{"id":46791,"date":"2017-08-21T18:05:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T23:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=46791"},"modified":"2017-08-22T17:05:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T22:05:08","slug":"811-nxt-san-jose-calif-detailed-report-including-roode-vs-strong-black-vs-itami-asuka-vs-moon-sanity-vs-aop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/08\/21\/811-nxt-san-jose-calif-detailed-report-including-roode-vs-strong-black-vs-itami-asuka-vs-moon-sanity-vs-aop\/","title":{"rendered":"8\/11 NXT in San Jose, Calif.: Detailed report including Roode vs. Strong, Black vs. Itami, Asuka vs. Moon, Sanity vs. AOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2145967312\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><h3>NXT LIVE EVENT REPORT<br \/>\nAUGUST 11, 2017<br \/>\nSAN JOSE, CALIF.<br \/>\nREPORT BY JEFF FROM COLORADO, PWTORCH CORRESPONDENT<\/h3>\n<p>Sorry for the delay in getting these reports to you. Vacation, visiting with friends and family, along with only having an iPhone to type this all out and send your way made it more difficult than I had imagined it would be.<\/p>\n<p>It was announced as a sold out although the corner upper sections were totally empty and some of the upper rows at the top were scattered. Pretty filled in everywhere else though.<\/p>\n<p>A Triple H video welcomed us and reminded us it is &#8220;our NXT.&#8221; No boos surprisingly, but no loud cheers either.\u00a0Loads of Bullet Club shirts.\u00a0This was my first NXT show.\u00a0I was disappointed the bell was digital, or at least I think it was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(1) Johnny Gargano beat Andrade Cien Almas. It started off slow. Basically just Almas glaming and then Gargano mocking him. Then they got started with a collar and elbow lockup, but it still took awhile for the action to get going. Not in a bad way, but it wasn&#8217;t rockets from the start.\u00a0Through the ropes spear near two fall from Gargano.\u00a0Loads of action near the end. A submission finisher for Gargano.\u00a0Loads of &#8220;Johnny Wrestling&#8221; chants.\u00a0Good back and forth match. I&#8217;ve always like Gargano, and this match just proved me right. He has a really good energy. While he was respected. I was surprised he didn&#8217;t get as much reaction as I would have expected. I&#8217;d come to realize why that was.<\/p>\n<p>(2) Ruby Riot &amp; Sarah Logan beat Sonya Deville &amp; Mandy Rose. Logan is doing a country gimmick. Mandy was doing a\u00a0sexy strut hair band rock gimmick; think Pour some sugar on me. There were &#8220;Sarah Logan&#8221; chants and she was acting like &#8220;oh come on&#8221; but flattered. TONS of &#8220;Mandy&#8221; chants.\u00a0Sonya came in and broke up a pin fall. Sarah ran in to take on Sonya. Ruby got back with Mandy. Quite a bit of boos when Ruby was picking up the action. Ruby eventually got the win with her finisher. Mandy clearly has the young man audience because of her, um, assets. Riot got the cheers, but the audience wanted Mandy and more Mandy.<\/p>\n<p>(3) Lars Sullivan beat Oney Lorcan. The size comparison is particularly impressive, but it is clear this Lars is quite large all around.\u00a0Sullivan won with what was a hard slam after a crazy strong series of moves. This guy is big and strong. He got an &#8220;I&#8217;m impressed&#8221; cheer after his strong arm move that threw Orney for a huge flip. Still a good amount of boos for his winning.<\/p>\n<p>(4)\u00a0Aleister Black beat\u00a0Hideo Itami. Itami got a mixed reaction. Black got the loudest reaction.\u00a0There was a near fall after a falcon arrow from Hideo.\u00a0Hideo called for GTS and Aleister slithered his way out and hit his Black Mass.\u00a0Hideo had 99 percent of the match which was disappointing. I would rather see Aleister as a crazy dominant wrestler not totally unlike how we saw Asuka initially and mostly even still.\u00a0Mostly boos for Hideo but still more cheers than I would have expected.\u00a0When GTS was in position, Aleister slipped out and went for the Black Mass and won.\u00a0Aleister is crazy good. There is no doubt this guy has IT.<\/p>\n<p>(5)\u00a0Kassius Ohno &amp; mystery partner Drew McIntyre beat Riddick Moss &amp; Tino Sabbatelli. Earlier in the night a video showed where Moss &amp; Sabbatelli harassed Ohno in the locker room for being alone. Ohno said he&#8217;d get a partner and meet them in the ring.\u00a0Before the match, McGhee Moss cut a promo to harass Ohno. During the match there was a &#8220;You can&#8217;t promo&#8221; chant toward Moss.\u00a0There was a spot where Kassius had Moss by the leg and then tagged Drew. Moss begged for him to put his leg down and Kasius played to the audience to do it or not. Kassisus did gently put his leg down but then Drew immediately kicked him hard.\u00a0McIntrye and Ohno ultimately won.\u00a0McIntrye went all around the ring and too sweeted everyone. I even got to &#8220;too sweet&#8221; and shake the mans hand. He is a huge man. I was more impressed with him than I expected to be. I felt like along with Aleister, he had a the best presence of the night.\u00a0Moss and Riddick had the most sincere boos of the night.