And welcome to another episode of Finishes and
Factions Does NXT. Yet again, we are coming to
you from the WWE Performance Center in Lando,
Florida. And after such a phenomenal roar the
night before, NXT had a lot to match up with.
But introductions first. I, of course, am your
host, Adam. I am doing this on my own this week
just because Rich had some family issues that
he had to deal with. He wanted to be, yeah, he
had other shit he needed to do. So as a good
co -host, I step in and take the reins. Now,
we are looking this week at, well, I mean...
Even straight from the off, we had an opening
interview promo with Stephanie Vacure as she
makes her way to the ring. She will reveal that
she is calling her shop for Stand and Deliver
tonight. This very evening she is doing that.
as she makes her way from backstage into the
into the performance area and she will be at
ringside for the very first match which is a
women's singles match featuring Jordan Grace
and Jada Parker and honestly this match came
across much more than it came across less like
a wrestling match and more like a straight up
fight as these two forces clashed almost immediately.
It was a phenomenal match. And if you haven't
seen it, please go and watch it. But of course,
I will break down my personal highlights for
you. Jada Parker with a huge blockbuster at one
point during the match. Parker trots out some
of her classics as well, like that corner bomb
that she so happily does. Grace showing off that
immense strength and power that seems to be just
her signature trademark at the moment. There
were a few missteps as well. Grace seems to go
for a dive through the ropes but fumbles it.
I think her knees or her feet might get caught
on the middle rope as she's making her exit.
But this is one of the reasons they call it high
risk, folks, and one of the reasons why here
at Finishes and Factions we emulate the WWE's
message of do not try this at home. These are
trained professionals, of course. Now... As I
mean the match itself ends in a no contest because
Stephanie Vecure cannot seem to keep herself
out of the action here She seems to be seems
to have gotten herself involved. It ends in a
complete no contest and honestly the match just
degenerates down into a full -on fight between
Stephanie Vercure, Jordan Grace and Jada Parker.
We are no closer at this stage to knowing what
the the outcome of this is going to be but just
as quickly as it starts it changes into a very
much a two -on -one situation where Jordan and
Jada both go in after the champion in this case
and they are not stopping for anything well until
Of course, we see the return of the former NXT
Women's Champion, Julia, who we haven't seen
since she lost her title a good few weeks ago,
to Stephanie Vakir herself. And seems to come
out to very much help her friend, one of her
very best friends. But even that seems to be
a complete fugazi as - As soon as the ring is
cleared, even to the shock of Jordan Grace and
Jada Parker themselves, Julia hits a Northern
Lights bomb to Stephanie Vacure to end the segment.
I mean, we end the segment with shock painted
well and truly across the faces of both Jordan
Grace and Jada Parker, and we are just left with
an image of... Julia with a foot on the face
of the champion with the belt in hand, standing
over the lifeless body of our current women's
champion. And what a way to start NXT this is.
I mean, I don't know about you, but at this point,
I was gassed. We then move on from that match
to the VT recap from last week where we see obviously
Ricky Saints claiming the North American title
from Sean Spears who held it for what seemingly
a very short amount of time for what it was worth.
He hadn't even held it for 20, 30 seconds before
all of a sudden, Ethan Page hit a twisted smile
on him in the middle of that ring. And yeah,
we know that we're getting a programme involving
these two gentlemen coming up so very soon. Yeah,
we had that VT recap and then went into a backstage
promo where we see one of our favorite tag teams
from NXT or one of my favorites anyway is Hank
and Tank still reeling from the tongue -lashing
they got from Nathan Frazier last week and are
joined by Well, the tag team champions opponents
for this week, which is swipe right from WWE
evolution, which is their new developmental brand.
Apparently they're doing some really phenomenal
work down there in evolution. I personally have
not seen it as I honestly between raw SmackDown
and NXT. plus the PLEs and being able to go out
and earn a living, I simply do not have time
to sit and watch more wrestling in my week. It's
one of the reasons why I don't watch any TNA
or AEW either. If I had to watch all of them,
I would have to give up work. And if I give up
work, I'm not going to have anything to watch
those programs on. It is as simple as that. So.
