I did not get a chance to review NXT Stand & Deliver this year because the timing of the day just wasn’t great for me. But I did get to watch it, so indulge me in giving some quick thoughts on that before we get into WrestleMania [38] Saturday: It’s really fun to know that even in the 2.0 era where NXT is a lot … Continue reading WrestleMania 38 Night One Review
Is this the last NXT Takeover event? Is this the last RELEVANT NXT Takeover event? Is all the talk of an NXT makeover much ado about nothing? They agreement with Full Sail is over. Everyone’s favorite WWE exec, Nick Khan, has promised changes (and has also been hacking away at NXT’s lower and midcard rosters as if they were unsavory weeds). I guess we will … Continue reading NXT Takeover 36 Review
I’m not sure why NXT is essentially the hand-me-down brand. Everything that used to be a wrestling thing that is no longer a wrestling thing somehow gets given to NXT to become their wrestling thing. In Your House, Halloween Havoc, Great American Bash… these used to be real WWF/WCW pay-per-views of the 1990’s. But they’ve all be discontinued and someone decided that NXT gets to … Continue reading NXT Takeover In Your House Review
So Night One of NXT’s WrestleMania week show, Stand & Deliver, was a bit of a mixed bag. Sure there were three definitively stellar matches, but the main event Women’s Title match was a touch of a letdown. And the Gauntlet Eliminator match had some really fun moments (most of them between Bronson Reed and Isiah “Swerve” Scott in the final moments), but felt too … Continue reading NXT Stand & Deliver Night 2 Review
NXTmania week starts now! A two-night NXT Takeover? Leading in to a two-night WrestleMania? I guess I’m just not going to expect anything for Christmas this year because this must be it. NXT has really been killing it with angles lately, though, so it definitely needed two nights for this Takeover. There’s just a lot going on, and the typical five match Takeover recipe just … Continue reading NXT Stand & Deliver Night One Review
I feel like I start every NXT Takeover review the same way: by gushing over how much I love NXT. But you know what? I really love NXT. WWE just has way too many hours of programming, but still can’t come up with more than one or two compelling stories at a time. AEW is high quality wrestling, but I often am not on board … Continue reading NXT Takeover: Vengeance Day Review
I am a bit late on this, what with it being January 13th and all, but I’ll let you in on a secret: this isn’t really MY idea. You see, these annual awards are the brainchild of 411mania.com, where each of the contributors makes a list, then each day one new category is unveiled to see who voted for what. I actually wrote this WEEKS … Continue reading The 2020 SWO Wrestling Awards!
You may have noticed recently that we have been reviewing classic wrestlers based on the idea that there are three categories by which you can break down a talent (Bret Hart said so!). But were you aware that wrestling didn’t end at, say, 2009?! It turns out it didn’t, so we thought we’d do a separate column on the Bret Hart categories for the modern … Continue reading Bret Hart Categories: Modern
For the fourth time already (wow!), it’s NXT’s new annual tradition: War Games! I’ll be honest… I had completely forgotten that KUSHIDA was not a part of this card until the pre-show failed to mention him. He’s been getting something of a huge push recently, so I was surprised he wasn’t included in some format. I figure he was initially planned to get a run … Continue reading NXT War Games 2020 Review
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