Good morning, good afternoon, good evening and
welcome to another episode of Finishes and Factions
Does NXT. This week we came from the Performance
Center in Orlando, Florida like we have done
for the last few weeks as our last NXT before
Stand and Deliver coming This Saturday from Las
Vegas as part of WrestleMania week. And this
episode as much as I love with NXT every week
does this a solid and jumps straight into the
first match. Which is a fatal four way number
one contenders match for Ricky Starks North American
title at stand and deliver and this was between
Ethan Page, Wesley. Lexus King and Eddie Thorpe
with Ricky Saints sitting at commentary for the
start of this match and this one started off
with Lexus King in the middle being surrounded
by the other three guys in this match basically
just being teed off on and Eddie Thorpe eventually
takes the start off with a roll up two count
on Lexus King after a clothesline. Now at some
point in the beginning of this this encounter
I was informed by Adam when we were talking about
this off -podcast that Lexus King actually managed
to grab hold of Wesley's Twig and berries at
some point at the start of this match, so Watch
out Lexus King. You could be on the same charges
as Vince McMahon very soon, but uh We do start
getting into the nitty -gritty of this one. We've
got some quite incredible different bits that
I've made notes of here We've got Wesley putting
a double stomp into the spine of Eddie Thorpe
at one point Lex's king sets Eddie from page
Wesley and Eddie Thorpe up against the one in
the corner of all in the same corner and as he
runs out them to do like a chest style move one
moves to the left one moves to the right one
goes straight up over the top of him he misses
all three of them and runs straight into the
turnbuckle at which point Ethan Page manages
to try and pull a cover on Wesley for a two count.
Now here's where things got a little bit interesting.
So at one point, Ethan Page and Eddie Thorpe
had set Lexus King up for a superplex. So you've
got Lexus King set up on the top turnbuckle.
You've got Eddie Thorpe and Ethan Page on the
second rope. And then Wesley, comes in underneath,
sets them both up and sends all three of them
flying for an incredible super superplex which
looked like it took more damage to the damage
was split four ways in that one because all of
them hit the deck and were very much like holy
crap that hurt. Wesley got it all up and running
again with a Shooting Star press on Ethan Page
and then a cover which Eddie Thorpe broke up
for a two count. We then get into a little section
where Wesley dives through the second rope and
takes out Lexus King and Eddie Thorpe pushes
Ethan Page into Ricky Starks on the outside.
Ricky Starks at this point is boost and ethan
page has got this big big grin on his face like
this guy's an absolute wanker i hate you but
because you get that much hatred for the guy
you can tell he's doing his role as a heel very
very well and up until ricky saints took the
north american title off sean spears last week
um it was very much uh ethan page was the the
The fastest ever debut to title holder in NXT.
And Ricky Saints took that off him. And Ethan
Page has got something here. He wants to go off
and do something about that. Now after Ricky
Saints starts getting a little bit mouthy and
a little bit pushy and chubby, the referee in
this match decided it was time for Ricky Saints
to go and call off and removed him from the equation
and told him look mate, into the back you go.
And then Ethan Page set this up a right tree.
He knew exactly what he was doing to get Ricky
Saints to pop and bang. And in the process of
doing so, get him sent to the back. So just after
that, we end up with Eddie Thorpe reversing Lexus
King and dropping a pretty hefty backdrop on
the guy. While you've got Wesley going off against
Lexus King in a corner and eventually takes him
down for a two count cover. I've written down
here, this is quite an interesting spot. So Wesley's
got a triangle hold locked in on Alexis King.
And Ethan Page comes in and puts in a wrist lock.
And Eddie Thorpe come and locks in another move
on Ethan Page. So all three of them are trying
to submit each other. Yeah, got hold in on Nexus
King. Ethan Page locks in on Wesley. So basically
they're chokeholds from behind. Like we've seen
Gunther sneak up and do to Jey so a few times.