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3622125332\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Intermission<\/p>\n<p>William Regal came out as intermission ended and said there were 2,000 people in attendance. He said five years ago there were only about fifty people buying tickets. He was grateful for what we have helped it to grow to be. He reminded us NXT is nothing without us. At this point he had the loudest reaction of the night. Second to Aleister.<\/p>\n<p>(6) Asuka pinned Ember Moon to retain the NXT Women&#8217;s Title.\u00a0Moon&#8217;s eyes were blue tonight. Match started with Asuka dancing around and taking in crowd chants of &#8220;Asuka&#8217;s gonna kill you&#8221; and Ember ran up and kicked her hard. This was an intense match. They both impressed me. She competed with Aleister for second best reaction of the night. The match ended when\u00a0Asuka pulled the ref in front of her and Ember jumped over the ref but Asuka reversed it and rolled her up and won.<\/p>\n<p>(7)\u00a0Sanity beat Authors of Pain via DQ so AOP retained the NXT Tag Team Titles. No Killian Dane and no Paul Ellering. The match started chaotic with fighting everywhere. After minutes of scrapping around outside, Drake got control of the match<br \/>\nEY still got back to fighting one of the AOP outside.\u00a0Good match.\u00a0One of the AOP fell when he was supposed to receive a neckbreaker and the audience yelled &#8220;you f&#8212;ed up,&#8221; especially after EY applied it properly to the next AOP.\u00a0Shortly after EY pinned an AOP member, the other pulled the ref out by the legs at the two count. Drake got away, seemed shaken, got his composure, and called for the bell. He regained his composure better and made the call officially: &#8220;Your winners by disqualification is Sanity but still your NXT champions, AOP.&#8221;\u00a0Heavy-hitting match. Great energy from both it AOP who still seemed a little green. They actually weren&#8217;t as large and intimidating as I assumed they would be.<\/p>\n<p>(8) Robert Roode beat Roderick Strong to retain the NXT Championship.\u00a0Strong got the most boos of any good guy.\u00a0Some guy was standing at ringside taking phone pictures, maybe even video?\u00a0Tons of cheers for Big Entrance Bobby\u00a0Roode acted like he was going to gently hand his robe and such off to Kayla (the announcer of the night), but instead he dropped it hard on her. Tons of boos and a great smile from Roode.\u00a0Even &#8220;Let&#8217;s go roddy&#8221; and &#8220;Let&#8217;s go Roode&#8221; chants.\u00a0Multiple ringside spots.\u00a0Multiple near falls including a DDT from Roode that was a very near three count. I heard in my head Corey Graves saying, &#8220;You can&#8217;t get any closer than that without the bell ringing.&#8221;\u00a0Roode got frustrated and grabbed the ref who turned away and when he did. Then Roode mule-kicked Strong and\u00a0did two DDTs in a row to get the win.<\/p>\n<p>After the match, McIntrye came out and said you can always count on three things: Death, taxes, and Roode cheating to win. He promised he would always be there and come eight days at NXT Takeover Brooklyn he would win that championship. Roode looked terrrified.\u00a0McIntrye then clapped for us and slapped a few hands ringside. This guy is good. I can see he is there to kick ass and be a great leader.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FINAL NOTES:<\/strong> As they started clearing us out, I shook the hand of the great ref Drake Wiertz.\u00a0Then they started kicking us out.\u00a0I got quite a few compliments on my &#8220;I&#8217;m a Cathy Kelley Guy.&#8221; Shirt before, during and after the show&#8230;\u00a0Dave Meltzer was in attendance.\u00a0After the show, when I asked if I could shake his hand he said sure and shook my hand and then saw my shirt and said &#8220;Cathy Kelly huh?&#8230;.&#8221; &#8220;Yeah&#8221; I said in return.\u00a0Anyway, good show overall. My only complaint was the weird guy next to me that has way too much spit that exits his mouth when he talks loudly or yells. And he talked loudly and yelled frequently this night&#8230;\u00a0I was a it surprised about the energy level and I figured it was because it was NXT, but the next night I learned it was just the audience that night. There were quite a bit of children in the audience. More John Cena shirts than I would have expected. Overall, it was an enjoyable show&#8230;\u00a0Merch table notes: \u00a0Several NXT branded shirts. Where&#8217;s the Raw or SmackDown Live! shirts :)&#8230;\u00a0The only main roster shirt I saw was Finn B\u00e1lor&#8230;\u00a0Asuka shirts and masks&#8230;\u00a0Glorious shirts and poster&#8230;\u00a0Event poster &#8220;unsigned&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>NOW CHECK OUT THIS PREVIOUS REPORT:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2017\/08\/12\/46203\/\">8\/12 NXT in Venice, Fla.: Kairi Sane &amp; Macey Evans vs. Billie Kay &amp; Peyton Royce, Velveteen Dream, Cear Bononi, Kona Reeves<\/a><\/p><div id=\"pwtor-1199665722\" class=\"pwtor-content-1 pwtor-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: pwtorchcom_test_300x600 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __300x600\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>If you attend a live event (WWE, NXT, ROH, Indy, and anything else!), please send a report like above to pwtorch@pwtorch.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1939947344\"><div id=\"pwtor-2753760761\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>NXT LIVE EVENT REPORT AUGUST 11, 2017 SAN JOSE, CALIF. 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