NXT In Your House (2022)

The 2022 NXT In Your House was a professional wrestling event produced by WWE. It was the third annual In Your House held for the promotion's developmental brand NXT and the 30th and final In Your House overall. The event took place on June 4, 2022, at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida and aired via WWE's livestreaming platforms.

In June 2020, WWE revived In Your House as a subseries of the NXT TakeOver series. In September 2021, however, the TakeOver series was discontinued after NXT reverted to being WWE's developmental brand. With the scheduling of this 2022 event, In Your House became its own event for NXT. Unlike the previous year's event, which also aired on pay-per-view (PPV), the 2022 event was only available via livestreaming, as beginning with Stand & Deliver in April, NXT's major events no longer air on PPV. This would also be the final In Your House as an event was not scheduled for 2023.

Eight matches were contested at the event, including two dark matches that were later streamed on Level Up. All five championships exclusive to the NXT brand were contested for; two were lost while the other three were retained. In the main event, Bron Breakker defeated Joe Gacy

Production

Background

In Your House was a series of monthly professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) events originally produced by WWE from May 1995 to February 1999. They aired when the promotion was not holding one of its then-five major PPVs at the time (WrestleMania, King of the Ring, SummerSlam, Survivor Series, and Royal Rumble), and were sold at a lower cost. The branding was retired following February 1999's St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House event, as the company moved to install permanent names for each of its monthly PPVs.[1] After 21 years, In Your House was revived in 2020 for WWE's NXT brand as a subseries of the NXT TakeOver series, being held annually in June.[2][3] In September 2021, however, the TakeOver series was discontinued after NXT was rebranded as NXT 2.0, reverting the brand to being WWE's developmental territory.[4][5]

Despite TakeOver's discontinuation, the announcement of the 2022 event confirmed that In Your House would continue on as NXT's annual June event. The 30th In Your House, and third annual for NXT,[6] was scheduled to be held on Saturday, June 4, 2022, at NXT's home base of the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida. Unlike the previous year, which also aired on traditional PPV, the 2022 event was only available to livestream on Peacock in the United States and the WWE Network in international markets, as beginning with the prior NXT event, Stand & Deliver in April, NXT's events ceased airing on traditional PPV and instead just air on WWE's livestreaming platforms.[7][8]

Storylines

The card included matches that resulted from scripted storylines. Results were predetermined by WWE's writers on the NXT brand, while storylines were produced on WWE's weekly television program, NXT, and the supplementary online streaming show, Level Up.[9][10]

At the NXT special Spring Breakin' on May 3, Bron Breakker defeated Joe Gacy to retain the NXT Championship.[11] After the show ended, Breakker was attacked by hooded minions under the command of Gacy before being carried out of the building on a stretcher by the henchmen.[12][13]

Reception

Matthew McFarlin of Slam Wrestling reviewed the event and gave it 4 out of 5 stars, saying: "In terms of results, NXT got everything right tonight. There's a select group of guys like the Creed Brothers and Bron Breakker who are naturally over with the Orlando faithful, and they're cashing in. I think the matches themselves overstayed their welcomes, but overall, In Your House was pretty solid."[24] Kevin Berge of Bleacher Report called the men's NXT Tag Title bout the "best match of the night" for having "stakes and emotion" in their story and praised the men's NXT Championship match for showcasing Breakker and Gacy's "obvious chemistry" and the stronger conclusion elevating them. He was critical of both women's bouts, noting the NXT Tag Title match had a "rushed pace" and anticlimatic finish, and felt that Choo-Rose was merely an "okay defense" with sloppy action and lacking in drama throughout the contest. Berge added that: "[T]his show had potential, but it was far more down than up, with multiple matches not delivering."[25]

Thomas Hall of 411Mania gave praise to both the six-man tag team opener and the men's NXT Tag Title bout, felt that both women's title bouts were "only so good" and "not an awful match" respectively, and critiqued that the NXT Championship match "wasn't awful, but it also didn't feel like a big main event." He gave the event a 7 out of 10, concluding that: "[T]he show was pretty good for the most part with nothing bad, but to say this is a downgrade from the almost always incredible Takeover series would be the understatement of the year. There is nothing on here that you really need to see and it felt like an extended version of the TV show rather than anything special."[26] Kevin Pantoja, also writing for 411Mania, called the six-man tag team match a "fun opener boosted by a hot crowd", praised the North American and men's NXT Tag Title matches, called the women's NXT Tag Title bout "a really fun tag", saw Choo-Rose as fine despite the former's gimmick and felt the NXT Championship main event "told a fine enough story but a lot of it was boring." He also gave the event a 7 out of 10, calling it: "An enjoyable show that, at less than two and a half hours, is easy to recommend. It's good even with the weak ending though it's clear that this wasn't anything special. It would've worked better as a special episode of the weekly show rather than as a Peacock special."[27]

promotion	WWE
brand	NXT
date	June 4, 2022
city	Orlando, Florida
venue	WWE Performance Center
wwenlast	WrestleMania Backlash
wwennext	Hell in a Cell
event	In Your House
lastevent2	NXT TakeOver (2021)
nextevent2	Final
event2	NXT major events
lastevent3	Stand & Deliver
nextevent3	Worlds Collide

NXT In Your House (2022)

Production

Background

Storylines

Reception

Aftermath

Results

External links

References