The black and gold brand and it's competitor (AEW Dynamite) were both okay. Not terrible and had a few highlights but overall, the shows were just fine.
NXT
Highlights.
Keith Lee And Dominic Djakovic vs The Undisputed Era In Kyle O'Reilly And Bobby Fish.
Fish suffered an injury during this tag team bout so instead Roderick Strong, the team player he is, replaced Fish's role in this match. Djakovic at one point delivered a suplex to Keith Lee on to the rest of Undisputed Era.
O'Reilly's submission was countered by Dominic with a powerbomb while hitting a chokeslam to Strong at the same time. Djakovic with a beat-up leg, delivered a 450 on to Strong and O'Reilly outside the ring.
Cole was about to interject himself but Lee quickly threw him onto the crowd area meanwhile, Strong and O'Reilly hits the high-low to Dominic Djakovic and the champions are still champions. A very good match. That throw from Lee to Cole was just…. Wow.
Candice LeRae vs Dakota Kai.
A hard-hitting match, LeRae tried to hit a German suplex but instead, she hit herself on the apron along with Kai. Candice was about to get rid of Kai with the Gargano escape but Kai used the knee brace and hits her head.
She was about to use a chair to inflict further damage on LeRae but Rhea Ripley made the save by kicking on the chair. That theme song from Kai while it fits, it is not my cup of coke zero.
Rhea Ripley Challenges Shayna Baszler For The Women's Championship.
Xia Li won her match with Vanessa Bourne with a kick and then, Shayna and the gang got rid of her and basically brought up Baszler's victory at Survivor Series. Rhea Ripley came to challenge her for the NXT women's championship.
Noice. Will Shayna's reign finally end? Probably given that Ripley I feel is the only woman in that women's division that can beat Baszler and become champion.
Some Other Things That Happened.
Undisputed Era Interrupts An NXT Concert - The reason? Well, they feel that they're the reason why NXT was victorious at the 2019 edition of Survivor Series.
Ciampa told the leader of Undisputed Era that he's coming for his title to which Balor came out and Ciampa said: "prince, you just met your king".
Mansoor vs Shane Throne - Mansoor wins here with a springboard neckbreaker. Hopefully, we get to see more of Mansoor on TV.
Lio Rush vs Akira Tozawa For The NXT Cruiserweight Championship - You thought there was an actual brand split? Pffft.
Also, I don't get why Tozawa got a championship match given that he just lost clean as a whistle to Andrade earlier this week on RAW. But, the match was decent. Rush retains with two frog splashes.
Finn Balor vs Tommaso Ciampa - Thanks to Adam Cole, Balor hits the 1916 and won
Cole touched the prince and Balor kicked Cole's head off. The match was okay.
AEW
Highlights.
Chris Jericho's Thanksgiving Celebration.
This segment was great. Jericho was having fun with his inner circle members along with soul train jones aka Virgil and even had his father give out New York Rangers t-shirts which got the crowd chanting "Rangers' suck".
Jericho brought up Justin Roberts to read what the exes over at TNT said about Le Champion and after the ring announcer read the letter, inner circle bullied the poor man until SCU disguised as the marching band made the save and got rid of the inner circle.
I really liked the fact that Christopher Daniels locked in the million-dollar dream to Virgil. That was a nice call to Virgil's stint with Ted Dibiase. By the way, Dasha Gonzalez aka Dasha replaced Justin Roberts' place and she was good as a ring announcer.
Kenny Omega vs Pac.
Omega hits a snap dragon suplex on two different occasions. Then, Pac jumps from the top rope on Omega outside the ring with a beautiful moonsault.
Pac plants Kenny with a top rope falcon arrow and unfortunately, Omega outsmarted the bastard by winning the match with the crucifix pin. An enjoyable match. Both guys have excellent chemistry so it's no surprise that they pulled off a good match.
Dustin Rhodes Took Out The Inner Circle With Some Help.
Rhodes was interviewed by Jenn Decker about what Jake Hager did to him and the rest of the Inner circle stomps on Dustin to which the Young Bucks saved the legend and super kicked Guevara, Santana And Ortiz.
I liked the triple kick that Dustin and The Young Bucks did to Sammy Guevara. That was cool.
Chris Jericho vs Scorpio Sky For The AEW World Championship.
Hager got involved in this match but the rest of SCU evened the odds. Sky then dodged Chris Jericho's attack with the championship and Sky hits the TKO and Jericho kicked out.
Scorpio counters Jericho's Judas effect but he didn't counter the lion tamer which means that Le Champion still keeps his prize. Jox Moxley's music hits and Moxley stands there on the crowd area.
Good match and the last time both Moxley and Jericho faced each other, it was not good, to say the least, so I hope the match whenever that happens, doesn't suck.
Some Other Things That Happened.
Best Friends vs Lucha Brothers - Trent pinned Rey Fenix in an upset win with the package driver.
Bea Priestley And Emi Sakura vs Hikaru Shida And Kris Stadtlander - Kris made her AEW at AEW Dark so this is her AEW Dynamite debut (no crap, Omar). Unfortunately, she took the pin from Sakura with a modified roll-up.
Jon Moxley Challenges Anybody to Fight Him - Exactly what it sounds like. Kinda like that guy that hits the black mass on people.
Cody Calls Out MJF - After he won his match against Matt Cross, Cody called out MJF to which the trio of the Blade, The Butcher And The Bunny (Allie) made a statement by attacking Cody. Allie has now embraced the dark side and will she whether she nails that role or not.
Hangman Adam Page vs MJF - Thanks to bad officiating, MJF wins this match and Diamond Dallas Page presents the winner of this match with the diamond ring.
Page wanted to shake his hand but MJF put his chewed chewing gum on Page's hand and Waldow eventually fought with the Hall Of Famer. Meh.
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