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Welcome to the ring, it's rich and atom.

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Breaking down the fights with flair and passion.

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Tag teams grappling belts are clashing.

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Finishes and factions catching action.

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Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, welcome to Finishes and Factions Does NXT.

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This is NXT from the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida.

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My name is Adam, joined by my faithful co-host Rich.

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I'm all good mate, ready to crack on with another fantastic episode after another fantastic episode worth a wrestling from NXT.

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It's important to note, this is actually the first NXT episode since Vengeance Day.

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If Vengeance Day was anything to go by the finishing off of the story this week, it was going to be a phenomenal experience.

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We started NXT with a Vengeance Day recap, and we said it during the Vengeance Day episode, which you can always go back and have a listen to.

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The Vengeance Day really put the NXT in the main roster picture, especially for me.

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Me and Richard only really started consuming regular NXT content on the six-speed Netflix launch.

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And I feel like I could possibly have been missing out on some of the best wrestling that WWE have been producing by not paying as much attention to NXT previously.

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Yeah, I mean, a lot of our favorite stars at the minute came from NXT originally, as it was sort of originally thought of as

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like WWE's moving ground, it was their developmental scene.

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Now it seems to have evolved past that for me.

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Yeah, to the some point where we've had some episodes where I've walked away going, actually, that was better than our top tier product from Raw or Ror from the Spider-Man.

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So yeah, no, it's definitely been really interesting to watch this build through and I'm really glad we kind of stuck with it.

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One point where we had a conversation about maybe NXT was a little bit too much on the workload and we weren't quite enjoying it as much.

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And yeah, I'm kind of glad we held off pulling the trigger on losing it because I think it's probably one of the better programs right now.

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I will give one example of why it's because NXT does not piss around when you get into an NXT, you know what you get in, you get straight into a match

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or straight into something of some content form that's that's going to be.

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It's needed. It's always something sort of like meaty to grip into.

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And I mean, if we're going to talk about meaty in NXT, we may as well start off as NXT did with the NXT champion.

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Oh, he's a big fella, really. I wouldn't want to walk into him in an alleyway pissed off.

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Oh, 100 percent. And I mean, this guy was pissed off coming into the ring this week coming into the ring tonight.

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Can you understand why though? I mean, it's really easy to understand why not only did this guy have to face grace and wall or an Austin theory of engines day

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and deal with those two Muppets.

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Be guys ass handed to him by those four guys, the four masked and ascendants that have been running around causing havoc at Vengeance.

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Yeah. And really easy to see. I mean, I'd have been pissed off being being fucking jumped by four blokes when I haven't really done anything to fucking deserve it.

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Not when you don't know who they are either. Like these are four guys that yes, we've got a couple of names, but we haven't really seen anything from any of them.

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Adam said last week if you Google one of them, Dion Manix, it shows he's an American football player, not a professional wrestler.

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So it was quite difficult to do any research into who these guys were.

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Yeah. And I mean, Oberfemi comes out looking for a fight. He actually ends up inviting down this group to the ring, but we don't get this group in the ring at all.

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No. And we definitely not something I thought was going to happen. We've been seeing it a lot more recently.

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And we actually got the TNA X division champion moves come down to the ring. So with the way the NXT and TNA have been working with their contract, we've been seeing a lot of different superstars from both, both promotions working within the other

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promotions. We've seen it a lot with the NXT Tag Champions Fraxium. They've been defended at TNA events for their titles. We're going to see it at some point after this clash of words with moose and Oberfemi.

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You know, this has been recorded a few days after it went live. So we've seen the social media as well since that we get to see the Harley boys are going to be competing in a TNA WWE crossover.

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We're not totally sure how that's going to line up just yet. But it's been nice to kind of see for years where you weren't allowed to talk about the other the other promotions now they're actually getting involved with the other

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promotions. I don't think it will take a little bit longer for a WWE crossover though and I think that'll be happening anytime soon.

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That's if a you end up surviving there. I think they're very much in sort of limpo mode at the moment. They're struggling at the moment. Unfortunately, it's not looking good for them over there, which is a shame that they got off to a

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phenomenally strong start. But back to sort of NXT. I mean, I was actually really it's really nice to see over the last since the the talent exchange, the five year deal was announced a few weeks ago.

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We've seen a lot of NXT talent appear over on TNA, but not a lot of TNA talent appearing over on. It's been very one sided so far. Yeah, in my opinion, we've seen a few small names like we saw.

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We've had some we've had Santina Morella, we've now had moose. You know, we're getting some names, but you know, they've definitely had more of the deal so far, but I think that's definitely going to end up changing.

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And what could be the odds that we could see a DNA TNA title being defended at an NXT pay-per-view? That could be fun.

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Yeah, definitely. I mean, even there's the potential for sort of cross promotion title losses as well. I mean, there's a potential for a WWE title to end over end up over around a TNA Superstars waist and the opposite way around.

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Five years of what could be a very, very positive impact on the change in professional wrestling. So I can't wait to see how the episodes are going a few years down the line.

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We're still talking about this deal they've got going.

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Oh, 100%. I mean, I'm going to talk a little bit about the X division for TNA as well. Because I know that you're not you wouldn't you've never really sort of consumed any TNA content.

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Not to the extent that you have.

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A few years back, sort of back in the day when back in the day when like AJ Styles was a big name, Christopher Daniels, Moa Joe, Suicide, like Abyss.

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There were so many other great wrestlers that were over in TNA back in the day and even some WWE legends made some appearances over there such as like Eric Bischoff, Hulk Hogan, Jeff Jarrett, who I think may actually still be over there.

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I'm not 100% sure where he's landed at the moment. He's either.

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I think he's at AEW. I'm not going to lie.

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Oh, right. Okay. I wasn't 100% certain. Rick Flair ended up over in TNA as well. There's been a lot of big names that have come out of TNA as well as go as well as moving through TNA and the X division was always like there.

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It was always like their cruiserweight division.

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Yeah. So the X division champion was the cruiserweight champion of TNA, essentially.

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And, yeah, to see see that championship ran the waste of somebody like Moose. I mean, I've not seen any of Moose competing.

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I've heard the name and I know that he's been a big star over at TNA.

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He was a massive grab for them when he was a free agent and they've really done the mileage with him.

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But I don't know an awful lot about the way he wrestles.

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And as Rich alluded to, we are due to see Moose and Oberfenny soon. I'm not 100% sure when.

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I believe it may be next week. I'm not perfectly sure on that.

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Nothing has really been announced about that one. I remember.

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I just said we were going to see them soon, but it might get a bit further down through our notes and find out that it was confirmed and we can let you know as we get further down.

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Yeah, this is it.

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Now, was there a VT or a promo between this and our first match or did it go straight into the first match?

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So I think we got initial entrances from one of the pair that comes out here, but then we ended up with a GM office promo that actually took place before the match began.

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And this office promo saw Ava and Eddie Thorpe discussing Eddie Thorpe's win over Trick Williams in the Strat Match of Engines Day.

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What match that was.

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One of my favorite matches of the night. Not going to lie, but we see a pair we haven't seen a lot of on NXT, but we sort of know them to be synonymous with what looks to be an attempted revival of Chase You.

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This is Kale Dixon and Uriah Connors coming in to basically invite them to some kind of post show after party of some kind.

