The good news with the Season 2 finale of NXT was that the rookies had a neat little triple threat match with a clever finish that helped put over two guys (Alex Riley and Kaval), Lucky Cannon actually proved that he can promo if he's a heel and not a sappy, generic face, and yes, the right guy won. I would have been okay with Riley or Michael McGillicutty winning. Over the weeks, I was getting increasingly more okay with Riley than McGillicutty, but hey, Perfect, Jr. was still impressive even if he was declining. But yeah, Kaval was the best in-ring worker and he, like Daniel Bryan, had promo skills that people were overlooking big-time. Hell, his pre-decision promo was so good that even Michael Cole couldn't bash him anymore and had to give him his propers.
The bad? Well, first off, and I'm not saying this to be sexist, I have no interest in Season 3. All Divas? Yeah, I'll pass. According to the Observer's pay-site (someone got a ninja source who's feeding him the Observer newsletter for free, yo... hint, it's me), the WWE is preparing for a truncated season to be finished up on a 3-hour live block of Smackdown to kick off the second show's move to SyFy. So, you want me to get invested in a short season of all women for a fed that has the worst track record of booking women's wrestling of all-time? I'll pass, big-time. I mean, if this were a SHIMMER venture, or even if TNA, who has proven that if they do one thing right, it's Knockouts wrestling, then I might have been intrigued, but the WWE treats Divas like an afterthought, and most of their women have no value in the ring.
Second, that beatdown was terrible. Absolutely terrible. One, are they trying to recreate lightning in a bottle twice by creating a second Nexus-esque stable? I hope not. Two, it was so funny how out of place nearly everything seemed. Why did the Pros inexplicably stop defending Kaval? Why did Riley start attacking Percy Watson? Where was Eli Cottonwood? Christ.
NXT should have ended with LayCool coddling Kaval in congratulation with the crowd, who had decided a long time ago that Kaval would be the most over guy among this crop of rookies, popping for him. Of course, the WWE bookers are so lazy that they have no idea on how to get the other seven guys over without re-doing what they did with Season 1's crop to a point that we got that ending. Weak.
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