With a solid card that served as much more than a tease before the next NXT Takeover event, all of the promotions stars were in action in a show that was far from filler. All that aside, the announcement of Kenta’s debut was more than enough to make this week’s show memorable.
Matches:
Alexa Bliss vs. NXT Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair: Bliss held her own with several high-flying maneuvers, but her strikes did nothing to stun the champion. After a Tilt-a-Whirl Gutbuster Flair was in enough control to nail her Seated-Cutter for the win. After the match, Bayley hit the ring and demanded Flair take her seriously. Instead she got face-washed before retaliating with a sloppy as hell Belly-to-Bailey Suplex
Tyler Breeze vs. Tye Dillinger: The Tag-Team specialist Dillinger wasn’t a pushover, but Breeze got the win with the Beauty Shot.
Tyson Kidd vs. Adam Rose: The WWE’s resident party animal hit some signature offense, but Kidd got the submission win with the Sharpshooter.
Sami Zayn vs. Marc Louis w/Sylvester LeForte: Although it took a bit longer than it should, Zayn won with the Complete Shot/Koji Clutch combination.
NXT Champion Adrian Neville vs. CJ Parker: Neville wasted no time and beat Parker with the Red Arrow, although Parker hit a nice Tilt-a-Whirl Sideslam to make things interesting.
Sin Cara and Kalisto vs. Aiden English and Simon Gotch: After a few minutes of solid tag team action, Cara was able to take out English on the outside, which allowed Kalisto to hit the Sunrise Reverse DDT before Sin Cara finished off Gotch with the Top Rope Senton Bomb.
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.
With a solid card that served as much more than a tease before the next NXT Takeover event, all of the promotions stars were in action in a show that was far from filler. All that aside, the announcement of Kenta’s debut was more than enough to make this week’s show memorable.
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