Bobby Steveson Recalls NXT Underground Match With Eddy Thorpe

Bobby Steveson (aka Damon Kemp) faced Eddy Thorpe in the first NXT Underground match, and he recently looked back on the match. Steveson faced Thorpe in the match in June of 2023, and he spoke about it with The Wrestling Classic. You can see some highlights below (per Wrestling Inc):

On the match: “That was great. I think Eddy was getting there too [debuting for ‘NXT’]. I think I was his first big feud. I was really familiar with him… We’re pretty close now. We hang out on the outside.”

On planning the match: “So, planning the match, we heard that we were going to do an Underground match, and I guess I heard before that it didn’t go over that well…so, we had a lot on our plate,” Kemp mentioned. “We were like the guinea pigs of hopefully bringing it back…We wanted a good physical match; everything has to be laid in there. Eddy and I, we planned that match. Everything that was in that match, we put that together. We weren’t told what they wanted…the only thing we knew was the time… eight minutes.”

On bringing the Underground stipulation to NXT: “We thought of it as if they didn’t do another match after this, we sucked. That day, we did a double taping. We were the last match…everything was stacked against us. We literally wrestled at 11 p.m. at night…We killed it…Me and Eddy take great pride in bringing NXT Underground back.”