WEBVTT 00:00:33.570 --> 00:00:37.229 Hello there everybody. Thank you for tuning in 00:00:37.229 --> 00:00:41.350 to Finishes and Factions does Tuesday Night NXT. 00:00:41.590 --> 00:00:44.990 This is the NXT episode from the 25th of March 00:00:44.990 --> 00:00:50.890 from Orlando, Florida and the WWE Performance 00:00:50.890 --> 00:00:53.700 Center. For those of you that have never watched 00:00:53.700 --> 00:00:56.420 the podcast previously, my name is Adam. I'm 00:00:56.420 --> 00:00:59.140 normally joined by Rich, who can't be here this 00:00:59.140 --> 00:01:01.380 evening. Some other things have come up, but 00:01:01.380 --> 00:01:04.739 you'll just have to make do with me. And we are 00:01:04.739 --> 00:01:08.019 so, so privileged this evening to be having not 00:01:08.019 --> 00:01:12.780 one, not two, but three different title defenses 00:01:12.780 --> 00:01:18.670 on this card. Two of them are involving... the 00:01:18.670 --> 00:01:21.849 same superstar. That's right, you heard it. We've 00:01:21.849 --> 00:01:25.430 got Stephanie Vacure, our newly crowned double 00:01:25.430 --> 00:01:28.930 champion, doing double duty in a double title 00:01:28.930 --> 00:01:34.170 defense this evening. We've got her defending 00:01:34.170 --> 00:01:38.579 her NXT title, which she won more recently against 00:01:38.579 --> 00:01:44.019 Jada Parker. And we finally have been given Fallon 00:01:44.019 --> 00:01:47.140 Henley's rematch for the North American title, 00:01:47.340 --> 00:01:50.459 which Stephanie Viqueur is also the holder of. 00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:54.560 So now you are all caught up. We will get straight 00:01:54.560 --> 00:01:57.980 into the action, which basically started with 00:01:57.980 --> 00:02:01.000 a VT promo explaining exactly what I've just 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:05.030 said. We then go into the first match. which 00:02:05.030 --> 00:02:09.990 is the Women's NXT Championship match, which 00:02:09.990 --> 00:02:13.629 is, as I mentioned already, Stephanie Vacure 00:02:13.629 --> 00:02:19.340 versus Jada Parker. Now, this match... Obviously 00:02:19.340 --> 00:02:21.659 Jada Parker has been doing some fantastic work 00:02:21.659 --> 00:02:26.360 down in NXT more recently. We've seen some fantastic 00:02:26.360 --> 00:02:31.500 work from her and despite all of that, the crowd 00:02:31.500 --> 00:02:33.719 in the Performance Center on this particular 00:02:33.719 --> 00:02:39.460 evening seemed to be really behind our NXT Women's 00:02:39.460 --> 00:02:42.020 Champion. I mean, after that match from last 00:02:42.020 --> 00:02:46.199 week, who can really blame them? Let's face it. 00:02:49.079 --> 00:02:53.520 It's also mentioned during this match that apparently 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:57.580 nobody has ever been able to successfully defend 00:02:57.580 --> 00:03:02.819 two different singles titles on the same night. 00:03:03.340 --> 00:03:06.500 Now... I didn't do a massive amount of research 00:03:06.500 --> 00:03:08.539 into this to find out whether that's true. Of 00:03:08.539 --> 00:03:12.539 course, if it isn't, feel free to at us on Twitter 00:03:12.539 --> 00:03:16.219 or send us an email. Just look up Finisher's 00:03:16.219 --> 00:03:20.219 and Faction's podcast. You will find us. We are 00:03:20.219 --> 00:03:25.460 there. So, yeah, the crowd seemed to be really 00:03:25.460 --> 00:03:30.319 behind Stephanie Vercure during this match. And 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:34.099 do you know what? Some superstars might be tempted 00:03:34.099 --> 00:03:38.599 to go half cocked into the first of two challenges 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:41.379 when they have to do, when they are forced to 00:03:41.379 --> 00:03:44.680 do sort of double duty. Not Stephanie Vacure, 00:03:44.780 --> 00:03:47.900 she put her heart and soul into this first match. 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:56.740 And both women gave as good as they got. Vekul 00:03:56.740 --> 00:04:00.699 sort of going more towards a wear them down sort 00:04:00.699 --> 00:04:03.939 of job so it was very much a case that she was 00:04:03.939 --> 00:04:06.419 using a lot of submission holds we saw her with 00:04:06.419 --> 00:04:09.979 a leg lock out trying to wear Parker down. Vekul 00:04:09.979 --> 00:04:12.379 even manages to get a triangle lock over the 00:04:12.379 --> 00:04:18.100 top rope. and just generally trots out the Vacure 00:04:18.100 --> 00:04:22.160 classics, the Punisher where she's smashing somebody's 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:25.199 face into the mat and one of Booker T's personal 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:31.769 favorites. Jada Parker herself came up with a 00:04:31.769 --> 00:04:35.230 broken arrow for a two count. Now, this all seemed 00:04:35.230 --> 00:04:38.250 to go a little bit wrong for Jada Parker when 00:04:38.250 --> 00:04:42.170 we found that Jordan Grace had come out for a 00:04:42.170 --> 00:04:44.850 distraction. She didn't physically get involved. 00:04:44.990 --> 00:04:48.410 It was just a distraction, but it was enough 00:04:48.410 --> 00:04:53.120 that It was enough to have Parker distracted 00:04:53.120 --> 00:04:56.779 enough for the cure to pick up the win with a 00:04:56.779 --> 00:05:01.019 small package. A small package pin maneuver, 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:04.560 which... isn't a bad way to win. I mean, you 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:08.220 win by any means necessary, I suppose. But that 00:05:08.220 --> 00:05:12.019 is Vikkur's first match done and done. She retains 00:05:12.019 --> 00:05:16.000 her title. Now, this doesn't end here as Jada 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:19.060 and Jordan start scrapping on the entrance ramp. 00:05:19.139 --> 00:05:22.060 Obviously, Jada's not very happy at the fact 00:05:22.060 --> 00:05:24.939 that Jordan has come in and ruined her match. 00:05:26.139 --> 00:05:29.420 Now, not to leave the champ out here, but... 00:05:29.600 --> 00:05:34.759 We then see Fatal Influence, this is Fallon Henley, 00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:41.060 JC Jane and Jasmine Nix invade the ring and basically 00:05:41.060 --> 00:05:47.819 put a beat down on our double champ which is 00:05:47.819 --> 00:05:51.060 bound to have some ramifications for her match 00:05:51.060 --> 00:05:55.480 later in the evening. Now we jump out of the 00:05:55.480 --> 00:06:00.500 ring and into backstage where we see Trick Williams 00:06:00.500 --> 00:06:06.920 who promptly gets confronted by one bouncy Jovan 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:11.319 Evans who's not feeling all too bouncy during 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:15.470 this interaction as He's just a bit sick and 00:06:15.470 --> 00:06:17.629 tired of being pushed to the one side all the 00:06:17.629 --> 00:06:20.889 time I mean he is one of the youngest superstars 00:06:20.889 --> 00:06:24.310 on the roster and Yeah, I think trick Williams 00:06:24.310 --> 00:06:29.790 really treats him as such. It's I Think the fact 00:06:29.790 --> 00:06:33.170 that you've managed to make it into the WWE at 00:06:33.170 --> 00:06:37.170 20 years old is Enough kudos to be able to say 00:06:37.170 --> 00:06:39.410 do you know what actually? Yeah, you're still 00:06:39.410 --> 00:06:43.410 a rookie. You're still sort of You still got 00:06:43.410 --> 00:06:45.910 a lot to learn, but you've obviously learned 00:06:45.910 --> 00:06:49.850 enough to make it here kid but trick Williams 00:06:49.850 --> 00:06:52.769 has said gone on record many a time and said 00:06:52.769 --> 00:06:57.509 that He's out for himself. He's focused on over 00:06:57.509 --> 00:07:00.970 He's focused on the NXT title and getting that 00:07:00.970 --> 00:07:04.730 back as we know he just has not been the same 00:07:04.730 --> 00:07:09.930 since returning or losing that title at New Year's 00:07:09.930 --> 00:07:20.050 Evil Now, Javon Evans has just been trying to 00:07:20.050 --> 00:07:23.790 warn or was trying to warn after the underground 00:07:23.790 --> 00:07:27.689 match over Femi and Tripp Williams about dark 00:07:27.689 --> 00:07:30.529 state, which is the mysterious foursome we found 00:07:30.529 --> 00:07:35.589 have been running rampant in NXT recently. We're 00:07:35.589 --> 00:07:39.879 still not sure of who the. Of who they are they 00:07:39.879 --> 00:07:43.459 haven't been officially identified just yet Although 00:07:43.459 --> 00:07:47.680 as soon as we know you guys will know of course 00:07:47.680 --> 00:07:53.060 But yeah, this is trick and Evans having it out 00:07:53.060 --> 00:07:59.560 over last week and Evans for all of his youthful 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:02.660 bluster basically goes on record and says do 00:08:02.660 --> 00:08:05.160 you know what? trick for how focused you've been 00:08:05.160 --> 00:08:08.259 on the NXT title. I managed to take out Ober 00:08:08.259 --> 00:08:13.639 Femi no issue yet last week. As we know, he came 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:19.180 in and well and truly put the champ down last 00:08:19.180 --> 00:08:22.860 week after after the NXT underground match after 00:08:22.860 --> 00:08:26.600 the dark