2022 hasn't gone as planned for NXT Superstar Indi Hartwell. She lost her father figure, Johnny Gargano, when he let his contract expire, her mother figure, Candice LeRae, when her contract expired in May and, after getting Kayfabe married to Dexter Lumis in a good old-fashioned wedding segment, she lost him too, as he was released from the company due to budget cuts.

Needless to say, Hartwell is in a funk, and if she's ever going to get out of it, something needs to break in her way, and defeating Lash Legend on the latest episode of NXT 2.0 is a great place to start.

On paper, Hartwell had everything going for her; she defeated Legend at a house show the weekend before, and after failing to be booked for Great American Bash earlier in the month, she had a chip on her shoulder to make a big impression for all the NXT 2.0 fans watching from home.

The good news? Hartwell did, in fact, make an impression, working a match that fans won't forget any time soon. The bad news? It was for all the wrong reasons, as Bryan Alvarez pointed out in a brutal takedown video posted on the Wrestling Observer/F4W YouTube channel reminiscent of his “Minus Five Stars!” TNA rant.

Both NXT wrestlers got worse after this match – Bryan Alvarez

When a professional wrestling journalist suggests that a wrestler should forgo traditional matches in favor of games of pickup basketball, you know something bad happened in the ring.

That's right, despite having absolutely roasted the decision to have The Viking Raiders and Street Profits duke it out on the basketball court during the pandemic-era of WWE television, Bryan Alvarez of the Wrestling Observer actually suggested that the best way to keep Lash Legend on television and protected was to simply have the former WNBA player simply beat opponents in hoops instead of subjecting them to the very early stages of her professional wrestling journey. While that in and of itself might just be the worst possible criticism a wrestling match could receive, Alvarez's segment with cohost Big Vinny V. featured over nine more minutes of absolutely vicious takedowns of the in-ring work of the two NXT mid-carders.

They lamented Hartwell's inability to run backward without looking backward – which killed the entire setup of a sequence – the decision to fire Dexter Lumis because it forced her back into the ring more often, and even pointed out the sheer horribleness of one particularly botched spot where the former “The Way” member attempted a springboard but ended up pinning herself in the finish.

Yikes, that looked like it hurt everyone in the arena.

Look, I get it; NXT has now fully embraced being a developmental promotion, and sometimes people are going to make mistakes early in their careers. Bryan and Vinny pointed out that CM Punk botched a similar springboard attempt at a recent AEW Pay-Per-View, and other lower-profile botches happen all the time, to the point where there are multiple YouTube channels dedicated to logging them in perpetuity like Botchamania, who have Bryan's “Minus five stars” rant on their soundboard. Still, at some point, NXT needs to look at the product they're putting on national television and ask if embarrassing wrestlers like Indi Hartwell is doing anybody but YouTube commentators any good, because it's certainly not improving the product in the ring.