Our WWE NXT results for tonight include Cedric Alexander battling Wes Lee in an Iron Survivor Challenge qualifying match, in women’s division action, Sol Ruca taking on Cora Jade in an Iron Survivor Challenge qualifying match, Adriana Rizzo seeking revenge against Nikkita Lyons, Stephanie Vaquer & Giulia vs. Meta-Four (Jakara Jackson & Lash Legend), Fallon Henley defending the NXT Women’s North American Championship against the former champion Kelani Jordan. Here’s our review and grades for tonight’s show, live from the Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.
WWE NXT Card:
- Iron Survivor Challenge Qualifying Match: Cedric Alexander vs. Wes Lee
- Iron Survivor Challenge Qualifying Match: Sol Ruca vs. Cora Jade
- NXT Women’s North American Championship Match: Fallon Henley (c) vs. Kelani Jordan
- Nikkita Lyons vs. Adriana Rizzo
- Stephanie Vaquer & Giulia vs. Meta-Four (Jakara Jackson & Lash Legend)
WWE NXT Results:
Stephanie Vaquer & Giulia vs. Meta-Four (Jakara Jackson & Lash Legend)
Giulia and Legend kick off the match. Giulia tries a bulldog but gets caught in a slam. Pump kick by Legend. Jackson and Legend double-team Giulia. Jackson tries to set Giulia up for a slam, but Giulia reverses it into an octopus hold. Vaquer tags in and lands some tandem offense with Giulia. Vaquer slams Jackson’s head into the mat repeatedly. Legend chops Vaquer down with one strike. Legend picks up Giulia and Vaquer and dribbles their head between the middle and top rope.
Jackson and Legend clear the ring. Jackson stands on Legend’s shoulders and lands a splash, wiping out Giulia and Vaquer. After the break, Legend and Jackson are working over Vaquer. Vaquer manages to tag in Giulia. Giulia clears the ring. Legend is sent flying out of the ring. Giulia dives off the apron and lands a dropkick that sends Legend into the ring steps. Jackson rolls up Vaquer. Vaquer kicks out and hits her finish on Jackson. Giulia and Vaquer end Jackson with a double ripcord knee strike for the win.
Winners- Stephanie Vaquer & Giulia
Grade: B
Fun match. Legend and Jackson are coming into their own and are really developing well in the ring. Vaquer and Giulia are everything they were advertised to be. Having them as a team is interesting. Is the world where we see them challenge Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill?
Iron Survivor Challenge Qualifying Match: Sol Ruca vs. Cora Jade
Ruca is in control early. Ruca takes Jade down and rides her like a surfboard. After a cheapshot, Jade takes over. Jade and Ruca trade shots. Ruca wins out and lands a series of springboard attacks. Ruca tries another springboard and gets tripped off the ropes. Jade sends Ruca into the corner. Jade tries a running knee. Ruca moves out of the way, causing Jade to smash her knee into the turnbuckle. Ruca hits the Sol Snatcher for the win.
Winner- Sol Ruca
Grade: C+
This match was short, sweet, and to the point. It’s odd that Jade’s return to NXT was positioned as a big deal, but thus far, she hasn’t done much but lose matches. You’d think that with her connection to the current champion, Roxanne Perez, it would make sense for her to be a threat in the Iron Survivor match. No matter, seeing Ruca flip all over the place will be more entertaining anyway.
Iron Survivor Challenge Qualifying Match: Cedric Alexander vs. Wes Lee
Lee and Alexander trade headlocks and takedowns. Lee lands a senton to Alexander’s back. Lee is sent out to the apron. As Lee tries to get back into the ring, Alexander unloads a flurry of kicks to Lee’s chest and face. Lee falls out to the floor. Alexander tries a dive, but he lands short, barely grazing Lee in the process. After the break, Lee is working over Alexander. Alexander fires up and lands a slingshot flatliner for a near fall. Ripcord superkick by Lee.
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Lee blasts Alexander with a Cardiac Kick. Alexander somehow kicks out at 2.9! Lee goes up top and misses a splash but lands on his feet. Alexander turns Lee inside out with a lariat. Lee rips off the turnbuckle pad. While the referee tries to put it back on, Alexander hits a Michinoku Driver. The referee is late to the count, so Lee kicks at two. Alexander sets up a corner dropkick. Lee kicks Alexander in the knee, sending him into the now exposed middle turnbuckle. Alexander is out. Lee lands a Meteora for the win.
Winner- Wes Lee
Grade: B
Lee and Alexander created an exciting match with some close and believable nearfalls. Hopefully, Alexander will be okay after his miffed dive attempt. That botch aside, the rest of this match was tight. Alexander is in more of a mentor role in NXT, but they should put him in more positions to work each week. There is no way you can’t get better working with someone like Alexander. It will be a net positive for everyone.