And then, so you've got Lexus King on the floor.
You've got Ethan Page wrapped around. Yeah, Lexus
King on the floor. Wesley wrapped around his
neck. Ethan Page wrapped around Wesley's neck.
And then Eddie Thorpe locked in on Ethan Page.
Basically Lexus King breaks this all down. I
could sit down and stun him to be fair He kind
of manages to get myself up and then just suit
drops and the rest of them all peel away But
uh, I mean We're getting to the the real the
real thick of it here we've at this point had
a great match with some incredible spots and
Just looking to see Kind of you know how much
better it can get here and it does you know.
Ethan Page and Lexus King reverse each other
in a series of chain moves with Ethan Page locking
in a Boston crab on Lexus King and Eddie Thorpe
coming in to lock in a cross face and then Wesley
gets in an armbar as well so poor Lexus King
man he's he's been taken an absolute beating
and I'm hoping this isn't all just because he
grabbed hold of Wesley's twig and berries. But
yeah, we end up having Wesley hits a whisper
in the wind on Ethan Page while he had Eddie
Thorpe locked in a headlock and Alexis King on
his shoulders. Again, Alexis King taking a massive
bump, doing a lot of work here and working his
way to a position where he's, I feel, probably
one of the strongest in here. That's why everyone's
picking on him. But we basically get a double
cover on Ethan Page and Eddie Thorpe at one point
So you've got sorry Ethan Page is covering Eddie
Thorpe and Wesley's covering Lexus King at which
point both kick out it to with you end up with
Wesley and Ethan Page exchanging shots in the
middle of the ring while Lexus King hits a Swanton
on them both right Lexus King hits the Swanton
on Ethan Page and Eddie Thorpe drops an elbow
on Lexus King while Wesley hits the Meteor Aura.
Eventually, a few moments later, Ethan Page hit
Twisted Grin on Lexus King for the three count,
which means that Ethan Page is off to stand and
deliver to face Ricky Saints for his North American
title, which is going to be a match. That's definitely
going to be an interesting match for the Saint
versus all -ego Ethan Page. Now I'm very much
going to be looking forward to that one. It's
definitely, I'm not 100 % sure I'm going to say
it's going to be one of the matches of Stand
and Deliver but it's definitely going to be one
hell of a match on that card. This next section
we hear a little bit from Jordan Grace and about
her history in wrestling and Now she basically
got into wrestling to show everyone that she
was something after feeling that she was a no
one. And kind of given us a brief impact of what
she's done where and the accomplishment she had
over at TNA, which I'm not going to list off
for you because there is an incredible amount
of accomplishments here. And basically talking
about You know letting us know that she's she's
prepared for her part in the fatal four -way
match at stand and deliver for the NXT Women's
Championship and So obviously that's going to
end up being Stephanie Baker Jordan grace Julia
and Jada Parker and we move on from there in
to an evolve VT Just kind of giving us an update
on on what's going on there and and what evolve
is And then we move into a Hall of Fame VT. So
Adam is doing his own special WrestleMania Hall
of Fame episode. I have listened to it. It is
fantastic. We're not as normal. He's not doing
a recap of the Hall of Fame. He's just giving
you a general overview of who's going into the
Hall of Fame and why they're going in. You can
catch that one live when it goes live on Hall
of Fame day That will be finishes and factions
does the Hall of Fame We then move from there
in to a backstage segment where we see a solo
Ruka and Zarya and also in the background we
see Kalani Jordan and Ariana Grace and two others
that I'm not 100 % sure who they are But Soruka
and Zarya are talking about the last two spots
in the Aladdin map for the women's North American
title, which we will then find out will come
into play a little bit later. So far you have
Zarya, Soruka and Lani Jordan all in that match,
and they're all basically saying, Izzy Dame as
well, sorry. All basically saying they're gonna
win it and it's basically finished with Izzy
Dame saying that the championship's coming to
the culling, which is obviously Sean Spears and
his little family. But we will find out who is
going to be another member of this match for
the Women's North American Championship at Stand
and Deliver because we have a qualifying match
popping up next. This one is Tatum Paxley versus
Lola Weiss with Gigi Dolin accompanying Tatum
to the ring. Now, I'm gonna admit to you with
as much transparency as possible, but as far
as I'm aware, this is the first time that I've
seen either of these two women wrestle, surely
for the fact that I think if they've been on
the televised episodes. It might have been the
weeks where I was ill and was not watching any
wrestling at all but they're definitely not names
that I remember seeing too much of in the ring
while we've been doing finishes with factions.
