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Ups And Downs - NXT New Year's Evil

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🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Our review of WWE NXT New Year's Evil including Tommaso Ciampa vs Bron Breakker, Mandy Rose vs Raquel Gonzalez vs Cora Jade, Riddle & MSK vs Imperium, AJ Styles, Carmelo Hayes vs Roderick Strong and more...


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0:00.0

Oh, my friends, and that's right, you've seen the title in your life, but you don't do

0:12.7

ups and downs for NXT anymore.

0:14.8

Well, we do sometimes when they have a special event.

0:18.0

And given that we have just entered 2022, and we have New Year's evil, which very sadly

0:22.8

featured no zombies, even though we know zombies are part of WWE lore, pointing as I thought

0:28.3

I'd take the finger of power and give the good bits and up the bad bits of down, especially

0:32.3

because in many ways, this was like one big goodbye letter to whatever the original NXT

0:37.5

was.

0:38.5

So sit down, grab yourself a drink of choice, beer to tea, beer to coffee, or some kind

0:42.2

of fizzy beverage.

0:43.6

And let's, yes, what I already said, up those towns for New Year's evil.

0:58.3

And it is goodbye to the Cruiserweight title.

1:05.2

I mean, I know that WWE had good intentions when they did bring it back, and it was exciting

1:09.4

for a little while, but actually, if you look at it as a whole, they basically treated

1:14.4

it the exact same way as they did 20 years ago.

1:17.4

The point is, it was Ronald Ricks' strong and Carmella Hayes fighting for both the Cruiser

1:20.8

weight title and the North American Championship, and to tie this up in a lovely little package

1:25.6

and put a bow on it, what a way to start the show up.

1:29.6

They just hit the go by an instantly, and in every single move they possibly could to

1:34.2

let the audience know, I know that it is Tuesday night, and I know you're watching on the

1:38.0

USA Network, but this is a super-duper addition of NXT and not the usual gobbins that you're

1:43.2

used to.

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