simply overmatched Zayn, but it put the two on an even level. They actually told the story that they knew each other well in the ring, and used it to put on a fantastic 20-minute match. Some of the set up spots from the previous matches were countered, and turned into bigger moves, including a reversal of a tornado DDT on the outside into an uppercut. The big thing about these two was that it wasn't the same as their previous encounters, and they actually built on it. These two wrestlers know each other so well from their time spent together in the indies, and always put on a good show. This was the fourth time in the past year that these two had met, highlighted by their best two out of three falls match from last summer. ** The show opened with a match between Cesaro and Sami Zayn (the former El Generico from ROH and other independent organizaitons). If you didn't see it, here's what you missed: Obviously, it would be nothing short of a disaster if Wrestlemania has technical issues like this. So while there's plenty of time, unless they decide to add another NXT special, or something similar, to the WWE Network, there won't be another time to truly test the demand. At least currently, this is the last time a live wrestling program will be on the WWE Network before Wrestlemania. While the NXT special event was drawing a lot of attention, it will be nothing like the demand for Wrestlemania, or the other pay-per-vews. Viewers were able to catch what they missed on the replay, and it was later put "on demand," but this has to put up a big red flag for the WWE. This problem lasted for about 20 minutes, and when it finally resolved for everyone, the main event was half-over. While people would turn their apps and streams on and off, it would simply take them back to the Breeze entrance (or the Adrian Neville promo that was before the match), show that for a few seconds, before cutting off again. Around 9:20 p.m., as Tyler Breeze was making his entrance, the show started to cut out. However, on Thursday night, during the NXT: ArRIVAL show, the technical difficulties cropped up again.
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