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It's a bit of an odd setup, but again, I think these guys are sort of emulating American college students, maybe.

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It wasn't part of something we've watched.

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So it's a little bit difficult trying to pick up on that previous storyline.

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But it'd be interesting to see how and what they do with Andre Chase. Now he's not Chase University.

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So I think that's what we're seeing.

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I think that's what we're seeing an evolution of here because we see sort of Dixon and Connors end up signing Andre Chase up to a match without him even being present to say, yeah, I'll do it.

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And this is a match versus Eddie Thorpe, which.

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We say I've not seen Andre Chase wrestle yet since we've been doing finishes and factions, I believe.

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So it'll be interesting to see what his style of wrestling is compared to Eddie Thorpe if Ava allows our match to go ahead.

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I believe she does as well, doesn't she?

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Yes, definitely see that match later on in the card.

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But we if we come move, we'll move away from that.

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Back to our first match, which is the.

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So the first match of the evening was the number one contenders match for the women's North American title.

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And it was a triple threat that matched this week between Kalani Jordan, Carmen Petrovich and Jada Parker.

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Is it that is correct in the Jada Parker?

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I haven't messed that one up.

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It certainly is.

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I wanted to make sure I messed that one up because the entire time I was watching this match, I thought I was getting a name wrong.

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No, definitely not.

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Definitely not.

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Now we've, I mean, I don't remember us having quite as much to say about sort of Carmen Petrovich or Jada Parker,

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but she's sort of like been in quite a bit of agreement around Kalani Jordan up to this point,

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although she is starting to show a bit more of an edgy side to her.

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She's come across as quite sort of, I don't want to say boring because that's the feels disrespectful.

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It's a case of.

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She hasn't been showcased the way that she she possibly could be.

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She's been underutilized, I think in ring.

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That's not really helping her ability to hold her part in the storyline where with Carmen and Jada,

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they've both quite big, aggressive women that have kind of been like more feels like they've had more creative control over what they're doing to make their matches a little bit more interesting rather than Kalani's not been given that opportunity.

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Yeah, Kalani Jordan sort of come across as quite generic up to this point.

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And yeah, just not overtly like she's done nothing to capture my attention other than appear on screen.

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Yeah, well, most of this the start of this match was all really sort of Carmen Petrov Petrovich.

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Sorry, she was the quicker one of the three out of the gate.

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And then it went into sort of Jada Parker's turn to be quite assertive and dominant.

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But again, you didn't really see much in that opening exchange from Kalani Jordan until later on where I don't know if it felt this way for you,

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but it felt like it had turned into a singles match between Kalani Jordan and Jada Parker.

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So she after Carmen Petrovich got wiped out and rolled out.

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She was outside for quite a while.

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Yeah, and we see this quite a lot in WWE specifically their triple threat matches is that one person will be sort of rolled out and will end up disappearing for a good chunk of the match.

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And it's normally after sort of like a big heavy attack on on them.

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And I mean, out of the three that are in the match, so Carmen Petrovich is the smallest competitor in the match.

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She doesn't have a lot of height on her and she is only a very slight girl.

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I mean, don't get me wrong, she's built solid, but still only very slight.

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But she was the more aggressive out of the three at the start, which was, you know, really nice.

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And she managed to hold that through as well, even with the other two guys managing to get some momentum when they were on the little session between the two of them as well.

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Yeah, and it's a case that obviously Carmen Petrovich has been involved in a bromance with the superstar.

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We haven't actually seen in ring since the Netflix debut, Ashante Adonis.

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And he seems to sort of follow her around. He's out at ringside with her matches and this is no different.

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And Ashante actually ends up pulling Petrovich from the ring just to sort of get her out of some kind of danger.

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But I believe one of them was about to try a top rope manoeuvre onto her while she was lying underneath the turnbuckle.

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So, yeah, he kind of pulled her out the way to stop her from taking some more damage, which in theory, yeah, he if Ashante Adonis Ashante wasn't there,

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this match would have been completely different, I think.

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Oh, 100%. I mean, this match ends up ending with Petrovich stealing a win.

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I'm not going to call it stealing. She was...

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It was a tactically enhanced win.

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That's a very PC way of putting it. I like that, practically enhanced way of winning.

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And yeah, it's a case that... I mean, it looked like Jada Parker had this in the bag.

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And again, it's Ashante Adonis in the right place at the right time.

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He pulled her from the match at the right time and then put her back in as Jada Parker basically was showing off.

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Yeah, and she got hit with her sling blade and then an attempt to fugee our armbar as well, which...

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I mean, the sling blade's enough to take you off your feet being dumped into an armbar afterwards.

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That's never pleasant.

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No, definitely not. But yeah, as we said, Petrovich seems to be put back in the ring, sneaks the win,

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and ends up the number one contender for the Women's North American Championship, which as I think we can all agree,

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Jada Parker was never going to take very well. As I said, she had this more or less wrapped up in the bag.

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Yeah, and it was... you knew that she was going to lose her shit, I think I would too.

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So attacking Carmen after the bell and kind of... well, they all ended up basically brawling again to be fair, didn't they?

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Well, it started with Jada attacking Petrovich and then...

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Well, Kalani Jordan intervened as well.

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Parker ends up getting taken out by Jordan and Parker and Jordan just end up...

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They've been going... they've had a little bit of contention between them building for a few weeks,

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and I think this is it was just... it just boiled over with them at the moment.

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I might get a single slash between them next week just to try and see if they can fuel a bit more fire for this,

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because it's got quite an interesting sort of way to it.

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Yeah, but speaking of next week, we know that Petrovich does not have long to wait for her opportunity at the North American Championship,

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as she will be contending for that title next week.

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Yeah, let's say you've also had fatal influence storm the ring as well during the commercial break.

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Yeah, this is a very beautiful...

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Yeah, Ambushings Petrovich as well, so she's really not having a good night.

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Well, she is because she's picked up the wind, but she's taken a beating already, you know, she's about to get another one.

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This was sort of... we spoke about this, I think, on the off podcast as it goes,

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because the way that it's displayed on screen is that we see Jordan Grace walking back,

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literally just walking through backstage, showing the fact that she's there.

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Then all of a sudden it's like an emergency cut back to the ring, where as you said, fatal influence are well and truly laying into Petrovich.

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And Chante Adonis is stood there like a chocolate tea pot, essentially, the guy is completely useless.

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I mean, he was anyway, he didn't need to be out at ringside to prove that.

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Yeah, then we... the thing that really took me out of this little part was there was a really big continuity black hole.

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So I've seen a little video clip on social media about what happened during the blackout that we kind of had.

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So basically, JC Jane strikes Adonis with a chair and then you get Stephanie Vick, Julia and Jordan Grace all come running out to try and save Carmen Petrovich for whatever reason.

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And then obviously you had when we came back from the commercial break, that's where we had Jordan Grace, Julia and Stephanie make her appear from.

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I know we both kind of said, oh, wait a minute, we left it with these four people and then we come out and there's these people.

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And then obviously that sets up what is looking at being a six woman tag match with those three and fatal influence.

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Yeah, so the way it was displayed to us at home through Netflix was that we went, it seemed to cut out to a short break.

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We come back and sort of fatal influence have gained an extra two victims and lost a Chante Adonis and Carmen Petrovich.