state invasion and everything else. 00:08:26.660 --> 00:08:30.920 It was a case that that that If you manage to 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:33.340 miss that then I challenge you to say you weren't 00:08:33.340 --> 00:08:42.139 watching NXT last week But It's all sort of comes 00:08:42.139 --> 00:08:45.259 to a head where trick Williams starts being in 00:08:45.259 --> 00:08:48.340 my view quite condescending towards the young 00:08:48.340 --> 00:08:51.480 Javon Evans in the sense that Javon Evans has 00:08:51.480 --> 00:08:57.570 never held a singles title in WWE He's obviously 00:08:57.570 --> 00:09:00.769 been just focusing on getting the craft right, 00:09:00.809 --> 00:09:05.429 which is all important. We all know this. It's 00:09:05.429 --> 00:09:07.789 a case that we've got to get the craft right 00:09:07.789 --> 00:09:13.350 to get everything else right. So yeah, it's a 00:09:13.350 --> 00:09:19.169 case that is... Evans has got a title match for 00:09:19.169 --> 00:09:22.710 the Heritage Cup Championship against Lexus King 00:09:22.710 --> 00:09:27.309 later on this evening and he will go on to have 00:09:27.309 --> 00:09:31.029 that match. Now, Tripp Williams still keeps going 00:09:31.029 --> 00:09:34.720 with this and says, look, until you've... competed 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:37.379 for a title until you've held a title, you're 00:09:37.379 --> 00:09:40.039 really not going to understand why it is that 00:09:40.039 --> 00:09:43.960 me having the NXT title and losing the NXT title 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:51.639 has had such a detrimental effect on me. Basically, 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:54.980 I feel like Trick Williams has just been antagonizing 00:09:54.980 --> 00:09:58.480 Javon Evans at this stage, when realistically 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:03.509 we would have expected a little bit more. Now 00:10:03.509 --> 00:10:08.389 we go from there into a Another backstage promo 00:10:08.389 --> 00:10:11.870 which sees Ava and the rest of the women's division 00:10:11.870 --> 00:10:15.690 obviously having watched Stephanie vacuous first 00:10:15.690 --> 00:10:20.590 NXT title defense on a monitor in the back and 00:10:20.590 --> 00:10:25.899 Yeah, it seems that lash legend After Ava announces, 00:10:25.919 --> 00:10:28.440 I'm going to go and check on Stephanie, our double 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:30.899 champion, which of course the general manager 00:10:30.899 --> 00:10:35.639 should be doing. The Metagirls or more specifically 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:38.919 Lash Legend says, actually, I think what you 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:42.460 need to be doing is focusing more on why Gigi 00:10:42.460 --> 00:10:48.710 Dolin and... Tatum Paxley, I've got a title match 00:10:48.710 --> 00:10:51.649 on TNA this week. What's going on with that? 00:10:52.009 --> 00:10:55.370 And this just screams of some out and out jealousy. 00:10:55.850 --> 00:10:59.190 Now, we've seen in the women's division a lot 00:10:59.190 --> 00:11:03.529 of Sol Ruka and Zarya over the last few weeks 00:11:03.529 --> 00:11:07.470 and now we've got the re -entrance of Jakara 00:11:07.470 --> 00:11:11.169 Jackson and Lash Legend, the Meta Girls as well 00:11:11.169 --> 00:11:16.759 as Dolan and Paxley, both phenomenal teams in 00:11:16.759 --> 00:11:20.080 their own right. We'll never ever put that sort 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:23.860 of past them, but. basically this question seems 00:11:23.860 --> 00:11:27.919 to spark some real chaos in the back in the women's 00:11:27.919 --> 00:11:31.860 division which when you've got so many so many 00:11:31.860 --> 00:11:34.960 well so many superstars in general doesn't matter 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:38.360 whether it's male or female it is a case that 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:42.279 they are going to be combustible elements which 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:49.139 will blow at any moment and from there as that 00:11:49.139 --> 00:11:53.379 sort of erupts into chaos we are then taken to 00:11:53.379 --> 00:11:56.419 a pre -recorded promo so this isn't live this 00:11:56.419 --> 00:12:01.559 was pre -recorded where we see Vic Joseph interviewing 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:06.220 Ricky Saints now myself and Rich over the last 00:12:06.220 --> 00:12:10.090 few weeks have been saying That Ricky Saints 00:12:10.090 --> 00:12:13.570 were not really seeing what the big deal is for 00:12:13.570 --> 00:12:16.509 him now I will admit that I've never seen any 00:12:16.509 --> 00:12:20.110 of what Ricky Saints did before he came to WWE 00:12:20.110 --> 00:12:25.090 so I've got a fresh view of What he is doing 00:12:25.090 --> 00:12:29.629 and what he does and so far just thoroughly not 00:12:29.629 --> 00:12:33.889 impressed fantastic mic work can't fault his 00:12:33.889 --> 00:12:38.779 promo ability but his in -ring ability is just 00:12:38.779 --> 00:12:42.700 leaving a little bit to be desired or a little 00:12:42.700 --> 00:12:47.360 bit to be desired for myself anyway. Now, this 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:49.700 was basically a get -to -know -you session for 00:12:49.700 --> 00:12:52.159 Ricky Saints. This gave me a lot of information 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:54.799 about him that I wasn't aware of, more so to 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:57.620 do with his personal life than his professional 00:12:57.620 --> 00:13:01.120 career, which I suppose I'm going to have to 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:05.179 go away and... and figure that out all on my 00:13:05.179 --> 00:13:12.080 own. But yeah, he feels that his arrival, while 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:14.179 a lot of people are saying that Ricky Saints 00:13:14.179 --> 00:13:17.019 doesn't belong, and I suppose I'm one of them, 00:13:18.279 --> 00:13:25.220 it's a case that we're seeing a or he feels that 00:13:25.220 --> 00:13:28.659 his presence is forcing everybody that were sort 00:13:28.659 --> 00:13:32.759 of quite happily tootling along before to really 00:13:32.759 --> 00:13:38.639 raise their game. And do you know what? I suppose, 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:41.340 yeah, we have seen an elevation in competition 00:13:41.340 --> 00:13:44.620 between some of the more prominent superstars 00:13:44.620 --> 00:13:49.720 up to this point. Now he does go on to say, or 00:13:49.720 --> 00:13:51.899 sort of gives the impression to me that he's 00:13:51.899 --> 00:13:53.860 trying to look for a little bit of sympathy. 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:55.879 He's trying to reach out to the heart of the 00:13:55.879 --> 00:13:59.820 universe or heart of the WWE universe at least 00:13:59.820 --> 00:14:03.559 by saying about the fact that in his early career, 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:06.399 he was living in his car, which is It isn't uncommon 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:08.820 for people in the wrestling industry to start 00:14:08.820 --> 00:14:15.559 off on the balls of their ass for them to rise 00:14:15.559 --> 00:14:21.679 to great heights and yet nobody in the wrestling 00:14:21.679 --> 00:14:25.799 industry is handed their spot apart from a very 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:29.519 small number but even then a lot of them who 00:14:29.519 --> 00:14:33.549 have come who are second, third, the odd fourth 00:14:33.549 --> 00:14:38.730 generation superstar is not completely without 00:14:38.730 --> 00:14:41.889 they don't They're not handed their spot, they're 00:14:41.889 --> 00:14:45.669 not said, they're not told that here's your spot, 00:14:45.990 --> 00:14:48.850 we're going to start you off on two mill a year 00:14:48.850 --> 00:14:52.570 because of who your dad was or who your granddad 00:14:52.570 --> 00:14:55.830 was or who your uncles were. It's a case that 00:14:55.830 --> 00:15:00.029 they have to work, fight, earn, bleed and sweat 00:15:00.029 --> 00:15:06.129 for every last thing they get. Now... At this 00:15:06.129 --> 00:15:10.450 stage we see none other than Sean Spears interrupt 00:15:10.450 --> 00:15:14.450 and actually physically take over the interview 00:15:14.450 --> 00:15:19.450 from Vic Joseph at this point and Spears and 00:15:19.450 --> 00:15:25.899 Saints obviously have a lot of a lot of history 00:15:25.899 --> 00:15:28.919 between the two of them. They're not unknown 00:15:28.919 --> 00:15:32.120 characters to one another and it really shows 00:15:32.120 --> 00:15:34.500 in how they interacted with one another in this 00:15:34.500 --> 00:15:37.580 segment. And one of the first questions that 00:15:37.580 --> 00:15:42.120 Sean Spears really asks about or to Saints is, 00:15:42.580 --> 00:15:45.080 why is it you think I never asked you to be part 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:49.139 of the culling? Now, I think it's pretty obvious 00:15:49.139 --> 00:15:54.820 from... Ricky Saints reaction to this question 00:15:54.820 --> 00:15:57.639 that part of the reason he was never going to 