They are basically coming along to offer some
advice obviously in the last few weeks. We've
seen Hank and tank trying Desperately to get
as much advice as they can from different tag
teams basically tank and tanks seem to be suffering
with one hell of a identity crisis as Yeah, it
just carries on from there now Swipe Right do
leave at this point to go for their match versus
Fraxium, which is the next match out. However,
before that happens, we have another VT promo.
Now, this VT is based all around the culling
and basically how, well, everybody apart from
Sean Spears is still reeling from his loss last
week to Ricky Saints, where he lost his title.
Now... The members of the Cullin are trying to
take responsibility. They're trying to say, look,
Sean, we let you down, mate. We let you down
and it didn't go the way we wanted it to. And
Sean is very honest with them and says, look,
I am thankful for the fact that I got a championship
reign while I was at the head of this group,
but ultimately that is not what this group is
about. We are about getting... success for you
guys that's who we're getting it for and we're
gonna start by refocusing and focusing on Izzy
Dame and her qualification for the Women's North
American Championship ladder match at Stand and
Deliver which is later on and Jensen Brooks and
Nico Vance's target is going to be Hank and Tank
this week which is another match we get later
on in the card. Now this does bring us very nicely
back to the second match of the evening which
is a men's tag team match which sees Fraxium
the current NXT men's tag team champions versus
Swipe right which is made up of Brad Baylor and
Ricky smokes again They are from WWE evolution
and honestly, I can't fault what these two gentlemen
put out there. They are incredibly young incredibly
hungry and they put on a fantastic match and
Obviously, we know with fraction. We're gonna
get it thick. We're gonna get it fast and it's
gonna be absolute chaos in the ring but whatever
these gents have been doing has obviously been
working for them as they have ascended to the
tippy top of NXT tag team division but let's
break it down a little bit further as Well, we've
seen in the last week or two there have started
to be cracks forming in Fraxium's armor as It
was revealed. I think it was last week on NXT
or it might have been last week on one of the
main roster shows that Nathan Frazier and Axiom
while tag team partners and obviously that they
hold what every tag team in NXT is going to aspire
to and they are not friends. They do not consider
themselves friends. They consider themselves
allies and associates. And that's the one thing
that I think Axiom wishes he had with Nathan
Fraser. But honestly, Nathan Fraser is coming
across more and more like a narcissist every
time the man opens his mouth as he lives to tear
down his opponents. And yeah, it's giving major
narky vibes. And honestly, I'm not here for it.
Not a fan of Nathan Fraser as a character. His
performance in Ring, however, speaks entirely
for itself. The reason I'm talking about this,
of course, is because Fraxiom have a little disagreement
at the beginning. They can't... decide between
the two of them who's going to start the match.
Soon as they get to that point they're still
arguing and Ricky Smokes of Swipe Right decides
to take advantage and runs and drop Kicks Axiom
off the ring apron to get the match started and
honestly I think if I had to take a choice between
either one of these two gentlemen I would probably
take out Nathan Fraser, especially as he started
this match. And yeah, as I said, we know that
with a Fraxian match, we're going to get it thick,
we're going to get it fast. And they did not
disappoint. Smokes and Baylor managed to work
up an early offence, but ultimately, you're against
a championship team. You're not going to get...
