Between several in-ring feuds and continued backstage segments building up intrigue, NXT continues to lay the foundation for No Mercy.
Matches:
Steel Cage Match: The Creed Brothers: Brutus and Julius Creed vs. The Dyad: Rip Fowler and Jagger Reid w/ The Schism: Joe Gacy and Ava Raine: The Creeds got a wonderful win here and are back in NXT. It appears Ava Raine has left The Schism as well.
Global Heritage Invitational: Butch vs. Charlie Dempsey w/ Drew Gulak and Damon Kemp: Butch got a quick win with the Bitter End that Dempsey hung in there for, but was dominated.
Dana Brooke and Kelani Jordan vs. Elektra Lopez and Lola Vice: Lopez and Vice got the victory with the Spinebuster/Kick combination.
Dijak vs. Eddy Thorpe: Dijak had his fist loaded and then finished off Thorpe with the Discus Boot.
Global Heritage Invitational: Nathan Frazer vs. Joe Coffey w/ Gallus: Mark Coffey and Wolfgang: A surprise win for Coffey, who won clean with All The Best for the Bells.
No. 1 Contender’s Match for NXT Women’s Title: Roxanne Perez vs. Blair Davenport vs. Gigi Dolin vs. Kiana James: James took advantage of a few opportunities and hit Dolin with the 401K.
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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