00:15:57.639 --> 00:16:01.139 get that offer Was probably because there's some 00:16:01.139 --> 00:16:04.039 bad blood between Saints and Spears now. I'm 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:08.100 just theorizing We know a little bit about Sean 00:16:08.100 --> 00:16:13.019 Spears past career and not a much else from there 00:16:13.019 --> 00:16:21.210 but It's a case that Yeah Saints reckons that 00:16:21.210 --> 00:16:23.309 he wasn't given the opportunity because he would 00:16:23.309 --> 00:16:25.669 have told him to go and stick it up his ass with 00:16:25.669 --> 00:16:33.129 the rest of the shite and Yeah A little bit of 00:16:33.129 --> 00:16:35.850 back -and -forth after that, but Saints basically 00:16:35.850 --> 00:16:38.549 declares that he's coming for Spears brand new 00:16:38.549 --> 00:16:43.909 North American title and That's the title that 00:16:43.909 --> 00:16:47.330 Ricky Saints has set his heart and his eyes on 00:16:47.330 --> 00:16:51.580 which yeah Fair enough. Do you know what? Have 00:16:51.580 --> 00:16:57.080 at it, kiddo. I'll say that. Ricky Saints is 00:16:57.080 --> 00:16:59.799 probably a little bit older than I am, so calling 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:02.639 him kiddo feels a bit condescending. But then 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:06.599 we cut to the locker room where Wes Lee, Tyson 00:17:06.599 --> 00:17:11.000 DuPont and Tyreek Igwe are watching the interview 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:13.700 and they don't seem overly impressed with Ricky 00:17:13.700 --> 00:17:15.960 Saints from the get -go. They've had a bit of 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:18.759 an issue with him since they came in, but... 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:22.039 Wesley is very much one of these people that 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:26.220 is saying oh well you're an outsider I really 00:17:26.220 --> 00:17:28.420 don't see why you should have to come in and 00:17:28.420 --> 00:17:31.019 all the rest of it it just feels a bit unnecessary 00:17:31.019 --> 00:17:34.220 and yeah do you know what I can sort of understand 00:17:34.220 --> 00:17:36.660 why I can sort of understand all the trepidation 00:17:36.660 --> 00:17:39.819 around it but seriously dude get over yourself 00:17:39.819 --> 00:17:45.720 there is always a bigger fish now Tyreek and 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:48.380 Tyson have a match later on in the card. So they 00:17:48.380 --> 00:17:51.440 go off to go and prepare for that this leaves 00:17:51.440 --> 00:17:55.700 What I felt was actually quite a haunted looking 00:17:55.700 --> 00:17:59.319 Ethan page now the last time we saw Ethan page 00:17:59.319 --> 00:18:02.660 properly He was having his ass handed to him 00:18:02.660 --> 00:18:09.000 by the bouncy one Jevon Evans and since then 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:13.460 haven't really seen much of him at all. It's 00:18:13.460 --> 00:18:18.220 a case that he's been very much off radar. But 00:18:18.220 --> 00:18:21.259 Ethan Page is in the locker room along with Andre 00:18:21.259 --> 00:18:24.539 Chase, who is somebody else we've seen even less 00:18:24.539 --> 00:18:31.059 of. Cale Dixon and Uriah Connors as well. As 00:18:31.059 --> 00:18:34.200 Dickson basically accuses Ricky Saints of pulling 00:18:34.200 --> 00:18:39.940 an Ethan Page. We know that Ethan Page is his 00:18:39.940 --> 00:18:44.140 moniker, his nickname, whatever you want to call 00:18:44.140 --> 00:18:50.400 it, is all ego Ethan Page. And yeah, so far that 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:53.900 I've seen of him, he really lives up to that 00:18:53.900 --> 00:18:57.960 name, realistically. It's not a case that he's... 00:18:57.930 --> 00:19:03.809 he's without ego at all. Now, Ethan Page obviously 00:19:03.809 --> 00:19:07.529 takes great exception to this and threatens to 00:19:07.529 --> 00:19:11.150 basically put Dixon's lights out if he doesn't 00:19:11.150 --> 00:19:14.390 shut his trap. So shut your trap, talk shit, 00:19:14.529 --> 00:19:17.930 get banged, I think is the turn of phrase I'm 00:19:17.930 --> 00:19:23.109 going to go with on that one for it. And Uriah 00:19:23.109 --> 00:19:27.720 Connors tries jumping into to Dixon's defence 00:19:27.720 --> 00:19:33.039 to basically be sat back down little boy by Ethan 00:19:33.039 --> 00:19:37.640 Page and this is where out of character for what 00:19:37.640 --> 00:19:41.039 we've seen recently Andre Chase gets involved 00:19:41.039 --> 00:19:47.180 and yeah very much jumps to the defence of his 00:19:47.180 --> 00:19:52.880 followers as they have as Connors and Dixon have 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:58.680 very much been Andre Chase's little shadow cheerleaders, 00:19:58.720 --> 00:20:01.220 whatever you want to call them, they've been 00:20:01.220 --> 00:20:04.220 there and they've been supporting him, which 00:20:04.220 --> 00:20:07.799 is great for Andre Chase, as he definitely seems 00:20:07.799 --> 00:20:11.240 to have been in a bit of a funk since the collapse 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:15.859 of Chase U, which we've discussed in an earlier 00:20:15.859 --> 00:20:22.710 episode. This basically all boils over page telling 00:20:22.710 --> 00:20:26.250 chase to teach them that their actions and words 00:20:26.250 --> 00:20:30.210 have Consequences and this sort of puts pay pushes 00:20:30.210 --> 00:20:36.690 page past boiling point or more so making a page 00:20:36.690 --> 00:20:42.170 making a Comment about chase you being a defunct 00:20:42.170 --> 00:20:45.730 institution, which I suppose isn't wrong considering 00:20:45.730 --> 00:20:51.579 it was closed but this well and truly sparks 00:20:51.579 --> 00:20:55.359 the fire in Andre Chase and basically Chase to 00:20:55.359 --> 00:20:59.220 lay down a challenge to Ethan Page, which again 00:20:59.220 --> 00:21:02.549 we see later on in the card. Now, this brings 00:21:02.549 --> 00:21:06.609 us nicely to the second match of the night, which 00:21:06.609 --> 00:21:10.430 is a men's tag team match featuring Hank and 00:21:10.430 --> 00:21:15.710 Tank versus Tyson Dupont and Tyreek Igwe. Now, 00:21:15.849 --> 00:21:19.710 Hank and Tank have a little bit of a pre -match 00:21:19.710 --> 00:21:22.730 promo on their way to the ring where they're 00:21:22.730 --> 00:21:25.109 very much sort of hyping themselves up. Whatever 00:21:25.109 --> 00:21:27.569 these guys are on, I want some sort of thing 00:21:27.569 --> 00:21:29.990 because they've got way more energy than I've 00:21:29.990 --> 00:21:34.410 ever had. But it's a case that they even get 00:21:34.410 --> 00:21:37.769 Like a nod of support from machine motor city 00:21:37.769 --> 00:21:40.789 machine guns Which it seems that Hank and tank 00:21:40.789 --> 00:21:44.910 have tried to better themselves by trying to 00:21:44.910 --> 00:21:49.079 learn off different tag teams. So going around 00:21:49.079 --> 00:21:51.799 different tag teams and basically saying to them, 00:21:52.299 --> 00:21:55.519 look, I want to improve. This is how I, this 00:21:55.519 --> 00:21:58.740 is what I do now. What is it I need to do differently 00:21:58.740 --> 00:22:01.900 to reach that next level? Which I think we can 00:22:01.900 --> 00:22:04.480 all sort of learn something from whenever we're, 00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:06.180 whenever we're doing something, whether this 00:22:06.180 --> 00:22:11.950 is our schoolwork, whether it is our jobs that 00:22:11.950 --> 00:22:14.509 we get paid for, whether it is our hobbies like 00:22:14.509 --> 00:22:18.130 this one being mine. It is a case that we constantly 00:22:18.130 --> 00:22:22.690 ask for feedback because we want to do better. 00:22:22.910 --> 00:22:26.150 We don't want to suck at what we do. And it's 00:22:26.150 --> 00:22:29.150 a case that unless somebody tells us that something 00:22:29.150 --> 00:22:32.029 ain't right, we're going to keep going until 00:22:32.029 --> 00:22:40.099 some until it basically sticks. So. But yeah, 00:22:40.640 --> 00:22:45.920 so Even sort of so after Hank and Tank's entrance 00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:48.819 once they're in the ring the edit that I watched 00:22:48.819 --> 00:22:53.500 of NXT Dips out and we come back to this match 00:22:53.500 --> 00:22:56.880 in progress now This is one of my pet hates of 00:22:56.880 --> 00:22:59.839 the editing of Netflix is that we are rejoining 00:22:59.839 --> 00:23:04.380 matches or joining matches that are in progress 00:23:04.380 --> 00:23:08.630 and The sooner they get this sorted the better 00:23:08.630 --> 00:23:12.390 for me because Just feel like we miss out on 00:23:12.390 --> 00:23:15.950 such we can sometimes miss out on Such a lot 00:23:15.950 --> 00:23:20.029 from the entrances of the opponents or the beginnings 00:23:20.029 --> 00:23:23.670 of the matches However, it is that we sort of 00:23:23.670 --> 00:23:27.259 make that association with the match we need 00:23:27.259 --> 00:23:30.380 to see the entire thing not just the bits that 00:23:30.380 --> 00:23:33.920 Netflix wants us to see sort of thing and this 00:23:33.920 --> 00:23:37.980 used to happen when they were on when it was 00:23:37.980 --> 00:23:41.420 live broadcast on regular TV not just a subscription 00:23:41.420 --> 00:23:44.339 service so this has been a long time issue with 00:23:44.339 --> 00:23:47.579 me but I'm putting the onus on Netflix because 00:23:47.579 --> 00:23:51.200 they're the they're the medium that we watch 00:23:51.200 --> 00:23:56.599 them through now But yeah, it's a case that, 00:23:56.680 --> 00:23:58.539 do you know what, I actually really enjoyed this 00:23:58.539 --> 00:24:01.339 match. Hank and Tank are growing on me despite 00:24:01.339 --> 00:24:05.059 the fact that I can't look at Hank without seeing 00:24:05.059 --> 00:24:09.500 Seth Rogen's face staring back at me. That's 00:24:09.500 --> 00:24:15.160 how bad it's gotten. Now... Once we've got back 00:24:15.160 --> 00:24:18.160 into the match, we see that Hank and Tank are 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:21.980 very firmly in control and it sort of progresses 00:24:21.980 --> 00:24:24.380 through the throws of a regular match really. 