7 Ups & 2 Downs For Last Night's NXT (May 20)

3. The Dex Big Thing

Adam Cole walking in front of the camera, thus obscuring the fact it said Roderick Strong, and talking about how own greatness is some outstanding groundwork laying. The inevitable UE implosion might be months away for all we know, but there are so many subtle pieces of that puzzle already in place that it's going to be amazing.

I say this every week but nobody on earth has maximised their minutes during all of *this* quite like Dexter Lumis. He's come absolutely out of nowhere, made himself the perfect sideshow attraction to the empty era, and still managed to deliver in really high-profile matches. He was great in the squash matches, but he's been even better against the Undisputed Era.

This week against Roderick Strong was the biggest test of him, as without being paired with a limp opponent or shoehorned into someone else's tag match, it represented a huge sink-or-swim moment. Could he hang with somone as good as Strong?

Yep. Brilliantly, it turns out. He proved more than a match for him in the ring and, by losing to a clever roll-up and no-selling both Cole and Fish's attempts to free Strong from the post-match choke, he looks a monster following this. I've been critical of NXT debuting new stars with everything else that's going on but, between Lumis and Kross, they've done a great job.

And, no, I don't want to talk about the fact Dream's still involved in this.