Very far when you're from a developmental brand
and nobody really expected these two to Nobody
really expected these two to walk out of here
with a win. I mean it would have been a massive
upset win if they had But ultimately once Fraxium
gained some control they managed to start increasing
the pace Which is where they like it where they
want it. It means that they're getting what they
need out of the match and yeah there were a few
bits and pieces where Swipe Right still developed
a good amount of offense but ultimately I mean
mover the match did come from Nathan Fraser himself
with a butter smooth float over springboard Double
neck breaker DDT combo and honestly that is the
best way I can think to describe it in words
because otherwise You're gonna have to see this
shit to believe it But Axiom did manage to get
his own move in as well with a super Spanish
fly followed by Frasier hitting a phoenix splash
as Fraxiom gained the win over swipe right, which
closed out that match. Moving on from here, we
know that since last week and Stephanie Vicure
vacated the Women's North American Championship,
there has been a ladder match put together at
Stand and Deliver this year to determine the
new champion. And this will be a six woman ladder
match. The combatants involved are being determined
by qualifying matches last week, this week and
then finally next week as well. Now this next
backstage promo involves seeing Fatal Influence,
which of course is Fallon Henley, former North
American champion. JC Jane and Jasmine Nix who
are discussing the North American Championship
Qualifier. Basically Fallon Hemley as the former
champion believes she's more entitled to enter
the match so comes in and says look I need you
guys in my corner I'm going into the qualifier
match whereas JC Jane sort of points out the
fact that hang on you had the title you lost
it it's my turn and an argument erupts between
the two of them as we sort of see this little
power vacuum evolving between Fallon Henley and
JC Jane, which gives Jasmine Nix a phenomenal
opportunity to just step in and go, actually
ladies, hold my phone, I'm going to go and get
this match, I need you both in my corner. peace
out, basically walks off for the match happily
to go and take part in this match for it. Now,
Jasmine Nix, we haven't seen her compete in a
singles match for over six months. on NXT. We've
seen her a lot in tag team competition, but as
far as a singles competitor goes, I did a quick
bit of research. I think the last time she might
have competed was somewhere around the July mark
of last year. And even then, I don't think she
walked out of that a winner. So she doesn't have
a tremendous amount of like... momentum going
into this match especially considering her qualifier
is to be against the surfer chick herself Sol
Ruka and Sol Ruka has well Sol Ruka obviously
already has skin in the game as Tag Team partner
Zarya has already qualified as well as Kalani
Jordan, both of which will be competing at Stand
and Deliver for that title. Now, this match,
I will be honest, I think Nick's put on a passable
performance, but in terms of the fact that we
haven't seen her on NXT TV compete in a singles
match for over six months, it really showed.
There were some real signs of ring rust to me.
I didn't get a massive amount from her. There
were some brilliant moves. Do not get me wrong.
I mean, she gets Sol Ruka in a headlock, which
admittedly Sol Ruka gets out of it with a handstand,
which could have been massively problematic for
her, but it seems to have worked really well
in her favor on that on that that particular
that particular instance. Nix actually performs
a really smooth move of a, it's called a perfect
plex, into an inverted camel clutch, which I
really like the look of. Whereas... I mean Fallon
Henley and JC Jane were trying to get involved
from the outside trying to give Knicks the best
chance she could have winning but Knicks just
didn't have it in her. She did manage to land
the Knicks kick on Ruka but only manages to score
a two count but Sol Ruka eventually qualifies
for the ladder match at stand and deliver after
hitting a picture perfect soul snatcher for the
win which honestly couldn't have been better
if somebody had drawn it if somebody had animated
that shit it still wouldn't have come out as
perfect looking as that one did and congratulations
to Sol Ruka who moves on as the third entrant
so this match is now at this point in the in
at this point in the episode it is half full
and we are moving swiftly on as Sarah Schreiber
starts the first of three interviews that she
has this evening with the members of the main
event for the evening starting with Jovan Evans
basically asking him about his match now he has
a match later on versus dark state or three members
of dark state of which we haven't been told who
they are just yet and he will be facing them
with his uh stand and deliver opponents the nxt
champion oba femi and the chat and his other
is co -challenger trick williams um now evan
says basically He knew that Dark State was going
to be a problem. He has been trying to point
this out to anyone and everyone that will listen,
but he's just sick of being little bro'd now
because he is such a young superstar. I think
he feels a bit babied by the rest of the roster,
especially Trick Williams and Ober Femi, who
a lot of people seem to compare him to, which
understandably, they share a lot of the same
attributes. But, Javon Evans moves, wrestles,
he conducts himself in an entirely different
