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06-09-2010, 05:32 PM
Posted by Andy Steven
WWE taped tonight's Season 2 debut of WWE NXT from the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa Bay, Florida. WNW reader Shannon Sylvia is inside the arena and providing us with live text-message updates.
Dark Match
JTG beat Dos Caras. The crowd didn't really respond until he started cutting a promo in Spanish. He got decent heat despite Tampa having a high Hispanic population. JTG got a nice reaction. After about three to four minutes of back and forth action, JTG hit his finisher for the win. There was actually a pretty loud JTG chant during the match.
WWE NXT (Airing Tonight)
* The show opens with a recap from the ending of last night's Raw showing the Rookies beating down John Cena.
* Matt Striker opens by discussing last night's Raw and the introducing the 'Pros' with their 'Rookies':
* Cody Rhodes & Husky Harris
* John Morrison & Eli Cottonwood
* MVP & Percy Watson
* Zack Ryder & Titus O'Neil
* Lay-Cool & Kaval
* Mark Henry & Lucky Cannon
* Kofi Kingston & Michael McGillicutty (Joe Hennig)
* The Miz & Alex Riley
When Lay-Cool introduced Kaval they had him carry their belts.
* After Striker makes the introductions he tells the people in the ring to spread. He summarizes last season and then goes over the new rules for this season. This season fans will go to the official WWE website and pick who will be the next 'breakout' star. It will twelve weeks long. In three weeks the audience will cast their vote and in six weeks one rookie will be eliminated. After this the rookies give their impression on becoming the next WWE Superstar. They then all begin to fight for the microphone.
* John Morrison & Eli Cottonwood b. Zack Ryder & Titus O'Neil in a tag team match.
Morrison and Cottonwood make impressive tag while Zack bails from ringside. The match continues back and forth. Morrison & Cottonwood won the match when Ryder broke up the pin and Cottonwood made the save while Morrison hits Starship Pain.
After the match Matt Striker asks John Morrison his thoughts on Eli followed by the pros. The Miz said some negative things.
* A video package on Alex Riley is shown where he talks about his father playing for the New York Jets. It then details him playing football at Boston University.
* A new ring announcer is introduced on this season of NXT. She has blonde hair and is wearing a white dress.
* MVP & Percy Watson b. Cody Rhodes & Husky Harris
Percy does his dance at the beginning of the match. Cody gets some heat after he taunts knocking down Percy. Husky hits a few moves before tagging in Cody. The referee tries to break him up but successfully get a near fall after a suplex. The crowd starts getting behind Percy as Cody makes a double tag. Percy finally comes in by tagging in MVP and hits Ballin followed by a Playmaker until Cody distracts MVP by doing a Crossbody until he gets a big boot. MVP tags Percy and he gets the win via pinfall after connecting with his finisher.
After the match Cody gives his thoughts on Husky Harris and doesn't care about talking about his rookie; he says it's showtime! MVP is next to say his thoughts on Percy.
* A video package on Michael McGillicutty (Joe Hennig) is shown. He says he was bron to do his job.
* A recap from Raw will be shown tonight.
* All the pros and the rookies come out to the ring. Matt Striker shows the recap from last night's Raw where the NXT rookies from season one took our Cena and destroyed the ringside set.
* Tons of 'THIS IS AWESOME' chants are heard throughout the arena.
* After the recap Matt Striker asked the rookies their thoughts on last season's rookies. Kaval said they're making a statement. Husky Harris said he doesn't care and he wants to win NXT. Alex Riley sneezes and says he's allergic to Striker. Percy says it's 'mono e mono one-on-one'. Eli Cottonwood said they deserve everything. Titus O'Neil thinks if you want to fight you got to win. Michaels says they make a huge impact. Striker then goes on to say that on behalf of everyone that was slaughtered at Raw he welcomes the next rookies.
* A huge fight breaks out where all the pro clean house except Lay-Cool.
* Mark Henry hits World's Strongest Slam on Titus O'Neil to close the season premier.
