Location: Orlando, Florida
Venue: WWE Performance Center
Commentary Team: Booker T and Vic Joseph
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The show opens with a video recap of the matches at last week’s NXT Showdown event. Lola Vice, Jaida Parker, Zaria, and Sol Ruca are shown backstage, as they are all involved in matches on tonight’s show.
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The NXT Champion, Ricky Saints, makes his way to the ring. Saints says that he showed last week that when his back is against the wall, he will fight like hell, while Trick Williams will fold under the pressure. Saints says Williams abandoned NXT and calls him stupid, but he wants to give him the opportunity to prove him wrong. Saints says Williams can have a title match at Halloween Havoc, and then Williams appears on the screen.
Williams says it isn’t his fault that Saints couldn’t get the job done last week, and Saints is just following in his footsteps. Williams says he is doing everything Saints ever wanted to do, but it looking better do it, and he knows Saints is mad about it. Williams says they will have the match on his time and tells Saints he will see him soon.
Saints says he expected Williams to not come out, but he is going to burst his bubble. Saints will prove that he is absolute.
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The TNA X Division Champion, Leon Slater, and Je’Von Evans are backstage. They talk about the ending to their match at Bound for Glory and go back and forth about who would’ve won without DarkState getting involved. The TNA World Tag Team Champions and NXT Tag Team Champions, The Hardy Boyz, walk up. They give Evans and Slater props, and say they are going to get payback for them against DarkState at Halloween Havoc.
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The NXT Anonymous X account shows a video of the TNA Knockouts World Champion, Kelani Jordan, and Jordynne Grace talking backstage. They both talk about being the champion, and Jordan says Grace was the champion while she was the big fish in a small pond.
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Match 1 – Singles Match
Josh Briggs vs. Matt Cardona
Cardona delivers right hands and stomps Briggs down in the corner. Briggs comes back with a poke of the eyes and delivers shots to Cardona. Cardona counters back with a few kicks, but Briggs takes him down in the corner and stomps on him. Briggs drops Cardona with a flying clothesline and goes for the cover, but Cardona kicks out at two. Briggs delivers a back-elbow in the corner and mocks Cardona, but Cardona sends him to the floor and drops him with a flip over the top rope as the show heads to a commercial.
Back from the break, Briggs has Cardona in a headlock on the mat. Cardona comes back with a right hand, but Briggs kicks him in the face and gets another two count. Briggs goes for a chokeslam, but Cardona counters with a DDT and follows with a flying clothesline. Cardona delivers a face-buster and follows with right hands in the corner. Cardona delivers the Reboot in the corner and follows with the Un-pretty-her for a two count. Cardona goes for the Reboot again, but Briggs gets tot he floor. Cardona kicks him through the ropes, but Briggs comes back with a back elbow and follows with a back-breaker.
Briggs delivers a chokeslam and goes for the cover, but Cardona kicks out at two. Briggs wraps his chain around his hand, but the referee takes it away and Cardona delivers Radio Silence for a two count. Cardona comes off the ropes, but Briggs counters with a powerbomb. Briggs charges, but Cardona counters with double knees and goes for Un-pretty-her. Briggs counters out and drops Cardona with a running big boot for the pin fall.
Winner: Josh Briggs
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Hank and Tank, Lyra Valkyria, and Chase U are all backstage. They are taking about who the next number one contenders for the NXT Tag Team Championship will be, but Valkyria says she asked if anyone had seen Tatum Paxley. Paxley walks up with the rest of The Culling, and Izzi Dame insults all of them. Hank and Tank say the Hardyz are known for triple threats, and Andre Chase says they should go talk to Ava to make it official. Shawn Spears says they are one step closer to the titles, and Dame says she is going to win the battle royal later tonight. Valkyria asks about Paxley, and Dame says she will be with her the whole way.
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A vignette for Fatal Influence airs, talking about everything they have done to run the women’s division in NXT. Fallon Henley and Jacy Jayne say they had some problems along the way, and they dropped the biggest one, Jazmyn Nyx, for someone who actually belongs in the group, Lainey Reid. Jayne officially adds Reid to the group.
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Match 2 – Singles Match
El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. vs. Lexis King
King applies a wrist-lock. but Wagner turns it into one of his own and takes King down a few times. Wagner gets a roll-up for a two count and goes back to the wrist-lock. King kicks Wagner in the face and walks over his back after faking him out running the ropes. Wagner comes back and takes King down before doing the same and walking over his back. King delivers a right hand, but Wagner slams him into the corner and delivers a chop. Wagner delivers more chops, but King rips at his mask and delivers a right hand. King follows with a chop and slaps Wagner across the face.
