NXT Power Rankings: Joe Dominant, Aries Makes Statement

With the WWE Draft this Tuesday, NXT’s roster is about to drastically change. On this week’s show, fans got to say goodbye to Nia Jax and American Alpha, who took part in their last matches with the promotion. However, with four engaging matches, it was far from a sad swan song for anyone involved.

Check out this week’s NXT Power Rankings to see who else starred in an era-changing episode of NXT.

Honorable Mention: Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano: With a win over The Revival already under their belts, Ciampa and Gargano have the potential to win the NXT Tag Team Championships very soon.

5: The Authors of Pain: Their win this week over American Alpha was a great way for them to establish themselves, but it doesn’t get any easier for them from here. Still green, they’ll have to do more than brawl if they want to climb the tag team ranks in NXT.

4: Austin Aries: His win over Patrick Clark this week on NXT was a message to the rest of NXT. With No Way Jose hungry for blood as well, Aries is going to have an opportunity to cement his spot on the upper part of the card.

3: The Revival: Despite the fact that they haven’t defended their titles in three weeks, Dash and Dawson have plenty of reasons to be cocky. Simply put, there isn’t a tag team in NXT that works the ring the way they do.

2:Bayley: She may not be the NXT Women’s Champion, but her win over Nia Jax proves she deserves another shot against Asuka.

1: Samoa Joe: The reigning and defending NXT Champion dominated Rhyno this week on NXT and proved once again that he may, in fact, be the most dominant champion the promotion has ever had. With Finn Balor now on RAW, Joe is absolutely the biggest star in the promotion with Shinsuke Nakamura.

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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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