Five excellent matches and plenty of fun promo made sure that Halloween Havoc was a great investment of two hours. While it’s a shame that there was no Finn Balor on the card, NXT continues to get by thanks to plenty of depth.
Matches:
NXT North American Champion Damian Priest vs. Johnny Gargano: This was an absolute war that Gargano needed a Tombstone and help from a masked man to end the NA Title reign of Priest.
NXT Cruiserweight Champion Santos Escobar w/Joaquin Wilde and Raul Mendoza vs. Jake Atlas: Escobar won quickly thanks to the help of his stablemates, putting the talented Atlas away with the Phantom Driver.
Haunted House of Terror: Cameron Grimes vs. Dexter Lumis: This was a wacky one, that saw Lumis win with The Silencer.
Rhea Ripley vs. Raquel Gonzalez w/Dakota Kai: Ripley won with The Riptide, but Gonzalez dominated at times.
NXT Women’s Title Tables, Ladders & Scares: NXT Women’s Champion: Io Shirai vs. Candice LeRae: The masked figure from Gargano’s match almost cost Shirai the Title, but the Empress of the Sky was able to grab her belt and retain her title.
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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