Dash and Dawson have finally won the NXT Tag Team titles and with plenty of mid-card drama and the battle between Samoa Joe and Finn Balor in full-swing, NXT had another great week. Check out this week’s NXT Power Rankings to see who else starred in another well-balanced episode of NXT.
Honorable Mention: Bayley: Her Belly-to-Bayley Suplex on Murphy was the highlight of this week’s episode. The face of the NXT Women’s Division, Bayley continues to be one of the best reasons to watch NXT.
5: Apollo Crews: After Baron Corbin interrupted his match with NXT Champion Finn Balor last week, Crews got some revenge, but expect this feud to continue into 2016. With a great look and an awesome repertoire of power and speed, expect Crews to stay in the NXT title picture.
4: Nia Jax: She’s a beast, but she’s beautiful and has a mega-watt smile. Make no mistake though, there’s more to her. Her “alliance†with Eva Marie can only make her even tougher to beat.
3: The Vaudevillians: Their loss to Dash and Dawson this week on NXT was a shocker, but don’t expect the former NXT Tag Team Champions to just go away.
2: Samoa Joe: His proclamation this week on NXT put Finn Balor on notice. Joe wants the NXT title and he just might get it.
1: Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder: Wow. No one expected them to win the titles, but now with the belts around their waists, they are the team to beat. With an awesome double-team finisher and plenty of other ways to beat their opponents, Wilder and Dawson are a throwback tag team that will not be easy to beat moving forward.
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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