Our WWE NXT results for tonight include men’s and women’s Last Chance Iron Survivor Challenge Qualifier matches featuring Axiom taking on Cedric Alexander, Eddy Thorpe, Lexis King and Cora Jade facing Jaida Parker, Kelani Jordan, and Wren Sinclair, Nikkita Lyons battling Karmen Petrovic, Eric Bischoff and Sean “X-Pac” Waltman appearing, Number One Contender’s Tag Team Battle Royal. Here’s our review and grades for tonight’s show, live from the Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.
WWE NXT Card:
- Last Chance Iron Survivor Challenge Qualifier: Axiom vs. Cedric Alexander vs. Eddy Thorpe vs. Lexis King
- Last Chance Iron Survivor Challenge Qualifier: Cora Jade vs. Jaida Parker vs. Kelani Jordan vs. Wren Sinclair
- Tag Team Number One Contender’s Battle Royal – Winner Gets Tag Team Title Match At NXT Deadline
- Nikkita Lyons vs. Karmen Petrovic
- Eric Bischoff and Sean “X-Pac” Waltman appear
WWE NXT Results:
Last Chance Iron Survivor Challenge Qualifier: Cora Jade vs. Jaida Parker vs. Kelani Jordan vs. Wren Sinclair
All for women trade double pin spots. No one can get a decided advantage. Parker bridges out of a pin attempt by Jordan. Sinclair rolls both women into a pin. Jade gets tossed out of the ring. Dipsey-doo hip toss by Jordan. Parker is sent crashing into Sinclair. Jordan dropkicks Sinclair and Parker out of the ring. Jordan lands a moonsault off the barricade that wipes out Jade. Corkscrew splash by Jordan. Parker crushes Parker and Sinclair with a double teardrop hip attack. After the break, Jade sends Jade and Parker flying off the top with a tower of doom. Parker drops Sinclair with a spinebuster. Jade breaks up the pin with a senton.
Step over kick by Jordan. Sinclair takes Jordan over with a beautiful butterfly suplex. Parker crushes Sinclair with a falcon arrow. Jordan lands a frog splash on Sinclair and Parker. Jade breaks up the pin. Jade and Jordan argue. Jade sends Jordan out of the ring. Jordan hits a 450 splash. Parker breaks up the pin by suplexes Sinclair on top of Jordan. Parker sets Hoardan up for another hip attack. Lola Vice appears out of nowhere and tries to catch Parker with a spinning back fist, but Parker ducks. Vice drops Sinclair. Vice pulls Parker out of the ring. Sinclair falls on top of Jade and gets the three count!
Winner- Wren Sinclair
Vice and Parker fight to the back while Charlie Dempsey explains to Sinclair that she won the match.
Grade: B-
Jaida Parker oozes charisma; Wren Sinclair is an underrated Graps-God- suplexes, women twice her size all over the ring, and Kelani Jordan continues to impress, embodying her idol, RVD, flipping all over the place. And Cora Jade is the biggest heel on the roster for wearing a puffy coat in Florida. This match was fun and had almost too many big nearfalls. Jordan’s RVD cosplay is reaching epic proportions, as she has added a frog splash to her move set. Calling it now, don’t catch any chairs Jordan throws your way. I don’t know if the right person won, but the finish was extremely well done.
Miss Parker is Pissed
Jaida Parker storms down to the ring carrying a brick. Parker yells that if Vice wants an NXT Underground Match, they can do it right now. Parker screams at the referee to take the ropes down right now. After the break, the referees are removing the ropes. Parker says she thought she made it crystal clear when she smashed a brick over Vice’s head, but Vice cost her a chance at the Iron Survivor not once but twice. Parker gets bleeped but follows that with she isn’t leaving the ring until she gets her hands on that, you know what.
NXT GM Ava walks out on the stage and tells Parker this isn’t happening tonight. Ava says Parker can have the match at NXT Deadline. Lola Vice storms down to the ring and tells Parker she just made the biggest mistake. NXT Underground is her match, and Parker won’t have that brick to help her. Parker says she doesn’t need it and tosses the brick at Vice. Vice catches the break, and Parker obliterates her with an elbow to the face. Vice is out cold.
Grade: A
Ok, ok, ok… DOWN GOES FRAZIER! DOWN GOES FRAZIER! Miss Parker dropped Vice like a New Year’s Resolution! Parker and Vice have a fire that can’t be taught. Pairing them together is magic. Parker is the most believable woman on the roster. When she speaks, we listen, and the passion in her voice tonight was as real as it gets. That’s the thing about wrestling. Sure, they are larger-than-life personalities, but all of this stuff works better when it’s as realistic as possible. Also, and this goes without saying, Vice fell like Ricky at the end of Boys in the Hood.
Tag Team Number One Contender’s Battle Royal – Winner Gets Tag Team Title Match At NXT Deadline
The final men are Tank, Price, Borne, and both members of Gallus. Tank gets tossed over the top, but Hank catches him and puts him back on the apron. Gallus works over Borne Tank. Price sends Wolfgang over the top. Tank sends Mark Coffey over the top at the same time. Price, Tank, and Borne all trade shots. Price uranage suplexes Borne onto Tank. Borne sends Tank over the top and dropkicks Price off the top for the win.
