{"id":866758,"date":"2018-12-21T01:02:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T06:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=866758"},"modified":"2018-12-21T01:30:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T06:30:29","slug":"velveteen-dream-receives-backstage-heat-for-recent-wwe-remarks-tfs11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/velveteen-dream-receives-backstage-heat-for-recent-wwe-remarks-tfs11\/","title":{"rendered":"Velveteen Dream Receives Backstage Heat For Recent WWE Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Velveteen Dream has been one of the hottest commodities in NXT in 2018. Acquiring momentum from his feuds against Aleister Black and Kassius Ohno, Black had an opportunity to become the inaugural NXT North American Champion at NXT Takeover: New Orleans<\/em> but was not able to win the multi-person ladder match. However, this match catapulted his popularity, and he would eventually become a babyface.<\/p>\n An NXT: TakeOver<\/em> win against EC3 set up a position to became the number one contender for the NXT Championship, and he was able to compete for the championship against current champion Tommaso Ciampa. Unfortunately, despite the thunderous support from the live crowd, Dream was unable to defeat Ciampa at TakeOver: War Games.<\/em><\/p>\n[lawrence-related id=866189]\n On the previous episode of Raw<\/em>, WWE announced that there were going to be a list of call-ups to the main roster. In addition to the string of promos of Lars Sullivan over the past few weeks, WWE also announced that EC3, Nikki Cross, Heavy Machinery, and Lacey Evans. Apparently, this did not bode well with the Dream.<\/p>\n Velveteen Dream campaigned to the WWE Universe to bring him up to the main roster, even starting the hashtag of #CallDreamUp. In the now-deleted tweets, Dream even stated that it was not up to Vince McMahon, but the fans. While Dream most likely does want to be called up due to the money and extra audience that comes with this move, and he made sure to stay in gimmick during these series of tweets<\/a>, it was not well-received from the Chairman.<\/p>\n