NXT Coverage: Bathroom Break Worthy

Four non-eventful matches, Tyler Breeze’s music video, the reformation of the BFFs and a Bo Dallas montage highlighted a weak episode of NXT that can best be described as filler. With little storyline development and little to get excited about, the first show after Payback left fans cheated.

Although there was four matches, none of them were awe-inspiring. A chance to develop a new tag team and to continue the build-up of Charlotte Flair, Adrian Neville and Mojo Rawley, most of the show was bathroom break worthy.

Matches:

Mojo Rawley vs. Aiden English: Rawley managed to deflect all of English’s technical offense and won with the Hyper Drive and barely any effort. At this point, these squash matches need to stop and Rawley needs to really perform. Enough is enough.

NXT Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair w/Sasha Banks vs. Bayley: Flair was in control throughout the match, but Bailey fought back with strikes and even managed to fend off Banks on the outside. But just when it appeared Bailey was in complete control, Summer Rae interfered (even though she distracted both competitors) allowing Flair to hit her Flipping Sitting Nackbreaker, The Hail to the Queen for the win. After the bell, Flair, Banks and Rae beat on Bailey until Divas Champion Paige and Emma made the save.

Tye Dillinger and Jason Jordan vs. Stewart Cumberland and Phillip Ghouljar: A decent match that saw Jordan and Dillinger toy with their opponents more than anything else. After a Dillinger Super Kick, Jordan got the win with the Angle Slam.

Justin Gabriel vs. NXT Champion Adrian Neville: A solid 11-minute match, both Neville and Gabriel showcased their awesome repertoire of moves. Although Gabriel scored a few near-falls, Neville was never a move or two away from regaining control. After Gabriel missed the 450, Neville countered with a Dropkick in the corner and followed it up with the Red Arrow for the win.

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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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