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Leo Kruger's vignette was really well done. Kruger is good at being creepy. He was good in his patriotic male model thing at the start, too.
Michael McGillicutty showed personality! For a dude that has probably always known he was going to be a professional wrestler, he started pretty late -- only debuting in 2007 when he was in his late twenties. He's coming along really nicely. I still think that an R-Truth & Kofi Kingston vs. Johnny Curtis & Michael McGillicutty feud would make sense, given that Truth & Kofi were Pros to Curtis & McG on NXT.
I've got be honest -- The Ascension's act is wearing thin on me. Like, they are still awesome, and I know that -- but I just don't care beyond initial impressions. Structurally, the feud between them and The Usos is great; but it's just lacking that care factor for me.
I want to care about Kassius Ohno, and he is such a heel, but there's something...off about his act. I don't know what it is. Like The Ascension, I know he's great, but I don't know. I think maybe he's missing backstory -- an explanation as to why he likes hurting people. Something like that could go a long way to building Ohno.
Paige is amazing.
Rick Victor impressed the fuck out of me. The dude was so good in there, and made Rollins look great, too. He's the first guy to take the Blackout and make me believe it as a finisher. The wrist-biting was weird. At first I thought he was doing it to get his tape off and to use it to heelishly choke out Rollins -- but it was just a thing he was doing to get noticed, or something, I guess. If they're going to go forward with him being "weird," maybe putting him a team with Johnny Curtis wouldn't be a bad move? Michael McGillicutty could still be in the picture. Maybe they could do a weird Freebirds sort of thing?
But yeah, as far as ring work goes, Rick Victor impressed me about as well as anyone in NXT so far. He, Paige and Rollins are the acts that I feel are the strongest down there, at present.
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