WWE NXT TV report - tag team tournament finals

WWE NXT

February 14, 2013

LIVE! From Full Sail University

by Emerson “These reviews come out later and later” Witner

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NXT Tag Team Championship Tournament: 

Round 1

The Family defeated Percy Watson & Yoshi Tatsu

Bo Dallas & Michael McGillicutty defeated Primo & Epico

Leo Kruger & Kassius Ohno defeated Alex Riley & Derrick Bateman

Oliver Grey & Adrian Neville defeated 3MB

Round 2

The Family defeated Bo Dallas & Michael McGillicutty

Oliver Grey & Adrian Neville defeated Leo Kruger & Kassius Ohno

Here's what you need to know about NXT:

-They have a champion, it's Big E. Langston, who defeated Seth Rollins for the title on January 10. The show was taped after The Shield debuted at Survivor Series, but before Big debuted on Raw. Big originally refused to go to Raw when Vickie Guerrero offered him a spot, but did go to Raw once AJ lost power. Go figure.

-Dusty Rhodes is the Authority Figure, but his job title seems to change from week to week.

-The insanely popular Paige, Emma, Audrey Marie and Sasha Banks were the only four NXT Diva's until February 7 when ring announcer Summer Rae (not Summer Rain) attacked Paige.

-Bray Wyatt, Luke Harper and Rowan (Husky Harris, Brodie Lee and Erick Rowan) have formed a weird family, called simply The Wyatt Family.

-Kassius Ohno and Leo Kruger have formed an alliance and seemed determined to get William Regal to drop the headset and get in the ring.

And that's everything you need to know about NXT. (Now we know!) (And knowing is half the battle) (G.I. Joe!)

-Axl Keegan and Mike Dalton came to the ring for their match and Paige blew right by Keegan to go after Summer Rae, who somehow is still the ring announcer. Summer ran off and Paige threatened to take over the show until Summer came back to fight her.

This brought out Dusty Rhodes who told Paige to leave and she will not be holding the show hostage. Paige had different plans. Summer snuck out and used Dusty Rhodes as a shield as Paige went flying up the ramp after her. Well if you are gonna use someone as a shield...

-To the back where Zack Ryder is telling us to not imitate the moves we see.

-Paige is backstage with the doctor looking at her shoulder for some reason.

1.) Corey Graves defeated Alex Riley. Speaking of “for some reason”, why didn't Axl Keegan and Mike Dalton have their match? It got canceled because Paige took their three minutes. Two weeks ago Graves attacked Riley after his tag team tournament match because Graves wasn't allowed in the Tag Team Tournament because he didn't have a tag team partner. Riley cut his hair since 2 weeks ago and now manages to look more generic. The bigger news was announced that up next Paige will wrestle Summer Rae! The match was nothing and the highlight would be my video jumping around. The finish saw Corey tap Alex out with the 13th Step.

The announcers acted like they had never seen that move before (despite Corey using it in every match and in the pre-match video they showed him putting it on Riley two weeks ago) and neither had any idea what it was called.

-To the back where Paige is being taped up for her match up next.

-WWE has a generic video of people walking towards the Full Sail University arena that they air every week, but is always listed as “earlier tonight”.

2.) Summer Rae pinned Paige in 2:01. Despite never having a match before (in theory) Summer has entrance music, a Titantron video and tights. I guess the music and video aren't necessarily special since Lillian Garcia has it as well. I just wonder where you find tights with 10 minutes notice. Paige has never been pinned or made to submit, so do we have an out for her first loss? The referee assists Summer as he pulls Paige off of her foe with her bad arm. Rae is pretty advanced for someone who has never even wrestled before. And you thought Kurt Angle was a natural. Summer pulled off the upset with a spin kick that looked worse than when Great Khali used to use it.

-Backstage the love of my life, Sasha Banks, receives a note from her Valentine saying that she must wait another week to meet her secret admirer. In the interest of fairness, I was not in Orlando. Happy Valentine's Day Sasha.

-Next week:

Big E. Langston vs Conor O'Brien

Tyson Kidd interview 

-So it is time for the finals of the NXT Tag Team Championship Tournament! When they had the finals of the NXT Title Tournament we got Howard Finkle and Jim Ross as a part of it. Tonight we have Byron Saxton and the normal announce team.

Bray led his Family out while cutting a promo along the way.

I should point out that every time a championship has been won here on NXT, it has been won by a baby face.

3.) In the finals of the NXT Tag Team Championship Tournament, Adrian Neville and Oliver Grey became the first NXT Tag Team Champions, defeating The Wyatt Family in 13:10. Grey got Bray out of his rocking chair early as he sent Erick Rowan outside and came flying through the ropes with a suicide dive in the first minute of the match. The Family had plenty of trouble early with the wee lads from Britain. Finally Harper used a stiff right hand to Grey to cut him off. Rowan punched Grey in the face and Adrian got the tag as Oliver fell into his corner. Minutes later Oliver was back in and was winning on Harper until Bray tripped Oliver behind the ref's back. The referee may not have seen it, but Dusty Rhodes did! Dusty sent Bray to the back as we took our final commercial break. We come back and Harper and Rowan are taking turns beating on Grey. It took seven minutes for either team to go for the cover, but once they did The Family went for cover after cover, trying to win the championship. Adrian got the fans behind Oliver, begging him to make the tag to Neville. Grey finally scraped and clawed his way to the corner, making the hot tag to Neville. Adrian came off the top with a double sledge, but was caught with a perfectly timed boot to the face from Harper. Harper and Rowan bonk heads and Neville won the match and the championship with the Twisting Shooting Star Press Of Doom!

After the match they tried to cut a promo saying they can't believe they won.

And that is it for another week of NXT. See ya next week.