Our WWE NXT results for tonight include Fatal Influence taking on Lola Vice, Zaria, and Sol Ruca, Blake Monroe clashing with Kelani Jordan, Wren Sinclair and mystery partner battling The Culling’s Izzi Dame & Tatum Paxley, Myles Borne meeting Lexis King in a blindfold match. Here’s our review and grades for tonight’s show, live from the WWE Performance Centre in Orlando, Florida.
WWE NXT Card:
- Blindfold Match: Lexis King vs. Myles Borne
- Fatal Influence (Jacy Jayne, Fallon Henley & Jazmyn Nyx) vs. Lola Vice, Zaria & Sol Ruca
- Izzi Dame & Tatum Paxley vs. Wren Sinclair and Partner TBA
- Blake Monroe vs. Kelani Jordan
WWE NXT Results:
A highlight package for WWE NXT Heatwave is shown.
The Revolution will be Televised
Ricky Saints puts over NXT Champion and Je’Von Evans. In the six months Saints has been here, he has toppled giants and won the NXT North American Championship. Saints is calling his shot; he’s calling out Oba Femi. Much to the chagrin of everyone, Josh Briggs inturupts. Briggs complains about outsiders like Saints and Inamura thinking they deserve a shot. Saints says he should have checked Briggs weeks ago, but if Briggs thinks he’s going to the back of the line?
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Briggs walked out here looking like Syd from Toy Story, thinking he can tell Saints what he can and can’t do. Briggs calls Saints a female dogs. Saints and Briggs square up. NXT GM Ava walks out on the ramp and notes that she hasn’t been able to contact Je’Von Evans since Heatwave, so she is booking Saints vs. Briggs tonight to crown a new number one contender.
Grade: B+
Saints was on fire here, running circles around Briggs on the mic. Briggs is talented in the ring, but the NXT Universe doesn’t give two you know whats. Femi has already beaten Briggs, so seeing Saints get a shot just makes sense and is most likely where this is heading. Although… a triple threat match wouldn’t suck. Oba Femi is the only person on the planet who consistently has good triple-threat matches.
Blake Monroe vs. Kelani Jordan
Jordan and Monroe trade pin attempts. Neither woman can get the advantage. Monroe levels Jordan with a head but. Jordan responds with a superkick. Jordan attempts a handspring. Monroe counters with a modified version of the Stroke for a near fall. Monroe works over Jordan’s arm. Jordan surprises Monroe with a leaping kick. Both women are down. Monroe and Jordan trade strikes. Jordan catches Monroe with a cartwheel back elbow. X-factor DDT by Jordan.
Monroe rolls out. Jordan boots Monroe in the face. Jordynne Grace‘s music hits. Grace tries to run away. Grace follows Monroe. The door is chained and padlocked. Grace tells Monroe she has a match and to get back to the ring. Monroe runs back to the ring. Grace gives chase. Jordan drops Monroe with a modified Angle Slam, followed by the One of a Kind Moonsault for the win!
Winner- Kelani Jordan
Grade: B-
Solid match. The Grace interruption was odd, as she didn’t get physical with Monroe at all. There had to be a more creative way to have Grace cost Monroe the match. Other than that, this was a fun match that could have gone longer.
Blindfold Match: Lexis King vs. Myles Borne
Borne points and the crowd yells to help him find King. Both men manage to lock up and end up in the corner. King gives Borne a clean break and badmouths him, but Borne has walked off. King punches at the air, and Borne somehow lands a dropkick. Borne sends King into the ropes, but instead of hitting the ropes, King sails through to the floor since he can’t see. King misses a dropkick, but manages a body slam.
King misses an elbow drop. Borne misses a knee drop. King almost superkicks the referee. King misses another superkick attempt and ends up tripping over Borne. Borne and King manage to find each other and trade strikes. King accidentally pokes the referee in the eye. While the referee is down, King pulls his blindfold up and kicks Borne below the belt. King puts his hood down and hits the Coronation for the win.
Winner- Lexis King
Grade: B
This may have been the most entertaining blindfold match in WWE history. In the past, these matches have been boring. Just a bunch of pointing, a finish, or a cheat, and it’s over. This match had time, and they utilized the gimmick to its fullest extent. Borne and King mixed believable spots and surprisingly funny comedy to give us a shockingly fun match.
Izzi Dame & Tatum Paxley w/The Culling vs. Wren Sinclair and Kendal Grey w/Charlie Dempsey
Grey and Sinclair double-team Dame with a series of strikes for a near fall. Paxley tags in and gets run over by Sinclair. Paxley goes low and tags in Dame. Sinclair hits the ropes but gets clinched by Paxley. Paxley holds Sinclair in place while Dame dropkicks Sinclair. Dame and Paxley work over Sinclair. Grey gets the hot tag and clears the ring. Paxley sets up a springboard, but Dame tags herself in. Paxley is confused. Dame hits her finish on Sinclair as Grey locks Paxley in an arm bar. Dame gets the three count before the tap out.
Winners- Izzi Dame & Tatum Paxley
Grade: C
This one went a mile a minute in the worst way possible. This contest would have come together better if they were given more time to work with. Very little selling in this one, just going quickly from sequence to sequence, which makes it hard to invest in what’s happening in the ring. Also, it’s a bit soon to tease tension between Paxley and Dame. Let the two of them actually accomplish something, then work into whatever the endgame is for this.
