If you watched any portion of this past summer’s Mae Young Classic, you’re probably familiar with Dakota Kai, one of the breakout stars of the tournament. She gained fans in droves, and anyone who wasn’t already a fan of the New Zealander based on the work she had done on the international independent scene as Evie was pretty much universally blown away at how engaging and talented she is.
One person you DIDN’T see in the Mae Young Classic was Nixon Newell, a wrestler who was announced for the tournament initially, but who had to withdraw as a result of a serious injury. Luckily, the U.K. native has locked down a WWE contract, and will likely debut in NXT as soon as she’s able to.
If you’re not familiar with either woman, I have some news for you: you’re about to become very big fans of both of them, thanks to four Twitter videos and two lamb costumes.
You see, over the past week, Newell and Kai have taken it upon themselves to spread holiday cheer to their fellow NXT Superstars, and the journey is so spectacularly adorable that I JUST CANNOT EVEN.
First up, they attempted to bring cheer to Ruby Riott, who is clearly still having some anger issues at suddenly being given a second “T” in her last name. I think we’d all be a bit peeved about that, honestly.
https://twitter.com/DakotaKai_WWE/status/944277445259165697
Next up, they tried to get TM-61 fully hype for the holidays, but just got popcorn thrown in their faces for their troubles. Rude!
https://twitter.com/DakotaKai_WWE/status/944607277750906882
And on Christmas Eve (probably filmed in September), they took on their biggest challenge of all: instill within avowed Grinch-adjace MMA fighter Shayna Baszler a sense of goodwill toward men.
https://twitter.com/NixonNewell/status/944978367564132352
Yeah, they’re wise to get the heck out of Dodge while they still have their necks and arms. Discretion is the better part of valor, Nixota Kaiwell. Luckily, their quest came to an end on Christmas Day, and of course it would end up being Kairi Sane who would bring sanity and order to the universe.
https://twitter.com/NixonNewell/status/945350902415855624
Between these two and Drew Gulak, WWE has all of their holiday cheer covered. And it’s absolutely fantastic. Good thing the company led with that weird South Park video Christmas card, because everything since then has been a certified banger.
