By Chris Shore

WWE NXT on SyFy
Taped earlier in Charlotte, NC.

The opening video aired and Todd Grisham and William Regal sent it up to Matt Striker and Maryse who were in the ring with the rookies. They showed the redemption points leaderboard where Titus O'Neil leads with nine and Darren Young has seven. No one else had any.

They had the hot seat trivia contest and the first category was WrestleMania 27 winners. Young started and said Bret Hart. The crowd booed him out of the ring. Byron Saxton beat Titus O'Neil to earn four redemption points…[C]

Shore’s Slant: I'm not recapping all of that. Watch the replay if it's that important to you.

1. Conor O'Brian (w/Vladimir Kozlov) defeated Jacob Novak (w/JTG) at 4:10. Grisham informed us that Novak is wearing gold because Saxton said the white looks like diapers. Great commentary. My video was freezing really bad so I couldn’t really get a feel for the flow most of the match, but Novak worked heel while O'Brian worked baby. Novak missed a splash in the corner and Novak rolled up for the win…

Backstage, Lucky Cannon walked to Yoshi Tatsu and apologized for last week. Tatsu said he should apologize to Maryse. Cannon said he was right and Maryse was all his. He pointed her out and said she had been asking about him. Yoshi got his game face on and asked Maryse out.

Ted Dibiase walked up and said, "No." He attacked Yoshi and tossed him over a bunch of crates. He yelled at Maryse and said Yoshi wouldn't be able to provide her lifestyle like he could. He said he had a match with Yoshi and asked her if she was coming. Maryse stood there for a moment and then chased after him…[C]

Shore’s Slant: My video is all out of whack. The audio continues yet the video just freezes. Oh well, it's not like you guys are watching either. I smell a Maryse turn here, but I could be wrong.

A video recapped the Hall of Fame ceremony…Backstage, JTG and Vladimir Kozlov made some sort of bet about making their rookies look good. I think. Neither one of them was speaking a version of English I know so for all I know they were making dinner plans…[C]

2. Titus O'Neil and Hornswoggle defeated Darren Young and Chavo Guerrero at 4:41. O'Neil and Young started. Young went right at him, but Titus hit a big clothesline. Chavo tagged in and Horny asked for a tag, but Titus wouldn't do it. Chavo attacked and hit a drop kick that sent Titus back to the corner.

Hornswoggle tagged himself in and tried to get Young to tag in. Young did and got on his knees. My feed froze again and something happened. Horny kicked Chavo and tagged in Titus. Titus won, but I have no idea how. Fortunately a replay was shown and apparently Horny kicked Young in the nuts and Titus used his powerbomb finisher for the win…The announce team hyped Yoshi vs. Dibiase for later…[C]

Shore’s Slant: I'm not sure if I'm the only one with problems, but I've reset everything once and leeched off another network and it's still doing it. Sorry folks.

The Raw Rebound replayed the John Cena vs. Rock moment…[C] Ted Dibiase was in the ring with Maryse sitting in a chair at ringside. Yoshi made his entrance with no celebrations…

3. Yoshi Tatsu defeated Ted Dibiase at 1:57. Yoshi hit a quick kick and whipped Dibiase to the corner. He charged in and Dibiase got the foot up. Ted attacked and worked hard hitting heel strikes and whips to the corner. He beat Yoshi down in the corner and kept going until the ref disqualified him. He continued to attack Yoshi until Maryse grabbed a mic and told him to stop because she didn't have time for this.

She yelled at him in French and he snatched the mic out of her hand. Ted said she had had enough fun on NXT and she had to choose. It was either NXT or him. He said she had a week to choose and walked off…[C]

Shore’s Slant: Hold up, are they trying to do a real angle on NXT? Seriously? Who the hell is watching other than me? I mean, I appreciate the effort, and I do like Maryse. Huh. Turns out McMahon is just doing this show for me. Well all right! I'll have more to say tomorrow on the hitlist. Thanks for reading and I'll see you then.

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