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• Hideo Itami defeated Tyler Breeze

• Baron Corbin defeated Bull Dempsey in a No Disqualification Match

• Buddy Murphy/Wesley Blake retained their NXT Tag Team Championship against the previous titleholders, The Lucha Dragons (Sin Cara/Kalisto)

• Finn Bálor defeated Adrian Neville in the finals of a tournament to determine the #1 contender of the NXT Championship

• Sasha Banks defeated Charlotte, Bayley & Becky Lynch in a Fatal 4-Way Match to become the new NXT Women's Champion

• Kevin Owens defeated Sami Zayn to become the new NXT Champion

I can't wait for Fastlane, feat. (as of this moment):

Paul Heyman will be a guest on "Miz TV" on the Fastlane Pre-Show
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• A face-to-face confrontation between TNA Hall Of Famer Sting & Triple H of The Authority

• Royal Rumble Winner Roman Reigns goes 1-on-1 with Daniel Bryan to determine the #1 contender of Brock Lesnar's WWE World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 31

• Bad News Barrett defending his Intercontinental Championship against Dean Ambrose

• Rusev defending his United States Championship against a 3-time former titleholder, John Cena

• The Usos (Jimmy/Jey) defending their Tag Team Championship against Cesaro/Tyson Kidd

• Nikki Bella of The Bella Twins defending her Divas Championship against a 2-time former titleholder, Paige

• Stardust goes 1-on-1 with his former Tag Team Championship partner, Goldust

[Rick Sanchez]

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* Chad Gable of Shoot Nation defeated Digg Rawlis in the dark match.

February 18th episode:

* NXT General Manager William Regal appears on the big screen for a promo. He announces Adrian Neville vs. NXT Champion Kevin Owens in a non-title match.

* Kevin Owens comes out and there are dueling chants for he and Sami Zayn, who is not here. Owens says Finn Balor can ask for his title match whenever he wants it.

* Rhino made his return to WWE and got a big pop. He defeated Elias Samson with a Gore and the crowd was on fire.

* Finn Balor cut a backstage promo on Kevin Owens. Rhino walks past him and smirks.

* Big Cass and Enzo Amore defeated The Vaudevillians. Blake and Murphy appeared on the big screen and cut a promo hitting on Carmella, then trashing Enzo and Cass.

* CJ Parker came to the ring and said he was taking the show hostage. He starts putting yellow emergency tape on the ring but Solomon Crowe made his debut, attacking Parker and taking him out.

* Sasha Banks made Blue Pants tap out and then cut a promo challenging anyone to come after her title.

* Kevin Owens defeated Adrian Neville in a non-title match with a powerbomb. This was said to be better than the Takeover main event.

February 25th episode:

* Hideo Itami defeated Bull Dempsey with a jumping kick. Tyler Breeze attacks Hideo on the stags and lays him out. Breeze takes a selfie over Hideo with a selfie stick. Hideo jumps back up and leaves Breeze laying.

* The Lucha Dragons (Sin Cara and Kalisto) defeated Jason Jordan and Tye Dillinger when Jordan walked out on his partner.

* Dillinger is upset and cuts a promo, apparently issues an open challenge. Baron Corbin comes out and squashes him in seconds.

* Becky Lynch defeated Bayley by submission.

* The Brian Kendrick vs. Finn Balor is next. Balor gets the win with the top rope stomp. Kevin Owens watched from the announce desk and after the match, he tossed Alex Riley over the desk to a big pop

March 4th episode:

* Adam Rose comes out to a big pop but lost to Tyler Breeze. Breeze then fought off the Rosebuds, using his selfie stick like a sword.

* Blake and Murphy vs. Sawyer Fulton and Angelo Dawkins of Shoot Nation is next. Blake and Murphy get the non-title win.

* Baron Corbin squashed Tony Briggs while Kevin Owens was intimidating Alex Riley at the announce desk.

* Owens starts trying to fight the announcers. Riley is being held back by Jason Albert. Riley wants to fight as Owens taunts him.

March 11th episode:

* Solomon Crowe vs. Bull Dempsey is next. Crowe wins with his snap off the ropes splash. This may have been the end of the third episode of the first match on the fourth.

* Sasha Banks defeated Charlotte to retain the NXT Women's Title. Sasha had her feet on the ropes. Sasha countered a Natural Selection off the ropes to get the pin.

* Big Cass and Enzo come out to cut a promo on The Lucha Dragons before their match, saying they're more like the Geico Lizards and there's about to be an accident. Enzo and Cass defeated The Lucha Dragons (Sin Cara and Kalisto) to a huge reaction from the crowd.

