NXT – December 25, 2013: Remember When We Thought It Couldn’t Get Better Than This?
IMG Credit: WWE
NXT
Date: December 25, 2013
Location: Full Sail University, Winter Park, Florida
Host: Renee Young
Welcome Home.
The arena is empty and Renee Young is our host.
First up: a look at the opening of the WWE Performance Center.
We get packages on all the people that have gone from NXT to the main rosters: the Wyatts, Shield, Fandango, Xavier Woods, Damien Sandow, Antonio Cesaro and Big E. Langston. Ignore that Cesaro, Fandango and I beliee Sandow were in WWE before they came to NXT.
Video on the first NXT Tag Title match with British Ambition beating the Wyatts.
Bo Dallas knows we want to hear about his rise to the title but we need to hear how important it is to Bo-Lieve. We get a clip of him beating Langston to prove the power of the Bo-Lievers.
Video on all of the WWE stars who have made cameos here in NXT.
Back to Young who introduces the only match that could have been match of the year in NXT: Sami Zayn vs. Antonio Cesaro 2/3 falls. Cesaro going into beast mode to get the wind is still amazing and makes me even sadder every time I see him jobbing to Los Matadores.
Antonio Cesaro vs. William Regal
Cesaro easily powers Regal down but the Englishman counters into a cross arm choke. He leans backwards to put Cesaro over his knees while still choking, only to be flipped forward to escape. Back to the test of strength before Regal counters a front facelock into a dragon sleeper. Cesaro flips him forward in a kind of reverse suplex for two but Regal gets him down into the corner and does his “distract the referee while kicking the opponent in the face” spot.
Regal is taken out by referees but Cesaro goes after him and extends a hand. Regal stares him down and shakes hands as we go off the air.
Results
Antonio Cesaro b. William Regal – Neutralizer
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