So this was a nice little opportunity for me
to be able to increase my knowledge and see some
other superstars that were are on the NXT roster
that we don't necessarily get to see as often
as possible. Now, this one was quite an interesting
one. It started off with my first note being
that Lola Weiss locks in a cross face on Tatum
Paxley and that Tatum Paxley ends up dropping
Lola Weiss down in a bridging arm bar while Lola
Weiss gets a reversal of a triangle choke hold
locked in. and then hands up with a roll up two
count. I have also, this one was quite a cheeky
little one. I've not seen this for a little while,
but Tatum Paxton hides under the ring at one
point. And as Lola Weiss is trying to pull her
out, Tatum pulls her into the frame of the ring
and Lola Weiss bounces off that ring side quite
harshly. and it looked like there could possibly
have been a slight shoulder injury in there but
it was not to be. She did manage to finish this
match and by doing so having some nice highlights
of her own. One of those being a three amigos
that she pulled off, nice little tribute to the
late great Eddie Guerrero and that one we are
seeing that one a little bit more commonly we
see Dirty Don Mysterio do it quite a lot. over
on SmackDown and we have seen some other superstars
like Liv Morgan do it as well. But it's always
nice to see wrestlers paying homage to their
favorite wrestlers as they were growing up as
well. This match, it went on for... Not particularly
long, we're already sort of halfway through my
notes for this one. I've got up here that Lola
Weiss sets up a triangle and Tatum packs and
powerbombs Lola Weiss out of it. And then Tatum
takes Lola down shortly afterwards with a swinging
net breaker, but no cover came up this time round.
So, you know, she was quite lucky that time.
Tatum packs Lee doing a running crossbody into
the corner of the ring against Lola Weiss and
after the second or third one Lola Weiss gets
her knees up and kind of stops what Tatum's doing
and starts kind of firing off with her and then
returns a running hip attack to get a two count
from that one. It basically finishes with this
one where It wasn't an out and out sort of you
couldn't tell who was going to win this match
from start to finish. It was very, very even,
very, very good match. And it finished with Tatum
Paxton using the ropes to jump into the ring
from the apron, kind of like a phenomenal forearm
style thing AJ Styles does, jumps on the apron
onto the top rope and then launches himself off
using the top rope. where Lola Weiss caught her
with a kick and then hit a back fist which absolutely
dropped Tatum Paxley at which point Lola Weiss
managed to get the 1 -2 -3 which set her up to
meet in the ladder match against Zarya, Sorruka,
Kalani Jordan and Izzy Dane with one more spot
left in that match. that we will find out about
a little bit later on. For our next little section,
we had a VT from Julia saying that she explained
that she'd been waiting for a rematch and it
didn't come and friendships only go as far as
that NXT title. Last week when she made her appearance
for the first time since she lost her NXT title
to Stephanie Baker, she came out and reminded
Stephanie what the beautiful madness is and well,
Jada Parker, she doesn't know her, but she says
she's confident. She can't dish it out, but she
can take it. Jordan Grace is strong and she'll
introduce her to her strong style. So we're going
to get a slight introduction to Japanese wrestling
from Julia here. And both Jordan Grace and Jada
Parker are basically just obstacles in her way
to Stephanie Baker. And after losing her title,
she's more dangerous than ever. And she'll be
leaving stand and deliver as Champion, which
I mean, they're pretty, pretty big words. We
do know that Julia has the ability to take that
title and do a lot with it. She's a very, very
talented wrestler. Someone we've seen a lot on
the Finishes and Factions podcast since we started
at the beginning of the Netflix debut era. From
this, we went backstage to see Trick Williams
arriving in his SUV. He will be around a little
bit later as we see him for a promo at the end
of the night. But it's always nice to see Trick
Williams decide that he's coming. We then got
an NXT. Shop advert, and I'm not gonna lie, there
is some stonking merchandise in the store at
the moment. Some of these Oba Femi t -shirts
are incredible. And then it moves on to WrestleMania
Week's shop, you know, all the WrestleMania merchandise
that is available to pick up at WWE World. which
was going on all this week and in Las Vegas for
WrestleMania. Now, we now move into another backstage
segment, this time with Ava. And Ava saying that
there's gonna be a triple threat tag match for
a chance at the women's titles at NXT after Stand
and Deliver. Now there are a group of tag teams.
