Joey Styles Slams NXT Season 2 Rookies, Background Info On NXT Rookie Diva Maxine

Posted by Daniel Pena on Sunday, September 5th, 2010

source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter

– On Twitter, Joey Styles knocked the five previously eliminated NXT Rookies for their show closing brawl.

“Watching the end of show attack by the 5 previously eliminated NXT Rookies reinforced why most of them were eliminated to begin with. Ugh.” Styles wrote. “More candid comments about NXT to be coming in the weeks ahead….”

Wrestling Observer editor Dave Meltzer dubbed the assault ‘the most unfocused and most poorly done in-ring brawl of the year.’ For starters, Titus O’Neil no-sold MVP’s finishing maneuver, the ‘Drive-By Kick’. Then, Percy Watson jumped Kaval, brawled with his fellow season two NXT Rookies, and continued attacking Kaval. Riley and Watson then began working together after brawling just moments earlier. The assault concluded with the NXT Rookies hitting their respective finishing maneuvers on Kaval, though Lucky Cannon and O’Neil’s were poorly executed.

– NXT Rookie Diva Maxine was briefly listed under her Florida Championship Wrestling ring name, Liviana, on the WWE website last week. Evidently, her name was changed after WWE.com had put together their feature on the season three NXT Rookie Divas.

Maxine, who’s real name is Karlee Leilani Perez, is a 24-year-old Tampa-based model the company signed last year. She initially performed under the ring name Candy Girl as the valet of since released developmental talent Sweet Papi Sanchez. Her name was changed to Liviana following Sanchez’ dismissal from the organization and she was briefly paired with Abraham Washington. She has since taken over the reigns of General Manager of Florida Championship Wrestling and is a fixture on its programming.

Maxine’s ethnicity is quite broad as she is of Spanish, Cuban, Chinese, Hawaiian and Italian descent. Her look has been described as ‘a cross between goth and glamorous’. She’s also considered a good talker.

Perez was arrested on charges of Driving under the Influence in June 2009, shortly after signing with WWE. The charges were later dropped by prosecuting attorneys after she requested a jury trial.

See Maxine’s mug shot following DUI arrest ->
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11 Responses to Joey Styles Slams NXT Season 2 Rookies, Background Info On NXT Rookie Diva Maxine:

  1. the truth

    Date: Sep 05, 2010 at 7:52 AM

    who cares about her getting arrested? cuz i for one could care less

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  2. Jeff

    Date: Sep 05, 2010 at 8:18 AM

    Well if the truth doesn’t care then I don’t care either!

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  3. Adrian

    Date: Sep 05, 2010 at 9:25 AM

    Since The Truth and Jeff are my hero’s, I say as well “Who Cares?!”

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  4. Mannul

    Date: Sep 05, 2010 at 10:19 AM

    A mix of “goth and glamorous”. She won’t last long then. Ariel,Katie Lea….etc

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  5. lol

    Date: Sep 05, 2010 at 11:15 AM

    Since when did Joey Styles become a grumpy b-astard?

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  6. The Truth

    Date: Sep 05, 2010 at 12:19 PM

    lol @ Adrian.

    I’m your hero?

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  7. Dave S.

    Date: Sep 05, 2010 at 1:27 PM

    I still dont get how the WWE keeps putting these crappy annoucers and have Joey Styles sit on the side.

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  8. me

    Date: Sep 05, 2010 at 2:34 PM

    @Dave because Joey Styles is a true annoucer he does the job the way it should be done he gives the wrestler the credit not set there and tells storys like that jackass michael cole and because vkm his even a bigger jackass

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  9. Zach

    Date: Sep 05, 2010 at 4:48 PM

    As bad as it was, we have to be thankful for the outcomes for the past 2 seasons of NXT. Everybody who deserved to get in, got in. I mean it’s hard not to when all of season one did and now 2 may even get in as well which will suck. However, at least Barret won after Danielson was booted, and I’m glad things worked out the way they did because Barret is awesome, then Bryan came back and now Kaval won season 2. When the dust settles in a few months, whether Nexus lives or dies. We are looking at a guaranteed Barret, Danielson, and Kaval as a result of these past two seasons of NXT. I like that.

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  10. Chuva

    Date: Sep 05, 2010 at 5:54 PM

    I rarely ever watch WWE. I was flipping channels as NXT started and decided, “Eh, let’s see if Low Ki, er, Kaval ‘wins’ this like he should.” The show itself was boring as sin. Even the “impromptu” 3 way was less than average. But that clusterf**k of a brawl… joke. Rarely agree with Meltzer, but yea, that was pathetic. I turned it off before it was half over. Embarrassing actually.

    As for Maxine/Perez… who cares is the obvious choice. Name a current person on the roster who DOESN’T have some kind of record. Even if it’s just “guilty of sucking”… I’m looking at you Cena.

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  11. erik

    Date: Sep 05, 2010 at 6:02 PM

    Well if jeff hardy can come as he please by wwe when he was getting strikes for his illegal drug use. wwe drug wellness policy is like baseball 3 strikes and your out. It should be imo caught once you are gone that would be real. If she looks pretty and is model she will be there for life even if she sucks just like kelly and bellas.

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