00:24:24.740 --> 00:24:28.200 Some regular tags, really love to see it. Not 00:24:28.200 --> 00:24:31.339 too many sort of big spots until the end. I saw 00:24:31.339 --> 00:24:35.539 that Tyree Gigway got a massive stomp or tried 00:24:35.539 --> 00:24:42.960 to attempt a massive stomp. to Tank and basically 00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:46.759 misses his target and seems to sort of tweak 00:24:46.759 --> 00:24:52.720 his knee a little bit. Now, I've got down here 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:57.279 that Tank throws Tyson out of the ring as... 00:24:58.560 --> 00:25:02.180 Hank suicide dives out to take them both out 00:25:02.180 --> 00:25:04.900 at ringside. Now this isn't the first time we've 00:25:04.900 --> 00:25:07.420 seen a human fly through the ropes or anything 00:25:07.420 --> 00:25:13.500 like that. They seem to very much take a lot 00:25:13.500 --> 00:25:17.579 of heart from, or a lot of different bits and 00:25:17.579 --> 00:25:21.079 pieces from... that's the word I'm looking for, 00:25:21.859 --> 00:25:24.319 from Motor City Machine Guns. The way they presented 00:25:24.319 --> 00:25:28.559 that suicide dive was very Motor City Machine 00:25:28.559 --> 00:25:32.980 Guns to me. And yeah, that's how that sort of 00:25:32.980 --> 00:25:39.400 progressed through. But we went from there, that 00:25:39.400 --> 00:25:41.500 was sort of very towards the beginning of the 00:25:41.500 --> 00:25:45.079 match. We had a lot of back and forth between 00:25:45.079 --> 00:25:49.650 the... between that point and our next one which 00:25:49.650 --> 00:25:55.029 is Wesley distracting the ref so that Tyson pushes 00:25:55.029 --> 00:25:59.670 Tank off the top rope so Tank is perched on the 00:25:59.670 --> 00:26:02.250 top rope getting ready to do a double team move 00:26:02.250 --> 00:26:07.250 and this sort of spells the beginning of the 00:26:07.250 --> 00:26:10.430 end for Hank and Tank I think it was just purely 00:26:10.430 --> 00:26:16.210 bad timing to do high risk but again top rope 00:26:16.210 --> 00:26:19.390 is high risk. That's how it's presented to us. 00:26:19.509 --> 00:26:22.769 And you accept the risk when you go up to that 00:26:22.769 --> 00:26:28.529 top rope for it. Now we go from there into the 00:26:28.529 --> 00:26:32.289 action in ring. No, we go from the in ring action, 00:26:32.289 --> 00:26:37.269 sorry, to the backstage area where we see Stephanie 00:26:37.269 --> 00:26:41.789 Vecchio and Ava in the trainer's room after obviously 00:26:41.789 --> 00:26:47.029 the Attack from fatal influence earlier in the 00:26:47.029 --> 00:26:50.069 night. Well during that first match basically 00:26:50.069 --> 00:26:57.509 and While we see Vic you're with a fair amount 00:26:57.509 --> 00:27:01.289 of ice wrapped around her midsection It is a 00:27:01.289 --> 00:27:05.210 case that she is very much. I'm lapri I am lapri 00:27:05.210 --> 00:27:10.200 Mera. I am the Women's champion. I am the representative 00:27:10.200 --> 00:27:12.980 of the division and I am not letting this division 00:27:12.980 --> 00:27:18.079 go down without a fight so 100 % I am maintaining 00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:20.880 my title defense for later on in the evening 00:27:20.880 --> 00:27:24.119 and there is nothing that you You or anybody 00:27:24.119 --> 00:27:28.079 else can say to me to to tell me otherwise basically 00:27:28.079 --> 00:27:34.640 and yeah, that was very much the at the end of 00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:36.980 that promo. I mean, even at the very end, we 00:27:36.980 --> 00:27:39.859 have Ava ask the trainer that was attending to 00:27:39.859 --> 00:27:43.220 Vicure, like, can she actually go on? Is she 00:27:43.220 --> 00:27:47.000 medically cleared? And it's a case of completely 00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:51.940 down to her and her tolerance. So we carry on 00:27:51.940 --> 00:27:56.700 from there. Now... We go from that backstage 00:27:56.700 --> 00:27:59.940 promo to a different area of backstage where 00:27:59.940 --> 00:28:04.240 we see Sarah Schreiber interviewing Fraxium the 00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:07.819 NXT tag team title holders now the last time 00:28:07.819 --> 00:28:11.059 we saw them was at Roadblock facing the current 00:28:11.059 --> 00:28:16.099 TNA men's tag team champions being the Hardy 00:28:16.099 --> 00:28:21.660 boys Where Fraxium were unable to win their match 00:28:21.660 --> 00:28:24.940 against the Hardy boys, but put up one hell of 00:28:24.940 --> 00:28:27.779 a fight. Now different things have happened since 00:28:27.779 --> 00:28:34.500 then. We've had, obviously, main roster have 00:28:34.500 --> 00:28:39.279 been on their European tour, and Axiom himself 00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:42.220 actually made an appearance at, I believe it 00:28:42.220 --> 00:28:48.920 was Raw in Barcelona, where he was called upon 00:28:48.920 --> 00:28:53.509 to wrestle Gunther, the current Raw heavyweight 00:28:53.509 --> 00:28:56.769 champion. And in fairness, he had a really good 00:28:56.769 --> 00:28:58.789 match. If you haven't seen it, we've covered 00:28:58.789 --> 00:29:02.430 it. You just have to go back to the Barcelona 00:29:02.430 --> 00:29:06.490 match or the Barcelona episode of Finishes and 00:29:06.490 --> 00:29:10.519 Factions in our back catalogue. But. don't have 00:29:10.519 --> 00:29:12.819 time to listen to wait for you to listen to that 00:29:12.819 --> 00:29:15.059 episode as I believe it was roughly about an 00:29:15.059 --> 00:29:18.279 hour and a half long if not more so I'm gonna 00:29:18.279 --> 00:29:24.220 carry on so fair warning spoilers ahead it's 00:29:24.220 --> 00:29:31.079 a case that Axiom talking about how honored he 00:29:31.079 --> 00:29:34.559 felt sort of following his match with Gunther 00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:37.920 in Spain it was his home country he had family 00:29:37.920 --> 00:29:41.220 there he had friends there he got to wrestle 00:29:41.220 --> 00:29:45.160 his heart out and he pushed Gunther to the limit 00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:48.500 like this look this guy he could have quite easily 00:29:48.500 --> 00:29:52.839 been squashed by Gunther but no it was a really 00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:55.440 well put together match and I genuinely thought 00:29:55.440 --> 00:29:59.119 in a few occasions that we were gonna see Axiom 00:29:59.119 --> 00:30:02.250 knock off Gunther but literally it was not to 00:30:02.250 --> 00:30:06.809 be and honestly all Nathan Fraser can talk about 00:30:06.809 --> 00:30:09.450 is the fact that he's just a bit pissy that he 00:30:09.450 --> 00:30:13.450 wasn't there and it just smacks of jealousy I'm 00:30:13.450 --> 00:30:16.289 not gonna lie he's just incredibly jealous that 00:30:16.289 --> 00:30:20.789 Axiom got this opportunity to go and do this 00:30:20.789 --> 00:30:24.390 amazing thing and he wasn't even invited to go 00:30:24.390 --> 00:30:29.259 and share that glory And Axiom sort of draws 00:30:29.259 --> 00:30:31.720 attention to the screen that has been sat behind 00:30:31.720 --> 00:30:37.819 them up to this point as we see a live video 00:30:37.819 --> 00:30:43.660 feed of NXT Men's Champion, Ober Femi, arriving 00:30:43.660 --> 00:30:47.019 at the Performance Center, getting out of a car 00:30:47.019 --> 00:30:52.799 and looking pissed off to fuck. Now... While 00:30:52.799 --> 00:30:56.140 Sarah Schreiber and Nathan Fraser are taking 00:30:56.140 --> 00:30:59.880 this site in Axiom decides this is the perfect 00:30:59.880 --> 00:31:05.859 moment for me to off I fuck and off he fucks 00:31:05.859 --> 00:31:11.799 he does as he makes a stealthy exit to avoid 00:31:11.799 --> 00:31:17.740 any more of Nathan Fraser's stinking attitude 00:31:17.740 --> 00:31:22.160 basically And that takes us neatly into match 00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:27.059 three, which is our NXT Heritage Cup Championship 00:31:27.059 --> 00:31:30.200 match. Now, this is our only men's championship 00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:34.059 match on the card tonight, but it sees Lexus 00:31:34.059 --> 00:31:38.819 King as the champion. Defend against Javon. Evans 00:31:38.819 --> 00:31:43.960 Now this is I believe