Winners- No Quarter Catch Crew
Grade: C-
Battle Royals are always hard to make interesting, and this… wasn’t. The tag division in NXT needs serious help. It’s baffling why the live crowd is so into Hank and Tank. This writer doesn’t see it… at all… on any level. Thankfully, they didn’t win, as having them potentially beat Axiom and Frazer would be nonsensical, but the No Quarter Catch Crew isn’t that much of a step up. If the winners of this battle royal are the final catalyst for the breakup between Axiom and Frazer, that will be incredibly underwhelming.
Championship Face-Off
WWE Hall of Famer Eric Bischoff is here to moderate. Bischoff puts over NXT and himself… a lot. Bischoff says walking through the doors at NXT gave him the same feeling he had back when he was revolutionizing the wrestling business. Bischoff guest tonight are two important pieces of the NXT puzzle. Bischoff introduces the challenge, Ridge Holland, and the champion, Trick Williams. Bischoff puts over both competitors and stirs the pot a bit. Holland calls Williams a stand-up comedian with abs.
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Holland says he’s going to win the championship at Deadline. Williams says his problem with Holland is he isn’t original. Williams tells Holland he’s bland and unoriginal. Holland laughs. Williams says Holland wishes he had what Williams does. Holland calls Williams soft. Williams decks Holland. The fight spills out of the ring. Holland sends Williams into the ring step, shoulder first. Holland drops Williams with the Redeemer on the commentary desk. Williams is taken out on a stretcher.
Grade: B
Having Bischoff around is nice, but it’s not completely clear what he added here besides the co-sign he gave Williams and Holland. The promo battle between Holland and Williams was better than expected. Holland is fine in the ring, but he has never exactly been Ric Flair on the mic. That said, Holland held his own, even though, as Williams pointed out, he was using rehashed material. This segment gets a big grade boost because it ended with a table spot that resulted in someone being stretchered out of the building. That’s what’s supposed to happen, people!
Nikkita Lyons vs. Karmen Petrovic
Lyons and Petrovic trade strikes. Lyon blocks a clothesline and lands a nasty head kick. Lyons unloads on Petrovic with strikes. Petrovic crawls to the ropes. Lyon works over Petrovic. Petrovic fires up and lands on a spinning clothesline. German suplex by Lyons. Lyons misses a Vader Bomb. Ashante “Thee” Adonis runs down to ringside to check on Petrovic. Adonis gets on the apron. Lyons knocks Adonis to the floor. Petrovic floors Lyons with a spin kick for the win.
Winner- Karmen Petrovic
Grade: C
They are trying so hard to make everyone involved her interesting. This… isn’t working. Love angles have a place in wrestling, but this one just seems lazy. There has to be a better use for everyone involved here. The match was what it was. Petrovic’s strikes always look good, and Lyons seems to be moving a bit better since returning from her latest injury.
Gigi Dolan w/Tatum Paxley vs. Izzi Dame
Fatal influence is watching this match from backstage. Dolan lands a basement dropkick. Shawn Spears walks out on the stage to watch the match. Dolan eventually hits the Gigi Driver for the win.
Winner- Gigi Dolan
Grade: C-
This was a total throw-away quick match just to reestablish Dolan. Nothing to be mad at, but nothing to write home about either.
Last Chance Iron Survivor Challenge Qualifier: Axiom vs. Cedric Alexander vs. Eddy Thorpe vs. Lexis King
Ethan Page and the rest of the Iron Survivor Challenge competitors are out to watch the match. Thorpe gets dropkicked into a crucifix bomb by Axiom. Thorpe tosses Axiom into a dropkick on King. Alexander lands a slingshot flatliner. Axiom breaks it up with a running stomp into a dropkick on Thorpe. After the break, Alexander lands a uranage followed by a moonsault for a near fall. Axiom lands a super Spanish fly. Thorpe kicks out, but Axiom transitions into an armbar. Alexander breaks up the pin with a frog splash. Axiom drops King with the Golden Ratio. Thorpe pulls Axiom out of the ring and steals the pin.
Winner- Eddy Thorpe
Grade: B-
The issue with these matches is that everyone feels like they need to move a mile a minute. Nothing gets sold in these multi-man matches unless you count people rolling out of the ring and disappearing for minutes. Beyond that, everyone did their best to kill it out there tonight. The ending was a bit underwhelming, but Thorpe is seemingly in line for a push, so let’s see where this goes.
Roxanne Perez In-Ring Segment
Perez brags about being unbeatable and the forever champion. Perez dumps on the women in the Iron Survivor Challenge match. Sol Ruca, Stephanie Vaquer, Zaria, Giulia.Everyone brawls. Perez tries to walk away. Sinclair attacks Perez from behind.
Backstage, Eddy Thrope is laid out.
Grade: C
This segment was a waste. If there had to be a segment circled around the women’s Iron Survivor Challenge Match, have it happen around the last chance match. A five-second brawl doesn’t do anything to make you interested in a match. They half committed. They put this at the end of the night but didn’t give it the time the segment needed to develop.
WWE NXT Review:
This was an uneven night. There was some good in-ring action, with the women’s Iron Survivor Challenge last chance match standing out as the one to watch. Jaida Parker was the MVP of the night with her nasty knockout of Lola Vice in a segment that you should go out of your way to see. NXT Deadline is this weekend, and the stage is set for the show, with the main event being in doubt with the now-injured Trick Williams being in a body cast somewhere in Florida. What do you think happens at Deadline? Will the injured Williams manage to retain? Let us know what you think in the comments!
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