Soon after his feud with Escobar, Maverick would form a dysfunctional tag team with Killian Dain. On the December 23 episode of NXT, Maverick and Dain lost to NXT Tag Team Champions Danny Burch and Oney Lorcan in a Tag Team Street Fight match for the Tag Team titles. Following this, both Maverick and Dain entered the 2021 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, and they defeated Curt Stallion and August Grey in the first round on the January 15 episode of "205 Live". However the duo were eliminated in the second round by MSK on the January 27 episode of "NXT".