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With two nights of WrestleMania 40 plus Stand and Deliver, the biggest NXT show of the year, rapidly approaching in April, fans, pundits, and wrestling journalists like Dave Meltzer alike have been looking ahead to the future and which members of the WWE Universe could be in for major bumps in  the future. Booker T, […]

If there’s one person who has a vested interest in Trick Williams‘ long-term success, it’s Booker T. Since officially becoming the color commentator for NXT in October of 2022, Booker has been tasked with telling the story of Trick Willie’s rise from a former college wide receiver to Carmelo Hayes’ hypeman, to a legitimate Premium […]

After jumping in the way of a spear from Bron Breakker that could have effectively iced out the top contender for the NXT Championship before he could even get in the ring with Ilja Dragunov, Carmelo Hayes made incredible headlines around the professional wrestling world by turning on Trick Williams at the end of the […]

Trick Williams is the belle of NXT‘s ball right now. Sure, technically he isn’t the NXT Champion, that honor still belongs to Ilja Dragunov, but he is the Iron Survivor Challenge winner and who knows, maybe in a few weeks’ time, he’ll be able to unseat the “Mad Dragon” in the squared-circle on the first […]

After securing a huge win at the final NXT Premium Live Event of the 2023 calendar year, Deadline, in the Iron Survivor Challenge, Trick Williams was fired up heading into the fallout edition of NXT. Sure, the opening of NXT didn’t go quite as he expected, as Carmelo Hayes was attacked – maybe – by […]

After watching six hard-hitting contests, two Iron Survivor Challenge matches, and a new number one contender for the NXT Championship be named in Trick Williams, Ilja Dragunov found himself in the main event of NXT Deadline opposite one of the most experienced foes he’s ever faced in former United States Champion Baron Corbin. While Dragunov […]

Heading into NXT Deadline, one of the biggest questions surrounding WWE’s developmental brand regarded how Trick Williams and Carmelo Hayes, collectively known as the Trick and Melo Gang, would fare in the proceedings both professionally and personally. Sure, the duo wasn’t wrestling each other, as Williams was set to compete in the Iron Survivor Challenge […]

Ahead of NXT Deadline, it’s important to remember that Trick Williams has only been a member of the WWE Universe since 2021 when he left football behind to try his hand at becoming a WWE Superstar. Since then, he’s wrestled 75 matches, become Carmelo Hayes’ go-to guy, and even tasted gold as the North American […]

And just like that, there was one, NXT fans. With just one Premium Live Event left on the 2023 WWE calendar, Shawn Michaels will bring one of the most unique cards WWE presents of the entire year: Deadl1ne. Featuring a very unique match type that is one part Survivor Series, one part WarGames, ten performers, […]

When CM Punk signed with WWE, the first thing fans started to discuss, other than why Seth Rollins was so angry and how bad Tony Khan fumbled the bag, was who the “Best in the World” would wrestle in The Fed. Would he go against the “Visionary,” who he clearly had beef with? How about […]

Trick Williams is less than a week away from what could be one of the defining moments of his professional wrestling career. If he can put his recent attack at the hands of (probably) Lexus King – though maybe Carmelo Hayes – behind him, go the distance, and become the second-ever Iron Survivor Challenge winner […]

What do Kurt Angle and Roman Reigns have in common? Well, for one, they’re both multi-time WWE Champions who will eventually see their names right alongside each other in the Hall of Fame. They also came to professional wrestling from another sport, with Angle famously becoming an “Olympic Hero” for his efforts in Greco-Roman wrestling, […]

For much of his NXT tenure, Trick Williams was nothing more than a side performer, the Marty Jannetty to Carmelo Hayes’ Shawn Michaels, even if they were positioned more as friends than a traditional tag team. Sure, Trick Willie looked the part, acted the part, and even talked the part, but Melo was “Him,” an […]

As Carmelo Hayes prepares for the biggest match of his current NXT run against Ilya Dragunov at Halloween Havoc, with a win taking him back to the top of the power rankings and a loss effectively icing him out of the NXT Championship picture, at least for now, another question has been fresh at the […]

After two incredibly impactful weeks away from the WWE Universe following the rare physical beatdown at the hands of Nia Jax, Rhea Ripley returned to RAW in a big way on the second day of October, disrupting the first match on the card between the “Irresistible Force” and Shayna Baszler before demanding the rest of […]

When Dominik Mysterio took the ring against Trick Williams in the second match of NXT No Mercy, the deck, as they say, was stacked against him. He had no Mami, he had no Judgment Day by his side, he had a biased referee in Dragon Lee, and, most crucially of all, he had to prepare […]

Before Trick Williams was Trick Williams, he was Matrick Belton, a 6-foot-3, 205-pound wide receiver from South Carolina who wanted nothing more than to continue his football playing career after graduation. Though his attempts to make it as a pro clearly didn’t work out, as the native of Columbia, South Carolina, never even made it […]

When Trick Williams let it be known to his long-time friend Carmelo Hayes and the rest of the WWE Universe that he was looking to strike it solo instead of being the Flava Flav to the NXT Champion’s Chuck D, it left more than a few fans wondering if the 29-year-old had made the right […]

Though he wasn’t elevated to the main roster during the WWE Draft, it’s hard to argue that Carmelo Hayes isn’t going to be hearing his name called by Samantha Irvin and/or Mike Rome in the not-too-distant future. He’s the only performer to ever hold the North American Championship, Cruiserweight Championship, and NXT World Championship during […]

After standing strong in the ring to challenge Bron Breakker to a televised match to fight for the honor of his best friend, Carmelo Hayes, Trick Williams walked to the Performance Center parking lot and was confronted by none other than Apollo Crews, the former NXT star who was drafted on RAW by WWE. Crews […]

Before Carmelo Hayes made his way to NXT Vengeance Day for a non-title, Best Two out of Three Falls match against Apollo Crews, he made a bold prediction that he would only need two falls to secure the win and leave Charlotte victorious. Fast forward to the end of the show, and the “A-Champ” was […]

Normally, the second fall of a Best Two out of Three Falls match is pretty boring. Like yes, technically the match can be won on the second fall of a best-of-three match, but most bookers avoid that urge to give the fans a bit more wrestling and to use it as a storytelling mechanism, especially […]