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NXT Year in Review: Wrestlers of the Year

Brad Abel continues his look back at WWE NXT for 2021 with some individual awards in the US and the UK!

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Brad Abel continues his look back at WWE NXT for 2021 with some individual awards in the US and the UK!

It’s time for individual awards.

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NXT UK Tag Team of the Year: Pretty Deadly

The tag team division in NXT UK was arguably the most interesting and competitive division in all of NXT. Subculture, Mustache Mountain, Symbiosis, Ashton Smith & Oliver Carter, the Gallus Boys, and Jack Starz and Dave Mastiff all had excellent showings. The best of the bunch was Pretty Deadly. No team since the Revival has done more to bring back old school heel tactics than Sexy Sam and Luscious Louis. It’s just a matter of time before they are dominating on RawDown. 

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NXT Tag Team of the Year: MSK

What did I have to say about MSK this year:

“Win, lose or draw, I know they’re going to deliver.”

“The best curtain jerkers since the Hardy Boyz.”

“When MSK hits the stage, I can’t help but get excited.”

“In a place where the tag titles have always meant something, they are actually elevating them.”

And for good measure, they had tag team matches, a triple threat tag team match and a 6-man tag match all coming in at 4.5 stars or better. The sky is the limit for Nash Carter and Wes Lee.

Meiko Satomura Wins NXT UK Women's Championship

NXT UK Female Wrestler of the Year: Meiko Satomura

Wrestling is known for its longevity. The joke is nobody ever retires. That may be true, but very few wrestlers are putting on MOTY candidates in their 26th year. Even fewer can legitimately claim to be best in the world that deep into their career. Satomura is an international wrestling treasure. When she retires, I hope more American fans include her when they talk about the best female wrestlers of all time.

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NXT Female Wrestler of the Year: Raquel Gonzalez

Big Mami Cool dominated 2021. She started the year with a definitive victory over Rhea Ripley, and the beatings never stopped. I love her Chingona Bomb. I love that sweet leather jacket she wears to the ring. I love her simple pre-match pose when she turns the belt around and flares those traps. I love that she never lost the belt to a painfully boring and obviously inferior Mandy Rose. Wait. She what? Son of a mother fu….  

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NXT UK Male Wrestler of the Year: Ilja Dragunov

The first six months of 2021, Dragunov was the most compelling and interesting wrestler in all of NXT. His WALTER-induced spiral into madness was gripping. Watching him fight his demons felt very real. It’s been a long time since a soul that tortured has given us so many great matches in one year. Dunne. Dar. A Kid. Gradwell. WALTER. As good as he is, it’s crazy to think he’s only 28 and only get better.

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NXT Wrestler of the Year: Tommaso Ciampa

This feels like a last man standing award. He started 2021 with a MOTY candidate versus WALTER. He reinvigorated himself as a tag team guy with Timothy Thatcher. He ended as the NXT 1.0. the flag bearer, the final link to the Black & Gold Standard of professional wrestling. Anybody else who might have qualified has been 2.0’d. But make no mistake about it. Even if we still had Cole, Gargano, O’Reilly, Scott and the rest, the Blackheart has more than earned NXT Wrestler of the year, as well as…
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NXT Overall Performer of the Year: Tommaso Ciampa 

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Thanks for the memories.

Up next: Some very special NXT UK Awards


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King’s WrestleMania Rewind: Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka from WrestleMania 34

Chris king is back with one of the most underrated matches in WrestleMania history–Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka!

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Chris king is back with one of the most underrated matches in WrestleMania history–Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka!

We look back at Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka at WWE WrestleMania 34. ‘The Empress of Tomorrow’ put her unprecedented and historic undefeated streak of 914 days on the line against ‘The Queen’s’ SmackDown Women’s Championship.

For years, this was considered a dream match while Asuka dominated the roster in NXT, while Flair won numerous championships on the main roster on both Raw and SmackDown. The Empress made her long-awaited debut on the September 11th episode of Raw and began to tear through the competition.

Asuka outlasted all twenty-nine other women in the historic first-ever Women’s Royal Rumble match to challenge for the title of her choosing. At Fastlane, she made her choice.

The WWE Universe was so excited for this match myself included. Both superstars delivered a fantastic performance on the Grandest Stage of Them All executing counter after counter. Asuka showed off some nasty-looking kicks to her opponent, and Flair hit a thunderous Spanish Fly off the top rope. Flair was seconds away from defeat at the hands of The Empress but she locked in Figure Eight and Asuka was forced to tap out.

I can’t even begin to explain how shocked I was at this outcome, as nearly everyone expected The Empress to continue her undefeated streak and walk away with the women’s title. This controversial decision was the downfall of Asuka’s momentum. She would ultimately win the SmackDown Women’s Championship at the 2018 TLC pay-per-view in the triple-threat ladder match.

Fast forward to this year when Asuka has recently returned with her Japanese-inspired persona Kana. Kana is dangerous and ruthless and is heading into a championship with Bianca Belair at WrestleMania 39. The Empress has regained all her momentum and is highly favored to walk away with the Raw Women’s Championship. Let’s hope that Asuka and Belair can tear the house down and deliver an A+ grade match both women are fully capable of.


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King: Dominik Mysterio Needs To Do This At WrestleMania

Chris King is here with what WWE should do with Dominik Mysterio at WrestleMania in his long-awaited match against his father Rey Mysterio Jr. 

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Chris King is here with what WWE should do with Dominik Mysterio at WrestleMania in his long-awaited match against his father Rey Mysterio Jr. 

On this week’s episode of Friday Night SmackDown, Rey Mysterio finally snapped and beat some sense into his disrespectful punk-ass kid Dominik. The member of the Judgement Day came out to push his father again for a match on the Grandest Stage of Them All, this time with his mother and sister at ringside. The ungrateful punk told his mom to “Shut Up,” as a father even I wanted to jump through the screen and whoop his ass.

Back in October of last year, Mysterio made the emotional decision to possibly quit the company but, instead, Triple H persuaded the Lucha libre superstar to move over to SmackDown to avoid his son. This came after Dominik shockingly turned on his father at Clash at the Castle. Mysterio did everything he could to refuse his despicable son’s challenge for Mania but, a man can only be pushed so far. Mysterio will be inducted into the 2023 WWE Hall of Fame and I expect Dominik to embarrass his father during his speech to further this personal feud.

Yes, the WWE Universe hates Dominik and wants to see him get the ever-loving crap kicked out of him but, this feud is missing a special ingredient to capitalize on the biggest heat possible. Throughout this feud, Dominik has made mention of the legendary Eddie Guerrero on several occasions going back to the “iconic” 2005 feud.

I know WWE might not want to go this route but, Dominik MUST come out to Eddie Guerrero’s theme at Mania. The disrespectful punk needs to come out in a lowrider to garner nuclear heat. It doesn’t matter if The Judgement Day comes out and causes interference for Dominik to get the win, all that matters is that both superstars get the biggest payoff of this nearly year-long feud. Just imagine the Roman Reigns heat after he defeated The Undertaker and multiply that by ten. Dominik portrays the perfect heel and he truly is the missing ingredient that The Judgement Day needed to grow and evolve into a top faction.


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