{"id":106624,"date":"2021-12-21T18:32:26","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T23:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=106624"},"modified":"2021-12-21T18:32:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T23:32:26","slug":"aj-styles-arrives-wwe-nxt-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/12\/21\/aj-styles-arrives-wwe-nxt-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: WWE NXT 2.0 (12\/21\/21) &#8211; AJ Styles Arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>NXT 2.0<\/strong> train continues to roll on in as it\u2019s Tuesday, meaning it is time for more of the same. The show has been going through a heck of a transformation over the past number of months and last week was the first week in which <strong>Johnny Gargano<\/strong> and <strong>Kyle O\u2019Reilly<\/strong> were no longer part of the roster. It not only felt to be that much more \u201cnew\u201d but surely was missing something in terms of overall entertainment. This week will look to two of the black and gold generation as <strong>Dakota Kai<\/strong> will square off with <strong>Raquel Gonzalez<\/strong> in a Street Fight. We will also see the NXT 2.0 debut of <strong>AJ Styles<\/strong>. Here\u2019s a look at the card.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TONIGHT on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWENXT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WWENXT<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd35 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJStylesOrg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@AJStylesOrg<\/a> comes calling for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GraysonWWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@GraysonWWE<\/a> <br \/>\ud83d\udfe3 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dakotakai_wwe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@DakotaKai_WWE<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaquelWWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@RaquelWWE<\/a> in a STREET FIGHT<br \/>\ud83d\udfe1 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeteDunneYxB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@PeteDunneYxB<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TonyDangeloWWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TonyDangeloWWE<\/a> <br \/>\ud83d\udfe2 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DexterLumis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@DexterLumis<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_trickwilliams?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@_trickwilliams<\/a> <br \/>&#8230; and MORE! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hka9f9xh5b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/hka9f9xh5b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE NXT (@WWENXT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWENXT\/status\/1473435650573713411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 21, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>NXT 2.0 Card (12\/21\/21) &#8211; AJ Styles Arrives<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u2013 Von Wagner in action<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Dexter Lumis vs. Trick Williams<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Pete Dunne vs. Tony D\u2019Angelo<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 AJ Styles arrives in NXT 2.0 to get in the face of Grayson Waller<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Raquel Gonzalez vs. Dakota Kai in a Street Fight<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Former Friends Turned Rivals Battle One More Time<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>After costing Raquel Gonzalez the NXT Women\u2019s Championship, Dakota Kai has been looking to get her final payback in any way possible. The same, however, goes for Gonzalez, who is the one that made the challenge for a Street Fight last week. Kai has been a different person since making her return to the NXT brand, having some sort of voice going on in her head as she is not sure how to act. She even tried to help her opponent <strong>Cora Jade<\/strong> last week by telling her that Gonzalez will turn on her too. Interesting to see Kai try and help Jade, but it\u2019s more likely she was trying to get in her head as well.<\/p>\n<p>These two have had good chemistry the few times they locked horns. With a Street Fight in the mix, reminiscent of the first time they ever appeared together, it should be an all-out war. The future for both of them remains in question but that question could be answered depending on how badly these two beat the other up come Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can check out an almost unlimited array of WWE content on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/watch.wwe.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WWE Network<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch\/home\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peacock<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NXT 2.0 train continues to roll on in as it\u2019s Tuesday, meaning it is time for more of the same. The show has been going through a heck of a transformation over the past number of months and last week was the first week in which Johnny Gargano and Kyle O\u2019Reilly were no longer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2921,"featured_media":106625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2192,5,3],"tags":[145,2042,5393,8146,536,6991,8048,7988,7991],"class_list":["post-106624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wrestling","category-nxt","category-wwe-universe","tag-aj-styles","tag-dakota-kai","tag-dexter-lumis","tag-grayson-waller","tag-pete-dunne","tag-raquel-gonzalez","tag-tony-dangelo","tag-trick-williams","tag-von-wagner"],"modified_by":"Robbie Sutter","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2921"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}