6 Ups And 3 Downs From Last Night's NXT (June 3)

1. Drake And Tosh

I promise you, if you're bored of reading me talk about this, I am twice as bored of actually writing about it. The Drake Maverick Job-On-The-Line angle is one of the biggest creative missteps in the entire history of NXT, and it has overshadowed what has otherwise been an incredible wrestling tournament.

In previous weeks I've been able to differentiate the matches from the angle but, this week, the match was the angle. Win and he keeps his job, lose and he joins the 20+ other wrestlers (and countless members of production) who were fired as apart of the company's shocking Black Wednesday. Except he wasn't.

Despite, undeniably, a sensational match, and arguably both the in-ring highlight of the tournament and probably Marverick's entire career in North America, it pales in comparison to emotional exploitation of over 40m Americans who lost their jobs for real as a result of all of this.

To be clear, can you do a storyline where a wrestler is going to lose his job if he doesn't win a match? Of course, you can! But should you do it when the country is in the midst of the worst unemployment crisis since The Great Depression? Jesus f***ing Christ, man. No.

The worst part about all of this, of course, is the fact that on that infamous night in the company's history, almost all of the press coverage centered around Maverick's heartwrenching video. Every other voice speaking up that night was pushed to the back, understandably, because his face was the most powerful summation of what they'd done to their workers.

They made a performer cut that promo, with tears streaming down his eyes, so that everyone they'd really released wouldn't get the airtime.