10 Thoughts: NXT – April 6, 2010

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1. The “fighting a champion of their choosing at a future pay-per-view” is a nice touch but is the fighting “a” champion necessary? If anyone had any sense they’d shoot for the top and challenge that guy, but I guess I can sense the logic of wanting to work your way up and get a title belt of any kind.

2. I’m not impressed by Otunga’s mic skills. He’s lucky he’s got the Jennifer Hudson association going for him because without it he wouldn’t even be getting a push in this competition.

3. If they were serious about Tarver and giving him a push on this show, they should have had him knock out Matt Striker when he asked him a question.

4. I’m not big on these “challenges.” It does demonstrate that this show is something different but if I wanted to see this stuff I’d watch the World’s Strongest Man competition. If they wanted a real challenge, they would’ve had the guys carry wrestlers bags as opposed to a random keg.

5. Again, to give Tarver some personality they needed to have him just go off on some referees after he was DQ’d from the keg carrying contest. Not doing so made him look really weak.

6. I would hardly consider facing Kane to be a major opportunity. All that segment needed was for Eric Bischoff to have a soundbite of “Heath Slater tonight your going to face….KAAANNNEEE!”

7. Daniel Bryan’s flying knee off of the apron is a sweet move. Of course, it was relegated to nothing because Darren Young gets the pin out of nowhere. Young’s facial expressions annoy me.

8. How can you slam a tornado?

9. Since Tarver has these quick fists, they should just outfit him like Joe Bruiser in the old WCW vs. NWO World Tour video game for the N64. Let him wear boxing gloves and just box his opponents into a knockout. It just might work…especially since his opponents couldn’t just hold onto the R button.

10. Wade Barrett is a beast and is a star in the making. I wouldn’t mind if he ended up as the winner of this show at all.

Logan Scisco has been writing wrestling reviews for Inside Pulse since 2005. He considers himself a pro wrestling traditionalist and reviews content from the 1980s-early 2000s. Most of his recaps center on wrestling television shows prior to 2001. His work is featured on his website (www.wrestlewatch.com) and he has written three books, available on Amazon.com.