WWE taped tonight's Season 2 debut of WWE NXT from the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa Bay, Florida. WNW reader Shannon Sylvia is inside the arena and providing us with live text-message updates.
Dark Match
JTG beat Dos Caras. The crowd didn't really respond until he started cutting a promo in Spanish. He got decent heat despite Tampa having a high Hispanic population. JTG got a nice reaction. After about three to four minutes of back and forth action, JTG hit his finisher for the win. There was actually a pretty loud JTG chant during the match.
WWE NXT (Airing Tonight)
* The show opens with a recap from the ending of last night's Raw showing the Rookies beating down John Cena.
* Matt Striker opens by discussing last night's Raw and the introducing the 'Pros' with their 'Rookies':
* Cody Rhodes & Husky Harris
* John Morrison & Eli Cottonwood
* MVP & Percy Watson
* Zack Ryder & Titus O'Neil
* Lay-Cool & Kaval
* Mark Henry & Lucky Cannon
* Kofi Kingston & Michael McGillicutty (Joe Hennig)
* The Miz & Alex Riley
When Lay-Cool introduced Kaval they had him carry their belts.
* After Striker makes the introductions he tells the people in the ring to spread. He summarizes last season and then goes over the new rules for this season. This season fans will go to the official WWE website and pick who will be the next 'breakout' star. It will twelve weeks long. In three weeks the audience will cast their vote and in six weeks one rookie will be eliminated. After this the rookies give their impression on becoming the next WWE Superstar. They then all begin to fight for the microphone.
* John Morrison & Eli Cottonwood b. Zack Ryder & Titus O'Neil in a tag team match.
Morrison and Cottonwood make impressive tag while Zack bails from ringside. The match continues back and forth. Morrison & Cottonwood won the match when Ryder broke up the pin and Cottonwood made the save while Morrison hits Starship Pain.
After the match Matt Striker asks John Morrison his thoughts on Eli followed by the pros. The Miz said some negative things.
* A video package on Alex Riley is shown where he talks about his father playing for the New York Jets. It then details him playing football at Boston University.
* A new ring announcer is introduced on this season of NXT. She has blonde hair and is wearing a white dress.
* MVP & Percy Watson b. Cody Rhodes & Husky Harris
Percy does his dance at the beginning of the match. Cody gets some heat after he taunts knocking down Percy. Husky hits a few moves before tagging in Cody. The referee tries to break him up but successfully get a near fall after a suplex. The crowd starts getting behind Percy as Cody makes a double tag. Percy finally comes in by tagging in MVP and hits Ballin followed by a Playmaker until Cody distracts MVP by doing a Crossbody until he gets a big boot. MVP tags Percy and he gets the win via pinfall after connecting with his finisher.
After the match Cody gives his thoughts on Husky Harris and doesn't care about talking about his rookie; he says it's showtime! MVP is next to say his thoughts on Percy.
* A video package on Michael McGillicutty (Joe Hennig) is shown. He says he was bron to do his job.
* A recap from Raw will be shown tonight.
* All the pros and the rookies come out to the ring. Matt Striker shows the recap from last night's Raw where the NXT rookies from season one took our Cena and destroyed the ringside set.
* Tons of 'THIS IS AWESOME' chants are heard throughout the arena.
* After the recap Matt Striker asked the rookies their thoughts on last season's rookies. Kaval said they're making a statement. Husky Harris said he doesn't care and he wants to win NXT. Alex Riley sneezes and says he's allergic to Striker. Percy says it's 'mono e mono one-on-one'. Eli Cottonwood said they deserve everything. Titus O'Neil thinks if you want to fight you got to win. Michaels says they make a huge impact. Striker then goes on to say that on behalf of everyone that was slaughtered at Raw he welcomes the next rookies.
* A huge fight breaks out where all the pro clean house except Lay-Cool.
* Mark Henry hits World's Strongest Slam on Titus O'Neil to close the season premier.