Playing on how the main roster used to f*ck up all the things fans loved (War Raiders > Viking Experience > Viking Raiders > Ruined For Months) from NXT as well as Patrick Clark's original Dream-like experiment during his early days on the black-and-gold brand, 'The Velveteen Dream Experience' was promoted ahead of time as something of a USA Network coming out party for one of the show's clear future megastars.
In one of several cute head-to-heads between NXT and AEW during the night, Dream's spiel went up against rising star MJF's over on TNT. Dream will have no memory of that, but Maxwell Jacob Friedman shouldn't - he was firmly outclassed.
With a new sofa and revived focus on regaining his North American Championship, The Dream came with glint in eye, spring in step and world domination in his future.
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