King delivers a shot from behind and follows with another chop. Wagner comes back with a hurricanrana and delivers a tilt-a-whirl back-breaker. King goes to the floor, but Wagner drops him with a moonsault from the top as the show heads to a commercial.
Back from the break, Wagner delivers a shot in the corner. Wagner runs the ropes, but King sends him to the floor. King slams Wagner into the ring steps and slams him onto the apron to get him back into the ring. King works over Wagner’s knee and takes him to the corner. King drops a knee onto Wagner’s knee and delivers a shot to the back of his head for a two count. King delivers a knee-breaker and follows with a dragon screw. King applies an Indian Deathlock and kicks Wagner in the head a few times. Wagner comes back with right hands and drops King with a few quick clotheslines.
Wagner sends King to the corner and delivers a knee strike. Wagner delivers a sit-out powerbomb and goes for the cover, but King kicks out at two. King comes back with a superkick and takes Wagner down. King goes for a senton, but Wagner dodges and delivers a Shining Wizard. Wagner delivers a Michinoku Driver and gets the pin fall.
Winner: El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr.
-After the match, Wagner calls out the NXT North American Champion, Ethan Page. Page comes to the entranceway and says he has people coming from all over hunting him down. Page says Wagner doesn’t have to hunt him down, because he already did it for him. Page says Wagner gets a title shot at Halloween Havoc. Wagner answers in Spanish, and Page says he doesn’t understand, but it doesn’t matter because he is still going to beat him. Wagner answers back and says they aren’t having a regular match, but they are having a Day of the Dead Match where anything goes.
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Sol Ruca and Zaria are backstage. Zaria asks Ruca about being in her corner, but Ruca says she is in the battle royal. Zaria asks her how many titles she needs, and then says she will worry about Blake Monroe on her own and walks away.
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Ava, Santino Marella, Je’Von Evans, and Leon Slater are backstage, but they are interrupted by Channing Lorenzo and Arianna Grace. Marella and Ava make a match between Slater and Lorenzo for the TNA X Division Championship, and Evans says he is going to have his eyes on that match.
Around the corner, Trick Williams attacks Ricky Saints and leaves him laying. Williams says he told Saints it would be on his time, and then Ava runs over and calls for medical.
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Match 3 – Singles Match
Blake Monroe vs. Zaria
Zaria backs Monroe into the corner and then throws her across the ring. Monroe comes back with a waist-lock, but Zaria throws her down again. Monroe goes for an ankle pick, but Zaria grabs her and goes for a chokeslam. Monroe escapes and delivers a chop block before sending Zaria to the corner. Monroe connects with an shot and wraps Zaria’s knee in the ropes. Zaria comes back with a splash in the corner and goes up top, but Monroe cuts her off with an elbow strike. Monroe goes for a hurricanrana, but Zaria shoves her down and then applies a rear choke in the corner.
Monroe rolls to the floor, but Zaria follows and delivers a few shots. Zaria slams Monroe into the apron and gets her back up there. Zaria goes for a suplex to the floor, but Monroe slams her head into the turnbuckle as the show heads to a commercial.
Back from the break, Monroe applies a sleeper hold, but Zaria backs her into the corner. Monroe delivers a kick to her head and goes for the cover, but Zaria kicks out at two. Monroe goes back to the sleeper hold, but Zaria slams her down to break the hold again. They exchange shots, and Zaria connects with a few clotheslines and a pump kick. Monroe comes back with a kick, but Zaria delivers a Spear. Zaria picks Monroe up, but Monroe counters into another sleeper hold. Zaria gets free, but Monroe delivers a headbutt and grabs a chair from under the ring.
Monroe brings the chair into the ring, but Sol Ruca runs out and take it away from her. Ruca argues with the referee and Monroe takes a hair pick out of her knee pad. Zaria picks Monroe up, but she jams the pick into Zaria’s neck. Monroe delivers the Beauty Shot and gets the pin fall.
Winner: Blake Monroe
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Ava announces a men’s Speed Tournament will begin on nxt week’s show, involving Axiom, Sean Legacy, Zachary Wentz, and Jasper Troy, with the winner advancing to face El Grande Americano for the WWE Speed Championship.
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Match 4 – Triple Threat Tag Team Match
Chase U (Kale Dixon and Uriah Connors) (w/Andre Chase) vs. Hank and Tank (Hank Walker and Tank Ledger) vs. The Culling (Niko Vance and Shawn Spears)
Connors, Tank, and Vance start the match with roll-ups for two counts. Vance takes advantage with a headbutt and a clothesline, but Tank comes back with shots as Spears and Hank tag in. Hank slams Spears with a Bossman Slam, and then Hank and Tank crash into Vance and Spears on the outside. Connors and Dixon dive onto them, but Spears gets Hank back into the ring and tags Vance back in. Vance delivers shots to Hank and goes for the cover, but Dixon breaks it up. Vance delivers shots to Dixon, but Dixon comes back with one of his own. Vance puts Dixon up top and climbs, but Dixon fights him off and kicks Spears in the face.
