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Righteous Wrap-Up

“INTERESTING” IS A good word to describe NXT 2.0. "INTERESTING” We’ve spent years trying to figure out if NXT is truly a developmental brand, a third brand, an indie branch of WWE, or … what, exactly?

For the better part of a decade, brought “super indie” match-ups to the main stage of the WWE Network, and, later, the USA Network—like a TV version of Pro Wrestling Guerrilla. Adam Cole, Johnny Gargano, Ricochet, and Tommaso Ciampa were independent wrestling stars and champions all over the world before entering the fold over at NXT. They spent much of the last few years bringing

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