round Ava at the time. Some of them, their faces
I did not recognise and I have not had the time
to jump in and research exactly who it is. So
not really been able to help you with that one,
but it looks like in the kickoff show, it has
been announced that there is going to be a Fatal
Four Way Elimination match for the Tag Team Championships
and you're going to have Roxanne Perez and Cora
Jade with the Metagirls, Lash Legend, Chikara
Jackson, Fatal Influence, which is Fallon Henley
and JC Jane against Gigi Dolin and Tatum Paxley.
which is a bit of an interesting one because
Roxanne Perez was told that she needed to find
herself a tag team partner and that she basically
comes back in a little bit later on saying that,
you know, I'll do it on my own, which Ava says,
nah, you're not allowed to do that. And Cora
Jade pops in and goes, well, are you desperate
enough to make an apology? at which it seems
that both Roxanne Perez and Cora Jade have put
their history behind them, surely just for NXT
stand and deliver. So I am recording this a couple
of days after NXT's programming purely due to
work commitments, family commitments and it being
Easter with the children off. So I am trying
to do what I can here. Right, so we then go into
our next match, which we are told is a tag title
gauntlet match. And we see Hank and Tank come
to the ring to face Tyson Dupont and Tyreek Igwe
in their first match. And Dupont and Igwe are
accompanied to the ring by Wes Lee. Now we are
informed at the start of this match that Hank
and Tank are on a 7 loss streak and we have covered
all of those on Finisher's factions and they've
lost to some pretty good teams but they've also
performed very very well against them. So this
I don't have a lot of notes for this one because
quite frankly the The first few matches there
was not a lot going on that was really kind of
worth mentioning. I do have that Hank took a
clothesline to the back of the neck and got covered
for an instant kick out at one. Hank managed
to drop a double team, well Hank and Tank managed
to drop double teams on Tyson Du Pointe and Tyreek
Igwe. to give them the three count to continue
in to the next match. So that sent Tyson to point
and Tyree to big way to the back. They were only
out for about two, I want to say five minutes
tops. It wasn't a long first match, which then
brings us in Brooks Jensen and Nico Vance from
the Culling, who we've already spoken about this
evening with their One of their members, Izzy
Dain, being in that ladder match at Stand and
deliver for the North American Championship.
They want to try and bring the tag team titles
back to the culling too. So that would give them
a pretty hefty advantage in the locker room.
