7 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE NXT: New Year's Evil (Results & Review - 2 Jan)

2. Who Writes This Stuff?

Even on a two-hour, match-heavy NXT program, there still must be a series of interviews and backstage segments, because that’s how WWE television goes.

And one of those segments gifted fans with some abysmal “acting” between Blair Davenport and Nikita Lyons. Davenport was fresh off her loss to Lyra Valkyria, and Lyons snuck up on her to point out that she could have attacked her former assailant and put her on the shelf for a year. Blair countered that she didn’t have the killer instinct to pull the trigger… and the dialogue went downhill from there.

Suffice it to say that it ended with referees and officials stepping between the two women before a brawl could break out, leaving viewers with the obvious grudge match between the two on the horizon.

This was just a groan-inducing segment with unconvincing acting between a woman who maliciously kneecapped nearly a half-dozen women and one of her victims. Instead, this more closely resembled two understudies for a junior high play rehearsing the dramatic confrontation that they were never destined to give in public.

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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.