{"id":113096,"date":"2022-04-27T13:00:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=113096"},"modified":"2022-04-25T17:09:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T21:09:38","slug":"preview-nxt-uk-nxt-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2022\/04\/27\/preview-nxt-uk-nxt-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: NXT UK (04\/28\/22) The NXT 2.0 Americans Arrive\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">American stars from <strong><em>NXT 2.0<\/em><\/strong> will make their in-ring debuts on this week&#8217;s <strong><em>NXT UK<\/em><\/strong>. Enjoy our <em>NXT UK<\/em> preview ahead of the show airing on Peacock and the WWE Network at 3pm ET\/8PM GMT.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">NXT UK Announced Card (4\/28\/22)<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">NXT UK Championship Contract Signing: Ilja Dragunov and Jordan Devlin\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Xia Brookside vs. Unnamed Opponent<\/span><\/li>\n<li>NXT 2.0 Star in Action<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">NXT 2.0 Stars To Appear\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Four <em><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/09\/15\/pros-and-cons-of-nxt-2-0\/\" target=\"_self\">NXT 2.0<\/a><\/em> stars &#8211; <strong>Von Wagner<\/strong>, <strong>Ivy Nile<\/strong>, <strong>Lash Legend<\/strong>, and <strong>Damon Kemp<\/strong> &#8211; arrived at the BT Sport Studios in London during last week&#8217;s <em>NXT UK<\/em>. Commentator <strong>Nigel McGuinness<\/strong> promised we would see them in in-ring action this week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The majority of the American performers posed for pictures and signed autographs for <em>NXT UK<\/em> fans, but Von Wagner was not so accomodating. The imposing Von Wagner snatched an autograph <em>NXT UK&#8217;s<\/em> <strong>Saxon Huxley<\/strong> had just signed for a fan and ripped it up. It would seem likely those two will meet at some point, and it could be this week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It&#8217;ll be interesting to see who Ivy Nile and Lash Legend are pitched against as both are dominating forces.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bringing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiamondMineWWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@DiamondMineWWE<\/a> to the UK \ud83d\udc81\ud83c\udffc\u200d\u2640\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pv6VsDexiC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/pv6VsDexiC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ivynile_wwe (@ivynile_wwe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ivynile_wwe\/status\/1515040095333662720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Damon Kemp\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Brother of <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/10\/04\/gable-steveson-drafted-to-monday-night-raw\/\" target=\"_self\">Olympic Gold Medal winner and <strong>WWE<\/strong> superstar <strong>Gable Steveson<\/strong><\/a>, <strong>Damon Kemp<\/strong> is the fourth <em>NXT 2.0<\/em> star to cross the Atlantic. His power and collegiate wrestling background make him an interesting addition. I can see him having decent matches with any of <strong>Gallus<\/strong> or Heritage Cup Champion <strong>Noam Dar<\/strong>.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Xia Brookside Promises To Batter Someone<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Inspired by her new ally <strong>Eliza Alexander<\/strong> &#8216;battering&#8217; <strong>Angel Hayze<\/strong> in her debut match, <strong>Xia Brookside<\/strong> will look to do the same this week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">@XiaBrooksideWWE @ElizaAlexanderr Hate to imagine who&#39;ll be the unlucky one who&#39;s &quot;gonna get battered&quot; next week on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NXTUK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@NXTUK<\/a> \ud83d\ude08\ud83d\udc51\ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udf1f\ud83d\udda4 <\/p>\n<p>(I don&#39;t think I&#39;ve ever seen &quot;Someone&#39;s gonna get battered&quot; in such a sinister yet cute way lol)<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWEEliza?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WWEEliza<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWEXia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WWEXia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FlyWithBrookside?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#FlyWithBrookside<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UaTZRwTjCM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/UaTZRwTjCM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Baz (@BAndrew_85) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BAndrew_85\/status\/1517265044521857024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Symbiosis vs. Mark Andrews &amp; Wild Boar<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><strong>Mark Andrews<\/strong> returned to save lifelong friend <strong>Wild Boar<\/strong> from a beatdown by <strong>Symbiosis<\/strong> a few weeks ago. <strong>Eddie Dennis<\/strong> has challenged Andrews and Boar to take on his &#8216;symbiotic soldiers&#8217; <strong>T-Bone<\/strong> and <strong>Primate<\/strong> in a tag match. This will probably happen this week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MandrewsJunior?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MandrewsJunior<\/a> stuck his nose in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EddieDennis1986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@EddieDennis1986<\/a>\u2019 business, Dennis proposes a tag team match with @Tyson_T_Bone &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/The_Primate_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@The_Primate_<\/a> in order to derail <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WILDBOARhitch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@WILDBOARhitch<\/a>\u2019s road to payback. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NXTUK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NXTUK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SipNIkubXm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/SipNIkubXm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NXT UK (@NXTUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NXTUK\/status\/1517216745475514370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 21, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">NXT UK Championship Contract Signing<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">We all know how these things go. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/08\/22\/ilja-dragunov-nxt-united-kingdom-championship-takeover\/\" target=\"_self\">Ilja Dragunov<\/a><\/strong> and <strong>Jordan Devlin<\/strong> will meet in the ring to sign the contract for their NXT UK Championship match in three weeks on the 200th episode of <em>NXT UK<\/em>. Some mean words will be shared and one man will attack the other.<\/span><\/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>American stars from NXT 2.0 will make their in-ring debuts on this week&#8217;s NXT UK. Enjoy our NXT UK preview ahead of the show airing on Peacock and the WWE Network at 3pm ET\/8PM GMT. NXT UK Announced Card (4\/28\/22) NXT UK Championship Contract Signing: Ilja Dragunov and Jordan Devlin\u00a0 Xia Brookside vs. Unnamed Opponent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3852,"featured_media":108080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[5336,2192,3],"tags":[8350,2514,8348,8349,5726,7991,3132],"class_list":["post-113096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nxt-uk","category-wrestling","category-wwe-universe","tag-damon-kemp","tag-ilja-dragunov","tag-ivy-nile","tag-lash-legend","tag-saxon-huxley","tag-von-wagner","tag-xia-brookside"],"modified_by":"Robbie Sutter","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113096","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\/3852"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}