{"id":5488,"date":"2015-12-12T22:25:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T04:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=5488"},"modified":"2015-12-12T22:25:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T04:25:33","slug":"5488","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2015\/12\/12\/5488\/","title":{"rendered":"12\/12 WWE NXT in Sheffield &#8211; Second Report on fan run-in, reactions, chants, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1406495041\" 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><p><strong>WWE NXT Results<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>December 12, 2015<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sheffield, England<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Report by Martin Bell, PWTorch reader<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The arena was nearly full for what was put on-sale; it was cut at the halfway point with the top-tier curtained off. Ring announcer Brown Shoes welcomed us.<\/p>\n<p>(1) Enzo Amore &amp; Big Cass beat Blake &amp; Murphy (w\/Alexa Bliss).\u00a0Alexa got a pop when she came out. Enzo &amp;\u00a0Cass had the only mic time of any wrestler, and were very popular.<\/p>\n<p>(2) Bull Dempsey beat Tye Dillinger.\u00a0Dillinger\u2019s \u201cPerfect 10\u201d gimmick was very over (and continued to be through the night), and\u00a0so was Bull.<\/p>\n<p>(3) Samoa Joe beat Apollo Crews.\u00a0I was most excited for this match, but the audience chanted \u201cUhaa\u201d and sang songs with \u201cOoh-aah\u201d in the whole way through. I felt this confused the more casual audience member and distracted from the match. The audience was altogether trying to be too smart for its own good the whole night. We just kept cheering the faces and booing the heels.<\/p>\n<p>(4) NXT Women&#8217;s champion Bayley beat Emma\u00a0w\/Dana Brooke.\u00a0The males in and around us deemed it more appropriate to chant at Dana. The match went a little long, and I\u2019m not sure Bayley and Emma have the best chemistry. Nia Jax came out afterward to make belt gestures at Bayley. On Bayley\u2019s way out, one of her inflatables got a knot in it halfway up, and wouldn\u2019t fully inflate. She grabbed it and pulled the knot free and a huge pop went out when the thing was fully inflated.<\/p>\n<p>After an intermission, William Regal came out to a huge pop and briefly addressed the audience.<\/p>\n<p>(5) NXT tag champions Dash &amp; Dawson beat Jason Jordan &amp; Chad Gable. Best match of the night for both me and my girlfriend. Great support for Jordan &amp; Gable. There was a fan run-in, which was disappointing and was met with a round of boos and a chant accusing the fan of being word I shaln\u2019t repeat &#8211; a very sweary British chant. After the match, Dash &amp; Dawson left the ring to Gable &amp;\u00a0Jordan, and they were greeted with a\u00a0chant of \u201cYou are awesome.&#8221;<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-2694404386\" 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>(6)\u00a0Asuka beat\u00a0Carmella.\u00a0Blink-and-you\u2019d-miss-it match. Asuka was very over.<\/p>\n<p>(7) NXT champion\u00a0Finn Balor beat Sami Zayn and Baron Corbin in a three-way match.\u00a0Corbin had great heat. Sami came out last as if it was a surprise, but the whole arena was doing an \u201cOl\u00e9\u201d chant beforehand. At one point, Sami was thrown from the ring and seemed to butt heads with Greg the announcer, whose nose appeared to be bleeding afterward and he got medical help (in the form of a handkerchief, it looked like). A fun spot occurred when Sami put on Finn\u2019s leather jacket and impersonated him, to which Finn responded by putting on Sami\u2019s harrington jacket and scally cap. So, he \u201cskanked\u201d (the dance one does to ska music, for the unaware) in the ring. This was repeated after the match, which Finn won by hitting the Coup De Grace on Corbin as he was covering Zayn, and pinned Corbin. Corbin also got chants of \u201cJeremy Corbyn,\u201d the socialist leader of the British Labour party.<\/p>\n<p>The arena holds 13,500, but we reckon a third of it was in use, so probably about 5,000 people in attendance factoring in the floor seats. It\u2019s usually a hockey rink for local team Sheffield Steelers.<\/p>\n<p>When adverts for TLC went on the screen, they were met with boos. Highlights of Smackdown went up, and the New Day and Owens-Ambrose segments were cheered; everything else was met with silence. Well, except for\u00a0Roman Reigns and Sheamus, who were booed. Announced Greg tried to plug TLC on the mic, and was booed for it.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, when we booked tickets for this my girlfriend hadn\u2019t watched NXT, but started watching so she was clued up for the show. She didn\u2019t like wrestling, as her only exposure to it was\u00a0Raw recently, and previously the odd WrestleMania. She actively likes NXT now and wants to continue watching the weekly show. 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