Opinion

The Good, Bad and Ugly: NXT (03/27/2019)

After a horrendous Monday Night Raw and a sensational SmackDown Live, we are with the very best of the best NXT! Always a Good time, it would seem especially after last week (Good as hell) that they are still on top of their game. Can NXT continue at this pace?

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4 years ago

March 29, 2019

Bobby Fernandes

After a horrendous Monday Night Raw and a sensational SmackDown Live, we are with the very best of the best NXT! Always a Good time, it would seem especially after last week (Good as hell) that they are still on top of their game. Can NXT continue at this pace? Let’s get down to ringside!

GOOD

Adam Cole/Johnny Gargano

Now I am personally not a huge “fight forever” type of guy, unless you are talking gold. This is Gold though. Could you ask for a better Title Match? No way! Gargano is Red Hot and Adam Cole is a Top Shelf Superstar. The match will be Good, it cannot fail, no matter what. Cole and Gargano are amazing and the promo was solid from start to finish. If we couldn’t already be excited enough the back and forth and the struggle of the audience to choose a side is just amazing. Adam Cole is a strong heel, Gargano is a freak baby face. This is legendary! Cole of course got the last word with his boys up the ramp behind him. This will be amazing and we aren’t even at the take home show! Keep it going, no one will mind! Great Opening!

Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic Finals- Aleister Black and Ricochet vs. Forgotten Sons (Winners Face NXT Tag Team Champs War Raiders at Takeover)

Forgotten Sons are a lost cause especially against Ricochet and Black. Anyone who had their money on Forgotten Sons obviously are super new to the world. This was a pretty pointless match considering how important the results are. Black and Ricochet of course took almost full control of this match, going back and forth with devastating moves destroying their opponents. Forgotten Sons were not just fish and a barrel here though. Once they got some breathing room they took their attention on isolating Ricochet and taking advantage of their chemistry. The frequent tags and isolation nearly paid off but finally Ricochet tagged in Aleister Black who just flattened his opponents. Black dominated but was taken down with a sick “under-hook backbreaker.” Ricochet saved the day assisting Black and taking back control. It looked as though the Forgotten Son’s would not be denied but again the team of Black and Ricochet came back strong. It surprisingly could have gone either way, so many close calls, especially Good for the Forgotten Son’s. Even causing Jaxson Ryker to be ejected from ringside. This gave Black just enough time to get a grip, hit a “Black Mass” and followed by a “630” by Ricochet for the impressive victory. Ricochet and Aleister Black Win the Dusty Rhodes Classic and will face the NXT Tag Team Champs War Raiders at Takeover. The Champs came down to the ring to get a closer look at their next challenge. This was awesome and will be a winner when it goes down at Takeover.

BAD

Kacey Catanzaro and Lacey Lane vs. Aliyah and Vanessa Borne

Lacey Lane has a very unique Good look. Catanzaro is a hell of an athlete as well. Of course Aliyah and Borne are textbook heels. This wasn’t anything special and apparently Shayna Baszler and company agreed. Baszler came out and Aliyah and Borne hi-tailed it out. Surprisingly Kacey Catanzaro put up a bit of resistance but was made short work of by the NXT Women’s Champ. Baszler is awesome but this was lame. Not that the match was anything special but a pointless run in wasn’t par for the NXT course. Kind of Bad actually.

Matt Riddle vs. Kona Reeves

Kona Reeves is no Velveteen Dream. Riddle the “King of Bros” has a hell of an opportunity at Takeover and it is an uphill battle to say the least. Speaking of Dream just as Riddle got going, Velveteen interrupted in a King like fashion and Kona Reeves nearly got the Win from it. However it was “The King of Bros” who would not be denied regaining momentum and hitting a match ending “knee strike, series of elbows, and finally a Bromission” for the victory. The North American Champion toasted Riddle on his victory leading to Riddle taking a short walk up the ramp to confront and disrespect his Takeover Opponent. Riddle isn’t great and this match wasn’t either. Another Bad Match this week.

UGLY- Nope but it was Bad at times.

FINAL

Good- 2

Bad- 2

Ugly- 0

Overall

Bad? Well, honestly when NXT is Bad enough to have a tie, it is Bad all over. There were Good things that happened but it certainly wasn’t par for the NXT course. This was a rare blemish but at a critical time. Takeover looks a lot better than WrestleMania on paper and history shows, it probably will be. It was a rare tough night but it happens. I don’t expect it to a frequent occurrence.

