WWE NXT 27th April 2016 - 5 Points to Note
NXT opened with news about Samoa Joe’s statement-making victory over Finn Balor. They then moved on to the first match of the night featuring Asuka and Eva Marie and it was refreshing to see the championship around her waist.
New stories were kicked off or at least looked very likely to have been planted this week in the women’s division and in the tag team division, though the NXT men’s championship zone looks pretty open-ended at the moment. The raging discussion right now is the when and where about Balor’s main roster debut.
Here are the 5 points to note from tonight’s episode of NXT
Mayhem in Massachusetts
That’s what NXT called it and going by the videos we’d seen of the event, it certainly earned that. Samoa Joe defeated Finn Balor fair and square in the middle of the ring in his third attempt at the NXT Championship. This was a result that propelled fans to believe that Balor is sooner or later going to make it to the main roster.
The beauty of it all was the unpredictability and the crowd went nuts for Joe’s victory. NXT had many social media snippets accompanying this show- stealing moment. They showed Joe backstage after the match and Joe, in all his eloquence on the mic simply exclaimed that while Balor survived the last two matches, he couldn’t do so in this one.