Our WWE NXT results for tonight include Je’von Evans battling Wes Lee, Lola Vice and Jaida Parker meeting in a hardcore match with ECW Orginal Dawn Marie as special guest referee, a huge ten-woman tag team match featuring Roxanne Perez, Cora Jade, and Fatal Influence (Fallon Henley, Jacy Jayne & Jazmyn Nyx) vs. Zaria, Stephanie Vaquer, Giulia, Kelani Jordan, and Jordynne Grace, ECW Legend Bubba Ray Dudley teaming with NXT Champion Trick Williams against Ethan Page and Ridge Holland. Here’s our review and grades for tonight’s show, live from Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
WWE NXT Card:
- Je’Von Evans vs. Wes Lee
- Hardcore Match: Jaida Parker vs. Lola Vice (Guest Referee: Dawn Marie)
- 10-Woman Tag Team Match: Roxanne Perez, Cora Jade, and Fatal Influence (Fallon Henley, Jacy Jayne & Jazmyn Nyx) vs. Zaria, Stephanie Vaquer, Giulia, Kelani Jordan, and Jordynne Grace
- Bubba Ray Dudley & Trick Williams vs. Ethan Page & Ridge Holland
WWE NXT Results:
Hardcore Match: Lola Vice vs. Jaida Parker (Special Guest Referee: Dawn Marie)
Parker attacks Vice as soon as the bell rings. Parker brings a chair into the ring. The bell rings, Vice lands a spinning back fist that sends the chair into Parker’s face. Parker pulls a table from under the ring. After a chair shot, Parker tries to send Vice into a chair, but Vice reverses it and slams Parker’s head into the chair. Vice lands a suplex and goes for the table again. Parker hits Vice with another chair and slides the table under the ring for a second time. Parker sends a few chairs into the ring. Vice and Parker take turns sending each other into and hitting each other with chairs.
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Vice hits a series of suplexes and a DDT for a near fall. After the break, there are ladders and kendo sticks in the ring. Parker lands a spinebuster and sets up two ladders. Vice gets dumped on a ladder that’s set up in the corner. Parker dives off a ladder and lands a massive teardrop hip attack. Vice and ladder break in half. Vice somehow kicks out. Parker tries a suplex, but Parker counters with a rear naked choke. Parker rolls under the bottom rope with Vice choking her. Parker drives Vice into the ring steps.
Vice rolls back into the ring. Parker sends Vice careening out of the ring with Hypnotiq. Parker tries another, but Vice moves, sending Parker crashing into the ring steps. Vice puts a trash can on Parker’s head, hits it with a kendo stick, and lands a few kicks. Vice hip attacks the trash can on Parker’s head. Vice charges in, and Parker hits her in the face with a trash can. Parker and Vice take turns attempting to murder each other. Vice traps Parker in another choke. Parker grabs a brick and smashes it over Vice’s head. Vice somehow kicks out. Parker hits a super Hypnotiq for the win.
Winner- Jaida Parker
Grade: A
Since this is ECW night, this writer won’t grade garbage matches as harshly as usual… that said, the Philly crowd gave Vice and Parker a standing ovation midway through the match. This match was incredible to watch, as Vice and Parker embodied the ECW spirit tonight( Vice hit a Tommy Dreamer-style DDT, which was a nice touch). They teased but didn’t use any tables, as they are smartly saving that for the main event. Less is more, and Parker and Vice kept to chairs and kendo sticks for the most part. I don’t know where Parker got a brick from, but she has cemented herself as the Hardcore Queen on NXT.
Je’Von Evans vs. Wes Lee
Lee and Evans trade takedown attempts and flips. Evans tries a springboard cutter, but Lee blocks it. The fight spills out of the ring. Lee lands a 619 using the ring post. Lee tries a suplex on the ring steps. Evans tries to fight out of it, but Lee hits a brainbuster on the steps instead!
After the break, Lee sets Evans up on the top rope. Evans counters and sends Lee flying with a top rope rana. Lee and Evans trade punches. Evans wins out, flooring Lee with a slingshot head kick. After a strike exchange, Lee lands the Cardiac Kick. Evans kicks out! Lee is shocked. The referee looks on as Lee brings a chair into the ring. The referee takes the chair away.
Evans rolls up Lee, but the referee is out of position. Lee kicks Evans in the face. Lee charges in and eats a surprise cutter from Evans. Evans immediately hits a super cutter. Lee rolls out of the ring. Evans tries a dive, but Lee sends him flying over the commentary desk! Lee brings a chair into the ring. RVD’s music hits. Lee tries to hit RVD with a chair. RVD ducks. Evans takes Lee out with a dive. Super Cutter by Evans. Evans lands a frog splash for the win.
Winner- Je’Von Evans
Grade: B
Lee worked surprisingly well here as the heel in the match, leading Evans and making him look like a million bucks in the process. We have been getting glimpses of Lee’s vicious streak over the past few weeks, but it was on full display in this match. The brainbuster on the ringsteps is the stuff nightmares are made out of. The finish was a bit strange, as it seemed RVD was supposed to take Lee out with a Van Daminator, but the spot was awkward, and Lee and RVD seemed to be following two different scripts.
NXT GM AVA Makes an Announcement
Ava puts over the Philly fans and announces that NXT is going back on the road, and at NXT Deadline, the Iron Survivor Challenge will return. Mr. Stone interrupts and dumps all over the Philly fans. Boston fans and New York fans are more hardcore. The lights go out, and Rhyno appears! Mr Stone turns around, and Rhyno Gores Mr. Stone into next week.
