{"id":22457,"date":"2018-07-21T11:13:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T15:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=22457"},"modified":"2018-07-21T11:13:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T15:13:51","slug":"not-someone-to-cross-nikki-cross-value-in-nxt-is-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/07\/21\/not-someone-to-cross-nikki-cross-value-in-nxt-is-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Someone to Cross: Nikki Cross’ Value in NXT is NOW"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nicola Glenncross (aka NXT’s Nikki Cross<\/strong>)\u00a0is an eight-year pro that competed all over her native Scotland in the early days of her career. When she first began competing, she went under the name Nikki Storm<\/strong>. In her travels, she developed her craft in promotions in the United Kingdom such as Pro Wrestling EVE<\/strong> and Insane Championship Wrestling (ICW)<\/strong>. She was never one to rest on her laurels, so she branched out into competing for Japanese promotions such as Stardom<\/strong> and Joshi Purosresu<\/strong>. As each year passed, she developed more and more. The names of those that have helped her along the way read like a who<\/span>‘s who: former NXT and WWE Universal champion Finn Balor<\/strong>, former NXT tag team champion Killian Dain<\/strong> and current NXT trainer Robbie Brookside<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Rob Brazier Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Besides traveling all over the world, she competed as part of TNA Impact<\/span> Wrestling<\/strong>‘s British Boot Camp 2<\/strong><\/em>. After receiving a tryout in England during the fall of 2015, Cross was among a group<\/span> that was signed to WWE developmental deals in 2016. Her first appearance in NXT was in a rather unassuming role as part of a six-woman tag. However, it was only a few months later that she would re-emerge as part of the faction Sanity<\/strong>. Alongside Sawyer Fulton, Alexander Wolfe<\/strong> and leader Eric Young<\/strong>, Cross was the one female in the group and was considered just as dangerous, if not more so, than<\/span> her male counterparts.<\/p>\n

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Photo: WWE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While being part of a faction can often hide certain qualities about a character, in the case of Nikki Cross it gave her even more of a chance to stand out. On top of that, as part of the NXT women’s division, the ever-dangerous Cross took part in fatal four-way and triple threat matches for the NXT women’s championship, challenging then-champion Asuka<\/strong>. Nikki Cross faced Asuka one-on-one for the NXT women’s championship in the last woman standing match that saw her defeated once again.<\/p>\n