This we are told is the third gauntlet match
in NXT history. And as we are told this Hank
and tank are running bombs into the corners against
the culling and double teaming End up getting
a double team at the end and a two count off
it so we then see a tank lock in a cross face
on Brooke Jensen and and then kind of ends up
a little bit later on so just bashing him off
the turnbuckle and then tagging Hank in and Hank
comes in and gets himself a two count. The culling
end up performing a double team on Hank after
boshing his head off the announce table and Vance
pretty much destroys Hank and Jensen gets a two
count after the tag on him himself. We then end
up with Brooks Jensen getting a two count on
Hank and Hank dropping Brooks Jensen with one
hell of a clothesline. And Nico Vance ended up
getting the two count on Hank after Brooks Jensen
double teamed him behind the ref's back. Little
bit of a dirty play out there and it still ends
up going well for them. So Jensen gets a roll
up on Tank. for a two and then catches a spinning
heel kick once recovered from that heel kick
and a little while later the culling perform
a double team and tank and tank counters that
double team and ends up getting the three count
on them to send Brooks Jensen and Nico Vance
back with their tails between their legs And
as they are walking out, we get to see the next
team come out, which was no quarter catch crew.
This was Tabion Heights and Miles Bourne. As
with every gauntlet match that we've seen recently,
in the third match, it is a point where everyone
is getting a little bit more tired. especially
you know Hank and Tank who have already had two
matches and then to come in and get Tavion Heights
and Miles Bourne in the next one is a little
bit of a kick in the proverbial gonads and I'm
not gonna lie Tavion Heights got this he was
down for business and he went straight in to
get a roll up two count while Miles Bourne got
a two count off a missile drop kick which was
absolutely ruthless. to say the least. We then
get Tank and Hank get a, no, sorry, Tavion Heights
got a two count and managed to lock in a choke
hold. Hank sends Tavion over the ropes and starts
laying into Miles Bourne, pulling off a rather
nice bulldog on Miles Bourne as well, to be fair.
And while he's still, you know, humped up and
hyped up after that we get the Hank Express on
Tavion Heights after doing a lap of the outside
of the ring and he absolutely destroys him. So
while Hank and Tank are in the double team Miles
Bourne comes flying over the top rope and takes
them out on the outside and Miles Bourne rolls
one of them back in to try and get himself a
two count. It doesn't quite work and Tavion Tavian
ends up doing a backdrop on Hank on the apron
to roll him in for a two count as well and then
there was another two count for Tavian Heights
off a clothesline a little bit later on after
that. We do end up with Miles Bourne pulling
a snap suplex off for a two count and Hank gets
the two count from a cradle roll up shortly afterwards.
And then we ended up tank hitting a suplex with
on Tavion Heights and then Tavion Heights getting
up and hitting one on to Hank himself. Yeah,
so after that you have Tavion Heights with a
two count and Hank interrupts the count, the
count gets tossed out of the ring. as no quarter
catch crew are trying to set up a double team
at tank rolls one of them up for another three
count basically just saying you know we're not
here to say we're gonna win this but we're here
to have a damn good effort and their final opponents
in this gauntlet match are Josh Briggs and Yoshiki
Inomura This wasn't a huge end to it, you know,
Briggs and Inamora came in just trying to finish
them off. They had slams, big boots, choke slams
onto knees. But in the end, it was Hank rolling
up Josh Briggs to win the gauntlet match and
go from a seven loss of seven match losing streak
to a four match winning streak to then end up
finding out that they will be going to meet the
team of Nathan Fraser and Axiom for the NXT Tag
Team Championships at Stand and Deliver. I personally
see this one being a retention by Axiom but never
rule out Hanging Tank as they have just shown
us in this gauntlet match. i can't look much
it was jesus christ man wasn't high flying but
it had me on the edge of my seat for a considerably
long time and yeah i was definitely all over
this one when i uh when i started and i didn't
even realize it was coming it just boom hop there
we go i was like god damn but yeah no definitely
really enjoyed this one Our next segment is actually
a little bit different than what we get. We have
Kali Armstrong talking to Sophie Turner, who
is the Evolve GM, about being in the main event
of Evolve this week with Kendall Gray, Brinley
Reese, and Chantal Monroe, of which, you know,
Kali Armstrong says thank you, and Ava says afterwards,
Kali's gonna be a big star. talking about the
surprise entrant that Eva has lined up for the
match with the last slot in it for this ladder
match that we keep talking about, it's stand
and deliver. And I wonder who that could definitely
be. One thing we do know is that we see Ovo Femi
arriving in his SUV and we are asked the question
by commentary about if that is dark state, that
is sat behind him. We next have an NXT spotlight
on Jada Parker saying how she learned, you know,
where to fit, how she learned to fit in and it
all started at Port St. Lucie in Florida where
she made her name in the streets and that Jordan
Grace and Stephanie Becker from other places
and she's the only homegrown talent in this match
and that's pressure, you know, and she's the
pressure. She says that the NXT division is the
best in the world and her best friend, you know,
when she lost her uncle, she, she learned that
she couldn't trust anyone anymore. And, you know,
people are saying she's got a bit of an attitude.
