NXT Coverage: Kidd-Powered

To say there’s a lot going in right now in NXT would be an understatement. Even without NXT Champion Adrian Neville, Adam Rose and Corey Graves on the card, there was plenty to watch and be entertained by.

As NXT continues to build drama for its next event, Payback, fans were given a five match card this week that begins to put the finishing touches on the show’s card. With Tyson Kidd and Charlotte Flair beginning to separate themselves from other singles competitors, it’ll be interesting to see how well Neville can perform against a seasoned vet in Kidd and who Flair will face in the finals of the NXT Women’s Title tournament.

A rare promo from The Ascension was a cool moment as well. Who can end the reign of that destructive tag team?

Matches:

NXT Tag team Champions Viktor and Konnor vs. Buddy Murphy and Elias Sampson: A joke of a match that saw Murphy get the Call of Man after a few minutes. Sampson was barely in the match. After the match El Local and Kalisto issued a challenge to the champs. Finally.

NXT Women’s Title Tournament: Charlotte Flair w/Sasha Banks vs. Alexa Bliss: Although Bliss fought hard, Flair dominated with strikes and submissions before nailing her Flipping, Sitting Cutter for the win.

Mojo Rawley vs. Aiden English: Rawley has three moves and he used all of them in a win over English. Although English held the match together with a nice DDT and Neckbreaker, Rawley got the win with the Hyper Drive.

Colin Cassidy vs. Angelo Dawkins: Cassidy dominated away from a few Dawkins strikes. The win came with a variation of the sitting Urinage, extremely similar to Mason Ryan’s original finisher in his first run in the WWE.

NXT #1 Contender Match: Tyson Kidd vs. Tyler Breeze vs. Sami Zayn: All three competitors showed something as they unleashed signature offense and strikes throughout. breeze was in the thick of the match, selling for Zayn and Kidd at whim. An opportunistic Kidd got the win with the top rope Elbow after a Zayn miscue ended up costing him the match.

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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