Lexus Kings maybe second 00:31:43.960 --> 00:31:47.740 or third that I have a feeling it's there is 00:31:47.740 --> 00:31:50.259 it may have be No, it's either his second or 00:31:50.259 --> 00:31:54.240 his third Heritage Cup Championship defense since 00:31:54.240 --> 00:32:00.579 winning the title Winning the title someone at 00:32:00.579 --> 00:32:06.160 some weeks previous now Javon Evans we know was 00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:09.180 quite a light -hearted jovial. He's a 20 -something 00:32:09.180 --> 00:32:12.140 year old guy. He's not carrying the weight of 00:32:12.140 --> 00:32:16.079 the world on his shoulders normally, but we see 00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:23.930 a massive aggressive streak in him today. I mean, 00:32:24.029 --> 00:32:26.470 it's a Javon Evans match, we know it's going 00:32:26.470 --> 00:32:29.829 to be full of spots. Now I've got a few listed 00:32:29.829 --> 00:32:33.089 down here that I was really impressed by. Javon 00:32:33.089 --> 00:32:36.150 Evans with a springboard Hurricanrana, pretty 00:32:36.150 --> 00:32:41.150 standard for Javon Evans as it goes. Evans even 00:32:41.150 --> 00:32:45.390 does a suicide dive through the... Between the 00:32:45.390 --> 00:32:47.990 top and middle rope which is unusual as we would 00:32:47.990 --> 00:32:50.390 normally see him do what is otherwise known as 00:32:50.390 --> 00:32:57.529 a topate suicida Which basically stands for suicide 00:32:57.529 --> 00:33:05.490 dive over the top rope Now King Lexus King does 00:33:05.490 --> 00:33:08.150 pull off a rather interesting move at this point 00:33:08.150 --> 00:33:12.109 or at some point during the match which even 00:33:12.109 --> 00:33:14.329 commentary are not entirely sure what to make 00:33:14.329 --> 00:33:17.910 of it. I think Corey Graves ends up dubbing it 00:33:17.910 --> 00:33:20.690 something along the lines of a fisherman's buster 00:33:20.690 --> 00:33:25.670 and goes for a spin attempt off that which quite 00:33:25.670 --> 00:33:27.890 honestly probably would have won him the match 00:33:27.890 --> 00:33:33.250 had he actually got Javon Evans's shoulders on 00:33:33.250 --> 00:33:37.750 the mat which he didn't have so because his shoulders 00:33:37.750 --> 00:33:40.950 weren't down flush on the mat the referee did 00:33:40.950 --> 00:33:45.230 the right thing in calling that match in calling 00:33:45.230 --> 00:33:49.849 that a no -pin attempt until there was a shift 00:33:49.849 --> 00:33:52.650 of weight Javon Evans's shoulders hit the mat 00:33:52.650 --> 00:33:57.230 and then the ref began to count so 100 % not 00:33:57.230 --> 00:34:00.190 believing the stuff that Not believing the shit 00:34:00.190 --> 00:34:05.329 that Booker T is peddling there about the ref 00:34:05.329 --> 00:34:08.329 being out of position. Ref was in the perfect 00:34:08.329 --> 00:34:16.070 position to see what he needed to see. Now, I've 00:34:16.070 --> 00:34:19.429 also got down here that Evans hit what I've dubbed 00:34:19.429 --> 00:34:22.730 as a disaster kick. Disaster kick and then a 00:34:22.730 --> 00:34:28.019 five -star frog splash. And, yeah, Lexus King 00:34:28.019 --> 00:34:31.059 was focusing majority of his offense on Evans' 00:34:31.460 --> 00:34:34.219 jaw, which is well documented at the fact that 00:34:34.219 --> 00:34:37.300 it has been well and truly messed up after a 00:34:37.300 --> 00:34:41.360 rivalry with Ethan Page, which started back before 00:34:41.360 --> 00:34:45.260 our coverage began, but started sort of mid -December, 00:34:45.260 --> 00:34:48.280 I believe, when Ethan Page decided to completely 00:34:48.280 --> 00:34:56.650 decimate Javon Evans' jaw. Now... Towards the 00:34:56.650 --> 00:35:01.829 end of this match we see Ober Femi himself come 00:35:01.829 --> 00:35:08.670 out and attack Javon Evans by hitting a fall 00:35:08.670 --> 00:35:13.690 from Grace right onto the edge of the edge of 00:35:13.690 --> 00:35:17.010 the ring apron which the ref hadn't seen at the 00:35:17.010 --> 00:35:23.510 time as they were King and Evans were outside 00:35:23.510 --> 00:35:26.929 the ring Evans very much in control, rolling 00:35:26.929 --> 00:35:30.070 King back into the ring due to go back in himself 00:35:30.070 --> 00:35:32.989 when he gets attacked from Oberfemi behind and 00:35:32.989 --> 00:35:36.130 then you're caught up to where we get to now 00:35:36.130 --> 00:35:41.090 because the ref was busy tending to King at this 00:35:41.090 --> 00:35:44.489 point he didn't see Oberfemi come out he didn't 00:35:44.489 --> 00:35:49.750 see Oberfemi attack He didn't see Oberfemi attack 00:35:49.750 --> 00:35:53.710 Jevon Evans. It's a case that all he saw was 00:35:53.710 --> 00:35:56.309 he turned round, saw Jevon Evans on the floor 00:35:56.309 --> 00:36:00.429 outside of the ring and Oberfemi was there as 00:36:00.429 --> 00:36:05.409 well. The two events could be very easily misconstrued 00:36:05.409 --> 00:36:08.630 if you don't have the proper context behind it. 00:36:08.989 --> 00:36:11.929 So the ref called it right down the middle. 100 00:36:11.929 --> 00:36:15.960 % agree with the call on that one. but begins 00:36:15.960 --> 00:36:24.260 the ring out count and because of Ethan Page 00:36:24.260 --> 00:36:26.699 having taken a fall from Grace right on the ring 00:36:26.699 --> 00:36:30.480 apron it is a case that he's not getting up quick 00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:32.380 enough to make it back into the ring and ends 00:36:32.380 --> 00:36:37.639 up losing this match via count out which is an 00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:40.760 abysmal way to lose a match but under the circumstances 00:36:40.760 --> 00:36:46.360 I think we can very much very much forgive the 00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:50.780 young man for it. So Evans does eventually make 00:36:50.780 --> 00:36:53.199 his way back into the ring, but makes his way 00:36:53.199 --> 00:36:56.719 back into the ring having been being stalked 00:36:56.719 --> 00:37:04.960 by the ruler himself, Ober Femi. And as Evans 00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:07.860 gets to his feet, Ober Femi and Evans get into 00:37:07.860 --> 00:37:11.539 it. As that happens, we lose the lights in the 00:37:11.539 --> 00:37:14.179 performance center the lights just go completely 00:37:14.179 --> 00:37:17.840 out and when the lights are returned to us it 00:37:17.840 --> 00:37:22.000 is a case that we see that dark state have appeared 00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:27.639 around the arena or around scattered in among 00:37:27.639 --> 00:37:32.119 the the audience and instead of them physically 00:37:32.119 --> 00:37:35.039 getting involved apparently their very presence 00:37:35.039 --> 00:37:39.170 was enough to spark utter chaos but Not that 00:37:39.170 --> 00:37:47.110 Oberfemi and Jevon Evans were able to see any 00:37:47.110 --> 00:37:49.190 of that as they were too busy fighting with one 00:37:49.190 --> 00:37:54.070 another. Oberfemi gets Evans in a position for 00:37:54.070 --> 00:37:58.489 a fall from grace where Evans ducks out of it. 00:37:59.550 --> 00:38:02.730 and unfortunately just really cannot catch a 00:38:02.730 --> 00:38:06.449 break as he manages to catch a trick shot from 00:38:06.449 --> 00:38:10.150 Trick Williams who comes darting into the ring 00:38:10.150 --> 00:38:17.909 and yeah Evans is just completely knocked out 00:38:17.909 --> 00:38:20.750 of the ring and we don't see him for the rest 00:38:20.750 --> 00:38:25.110 of the segment now It is at this point where 00:38:25.110 --> 00:38:27.610 we have Ober Femi and Trick Williams in the ring 00:38:27.610 --> 00:38:32.710 together where they will Where they well, yeah, 00:38:33.090 --> 00:38:34.929 everybody just wants them to get it on get it 00:38:34.929 --> 00:38:37.090 get the fight over and done with let's get it 00:38:37.090 --> 00:38:41.929 Let's get it done. Let's get it sorted and At 00:38:41.929 --> 00:38:45.289 this point every ref security guard official 00:38:45.289 --> 00:38:48.369 in the building comes out to make sure that that 00:38:48.409 --> 00:38:52.090 basically doesn't happen. I think what we're 00:38:52.090 --> 00:38:55.710 essentially building to here is an Obert Femi 00:38:55.710 --> 00:39:01.849 versus Trick Williams at Stand and Deliver which 00:39:01.849 --> 00:39:05.429 is obviously WrestleMania weekend which is fast 00:39:05.429 --> 00:39:12.909 approaching. Now that is sort of the end of that 00:39:12.909 --> 00:39:17.210 little segment. we go in the edit it basically 00:39:17.210 --> 00:39:20.829 cuts out the the video and then fades back up 00:39:21.159 --> 00:39:25.539 on Gigi Dolin and Tatum Paxley coming to the 00:39:25.539 --> 00:39:31.739 ring for a tag team match versus the Metagirls 00:39:31.739 --> 00:39:36.300 Lash legend and Jakara Jackson. Now this match 00:39:36.300 --> 00:39:41.139 was born out of the chaos that erupted backstage 00:39:41.139 --> 00:39:45.719 in the women's division following Stephanie Vacure's 00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:50.510 match. at the beginning of the card or following 00:39:50.510 --> 00:39:55.769 the conclusion thereof. Now, it's important to 00:39:55.769 --> 00:39:59.849 know that we found out obviously that Gigi Dolin 00:39:59.849 --> 00:40:07.630 and Tatum Paxley