4 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE NXT New Year's Evil (Review)

3. Better Luck Reading A Menu

If there was any doubt who was the glue that held Toxic Attraction together, it’s become abundantly clear in recent weeks.

Ever since Mandy Rose’s sudden firing for daring to profit off her physical attributes in the same way NXT has, Jacy Jayne and Gigi Dolin have been floundering (and nearly foundering) on the mic, cutting completely unconvincing promos that sound like two junior high drama club understudies thrust into starring roles when they haven’t been practicing delivering their lines with conviction.

Tuesday night, the remaining Toxic twins gave a cringe backstage interview where they looked to be reading off a prompter or were remembering their lines by giving a 1,000-meter stare offscreen. The dialogue was atrocious – Dolin saying they were like “two caged beasts” who had “finally become unshackled” and released in the wild was especially embarrassing.

WHO TALKS LIKE THAT?

Here’s a suggestion: These two women have been front-and-center of your programming for 18 months. How about letting them just cut a promo that hasn’t been scripted down to the word and see if they sink or swim? It can’t be much worst than forcing them to memorize or read this drivel, which makes them sound horrid. Let them succeed or fail on their own.