Posted on 12/11/124 by Bob Magee
After a recap of Deadline, NXT opens with the entrance of
Giulia. She won the Women’s Iron Survivor Challenge at
Deadline, and she enters the sound stage at the Performance
Center in Orlando in front of a live studio audience.
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Giulia gets her shot at the NXT Women’s Championship as the
next challenger to Roxanne Perez. Their title match is set
for New Year’s Evil in January. Giulia gets in the ring on
tonight’s show to address the audience as the next
challenger.
Giulia starts with a monologue where she is vowing to win
the title, when Giulia is interrupted by Perez. The champ
cuts a promo on her challenger. Perez says neither Giulia,
nor anyone else on the roster, is on her level. Perez boasts
about defeating Giulia in a previous match.
Giulia challenges Perez to fight right now, when out comes
Perez’s cohort Cora Jade. While Jade claims Giulia will not
even make it to New Year’s Evil, and the director cuts to
the backstage area where Stephanie Vaquer. The two heels
hints at being responsible.
Giulia throws a forearm strike Perez and the fight is on,
but Giulia is outnumbered. Plus, Cora Jade has a weapon.
Jade hits Giulia with her trusty kendo stick. Giulia is in
peril when out runs Kelani Jordan to make the save. Jordan
evens the odds. The heel duo powders, and sets up a tag team
match for tonight’s main event.
A backstage skit sets up a NXT North American Championship
match with Tony D’Angelo defending against Ethan Page. The
skit begins with “The Don” taking pity on Page, and D’Angelo
offers him a title match. Page at first declines, and Page
dismisses the North American title.
When “The Don” opens up the challenge to others in the room,
Page suddenly changes his tune. Page now wants a match,
sarcastically saying if he cannot beat the North American
Champion then Page’s career is basically over. With that
backhanded compliment of the title, Page thanks D’Angelo for
the match.
“Raw is Netflix” teaser plugs the start date as “1.6.25”,
while NXT cuts to its first commercial break.
Lexis King wants another shot at the Heritage Cup, and
Charlie Dempsey says he will think about it. From there,
Dempsey goes to talk with his crew. They are visited by OTM,
and there is a confrontation. This also sets up a match with
Jaida Parker against Wren Sinclair, with them also involved
in the skit.
Je’Von Evans defeated Wes Lee
Evans pinned Lee clean after a tornillo body press. This was
a good match, and not even the high spot fest you might
think. There was still plenty of flying, though. Lee is more
aggressive early on, and he clearly the heel. Lee also has a
new look and hair style.
The match goes through a commercial break. Evans kicks off
after taking Lee’s finisher. Just before that, Lee tries to
cheat by putting his feet on the ropes for added leverage in
a pinning combination. The referee catches Lee in the act,
and Lee bickers with him. Moments later, Lee regroups to
deliver the Cardiac Kick, but Evans kicks out. From there,
they proceed to go home.
Evans hits Lee with a superkicks to set up the finis, and
then Evans does a double springboard into a tornillo splash.
Evans then covers Lee for a three count and a decisive
victory.
A video package highlights Josh Briggs and his new tag team
partnership with Yoshiki Inamura. Clips show Briggs in
Japan, as they tell the story of Briggs teaming up with
Inamura. They will soon arrive in NXT.
Reporter Sarah Schreiber is standing outside the trainer’s
room looking for an update on Stephanie Vaquer. Out walks
Kelani Jordan and Giulia. They cut promos, with Giulia first
ranting in Japanese. Jordan then cuts a promo in English.
Sol Ruca is in the locker room talking with Zaria. Whatever
aura Zaria had with her cool debut several weeks ago is
gone, as she is now doing wacky skits like everyone else.
Lash Legend and Jakara Jackson confront Ruca and Zaria,
which would clearly seem to set up a tag match.
Hank Walker & Tank Ledger defeated Tyriek Igwe & Tyson
Dupont
Some heat on Tank about halfway through the match. That set
up a hot tag spot, and then they go home after Hank runs
wild. Bossman slam by Hank, and then he and Tank do their
combo powerslam finisher. Tank then covers Tyson to win the
match.
Tyson goes to shake hands with Hank & Tank after the match.
Tyriek refuses any handshakes, and he storms off clearly
upset over the loss.
Oba Femi is headed to the ring for a monologue since winning
the Men’s Iron Survivor Challenge. Femi vows to reclaim his
“rightful position on the throne,” and Femi goes to address
NXT Champion Trick Williams. With the mention of his name,
out comes Trick to confront Oba.
Williams and Femi go face-to-face when Eddy Thorpe suddenly
interrupts them. Thorpe says will not ignore what Femi did
to him (alluding to a Tonya Harding angle, which was the
cliffhanger that ended the previous episode of NXT).
