NXT, 9/10/24

Join us tonight for up to the minute coverage from WWE, NXT!  WWE week on USA continues with a monster show form NXT.   Booker T and Vic Joseph are on the call.

Giulia, Trick Williams and TNA Knockouts Champion, Jordynne Grace are shown walking into the complex.

Match 1.  NXT Tag Champs, Axiom and Nation Frazier VS The Street Profits, Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford

The Rascalz are unable to compete for the tag straps, so the Street Profits are came ready to challenge for the belts.  Montez starts with Axiom.  Ford shows his dominance early.  He tags Angelo and he shoulders Axiom and Frazier.  Angelo then back elbows Frazier, but the tag champs make a tag and double him.  They continue to work him over for a few mins with tandem moves.  Axiom settles in with a sleeper, but Dawkins rolls out of it and suplexes him.  Both tag and Montez comes in hot on Frazier.  Frazier then bookends him and moonsaults Nathan for a two count.  Both tag.  Axiom eats a push suplex by the Profits.  Frazier missile dropkicks and 450s Montez for 2.  The champs hit a top rope high low, Dawkins breaks up another pin.  Axiom and Dawkins end up on top.  Spanish fly by Axiom.  Montez stops the follow up 450 by Frazier.  Dawkins puts Frazier on his shoulders.  Ford blockbusters him over Dawkins shoulders.  A pin is broken up by Tama Tonga.  The Bloodline has arrived.  We have Jacob Fatu and Tonga Loa join in as well.  They work over The Street Profits.  The place is in shock.

No Contest

Booker T and Vic try to digest what just happened.  We get a backstage segment with Tony D’Angelo putting a hit on someone (Oba Femi) with their face not being show.  We also get a Giulia highlight package from her matches in Japan.  This sets up a package for her and Roxanne Perez.

Match 2.  Giulia VS Chelsea Green

This is the much anticipated debut of Giulia.  It is interesting Green will be who she faces.  Green slaps her.  Giulia headbutts her and then missile dropkicks her after a hair pull drag.  Green plants Giulia on face to knee.  Giulia counters with a spiderweb.  Green is rolled up and bails to the apron.  Giulia knees her to the head.  Green wrenches the arm on the ropes and locks on a sleeper.  Green Germans her and then face plants her for two.  Chelsea then locks on a scissor and they take turns with rollups pin attempts.  Giulia turns to a ground and pound and a running kick and suplex.  Green then eats another kick and a Giulia chant breaks out.  She then cutters Chelsea off the apron to the floor.  Green runs for her life at this point, but tricks Giulia and throws her into the announce table repeatedly.  Green now feels confident.  She goes to the top and misses a missile dropkick.  Giulia connects with a vicious knee, similar to a V trigger.  She then northern lights Chelsea and gets the pin.

Winner, Giulia

Trick Williams is asked about a last man standing match backstage.  He says this is a stepping stone to getting his ultimate goal of regaining his NXT Title.  Jordynne Grace is shown talking about the legacy of the TNA Womens Championship.  She explains she is defending it tonight because NXT is stacked with women and she wants to be the best.

We get a Lexis King video package.  Then we see him get attacked, but by who?  Then we see the women backstage debate over who with get Jordynne Grace tonight.

Match 3.  Je’Von Evans (with Cedric Alexander) VS Heritage Cup Champion, Charlie Dempsey (with the NQCC)

Dempsey is still annoyed with Wren Sinclair setting up his title defenses.  Evans outworks Charlie and this frustrates the champ.  He kicks the ropes and curses.  Evans locks on a wrist lock and holds it long enough to further Charlie’s frustration.  Dempsey finally breaks free and gets a pin attempt off a roll up.  This match has started scientifically.  Evans rannas Dempsey as the first round ends.  Dempsey gets a rollup for two and then Evans does the same.  Dempsey dragon suplexes his way to a pin in round two.  Round three is a stalemate with back and forth action.  Evans hits a spinning top rope splash for a pin to tie it up.  Round 4 starts with Evans throwing a superman punch.  The next fall wins the match. Evans lands a dropkick.  Dempsey hits an uppercut and high knee.  After two neckbreakers, Charlie gets a two count.  Dempsey lands several elbows to the neck.  He locks on a front face lock.  Then he adds a scissors, but Evans suplexes out of it.  The two trade blows mid ring.  Dempsey double underhooks and locks on a submission, but time runs out.  Cedric comes in to break the hold.  We are in sudden death next round.  Round 5 begins with Evans throwing hands and kicks.  Dempsey lands a forearm.  Evans spin kicks him.  He then clotheslines him.  Dempsey is saved by his team breaking the pin.  Cedric makes the save.  Dempsey is tossed to the floor.  Evans dives on him on the floor.  Tevion Heights comes out of nowhere to help Dempsey.  He was fired a month ago. Dempsey gets the pin.  Heights was said to be in Japan.

Winner, Charlie Dempsey

We get a Rosemary vignette.  Wendy Choo is also included, but Rosemary narrates the creepy segment.

