5 Ups & 5 Downs From NXT Vengeance Day 2024

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5. Vice Goes The Rollins Route

Lola Vice
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WWE has employed the Money in the Bank briefcase and NXT Breakout Tournament contract as shortcuts to shock title matches – and title changes – for nearly 20 years. And in those near two decades, only one person had cashed in mid-match to join a title contest already in progress: Seth Rollins at WrestleMania 31.

That is, until Sunday night, when Lola Vice cashed in her Breakout Tournament contract to make the title match between Lyra Valkyria and Roxanne Perez a triple threat. A relative newcomer, Vice has acquitted herself well since coming to NXT proper, and she continued at her first PLE, Vengeance Day.

Lola hung with veterans Perez and Valkyria Sunday night, trading rollups, spin kicks and pin attempts, but unlike Rollins, Vice wasn’t able to get the win.

While it might seem counterproductive to have Vice lose when cashing in, she went into a riskier situation with two opponents (plus a crazed Tatum Paxley) and lost after a good mini-match within the match.

And by robbing Perez of her one-on-one title match, Lola is likely set to face Roxanne soon as the Prodigy will be looking for revenge. So Vice comes out of the PLE with direction rather than just being a loser. All this for someone with fewer than two dozen televised matches under her belt.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.