[NXT] RESULTS FROM MELBOURNE (Will Contain Spoilers)

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Ember Moon beat Liv Morgan and Billie Kay.

Cien Almas beat Wesley Blake.

The Revival beat Riddick Moss and Tino Sabatelli.

Oney Lorcan beat Patrick Clark.

DIY beat TM61 to retain the NXT Tag Titles.

Buddy Murphy and Tye Dillinger beat Bobby Roode and Elias Samson.

Asuka beat Peyton Royce to retain the NXT Women's Title.

Shinsuke Nakamura beat Samoa Joe in a Steel Cage to retain the NXT Title.

 

[GuerrillaMonsoon]

Hard to follow that. 

Kinda glad if I never see another Joe/Nak match again. I don't think they gel well together at all. I kinda feel the same way about Nakamura in NXT that most do about Ambrose. Just replace Kinchasa with wacky rope clothesline, or "charismatic" with "lunatic" and it's the same guy who does the same sequence over and over again with a really forced down throat description. If you wanted to be really cynical, you'd have Asuka in a similar position or at best same criticisms with Lesnar/diminishing returns.

Interested to see what they do with Patrick Clark. LWP's right, he has something. Loney is terrible though. Surely a release candidate. Probably say the same for Buddy Murphy. Tags up with the most over guy on the night in his hometown and barely gets a reaction.

TM61 vs DIY probably a candidate for one of the best matches I've ever seen live. That was awesome to watch. Revival were great too. Possibly the closest thing I've ever seen to a heel hot tag segment and it was fantastic.

[NikoBaltimore]

L_W_P, excellent writeup on that show.  Sounds like it a great time for sure.  I griped in the other thread about Joe/Nakamura not gelling, yet the finish to the cage match sounds awesome.  I doubt they'll air that on the network, but would love to see it somehow.

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Since they plugged the match on this week's episode, I would be very surprised, if it didn't air.

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 It's weird too, the crowd was pretty loud for the majority of the Melbourne show, though the constant 10 chants in every match got really old fast.

 Also went to the Sydney show earlier this week. Which was a really fun show.

 Tozawa def Almas in a really fun match, crowd loved Tozawa. Almas is so much more entertaining as a heel too.

 Billie Kay and Peyton Royce def Aliyah and Liv Morgan. Kay and Royce got one of the biggest reactions of the show, nothing they did could make the crowd boo them. Even when they denounced their hometown of Sydney and said they wanted to be announced as hailing from Orlando, the crowd loved them. Liv is pretty good, Aliyah isn't bad but she's so small and her movements just make her look really timid.

 Oney Lorcan def Wesley Blake in a good match. Blake is solid and seeing Biff live was cool. Crowd was a little restless due to not really knowing or caring about either, but warmed up when they saw that these guys were going all out to win the crowd over.

 Patrick Clark challenging Oney to an impromptu match and then losing within 30 seconds was entertaining sports entertainment bullshit. Clark is great on the mic, using local insults to goad Oney into the match, his entrance, the whole deal.

 DIY vs The Revival was fantastic as you'd expect. They went 20+ minutes and just told a story that drew the crowd in and had the place going nuts by the time they started with the close nearfalls. The Revival had a weird thing on this tour where the crowd loved them, but the nastier they were the crowd didn't boo them, but instead just cheered DIY more. All of the double team moves and nearfall saves were so well done with Ciampa beating Dawson with the armbar.

 TM61 def Sabbatelli/Moss in a so so match. Crowd loved TM61 obviously but couldn't have given a shit about the other two. Match was fine, but the crowd never really got into it.

 Asuka retaining her title against Ember Moon was an excellent match as you'd expect. If/when they do this match on a Takeover special they're going to blow minds. Really cool counters and athletic spots, plus they beat the shit out of each other. Ember's tope is something else too, she just sprinted at full speed and hit Asuka like a bullet.

 Main event of Shinsuke/Dillinger and Murphy def Joe/Roode/Samson was what it was. Elias Samson is a king on the mic. When the crowd started booing that the main was a 6 man instead of the advertised Shinsuke/Joe/Tye/Roode 4 way he stated that it was changed per his request, before doing an awful cover of Back In Black on his guitar. If anything, his schtick and playing to the crowd meant that he was cheered mostly by the end of the match. Match itself was okay, Nakamura looked beaten up and Joe did very little so i'm assuming that the match was changed due to the beating they gave each other in the cage. Murphy got some cheers and a fair few boos due to his being from Melbourne and the interstate rivalry with Sydney, but he won the crowd over by taking a beating whenever he was in. Shinsuke got the win on Samson and the crowd went home happy, Shinsuke thanking the crowd, using some Aussie slang and doing his pose with Tye before making Murphy do it as well by kicking his legs out was amusing.