NXT Review: Bayley Returns and Targets Roxanne Perez

to talk about. The other night on Tuesday, we had the NXT show following New Year's Evil. And I tell you the two shows one night and day New Year's Evil. I mean, I spent the longest I've ever spent on a review talking about New Year's Evil. Last week I asked my father what he thought of the podcast. And now, you know, guys know, I bring up my father up every now and again, and he thought I maybe have gone a little bit, maybe went a little too overboard with the with my back and my back and forth

with the rock segment. To be honest, maybe I did. But I don't ever really get to talk about the Rock because the Rock is never on NXT except this time. So I'm gonna tell you exactly how I feel. And I did, and I am unapologizing for it, not that I think that, not that my father said I should apologize. I'm not saying that at all. What I'm saying is

that it's It's not my usual shtick. It was a little bit more intense, and you know, I got to complain a little bit about the way things are playing out on the main roster, and you know that's usually Matt's gig, so it was kind of nice to be able to do that a little bit. Anyway, So we had the NXT show on from this on the CW from on Tuesday night, which would be oh my goodness, it was January fourteen. We are already two weeks into this new year, and yeah, it's just gonna keep going.

We get the World Rumble, and what two weeks from Saturday we have Well Latin. Then next week from Saturday we have Saturday Night's main event. On February fifteenth, we have Vengeance Day, which is the next n XT pay per view, which of course I will be reviewing that as well, just so you all over And yeah, so but when I say that, when I say that New Year's Evil and this week's n XT show was like

night and day, it really was. This week last week was I mean, we had three new champions crowned, we had the Rock come in, we had an awesome, awesome other matches, and you know, another match beyond that with the fatal four way for the North North America, which I will get into in a second because I have a big, huge problem with that and I mentioned it last week, but you know it played out this week, so I want to mention it again. And this week

was just okay. It was really just okay. And I feel like it goes to show you that there are so raw has basically an unlimited not unlimited amount of time, but they basically have all the time they need to play with. First week it was three hours, second week it was two and a half two hours and thirty seven minutes. Roughly, SmackDown has three hours, you know, both with commercials, and NXT has two hours a week. And

they have a huge roster. I mean, you know, they have They have a huge women's roster, decent sized men's roster, the tag team roster is getting bigger now, and they still only have two hours. So it seems like to me, it seems like what they're doing is they're doing. You know, they may highlight the the big winners, they may highlight

the ober Femies this week. They may highlight Roxanne Perez, who's not the winner, but you know, she still is Listen, She's still one of the top gals, regardless of whether she has a piece of metal strapped to her body or not. So and but this week we got a lot of the people that couldn't be on last week.

So it seems to me like they're kind of they're kind of like they highlight some of the bigger storylines week to week, but generally they you know, they don't talk a lot of I don't know, maybe I'm wrong.

They seems like they just kind of waver her back and forth between storylines because they only have two hours, and they got to get in everything they got to get in, but they also got to talk about the world, the you know, the big champions and even you know, I mean last week they didn't even mention they barely well, yeah,

they didn't even mention Tony D'Angelo in the North American title. Anyway, let's move forward because I feel like I'm just ranting already and I need to actually talk about the show. What happened. So we have the results from January fourteen, twenty twenty five, from the WWE Performance Center, and it is in Winter Park, Florida. And next week I heard they said they were going to be in Atlanta. I think it was next week, so that would be interesting

or maybe in two weeks. And I don't remember exactly the comments. So the commentators were Vic, Joseph N. Booker. T Now I'm stopping there for a second because there's been a little bit of news this week about commentators in the WWE. If you've been paying attention all if you haven't, I'll kind of explain. So that was kind of thinking this actually, So we all knew that Pat McAfee was going to be back on Monday Night Raw

after the college football season, which he is. And you know, because it's the Netflix show, they wanted to put the A team on Netflix. So they put on Corey Graves at Pat McAfee, which, let me tell you, the two of them together are gold. They are gold. They should be on Netflix, they should be on Money World. There's no reason why they shouldn't be. Okay, So now you have those two, Now you still have Joe testatorra who

who mind you just started out? You know after Pat McAfee left in the fall and has done a pretty bang up job. He does a pretty bang up job. So you gotta tora. Who's got to go somewhere? So they put him on SmackDown? Makes sense? Then who So he's the playlight play guy for SmackDown. I know who's gonna be The big question is going to be who would be the who would be the the the color commentary guy next to them on SmackDown. Turns out we found out last week it's going to be Wade Barrett.

