Rick Steiner ABDUCTED On NXT 2.0

New WWE Hall-of-Famer kidnapped after son Bron Breakker defends NXT title.

by Scott Carlson
Joe Gacy abducts Rick Steiner
WWE

Bron Breakker successfully defended his NXT Championship Tuesday night, beating Gunther in a match you thought would have been saved for the next NXT 2.0 special rather than given away on free TV with no build.

But fans didn't even have time to absorb the career-defining win for the young champion, as the tron quickly switched to newly minted WWE Hall-of-Famer -- and Bron's dad -- Rick Steiner congratulating Breakker on his title victory.

Then the camera pulled back to reveal that Steiner was tied up and imprisoned in a cage. We then saw Joe Gacy and Harland standing alongside the cage glaring menacingly as Gacy talked about how family was everything, and they were now going to try to teach an old Dogface Gremlin new tricks.

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Gacy had delivered a couple cryptic promos earlier in the show, but really, they were so strange and out-of-place that they were easy to ignore. Gacy has taken a ridiculously weird turn as a character, from Bruce Prichard's avatar for what he envisions a woke, liberal person to be, to just a purely creepy dude with change-the-channel vibes.

Breakker regained his NXT Championship on WWE Raw Monday night and then defended it 24 hours later against Gunther, and now he'll have to contend with Gacy and Harland, though there's no word on which goon he'll face first. Bron also inducted his father Rick and uncle Scott Steiner into the WWE Hall of Fame Friday night, so it's been a busy five days for the young superstar.

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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.