way to the ruler and Mr Williams. And he's just
sick of being babied by them. He's not looking
to emulate any of them. He is very much looking
to win on his own terms, being his own man, and
all the rest of it. Now... He is just gonna take
this one step at a time He is focused solely
on beating dark state tonight And then we'll
shift his focus afterwards to over and trick
Williams afterwards Now we do go from there into
the parking lot at the Performance Center where
we see Julia leaving for the evening, I believe,
where she's flagged by a camera crew. Simply
ask, why did you go about attacking what everybody
believed to be your best mate? You had your best
mate there with you and decided, no, I'm going
to attack them. What do you do it for? Now we
have pointed out on this podcast before that
Julia's command of the English language because
she is not an a English is not her first language
has always been sort of Broken but this time
she sort of really plays to it as she simply
responds by saying stand and deliver no friends
rematch I don't think you can get any clearer
than that in this instance because Yeah, she
wants a rematch, which she hasn't officially
had for losing her NXT title. And she also, she's
not going into this thinking of Stephanie as
a friend because Stephanie is her opponent. So
it'll be interesting to see how this plays out
because as we know, part of the trade off for
Stephanie Vacure. abandoning her title or vacating
the North American Championship was that she
got to call her spot for stand and deliver and
the NXT Women's title. Now we move on from here
into match four of the evening where we see Hank
and Tank versus Brooks Jensen and Nico Vance
of The Culling. Now The one thing that I did
find funny about this match was actually something
that happened on the Cullings entrance. So Nico
Vance manages to make it into the ring, no issue
at all. Brooks Jensen, however, seems to have
a real problem getting up the ring steps as he
falls up the steps on his way in and he could
have... He could have tried to ignore it. He
could have gotten really annoyed with himself,
but no fair play to the man He sat there. He
laughed about it as the crowd were laughing well
I think they initially started as laughing at
him But they were laughing with him as a British
person that sees somebody fall over the first
thing that comes to mind is Yeah Basically, the
same thing that happens when waiters drop glasses
or plates in a pub or restaurant. It's the same
all over Britain. So for anybody listening outside
of the UK, you will not understand that reference
at all. Whereas most people in the UK will have
done this or heard this at some point in their
life, if they've ever been to a pub, bar or restaurant.
Anyway. I didn't get a fantastic amount of notes
for this because honestly the fan took over the
podcast it didn't but Hank and Tank had everything
they had all of the right ingredients to get
this going right and just could not close the
deal for it and honestly I felt so sorry for
them and because they came out they did they
wrestled a phenomenal match with some fantastic
spots in it but the culling were just that little
bit more laser focus. They had that little bit
more of an edge coming into the match. And yeah,
it was just a case that the culling ended up
walking out with the victory for that one. It
is a match I implore you to go and watch because
I did genuinely enjoy it. And I think it's easy
to see why I got to a point where I was feeling
a little bit sorry for Hank and Tank by the end
of it. we go from there into an in -ring promo
for the new men's North American champion Ricky
Saints. Now, I haven't been terribly complimentary
about Ricky Saints on finishers and factions,
and the reason why is because I've said it before,
I just don't think he's worth the money. So far,
he hasn't showed me personally what... the money
they are likely to be paying him is paying for.
I just don't see the appeal of Ricky Saints.
He's half decent on the mic, I will give him
that. His in -ring ability? I couldn't do it
but then again I couldn't match the worst superstar
out there. I haven't got the stamina or the athletic
ability to do any of it. But... I think in comparison
to some of his colleagues who are currently in
NXT, I think that he has been brought in with
a lot of bluster and a lot of pomp and circumstance,
but I'm just not seeing where you back that up.
Now... Saints comes out basically talking about
how he's a man of his word He promised us on
day one that he would turn NXT on its head and
in fairness, he's done that he's he's possibly
approached or if not broken a record of the distance
for the distance in time between when a Superstar
debuts in NXT as to when they end up with gold
around their waist because yeah, I think What
are we looking at maybe for six weeks since he
first appeared on NXT? It's got to be somewhere
around there. I think but yeah, it's not been
a tremendously long time But he's turning his
attention to all ego Ethan Page obviously earlier
on we talked about I talked about very quickly
a VT promo that was shown which we saw Ethan
Page put in the new champ down with a with a
twisted smile slam and Yeah, basically Saints
talks about how all egos little ego is obviously
that damage beyond repair that It's obviously
can't take how quickly Saints has got from where
he started to where he is now, and basically
calls Paige out. He's like, dude, seriously,
instead of sneak attacking me, come out and talk
to me like a man, and we'll figure this out.