Now here's the problem. Where does that leave Corey g Right? So last week Corey Graves helped call New Year's Evil and I have to tell you, I don't know I'm gonna go back and listen to it again, maybe at the whole or watch it. Maybe at the whole thing, but maybe the whole thing. Corey Graves seemed just a little grumpy last week. I mean, I'm trying to I'm trying to not use a swear word, but kind of grumpy during the I mean, listen, he's I love Corey Graves.

Sometimes he can get in his own way, he just talks too much, but generally speaking, I like his passion. I think he plays off Michael cole well, not as well as Pat McAfee. So Corey Graves ending up on NXT next to Vic Joseph and Booker T and I have to tell you, Booker T and noise the heck out of me. So I was very happy to have somebody else besides Booker T sitting in commentary and Vic Joseph to me is great. I think he's great. I mean,

he's he's good for a next for sure. But now this week, so there was a tweet or whatever they're called now an X by Corey Graves complaining about his status as in doing color commentary or doing commentary for WWE, because apparently he's not happy with the fact that he was sent down to NXT and in and he was.

From what I hear, he was supposed to be here this week as well, but he ended up not being on the show and from and I also heard a rumor that there that somebody saw him get on a plane out of Orlando the day of the NXT show on Tuesday night, So it's gonna be interesting to see how that plays out. I really hope Corey Graves doesn't leave WWA. I hope they find him something to do. I think they have a great group of guys minus Booker t. I'm sorry. I can't can't do it with him.

I can't. Fortunately, I have to watch it every week to review the show. I don't have to want to. But still, critig just drives me nuts. I mean, there are times where he's great, he's fine, not great, fine, but with the whole like Champagne wishes and caviars, he's got to say that every single time, every week he's gonna say it at least once and all the like. Sometimes the way he talks, I can't really understand what

he's saying. All overall, I do like Bookert, but I don't know so anyway, so as of now, it looks like it's Booker T and Vic Joseph's still on NXT because Corey Grady's wasn't there, and then I told you who else is on It was on the other shows. So I'll be interesting to see how this plays out, and I'm gonna keep an eye on it between now, between this week and next week to see how it plays out and kind of give you guys an update next week. So and as always for NXT, the ring

announcer is Mike Rome. So my friends and I we went to see it was I don't know, it was weird. It was an organization called Awesome Championship Wrestling and it was in Poughkeepsie at the former mid Hudston Civic Center. It's now called the Neshawatts Civic Center or something like that, and let me tell you, it was a great show.

They incorporated nw A matches, they incorporated t n T or t now they incorporated TNA matches, NWA matches, and then and then they had their own so they actually that night, the nw A title world title was defended. The TNA World title with Nick Nemath was defended against Matt Riddle whoever you know. So the main event was was Nick Nemath former Doff Zigler against Matt Riddle, which was a great match. It was a it was a

great card. I have to tell you, if you ever see anything about Awesome Championship Wrestling or a c W, check it out. They don't. They're still kind of getting going, so they don't. They're not doing a lot. But for those of you that were in Poughkeepsie, if you happen to be in Poughkeepsie that day, it was a great show. And you know, let me know what you think. Anyway, So back to I keep going off on tangents and I apologize, but unfortunately I haven't taken my add med

since this morning and they're starting to wear off. True story. So we have first Oba Femi coming out after they of course they did the review highlights of New Year's Evil, how everything went the rock, everything like that. The title changes, so we have Oba Femmi come out first, and he says he said, he addresses the the n X two universe and he says, dreadit, run from it. Destiny will always arrive just like I have arrived, and now it's time for me to take my rightful place upon the throne.