“Me and my people have been through enough,” Thorpe says to
Femi as Thorpe gets into the ring. Thorpe confronts Femi and
accuses Femi of attacking him. Femi tells Thorpe to shut up,
and Femi asks Thorpe if he actually Femi attack him. Thorpe
says no, as someone jumped him from behind. But whoever was
powerful, and the only person with that kind of strength is
Femi.
Femi blows off Thorpe, who was coming off like a jerk as
well. Trick then cuts a promo on Femi, hyping their match at
New Year’s Evil. Femi responds by saying the only reason
Trick is the number one guy is because Femi allowed it. Femi
says whenever he was ready, he could take the title. Femi
then promises and swears to Trick that 2025 will be the end
of his era.
After Femi leaves the ring, Thorpe rants at Trick. Thorpe is
just an annoying heel? Why? He is a really great wrestler.
Maybe then him be that. Otherwise, he is so unlikable in his
current role as a serial complainer. Williams cut a promo on
Thorpe, and then Williams punks him out. Williams decks
Thorpe with a punch, after Williams sets up a match with
Thorpe for next week.
Fatal Influence (Jacy Jayne & Jaxmyn Nyz with NXT Women’s
North American Champion Fallon Henley) defeated Gigi Dolan &
Tatum Paxley
Jayne pinned Paxley, after some outside interference by
Henley. Paxley drops the fall, so she at least got a hot tag
in the match. Henley interferes by shoving Paxley off the
top turnbuckle. “Rolling Encore” by Jayne on Paxley, and
Jayne folds up Paxley for the pinfall.
The heel trio attacks Paxley after the match. Dolan tries to
make a save, but Dolan is also beaten down by Fatal
Influence. Shotzi Blackheart suddenly returns, and she
cleans house. Together with Paxley and Dolan, the babyface
trio boots the heels out of the ring. This would seem to set
up a trios match, so maybe a six-woman tag coming soon.
NXT Tag Team Champions were in a few backstage skits. The
final one on this episode reveals that Axiom is booked to
work twice next week, in a mix-up with Frazier. Axiom got
himself booked in singles match with Oba Femi. However,
Frazier also pitched an idea to defend the titles. NXT GM
Ava booked them in a tag title match next week. Now Axiom
has to wrestle Femi in a singles match, and then help defend
the tag titles alongside Frazier in a tag bout against
unnamed opponents.
Lots of plugs and ads on the show for Saturday Night’s Main
Event.
NXT North American Champion Tony D’Angelo defeated Ethan
Page to retain the title
D’Angelo pinned Page clean after a spinebuster. Finish was
good in that it came out of nowhere, but not a shock nor
fluke pin. D’Angelo countered the Razor’s Edge by Page, and
“The Don” executes the spinebuster.
The match goes through a commercial break, which also marked
the return to NXT of the split-screen break. Not much
happened other than some rest holds anyway. The match was
good nonetheless.
Football personality Ryan Leaf has a cameo in a backstage
skit with Lexis King. This is a tie-in with CW’s football
coverage. Up comes Charlie Dempsey to tell King he is
granted a Heritage Cup match, but only if King can survive a
training session with Dempsey.
Ethan Page is depressed and upset with himself. Page says he
is lost and ashamed of himself. Page then sulks away.
NXT Women’s Champion Roxanne Perez & Cora Jade vs. Kelani
Jordan & Giulia
Perez & Jade, in matching gear, jump Jordan & Giulia before
the bell. Eventually, they get in the ring and the bell
sounds to officially start the match.
They wrestle through a commercial break. They built to Perez
facing off with Giulia. Soon thereafter, Jordan does a frog
splash for a near fall. Moments later, Jordan does a plancha
to the outside on Jade. as Jade is being rolled back into
the ring, Perez grabs Jordan to deliver Pop Rocks on the
floor. After Jordan is rolled into the ring by Perez, Giulia
leaps off the apron with a missile dropkick on Perez. Giulia
and Perez brawl at ringside, while Jade drops Jordan with a
butterfly DDT. Jade then covers Jordan for the deciding
pinfall.
After the match, Stephanie Vaquer’s theme music blares,
while Jade stands in the ring with her trusty kendo stick.
With Jade watching the entrance ramp, Vaquer sneaks behind
Jade to ambush her. Jade bumps and feeds, and then Jade
powders. Vaquer then chases Jade through the studio
audience.
Meanwhile in the office of the General Manager, Ava is
singing a contract along with Eddy Thorpe. Next week, Thorpe
challenges Trick Williams for the NXT Championship. Thorpe
boasts that he deserves this shot.
Ava tells Thorpe they are still looking in to who attacked
him. As Thorpe signs the contract, he reveals the Tonya
Harding angle from last Tuesday was all a ruse. Thorpe
staged the attack to get the title shot. He worked everyone
apparently, and now he has a title shot next week.