The mid-card heavy night promised a show of the stars on their way up in the promotion.
Matches:
NXT Tag Champions: The Creed Brothers: Brutus and Julius vs. Edris Enofe and Malik Blade: Enofe and Blade fought hard but Brutus got the win with a Massive Clothesline.
Tiffany Stratton vs. Fallon Henley: The Buff Barbie got the win with a Rollup in a match Stratton dominated.
Wes Lee vs. Xyon Quinn: Lee won with the Corkscrew Moonsault in a mega-quick encounter.
The Dyad w/ Joe Gacy vs. Dante Chen and Javier Bernal: The Dyad won with the Modified Double-Team DDT.
Duke Hudson vs. NXT Champion Bron Breakker: Breakker got the squash win with the Goldberg Powerslam but Cameron Grimes cut an awesome promo after and demand a title shot for Great American Bash.
Giovanni Vinci vs. Guru Raaj: The former Fabian Eichner won quickly with an elevated Powerbomb variation.
Carmelo Hayes and Trick Williams vs. Stacks and Two Dimes: Melo carried the match and won with his Axe Kick variation. Ultimately it was an effort to establish Tony DeAngelo’s boys.
Cora Jade, Indie Hartwell and Roxanne Perez vs. Toxic Attraction: NXT Champion Mandy Rose and NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions Gacy Jayne and Gigi Dolin: Toxic Attraction dominated but Perez, Jade and Hartwell all had their moments. A bit sloppy at times, but fun as Jade’s Senton earned Perez the win.
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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