And we do get somebody come out, but it's not
Ethan Page. So he is joined in the ring by the
current Heritage Cup champion Lexus King now
He hasn't got a very good rap on this On this
podcast either, but that's because he looks like
a complete moron or I might be being a bit strong
there but basically Lexus comes out and says
yeah no I'm looking to expand my golden collection
I've got the Heritage Cup nobody's challenging
me for that one so I'm gonna come out and challenge
you for the North American Championship instead
at which point we're then joined in the ring
by Eddie Thorpe who comes out and talks about
the fact that Saints is being handed opportunities
while others, namely himself, are left out in
the cold and basically Thorpe lays claim to the
title because of his ancestors. He believes it's
his birthright. Now, this is when we are joined
again. Another interruption where we are joined
by Mr. Wes Lee flanked by Tyreke Igwe and Tyson
Dupont to stake his claim. Now, during this promo,
I'm going to be honest, out of everything that's
said, and there isn't a lot that I don't cover
in my notes, but it's a case that Eddie Thorpe
makes what I find to be a potentially problematic
statement about King being just another entitled
white man who isn't happy with what they have.
Now we know that he's coming at this from his
Native American background and things like that
but even Wesley stands in the ring and is visibly
shocked at the fact that this is what this man
decides he's coming out with and honestly I can
understand why I think he possibly could have
Chosen his words maybe a little bit better. There
is definitely some discussion around what was
said. I've done the research Obviously, I'm not
recording this as it goes out. I've recorded
this a few days afterwards and Yeah, there's
definitely been some discussion around what was
said by Eddie Thorpe. So but no action has been
taken at this stage and basically Saints cuts
in and says look you guys are going to have to
find a different time and place to figure this
out. At which point Ethan Page comes in from
behind and hits him with a second twisted smile.
Now this match ends, or this promo ends sorry,
as all four men in the ring grab the title as
Saints is laid out in the ring and this just
starts a brawl between all four gentlemen in
the ring and in the end Wes Lee is the one that's
left standing which is probably a good thing
as he's got the next match on the card. We then
go backstage where we join Ava, Robert Stone
and Stevie Turner as Stephanie Viqueur comes
in to announce that her match at Stand and Deliver
will be a fatal four -way featuring obviously
her as the champion Jordan Grace, Jada Parker
and Julia. So the Women's NXT Championship will
be defended at Stand and Deliver in a fatal four
way match, which honestly, I'm not mad at. I'm
not mad at this match booking at all because,
yeah, you're not getting much better than these
four women in this division. Jordan Grace, obviously
the outsider coming in. Stephanie Vacure and
Julia, we already know can have a good match
in singles competition. And we've seen recently
that Jada Parker can 100 % throw down. But yeah,
phenomenally done and phenomenally booked. Now,
we do go to a slightly different area of backstage
where we see Sarah Schreiber in the second interview.
I really just realised that... actually later
on when we speak to Ober Femi he's not being
interviewed by anyone he is just speaking directly
to the camera he is breaking that fourth wall
speaking to us directly at home and in the arena
but Trick Williams is asked about his match at
Stand and Deliver and feels that there's always
somebody else in his way before it was Eddie
Thorpe now it's Javon Evans he's not just getting
ever a straight shot at being Going for the championship
that he feels he should never have lost now trick
is planning on bringing his a a game from now
until stand and deliver and He hopes that Javon
and Ober are planning on doing exactly the same
thing as he plans on walking out one way or the
other as NXT champion which You can't deny the
guy's ambition. He's definitely been through
the wringer to try and get his rematch with Oberfemi
since losing the match at New Year's Evil. So,
yeah, 100%. Now, our fifth match comes at this
stage, which sees... Wes Lee with Tyree Gigwe
and Tyson DuPont versus Yoshiki Inamura with
Josh Briggs in his corner. Now this match was
born out of a promo that was cut last week where
Inamura basically said look I've been a fan of
yours for a long time Wes but you're not the
same as you used to be which do you know what
is fair comment I see that as fair comment. I
don't know Wesley all that well, but the Wesley
that we have now is more than likely not going
to be the Wesley that we had so very long ago.
