A ton of mid-card drama and a fun main event made NXT an excellent two hours of wrestling.
Matches:
Ashante Thee Adonis and Top Dolla w/NXT North American Champion Isiah Swerve Scott vs. Legado del Fantasma: Raul Mendoza and Joaquin Wilde w/Santos Escobar: Wow, LDF ripped out Swerve’s Grill to get the loss via DQ.
Ridge Holland vs. Ikemen Jiro: Holland got the squash win with the Running Powerslam. After the match, Pete Dunne talked about how dominant his new group will be.
Roderick Strong w/ Diamond Mine vs. Bobby Fish: Strong won with the End of Heartache in a pretty standard encounter.
Cameron Grimes and LA Knight vs. Grizzled Young Veterans: Knight left Grimes by himself to get nailed with the Ticket to Mayhem.
NXT Breakout Tournament: Trey Baxter vs. Joe Gacy: Baxter won with a 450 Stomp in a match that saw Gacy get little offense in.
Love Her or Leave Her: Dexter Lumis vs. Johnny Gargano: Although Gargano beat Lumis, Indi Hartwell still kissed him and the crowd loved it.
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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