Raw was unforgivably Ugly. SmackDown Live was a clean Good show, and shockingly NXT did not deliver. It was a crap week overall minus the “blue” brand and it happens the week before the take home episodes are to air. Hopefully it was to get it out of their system before it really matters but whatever the case, there is always next time. Thank you for reading, catch you next week with a jam packed WrestleManina/Takeover extravaganza, and more of your favorite Good, Bad and Ugly, only on thechairshot.com.

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King: Dominik Mysterio Needs To Do This At WrestleMania

Chris King is here with what WWE should do with Dominik Mysterio at WrestleMania in his long-awaited match against his father Rey Mysterio Jr.

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Chris King is here with what WWE should do with Dominik Mysterio at WrestleMania in his long-awaited match against his father Rey Mysterio Jr.

On this week’s episode of Friday Night SmackDown, Rey Mysterio finally snapped and beat some sense into his disrespectful punk-ass kid Dominik. The member of the Judgement Day came out to push his father again for a match on the Grandest Stage of Them All, this time with his mother and sister at ringside. The ungrateful punk told his mom to “Shut Up,” as a father even I wanted to jump through the screen and whoop his ass.

Back in October of last year, Mysterio made the emotional decision to possibly quit the company but, instead, Triple H persuaded the Lucha libre superstar to move over to SmackDown to avoid his son. This came after Dominik shockingly turned on his father at Clash at the Castle. Mysterio did everything he could to refuse his despicable son’s challenge for Mania but, a man can only be pushed so far. Mysterio will be inducted into the 2023 WWE Hall of Fame and I expect Dominik to embarrass his father during his speech to further this personal feud.

Yes, the WWE Universe hates Dominik and wants to see him get the ever-loving crap kicked out of him but, this feud is missing a special ingredient to capitalize on the biggest heat possible. Throughout this feud, Dominik has made mention of the legendary Eddie Guerrero on several occasions going back to the “iconic” 2005 feud.

I know WWE might not want to go this route but, Dominik MUST come out to Eddie Guerrero’s theme at Mania. The disrespectful punk needs to come out in a lowrider to garner nuclear heat. It doesn’t matter if The Judgement Day comes out and causes interference for Dominik to get the win, all that matters is that both superstars get the biggest payoff of this nearly year-long feud. Just imagine the Roman Reigns heat after he defeated The Undertaker and multiply that by ten. Dominik portrays the perfect heel and he truly is the missing ingredient that The Judgement Day needed to grow and evolve into a top faction.

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King’s WrestleMania Rewind: Eddie Guerrero vs. Rey Mysterio (WrestleMania 21)

In the next WrestleMania Rewind, Chris King takes us back to WWE WrestleMania 21, and Rey Mysterio vs Eddie Guerrero in a battle of tag team champions!

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4 days ago

March 29, 2023

Chris King

In the next WrestleMania Rewind, Chris King takes us back to WWE WrestleMania 21, and Rey Mysterio vs Eddie Guerrero in a battle of tag team champions!

Chris King is back with his third edition of WrestleMania Rewind. This week he’s bringing us back to some ‘Latino Heat.’ We’re rolling back to WrestleMania 21 where Eddie Guerrero faced longtime friend and rival Rey Mysterio.

This would be Guerrero’s last Mania match caused by his unfortunate death. Over on SmackDown, Mysterio and Guerrero would become the tag team champions at No Way Out where they defeated MNM.

Chavo Guerrero would get into the head of Latino Heat by making him believe Mysterio was trying one-up his tag team partner. Chavo went as far as to tell his uncle to stop using the Guerrero name.

Guerrero would finally give in to his nephew’s manipulation and went on to challenge Mysterio to a one-on-one match at WrestleMania 21. I For the first time in history, both tag team champions would face each other. Guerrero vs. Mysterio was the first match on the stacked card. Both partners threw everything at each other including the kitchen sink in a battle of one-up-manship. In an incredible high-octane match that saw both superstars delivering counter for counter, Mysterio pulled off the win with a surprise pin roll up.

A few months later, what once was a friendly battle turned into a nasty fight involving the custody of Mysterio’s real-life son Dominik Mysterio. After several torturous weeks, both former tag team champions would face off in a ladder match with the custody of Dominick on the line. I forgot how amazing this rivalry was and it’s definitely worth a watch. Sadly, we would lose Latino Heat in November of 2005. There will never be another Eddie Guerrero. Viva La Raza!

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