You know, many many of men would win something as big as this, and they would say they've come out here to say they have come out here to say. I never believed I could do it. I've always believed this is oba Femi. I always believed I could do it because ever since day one, when I walked through these doors, I told everybody I was backed by Destiny. And some of you thought it was just a catchphrase, a gimmick, a joke. Nope, I've been I've been backed

by Destiny all along. I was backed by Destiny when I won the Breakout Tournament. I was backed by Destiny when I won the North American Championship. I was back by Destiny when I became the longest reigning North American Champion. And I was definitely backed by Destiny when I became the NXT Champion. Because all of this, all of this is all mine now, and it belongs to the ruler, and I'm going to rule as I see fit. But let's talk about Trick Williams for a second. Let's acknowledge

Trick Williams. He's put a lot of hard work into this. He broke so many records as champion. But just like every other guy back there, Trick Williams has a ceiling and Oba Femi has no ceiling right now. I tend to agree with that definitely about I don't know about Trick Williams having a ceiling right now. I mean he will eventually, but he does, I don't know if he does right now. And interestingly, Trick really didn't come out at all during the show this week. They briefly showed him,

but they he didn't. He didn't. I don't know for sure if he was actually there. So that's gonna be interesting, especially with the Royal Rumble coming out coming up soon. Everybody as a possibility showing up there, especially with the women the Women's World Rumble. Like again, there's a there's a plethora of great women's wrestlers right now in NXT, and there's a lack of them in the main rosters.

So there's gonna be spots in the World and the Women's World Rumble for people to come out from either NXT or even possibly TNA, which I'm gonna talk about in a second. Well at the end probably, Then he goes on to talk about Eddie. He's like a cockroach that won't die, like a gum on your shoe that won't go away. And Eddie, I'm gonna issue you my first and final warning. You can go and annoy somebody else in the locker room. And then out of nowhere,

Tony D'Angelo comes out. So we've got Oba Femi in the ring with his anx T championship, and we got Tony D'Angelo coming out with the North American title, and he says, Oba, my power, my guy, how are you doing? Hey, listen, congrats on the victory. But by the way, you're in the big seat now, so listen. I was in the back with the family and we were listening to all you listen, all your accomplishments, but my personal favorite is

you being the longest rating North American champion. But in my opinion, when it comes to the title, it's the Don too and the ruler one. See, there is no question about it. You are the ruler right now. But just remember I am the one one man to defeat you. And when I decide to go for that championship, you and I both know that I'm walking out of the ring the two title. Don and Nova says Tony, I see that you found your confidence here, and that's good

for you. That's amazing. But the last time I checked last week, you didn't you get didn't you get your ass dropped by Santa Claus? So if I were you, I would start worrying about the North American Championship a lot more and leave me be. Tony D'Angelo then says, listen, nobody gets on, nobody gets one on the done without consequences. I'll take care of rich Holland, don't you worry in and then say his name, and here comes out Rich Holland. Hello, Tony,

good to see you again. You were looking in a lot better shaped than the last time I saw you. Oh, before I forget, I brought you a belated Christmas gift. What do you think any pulls out a picture. It pulls out a picture of if you can hear the sirens, I'm in my living room, there's sirens in the background. So he uh pulls out a picture of himself dressed as Santa Claus beating up Tony D'Angelo from I guess New Year's Evil. You know what, that's pretty funny. You

let me sign that for you. That's what Tony Dangelo says, and then the two of them start growing towards the backstage area. And then as that's happening, Eddie Thorpe attacts from you from behind, drop kicks the Lefnia Femi, and then viciously attacks Femi with a leather strap. Now, out of nowhere, he brings out a leather strap. So are we looking at a strap match again in the future? Interesting?

Then we have we head back to the Lockman's locker room, where Ethan Page brags about his segment with the Rock last week. Page says that he can smell the jealousy from the locker room, and then Dante Chen why barely remember his name? He tells Ethan Page that he did that nobody wants him in the locker room after what he did to Javon Evans and Cedric Alexander. Dante shows Evan, says Ethan sorry, Dante shoves Ethan after he jokes about breaking Devon's joe, and Dante goes to A's office for

a match. So now there's a Match's going to be a match between Ethan Page and what's his name again? Dante Dante Chen again? Yeah, please keep Ethan Page a heel forever. He is so good like he is, I don't know if I could never see him as a babyface ever. The first match, so, the first match we have is stephanieva Care versus Shatzi and a number one

contenders match for the NXT North American Women's North American Championship. Again, I said this last week, I don't understand, like, okay, Stephanie of a Kerr won a fatal four way match for the opportunity to fight for the NXT Women's North American Championship. Because Shatzi happened to be the one that pinned fallon Henley and a six man six woman tag match, she gets a step up, Like I don't get it, but you know what, I guess I like Shatzi. I do.