* Alexa Bliss defeated Carmella after a move off the top rope.

* Alex Riley comes out to a huge pop for a match against CJ Parker. Riley was said to be impressive with a beautiful dropkick and a spinning neckbreaker. He went to the top for the Blockbuster and got the win.

* Kevin Owens comes out and says Riley is the dumbest man in WWE. Owens says he will end Riley's career before ending Finn Balor.

* Tyler Breeze vs. Hideo Itami is next. Breeze gets the win with a Beauty Shot. This was the end of the tapings as Hideo recovered and was high-fiving fans at ringside.

[Mordecay]

How many of you guys watched NXT Rival? Last three matches were "Holy crap". My favourite was Neville-Balor, you forget Neville size for how good he is. Thr women again prooving what they can do when they had the time. And Owens was in Brock mode and squashed Sami. NXT keeps getting better each week.

Lol at SD, Roman and Bryan burying the entire Tag team division in one night.

[Love Buzz]

Veteran wrestler L@nce St0rm put together a column on Roman and the Rumble reaction. It's not a long read at all and worth it as he makes a good all round point about the W W E.

Click here to read it

He was also on J!m C0rnettes podcast if anybody is interested. Only a hour long if you want to pass some time. They also do a part two next week.

Either download or stream it here

Reactions? I find it intriguing and it's hard to argue that W W E are blurring the lines and have shot themselves in the foot. The crowd can't boo Vince, after all he has been doing this forever, so Roman takes all the heat for it. They screwed up with Bryan and I can't see them making amends yet again one year later. But if Bryan doesn't win at Fast Lane they shoot themselves in the foot again. I can see fans giving up on him and that is even worse. I have to say I'm starting to give up and Fast Lane, if it goes shitty, could be that point.

[talltrekkie]

There's still this part of me wondering what the last month would have been like if the Rumble was in say, Atlanta or Phoenix, instead of Philly. Maybe we're having the Authority pushing Reigns to the limit and he gets 'stronger' and it builds up for a win over Brock. Of course, we may still get that after Fast Lane but by then the damage will have been done. They're in a corner after going with Reigns/Bryan and the result will get flak no matter what. It's a matter of which path; Reigns, Bryan or setup the triple gives the 'flesh wound'.

I still think they should have gone with Seth instead of Bryan at Fast Lane. It would let Reigns go over a top heel, which is Seth not either of the 40-something giants, and there's less of a 'You bastards jerked us around' reaction with Bryan compared to if/when he loses to Reigns.

[Karmafan]

For a long time Vince had long term goals and each PPV got them to their goal (WM matches). Since Steph/HHH took over they seem to be shooting from the hip on the spur of the moment without thinking of the long term consequences down the road.

Putting 2 of their 3 top babyfaces in the same match means pissing off lots of fans. unless they plan on Reigns or Bryan turning heel it makes no sense. Making the main event at WM a triple threat makes Bryan and Reigns look weak. Its like saying neither one of you can beat Brock so we will make it a 3 way so you have a fighting chance. If they add Rollins to the mix that ties up 4 guys so less top guys to wrestle in matches.

[Love Buzz]

I actually liked the tag team turmoil. The jobber teams jobbed... Miz and Mizdow aren't really a team any more, Slater Gator never got going and same for The Matadores. Usos went about 20 minutes and weren't buried. Ascension got a dq and Kane/Show argued, again, and got beat. Bryan and Roman have this odd chemistry that worked for me. It's making me wonder what will happen. Double pinfall for a draw?

The rest of the show was utter shit apart from Paige scaring some bloke backstage who was just staring at a wall of stuff. I noticed Paige had temp tattoos on her arms on Raw but didn't on Smackdown. Just looked and it read RIP Drew McDonald... hm, must of been a friend.

Link to the see the tattoo

[Mordecay]

Originally Posted by Love Buzz

I actually liked the tag team turmoil. The jobber teams jobbed... Miz and Mizdow aren't really a team any more, Slater Gator never got going and same for The Matadores. Usos went about 20 minutes and weren't buried. Ascension got a dq and Kane/Show argued, again, and got beat. Bryan and Roman have this odd chemistry that worked for me. It's making me wonder what will happen. Double pinfall for a draw?

The rest of the show was utter shit apart from Paige scaring some bloke backstage who was just staring at a wall of stuff. I noticed Paige had temp tattoos on her arms on Raw but didn't on Smackdown. Just looked and it read RIP Drew McDonald... hm, must of been a friend.

Link to the see the tattoo

In Monday that guy died from cancer. He was an scottish wrestler, friend of her family and was the guy who help her get into WWE. She says she owes him a lot. That was really cool of her to recognize that.