Aww Yeah Man! That’s Trick!
NXT Champion Trick Williams is here to talk about Ridge Holland. Holland thinks he got one over on Williams after pinning him last week. Williams wants Holland right here right now. Before Williams can finish his thought, Andre Chase inturupts. Chase says he has no issue with Williams, but he isn’t done with Holland. Williams puts over Chase and is about to offer him a title shot, but Holland interrupts. The crowd boos every time Holland speaks. Holland says Williams is ducking him for someone he put in an ambulance two weeks ago. Holland tells Chase he’s done with him and on to bigger things. Chase says he wants one more match.
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Holland refuses. Williams suggests a Chase and Holland face. Williams puts over Chase and his relationships with the NXT Universe and Chase U’s main students as something that Holland could never understand. Holland says he wants that. Williams and Chase are confused. If Chase wants this match, he has to put up his relationship with Riley Osborn, Thea Hail, and Duke Hudson. Chase will not be able to communicate with anyone in Chase U. Chase agrees. Holland decks Chase. Williams clocks Holland. Williams and Chase stomp Holland out in the middle of the ring.
Grade: C
What I’m about to say is in no way an indictment of Trick Williams: what in the heck is going on, and who is any of this for? It’s one thing to want to position Holland as a challenger for Williams, but how they choose to get there makes little sense. Holland didn’t need to pin Willimas last week if he was going to get roped into a number one contender’s match next with Chase. This setup works perfectly fine without having your champion eat a pin on free TV for no reason. Make it make sense. Also, we know how all this ends, which means no one has any reason to invest in this at all.
Nikkita Lyons vs. Adriana Rizzo
Rizzo attacks Lyons as soon as the bell rings. Rizzo and Lyons trade strikes. Rizzo and Lyons have an awkward exchange that ends with Lyons awkwardly clubbing Rizzo. Lyons works over Rizzo. Rizzo fires up and lands an awkward springboard splash. Rizzo slowly dives off the second rope and gets caught with a spinbuster. Lyons lands a Vader bomb for the win.
Winner- Nikkita Lyons
After the match, Rizzo hits Lyons with a crowbar.
Grade: C-
Maybe Rizzo can hit this writer with a crowbar, too. What was this match? Clash of styles? Maybe. This match didn’t work at all. So many awkward sequences, the worst of which is the corner spot to set up Rizzo’s dive attempt. This wasn’t it.
Iron Survivor Challenge Qualifying Match: Je’Von Evans vs. Lexis King
Evans and King start fast, trading pin attempts. Neither man can get a three count—Arabian Press rana by Evans. King is sent out of the ring. Evans lands a dive. Evans tries a leapfrog, but King accidentally headbutts him below the belt. After the break, King is working over Evans. Evans fires up. King stops him with a nasty superkick. Evans kicks out. King runs into a superkick from Evans. Evans flattens King with his finish for the win.
Winner- Je’Von Evans
Grade: B
This was the match of the night by far. For a two-segment match, it had so much going for it. King is still toeing the line between being his own man or his father’s son and that internal conflict is compelling. Evans is the shining star of NXT; the crowd eats up everything he does. Tonight was no different, as Evans stunned with his amazing high-flying arsenal.
NXT Women’s North American Championship Match: Fallon Henley (c) vs. Kelani Jordan
Henley and Jordan trade strikes. Henley drives Jordan into the corner. Jordan sends Henley flying with a head scissor. Henley breaks up a dive from Jordan. Jordan lands a moonsault off the commentary desk. After the break, Jordan fires up and lands a flurry of strikes. Rolling Thunder Shooting Star Press by Jordan. Henley kicks out. Jordan sets up her finish.
Henley breaks it up. Swinging facebuster by Henley. Jordan kicks out. Henley goes up top. Jordan cuts Henley off and lands a Spanish fly off the top. Standout slam by Jordan. Jordan hit the One of a Kind Moonsault. Jacy Jayne puts Henley’s foot on the bottom rope to break up the pin. Jordan rolls up Henley. Henley kicks out, which launches Jordan into an elbow strike from Jayne. Famouser by Henley. Henley pins Jordan
Winner- Fallon Henley
After the match, the entire men’s tag division brawls in the arena.
Grade: B-
Henley and Jordan had a fine match, that was diminished by the all out brawl between all of the men’s tag team’s immediately after. For some reason, these types of brawls only seems to interutpy women’s match. Odd how that works. That’s a wrestling troupe that needs to die.
WWE NXT Review:
A few solid matches and head scratching pomos equal an uneven show that was hard to watch at times. Match of the night was Evans vs. Alexander, with Giulia and Stephanie Vaquer vs. Lash Legendand Jakara Jackson being a close second.
Rating: C
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