I Actually I'm glad that spoiler alert She's gonna win the match, but I'm hoping this just kind of this is just to kind of draw out the process of Stephanie either winning the North American Championship or eventually again, I honestly think that Stephanie and Julie are gonna either go against each other at Standard Deliver or possibly main events Stand and Deliver and I keep saying that, and I'm holding on to that anyway, So we got this match. He goes back and forth again, I kind of ruined it.

Stephanie Shatzi ended up winning the match after Shala Henley came down, distracted the referee and ended up using the North American Women's title and kind of bashing it over Stephanie's back. And then Shots well, so she came out originally, and SHOTSI and Stephanie kind of started beating on Oh J C. Jane first, and then Falan Hawley came out. It was it was a crazy match anyway. At the end of the day, Shatsi won the match. What is going on in around this neighborhood? SHOTSI won the match.

She said that she seemed like she didn't she had a problem with the way she won it because she didn't realize till after the fact. But again, at the end of the day, she's getting a title shot. So I think it's next week or two weeks. I'm not exactly sure. I think it's next week. And Stephanie is

still Stephanie. She's awesome. That's just me. So later on we have soul Ruka telling Colonie Jordan that things are going to turn around, and Zaria says that Klannie should use her recent losses motivation more like motivation to the back of the line. According to Kora Jade, Cora has no doubt. Cora has no doubt that she's gonna be, She's gonna be, She's going to win a title before Klanie wins another Cora says that Klonie can have all the attitude in the world because she is still going

to be the same little girl from Michigan State. And Klanie got ticked about that and started just beating the crap out of Coora Jade and eventually turned into a match later on. Stephanie Vicora then attacks JC Jane in the trainer's room during the commercial break, and then Oba Femi storms into Ava's office and wants a match against Eddie Thorpe for the NXT title. Ava is not gonna reward Eddie's bad behavior. Mister Stone says that Eddie is playing Oba like a fiddle, and Oba lifts Stone up

against the wall. Ava then tells Oba that to put Stone down and grants Oba what she wants. So apparently you can manhandle a manager or whatever. Stone is in order to get what you want. That's that's fine. That's basic parenting skills, like, no, you don't do that, that's just me. Next match we have is Ethan Page versus John Dante Chen. This match was okay. I mean it was a quick match at the end, it was very quick. Actually, at the end, Ethan Page wins. He uh, he puts

his right leg. So after he wins the match, he takes Chen puts his right leg inside the steel ring steps and viciously kicks the steps, which potentially, I guess broke his leg. I mean he's already broken Javon's jaw, he's broken Cedric's wrist, fingers, whatever, and maybe he broke Dante Chen's leg. I don't know for sure. Then Javon comes out wire John and starts teeing off on Page and then Page perceives the punch efforts in the draw and that stops that so so and Page Page starts yelling,

you know it's jaw's wired. Shud, he just got bunch in the face. Heavens or. Ethan Page starts saying, he give me a smile, give me a smile. I mean, he's such a good heel. He's so good, all right, So Ethan Page wins the match. Then we have Sean Spears trying to recruit Adriana Rizzo away from the family, and is He Dame tells Spears that she doesn't need him, and Spears highly doubts that. And then and then uh Rizzo starts to get ticked off at is He Dame

saying that she hadn't handled, which I don't doubt. And then meanwhile we go over to Chante Didonnas doesn't want to play games anymore then and then kisses Karmen Petrovitch so fine. Then we have a little vignette about Julia half of it, half of it was in Japanese, and basically Julie is awesome. She's the champion. She's awesome. That's what That's basically what it boils down to. It's true.