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So they're two new victims, Stephanie Vick and Julia.

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And then we see Jordan Grace come out and just completely level the playing field.

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We again spoken about Grace on the off podcast and she is one impressive lady.

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I'm not going to lie.

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She's just a naïve was stupid for letting this woman go.

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And we got to see a little bit later on what she can do.

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And Jesus, man, she's going to destroy some of these women in the NXT women's division.

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Yeah, and it sort of didn't make sense in any way, shape or form for TNA to let her contract expire or whatever.

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Whatever it is that happened, because either way, she's going to end up back on T.

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She could end up back on TNA programming anyway, because of the deal between NXT and TNA.

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It just that boggled my mind to move from one to the other to still have but appear on both regardless.

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I mean, that's a big fuck you if something went wrong at TNA with Jordan Grace and she's gone to NXT,

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signed with them goes back to TNA and basically it could be a massive fuck you to TNA.

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Yeah, this is it.

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It just, yeah, just a bit.

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It just seemed a bit odd considering the timing.

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I don't know how long that had been in the been in the works, but yeah, it did.

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It was a little bit strange.

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We'll move on anyway, because I know during the main event later on we have plenty of time to talk about.

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We move into a backstage promo, I believe with the Stax doing up.

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Yeah, so Stax sort of preparing for his match.

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We hear that he's sort of Tony D'Angelo has not been seen since before vengeance day where he was brutally assaulted.

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In the conclusion to a cage match.

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Yeah, he got destroyed there.

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So obviously without the leader of the family being around to point them in the right direction Stax decides,

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yep, you know, I'm the big man now.

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I'm going to go out there, step up, do what I've got to do.

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Well, or Tony's busy healing up or whatever it is.

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We haven't actually seen it from Tony D'Angelo to be able to even kind of hint as to where we think that one's going.

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But yeah, and then I was really disappointed by the way they finished this because they were building up.

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He's like, you know, I've got a match, I've got to do this.

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I'm going to go and wrap my hands.

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Come on, let's go.

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You know, oh, is that it?

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Yeah, very sort of anticlimactic.

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It didn't seem to, it didn't flow quite the way I expected it to.

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No, it didn't.

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It didn't at all.

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Which was something I'm getting used to with NXT's like promos.

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They'll have a promo to promo a promo and then, but it just doesn't either fit into the timing of where it's being put into or it just doesn't seem to give you everything you feel that you need.

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Not sure if they're using that to make sure that you watch to the next promo with the promo.

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But yeah, it's a bit annoying sometimes.

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Yeah, very much so.

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So I'm not 100% sure what to.

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We'll get there with it.

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One thing I do know what to make of was the second match when we go around to that.

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This I think was, I'm already putting stakes to claims that this was my match of the night for NXT this second match.

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So this was the women's tag match between the Meta Girls, Jakara Jackson and Lash Legend.

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And the Soul Rooker and Zarya.

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Two amazing wrestlers.

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I'm very much a fan of Soul Rooker and Zarya at the moment.

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Yeah, do you know what?

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I can't dispute that.

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I didn't get a massive amount of notes for this match.

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And I'm going to be honest because it's a few days since we've done anything.

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I've watched this and gone to that extent.

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I'm a little bit unsure as to whether the reason why I don't have a lot of notes is because I was lost in the match.

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I'm not 100% certain where I am with that one.

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So, oh, I got a reason about the notes for this one.

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I've quite enjoyed this one.

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So you started off with Soul Rooker and Lash Legend kind of locking up, testing each other's strength.

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You get to see a lot of Lash Legend's power advantage initially when she's put the way she's pushing Soul Rooker around.

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There was an early tag involved for the Meta Four and they end up using it to double team Rooker, slamming her into the mat.

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We then get a counter from Rooker.

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There was quite a nice little elbow involved there.

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There was a tag in for Vasariya to jump in.

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She's a really high energy wrestler, which I really like with it.

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There was a few decent high-risk move attempts.

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There was one that saw Rooker attempted.

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I can't remember what the move was called off the top of my head.

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It's kind of like her version, I suppose, like a twist-of-fate style swan tom.

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But she got caught and ended up being tossed into a swinging torture rack.

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There was a lot of counters in this for a lot of the time between Soul Rooker and Lash Legend.

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It was quite nice to see the aerial agility and the technical style going against each other and still being quite flowy.

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Yeah, definitely.

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As I said, I enjoy or I remember enjoying the match.

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I think one of the biggest things that kind of happened,

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I think you can't get away with without mentioning,

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was the simultaneous double-pump kick dropping each other to be fair.

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Towards the end of the match, these guys, they looked like they'd started to flag a bit.

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But I think it flowed quite well to be fair.

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And it was nice to see that Zara and Soul Rooker managed to get another win

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and kind of push them a little bit further into that tag division.

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But yeah, I've got everything done here.

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So Soul Rooker's signature move is called the Soul Snatcher, and it is a really nice move.

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Some of these NXT guys have got some beautiful finishes and signature moves,

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and it's nice to watch them.

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The way they flow and the way they land, the way the other superstars sell them as well, I think, definitely helps.

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But yeah, some of these moves are beautiful to watch.

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Yeah, definitely.

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You've sort of covered anything that I had for this match.

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It was literally the section for this match.

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Whenever I do my notes, the match part is obviously always going to be bigger than any of the promos.

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But you could honestly mistake this for a freaking promo at this point.

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So yeah, really good match.

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Really enjoyed it.

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Remember, really enjoying it.

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Just not a massive amount for it.

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One of us always picks up this like somewhere, right?

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You've got information I don't written down.

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So it always helps.

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Which we go from that into the really sort of fun conclusion that we are definitely getting this six women tag match confirmed as our main event.

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So we're going to end up with Fallon Henley, JC Jane and Jasmine Nix versus Stephanie Vicka, Jordan Grace and Julia.

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Yeah, which we know is going to be, I mean, just with the five superstars that we know from NXT, the two champions as well as

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Faithful influence influence.

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I keep wanting to say fatal attraction.

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My issue.

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Yeah, with fatal influence as well, five incredibly talented women and one complete wild card.

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We know that she made a massive impact in TNA.

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We've just got to wait and find out how that looks for when she's here.

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So we move on from there to a backstage promo where we see Sarah Sarah Shriver interviewing Wesley Tyree and Tyson Dupont.

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Yeah, I didn't really get much out of their conversation apart from them just kind of telling Sarah Shriver how unpredictable NXT is.

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It just seemed like a space filler until we got to see Ricky Starks come out and sign his contract.

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Yeah, so very much a case, I think they were trying to use the fact that because Wesley specifically has been in NXT for a horrendously long time.

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Yeah, like possibly he may even still be one of the original NXT stars that have just been there forever.

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And they sort of relied on that to be able to say, oh, well, there's been a lot of change in NXT recently.

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You've seen a lot of change.

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Does any of it shock you?

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I think it was pointing towards a genuine sort of journalistic approach to how they wanted to get that done.

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And then in the end, as you say, we saw Ricky Starks enter and Wesley was dropped like a bad habit.

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Oh, 100%. We've seen people dropped in the ring that looked better after Sarah Shriver had dropped Wesley this week.

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Yeah.

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And in fairness, we see in the background while Sarah Shriver is talking about is interviewing Ricky about his contract signing later on.

