Went to a house show last night in Pensacola, FL. Good crowd. Fun matches.
- Highlights of Sasha/Bayley at NXT Brooklyn to get everyone hyped up.
- Mojo Rawley beat Buddy Murphy with the Hyper Drive. Murphy was always my favorite of the team. He has it, brehs. So smooth in the ring. Mojo was entertaining as well, I'd never care for him but I think I might be a fan now.
Dude is huge, energetic and pretty funny. Lots of comedy in this match with Mojo giving Murphy multiple inverted atomic drops and slapping him on the ass (no homo) at various points, so Murphy was selling his ass being sore the whole match (no homo).
- Andrade Almas beat Riddikk Moss with a corner knee smash. I have no clue who Riddikk is, but he has great size & look and cut a good promo running down the NXT guys that got drafted and about how he deserves to be on Raw and will quit WWE if he isn't called up by this time next year. This guy could be a star in the making. Fans were all over him for his hair with chants of "Kenny G" and "Michael Bolton".
Andrade has some cool moves, but I just don't care about him.
- Billie Kay beat Daria (who?) with a big boot. Billie Kay is bad as hell. Swagged out with great theme music. She kinda reminds me of Maryse back in the day with her persona, long slim body and attire. This wasn't a very good match and no one seemed to care about either of them.
- NXT Tag title match: Johnny Gargano & Tommaso Ciampa beat The Revival by DQ when one of the Revival guys pulled the ref out of the ring when he was trying to make a count. This was a long and GREAT match. Definitely worthy of something you'd see on any WWE TV show or PPV. So much action and so many near falls it had me really thinking they were gonna do a house show title switch since WWE had a guy filming the show all night. Ciampa cut a promo afterwards challenging the Revival at NXT: Brooklyn II. WWE has uploaded the video of that to social media.
- Bobby Roode made Oney Lorcan (who?) submit to a full-nelson body scissor. Roode got a huge pop and I got to hear that music in person. It was GLORIOUS.
Oney's pretty good and had some fans but most of the crowd was behind Roode. Sometimes Roode would hit a good move and then pose like
and yell "GLORIOUS!"
- NXT Women's title match: Asuka beat Ember Moon with the Asuka Lock. I know Ember Moon is Athena, but I've never seen her wrestle before. She was very over with the crowd. Got a good pop when she came out and got a standing ovation and chants after losing. Match was decent. Ember got in some really good moves. Would like to see these two get more time.
- Samoa Joe & Austin Aries beat Shinsuke Nakamura & No Way Jose when Joe made Jose tap to the rear naked choke. Afterwards, Shinsuke hit the Kinshasa on Joe and Jose hit the cobra clutch slam on Aries. Naka & Jose had good chemistry as a team. Some good comedy bits in this match as well, but also a competitive match. No Way Jose was insanely over and closed the show by dancing and taking pictures with the fans as his music played while everyone else already went backstage.
Definitely a fun show. I've seen WWE, WCW and TNA live and, honestly, this is the best house show I've ever been to.