So yeah, no, it's definitely not the same as
it was, but do you know what? Inamora starts
this match in the best way he possibly can, which
is he starts strong and early. The minute he
comes face to face with Wes Lee, he picks him
up and spinebusters him into the ring apron and
rolls him inside. It's a fantastic way to gain
an advantage in a match and I can't fault Inamora
for doing it realistically. Now, a majority of
the... A majority of... the notes that I get
for this are mainly focused around Inamura's
offense. At one stage he does a huge one -armed
flip on Lee and I mean the weight difference
between the two men is obvious just by looking
at them. Not saying that Yoshiki Inamura is an
overweight gentleman, by all means not. He is
just of a stockier build than Wesley is in comparison
and yeah. loved every second of this match as
well. Now Wesley seems to compete with an almost
cocky offense. I mean at one stage he literally
sits across the shoulders of the challenger Yoshiki
Inamura and tries to pin him that way at which
point he gets launched face first into the ropes
which honestly I can't say I blame Inamura for
at all. Yoshiki Inamura does stay in control
for a vast majority of this match, just sort
of powering his way through. And this is where
Tyson and Tyreek get involved. I've called it
snapping the ropes. Now they didn't actually
break the ropes, but it was enough to sort of
ping the ropes as Inamura was up on the top rope.
He was getting ready to do a... frog splash that
we've seen him do so many times before and this
snap of the rope basically destabilised his balance
he ended up falling at which point Lee hits something
called a cardiac kick and ends up scoring the
win over Inamora now this obviously leaves Inamora
being incredibly frustrated that this all could
have been avoided Tyson and Tyreek not been out
at ringside and honestly I would say this is
more on in a more often not sort of stipulating
that there's no outside interference or anything
like that as Wesley has proven in his most recent
matches that Tyson and Tyreek will get involved
at any point they possibly can We go from there
into the final backstage into again, I can't
call it an interview because it is very much
a promo at this point. We see Ober Femi training
up doing that last little bit of resistance band
training ahead of his match against Dark State
later on. And basically he encourages Dark State.
Put your best foot forward. Do your best because
You are you've only ever dropped me from behind.
It is a case that you aren't gonna get the better
of the ruler and then says look I'm gonna Focus
on you tonight. Once I've put you down. It is
a case that trick and Jevon have all of my focus
and I encourage them to do the same thing as
well as they will not Will not under any circumstances
take advantage of the ruler in this way And basically
yeah believes that no one beats the ruler Now
obviously we know this isn't true But he is obviously
very very pleased with himself at the moment
with how he's been getting on now We move from
there into match six, which is another women's
North American championship ladder match qualifier
Which sees Izzy Dame who is accompanied to the
ring by Nico Vance and Brooks Jensen of the culling
versus Ren Sinclair who is also Well, she's accompanied
by the rest of no quarter catch crew Now Izzy
Dain came out of this hyper aggressive as we
sort of thought she might now Ren Sinclair I
haven't seen her wrestle at all Not even in tag
competition since she's been since NXT has been
As being on Netflix, so I don't really have a
massive amount to compare her against but honestly
Seeing as how this was a first attempt against
somebody who's as much of a heavy hitter as Izzy
Dame, I think Ren Sinclair did amazingly well.
I didn't get a fantastic amount of notes for
it because there wasn't a lot of spots in it.
There wasn't a lot of sort of highlights almost.
I mean, the big thing that came out of it, Izzy
Dame secures a victory with a sit -down style
spine buster. And the only thing is, is that
Izzy Dame ends up actually sort of, she ends
up celebrating the victory of the match before
the three counts even finished. She broke, she
technically broke the pin before the three count
was finished, which caused a little bit of confusion
in Ring. But we worked past it regardless. So
we went. from that match knowing now that the
fourth member of that ladder match is going to
be Izzy Dame. So we now know that it's Zarya,
Sol Ruka, Kalani Jordan, and Izzy Dame in that
Women's North American Championship ladder match
at Stand and Deliver. We went from there into
a back. Well, I I called it a backstage promo.
