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Steve Notes  NXT 7/30/20

Lee/Dijak/Kross video package

Tag match Candice Lerae & Kai vs Shirai/Nox

Starts with a brawl

Kai/Lerae isolate Shirai

Shirai regains control over Kai

Nox tags in,Kai kicks her to the outside, Lerae sends her into stairs

During commercial, Nox is isolated, double headbutt Candice/Tegan

Shirai springboard dropkick on Kai, 2, German sulplex, goes up top, Kai counters, goes up, looks for superplex, Shirai gets control, double foot stomp, 2

Shirai suicide dive, ref distracted, Nox hits shiniest wizard on candice, Shirai hits NASTY moonsault that looks like it was 4 inches from flattening Candice’s head, Shirai pins Candice

***¼

Video package kayfabing this Cole/McAfee stuff

Roderick Strong vs JohnGargano

Starts with wrestle wrestle wrestler

Pin attempt sequence

Gargano takes control with a series of submissions

Gargano able to counter everything Strong does, works the arm

Gargano hits twisting flatliner, Gargano continues to work arm

G puts strong in gargano escape, Strong rolls it over, gets 2

G continues to dominate, sends Strong left-arm-first into barricade, plexiglass, ring post

Hits slingshot ddt, gets 3 ***

Kai interview, says she’s not a team player anymore (no more Raquel?) 

Rhea with bleach blonde hair interrupts, she thinks she’s next for Io

Thatch interview

He no-sells the term push, says the only push he knows is pushing on a submission thing, he speaks on Lumis, LURKING IN THE BACKGROUND

UE is in disarray, kyle is tired of the hollywood BS, he’s back- he gives them a ra ra speech

Shotzi Blackheart vs mercedes martinez

Mercedes’ entrance is great

Shotzi comes out fast, Mercedes distracted by Stone, Mercedes attacks

Shotzi regains control with a sunset bomb, gets 2

Shotzi continues in control, hits reverse senton against ropes

Mercedes comes back spinebuster

Shotzi looking for sliced bread, Mercedes puts her up on the top, doles out forearms, release german from top

Mercedes hits finisher for 3

***

Ridge Holland video package

He’s a big beefy dude, he wants the NA championship

Tom reminds us they shipped him off to NXT UK once

Keith Lee comes out wearing my summer outfit of sleeveless shirt, sweatpant shorts

We can talk all day about Dijak saying no, but the reality is Dijak is a grown man and he’ll be fine- on the other hand, this man that seems to think the sound of sand is the sound of a clock-

Kross, you have clearly made it a point that you want my attention, this title, and you’ve done SO MUCH EXTRA BULLSHIT, crowd starts chanting BULLSHIT, all of your extra BULLSHIT means nothing when you can’t come to me face to face, so here I am, Karrion Kross, I’m calling you out. 

Instead we get Cameron Grimes!

Dijak? Kross? You should be talking about CAMERONGRIIIMES!

He’s gonna take that title and he’s going straight to the MOON, he’s SO annoying, Lee annihilates Grimes. Spotlight on the stage, Scarlett comes out. Grimes tries to take advantage, eats a last ride-esque power bomb. Kross Mat Chat. What kind of a man stands by and does nothing while his friendo suffers? You get two choices- you give me my SHOT or the hard way, you don’t want to know what that is. Because everyone will suffer. 

Lee says choices- pick the time and place, and I will whup that ass. 

NA title video package

Time to remind us that NXT has a tag division

Imperium vs Ever Rise

ER gets some offense in, but not much

European Bomb Imperium wins

**

UE come in, beat down Imperium

Bronson Reed mini-doc

Something about having a sugar mama to pay for his wrestling school, I dunno, Gypsy was barking at me

He knows MIchael Jordan?

You weren’t an underdog man, you’re double the size of those other two dudes

AT TAKEOVER 30, THE THIICCCCBOI DREAM COMES TRUE

Lumis watches Finn get dressed

Swerve Scott vs. Atlas

My 15ghz refresh rate 70” TV can;’t handle Atlas’ entrance

They keep evading each other’s moves like two players on 2K20 who keep moving in the wrong direction

Atlas in control with chops, swerve jumping kick to atlas’ dome

Atlas hits Dean’s old finisher, gets 2

OK so basically it’s a lot of cool shit I can’t keep up with, lots of back and forth, it’s probably halfway through ‘m just gonna give it ***3/4 and enjoy it.

Sidenote: how is that mid-air top rope um, thing is NOT Atlas’ finisher?

Swerve with JML driver thing for the win wow

Remember when crowds used to yawn their way through these matches on 205?

DAMIEN PRIEST!

Ridge Holland & Oney Lorcan are his opponents, EASY WIN for Damien Priest

He speaks like he’s got like 6 other things on his mind

Lumis vs. Finn vs. Thatch

Did they change Lumis’ music?

Lumis watches while Finn/Thatch fight, he’s treated like the big man here

Really ugly cut on his flipping plancha thing, totally unnecessary

Thatch takes control, belly to belly on lumis, wrist lock- Lumis yells “No,” he shouldn’t do that

Lumis takes control in the commercial, Finn seems to not be in the match ever

Thatch takes control over Finn, hope we get a takeover match with these two

Thatch has the best face

Lumis hits spinebuster on Thatch, hits side effect, goes for Silence, Finn hits coup de gras onto Lumis 

Thatch locks in ankle lock

Thatch has finn in knee bar, Lumis locks in SILENCE to Thatch, he passes out,Lumis win

****¼