With plenty of drama in every title division, even with the absence of Finn Balor this was a solid episode of NXT.
Matches:
No. 1 Contender Tag Team Title Match: Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch vs. Roderick Strong and Bobby Fish w/Kyle O’Reilly: Lorcan and Birch didn’t lay down, but Fish won with the Running Knee.
Jake Atlas vs. Ashante “Thee” Adonis: Atlas won with an inside cradle before the Cruiserweight Champion, his faction and Swerve Scott all got involved.
Johnny Gargano vs. Austin Theory: Gargano won with The Final Beat, but Theory was in the match throughout. He was one ATL away from the win.
No. 1 Contender Match for the NXT Women’s Title: Candice LeRae vs. Shotzi Blackheart: Thanks to interference from Indi Hartwell, LeRae got the win with Brass Knuckles.
Toni Storm vs. Aliyah w/ Robert Stone: Storm squashed her with Storm Zero.
Killian Dain and Drake Maverick vs. Imperium: Marcel Bartel and Fabian Aichner: Imperium got the win, but after the match, Ever-Rise picked on Maverick and Dain came to his rescue. They are finally a tag team.
NXT North American Champion Damian Priest vs. Dexter Lumis: Cameron Grimes tried to attack Lumis butPriest won with the South of Heaven. After the match, Johnny Gargano attacked Priest. Soon enough NXT General Manager William Regal announced the couple will both have title matches next week.
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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