Looks like TNA has gone Family Feud. First of all, who the hell is Kaitlyn aka Vickie's mystery rookie? NXT sucks today as we have 6 rookies instead of 8.
She's Rickie Vaughn from FCW. Apparently she's only been there for six weeks before getting called up to NXT and is very green. So it's probably going to be trainwreck when she finally wrestles. But I like her personality though. Doing the robot and the Elaine dance from Seinfeld was awesome. And she's hot. Though I'll still be rooting for A.J. & Naomi.
Speaking of Naomi. I think it's hilarious she's like 10 times a better wrestler than her "pro", Kelly Kelly. And I'm pleasantly surprised that I wad dead wrong about her having trouble connecting with the fans, by the end of the show she became the clear crowd favorite.
I also found the crowd's attitude to be interesting. At the start of the show they were all prepared to **** on the whole thing as the WWE Universe has had little patience for the Divas in general for the past couple of years. And sure enough the first two segments deserved to be shat on anyway. But somehow, halfway through the show, the crowd must have ran out of haterade because they actually started to get into it and give the women a fairshake.
The first tag match was actually getting pretty good. Ironically enough when it was the two rookies wrestling instead of the pros. Shame the finish got flubbed with Alicia not breaking up the pin like she was supposed to. Forcing the match to end prematurely, of course this only got exposed when Naomi & Maxine still did the planned finish after the match was over. Oddly enough the crowd got into them enough that they were uncharastically forgiving by that point.
The mix tag match was way too short to amount to anything. A.J. did what she could under the circumstance but geesh Aksana is just terrible.
My rankings so far.
Wrestling
1. Naomi Night
2. A.J. Lee
3. Maxine
4. Aksana
N/A Jamie Keyes & Kaitlyn
Mic Skills (not that any of them were very good in this area)
1. Naomi Night
2. A.J. Lee
3. Kaitlyn
4. Aksana
5. Maxine
6. Jamie Keyes
Hotness
1. Kaitlyn
2. A.J. Lee
3. Maxine
4. Jamie Keyes
5. Naomi Night
6. Aksana
Personality
1. A.J. Lee
2. Naomi Night
3. Kaitlyn
4. Aksana
5. Maxine
6. Jamie Keyes
Overall. Show was bad but honestly it wasn't the total trainwreck I was expecting and was really no worse than some of the lesser episodes of the first two seasons. I still find NXT to be an interesting experiment, I've watched every episode so far, might as well see it to the end. Of course, now I'm going to go watch some SHIMMER DVDs to remind myself what good women's wrestling looks like.