Number One Contender’s Match: Ricky Saints vs. Josh Briggs
Briggs tosses Saints into the corner and lays in a few strikes. Briggs blocks a tornado DDT and hits a Bossman Slam. Saints kicks out. The fight spills out of the ring. Saints dives off the steps and gets caught by Briggs. Briggs attempts to drive Saints into the ring post, but Saints drops down and pushes Briggs into the ring post. Briggs and Saints clock heads in the process. After the break, Saints gets the win after a tornado DDT.
Winner and NEW Number One Contender, Ricky Saints!
After the match, NXT Champion Oba Femi walks to the ring. Starks says he’s starting to believe that Femi is wearing down because of this long title reign. Starks promises he’s the man who will end Femi’s reign of terror. Femi smiles as he tells Saints at No Mercy he’s going to show Saints he isn’t special. Femi says he’s going to make the absolute mediocre. NXT Tag Team Champions DarkState appear in the crowd and threaten Femi and Saints. They are given the option to leave the DarkState’s ring or get beaten down. Saints says he picks option two. DarkState charges the ring. Everyone brawls. Hank and Tank hit the ring and make the save.
Grade: B-
Fun match, but the ending was predictable as all get out.
After the match, NXT Champion Oba Femi walks to the ring. Starks says he’s starting to believe that Femi is wearing down because of this long title reign. Starks promises he’s the man who will end Femi’s reign of terror. Femi smiles as he tells Saints at No Mercy he’s going to show Saints he isn’t special. Femi says he’s going to make the absolute mediocre.
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NXT Tag Team Champions DarkState appear in the crowd and threaten Femi and Saints. They are given the option to leave the DarkState’s ring or get beaten down. Saints says he picks option two. DarkState charges the ring. Everyone brawls. Hank and Tank hit the ring and make the save.
Alba Fyre w/Chelsea Green and NXT North American Champion Ethan Page vs. Tyra Mae Steele w/Tavion Heights
Fyre tries a rolls up, but Steele puts on the brakes and lands a stomp. Fyre tries a boot, but gets taken down and gator rolled by Steele. Bow and Arrow by Steele. Fyre hooks the ropes as Steele tries a German suplex. Fyre knocks Steele out of the ring. After a distraction from Green and Page, Fyre lands a dive. Fyre works over Steele. Steele blocks the Gory Bomb and lands a German suplex. Ankle Lock by Steele. Page grabs Fyre’s hands and tries to drag her to the ropes. Steele stomps on Page’s hands. Steele rolls up Fyre for the win.
Winner- Tyra Mae Steele
After the match, Green attacks Steele. Steele is knocked out of the ring. Heights and Green argue. Page levels Heights from behind, and lays a Canadian flag on top of him.
Grade: C+
Steele has a ton of potential, but this writer isn’t sure if, in this day and age, the all-American gimmick can work. If anything, making Chelsea Green her first feud is pretty silly and counterproductive.
Fatal Influence (Jacy Jayne, Fallon Henley & Jazmyn Nyx) vs. Lola Vice, Zaria & Sol Ruca
Ruca and Co. take turns working over Nyx. Nyx escapes a suplex attempt from Zaria and lands a disaster kick. Zaria eventually manages to slam Nyx. Vice tags in and Zaria bodyslams Vice on top of Nyx. Jayne tags in and locks up with Vice. After a series of reversals, Vice locks Jayne in an armbar. Jayne reverses that into a pin. Vice kicks out. Knee strike into a lariat by Jayne. Vice kicks out. Henley is in, and she continues the assault on Vice. Vice traps Henley in the corner. Ruca is in and lands a few strikes with Vice. Ruca rides Henley like a surfboard in the corner. Jayne low bridges Ruca, sending her to the floor. PK by Jayne.
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The crowd is doing the wave, for reasons this writer doesn’t understand. After the break, Fatal Influence is taking turns on Ruca. Ruca manages to tag in Zaria. Zaria clears the ring. Keg Stand by Zaria and Ruca. Henley breaks up the pin. Everyone lands a big move. Everyone is down. Vice gets the tag and unloads on Jayne and Nyx with kicks. Vice lands a series of running hip attacks. After a distraction from Henley, Nyx drops Vie with the Nyx kick. Jayne and Henley meet in the middle on Vice. Ruca breaks it up with a superkick. After a bunch of confusion, Ruca catches Nyx with a Sol Snatcher as Vice destroys Henley with a Welcome to Vice City for the win.
Winners- Lola Vice, Zaria & Sol Ruca
Grade: B
Fun TV main event. Hell of a finish. It’s funny, no matter how a match is going to end, Ruca is going to get a Sol Snatcher in. Have to send the people home happy, it’s just funny as heck that no matter what, you are getting at least one of those each match.
WWE NXT Review:
Tonight’s episode breezed by with exciting in-ring action and solid promos, specifically the fiery opening speech by the new number one contender, Ricky Saints. Tye Mae Steele continues to impress in limited time, despite being booked into a no-win situation against Chelsea Green. The match of the night was a surprisingly fun blindfold match that had everything you could want from a gimmick wrestling match. The stage is set for the road to No Mercy, with new challengers poised to fight for the main championships in NXT. Do you think Saints and Vice will dethrone the incumbent champions? Let us know what you think in the comments!
Rating: B-
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