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You can even see Wesley in the back. He's getting hot over it. There's some definite heat building there.

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Yeah, whether they're going to waste the debut of one of the professional wrestling's hottest free agents and so on that Wesley kind of, I hope not.

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Well, the super stars that are available that could make it into a better match.

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We don't have to wait very long, thankfully, as we cut from backstage to win ring and we see Ava and Ricky Starks coming out to the ring to sign Starks NXT contract.

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Yeah, well, Starks entry music. Did you hear any of the lyrics they've used for that?

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I'm going to be honest, I probably did. But again, it's been a few days since I've actually made a note of this.

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So Ricky Starks entry music is very rapid and the one line that seems to be repeated quite a lot is $1 million and I still won't remember you.

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I didn't think too much of it, but I'm not sure how they're going to push his character. Obviously, we've seen a few bits with nothing huge, but it kind of gives off a bit of a heel sort of feel to it.

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So it'd be interesting to see if that's the way they push it.

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I've got to admit, I reckon they're probably pushing more towards face than heel just to sort of establish him in NXT.

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And I think that sort of becomes more evident throughout the episode, if I'm honest.

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But yeah, it's a case that I mean, Ricky certainly got high hopes for himself. He's not lacking in confidence, bless him.

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But another person that isn't Latin confidence is All-Itho Ethan Page.

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And I don't think this event could have gone down as well as it did without Ethan Page coming out to it.

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He's just about something to a promo. He's very, very good with the microphone and the way he's built his character and the all ego thing along with, you know, how egotistical we would be starting to feel that Ricky Starks is as well.

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That could be a hell of a match.

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Yeah. And I think the verbal sparring match that these two get into, I mean, Starks ends up calling Ethan Page insecure, which isn't a big leap, but it obviously took a ma...

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Obviously hit him like a ton of bricks to be called insecure at this point.

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Yeah, he weren't happy about that, was he?

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No. And Starks actually making some predictions. Obviously, All-Itho Ethan Page at Renjith State faced off against Javon Evans, who they've had a horrendous rivalry recently.

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I'll tell you something, though. It's been one of the most intense storylines that NXT have had.

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Oh, 100%

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That Ethan Page, Javon Evans rivalry has been absolutely incredible.

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Yeah. And it's a case that it's one of the more intense rivalries, I think, that WWE have had.

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We'll take it much further than NXT is that it's probably one of the most intense storylines that WWE have had in a long time.

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I struggled to think of anything sort of more visceral than what they've come out with.

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And yeah, what a match at Ben Jensen's day as well. It did not end the way I anticipated it would.

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But, and this is where sort of Ricky Starks is telling him, you know what, people like Javon Evans, they always come back.

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And it's a case that as if he'd seen him in the crowd or something.

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Javon Evans was there.

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Yeah, he jumps and beats Ethan Page up through the crowd and is escorted out that way.

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Yeah, it was a very quick glimpse of Javon Evans, but it was definitely a positive one.

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There's definitely that Ethan Page know that that ain't done.

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And I believe if they build it correctly and have the correct amount of time between matches and promos and stuff, I think they could push that through to Mania.

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And for NXT's paper, like Mania week paper view, that could be one of the matches on the card.

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Dan and Deliver.

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I was thinking Adam and the Ants, but I couldn't work out which why the reference.

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But still, Ricky Starks can't seem to catch a break with this contract signing.

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You just can't seem to put pen to paper as.

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Where's the contact?

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Yeah, well, we saw obviously promo beforehand, it's a case that he was getting hot over the fact that he'd just been completely ignored.

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And he came out basically to give him a piece of his mind.

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A piece of his mind he pretty much did.

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And up until he decided to try and give him a piece of his fist and that cheap shot did not work out well for him as Ricky Starks just throws him out the ring.

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And walks over to the table to sign his contract.

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And as he does, like throws it back onto the table and the camera pans in, we find out that Ricky Starks is not going to be known as Ricky Starks in NXT.

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He's now going to be known as Ricky Saints, which is a big change that we weren't really expecting.

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I suppose we did have a conversation a few weeks ago when he showed up randomly as they were building the cage match for the Tony D'Angelo match.

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We were unsure how they were going to work his character and they slowly started to put into pieces.

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Yeah, so we tend to find this a lot, especially with big name stars, is that they'll have made their name under a slightly different name in another promotion.

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They'll come into somewhere else and they'll be repackaged slightly.

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Not a lot, but enough to stop any legal issues.

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Yeah, and that's what I think we've seen here.

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We also find out from this from this promo that Wesley is demanding Ricky Starks, Ricky Saints, sorry, first match.

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Yeah, which will happen next week.

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So we then go backstage for a, well, there's I got a little bit confused about this one.

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So fraxium we were backstage with fraxium talking about the master salons that give them an ass whooping.

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Master salons that give them an ass whooping at vengeance day.

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Yes, they did. They made two appearances at vengeance day, one during the NXT, the end of the NXT heavyweight championship match.

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And one during the tag match between fraxium and Josh Briggs and Inamora.

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Yoshi Inamora?

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Yoshi Inamora.

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Almost got it. Almost.

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Doing well considering I didn't have that in my notes.

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Exactly. But yeah, it's a case that they were attacked after their match at vengeance day.

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And this is where I think we see a lot of the differences between the members of fraxium is that Fraser seems to, Nathan Fraser seems to be the hotheaded one.

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And the impression I'm getting because he's getting like really agitated, really aggravated over the fact that he was attacked. Whereas you've got axium is just very sort of cool, calm and collected and just says, you know what, they'll get theirs.

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It's a case that we've just got to keep our keep our head on straight and yeah.

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We then get to see.

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They balance each other out.

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They do balance each other out quite nicely. But talking about things that don't balance out very well.

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They bought no quarter catch crew that's mouthful into the equation with this one as well.

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Basically just sort of saying you congrats on retaining last week but they they should face, you know, there were no quarter catch crew were looking to face a real tag team.

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Which looked like they were trying to set up a match between no quarter catch crew and.

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But that wasn't how it went at all.

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It actually caught me by surprise when they they called out the hardy boys from TNA.

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I mean, you can't get any more of a real tag team than that really. Let's face it.

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I don't even think we've got the time to research the accolades those boys have held over every wrestling promotion they've been through. You know, they've done TNA.

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They've been in a W they've been a WWE.

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They're probably one of the most decorated WWE tag teams in history.

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Definitely top three.

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Oh, 100%.

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And that's in the off top of the head.

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I'm throwing in like New Day there.

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Possibly want to set the usage as well because they've done a fair few recently.

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I'm not sure if they are the actual top three. I'd have to research that but they're definitely definitely out there.

385
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They said they were a W TNA. They've done WWE.

386
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They've done the independent circuit. They've held titles where titles didn't even exist before the hardy boys showed up.

387
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Yeah, it was that's going to be an interesting one for no quarter catch crew. I think they're going to get absolutely destroyed by the hardy boys.

388
00:43:55,000 --> 00:44:06,000
But it will be nice to see the hardy boys back on a WWE programming, especially with with Jeff being completely sober these days, which is something I didn't think I'd ever see.

389
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,000
I'm not going to lie.

390
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:10,000
Yeah, this is it. It's

391
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I've read since Jeff start of looking for a denture with WWE.