have a match versus the TNA 00:40:07.630 --> 00:40:11.289 Women's Tag Team Champions whose names escape 00:40:11.289 --> 00:40:16.869 me at this moment. on Thursday So that would 00:40:16.869 --> 00:40:20.869 be if this is the 25th the Thursday would be 00:40:20.869 --> 00:40:26.050 the 27th. So on the 27th of March They have a 00:40:26.050 --> 00:40:30.530 match for the TNA tag team championship belts 00:40:30.530 --> 00:40:35.210 now I'm recording this on the 28th and honestly 00:40:35.210 --> 00:40:38.289 haven't a clue who won. I wasn't even aware of 00:40:38.289 --> 00:40:43.110 the match until I finished until I finished making 00:40:43.110 --> 00:40:47.070 notes, which was about 20 minutes before I started 00:40:47.070 --> 00:40:51.050 recording this episode. So I'm not sure who it 00:40:51.050 --> 00:40:53.670 is who won that match, but I'm sure we will find 00:40:53.670 --> 00:40:59.090 out on NXT next week. Anyway, this match, I'm 00:40:59.090 --> 00:41:02.929 always a fan of watching Gigi Dolin and Tate 00:41:02.929 --> 00:41:06.780 and Paxley and that entire clique. sort of perform 00:41:06.780 --> 00:41:11.559 because they are so unusual and resourceful and 00:41:11.559 --> 00:41:14.760 yeah, just so unorthodox. It's really entertaining 00:41:14.760 --> 00:41:20.900 to watch. But having said that, I am a bit of 00:41:20.900 --> 00:41:23.039 a fan of the Metagirls as well. They're a bit 00:41:23.039 --> 00:41:27.320 more grungy. They are sort of really down in 00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:31.539 the depths of it all. It's a case that they will 00:41:31.539 --> 00:41:37.079 ground and pound the hell out of you. So two 00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:41.480 vastly different teams, equally as successful 00:41:41.480 --> 00:41:46.480 in my view. So really enjoyed this match. One 00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:48.659 of the spots, and I feel like we're going to 00:41:48.659 --> 00:41:51.340 do this every time we see Tate and Paxley wrestle, 00:41:51.860 --> 00:41:55.380 because every time I've seen her in a live TV 00:41:55.380 --> 00:41:59.800 match so far, she has pulled this weird ass submission 00:41:59.800 --> 00:42:03.639 move, which is a little bit like a cross between 00:42:03.639 --> 00:42:09.769 a camel clutch and a rack. where she's literally 00:42:09.769 --> 00:42:13.110 on her back on the bottom suspends her opponent 00:42:13.110 --> 00:42:17.510 using her arms and legs and Holds in this really 00:42:17.510 --> 00:42:22.590 weird position. It's difficult to So you have 00:42:22.590 --> 00:42:25.809 to see it to believe it but it is incredibly 00:42:25.809 --> 00:42:29.849 impressive and incredibly effective as well now 00:42:29.849 --> 00:42:32.789 I didn't get a massive amount other than this 00:42:32.789 --> 00:42:35.989 as Yeah, I just genuinely enjoyed the match. 00:42:36.869 --> 00:42:40.369 But I did note that at one point, the Meta Girls 00:42:40.369 --> 00:42:43.289 had a rare miscommunication where they did actually 00:42:43.289 --> 00:42:48.690 end up running into one another. And Tatum and 00:42:48.690 --> 00:42:52.809 Gigi hit something called a Cemetery Drive, which 00:42:52.809 --> 00:42:57.110 is like a tag team finisher. And it was beautiful. 00:42:57.610 --> 00:43:01.989 It's like a pendulum cartwheel slam sort of thing 00:43:01.989 --> 00:43:05.070 but they both do it so they've got fantastic 00:43:05.070 --> 00:43:07.329 teamwork to be able to pull something like that 00:43:07.329 --> 00:43:11.210 off in my view and just really really good to 00:43:11.210 --> 00:43:13.630 watch but they got the three count to win which 00:43:13.630 --> 00:43:16.789 gives them amazing momentum going into that tna 00:43:16.789 --> 00:43:22.230 tag team match now The next thing we got was 00:43:22.230 --> 00:43:27.449 a VT promo featuring Tony D 'Angelo at the Don, 00:43:28.130 --> 00:43:32.050 in that restaurant setting we see him in so very 00:43:32.050 --> 00:43:36.010 often, seemingly flanked by a couple of goons. 00:43:36.829 --> 00:43:39.550 I'm calling them goons not because they are in 00:43:39.550 --> 00:43:44.809 any way sort of goonish, but more to say like 00:43:44.809 --> 00:43:47.829 hired goons. They are mafia goons. They are... 00:43:49.640 --> 00:43:56.320 muscle, bodyguards, essentially. And we then 00:43:56.320 --> 00:44:00.539 see the rest of the family come in. We see Rizzo, 00:44:00.800 --> 00:44:04.559 Crucifino, Stacks, all come in, sit down at the 00:44:04.559 --> 00:44:09.659 table. And first thing, Crucifino pipes up and 00:44:09.659 --> 00:44:13.199 says, Oh, Don, are you OK? Obviously, last week 00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:18.079 we saw Tony D 'Angelo was backstage for the six 00:44:18.079 --> 00:44:20.760 -man tag match between the D 'Angelo family and 00:44:20.760 --> 00:44:24.760 the Culling and the Culling ended up walking 00:44:24.760 --> 00:44:28.179 out victorious because Tony D 'Angelo got attacked 00:44:28.179 --> 00:44:35.989 by Dark State backstage. The Don says he's okay, 00:44:36.170 --> 00:44:38.750 but he's not happy at the fact that they don't 00:44:38.750 --> 00:44:42.130 seem to know anything about Dark State. And the 00:44:42.130 --> 00:44:44.670 Don is very much in the same boat as we are. 00:44:44.670 --> 00:44:47.130 We don't know a massive amount about them either. 00:44:47.670 --> 00:44:52.010 So the Don sends Rizzo and Crucifino out to go 00:44:52.010 --> 00:44:55.510 and get some intel on Dark State so that they 00:44:55.510 --> 00:44:58.670 are better prepared to deal with them. So it 00:44:58.670 --> 00:45:01.570 seems like the family is really stepping up to 00:45:01.570 --> 00:45:04.199 deal with the Dark State. Problem if you want 00:45:04.199 --> 00:45:08.039 to call it a problem, but yeah one way or another 00:45:08.039 --> 00:45:15.360 we're getting a solve to this issue now D 'Angelo 00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:20.239 asks stacks to hang back and he starts talking 00:45:20.239 --> 00:45:25.349 to stacks about trust now I very much got the 00:45:25.349 --> 00:45:27.710 impression that D 'Angelo is starting to really 00:45:27.710 --> 00:45:31.909 mistrust Stax's motives. Whether he thinks that 00:45:31.909 --> 00:45:35.289 Stax is vying for control of the family, I'm 00:45:35.289 --> 00:45:39.929 not sure, but ultimately it's all going to come 00:45:39.929 --> 00:45:42.630 to a head soon, I think. I don't think the D 00:45:42.630 --> 00:45:45.989 'Angelo family unfortunately has much more legs 00:45:45.989 --> 00:45:50.260 left in it. Hopefully they uncover some useful 00:45:50.260 --> 00:45:53.719 information about Dark State before that ever 00:45:53.719 --> 00:45:58.539 comes to pass sort of thing, but we'll soon see. 00:45:59.840 --> 00:46:04.300 We then go from that VT into a backstage promo 00:46:04.300 --> 00:46:08.239 where we see Hank and Tank talking to Motor City 00:46:08.239 --> 00:46:13.119 machine guns. about what they may have done wrong 00:46:13.119 --> 00:46:17.559 in their match. And Motor City Machine Guns, 00:46:17.639 --> 00:46:20.360 really supportive, can't fault them for that 00:46:20.360 --> 00:46:22.500 because they basically said, you know what, in 00:46:22.500 --> 00:46:24.639 our view, you did a really good job, you were 00:46:24.639 --> 00:46:28.280 just really unlucky, but... In terms of getting 00:46:28.280 --> 00:46:31.320 to greatness, Motor City Machine Guns very much 00:46:31.320 --> 00:46:35.599 feel like Hank and Tank are going to be championship 00:46:35.599 --> 00:46:38.619 contenders soon. They've just sort of got to 00:46:38.619 --> 00:46:42.900 trust the process a little bit. Very much, they 00:46:42.900 --> 00:46:46.400 can't afford to continue to compare themselves 00:46:46.400 --> 00:46:51.340 to all these big time tag team champions because 00:46:51.340 --> 00:46:55.780 realistically, it's a case that... They're gonna 00:46:55.780 --> 00:46:59.380 they're not gonna follow the same path progression 00:46:59.380 --> 00:47:03.360 as the Motor City machine guns did as the Hardy 00:47:03.360 --> 00:47:08.559 boys did as the Street Profits did as DIY the 00:47:08.559 --> 00:47:15.639 war Raiders The Dudley's Edge and Christian so 00:47:15.639 --> 00:47:19.880 many tag teams followed so many different progressions. 00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:24.840 I mean team hell no one of the most dysfunctional 00:47:24.840 --> 00:47:28.179 teams ever going, but they secured championships 00:47:28.179 --> 00:47:31.460 at the end of the day. So whatever they did worked. 00:47:32.739 --> 00:47:35.219 So yeah, Hank and Tank have just got to sort 00:47:35.219 --> 00:47:39.260 of stick with it. The payout is coming. They've 00:47:39.260 --> 00:47:43.440 just got to keep, stay the course, keep up the 00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:47.260 energy and they will get there. Next up on the 00:47:47.260 --> 00:47:50.760 card was the... Fifth match of the night was 00:47:50.760 --> 00:47:53.940 a men's singles match, which sees Ethan Page 00:47:53.940 --> 00:47:57.900 versus Andre Chase. And Andre Chase is accompanied 00:47:57.900 --> 00:48:01.719 to the ring by Cale Dixon and Uriah Connors. 