The Finals of the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic are confirmed and the drama in the Women’s Division is more charged than ever. Add in Keith Lee’s North American Title win and NXT is rolling.
Matches:
Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic Semifinals: NXT Tag Team Champions Undisputed ERA: Bobby Fish and Kyle O’Reilly w/NXT North American Champion Roderick Strong and NXT Champion Adam Cole vs. Grizzled Young Veterans: Zack Gibson and James Drake: Lots of back and forth and TUE looked like they were in control until Imperium showed up and The Grizzled Young Vets got the win on O’Reilly with Ticket To Mayhem.
Io Shirai vs. Toni Storm: Bianca Belair hit the ring to get this thrown out and soon enough NXT Women’s Champion Rhea Ripley evened the odds. In the end however, Toni Storm ended up holding Ripley’s title.
Finn Balor vs. Joaquin Wilde: Balor decimated the former X-Division star with the 1916.
Shayna Baszler vs. Shotzi Blackheart: Shotzi had the crowd in the palm of her hand and delivered a solid performance, but Baszler got the win with the Kurifuda Clutch.
Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic Semifinals: The Broserweights: Matt Riddle and Pete Dunne vs. Imperium: Fabian Aichner and Marcel Barthel w/Alexander Wolfe and NXT Uk Champion Walter: This was a barnburner. Just a ton of offense. Imperium took a beating and kept coming back until a Bro to Sleep/Enziguri combo got Riddle and Dunne the win.
Keith Lee vs. NXT North American Champion Roderick Strong w/NXT Tag Team Champions Bobby Fish and Kyle O’Reilly and NXT Champion Adam Cole: Strong hit Lee with everything, but Lee got rid of The Undisputed Era and picked up the win with the Firean Jackhammer in a wonderful match. After the match, The Era and Imperium battled to end the show.
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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