392
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Yeah, I've read this this week past that Matt Hardy gave an interview about Jeff and how and all this to do with coming over to NXT having a match in NXT.

393
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Jeff is very much looking for a way to get back into WWE.

394
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He's very much thinking about his

395
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thinking about his legacy that he's leaving behind and all of it all of all of that good stuff because

396
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he's getting on a bit now is Jeff. He's obviously had a tough go round of it as well.

397
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I mean, apart from his addiction issues, like he's put his body through more tables, ladders and chairs than any other guy in professional wrestling.

398
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But it's a good thing that he's been going to bed and that's taken the Dudley's into consideration as well.

399
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I mean, you know how many tables they like to destroy.

400
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,000
Yeah, this is it.

401
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It's a case that there's definitely

402
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:23,000
definitely a lot can be said for these tag team out for

403
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this tag team alone in what they've done. I mean, they survived some of the most brutal match types. I think they've ever been devised by a

404
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by a booker, if I'm completely honest, but

405
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Yeah, they've done some damage over the years, but we could do an entire podcast episode on what the Hardy boys have accomplished.

406
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And we probably will at some point down the line start doing some special content on some extra bits of our different parts of professional wrestling.

407
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But we're not going to digress too far into that or into the Hardy boys accomplishments because we've got another match to talk about.

408
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Yeah, so this was the third match on the card. It was a men's singles match. And this was the family versus family match that we

409
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that we were sort of alluded to last week as well as the promo with stacks earlier on because they saw stacks of the D'Angelo family versus

410
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:43,000
Shawn Spears. Now stacks came out with the remaining members of the D'Angelo family, Adriana Rizzo. And I put down here, Luca Cruisifino, but I'm not 100% sure that's correct.

411
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:51,000
That is that's what I've got because I've also got the Shawn Spears came down with Izzy Day, Matt Brooks Johnson and Nico Vance.

412
00:46:51,000 --> 00:47:07,000
Yeah, I was unsure about Luca Cruisifino only because I've never heard the guy speak. I've never heard him referenced or seen him referenced in NXT programming since the NXT since NXT came to Netflix.

413
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He's only ever been referred to as part of the D'Angelo family. He has never as far as I can find been referenced as an individual only ever as part of the group.

414
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:33,000
Yeah, so I didn't get a huge amount for this match. And I think that is purely because this match didn't feel like it was very relevant for some parts of it.

415
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So I have got in my notes that Vic Joseph and commentary was emphasizing quite a lot that it was stacks mission to honor the Don and Rizzo, which was basically trying to he was using that as an opportunity to

416
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push the story a bit further and stacks came out swinging pretty pretty much from the start. But you can tell that he was he was pissed off by, you know, how it was going more than he wasn't really thinking he was fighting with his with his heart

417
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in his head. And he got level to start off with and you see a lot of Sean Spears kind of take control of this match, which was something I'm not going to like you I expected Sean Spears to do really well with this.

418
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:25,000
I like watching the wrestle to be fair we don't see a huge amount of it but what you do see is normally a good what a good match to watch.

419
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And they also made a big deal about the fact that they were putting out extra security at ringside because obviously these guys bought out their own little private on armies pretty much this this goes off it's going off like

420
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I'm not going to make a comparison but we know it's going bang and it's going bang fast.

421
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Yeah, 100%. Now, the odd thing is about this is that it didn't go bang.

422
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Very, as you expected it to and it was kind of leading up to go bang and you generally thought it was going to go off but it didn't happen, which it's got to happen at some point surely they've got to let them go help a leather.

423
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Oh, and they will. It will happen regardless of what anybody thinks says or does it will happen where they will go completely helpful either at one another and I don't think we'll see it properly until maybe Tony DiAngelo returns.

424
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Yeah.

425
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Well, whatever that may be because we've not even had a hint at Tony DiAngelo making a return yet.

426
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No, he's he's obviously taking some well needed time off for now.

427
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And you know what?

428
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No, it was a brutal beat down at the end of that cage match.

429
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He's not going to be able to stay away for too long being a title holder but we'll see him return at some stage soon I'm sure.

430
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:11,000
Now, yeah, I didn't get a lot of notes for the Sean Spears stacks match either. I've got a few spots.

431
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Did you get the one of Sean Spears crotching stacks on the ropes?

432
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I am a 34 year old man this year and I'll tell you something. Nothing is funnier to me in a professional wrestling match than some guy getting hit in the giblets.

433
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:34,000
It does not matter how it is done. Someone taking something to the nuts in a professional wrestling match is enough to make me laugh.

434
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:45,000
It could be the biggest heel in the world hitting the face, like the biggest face in the world in the nuts and I'd still I'd still grieve.

435
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:55,000
Yeah, fair enough. I didn't get that one actually. At least I don't think so. I didn't write it down that way.

436
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I mean it wasn't a low blow research. He just popped him onto the rope but he didn't have anything in between.

437
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He went straight down on himself. It was definitely not pleasant. Those ropes have no gear either.

438
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:22,000
No, they really don't. But Spears walked out victorious after a C4 body drop and won via pinfall really.

439
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I think that's possibly why it felt a bit anticlimactic is that Sean Spears ended up walking out with the win.

440
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It was a clean win as well. It wasn't a dirty one which is something I'm not really used to seeing outside of these fights.

441
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:47,000
It's normally an interference or a disqualification of these bigger matches at the moment.

442
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:57,000
It was a clear win in the middle. It was quite strange. Yeah, this was what surprised me about this match is that there were so many so many individuals on the outside of the ring

443
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and we only really got one possible hint that maybe there being something going on the outside.

444
00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:14,000
Is he Dane climbed up on the apron to distract the ref and Brooks Jensen tripped up stocks, giving Sean Spears a chance to recover a little bit.

445
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:27,000
So I got it down as there was an instance on the outside of the ring where we saw Rizzo starting to get into it with Is he Dane?

446
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:38,000
But yeah, it was a bit of an odd match. It didn't seem to quite fit the bill. I feel like there should have been more to it.

447
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But I'm not sure how I would have added to it. I wasn't the same place to be fair. I couldn't think of what it needed to make it either more of a match or just finish off what I think they were trying to tell us.

448
00:52:55,000 --> 00:53:10,000
Yeah, very much so. But we'll move on from that match because I think that's just going to make it's going to we could sit around posture over it for ages and I just don't think it's going to make any more sense than it already does.

449
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Talking about things that don't make sense as well we go into next. We see Lexus King sitting backstage with his trophy. I can't remember for the life of me what it's called at the moment.

450
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The Heritage Cup, sorry. You see him kind of talking to Moose about how he beat the gentleman formerly known as Fandango who's currently running around TNA under the name of how we are here, Adam.

451
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:48,000
Yeah, I'm trying to think of it myself. I'm completely honest with you. It's a case I'm now having to go back through my...

452
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I want to say it's JC or something but it is mentioned.

453
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Making D?

454
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Yeah, that's the one. Basically just saying that Moose has got his balls hanging low to come over to NXT and challenge over Femme.

455
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:23,000
Moose basically says sometimes all you've got to do to get a title shot is ask at which point we see the setup for what is going to be Lexus King versus Moose next week in Cincinnati which is Lexus King's hometown.

