The other two rookies, Justin Gabriel and Skip Sheffield, will appear on next week’s NXT on Syfy.
The Highlight of the evening, the main event, was Daniel Bryan vs. Chris Jericho. And WOW, what a match! Bryan cut off The Miz and lightly shoved him away on his way to the ring. There, as a show of sportsmanship, he offered his hand to Jericho, who, of course, slapped it away. And then taunted Bryan by continually shoving him back, until Bryan unleashed on Jericho. One thing I did notice, though, was the weird referee intervention. Of course, in the corner, they have to push the attacking wrestler back. This ref just actually crouched in between the two fighting wrestlers. But after that little malfunction, Bryan did some nice slides between Jericho’s legs and a nice step-up and backflip off the top rope, but he did take down Jericho by grabbing Jericho’s leg and pulling (like the popular move in the WWE video games) and it was very odd and from the way Jericho bumped, it looked more like he just simply tripped him and Bryan for some reason, while sitting, bumped backwards and popped back up when he got kicked in the back of the head. Wouldnt you usually fly forwards or lean forwards then fall back and lay there? He made up for it when he went for a suicide dive to Jericho on the outside of the ring, and Jericho slightly countered… by somewhat catching Bryan and slamming his side into the announce table! Ouch! Oh, the bruise it left on him. That’s when his expression-less face turned to pure anguish then intent on pushing forward in the match like he wanted to tear apart Jericho. Chris went for the Walls of Jericho, but Bryan countered it to his own submission, wrapping around and bending Jericho’s leg over his own and pushing down on it. Jericho grabbed the ropes. The match ended when Chris Jericho was able to put Bryan in the Walls, but he placed his knee on the back of Daniel Bryan’s head in the old Liontamer submission. Followed by Miz attacking his rookie, busting him in the bead on the mat, yelling "Huh!? You embarrass me!?"
All in all, it was a fairly good show. Great addition to WWE Television. And I can not wait to see what happens next week!
-Cody Hauri
