4 Ups And 4 Downs From NXT In Your House 2022

2. Put Wendy Choo To Sleep

The character, the character.

Look, when she debuted, Wendy Choo had the potential to be a fun, unique character, NXT 2.0’s answer to Orange Cassidy. And for a few weeks, she was just that. But then, NXT did what this company always does: they ruined it.

Now, Choo is some childlike prankster in pajamas, shooting Toxic Attraction with water guns, dropping a net on the trio, and firing a spitball at Mandy Rose during the contract signing. Oh, and she pulled a “prank” that was a death scene in one of the Final Destination movies (the tanning bed with Mandy).

NXT has lost the thread with Choo, including in her matches, as she just stopped doing her sleepytime gimmick (aside from carrying a pillow to ringside) and started wrestling like a normal performer against Rose in Saturday’s NXT Women’s Championship match. The bout was pretty basic stuff, with a couple unique spots – Rose tearing up Wendy’s pillow and then using Choo’s tracksuit to yank her off the top rope – mixed in. That's not to say that Choo "firing up" over a ripped pillow was a good thing; it was just different.

While we’d argue for less Toxic Attraction, Choo winning here would have been insane, so we’ll take another month of Mandy.