I think it was a GM office promo which sees Ava
really getting it in the neck from meta meta
girls fatal influence and Roxanne Perez none
of them having a match at stand and deliver currently
and and Basically, we're treat to the fact that
Ava has come up with some kind of plan to do
with these We don't know if it's going to be
a tag team match if it is it means that Roxanne
Perez doesn't have a tag team partner Yeah, there's
there's we're waiting to find out what Ava's
plan is with these These women that don't have
a match at stand and deliver We then go into
a backstage promo which sees initially Uriah
Conners and Kale Dixon watching their match tapes
figuring out ways to improve As we see Andre
Chase come up behind them and basically say look
Nothing wrong with your confidence. You just
need to slow down. You're moving too quickly
As they probe for more guidance Andre sort of
walks away, but they're not letting this go It's
a case look we want to learn please tell us and
he goes do you know what? fuck it, I'll go for
it, as he turns back around and goes to give
them some pointers, at which point we hear a
massive crash as Hank and Tank steel focus completely.
They're just becoming more and more frustrated
at their lack of wins, at which point they've
probably got the best people to speak to out
of anybody, which is the... WWE men's tag team
champions, the Street Profits come in who have
suffered more than their fair share of identity
crisis, crises in recent memory. And yeah, I
mean, it's a case that basically Street Profits
give them the best advice they could possibly
hope for, which is Be yourself You don't need
to be like anybody else because you are Hank
and tank be Hank and tank and they also sort
of drop a little spoiler for just a few moments
time, which mean which is that there is a Gauntlet
match with a chance to face Fraxium at stand
and deliver now This match is then rolled into
this match announcement is then rolled into by
commentary who basically come across and say
that the match has been announced where we'll
see Briggs in Inamora versus Tavian Heights and
Miles Bourne of No Quarter Catch Crew versus
Hank and Tank versus Brooks Jensen and Nico Vance
of The Culling versus Tyson Dupont and Tyreek
Igwe which of course are Wes Lee's flunkies and
they will all face each other in a tag team gauntlet
match for the number one contenders and I believe
that is next week on NXT. So a massive match
to be announced. As well as that we have confirmed
that another number one contenders match is set
for next week as well. This one for the Men's
North American Championship, which you'll see
Eddie Thorpe versus Ethan Page versus Lexus King
versus Wes Lee so We have got some killer matches
for next week, but Speaking of killer matches.
I think we've got nothing left to do other than
go into the main event of the evening Which was
the six -man tag team match which saw? Ober Femi,
the current men's NXT champion, versus Trick
Williams and Javon Evans, his opponents at Stand
and Deliver, versus Dark State. Now it isn't
until the match begins that we know that it is
Dionne Lennox, Saquon Sugars and Cutler Jones,
who is... in the match officially with Osiris
Griffin hanging around on the outside. Now, Rich,
who presented last week's episode, did a phenomenal
job of breaking down who these men were and what
we could expect of them. If you haven't listened
to it, please go back and listen to Rich's Finishes
and Factions does NXT for last week, which would
be for the second of April. I implore you to
go back and listen to it because he did a really
nice succinct, really nice sort of to the point
breakdown of what we can expect from each of
these men. Now, as soon as Dark State hit the
ring, it wasn't a case that they came out and
the three members that are in the match burst
onto the scene. It is a case that all four members
go in and just completely decimate Oberfemi,
Trick Williams and Jovan Evans. I mean, Jovan
Evans is thrown from the ring like a rag doll.
The guy wasn't meant to fly that way as much
as he is bouncy. Oberfemi and Dionne Lennox start
the match and Dark State take control really
easily to begin with and it's partially because
of this sort of initial explosive attack they've
come out the gates with. And throughout the early
stages of this match, I'll be honest, it does
seem, it does very much, we very much get the
impression that Dark State have got an answer
for almost everything that the Stand and Deliver
main event team are sort of... dishing out. And
at one stage, it even looks like Trick Williams
is going into business for himself, trying to
take out Dark State all by himself. And honestly,
I think Out of this match, the biggest egos in
that ring were Ober Femi and Trick Williams.