Grade: A+
The lights going out in the ECW Arena + Rhyno appearing and Goring someone into oblivion = an A+ from this writer.
Bubba Ray Dudley & Trick Williams vs. Ethan Page & Ridge Holland
Williams and Holland start off the match. Before both men lock up, Holland decks Bubba, who is on the apron. Williams tags in Bubba. Bubba and Holland lock up. Holland takes Bubba down and mocks him. Body slam by Holland. Bubba floors Holland with a clothesline. Willams tags in and lands a double axhandle. After a cheapshot from Page, Williams is down. Williams manages to tag in Bubba. Bubba hits the Dusty combo. Williams leaps off Bubba’s back and lands a splash in the corner.
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After the break, Bubba manages to tag in Williams. Willams lands a Book End for a near fall. Bubba Ray saves Williams from an Ego’s Edge. Wiliams lands a cyclone boot. Williams calls for the Trick Knee. Holland rolls up Williams for a shocking win.
Winner- Ethan Page and Ridge Holland
After the match, Holland attacks Williams. Bubba makes the save. Williams and Bubba hit Wassup. Bubba tells Williams to get the tables. Williams rolls out of the ring, but there are no tables under the ring. The Dudley Boys’ music hits. D-von Dudley walks out on the stage with a table! Williams and Bubba chokeslam Page through the table.
Grade: C
This match seemed off from the start. It was odd that this match was in the middle of the show, but after seeing it… this writer understands. The sloppiness of the match aside, the finish was nonsensical. Is the only way to get a title shot against Williams to pin him? Has an NXT Champion been pinned in more non-title matches than Williams?
Booking Williams like this makes him look weak. What are we doing here? Who is this for? The spot with D-Von was fun, and the crowd got their table spot, just not the table spot any of us wanted. No 3D? No table powerbomb? And I mean with Bubba and Williams, not Bubba and D-Von. D-Von isn’t interested in doing anything physical, but there is no reason Williams and Bubba can’t do more than just the Wassup.
NXT North American Championship Match: Tony D’Angelo (c) w/The Family vs. Nunzio w/Tony Mamaluke
Nunzio tries to use Mamaluke as a shield. D’Angelo clotheslines Mamaluke. D’Angelo tosses Nunzio all over the ring. D’Angelo misses a spear in the corner. Nunzio hits the Scillian Slice! D’Angelo kicks out. Luka hands D’Angelo a crowbar as Mamaluke hands Nunzio a pair of brass knucks. Nunzio walks into a spinebuster. D’Angelo pins Nunzio
Winner- Tony D’Angelo
After the match, everyone embraces.
Grade: D
This isn’t a knock at Nunzio. Nunzio is fine… but we have gone from Oba Femi squashing giants to… this. Nunzio is legit, but considering this is early in D’Angelo’s run, this is not the best way to showcase him as a champion. This was just bad.
Roxanne Perez, Cora Jade, and Fatal Influence (Fallon Henley, Jacy Jayne & Jazmyn Nyx) vs. Zaria, Stephanie Vaquer, Giulia, Kelani Jordan, and Jordynne Grace
Henley and Jordan start the match. Jordan sends Henley flying with her dipsey doo clothesline. Vaquer gets a blind tag and hits a springboard crossbody. Henley lands a few strikes and tags in Nxy. Henley and Nyx lands some combo offense for a near fall. Vaquer traps Nyx in a head scissors and slams her head into the mat repeatedly. Giulia tags in and double teams Nyx with Vaquer. Perez tags in and gets in Giulia’s face. Giulia tosses Perez all over the ring.
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Perez escapes a slam and whips Giulia down to the mat by her hair. Perez and her team work over Giulia. Giulia manages to tag in Zaira. Zaria suplexes Jade. Jacy Jayne tags in and gets obliterated by a head butt from Zaira. Henley saves Jayne from a DVD. All ten women get in the ring. A massive brawl breaks out. Grace and Zaira launch Perez out of the ring onto the rest of her team. Jordan flattens the field with a moonsault off the top out to the floor.
Winners- Zaria, Stephanie Vaquer, Giulia, Kelani Jordan, and Jordynne Grace
Grade: B-
This match was really good for what it was. There were too many women in this match to have as little time as they did, but everyone made it work. This would have been graded much higher if they had more time to tell a story during the match, save for the Zaria/Grace miscue.
WWE NXT Review:
NXT kicking off with a hype video featuring the classing ECW theme and a video of the current NXT stars spliced with classic ECW footage got this writer hyped for the show. ECW doesn’t get enough love when it comes to current WWE content, so it’s great to see this ECW theme-heavy show.
Jaida Parker and Lola Vice stole the show with their opening hardcore match. For an ECW theme show, they set the tone by trying to murder each other for our enjoyment. Evans vs. Lee was a fun contest that didn’t just have amazing high spots but hard-hitting action as well.
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The much-hyped tag match with NXT Champion Trick Williams and Bubba Ray Dudley vs. Ridge Holland and Ethan Page was a letdown. The match was sloppy, too quick, and made the champion look weak yet again.
HBK is continuing to lay his you know what on the table when it comes to booking this show. Closing an ECW-themed show in Philly with a 10-women tag match is a BOLD move. That… paid off?
The Iron Survivor qualifying matches will start next week, so we will begin to get a clearer picture of what’s next for the silver and black brand. What did you all think of tonight’s show? TELL US IN THE COMMENTS!
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