As the card continues to fill up for Halloween Havoc, NXT continues to get better and better. Is it back to its Black and Gold roots? No, but the matches are better and the storylines aren’t nearly as forced. Add in the return of Sonya Deville and plenty of great mid-card drama and NXT is better than it was last week.
Matches:
NXT Champion Bron Breakker vs. Javier Bernal: Bernal got a few licks in but Breakker won with the Goldberg Press Slam. Afterward, JD McDonagh and Ilya Dragunov hit the ring to scrap a bit.
Best of Three: Match Three: Axiom vs. Nathan Frazier: This was another fun counter-filled encounter that saw Frazier get the win to punch his ticket to the North American Title Ladder Match at Halloween Havoc.
Valentina Feroz w/Sanga vs. Indi Hartwell: Sanga left the ring to take a walk with Veer Mahan. Hartwell got the win with the Inside Out Superplex.
#1 Contender’s Tag Team Title Match: Edris Enofe and Malik Blade vs. The Dyad: James Drake and Zack Gibson w/Joe Gacy vs: Josh Briggs and Brooks Jensen w/Fallon Henley: Tons of offense before Cameron Grimes took out Gacy, which allowed Enofe and Blade to pick up a huge win.
Alba Fyre vs. Jacey Jayne w/Gigi Dolin: Fyre won with the KLR Bomb but the returning Sonya Deville ended up Powerbombing Fyre through the announce table with the help of Toxic attraction.
Wes Lee vs. Stacks: Lee got the win but Trick Williams and Carmelo Hayes hit the ring before Eli Mensah made the save.
Thea Hail w/Chase U: Andre Chase and Bohdi Hayward vs. Kianna James: Robert Stone got involved but James hit the 401K to win.
Ilya Dragunov vs. Grayson Waller: After Waller got spooked, Dragunov hit the Torpedo for the win. After the match, Breakker hit the ring to make a statement to end the show.
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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