WWE NXT Tapings Results from Full Sail, Orlando Florida
November 15, 2012, By Andres Santiago of PWInsider

Dark Matches

– Garrett Dylan vs Fandango
Fandango won a flatliner.

– Alicia Fox vs Layla
Layla won with a roundhouse kick to the head.

Episode 1

– Michael McGillicutty vs Antonio Cesaro
Cesaro won after hitting the Very European Uppercut and the Neutralizer back to back.

– Axl Keegan vs Bo Dallas
Dallas won via Spear.
After the match, Dallas cut a promo about how he has had some ups and downs lately but is still proud of himself. He ended it by laying out an open challenge to any WWE superstar; not for a match, but for a fight.

– Corey Graves vs Yoshi Tatsu
Graves won the Fuller Lock.

– Gavin Reid vs Roman Reigns
Reigns won with a backdrop into an uranagi.
After the match, Saxton interviewed Reigns in the ring. Reigns just verbally ripped into Saxton before sending him away.

– Leo Kruger vs Tyson Kidd
Kidd won with the Dungeon Lock.
After the match Kassius Ohno jumped Kidd; Kruger soon joined in on the attack. While Ohno and Kruger were searching for weapons and had their backs turned, William Regal came down from the announce booth to pull Kidd to safety outside of the ring,

Episode 2

– Paige vs Sasha Banks
Paige won with the Paige Turner.

Backstage someone tried to interview Roman Reigns, but Reigns blew it off.

– Oliver Gray vs Rowan
Rowan won with a Sidewalk Slam.
Before the match, Bray Wyatt cut a promo about how war makes him strong. He then sat in a rocking chair on stage to watch. After the match, Wyatt introduced Rowan as the Second Son of the Wyatt Family.

Dusty Rhodes came out on stage to give a “State of the Union” address for NXT. He said that Vickie Guerrero has no jurisdiction here and that her bounty on Big E Langston was off. He ended his tirade on her by calling her a bitch; to which he quickly apologized and said “sometimes that old cowboy comes out in me”. Camacho interrupted Rhodes to say that due to Hunico being “down in Mexico”, he needs the money from Langston’s bounty. Camacho said that either the bounty on Langston stays or he is going to put one out for Rhodes instead. Langston then came out, which led to Rhodes making a handicap match of Camacho and a partner vs Langston for the next episode.

Backstage, Big Show accepted Bo Dallas’s challenge.

– NXT Championship Match: NXT Champion Seth Rollins vs Jinder Mahal
Rollins won with the standing shiranui.
Corey Graves was sitting in the crowd, at ringside. Graves got into Rollins face as he was exiting the ring.

Episode 3

– Primo and Epico with Rosa Mendez vs The Usos
The Usos won when Jimmy superkicked Primo and Jay followed up with a Superfly Splash.
After the match, Ascension appeared on screen telling The Usos that their war is far from over.

– Camacho and Aiden English vs Big E Langston
Langston quickly destroyed English and won with the Big End. Camacho never tagged in.
After the match, Langston did his standard post match Big End + five count repetition.

– Percy Watson vs Kassius Ohno
Ohno won with a neckbreaker transitioned into a rolling elbow.

JR interviewed Seth Rollins. Rollins said he is ready for any and all challengers. Graves ran out and attacked Rollins, quickly locking him in the Fuller Lock. Graves then made JR interview him instead. He spoke about how he would be the next NXT Champion.

– WWE Champion Big Show vs Bo Rotunda
Big Show won with the KO Punch.

Notes

The next taping will be Thursday, December 6. They didn’t announce who the WWE Superstar guest will be.

Michael McGillicutty seems like he is now a face now.

I am still unsure of what the official name for Paige’s new finisher is. However, before the tapings start they always air a recap video of the last taping. I think I heard JR call the move the “Paige Turner”. I’m going to use that for its name, unless I find out it is called something else.

There was a hilarious moment where Jinder Mahal’s old music hit and he stared to make his way out. Then it stopped, he smiled and moon walked back behind the curtain. Then the 3MB music hit and he made his “proper” entrance.

