8 Ups And 3 Downs From Last Night's NXT (5 Feb)

6. Shared Universe

It's really important for NXT for it not to be received as somehow still the "lower leagues" when compared to the main roster, but the reality is that (for now at least) being on Raw or SmackDown is a bigger deal than being in Full Sail. The way things are going this may change, but as Angel Garza made his entrance this week he felt 10x the star he did at Worlds Collide.

Having been introduced on Raw by Zelina Vega and then posted an absolute banger of a match against Rey Mysterio, this didn't feel like an up-and-coming wrestling hopeful, but an established part of WWE lore. If anything, the fact that he was back on NXT just two days removed from his main roster debut showed how important affairs on this brand actually are to people.

We'll get to the match later, but putting him with Isaiah Swerve Scott was also an interconnected masterstroke. Scott's been sporadically featured on the show over the past few months, but massively over-delivered every time he has. The rub that came from Garza working Mysterio is immediately transferrable to someone like him, even in defeat.