Big NXT fan here, and I’m excited for the direction the back-and-yellow brand seems to be laying out for their women’s division in 2019. Champion Shayna Baszler has brought in her friends Marina Shafir & Jessamyn Duke to help protect her reign. She’s done so, in story, because despite her continued tough talk, the Queen of Spades has been proven vulnerable on several recent occasions, particularly by Kairi Sane, Io Shirai & Bianca Belair. That trio is at the front of a pack jockeying for position to turn Baszler into a former champ for the second time in her WWE career.
It makes for a lot of good story possibilities. And I get why you’d want to revisit “candid” scenes of the Horsewomen trying to terrorize the locker room. Similar stuff worked to great effect during Shayna’s first title run.
But this? As the hip crowd says, this ain’t it...
Mia Yim’s disrespectful hand gesture game is world class, and it’s nice to see Lacey Lane & MJ Jenkins doing something. But come on! This is wrestling, and you titled your video “locker room fight”. Somebody at least throw something!
All this does is make Baszler, Duke & Shafir look like pretty weak bullies. Their raid ended with some shouting and Serena Deeb scolding them away.
But I watched and got at least a few people to read my ranting about it, so good job!
Let’s step up our brawl game though, ladies of NXT.