Last night’s WWE NXT was the final stop before NXT Great American Bash this Sunday on The CW, and as a go-home show, it had a very clear job: make the card feel hotter, sharpen the personal issues, and give the top matches one last major hook before the lights come on this weekend. Some … Read more
WWE NXT returns tonight with its final stop before NXT Great American Bash, and this is exactly the kind of go-home show that needs to do more than simply run through a checklist. The card is full, the championship stories are locked in, the women’s division is carrying a major chunk of the brand’s momentum, … 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 NXT entered its final stretch toward the Great American Bash on Sunday, June 28th with an episode that felt like an entire locker room collectively decided to make the most of every opportunity placed in front of them. There was not a weak match on tonight’s show. Every wrestler competed with something to prove, … Read more
WWE NXT returns live tonight from the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida, with the road to NXT Great American Bash officially underway and several of the brand’s most important championship stories beginning to take shape. Tony D’Angelo successfully defended the NXT Championship against Kam Hendrix last week, but The Don barely had time to … Read more
The road to WWE NXT Great American Bash officially started last night on The CW, but the June 2nd episode felt more like the first chapter of a larger story than a major destination on its own. Shawn Michaels announced earlier in the day that Great American Bash will take place on Sunday, June 28th, … Read more
There is a difference between being labeled “the future” and actually looking like it every time the lights come on. The WrenQCC — Kendal Grey and current WWE Women’s Speed Champion Wren Sinclair — is starting to feel like one of those acts NXT does best: two wrestlers with completely different paths, completely different energies … 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
Last night’s WWE NXT felt like one of those episodes where the brand was clearly trying to reset the board while still pushing several new faces into bigger spots at the same time. It was not a perfect show, and there were definitely moments where the promos felt forced, the pacing felt a little uneven, … Read more
