10 Times Women's Wrestling SERIOUSLY Kicked Ass
2. Toxic Attraction Meet A Classic Conclusion
NXT has drawn many detractors since a sharp pivot away from the ashes era of the black-and-gold brand in in August 2021.
Many of those detractors aren’t really watching, as they weren’t - and this was key to the rebadge - by the time the switch happened. The dingy Capitol Wrestling Center was the perfect destination for the death throes of the original version. No longer hot nor cool nor anything really, a bastardised brand needed a complete rethink, got one, and very very very gradually reversed a slide and started feeling like a productive developmental brand again.
A developmental brand that gets two hours of national television time a week, and thus provides quite the door of opportunity for hopefuls and standouts to burst through should the moment strike.
Jacy Jayne and Gigi Dolin forcefully and literally attempted this on the February 7th edition of the show. It didn’t work as exactly planned, but the headlining spot of the entire show drew substantially more attention for how inadvertently vicious it was, and will stand them in good stead for a feud set to hit a big arena over WrestleMania weekend.
Such sentiments might not cure Dolin’s headaches, but she might not care. She absorbed a brutal boot to the face from Jayne that wickedly bounced her head against a doorframe that didn’t sell for sh*t and an actual door that offered similarly little reprieve. But the moment was instantly money on its own terms rather than a copy of a copy of a copy of the iconic Rockers split.