Vance climbs back up, but Dixon sends him down. Hank and Tank throw Vance to the floor, and then slams Spears to the mat. Connor and Dixon take Hank and Tank down, but OTM run out and attack everyone. The referee throws the match out as OTM continues to beat everyone down.
Match Result: No Contest
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Backstage, Ruca apologizes to Zaria and says she should have been out there from the beginning. Zaria says they are going to beat Alexa Bliss and Charlotte Flair for the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship, and then Ruca says she is giving her spot in the battle royal to Zaria because she wants them to have all the gold.
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Backstage, Saints runs into Ava and asks where Williams is. Ava says Williams is gone, and Ava says Saints will see Williams next week for a contract signing. Ava tells Saints she needs him to keep it together, and Saints says he can do that for her.
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Backstage, DarkState has attacked The Hardy Boyz and left them laying, saying that the Hardyz messed with the wrong guys and that they are getting their titles back.
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Match 5 – #1 Contender’s (NXT Women’s Championship) 21-Woman Battle Royal
Arianna Grace vs. Cassie Lee vs. Heather by Elegance vs. Izzi Dame vs. Jaida Parker vs. Jessie McKay vs. Jordynne Grace vs. Kali Armstrong vs. Karmen Petrovic vs. Kelani Jordan vs. Kendal Grey vs. Lash Legends vs. Lei Ying Lee vs. Lola Vice vs. Mara Sade vs. Tatum Paxley vs. Thea Hail vs. Victoria Crawford vs. Wren Sinclair vs. Xia Brookside vs. Zaria
All twenty women brawl as soon as the bell rings, and Petrovic gets eliminated by The IInspiration. Paxley ends up on the apron a few times, but she gets back into the ring. Crawford almost gets eliminated, and Arianna ends up on the apron as well. They back into each other, and then shake hands, but Jordynne eliminates both of them. Ying Lee brings Armstrong to the apron, but Armstrong delivers a right hand to eliminate her. Brookside goes after Armstrong, and then Sinclair eliminates herself by trying to escape the IInspiration.
Grey goes after the IInspiration, but they double-team her as Sade tries to eliminate Zaria. Cassie is eliminated by Grey, and then Legend hits Sade by accident and saves her from being eliminated. Zaria dropkicks Legend into Sade to eliminate her, and then Brookside gets eliminated by Armstrong. Legend eliminates Parker, and then Parker beats Brookside down on the outside. Everyone gangs up on Legend and eliminates her as the show heads to a commercial.
Back from the break, Hail suplexes Paxley and tries to eliminate McKay, but Armstrong cuts her off. Hail and Armstrong go to the apron, but Dame eliminates both of them. Heather by Elegance is also eliminated, and then Monroe comes out to attack Ruca at ringside. Zaria eliminates herself to save Ruca, and then Vice gets eliminated by McKay. McKay tries to eliminate Grey, but Grey turns it around and eliminates her instead. Jordan and Grace battle on the apron, and Jordan saves herself at first before Grace eventually knocks her to the floor.
Grace goes after Paxley, Grey, and Dame, and then Paxley and Dame come back and double team her. Dame delivers a chokeslam to Grace and goes after Grey, but Grey comes back and goes for a cross-body. Dame catches her, but Grey counters with a DDT. Grey delivers shots to Grace and drops her with a German suplex. Grey tries to eliminate Paxley, but Dame makes the save. Paxley delivers a shot to Grace and Dame eliminates Grey. Paxley has Grace locked in a sleeper, and then Dame runs over and clotheslines Grace to the floor, but falls herself as well.
Winner and number one contender for the NXT Women’s Championship: Tatum Paxley
-After the match, Paxley stares down Jacy Jayne and Fatal Influence as they look on from the entranceway. Lyra Valkyria comes to the ring to celebrate with Paxley as the show comes to a close.
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Announced for next week’s show
-TNA X Division Championship Match: Leon Slater (c) vs. Channing Lorenzo
-Hank and Tank vs. OTM
-#1 Contender’s (WWE Speed Championship) Tournament – First Round Matches: Axiom vs. Sean Legacy and Jasper Troy vs. Zachary Wentz
Updated card for NXT Halloween Havoc
-NXT Championship Match: Ricky Saints (c) vs. Trick Williams
-NXT Women’s Championship Match: Jacy Jayne (c) vs. Tatum Paxley
-NXT North American Championship – Day of the Dead Match: Ethan Page (c) vs. El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr.
-NXT Tag Team Championship Match: The Hardy Boyz (c) vs. DarkState