Shinsuke Nakamura is back and better than ever, but Joe wants blood. Add in another Sanity appearance and the debuts of Roderick Strong and Otis Dozovic ensured an excellent episode of NXT.
Check out this week’s NXT Power Rankings to see who advanced in the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic and more.
Honorable Mention: Peyton Royce and Billie Kay: Their continued attacks towards the lesser beings in the NXT Women’s Division is exactly what it needs to be entertaining. With beauty and ferocity, the Aussie pair are a dangerous duo.
5: Roderick Strong: A more than solid debut from the former ROH Champion who showcased an awesome blend of striking, speed and duplexes.
4: Bobby Roode: His win over Sean Maluta this week on NXT was a glorious one and his ongoing feud with Tye Dillinger will be an awesome contest and give NXT’s mid-card plenty of depth.
3: Sanity: Pretty crazy to think that Nikki Cross may be the most dangerous member of this faction, especially considering the resume of Eric Young. Either way, they’ve been a ton of fun to watch over the past two weeks.
2: Samoa Joe: He wants his title back and will get his opportunity at NXT Takeover Toronto.
1: Shinsuke Nakamura: Destroying Patrick Clark this week was easy and fending off Samoa Joe made sure that everyone knows Nakamura is back to his old self.
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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