456
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:32,000
So yeah, he's got to know. He's the first person we see from NXT getting a pop at the TNA X division title next week.

457
00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:44,000
Which sort of makes sense based on what I said earlier on. As I said, it's a very alternative title. It's the cruiserweight title of TNA generally.

458
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:57,000
So it makes sense that from at least outward appearances that Lexus King would go for something like that as his style would very much suit the X division to a degree.

459
00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:09,000
But we'll see how that pans out for him and Moose. I don't really see it going anywhere. I will be completely honest.

460
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:19,000
As we mentioned earlier on, we know that Ober Femme has made appearances over at TNA, distracting Moose during a match over on his home promotion.

461
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:26,000
It's not outside the realm of possibility to expect Moose to return the favour next week during this match.

462
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:28,000
No. Just calling it.

463
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:39,000
Yeah, we're going to have to get some more calls in there. After I called that and sanctioned match between Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn at Elimination Chamber, I feel like I'm on topic.

464
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:46,000
Some of my calls haven't panned out just yet, but there are some big calls in there.

465
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:57,000
Definitely. I think we see the start of that big one panning out in the next couple of weeks with Elimination Chamber being only 10 days away.

466
00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:15,000
Exactly. But we go from here and still within the same promo, we do sort of a pan away and we find Kale Dixon and Uriah Connors basically having their arses handed to them verbally by Andre Chase for speaking for him.

467
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:24,000
They set him up for a match with Eddie Thorpe. The poor guy wasn't even there to say, actually, boy, it's fuck off. I'm not interested.

468
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:31,000
He's basically gone off to tug his shit and lock a room for half hour and then being roped into something else.

469
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:40,000
Well, what we've seen from, we haven't seen a lot of Andre Chase since the Netflix era began. We certainly haven't seen him in any in ring competition.

470
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:46,000
But what we have seen of him is he's been walking around as a man defeated.

471
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:59,000
He's lost any sort of spark and fire that he had within himself or probably had within himself when he was part, when he was heading up Chase U.

472
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:20,000
And yeah, it just, it's, I'm not sure what to make of Andre Chase at this point because I think we've come in a little bit later in his character development and it's a bit difficult to have sympathy for a man when we don't really know what he lost and what he's, what he's gone on to do.

473
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:31,000
Yeah, what we know he is going on to do is have this match with Eddie Thorpe. And yeah, I'm not going to lie to you, I wouldn't want to be Andre Chase at the moment.

474
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:34,000
Eddie Thorpe's on a rampage.

475
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:55,000
Well, he's on a roll after his victory at Vengeance Day and yeah, well this isn't Eddie Thorpe's strap match that he likes to, that he likes to get himself involved in. He's still not anybody to be, still not anybody to be messed with sort of thing.

476
00:57:55,000 --> 00:58:13,000
But again, we see Andre Chase come out for the match and there's no, he's got no presence whatsoever. There's no, there's no enthusiasm. There's no spark there. I mean, even with somebody that's going out there who knows they're going to lose the match.

477
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:16,000
It's a case that they still come out and make a show of it, but.

478
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:29,000
He basically just looked like someone had beaten him up backstage, taking his lunch money and told him to piss off and smell what was in the canteen. Like he really did not look happy about having to go out there and do this and it kind of looked.

479
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:40,000
We get the fact that he's got a bit of a depressive thing going on. We've got used to seeing wrestlers in a bit of a depressive at the moment. I mean, Drew McIntyre's going, oh, sorry, Drew McIntyre is currently doing the same sort of thing.

480
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:55,000
But yeah, there was nothing to him, no sort of like no swagger, no stroll. It's kind of, yeah. His entrance was the least memorable thing of NXT this week.

481
00:58:55,000 --> 00:59:06,000
Yeah, very much so. And I think that may be how they've tried to write it in. But I mean, Chase's last televised match was back on the 19th of December.

482
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:14,000
So we're talking just before Christmas. He's now this at this stage we're we're on the 18th of February.

483
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:18,000
That's a fat gap of time. That is.

484
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:26,000
And so we've been of him so far is is a man that's very much been walking around under a dark cloud.

485
00:59:26,000 --> 00:59:37,000
Yeah, that's that's pretty much just going to continue to be fair. I mean, Eddie Thorpe's going to give him a good going over and a good going over is pretty much what he gets to be fair.

486
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:45,000
There is at one point, you know, Vic Joseph turns around and kind of highlights that, you know, the professor's still got a bit of fight in him.

487
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:50,000
But yeah, it didn't last for too much longer to be fair.

488
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:54,000
We did see an attempt commentary.

489
00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:58,000
I think commentary spent more time laughing at Chase's ring gear to be quite honest.

490
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:04,000
I mean, he went out in an old shirt of Veeb like a turtleneck.

491
01:00:04,000 --> 01:00:10,000
What looked like tracky bottoms and a pair of thrift store trainers.

492
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:23,000
But I'm not entirely sure if that's part of the character they're trying to portray with him being down on his luck and he's, you know, suffering a little bit like they did with Baron Corbin when they were messing around with him.

493
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:32,000
Well, it just looked like they got they'd they got him to raid the lost property box before going out.

494
01:00:32,000 --> 01:00:34,000
It just yeah.

495
01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:38,000
Yeah, it was a bit of a bit of a laughing sort of thing.

496
01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:46,000
Obviously, you know, if you're in a position where you can't afford clothing, then we're not laughing at you for that.

497
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:55,000
You know, we've both experienced financial hardships of ourselves, but you know, this guy seemed to be kind of using it as a job, I suppose.

498
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:59,000
I don't know.

499
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:14,000
Yeah. And like, we also see, despite the fact that in the promo beforehand, Andre Chase very much saying that he just wants to go out, get this match over and done with wants to do it on his own, which,

500
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:19,000
no, but I don't think anybody can particularly blame him for.

501
01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:24,000
But we do see the two lads come back out.

502
01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:27,000
I don't know. I can't remember the names.

503
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:30,000
Uriah.

504
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:33,000
Uriah Connors and Kale Dixon.

505
01:01:33,000 --> 01:01:35,000
That's the one.

506
01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:37,000
Yeah, we haven't seen a lot from them either.

507
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:48,000
And it kind of feels with them that they're just kind of throw them, they're trying to throw them on Chase just to try and see if he can get a little bit of something going.

508
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:59,000
But I don't think there's a lot of space really in the tag division for another stable to be trying to push through if you get me.

509
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:01,000
Yeah, it's a bit of an odd one.

510
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:06,000
I'm not sure what to make of it myself either.

511
01:02:06,000 --> 01:02:10,000
This is definitely a squash match.

512
01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:12,000
It felt very squashy.

513
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:21,000
It could have definitely been done slightly differently, I feel.

514
01:02:21,000 --> 01:02:26,000
But maybe that's how they wanted to go about it.

515
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:27,000
I don't know.

516
01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:39,000
Yeah, we ended up with Eddie Thorpe delivering a flat liner to chase Bantzen face first off the canvas for a three count.

517
01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:46,000
And then I think the most interesting part about this match actually happened after the final bell rang.

518
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:50,000
Obviously you've got Chase, Andre Chase lying on the floor.

519
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:59,000
Eddie Thorpe's over the top of him posing, celebrating, doing the healy stuff that Eddie Thorpe does.

