Big Bad Blog Video Theater-Kairi Sane vs Nikki Cross vs Candice LeRae

Here's the match video of Kairi Sane vs Nikki Cross vs Candice LeRae from this week's episode of NXT. This was announced last week as a four way with Bianca Belair but she was on her honeymoon with her new husband Montez Ford of Street Profits. The winner of this match gets a shot at Shayna Baszler's NXT Women's Championship at NXT Takeover Brooklyn. Shayna is on commentary. I'm not a big fan of three way matches as they can lack flow and be very clunky. And we have three babyfaces in this match. But this match is well laid out and well executed. Candice isn't as good as Kairi or Nikki but all three have unique personalities and they give strong performances. One of the three wrestlers has to disappear near the start of the match so the other two can build some flow. So Nikki runs Kairi into the post and Nikki and Candice have their own match within a match. When Kairi returns, she blends into the match perfectly. Of course it goes to the floor. Nikki drops Candice on the ramp and Kairi delivers her flying forearm from the top rope. They also do a Tower Of Doom spot. Nikki's insanity leads to the end of the match. She delivers her spinning neckbreaker to Candice from the ring apron to the floor. Then she goes back in the ring and hits three belly to back suplexes on Kairi. She is about to finish Kairi with the spinning neckbreaker when she loses concentration and places Kairi on the top rope to deliver it there. Candice intervenes and after a couple of pin attempts, Kairi hits her Insane Elbow on both of them seemingly out of nowhere for the win. The camera work was perfect because it made us forget that Kairi was sitting on the top turnbuckle. So not only did the wrestlers execute well, so did the TV crew. So now Kairi gets a title shot. I expect her to win because Shayna and Nikki should be headed to the main roster soon. For one thing, there is new blood like Io Shirai and others coming in. They gotta make room for them. Anyway, this is a really good match. Check it out and enjoy it.