And they just clashed with each other more than
they clashed with their opponents. And unfortunately,
the person that ends up losing out in that circumstance
is Javon Evans. Now, Javon Evans is quickly becoming
one of my personal favorites on the NXT roster
just because his offense is really exciting.
I relate to him quite a lot. He's, yeah, he's
just a phenomenal talent. And I just don't, I
think if at Stand and Deliver he lifts that title
off Ober Femi, it will be completely circumstantial,
but it would be a phenomenal boost to that boy's
confidence. And I'm here for it. 100 % I'm here
for it. It'll be the twist that nobody is expecting
whatsoever, but... Javon Evans once he gets in
this match, there's very little that's going
to stop him but once Evans is in this match,
unfortunately he is in it for the long haul as
Dark State once they gain control with the match
with him in it, it is a case that they are looking
to keep him exactly where he is and they're not
letting him go for love nor money nor anything
else besides. to the point that Lennox drops
a massive spine buster on him. I mean, the commentary
even describe it as a spine jarring spine buster.
I mean, spine busters aren't fun anyway, hence
the name, but yeah, we're not looking at anything
overly pleasant here. Now, Javon Evans desperately
trying to get the tag at one stage, but Dark
State playing a really good tag team game here.
of once one gets kicked off they perform the
quick tag which just keeps that ring sort of
split directly in half but eventually manages
to get manages to get the tag and I mean Oba
sort of forces the tag onto himself as both him
and Trick are stretching out there reaching for
the tag. Javon has his choice but realistically
Javon's just looking for a breather to get out
of the match for a minute and Oba just pushes
Trick's arm away, gets the tag for himself, gets
in the match and in fairness completely decimates
Dark State at that point. I mean he has had a
long time at this point to... to sort of recover
from that initial beating and he certainly seems
to have done all of that and unfortunately now
Ober may sort of throw this off as being accidental
the angle of the throw tells me definitely not
but he does end up throwing a member of Dark
State into Trick Williams which just inevitably
starts the beginning of the breakdown between
the team of the main eventers as Trick Williams
will not stand by and be disrespected in this
way and basically goes off and goes off to fight
Oberfemi back into the backstage area. Now this
unfortunately leaves Jovan Evans on his own and
despite a complete valiant effort, Javon completely
succumbs to the numbers and Dark State do end
up getting the victory with a poor decimated
Javon Evans left completely prone in the middle
of that ring and if Oberfemi and Trick Williams
could have just kept their... Their egos in check
they could have 100 % had this match in the bag
But they just couldn't do it. They weren't physically
capable of doing it and that is on them 100 %
now After this match is over. We see dark states
celebrating in ring when all of a sudden the
D 'Angelo family's music hits now, we know as
much as we know about Dark State because they
went off and did some recon against them. They
wanted to know what was going on. And they shared
that information with us in a VT last week. Now,
a different VT is playing on the Titan Tron over
the ring or overlooking the ring, which sees
Stacks Lorenzo of the D 'Angelo family calling
Dark State out in the parking lot next week.
Now. We are This is now the end of the NXT episode.
We've got one more episode before stand and deliver
and My god, it is slated to be an absolute bomb
burner Now we use that fraterna phrase a lot
here on finishers and factions But honest to
God if you missed next week's NXT I wouldn't
even bother watching stand and deliver because
I feel like there's gonna be so many shockwave
sent through NXT from next week's episode, it's
going to be untrue. Now, thank you so much to
each and every one of you that has decided to
give me a listen today and listen to me ramble
on. The next time you will hear from us will
be... NXT does SmackDown. Now, I am also putting
together a special Hall of Fame episode which
will drop the day before the Hall of Fame ceremony
is due to take place. And this will give you
an overview of every last entry into the class
of 2025. And my aim is for it to be about...
Between 30 and 45 minutes long. We're not looking
at it being a tremendously long episode like
our normal episodes would be but We are looking
to try and try and get something out for it.
So keep your eyes peeled for that until then
and Thank you to everybody until next time. See
you laters