Over the past year, Mandy Rose & Toxic Attraction have ruled NXT. Mandy Rose has passed 365 days as NXT Women’s Champion, joining Asuka & Shayna Baszler in the group who have held the belt for a full calendar year. Her recent victory over Alba Fyre at Halloween Havoc showed Rose is just as dangerous as ever, and tonight she has a chance to celebrate her last year of hard work.
Mandy Rose Is The Measuring Stick Of The NXT Women’s Division
The ring would become the Toxic Lounge, with couches and champagne ready for a proper celebration. Toxic Attraction would get a solid reaction from the crowd, as Booker T would prove he’s no better than Wade Barrett in terms of hyping up Mandy Rose. From 2016 to now, Rose has truly raised herself into a proper superstar.
It’s been a year of proving everyone wrong, 365 days of being the most dominant champion in NXT women’s division history. Her reign is longer than what we saw from Charlotte Flair, Io Shirai, Sasha Banks, Bayley Rhea Ripley, and more – and is now the measuring stick of the division. Legends, underdogs and more have all fallen to Rose. She unified the NXT & NXT UK Women’s Championships, and Jayne & Dolin put a video package together hyping her entire career to this point.
Rose would say it’s not bad for a piece of eye candy, which is all she was over her first four years in WWE. She’s crushed that perception, and would bet on herself by coming to NXT to rebuild her image. Alongside Jayne & Dolin, she’s risen to the top and all the numbers back up that Toxic Attraction run the division. Rose has proven she belongs as champion, and “Put some damn respect on my name” isn’t a catchphrase, it’s the truth.
She’s taken on every challenger, and came out on top. Some smoke would rise, and Fyre would rise – with Alba Fyre crashing the celebration and dropping everyone – even putting Dolin through a table. She’s not done with Rose just yet, and next week Jayne falls too. When Rose is alone, the title goes to Fyre.
Indi Hartwell Goes One On One With Zoey Stark
Zoey Stark was frustrated following the title shot last week, and is still pouting this week. Indi Hartwell lost last week and moved on, and feels Stark should be grateful to have another shot next week. Stark would claim that Hartwell is just upset she is not good enough for title shots anymore. Now tonight, they meet one on one in the middle of the ring – and we’ll see who really deserves a title shot tonight.
Hartwell would drop Lyons with a shoulder tackle, before wrenching the arm and going shoulder to shoulder. Stark would get into the corner with some shoulder thrusts, before some hard overhand chops to the chest. Hartwell would miss a lariat, and was taken down with a springboard crossbody.
We’d have a technical difficulty with the lighting, with commentary suspiciously pointing it out. Stark would miss a sliding lariat before taking two body slams, and being sent to the floor with a lariat. Throughout the break, Stark lost her composure – choking Hartwell aggressively on the ropes.
Hartwell matched that aggression with a boot to the face, with Stark coming back with a sliding knee strike to the face. Stark would hit the Stark Special, a springboard corkscrew senton – getting a two count before aggressively stomping Hartwell in the corner. A superkick would follow from Stark, before just dumping Hartwell to the floor to keep the beating coming – hitting Hartwell face first off the table.
A powerbomb through the table was set, but Lyons was the voice of reason. Back in the ring, Hartwell would take Stark down with an elbow to the back of the head for the victory. Stark got too aggressive, and took her eyes off the ball – and paid for it.
Will Zoey Stark & Nikkita Lyons win the NXT Women’s Tag Team Championships next week? Let us know what you think in the comment section down below.
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