Sarah Schreiber then has a backstage interview with d I Y. So d I Y shows up, and so the reason why d I Y is there is because everybody's raving about phraxium, right, which I have to tell you, the every the more I watch Phraxium, the more I'm on the train. Right, So everybody's been recently, people have been calling Phraxium the the best w w E tag team, the best NXT tag team ever, which you know, for those of you that know, d I Y was a tag team in NXT a while ago, so they had

they take they're there. You know, they're a little offended by the fact that the people are calling Phraxium the best tag teams. So they come to get a closer view on because TV is not close enough, right, They're getting a closer view on to see what Phraxium is all about. So Sarah Striver's interviewing d I Y and Johnny Gargana says that one day the world will rejoice, the world where we will rejoice watching DIY battle Phrasium and Tamasa Champion promises that they are not there to

cause problems, and to be honest, they didn't. All they did from what I remember off the top of my head, all they did was stand in the balcony just to watch. So interesting for those of you that don't know, Frasium was defending the titles against OTM later on, then we've got the best match of the night. So so I have I have this. This is the best match of the night by far, although Phraxium against OTM was good, but it's because Fraxie is really good. I don't want

toarticularly care for OTM. It's just my own personal opinion. But this was the best match of the night. But here's the problem. So the match was not gonna go back the match. The match was meta for the women, so Jakara Jackson and Lash Legend versus the Unholy Union Albi Fire at Ile Dawn for the number one contenders match for the Women's Tag Team Champions. Now here's my issue with this match before I get into it. My issue with this match is it shouldn't have been on NXT.

I don't understand. So there's there's almost there's up to six hours of main roster time to do them to do this match, and they for for one women's tag team who is assigned to Monday Night Raw and the other women's tag team who's not assigned to the main roster but has been in the main roster and has actually me who's actually fought for the Women's Tag Team Champions Championship in Saudi Arabia. So I don't understand why

we're taking up NX the two hours that's it. Two hours of NXT time for a match that really should have or could have been on Raw or SmackDown in one of the six hours that you have. I hope this means just to kind of give him a shot. I hope this means that the winner of this match will face Bianca and Naomi and NXT. I would assume if that's what it means, but nothing's been said. Now there's only one women's tag team champions for all three shows,

so we'll have to see. But anyway, this one against once again by far, this was the best match, and then these four women are great. I last last legend is will be will be a top tier champion in five years, within five within five years, I'll say she is strong, she's powerful. Full. Put her against Jade, put her against reaplea well Rea for certain, please, because she is so good and so powerful and she looks great

and she wrestles great. Like just think think about all the all the stuff that Jade Cargill has gone through for the for the first, for the last, for the last you know year, and now they're tay they've taken her off TV and you could could be for an injury. It could be. It could be because she's not very good. Lash Legend is, and so is Jakara Jackson, but Lash Legends definitely the better of the two. Listen, this was a great match. It went back and forth, great great chemistry.

The four of them have great chemistry together. And at the end we have Legend body slams Dawn splashed with two count. Dawn fights out the fireman's car position, Dawn's throwing haymakers. Legend x Storm with the forearm smashed, Fire attacks Legend behind the referees back. Dawn applies a sleeperhole. Fire attacks yourself in. Fire repeatedly stomps on legends chest, Fire then choking Legend with her with her boot, and Dawn island down, tigs yourself in. Eventually, Legend sends down

to the spilling of the floor. Um Dawn jumps on Legends back. Legend puts Jackson on his shoulders. Fire sends Jackson face first in the top turbucle pad and Dawn pulls Jackson out of the ring and fire and eventually fire wipe wipes out Metaphor with a flying cannonball sent on to the outside. Like I said, it was back and forth it's a great it was a great match. Eventually it went and it went a long time to actually it was a it was a long match. Uh

the Actually we got Dawn tagging in fire. Fire goes for the for the glory bomb, but Legend tags herself in nails Dawn with a pump kick, which, let me tell you, if you've seen Last Legends pump kick man Wow. Metaphor connects with their running cutter, sit out, facebuster combination to pick up the victory. Basically, it's uh, their move is it's a it's a it's a true tag team move. It's a great move anyway, So the winner was Metaphor.

They are gonna supposed to be facing Bianca and Naomi at some point again I don't know where and I don't know when, but they're supposed to. So good job Metaphor. Like I said, best match of the evening as far as I'm concerned. Ren Sinclair then demands demands a rematch for the Heritage Cup for Charlie Dempsey because she feels a Lexus intentionally kicked Charlie Dempsey in the Jules We'll say Jewles last week, and Davis says that Charlie does

deserve a rematch. The Don and Ridge Holland are growing in the parking lot. After right after that it's done, then we have Okay, so now I'm gonna go over to Tangent again, but for a purpose. Then we have the TNA current TNA Knockouts Champion, Masha Slamovich in the crowd scouting competition. Now, at the time, I was like, that's interesting. Why would it think? You know, obviously Jordan Grace has been there, but it's Jordan Grace. It's different.

