NXT Coverage: Titus’ Bark Not Worse Than His Bite

While this past week’s episode of NXT was a decent one, with five solid matches, it was obvious something was missing.

In-ring work from Adrian Neville, Charlotte Flair and the Lucha Dragons to be exact.

How can this show truly thrive when you leave your brightest stars off the card? How are they supposed to prove themselves when they aren’t on television nearly as much as they need to be?

With as much talent as they have, NXT should consider adding time to the show and attempt to build either deeper matches, or more intricate storylines. At this point, there’s too much filler and fluff. Although it’s a developmental brand, there’s no reason why they can’t tighten things up.

Matches:

Tyler Breeze vs. Mojo Rawley: Breeze was in no mood to play and quickly finished off Rawley with the Fujiwara Arm Bar.

Viktor vs. Hideo Itami: After Viktor had the early advantage, Itami got the win with the Dropkick, even in the face of a distraction from Konnor, who destroyed Sho Funaki on the outside. After the match, the combined force of the Ascension destroyed Itami once again and delivered The Fall of Man on an already-injured Funaki.

Aiden English and Simon Gotch vs. Colin Cassidy and Enzo Amore: Gotch and English surprisingly dispatched Amore with the Barrel Roll/Senton finisher.

Becky Lynch vs. Sasha Banks: Lynch got in her fair share of licks, but Banks got the win after a nice Clothesline and the Banks Statement.

Sami Zayn vs. Titus O’Neil: Zayn sold for the majority of the match, but made an awesome comeback at the end. At the same time, O’Neil hit a few counter moves and all of a sudden, the match went back and forth, until O’Neil won with the Sky High Powerbomb. After the match, O’Neil wanted to continue the onslaught, but Adrian Neville made the save.

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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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