4 Ups And 7 Downs From WWE NXT 2.0 (Dec 21)
4. Williams Misses A Trick Against Lumis
This week marked the first-ever one-on-one singles encounter for one Trick Williams inside of an NXT 2.0 squared-circle... and it went about as well as you likely imagined.
Your writer isn't here to throw stones at a star cutting his teeth on national television, but having him throw down with Dexter Lumis for a period far more extended than it had any right to be was always going to be a bad idea. And, sure enough, once the most interesting element of the fight - that being Carmelo Hayes and Roderick Strong's burgeoning rivalry at ringside - had scrapped out of the arena, what we were left with wasn't worth staying awake for.
Thankfully, after a string of mind-numbing chin locks, mis-timed punches and kicks, and Lumis' greatest hits - that kip-up leg drop will never not be awesome - Williams too was booked in for an impromptu nap thanks to a sudden Silence.
Grayson Waller was on hand to swiftly move the segment on to make room for a Phenomenal incoming, but the sheer laziness of the angle and lack of quality on show in the match itself all but confirms those in the back want you to forget about this sooner rather than later.