Thunder Rosa was enthralled by this week’s “WWE NXT,” particularly the assembly between Shawn Spears and WWE NXT North American Champion Tony D’Angelo.
“I used to be watching [Shawn Spears on ‘WWE NXT’] and it was, like, ‘I’m watching a cleaning soap opera proper now,’ the appearing was actually, actually good,” Rosa gushed on “Busted Open Radio” lately.
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Rosa feels Spears took followers on a enjoyable experience throughout his dialog with D’Angelo, which ended with Spears heading to the car parking zone and right into a automobile, the place new “NXT” recruit Niko Vance was seated within the driver’s seat.
“If you do not know what is going on on? It was simply excellent as a result of you possibly can see the characters after which [he reveals Niko Vance]. It was only a actually good 45 [seconds] to minute-fifteen,” mentioned Rosa.
Rosa and Spears crossed paths through the latter’s tenure in AEW. Spears joined AEW in 2019, the place he was a semi-regular presence on tv earlier than leaving the promotion in 2023. He returned to “NXT” the place he was often known as Tye Dillinger in 2024, initially feuding with Ridge Holland earlier than taking Brooks Jensen below his wing after Jensen’s kayfabe psychological well being disaster.
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Spears lately mentioned that he was grateful that WWE had let him return to the corporate below his AEW ring title, regardless of his prolonged tenure in WWE as Tye Dillinger. The Dillinger title was primarily based on the legendary financial institution robber John Dillinger. WWE additionally let him preserve his chair-based persona “The Chairman,” although to this point to not the brutal lengths Spears went to throughout his AEW time.