00:48:02.980 --> 00:48:05.619 Neither of which have much consequence, if I'm 00:48:05.619 --> 00:48:08.199 completely honest with you, but yeah, it's one 00:48:08.199 --> 00:48:12.869 of those. But... We see. The most interesting 00:48:12.869 --> 00:48:16.989 point to begin with is that this match was obviously 00:48:16.989 --> 00:48:20.530 born out of a backstage promo earlier in the 00:48:20.530 --> 00:48:24.530 night, where Andre Chase and Ethan Page have 00:48:24.530 --> 00:48:30.469 some cross words, basically, about things that 00:48:30.469 --> 00:48:34.510 Uriah Connors has... No, about things that Cale 00:48:34.510 --> 00:48:42.320 Dixon has said. Now... During Ethan Page's entrance, 00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:48.659 we see Ricky Saints just sort of completely blow 00:48:48.659 --> 00:48:53.559 past Ethan Page. Now, Ethan Page and Ricky Saints 00:48:53.559 --> 00:48:56.820 have had crosswords in the past where Ethan Page 00:48:56.820 --> 00:49:03.300 is another one of these people that says that 00:49:03.300 --> 00:49:07.420 saints doesn't belong and that he is... Yeah, 00:49:07.860 --> 00:49:13.500 he's basically he's no good. But Ricky Sates 00:49:13.500 --> 00:49:17.179 blows past Ethan Page in his own entrance and 00:49:17.179 --> 00:49:19.699 goes and takes up a commentary position, which 00:49:19.699 --> 00:49:23.960 is where he stays for the entirety of this match, 00:49:23.980 --> 00:49:27.869 basically. And even then. When he's on commentary, 00:49:27.969 --> 00:49:31.690 he doesn't have an awful lot to say when he's 00:49:31.690 --> 00:49:34.949 there I feel like it was just an excuse to maybe 00:49:34.949 --> 00:49:37.530 try and get in Ethan Page's head potentially 00:49:37.530 --> 00:49:40.849 or something along those lines I think he was 00:49:40.849 --> 00:49:44.829 actively going out of his way to find a way of 00:49:44.829 --> 00:49:48.369 getting under getting under his skin basically 00:49:48.369 --> 00:49:57.719 Now So, Ethan Page, we've seen it before where 00:49:57.719 --> 00:50:01.460 he deals some quite clinical damage. It's a case 00:50:01.460 --> 00:50:05.699 that he's very, when he competes, he is very 00:50:05.699 --> 00:50:08.920 sort of precise with his movements. Nothing is 00:50:08.920 --> 00:50:11.559 ever out of place. It is a case that everything 00:50:11.559 --> 00:50:15.840 has a time and a place for when he wants to commit 00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:20.469 to that move. This in the case of when you're 00:50:20.469 --> 00:50:24.130 facing somebody like Jevon Evans who is high 00:50:24.130 --> 00:50:28.070 -energy high -pace high -flying Isn't up an approach 00:50:28.070 --> 00:50:31.190 you want to be able to do it's a case that you're 00:50:31.190 --> 00:50:35.090 gonna you're gonna struggle otherwise but in 00:50:35.090 --> 00:50:37.809 the case of going up against somebody like Andre 00:50:37.809 --> 00:50:41.650 Chase who hasn't really competed the last time 00:50:41.650 --> 00:50:45.369 we saw Andre Chase compete it was a bit of a 00:50:45.369 --> 00:50:47.610 squash match to be honest it wasn't the best 00:50:47.610 --> 00:50:51.309 showing for him considering it was mine and Rich's 00:50:51.309 --> 00:50:56.550 introduction now this version of Andre Chase 00:50:56.550 --> 00:51:00.030 that we got on this match was a little bit more 00:51:00.400 --> 00:51:03.559 Little bit more what I came to expect from the 00:51:03.559 --> 00:51:09.420 leader of a previous faction sort of thing No 00:51:09.420 --> 00:51:15.880 There weren't sort of met too many high spots 00:51:15.880 --> 00:51:27.500 as such it is a case that It is a case that We 00:51:27.500 --> 00:51:31.389 saw Page getting distracted by Uriah Connors 00:51:31.389 --> 00:51:33.510 and Cale Dixon at ringside, which earned him 00:51:33.510 --> 00:51:36.809 a super kick to the chops, which after everything 00:51:36.809 --> 00:51:39.190 that he did to Jovan Evans, I'm always happy 00:51:39.190 --> 00:51:46.650 to see Ethan Page get kicked in the trap. And 00:51:46.650 --> 00:51:53.070 yeah, I feel like we, at one point we saw some 00:51:53.070 --> 00:51:57.210 hints of what the old Andre Chase was like when 00:51:57.210 --> 00:52:01.409 chase you was a thing but he sort of he very 00:52:01.409 --> 00:52:03.630 much sort of caught himself he was in a fight 00:52:03.630 --> 00:52:08.230 with himself to sort of let that individual loose 00:52:08.230 --> 00:52:14.329 but regardless it is a case that chase still 00:52:14.329 --> 00:52:18.250 manages to deliver a awesome looking neck breaker 00:52:18.250 --> 00:52:22.429 on the apron as well as a tornado DDT from the 00:52:22.429 --> 00:52:26.869 top rope but ultimately it is not Andre Chase's 00:52:26.869 --> 00:52:30.989 night to win tonight. It is a case that he took 00:52:30.989 --> 00:52:33.849 the bump, he took the drop, whatever you want 00:52:33.849 --> 00:52:37.750 to call it. He took the L on this one as Paige 00:52:37.750 --> 00:52:45.929 hits a twisted grin for a three count. And yeah, 00:52:46.789 --> 00:52:50.130 it's after this match that the real sort of storyline 00:52:50.130 --> 00:52:54.519 stuff gets kicked in. Paige and Saints get into 00:52:54.519 --> 00:52:57.739 a bit of a shouting match but the shouting match 00:52:57.739 --> 00:53:01.980 is cut short by none other than Sean Spears and 00:53:01.980 --> 00:53:05.460 the rest of the culling as they go and blindside 00:53:05.460 --> 00:53:11.760 Ricky Saints at ringside and yeah it's it's a 00:53:11.760 --> 00:53:16.300 case that he in doing this Sean Spears pretty 00:53:16.300 --> 00:53:23.380 much cemented Ricky Spears is united North American 00:53:23.380 --> 00:53:26.760 Championship match for next week, which has been 00:53:26.760 --> 00:53:30.579 announced so NXT next week We get to see Ricky 00:53:30.579 --> 00:53:34.219 Saints versus Shawn Spears for the North American 00:53:34.219 --> 00:53:37.639 men's title Which is most likely going to be 00:53:37.639 --> 00:53:43.630 the main event. Let's face it now Following on 00:53:43.630 --> 00:53:48.230 from that we see a very short social media VT, 00:53:48.789 --> 00:53:52.150 which is basically a video pulled from Axe, formerly 00:53:52.150 --> 00:53:57.789 Twitter, which sees the members of Dark State 00:53:57.789 --> 00:54:00.789 recording themselves out in the parking lot being, 00:54:01.530 --> 00:54:06.269 well... pretty proud of what they've managed 00:54:06.269 --> 00:54:09.030 to achieve and reveling in the fact that they 00:54:09.030 --> 00:54:12.570 don't even have to get their hands dirty to cause 00:54:12.570 --> 00:54:16.550 utter chaos in NXT anymore. I mean, yeah, what 00:54:16.550 --> 00:54:19.570 more could you ask for as somebody coming in 00:54:19.570 --> 00:54:22.710 wanting to cause interference at the end of the 00:54:22.710 --> 00:54:28.079 day? We then remain in the car park, just a different 00:54:28.079 --> 00:54:31.199 part of the car park, where cameras seem to catch 00:54:31.199 --> 00:54:33.860 up with Trick Williams on his way out of the 00:54:33.860 --> 00:54:37.139 building, asking if basically he meant to hit 00:54:37.139 --> 00:54:41.500 Jevon Evans tonight. Now Williams is sort of 00:54:41.500 --> 00:54:44.739 unapologetic, but does say that he was aiming 00:54:44.739 --> 00:54:49.059 for Ober Femi, in which case I think Jevon Evans 00:54:49.059 --> 00:54:51.380 might need to go to Specsavers if he can't tell 00:54:51.380 --> 00:54:54.449 the difference between the human gorilla that 00:54:54.449 --> 00:54:57.869 is Ober Femi and the human pipe cleaner that 00:54:57.869 --> 00:55:01.730 is Javon Evans. He definitely hit the harder 00:55:01.730 --> 00:55:08.650 to hit out of the two. It's a case that you don't 00:55:08.650 --> 00:55:15.769 get those two mixed up. And basically... Trix 00:55:15.769 --> 00:55:19.889 doesn't feel that Dark State is his business 00:55:19.889 --> 00:55:22.550 even though this is now the second time in a 00:55:22.550 --> 00:55:26.849 row that they have been in the arena, been present 00:55:26.849 --> 00:55:30.909 and known at the same time as Trix Williams is 00:55:30.909 --> 00:55:35.849 out there and honestly at this stage it wouldn't... 00:55:35.849 --> 00:55:39.610 I floated a theory last week between myself and 00:55:39.610 --> 00:55:45.559 Rich that... Jevon Evans was going to find some 00:55:45.559 --> 00:55:48.960 way to be involved with Dark State potentially 00:55:48.960 --> 00:55:52.219 just because of his youth and all of that. I've 00:55:52.219 --> 00:55:55.559 got an odd feeling that Dark State is going to 00:55:55.559 --> 00:55:59.019 have been whipped up by Trick Williams and we're 00:55:59.019 --> 00:56:01.980 going to see that unfold as the weeks go forward. 