Ethan Page, the NXT Champion, is interviewed backstage.  He tells everyone to thank him.  He says he isn’t scared of Pete Dunne, like everyone else.  He then says he already beat Trick Williams.  He says he doesn’t care who wins their match.  He will beat whomever wins.

Match 4.  Oba Femi, North American Champ VS Alex Hammerstone

Wow.  Hammerstone has arrived.  This is awesome.  These two are huge.  The two shove each other around.  Neither gain much of an advantage.  Alex hits a missile dropkick.  Femi counters with some elbow drops and a back suplex.  He then hits a running elbow into a rear chin lock.  Hammerstone is then Gorilla press slammed.  Alex kicks out at two.  Femi misses a elbow drop.  Hammerstone must have been hired by Tony D’Angelo.  Hammerstone delivers a series of suplexes.  He then chokeslams Femi for two.  Femi counters with a slam and powerbomb for the pin.

Winner, Oba Femi

Chase U plan there revenge against Ridge Holland.

Match 5.  Ridge Holland VS Duke Hudson (with Chase U)

Ridge jumps Duke right away and actually hurts Riley.  Osborn helps him to the back, leaving Duke alone.  Ridge is all over Duke with knees to the temple and slams.  DDT and it is over.

Winner, Ridge Holland

Ridge continues a post match beatdown on Duke on the floor.  Ridge is puts Duke threw a barricade and then destroys him with the dissembled parts post match.

Giulia and Jordynne Grace have a stare down backstage.

Pete Dunne is shown backstage.  He already has a blackeye.  He tells Trick and Ethan have no chance on the Bruiserweight.  Wes Lee calls out Zachary Wentz for NXT Chicago.

Match 7.  TNA Knockouts Champion, Jordynne Grace VS Sol Ruca

Sol has a large height advantage, but Grace is much stronger.  Grace shoulders and flips Ruca inside out.  She then lands a spinebuster.  Ruca shakes it off.  Ruca shoves Grace in the corner and flips the champ to the floor.  She then moonsaults her on the floor.  Back in the ring, Ruca springboard splashes her.  Back from break, Grace counters a package suplex off the top, but Grace throws her from the top.  The two trade blows.  Ruca hits a crossbody.  Ruca gets caught trying another crossbody, but spins her momentum into a DDT on Grace for two.  Vic does a great job of covering Grace’s career.  She does a Vaderbomb for two on Ruca.  Superkick for two for Ruca.  Grace crotches Ruca, SOS then by Grace.  The lights go out.  Rosemary and Wendy Choo attack the champion.  Choo chokes her out as Rosemary smiles.

Tatum Paxley and Lyra Valkyria are shown backstage.  Tatum is playing with dolls.  Lyra is not sure how to handle this.  She wants to keep Tatum focused on the matches ahead.  Tatum struggles to keep herself calm with Lyra’s help.  Giulia and Ava are interrupted by Roxanne Perez.  She says he doesn’t care what Giulia did.  Giulia cuts her off and says she should be scared.  Shawn Spears and Deion have another segment with Jenson Brooks.  Deion doesn’t trust Spears intensions.

Match 7.  Main Event.  Last Man Standing Match for a shot at Ethan Page and the NXT Championship.  Trick Williams VS Pete Dunne

The two start brawling right away.  Dunne flips Trick to the floor and hurls himself on him.  After tossing Trick into the steps, the two trade chops.  Trick regains control.  Back on the apron Trick tries for a piledriver, but is backdropped.  The two pull hair and mangle eyes during the tv break.  Trick hits a rock bottom.  Dunne bails.  He punches Trick as he tries to follow.  He then grabs a chair and guts him with it.  He then uses it to stomp fingers.  Trick counters with a chair assisted neckbreaker.  Dunne snap suplexes Trick.  Dunne sets up a chair in the corner between the ropes and rams Trick into it, back first.  Trick then is rammed into the stairs.  Dunne pulls back the rubber mat on the floor.  Dunne goes for a piledriver on the concrete, but is pushed to his back.  Dunne fights back and DDTs Trick.  The ref gets to his feet at 9.  Back in the ring, Dunne punt kicks Williams and then stomps him.  Trick gets to his feet at 9 and then pop up punches Dunne.  Dunne then counters with a jumping face plant.  Trick gets up at 9 again.  Dunne misses a chair shot and Trick kicks it in his face.  Dunne gets up at 9.  Trick then Trick shots Dunne for another 9 count.  Trick rearranges the announce table.  Dunne throws Trick threw some of the moved parts and a holy shit chant breaks out.  Dunne throws Trick in the crowd.  The two battle to a pavilion up high.  Dunne Russian leg sweeps Trick off the 2nd level threw a floor below.  The ref doesn’t know what to do after that crash.  Page comes out and yells at both of them to get up.  Trick backdrops Page threw the announce table.  Trick beats the count up.   Dunne doesn’t get up and Trick wins.

Winner.  Trick Williams.

Williams celebrates his win as the show ends.  CM Punk is announced for next week’s show.