Lucas Di Léo, a French wrestler WWE signed to a developmental contract earlier this year, announced on Facebook Thursday that he has parted ways with the sports-entertainment organization after requesting his contract release.

Di Léo, who appeared as Louis Fontaine for developmental league NXT, said he felt out of place in the company and wanted out. He is scheduled to undergo surgery on his shoulder in the coming days and didn’t want WWE to foot the bill after having his mind already made up.

Di Léo also notes that he no plans to join TNA Wrestling. Here is a rough translation of his announcement: “Well, what I write will require a bit of open-mindedness and intelligence. From these facts, I think everyone will not be able to understand … I say that because in my previous post I pointed out that I was going to give more details in a few times etc etc and in private messages that I ‘I received, there was almost all the time the same thing: “Why?’

“So my turn … Why do not you know to be patient? Why do not you read it right? Why do you think we accountable?

“I say this without any animosity, just human to human … I always tried to be relatively close to the people who contact me, either for advice or simply encouragement, but sometimes …

“Anyway, to end rumors that may arise, I have not been fired from the WWE (WWE does not return the injured people) and I’m not going to TNA (…) …

“I asked to be released from my contract simply because I felt out of place here … It’s not a matter of level or anything, just a matter of honesty. I felt that I still had things to do before I get into this great machine that is the WWE. When I was active in a corner of my head, but from the moment I had to sit, I was working … The fact is that, frankly, I consider that it is not the time for me to be part of the WWE.

“Which was “hasty” decision is that I had to have surgery in a few days. From here there was a dilemma: take the transaction costs of the WWE and ask to be released after my rehabilitation or be a man and tell them what I thought before they invest money for me.
I chose the second option. I decided to leave now because I did not want the WWE pays money for me while in my heart I wanted to leave to explore other horizons.

“Separation was done in very good words, I learned a lot during my months alongside team coaches NXT and I met some very good people!

“I have no bitterness, I left a happy man, taking care not to slam the door behind me. I hope I have satisfied your curiosity …

“And for questions like, “it goes back to the ICWA? “… I have never left the ICWA.

“Whether I catch this or that French structure, I NXT main event, Raw Smackdown, I am in Mexico, North Pole, Japan, under water, in the snow or whatever, I am part of the ICWA.”

– TMZ.com has an article up about former WWE Diva Kelly Kelly getting a flat tire on her way to a photo shoot last month. TMZ says despite the “busted rubber” – Kelly changed the flat herself and made it to the job on time.

– WWE developmental wrestler PAC is now known as Adrian Neville. WWE updated the NXT Roster page this week with bios for several new trainees, including Neville.

– The upcoming WWE-themed episode of The Soup on the USA Network will be titled, “The Soup Meets WWE: Piledriving Clips In Your Face.” The show will air on Monday, November 26th immediately following WWE RAW.

Hornswoggle, Eve Torres and The Miz were out in Los Angeles this week filming the show. Hornswoggle posted a picture on Instagram of the WWE stars along with Joan and Melissa Rivers, which you can view here:

First week sales for the new WWE ’13 video game were around 250,000 units sold in the US. This is down slightly from last year, but still considered a huge success, since 20% of retail stores where the game was sold were closed that week due to Hurricane Sandy.

The game did another 57,000 units in the UK during the first week.

As previously noted, pre-orders for the game were through the roof, with the Attitude Era tie-in seen as the main selling point there.

WWE ’13 was a distant #2 in sales during its first week behind Assassins Creed, which sold around 1.6 million that week.

WWE’s video game publisher, THQ, remains in grave danger and could be sold in the next year. Despite the fact that THQ generates around $30-40 million per year off the WWE games (and more than $40 million from the Saints Row games), the company has very little cash on hand and a $100 million loan that is due next summer.

If THQ cannot find an investor to keep them afloat, the company will have to liquidate and the profitable WWE franchise would end up with another publisher, possibly Electronic Arts.

(Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter)