WWE NXT July 7 heads into tonight with the brand officially shifting from Great American Bash fallout into the next stage of its summer direction. Last week’s show was all about reintroducing NXT after a major reset, with Kendal Grey beginning her reign as NXT Women’s Champion, Tony D’Angelo trying to move forward after surviving … Read more
WWE LFG Season 3 has quietly become one of the more useful developmental shows WWE has produced because it stopped pretending to be a normal competition show and started acting like what it really is: a Performance Center evaluation room with cameras. Through the first nine episodes, the season has been built around coaching, live … Read more
WWE NXT entered last night with less than two weeks remaining before Great American Bash and several important pieces still missing from the June 28 card. By the end of the night, Tavion Heights had earned an emotionally complicated championship opportunity against his former partner, Jaida Parker had suffered another damaging defeat, and the already … Read more
WWE LFG Season 3 reached Episode 8 last night with “A Brand New Zena,” and this was one of those episodes that showed both the value and the frustration of WWE’s developmental system on camera. Through the first seven episodes, Season 3 has been about moving away from the old coach-team competition setup and leaning … Read more
WWE LFG has spent the first several weeks of its third season attempting to establish a new identity. Gone are the teams, the points system and the artificial feeling of watching coaches compete against one another for bragging rights. Season 3 has stripped the concept back to its most valuable purpose: evaluating talent, teaching the … Read more
Last night’s WWE NXT was a show built around the women’s division carrying the night, a new challenger emerging for the Men’s Speed Championship, DarkState trying to explain why it cut out one of its own, and Tony D’Angelo suddenly finding himself in the middle of a title picture that has multiple bodies circling him … Read more
WWE NXT returns tonight with a show that has to do more than simply put matches on the board. Last week’s episode was built around new faces making statements, champions being dragged deeper into trouble, and a tag team main event that ended with DarkState kicking Saquon Shugars out of the group in one of … Read more
Last night’s WWE NXT felt like one of those episodes where the brand was clearly trying to reset the board while still pushing several new faces into bigger spots at the same time. It was not a perfect show, and there were definitely moments where the promos felt forced, the pacing felt a little uneven, … Read more
Last night’s WWE NXT felt like another step in the brand’s current reset, but it was also a show that proved NXT is still trying to figure out exactly which stories are ready to carry the summer and which new faces need more time to breathe. The episode had a lot going on: Naraku finally … Read more
WWE LFG Season 3 continued with Episode 2, “All On The Line,” and this was the first episode of the season that really showed what the new format can be when it works. After last week’s Season 3 premiere reset the show with no more points, no more teams and no more obvious scoreboard-driven structure, … Read more