She says life made her hard and she needs that
championship shit to show that she can't be broken,
that she's not going to be playing around. Which
leads us into what I can only describe for me
was one of the more interesting segments of the
program. Now, like a few of you who know me personally,
I, when I was younger, was definitely not one
to shy away from a good old scrap in a car park.
But this specific scrap in the car park was one
that we've been waiting for for quite a while.
And this was between the members of the D 'Angelo
family. with Tony D 'Angelo not being there and
Stax has basically made a choice that Tony doesn't
know about and they're gonna have a good old
-fashioned sort out in a car park with Dark State
and yet the D 'Angelo family have bought weapons
too a lot of them are carrying crowbars ends
up starting off in the car park it goes inside
backstage and you know the D 'Angelo family are
pretty much on top most of the time. You know,
there's bins being thrown around. There's all
sorts of chaos going on. This was not sanctioned.
This is just, we'll meet in a car park and see
what happens. One of the members of Dark State
puts one of the members of the D 'Angelo through
a table out in the background where they've got
snacks and stuff and then... the family then
decide to put him through a table and then one
of them one of the dark state guys gets stuck
in the wall with a crowbar and the two members
of the D 'Angelo family just spear him through
the wall and at which point they end up in a
storage warehouse and they're still causing havoc
and a member of dark state just sprays everyone
down with a fire extinguisher and then they end
up going back outside. I've even put in here,
this is just pure chaos and I can't tell who
is who and what's going on at this moment. I
do know that Luca Crucifino gets brutally slammed
onto the bonnet of a car and you see a white
car come flying into the car park and out of
it jumps Tony D 'Angelo with a crowbar. and you've
got police lights surrounding the background
and stacks. It's kind of like, look, we need
to get the fuck out of it, Tony. There's police
and he's like, nah, they're with me. They were
just here to scare everyone off. It's a bit,
you know, I had a plan and the plan was we were
gonna meet at stand and deliver and we were gonna
do it properly. So instead you two, you know,
you bunch of muffets decided that you couldn't
wait for that. So. at stand and deliver sorry
in WrestleMania week we're going to have Tony
D 'Angelo, Channing Stacks, Lorenzo and Luka
Cruz -Beno against three members of Dark State
so that will either be Saquon Sugars, Leon Lennox,
Cutler James or Osiris Griffin. They have not
been confirmed as to which ones are going to
be taking part yet but this was a in the car
park. So as we've seen from Jordan Grace, we've
seen from Julia, and we've seen from Jayden Parker,
now it is time to get a little bit of Stephanie
Baker. And she has been down in Chile doing some
TV appearances and spending some time with her
family and showing her dad the titles and stuff.