The Jordan Grace is like transcends TNA, like Joe Hendry does, like you know a lot of guys do. But I was thinking to myself, why would this Why would the TNA Knockouts champion be in the in the in the audience now, and not only that during during the next match, which was Klonnie Jordan versus kora Ja. During the match, not only was she in the in the in the audience, but also I noticed and this was fascinating, fascinating. Vic Joseph plugged the next t NA pay per view, What

Wow Wow? Which is I believe it's the It's the pay per view where Joe Hendry's going for the TNA Championship against Nick Nemath. I think it's January nineteenth. I forgot what it's called, but it's huge NXT. So I'm wondering what's going on. I'm really wondering what's going on with this? This is this was huge even even though they've had partnerships in the past with TNA, Like they're plugging a TNA show. Why are they plugging the show? Well,

the TNA pay per views around Friday nights. I don't know that's a good question, but I guess these days you can watch everything whenever you want because you know streaming. Then, come to find out today this is today's Thursday, January nineteenth, right, no sixteenth, sorry, January sixteenth. Come to find out today that the WWE and TNA have signed an agreement continuing to have much cross promotion between the TNA, between TNA and between NXT. So that's super exciting. I have to

tell you every time someone from TNA came over. Now, I didn't watch TNA. I don't I don't have the channel that TNAS on, which stinks, and I'm sorry, I can't see myself spending spending ten dollars a month for TNA for their app But but where was I going with this? Oh? Yeah, but every time a TNA wrestler came over at NXT it was exciting every time. It didn't matter who it was. I mean, yes, Joe Hendry, Jordan Grace to me, huge, Right, I'll be interested to

see if Nick Menmuth comes over. So Nick Nenmoth for years, for years, a decade and a half was Dolf Ziegler. And the WWE now is the TNA champion. They're doing cross promotion. That's gonna be interesting. What are they gonna call him? Probably Dolf Ziegler, probably actually Nick Memmoth. Anyway, So more information, more news. See, this isn't just about the review. This is about all the things that you need to know. We got Colonie Jordan versus Courage aid.

This match was okay. It was just okay. It wasn't It wasn't anything like to call your MoMA and say, oh, watch this match, this is a great match. It was. It was really just okay. In the end, uh, Colonie Jordans was Mollie Jade Jade Coryjate in the corner and she rakes her eyes and connects with the double underhook DEDT to pick up the victory. So your winner is courage Ade via pinfall. Then you have Eddie Thorpe bragging

about Obafemi constantly falling for his baits. He he's happy that Ava gave him the uh An NXT title match for next week, and it's almost makes up for her for her calling him a liar. This was on they showed an Instagram video uh and you could see it was in his number one. It was it was, it wasn't It wasn't horizontal. It was vertical. You know when you put something on TV, like vertically on from your phone, looks weird. Then they had like Instagram Instagram, like you know,

the little camera thing for Instagram. They had that on the side. So this was clearly an Instagram post. So I guess he wasn't there that night either. I don't know. No, he was. He he attacked Obama earlier. I don't know. It's just kind of weird anyway. Then you've got Josh Briggs and Yoshiki in Amora in right telling Fraxi and they got next week following tonight's main event, and then OTM comes and says, you should be talking to us

because we're gonna win the titles. And then you have the fifth match, which is Axiom and Nathan Frasier versus OTM for the NXT Tag Team Championships. This was definitely the second best match of the night, and again it's because of Phraxium. The Phraxium is like, OHTM, they're okay, but they're kind of like they're big guys and they move like big guys. Axiom is great. It was a great match because of Phraxium. Again to me, second best, second best match of the night. And Phraxium does all

of their moves. They did all the moves that they normally do. And at the end, which we're gonna get to the end of the second so it was a pretty fairly long match. Who so oops. So in the end, Axiom connects with the Avalanche Spanish Fly and and then and then that was a Fraser and Axium connects with the Golden Ratio and to pick up the victory and retain the NXT Tag Team Championships. I don't see I honestly don't see Phraxium losing those titles any time soon.