520
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:06,000
And then all of a sudden you lose all the lighting and Tripp Williams appears not in person, but on the Taitron.

521
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:15,000
Cutting a little promo basically saying, you know, you think this thing between me and you is over and it's not over until I say it's over.

522
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:18,000
If I'm going down, I'm taking you with me.

523
01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:37,000
And then so it looks more like this was just a filler match to keep Eddie Thorpe sort of fresh for whatever they've got written into the build up with him and Tripp Williams again from next week.

524
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:58,000
And then you go backstage, you know, a little while later to file Keldix and then you're right, Connors approaching Andre Chase, only for him basically to brush him off and kind of add to his humiliation, I suppose.

525
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:07,000
Yeah, he was put in a match that he didn't really, didn't agree, didn't agree to in any way, shape or form.

526
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:21,000
And then, and then basically goes out gets his ass handed to him, which I would make a small sort of point to say that probably did it to himself.

527
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:31,000
To a certain degree, I think if you'd have put more effort in it, you'd probably probably seen a little bit more of a result out of it.

528
01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:38,000
I don't think there was much of a result he was getting from an Eddie Thorpe that is on an absolute rampage.

529
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:49,000
No, but he could have at least put up a bit more of a fight and made it more of a fight rather than just this complete squash match that we ended up with.

530
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:58,000
Yeah, well, one thing we know we're not going to get from in a form of a squash match is the result of the next section.

531
01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:05,000
So we've we go backstage now and see Ethan Page and Ricky Saints with Wesley and Ava.

532
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:12,000
And they're basically kind of just getting into it about the whole who's getting the first shot at Ricky Saints.

533
01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:22,000
And now he's signed his contract and we get a sort of Javon Evans coming in to try and get an Ethan Page again.

534
01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:30,000
They're definitely not finished with Ava basically finishing it by saying that we're going to have a tag match to settle this.

535
01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:39,000
We're going to have Ricky Saints and Javon Evans versus Ethan Page and Wesley next week on NXT,

536
01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:44,000
which I think is going to be a fucking incredible match.

537
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:48,000
Yeah, it keeps everyone happy.

538
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:50,000
Obviously Wesley wanted first shots.

539
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:52,000
Ricky Saints is his debut.

540
01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:54,000
It's going to be a big match anyway.

541
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:58,000
You add in the beef between Ethan Page and Javon Evans to go with that.

542
01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:03,000
You've got what on paper is an absolute firecracker of a match.

543
01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:11,000
Hopefully they're allowed the creative ability to turn that into main event material.

544
01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:16,000
I think main event is where that match is going to end up on next week's NXT.

545
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:18,000
Yeah, definitely.

546
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:26,000
Before we get there though, a few more bits of business to cover because we've got another promo.

547
01:06:26,000 --> 01:06:31,000
Yeah, VT from the Hardy Boys themselves.

548
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:37,000
This is a response to No Quarter Catch crew calling them out earlier on in the episode.

549
01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:42,000
And yeah, already thinking about just kind of, well, let's participate.

550
01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:49,000
I can't wait to watch next week's NXT just to hear that entry music for the Hardy Boys now.

551
01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:55,000
That was enough to, I mean, I was going to watch it anyway because we've got to do a podcast episode on it.

552
01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:57,000
But I'm really hankin' at the bit now to watch NXT.

553
01:06:57,000 --> 01:07:01,000
So when that goes live, I'm really going to enjoy kicking into that.

554
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:05,000
My notes for that match are going to be phenomenal.

555
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:07,000
Well, all's hoping.

556
01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:13,000
As long as they make enough sense for you, then that's all we can ever really ask.

557
01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:18,000
Yeah, so we find out about that match and we find out that they're going to tell Fraxium to take a front row seat

558
01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:21,000
and watch what is going to be a real tag match.

559
01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:28,000
So it could be interesting to see if they end up pulling that into a three-way tag match at some point between Jeff Hardy

560
01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:33,000
with the Hardy Boys sorry, No Quarter Catch crew and Fraxium.

561
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:35,000
Yeah, very much so.

562
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:46,000
But before we get any further with that moving on for next week's NXT, let's finish off this week's where we've got

563
01:07:46,000 --> 01:07:59,000
main event of the evening, the Sixth woman tag team match which sees Stephanie Vecchio, Julia and Jordan Grace

564
01:07:59,000 --> 01:08:07,000
versus the three ladies of Fatal Influence Fallon Henley, JC Jane and Jasmine Nix.

565
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:15,000
Yeah, and I must admit I've been looking forward to this particular match all night just to see what Jordan Grace

566
01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:18,000
can bring to the women's division.

567
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:27,000
But you've got six of the big powerhouses in the women's division in the same ring at the same time.

568
01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:31,000
She knows they're not going to bring a star like Jordan Grace in and not you Eliza.

569
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:34,000
We bloody hope they don't.

570
01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:37,000
I don't think we were disappointed.

571
01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:44,000
We could have been disappointed by what the match we got because, yeah.

572
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:56,000
I mean, we had a chaotic thrilling match all the way through, even from just the squaring off at the start, you know, with Julia and JC Jane.

573
01:08:56,000 --> 01:09:06,000
Like, you knew that whatever combination of superstars you got in the ring at that time, you were going to get some incredible

574
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:16,000
athleticism, technical wrestling with some high risk maneuvers. And you know, it's going to be completely flawless, even considering, you know,

575
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:22,000
a lot of these women have probably been working on this for a while.

576
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:26,000
They knew it was coming. We didn't see they've been training for this.

577
01:09:26,000 --> 01:09:28,000
I'd love to see what they would know.

578
01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:33,000
Some of the conversations they've had about how this match was going to go down because I was not disappointed in the match.

579
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:40,000
No, definitely not. I mean, we saw 100% the raw power of Jordan Grace.

580
01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:44,000
Those muscles that are on that woman are not just for show.

581
01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:46,000
Those muscles have muscles.

582
01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:54,000
Oh, 100%. And do you know what? I've made this comparison to you earlier in the week.

583
01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:59,000
And or I made this comment to you earlier in the week.

584
01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:06,000
And it sort of explains the one bit that they said at the very beginning of this match when Jordan Grace made her entrance.

585
01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:17,000
Because they said that Triple H was excited, actually really excited to see what Jordan Grace bought to the table for it.

586
01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:27,000
Now, I made a comment to you that doesn't Jordan Grace sort of remind you of China from back in the actual era?

587
01:10:27,000 --> 01:10:33,000
Yeah, she does. Even to the same haircut, if you look at it closely enough, but different hair color.

588
01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:37,000
But yeah, definitely has that sort of ability.

589
01:10:37,000 --> 01:10:47,000
And I mean, could they be setting Jordan Grace up to have a similar run to the eighth wonder of the world herself?

590
01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:53,000
Well, the way I thought about it is, and this might just be the shittest stirrer in me,

591
01:10:53,000 --> 01:10:59,000
is that obviously Triple H and China were an item back in the day.

592
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:15,000
I can't imagine that Stephanie McMahon is too happy about Triple H being excited to see a younger and honestly a more attractive version of China being in their developmental scene.

593
01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:23,000
No, but Hunter does not spend very much time in NXT anymore or near NXT. So it's probably a safe place for that to go down.

