Pulse Wrestling WWE NXT Report: 02.15.2011 – Derrick Bateman, Brodus Clay, Johnny Curtis, Daniel Bryan, R-Truth

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Step right into it, folks. And “it” will be your most current episode of NXT. Rev the engines and let’s get rollin’.

Stryker gets us started with the three remaining rookies: Derrick Bateman, Brodus Clay, and Johnny Curtis. And, you guessed it, kids, another challenge. It’s a pinata challenge. Each have a pinata over them, and basically, whoever can grab the most “NXT cash” that’s in their respective pinatas, win. Yay. Brodus wins. And we’re moving on to….

Commercial.

R=Truth vs. Brodus Clay

This should be a bucket of yuck. Truth hits a heel kick to knock Clay out of the ring. He hits a dive on Clay, hits a few punches, then rolls back in the ring. Clay gets up only to eat a boot to the back of the head by an apron-standing Truth. Truth has Clay in the corner now, hitting a few mounted punches. He attempts to monkey flip Clay, who simply tosses Truth off. Clay hits an overhead suplex. Clay hits a few kicks and chops, followed by a nerve hold on Truth’s trapezoid (sounds like a rap group). Truth fights back with a jawbreaker and a dropkick to the knee. Clay goes to the second rope and gets swatted down by Clay, who hits a huge running splash for the pin.

Winner: Brodus Clay via pinfall

Commercial.

Wrestlemania promo. This particular year seems to be extra….electric.

We’re back and on to our next challenge. The kids are now sitting under respective buckets of whatnot, and basically, they can avoid being dumped on by gunk by answering trivia questions correctly. Bateman and Curtis get “slimed”. Really? We’ve been demoted to the Kid’s Choice Awards? I’m half-expecting Rosie O’Donnell to jump the barricade and gulp down the slime.

Commercial.

We relive the magic that was the final 20 minutes of last night’s Raw. But we’ll get to that in tomorrow’s Kue’s Korner.

Commercial

Daniel Bryan vs. Derrick Bateman

Aww, look. Sportsman-like handshake. A hiptoss by Bryan starts it off. The two measure each other again. The two play mercy, which leads to a few monkey flips by each. Bryan gets in a hiptoss into a hammerlock. Bateman reverses, gets whipped, and shoulder blocks Bryan. Bryan gets up and hits a few hiptosses into an armbar. Bateman reverses into a hammerlock. Bryan flips out and hits a dropkick for the nearfall. Bryan locks in a hammerlock. Is it that the aftermath of the Great One’s return is just making this seem lame or it genuinely kinda yawn-inducing? Bateman tosses Bryan out of the ring, then follows with a suicide dive. Bateman tosses Bryan back in the ring as we head for some bill paying.

Commercial.

Seems that ‘Taker’s retirement villa is log-ish and cabin-ish.

Back to Bryan hitting a flying armbar for a nearfall. Bateman gets hit with a few kicks in. Bateman attempts a comeback, but gets whipped into a back elbow. Nearfall by Bryan. Single=underhook suplex by Bryan. He heads to the top now, gloats a bit, and misses with the headbutt. Bateman comes back with a killer clothesline for a nearfall. Sunset flip by Bryan gets reversed into a nearfall pin by Bateman. Bryan attempts a roll up, which gets reversed into a powerbomb and a nearfall by Bateman. Bateman attempts a LaBelle Lock, but Bryan reverses it into a LaBelle lock of his own for the submission.

Winner: Daniel Bryan via submission

That’s all he (as in me) wrote, kiddies. ‘Til next week, my distinguished amigos.

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