For the second week in a row, NXT 2.0 was more than watchable and led with stronger in-ring action and some fun future encounters.
Matches:
NXT UK Tag Team Champions Brook Jensen and Josh Briggs vs. Gallus: Wolfgang and Mark Coffey: This ended in a count-out as Lash Legend, Pretty Deadly and Fallon Henley all got involved. Diamond Mine took out Gallus after the bell.
Cameron Grimes vs. Javier Bernal: A quickie as Grimes won with Cave-In.
Blair Davenport vs. Indie Hartwell: Davenport get the dominant win with the Brainbuster variation. After the match- she told the world she was the rightful heir to the NXT Women’s Title, but Mandy Rose hit the ring and wasn’t impressed. Meiko Satamura soon hit the ring to set up a three-way dance for Worlds Collide.
Joaquin Wilde and Cruz Del Toro w/Electra Lopez, Stacks and Tony D’Angelo vs. The Dyad w/Joe Gacy: The Dyad got the win with an assisted Code Breaker despite some hard work by Wilde and Del Toro. After the match, D’Angelo berated the LDF but they eventually left with Santos Escobar.
Von Wagner w/Robert Stone vs. NXT UK Champion Tyler Bate: Von Wagner was a beast, but Bate won with a beautiful Twisting Senton.
Tiffany Stratton vs. Wendy Choo: Choo got Scoop Slammed and Caved In on Legos, but ended up putting Stratton through a bed with a Full Nelson Slam and then won with the top top Vader Bomb.
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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