I can't think of who would beat them, maybe Hank in Tank and I always I only say Hank in Tank only because there are a few other tag teams that I know their names, and they're fun. They're the opposite of Phraxium, to be honest. They're big guys to just beat. They're like, they're like if I mean, I grew up during the eighties and nineties wrestling, so they're so to compare them, I compare them to like the

Nasty Boys, if you know what I'm talking about. So next week on XT, Tony Dangelo will put the X the NXT North American Championship up against Ridge Holland. Then Roxanne Perez comes out, and I'm not gonna go through everything that she says, but she starts off sounding kind of humble and you know, and then she's then then it ends up turning because Roxy and Perez is what

she does. She ends up turning and starts saying that basically the women's division is not gonna be as good because she's not the champion anymore, which you know, of course, of course she's gonna say that, and then all of a sudden she starts talking about, you know, hey, back when they had the four horse women. They needed four people to run the division and now they only need

one me. And then Bailey's music hits and Bailey comes out. Now, Bailey's had a busy week, so Bailey, She's been everywhere this last week. Bailey on Friday Night won the fatal four way match to become the number one SEK titler for triple Tiffany Stratton's title. She then was because I was at San Jose. She was in San Jose on Monday and did a little little a little bit there

with Riya Ripley and Naya Jacks. And then now she's on n XT talking to Roxanne, and Bailey says, because you know, I'm gonna say what Bailey said, I'm not gonna say with Roxanne. Roxanne went on incessantly. I'm not even gonna go into it. Bailey says, ding Don, Roxanne, Happy Tuesday, rox thank you, Thank you, guys. I'm excited to be back. And I had to come out here because knowing you, I knew you were gonna be upset about your title loss with Julia at New Year's Evil.

But look to me, I see that you're at a crossroad in your career right now. So you can either act like you are right now, or you could adapt to the situation and grow from it. And Roxanne says, I did not ask for your advice, and then Bailey says, you didn't ask for my advice. I'm pretty sure you've been asking for advice since the day the day you

walked into w WE. You've been asking you for advice since the first day we met, when you were a little bit shorter than you are now right now, which is crazy, Roxanne's very tiny, and when you were fourteen in Austin, Texas. Look, I love NXT. Everyone knows how much this means to me. And you know how much I've followed your career and I believed in you since day one. But Sister, the division is going to be fine, all right with Klanie, Jada, even Cora, They're all going

to be fine without you. And it doesn't mean that that what you did wasn't important. It just means that we're bigger than that. You know, your title run was amazing. It was one of the best that we ever had. And Roxanne says, you're just like Natalia, and you're just like the like Sea. I'm punk and I hate that You're out here trying to tell me the same things that they did, because you know, you know what that shows me? It shows me that you are just like everyone I used to look up to. Why are you

even here, Bailey? Do you even do you think the NXT owes you something? Yeah? You set records, but guess what I broke them. Let's face it, Bailey, you were my role model, but I think I can be yours now. Bailey says, you know what rocks The difference between you and me is that you're gonna remain the same way. Well, I'm going to WrestleMania after I win the title from Tiffany Stratton this Friday, and Roxanne slaps Bailey in the face and Roxanne and Bailey get into a brawl as

the show goes off the air. Who so that that was a great segment? Always loved Baily. Let me tell you I was cheering for Bailey last year at the World Rumble. They really screwed I'm gonna talk about Bailey for a second. Even though she's a main roster, they really screwed her over last year. They give her the highest of highs winning the World Rumble, going on to WrestleMania and beating EO Sky had a fantastic match, fantastic match, and then they did her dirty. They just they didn't

do anything with her after that. It's like highest of highs and then I'm not gonna say low. Well she was a low She was champion for un till SummerSlam, but just was just like, okay, no, Bailey's champion. That's it. It was weird. The whole thing was weird. Anyway. That was the show again, wasn't nearly as good as New Year's Evil. It was. It was an okay show, you know it. It's a show that you watch and you watch it next team you watch it. It's good, but

hopefully next week will be better. There is a title match, at least one title match next week, and then they're gonna be in Atlanta. I don't remember they said Atlanta was next week of the week after, but every time they seem to not be in the Performance Center. It's it's the stories tend to move the needle more so it'd be interesting to see how that works out. Anyway,

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