The road to NXT Heatwave continued last night with an episode that leaned heavily on in-ring action, immediate championship stakes and the fallout from The Great American Bash. Lola Vice fought her way back into the NXT Women’s Championship picture by defeating Kelani Jordan and Kali Armstrong in a competitive main event, but the result … Read more
The road to NXT Heatwave takes an unexpected turn tonight after NXT General Manager Robert Stone announced that Layla Diggs is not medically cleared to challenge Zaria for the NXT Women’s North American Championship. Diggs suffered an injury during Saturday’s NXT live event, abruptly taking away the biggest opportunity of her career only days after … Read more
WWE LFG Season 3 Episode 12, “Not Taking My Spot,” was built around one of the most important lessons a developing wrestler can learn: athleticism may earn a reaction, but emotion, selling and character are what make an audience care. Every match on last night’s episode tested a different part of that lesson. Bayley Humphrey … Read more
WWE NXT July 7 heads into tonight with the brand officially shifting from Great American Bash fallout into the next stage of its summer direction. Last week’s show was all about reintroducing NXT after a major reset, with Kendal Grey beginning her reign as NXT Women’s Champion, Tony D’Angelo trying to move forward after surviving … Read more
WWE LFG Season 3 has quietly become one of the more useful developmental shows WWE has produced because it stopped pretending to be a normal competition show and started acting like what it really is: a Performance Center evaluation room with cameras. Through the first nine episodes, the season has been built around coaching, live … Read more
WWE NXT entered last night with less than two weeks remaining before Great American Bash and several important pieces still missing from the June 28 card. By the end of the night, Tavion Heights had earned an emotionally complicated championship opportunity against his former partner, Jaida Parker had suffered another damaging defeat, and the already … Read more
WWE LFG Season 3 reached Episode 8 last night with “A Brand New Zena,” and this was one of those episodes that showed both the value and the frustration of WWE’s developmental system on camera. Through the first seven episodes, Season 3 has been about moving away from the old coach-team competition setup and leaning … Read more
WWE LFG has spent the first several weeks of its third season attempting to establish a new identity. Gone are the teams, the points system and the artificial feeling of watching coaches compete against one another for bragging rights. Season 3 has stripped the concept back to its most valuable purpose: evaluating talent, teaching the … Read more
Last night’s WWE NXT was a show built around the women’s division carrying the night, a new challenger emerging for the Men’s Speed Championship, DarkState trying to explain why it cut out one of its own, and Tony D’Angelo suddenly finding himself in the middle of a title picture that has multiple bodies circling him … Read more
WWE NXT returns tonight with a show that has to do more than simply put matches on the board. Last week’s episode was built around new faces making statements, champions being dragged deeper into trouble, and a tag team main event that ended with DarkState kicking Saquon Shugars out of the group in one of … Read more
