Our WWE NXT results for tonight include NXT North American Championship Tony D’Angelo defending against Shawn Spears, NXT Women’s North American Champion Fallon Henley vs. Tatum Paxley, Women’s Iron Survivor Challenge qualifying matches continue when Kelani Jordan battles Giulia, on the men’s side of the Iron Survivor Challenge, Ethan Page takes on Axiom. Here’s our review and grades for tonight’s show, live from Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.
WWE NXT Card:
- NXT North American Championship: Tony D’Angelo (c) vs. Shawn Spears
- Iron Survivor Challenge Qualifying Match: Ethan Page vs. Axiom
- NXT Women’s North American Championship: Fallon Henley (c) vs. Tatum Paxley
- Iron Survivor Challenge Qualifying Match: Giulia vs. Kelani Jordan
WWE NXT Results:
As the show kicks off, the Chase U music starts to play. The NXT crowd goes nuts Ridge Holland bursts through a Chase U logo, and the crowd showers him with boos.
The Redeemer is here!
Holland says he told us so. He’ll be seeing Trick Williams at NXT Deadline.
Grade: B+
Thar was… effective. Holland hasn’t exactly been setting the world on fire as a heel, but crapping all over the still-warm corpse of Chase U worked.
Iron Survivor Challenge Qualifying Match: Ethan Page vs. Axiom w/Nathan Frazer
Page and Axiom trade pin attempts. Axiom nearly catches Page with the Golden Ratio. Page rolls out of the ring. After the break, Page is working over Axiom. Backstage, the whole tag division is watching the match. Back in the ring, Page runs into a standing Spanish Fly by Axiom. Page kicks out. Axiom transitions into a submission. Page powerbomb out of the hold. Axiom hits super Spanish Fly. Page kicks out again. Page tries a top rope Ego’s Edge. Axiom reverses it into a super rana. Axiom sets up the Golden Ratio. Page counters with a nasty lariat for the win.
Winner- Ethan Page
After the match, Sara interviews Page. Page gloats about finding a way to win tonight against a hell of a champion. Nathan Frazer interrupts and wants to remind Page that the Iron Survivor Challenge is HIS kind of match. Page says he just pinned Frazer’s tag team partner, the guy who carries the weight in their team. Frazer says Axiom doesn’t carry the team. Axiom bows up outside the ring. Frazer says he knows what Page is trying to do. Wes Lee and Je’Von Evans also make their way to the ring and stake their claim to the title shot. OTM and the rest of the tag division interrupt. Frazer and Axiom land dives. Everyone brawls.
Grade: B
Heck of a match. Page and Axiom threw everything they had at each other. Page attempted a murder when he set up that top rope Ego’s Edge. Thankfully, Axiom was able to send Page flying, which was definitely the move of the match: a super rana. Thankfully, this match managed to have a clean finish, and they saved the shenanigans for the aftermath.
Lola Vice vs. Wren Sinclair w/Charlie Dempsey
Vice lands a few strikes and takes Sinclair down in a cross-armbreaker. Sinclair counters into a pin. Sinclair kicks out. Vice lands the three amigos. Sinclair whips Vice down to the mat bar her arm. Sinclair works over Vice’s arm. Dempsey tells Sinclair to stomp Vice’s arm into the ring steps. Sinclair refuses. Vice tosses Sinclair off the steps. Sinclair dropkicks Vice into the ringsteps. Sinclair gets a two count. Vice immediately floors Sinclair with a spinning back fist. Vice pins Sinclair.
Winner- Lola Vice
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Vice stares into the camera and says the next time she sees Jaida Parker, they are going underground.
Grade: B-
This match didn’t overstay its welcome, and that’s a good thing. We need to establish Vice as a bad @$$, especially if we are going into an NXT Underground match. Sinclair continues to impress with any opportunity she is given. The submission wrestling exchanges during this match were impressive, to say the least. We need to see more of Sinclair (Vice gets enough screen time… although this writer would happily take more).
NXT North American Championship: Tony D’Angelo (c) w/Rizzo vs. Shawn Spears w/Brooks Jensen
D’Angelo decks Spears before the bell rings. D’Angelo tweaks his previously injured knee. Spears chop blocks D’Angelo. Spears focuses his assault on D’Angelo’s knee. D’Angelo fires up and lands a flurry of offense. D’Angelo charges in, but his knee gives out. Spears locks D’Angelo in a figure four. D’Angelo eventually makes it to the ropes. After a pin attempt exchange, D’Angelo sends Spear through the mat with a sky-high spinbuster. D’Angelo pins Spears.
Winner- Tony D’Angelo
After the match, Spears and Jensen attack D’Angelo. D’Angelo fires back. Someone blindsided D’Angelo from behind. It’s Spear’s new protege Nico.
Grade: C
… gotta be honest here, it’s hard to give a damn about this match on any level. Something about Spears has always been missing. It’s hard to buy him as a credible threat to anyone ever. You would think splitting Cody Rhodes’ head in two with a chair at one point would have given the guy a bit of our borrowed aura, but that just wasn’t the case. D’Angelo’s title reign can be hilariously encapsulated in the same word I would use to describe this match: meh.
Iron Survivor Challenge Qualifying Match: Giulia vs. Kelani Jordan
Giulia and Jordan trade strikes and pin attempts. Neither woman can get an advantage. After a low crossbody. Jordan gets a near fall, and Jordan trades hands. Giulia and Jordan trade big shots. Jordan tries her One of a King moonsault, but Giulia hooks Jordan’s leg. Giulia misses a double stomp. After the break, Giulia hits her finish for the win.
Winner- Giulia
Grade: B
Good back-and-forth match! Jordan didn’t have a chance but performed well here nonetheless.
NXT Champion Trick Williams dumps on Hollands for what he did to Chase U. Williams can’t let Holland become NXT Champion. Holland interrupts. Referees try to hold Holland back. Eric Bischoff appears on the ‘Tron and says he’ll be there next week to get a closer look.
NXT Women’s North American Championship: Fallon Henley (c) w/Fatal Influence vs. Tatum Paxley
Henley works over Paxley’s arm. Paxley rolls up Henley. Henley kicks out. Paxley flips out of Henley’s hold. Paxley traps Henley in a head scissor submission. Henley and Paxley trade pins again. Pazley boots Henley out of the ring. After a distraction from Jacey Jayne, Henley catches Paxley with a 619 using the ring post. After the break, both women trade shots. Paxley gets a near fall after a 450 splash. Henley kicks out. After a distraction from Jayne. Henley lands a famouser for the win.
Winner- Fallon Henley
After the match, Henley, Jayne, and Nyx attack Paxley. Gigi Dolan hits the ring and makes the save.
Grade: C+
Solid match, but way too fast for a title contest. They rushed this to get to Dolan’s return, which is fine, but why bother giving Paxley the shot to begin with?
WWE NXT Review:
It is an okay show overall, which is highlighted by the good in-ring efforts of the Iron Survivor Challenge Match competitors. The match of the night was Ethan Page vs. Axiom. Definitely check that one out.
Rating: B-
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