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They show sucked. They show absolutely sucked. There was one good thing, and even that was preposterous, but it's so stupid that you can't even begin to deconstruct it.

You can only read it, and this is me, I'm pedantic as all hell. You can tear it apart, and I probably will, but there's no use, it's just magic, and it's on its own ridiculously stupid terms.

This sucked. There's a lot of reasons why this was bad. We talk a lot about NXT being so bad it's good, where you just completely gloss over the logic issues, and so many other things, to enjoy it on its own terms.

Even on its own stupid terms, this was really hard to like, I thought it was a terrible two hours of TV.

I've realised, as you were talking there, what NXT is in the grand scheme of things.

Developmental? Well, granted, yeah, but in our weird way of having to sort of contextualise this show, mainly to our British listeners, so apologies everyone else.

If, and I'm not saying that they're on the same level, but this is a nice example, if the main roster of WWE and AEW is Corrie and EastEnders, NXT's holiotes, it is.

Absolutely. Because they're occasionally, like, holiotes, and you'd be like, that's a really good storyline that actually, but a lot of the time you're like, oh my god, he's not an o.

But yes, if you weren't watching this for the reasons you watch AEW Dynamite, let's say, you had a lot of fun.

Yes, I did, and I've written down lots of voices to do, so in my book, let's get into it,

because a lot of people don't watch NXT and need us to recap, let's dive into this week's show.

Start out with a great recap from what happened at NXT, last week, with, of course, the surprise return of Johnny Gargano and Roxam Perez collapsing.

Got a question to ask you about that later, actually, but Johnny Wrestling opened the show, Gargano comes out, gets a great reaction, welcome back chance, etc, etc.

And, yeah, he asked the audience, last time I was here, I got murdered by Grayson Waller, basically, so can you just give me a shout if he's going to jump me from behind.

He said, the last time he was here, though, he left, and said he was going to teach his son to be the best man you can be.

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