594
01:11:23,000 --> 01:11:27,000
We don't need Hunter having a Vince McMahon style scandal.

595
01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:31,000
No, we most certainly do not.

596
01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:40,000
But yeah, I mean, despite the fact that there were this matches well worth a watch and I do implore you if you watch any match from NXT.

597
01:11:40,000 --> 01:11:41,000
This one.

598
01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:43,000
Watch this six woman tag match.

599
01:11:43,000 --> 01:11:53,000
Yeah, one thing for me when Jordan Grace got the type from Stephanie, they came in and she flattened Fallon Henry with the spine buster.

600
01:11:53,000 --> 01:12:01,000
And then literally within seconds was tossing Jasmine and Jasmine nicks around like she was absolutely nothing.

601
01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:11,000
And then, you know, she's not just got the strength and she's got speed to and agility.

602
01:12:11,000 --> 01:12:19,000
This woman is going to be hard to take down and she's already been looking at titles.

603
01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:35,000
And you can see the way she's looking at the two champions, you know, in in the opening sort of build up to this match at the beginning where she was she was kind of looking either side like they've both got titles and I don't know I need a title.

604
01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:41,000
Yeah, Jordan Grace very much the odd woman out on that tag team not holding any gold at the moment.

605
01:12:41,000 --> 01:12:45,000
And that is definitely not going to stay that way for longer.

606
01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:57,000
I think by standing deliver if they continue pushing the way that they've been hinting they're going to I think Jordan Jordan Grace will have will have gold by stand and deliver.

607
01:12:57,000 --> 01:13:13,000
100% 100% and Jordan Grace is the one that ends up picking the way picking up the win via pinfall this week, which is always going to be a it's sort of the way you would want to go when starting a new promotion.

608
01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:27,000
Getting the win getting over. I mean being seen with two of the top women in the division. I mean, and for her finisher as well that juggernaut driver so she caught.

609
01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:45,000
I caught Jasmine nicks in midair who was going for an attempted cross body caught a midair transition during to a juggernaut driver which is a sitting split a spinning sit out slam which is already a reasonably complicated move but did it with absolute ease for the three count.

610
01:13:45,000 --> 01:14:03,000
While we saw Julia and Stephanie they care cutting off JC Jane and Fallon Henley's interference attempts and Julia hit a northern lights suplex from JC Jane and Stephanie they care finished off Fallon Henley with a dragon screw.

611
01:14:03,000 --> 01:14:16,000
So Jordan Grace could pin nicks with a victory and it was just a beautifully well timed set of finishes to be able to allow Jordan Grace to sneak that victory in.

612
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:29,000
It's not even a sneak to be fair you knew it was coming from the start they weren't going to have Jordan Grace lose on their debut especially not teamed up with the women's North American title holder and the NXT women's title holder.

613
01:14:29,000 --> 01:14:55,000
No, most definitely not but they've definitely sat her up in the best way possible and before we close out this episode we've got one last little piece of business to address here and this was the closing moments of NXT where we're sort of taking to I've got to admit it's not a well known location it almost looked like a bunch of like

614
01:14:55,000 --> 01:15:12,000
I think it may have been outside car park at the performance centre where they probably store a lot of the equipment used the ladders tables and all that sort of stuff and it's not hidden under the ring.

615
01:15:12,000 --> 01:15:25,000
Yeah, and we see what I can only assume was the mystery for so this is for taking it off into the car park it was the first time we'd seen them we hadn't seen them yet.

616
01:15:25,000 --> 01:15:32,000
And obviously with the overfemme calling them out I thought we might have seen them then instead of you know we've got moves.

617
01:15:32,000 --> 01:15:48,000
So yeah to see them kind of what looked like them running off in the opposite direction knew that something had gone off wasn't expecting it to go the way it went though is the camera pans into what you can only put down as like a.

618
01:15:48,000 --> 01:16:09,000
It's not like a reception room it was literally just like a small room with a desk in it which looked like it got leaflets and stuff on it and a chair and the rather unconscious sort of body of what we both thought could have been Ricky Saints out cold on the floor.

619
01:16:09,000 --> 01:16:27,000
Yeah, he was out for the count only to be found by Eva trying to basically see she was left trying to see to Saints make sure he was OK as the newest site and newest hottest sign in on the roster.

620
01:16:27,000 --> 01:16:55,000
They would have certainly if it is who we think it is they've just certainly made a statement for themselves on the back of that and on the wall behind we see the words that read no one is safe and yeah that that means that whatever chaos they bring into it to NXT is only going to get worse from there.

621
01:16:55,000 --> 01:17:08,000
Now these guys remind me a lot and I've seen a lot of comparisons and social media so I do understand this very much of an early shield style thing you know the hounds of justice running in giving an ass kick and pissing off again.

622
01:17:08,000 --> 01:17:14,000
So could we have the shield 2.0 on its way.

623
01:17:14,000 --> 01:17:33,000
I don't remember them doing the shield going quite to this extent though that's the only that's the only thing they only provides or would put in place I don't remember them doing a lot of it under cover of night it was very in your face they were they were here and this is what we're doing.

624
01:17:33,000 --> 01:17:44,000
Yeah whereas don't get me wrong they've made some statement appearances but this latest thing they've done it they've only been seen fleeing the scene.

625
01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:52,000
Yeah and if you think about it the three people leave well the three times we've seen them they've taken out the NXT title holder and over family.

626
01:17:52,000 --> 01:18:14,000
They've taken out the NXT tag team holders Fraxium and they've worked Ricky Starks they've gone for two title holders and a big name that's come into NXT looking to make a name and grab a title so they're picking up some pretty big names as well so we'll see a little bit more of them in the future I'm hoping.

627
01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:29,000
Yeah I'm certainly interested to find out what's gone on and I mean throughout the night we were also treated to some mini VT's that I saw some mini promos where we've seen Ricky Starks happening upon like.

628
01:18:29,000 --> 01:18:43,000
Random occurrences there was one where he walked into a room in the entire locker room just on the floor reeling after an attack but you don't see who attacked them or what happened and he's just looking at going fucking this place is nuts.

629
01:18:43,000 --> 01:19:02,000
Yeah and it's a case that yeah I mean NXT is in pure chaos at the moment and I do not envy Ava as the NXT general manager trying to try to get a handle on all of that but we'll have to wait until next week now to find out how this story evolves.

630
01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:17,000
Yeah and that will be next week's episode will be the last NXT episode before we go into elimination chamber weekend so yeah that's an interesting one why well Adam I think I've covered all the notes for this week for myself.

631
01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:20,000
Is there anything else that you want to throw in this week.

632
01:19:20,000 --> 01:19:39,000
No nothing at all and I've got everything off my chest that I needed to about NXT. I'm just hoping that everybody listening has enjoyed the coverage and yeah we hope to see you again soon on the finishes and factions does NXT but the next time you will hear from us will be.

633
01:19:39,000 --> 01:19:54,000
Finishes and factions does Friday night SmackDown which will be taking put which will be broadcast from New Orleans Louisiana from the smoothie King Center so.

634
01:19:54,000 --> 01:20:00,000
I will see you Adam on the next episode of finishes and factions of SmackDown.

635
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:02,000
Yeah and see you too buddy.

636
01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:12,000
See you later.