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Started the Aug 7, 2019 edition of NXT. The opening theme showed a lot of wrestlers I didn't recognize, although Tyler Breeze is apparently still with this brand? Everybody looks a lot less WWE than ever before. The guys mostly look on the smaller side and none seem all that buff. They're all pretty generic-looking.

At any rate, it's nice to see that William Regal is still GM. Not sure who the announcers are since they haven't been shown, although one sounds a little like Rockstar Spud (or whatever he's being called now). Apparently that's actually Nigel McGuinness. Wait, is Beth Phoenix one of the other announcers? Oo

Show starts off with tag champs Street Profits (who did that awful milk gag with Kurt Angle on Raw, so I'm already not liking them much) meeting with Undisputed Era for a contract signing. Wasn't feeling any of it. I hope to god these guys can actually wrestle.

Next up was a preview for a triple threat (also for the next NXT Takeover). Velveteen Dream seems to have a good look and a decent amount of personality. The clips make him look great... and I just wish we'd actually get to see him fight tonight. Instead we're over 12 minutes through a 60-minute show and nobody has wrestled. -_-

Pete Dunn is so far the only other wrestler who seems promising so far. If Hulu still has the NXT Takeovers, I'll probably watch that Triple Threat. At any rate, all of this capped off with a commercial for the match + Takeover... and now an in-show commercial for a Slipknot CD.

Wait... and now they're doing a teaser for the NXT Women's Championship match? Is this an actual episode of NXT? Okay, fuck it, I need to fast-forward this already.... and through that other stuff.

Alright, 20 minutes into the show and we *finally* have a wrestling match. I was beginning to think that the main event was the only event.

Out comes Joaquin Wilde, who came out to the ring looking like a cross between Rey Mysterio and a techno-version of Sektor from the Mortal Kombat games. I kinda like it. Fighting him is.... something Thorne (I just know he's not Kevin Thorn). Seems pretty limber, especially how he jumped the top rope. This seems like it could be interesting.

Rest of the show + thoughts hidden behind spoilers, everything in order:
...well, that match looked like shit. Granted, it's lucha so a lot of it is kinda bound to look goofy. The arm drag shenanigans were an instant turnoff and then there was that terrible-looking grapple reversal into a submission.

Also, they have a female ref? How long has that been a thing? I don't think I ever saw a non-special guest female ref on Raw, SD, etc.

Thorne has some pretty solid personality whereas JW can't act for shit. His expressions and mannerisms just seem so flaky. Thorne's in-ring seems unimpressive, but his dirty fighting looked cool.

After this we get some build-up to a women's match. Shirai and Candice Lorraine are both crazy cute. Shirai also looks like she might be talented. Her accent is a bit strong.

37 minutes in and we have the main event. That makes *two* matches all night. This better be one amazing fight!

...wait, wtf? There was a weak-looking ambush and that's that? And now they're promoting some tournament? And now I'm fast-forwarding this shit.

Oh look, Breezango are back! That's fun, I guess. Fast-forwarding again and... nope, I guess that's it. There was ONE fight in an hour-long show and it wasn't a particularly good one.

I imagine this probably isn't the best representation of NXT (since it's a go-home show before what I assume is a bigger PPV) but it's still a terrible place to restart NXT at. That said, this felt like a bigger waste of time than Raw. Hopefully the Smackdown episode I'm going to watch will be better.
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