00:56:02.519 --> 00:56:07.199 It just seemed a little bit coincidental that 00:56:07.630 --> 00:56:11.929 the distraction was good enough to benefit Trick 00:56:11.929 --> 00:56:14.550 Williams and he seems to have been the only one 00:56:14.550 --> 00:56:20.190 that has benefited thus far so yeah it's it's 00:56:20.190 --> 00:56:22.610 a bit odd it wouldn't shock me if Trick Williams 00:56:22.610 --> 00:56:25.429 ends up with dark state in some way shape or 00:56:25.429 --> 00:56:31.050 form but we don't know anything just yet now 00:56:31.050 --> 00:56:36.570 this brings us to the final matchup of the evening, 00:56:36.849 --> 00:56:42.190 the main event of the evening. The Women's North 00:56:42.190 --> 00:56:47.409 American Championship title match between Stephanie 00:56:47.409 --> 00:56:54.550 Vacure and Fallon Henley. Now after what happened, 00:56:54.769 --> 00:57:00.030 I will be honest, I doubt I'm in doubt of Ava's 00:57:00.030 --> 00:57:03.619 decision -making ability as I possibly would 00:57:03.619 --> 00:57:06.380 have banned the rest of Fatal Influence from 00:57:06.380 --> 00:57:12.239 ringside to prevent any further involvement and 00:57:12.239 --> 00:57:15.500 because that didn't happen in my view sort of 00:57:15.500 --> 00:57:19.099 it just gave the nod for Fatal Influence to get 00:57:19.099 --> 00:57:22.099 involved any which way they possibly could which 00:57:22.099 --> 00:57:28.820 they 100 % did. It is a case that We saw pretty 00:57:28.820 --> 00:57:32.500 much from the offset, JC Jane got involved trying 00:57:32.500 --> 00:57:38.019 to distract Stephanie Vacure and sort of Fallon 00:57:38.019 --> 00:57:41.579 Henley very much zeroing in on those injuries 00:57:41.579 --> 00:57:46.820 that they caused earlier in the evening. And 00:57:46.820 --> 00:57:49.699 do you know what? This was a real uphill battle 00:57:49.699 --> 00:57:52.360 for Stephanie Vacure. I mean even if she hadn't 00:57:52.360 --> 00:57:55.699 been brutally assaulted after her first match 00:57:55.699 --> 00:57:59.860 she'd only really had about 90 minutes give or 00:57:59.860 --> 00:58:05.400 take to recover from that match and It just isn't 00:58:05.400 --> 00:58:08.559 it wasn't ever gonna be enough realistically 00:58:08.559 --> 00:58:19.239 No It's a case that the numbers game very much 00:58:19.239 --> 00:58:23.159 plays again sort of plays out and is very much 00:58:23.159 --> 00:58:27.280 against Stephanie v cure as it was always going 00:58:27.280 --> 00:58:37.420 to be realistically But Yeah, I feel like I Feel 00:58:37.420 --> 00:58:40.320 like the ref may have missed a few opportunities 00:58:40.320 --> 00:58:42.880 to have kicked the rest of fatal influence out 00:58:44.110 --> 00:58:46.829 the ref was more than aware of what was going 00:58:46.829 --> 00:58:49.409 on it wasn't that they were completely oblivious 00:58:49.409 --> 00:58:51.969 to it i just feel like they they turned a bit 00:58:51.969 --> 00:58:55.869 of a blind eye to it there was no there was nothing 00:58:55.869 --> 00:59:02.010 to be gained from that realistically but as far 00:59:02.010 --> 00:59:05.869 as i'm aware Stephanie Vacure ends up doing something 00:59:05.869 --> 00:59:09.710 that we've never really seen anybody do before 00:59:09.710 --> 00:59:16.320 and that is she successfully defends two different 00:59:16.320 --> 00:59:21.079 singles titles on the same night as obviously 00:59:21.079 --> 00:59:26.380 she retained her NXT Women's Championship against 00:59:26.380 --> 00:59:30.760 Jada Parker at the very beginning of the card 00:59:30.760 --> 00:59:34.340 and at the very end despite having to go through 00:59:34.340 --> 00:59:39.949 absolute hell. And I mean, she gets... thrown 00:59:39.949 --> 00:59:43.489 out to ringside for Jasmine Knicks to hit a Knicks 00:59:43.489 --> 00:59:48.250 kick a Knicks kick pretty much square in the 00:59:48.250 --> 00:59:54.909 middle of the face and yeah it is a case that 00:59:54.909 --> 00:59:57.389 she very much struggles to get any offense going 00:59:57.389 --> 01:00:01.369 because of the injury she suffered to her midsection 01:00:01.369 --> 01:00:04.650 during that assault earlier in the evening by 01:00:04.650 --> 01:00:12.659 her current opponent and But she, so Jasmine 01:00:12.659 --> 01:00:16.699 Nix jumps to the apron to basically try and cause 01:00:16.699 --> 01:00:23.099 yet another distraction. It comes at turnabout 01:00:23.099 --> 01:00:26.639 fair play as Fallon Henley is pushed into Jasmine 01:00:26.639 --> 01:00:31.949 Nix to knock, to knock. some sense, either into 01:00:31.949 --> 01:00:36.750 or out of both of them to then go, as Viqueur 01:00:36.750 --> 01:00:40.289 manages, despite the midsection injuries, manages 01:00:40.289 --> 01:00:46.210 to hit an SVB to retain the second championship. 01:00:47.429 --> 01:00:50.210 And Fatal Influence do what Fatal Influence always 01:00:50.210 --> 01:00:55.789 do. They have an entire grip of sour grapes. 01:00:57.150 --> 01:01:01.670 as they set about Roy just trying to do as much 01:01:01.670 --> 01:01:05.230 damage as they can to an already banged up Stephanie 01:01:05.230 --> 01:01:09.150 Vicure who quite honestly didn't seem able to 01:01:09.150 --> 01:01:13.789 work to defend herself at all which is when we 01:01:13.789 --> 01:01:19.289 see Jordan Grace come out and save the double 01:01:19.289 --> 01:01:25.739 champ to the point that I think she picks up 01:01:25.739 --> 01:01:31.239 I think it was JC Jane she picked up and and 01:01:31.239 --> 01:01:33.980 Kicked Fallon Henley and then used JC Jane on 01:01:33.980 --> 01:01:37.219 her shoulders to knock down Jasmine Knicks as 01:01:37.219 --> 01:01:41.539 well. So Literally, it was everything everywhere 01:01:41.539 --> 01:01:45.840 all at once and it was it was a sight to see 01:01:45.840 --> 01:01:52.050 it really was but after clearing the ring of 01:01:52.050 --> 01:01:57.309 fatal influence we see that Fallon Henley collects 01:01:57.309 --> 01:02:00.869 up Stephanie vicuose defended championship belts 01:02:00.869 --> 01:02:04.010 hands back the North American title with no issue 01:02:04.010 --> 01:02:08.130 at all But very much lays her makes her intentions 01:02:08.130 --> 01:02:12.909 known that she is going gunning for that NXT 01:02:12.909 --> 01:02:17.949 women's champion a championship as she Struggles 01:02:17.949 --> 01:02:20.550 to let go of that championship belt when hanging 01:02:20.550 --> 01:02:25.880 handing it back to La Primera And, do you know 01:02:25.880 --> 01:02:28.980 what? I've actually got a bit of a theory. Now, 01:02:29.139 --> 01:02:32.780 Jordan Grace, Jordan Grace's contract with TNA, 01:02:33.059 --> 01:02:35.559 when she was previously with TNA before coming 01:02:35.559 --> 01:02:39.599 to WWE, ended pretty much as soon as she'd managed 01:02:39.599 --> 01:02:43.219 to get pen to paper with WWE. The transition 01:02:43.219 --> 01:02:47.900 was almost seamless. And I questioned it at the 01:02:47.900 --> 01:02:49.920 time, but didn't really have enough to go on. 01:02:50.320 --> 01:02:53.239 I've got an odd feeling that... She's gonna challenge 01:02:53.239 --> 01:02:57.619 for the NXT Women's title and get the NXT Women's 01:02:57.619 --> 01:03:02.400 title. We're then gonna see her reveal that she's 01:03:02.400 --> 01:03:05.739 worked for TNA all along, or she's gonna go back 01:03:05.739 --> 01:03:09.699 to TNA with that NXT Women's Championship. And 01:03:09.699 --> 01:03:12.280 it's, yeah, I feel like that's how it's gonna 01:03:12.280 --> 01:03:16.030 work. And it's all gonna sort of come. it's all 01:03:16.030 --> 01:03:18.130 going to come to a head at stand and deliver 01:03:18.130 --> 01:03:21.630 which just makes it all the more exciting for 01:03:21.630 --> 01:03:26.230 us wrestling fans. Now the action in ring wasn't 01:03:26.230 --> 01:03:30.070 quite done there as Jada Parker comes to try 01:03:30.070 --> 01:03:34.969 and take a shot at Jordan Grace but ultimately 01:03:34.969 --> 01:03:38.869 gets knocked back as the juggernaut goes into 01:03:38.869 --> 01:03:45.320 beast mode and we cut to backstage where the 01:03:45.320 --> 01:03:48.079 rest of the women's division was obviously as 01:03:48.079 --> 01:03:51.119 the same as they were with the first of Stephanie 01:03:51.119 --> 01:03:54.760 Vacure's matches. They were watching on the monitors 01:03:54.760 --> 01:03:58.039 and this is where I sort of had to feel sorry 01:03:58.039 --> 01:04:01.400 for Ava a little bit as she was then flooded 01:04:01.400 --> 01:04:05.860 with different superstars coming to her saying 01:04:05.860 --> 01:04:09.019 I want to be the next opponent that bitch is 01:04:09.019 --> 01:04:13.860 mine and they want a shot at the belt and Ava's 01:04:13.860 --> 01:04:15.780 got to come up with a way of trying to determine 01:04:15.780 --> 01:04:19.320 who the next number one contender is. So I smell 01:04:19.320 --> 01:04:25.500 a tournament of brewing. And NXT this week finishes 01:04:25.500 --> 01:04:29.139 cutting back to the ring with Jordan Grace and 01:04:29.139 --> 01:04:36.780 Stephanie Vecure nose to nose. Obviously. animosity 01:04:36.780 --> 01:04:42.019 brewing for both La Primera and the juggernaut 01:04:42.019 --> 01:04:46.380 and we are on the well and truly on the last 01:04:46.380 --> 01:04:53.460 ditch road to stand and deliver now I have covered 01:04:53.460 --> 01:04:59.559 everything and I mean everything to do with NXT 01:04:59.559 --> 01:05:04.400 this week and it has been my absolute pleasure 01:05:04.400 --> 01:05:09.980 to host this episode of the podcast. Now, we 01:05:09.980 --> 01:05:17.260 will return back to normal form when we do Finisher's 01:05:17.260 --> 01:05:23.159 and Faction's does Friday night smackdown from 01:05:23.159 --> 01:05:26.519 London, England. It's getting ever closer to 01:05:26.519 --> 01:05:30.030 mine and Rich's home turf here and we are Loving 01:05:30.030 --> 01:05:34.809 it. So thank you so much for coming to listen 01:05:34.809 --> 01:05:40.769 to me blather on for over an hour about wrestling 01:05:40.769 --> 01:05:47.610 and WWE and NXT. And we can't wait to see you 01:05:47.610 --> 01:05:51.730 back here again. So see you later, taters.