The show opened with HHH coming out to a huge response and a "Thank you Hunter" chant, at which point he thanked the crowd.
Hideo and Finn were really over. Also both of their entrances are badass live. Hideo's music is pretty intense live, and everything about Balor is amazing. GTS tease made the crowd pop hard. Vaudevillians were not as over as they are in FLorida.
The entire crowd knew Enzo's speech.
Tyson Kidd made an appearance and fought Baron Corbin. Kidd was way over, Corbin not so much. The best chants of the night were for Kidd, and included "Cats!" and, I shit you not, "Meow Meow Meow."
The crowd shit all over the Big Show Ryback match. Big Show, however, being amazing, responded to the "Please retire" chant by informing the crowd he had "ten more years" on his guaranteed contract. This resulted in several "ten more years" chants during the match. Big Show played it up and kept motioning it to the crowd. Ryback won with the shellshock and was clearly angry at the crowd afterwards, and basically told us to fuck off. Big Show got on the mic, "winded" and coughed out "ten more years."
Charlotte vs Bailey was really good, and the crowd was super into it. Bailey won with Natural Selection out of the corner. Chants included "Diva's suck", and "Give them a Raise." Ric FLair was there to introduce his daughter. Bailey gave him a high five, and did a little strut. Everyone hugged after the match.
Kallisto's etrance included him jumping off the stage, onto a trampoline, and then flipping over the ropes. It was badass. Tyler Breeze was mega over.
Alex Riley may be on the juice. Kevin Owens annihilated him.
Sami Zayn sadly did not wrestle, but he cut an amazing promo. He got choked up in the beginning when the crowd drowned him out with "Ole" chants. Really passionate promo about NXT is the future and they have turned WWE's developmental where talent would go to "Drown in purgatory" to the most relevant wrestling in America today. At one point the crowd chanted "Better than Raw" and Sami jokingly looked worried and said "Come on guys, don't get me in trouble."
Main event was Neville vs Cesaro, and holy shit was it awesome. Spots include a UFO tease, Cesaro back dropping Neville over the raise barricade on the outside, only for Neville to land on his feet, bust out a moonsault off of it, only to get caught and dropped throat first over the barricade, multiple germans by Cesaro, and his sick boston crab, and Cesaro walking the top rope before attempting a top rope headbutt. There was also a swiss death counter into a hurricurrana for a false finish.
The end came when Neville went for a top rope Frankenstiener and Cesaro caught him while still sitting on the top rope. Cesaro teased a top rope Ricola bomb, only to get reversed again with a top rope Rana. NEville went for the Red Arrow, but Cesaro crotched him, nailed two hard European uppercuts while Neville was crotched, so he slumped forward, nailed another hard one to the back of his head while he was upside down, and finished him with the neutralizer. It was a fucking sprint, and it was badass.
So anyway, if Columbus is any example, NXT is definitely viable on the road. Everyone promised to "see us again real soon", so I'm guessing it will not be long before they travel for tapings.