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

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7. Backstage Segment Mayhem

Anywhere else than NXT and what preceded the main event would be ridiculed and sent to the trash heap.

But in the land of developmental, the rapid-fire backstage segments that peppered the latter half-hour of New Year’s Evil were just par for the course. If you’re accepting of that reality, they were just hilariously bad.

Chase U’s principles argued about who should enter the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, with Jacy Jayne of all people taking charge. As they walked off, Lyra Valkyria was just sitting on a road case 10 feet away, in the perfect position to be stalked by the crazed creeper that is Tatum Paxley.

Then the show switched to Axiom and Nathan Frazer discussing the Dusty Cup before some hilarious hijinks of inadvertently talking trash with Edris Enofe and Malik Blade right there. That gave way to the current NXT Tag Team Champions Tony D’Angelo and Stacks talking as they left the arena, introducing Adriana Rizzo as their new accomplice.

Oh, but they weren’t done. Stacks opened the trunk to reveal Joe Gacy, who had climbed inside hours ago to find somewhere quiet to think.

Just pure mayhem. Pure NXT. Either love it or hate it. But it can only exist there.

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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.