And she says that when she told her dad that
she wanted to be a pro wrestler, he was very
worried. And she said, you know, one day I'm
going to be a WWE double champion. Right. And
she went back and she took those championships
and copies of them and went, you know, these
are the of what I was holding. And, and, you
know, it was pretty cool. We then go into a backstage
appearance with Hank and Tank talking to Kelly
Kincaid about their stand and deliver Max and
Fraxium who end up coming in from the side saying
they're looking forward to meeting them at stand
and deliver. but Nathan Fraser gets a little
bit sour towards them and as Hank and Tank offer
a hand to shake Nathan Fraser walks off with
a bit of a huff while Axiom stands back and shakes
both their hands. At which point Roxanne Perez
is also talking to Ava, like I said earlier,
saying that she's going to go in on her own at
which point we find out about Cora Jade coming
in. I'm talking to her, but I mention that to
you a little bit later on. So we are gonna jump
into our next match, which is the last qualifying
match for the North American Championship Ladders
match in Las Vegas as part of WrestleMania Weekend
Stand and Deliver. And we have this match between
Carmen Petrovich and, well, Carmen Petrovich
comes to the ring and we get to see Cale Dixon
and Uriah Connors talking to Andre Chase. And
they basically, Andre Chase just apologised for
saying that he ruined everyone's lives. Thea
Hale comes in and says, hey, you didn't ruin
mine. And even though she's not coming. back
to chase university or to chase you. She'll always
be the proud alumni, but right now she's got
a match to win. And she goes out to face Carmen
Petrovich in the ladder match qualifier. So the
special person that Eva was talking about was
Thea Hale. Now I've never seen Thea Hale wrestle
in NXT. Her last singles match was at Great American
Bash, which was The end of July, beginning of
August 2024. I don't have a huge amount of notes
for this match. Purely the fan in me took over.
It was a good match to watch. I hadn't seen Fear
Hail before. I was trying to get a little bit
more information about her. And I just generally
enjoyed watching this match. Now it started off
with a quick roll up for a one count. From fear
hail we then had a double arm drag from her and
a suplex and then as Carmen Petrovich goes to
the outside fear hail attempts a Suicide dive
through the ropes, but Carmen Petrovich kicks
her right in the face and we end up with Carmen
Petrovich getting a two count roll up a little
while later and after hitting a spinning back
fist and Thea Hale hit a spinning neck breaker
and a clothesline from her knees to finish off
with a snap suplex slam too and no Thea Hale
was being booked quite strongly in this one and
at the I say it's very short match and she won
this one with a double underhook pedigree into
a Chimura look which is basically a wrist lock
and For those of you are not too sure about what
that is. It was something Brock Lesnar used to
use a lot in the UFC and Carmen Petrovich submitted
to this one pretty quickly lining Thea Hale up
to go against Izzy Dame, Kalani Jordan, Sol Ruker,
Zarya and Lola Weiss for a shot at the Women's
North American Championship. And this last section
of the episode this week was a promo from Rick
Williams in the ring saying it's been doing a
lot of thinking over the last few weeks and you
know he's either gonna die the hero or live long
enough to be the villain and on saturday trick
williams is coming back for his nxt championship
of which the current holder of that title the
ruler himself over femi comes out to say dude
it's funny you're still talking like you're the
man but ain't no one out here singing what for
that trick the only person that's saying it is
you you're just a Broken record man, and he's
like look I'll give you some advice after stand
and deliver when I retain my title the spotlight
is gonna be moving on and I'm doing that you
need to do the same thing at which Point, you
know trick Williams says look it's gonna take
more than a few black panther chance to be king
back here and that Title looks heavy man. I'll
help you out. I'll take it off you and At which
point we see the third member of the, you know,
this NXT Stand Deliver main event match, Jevon
Evans comes out saying Trick Williams just needs
to shut the fuck up. And to be fair, is he wrong?
I mean, Trick Williams is basically turning into
NXT's version of Drew McIntyre. God damn it,
I'm fed up. You know, so. Javon Evans comes out
saying he was right about Trick Williams a few
weeks ago, saying he comes out here week after
week talking about a match he doesn't deserve
and they're tired about it. So if you're gonna
talk, talk about something else. And he dismisses
Trick Williams completely and it goes, you know,
it's more like about Oberfemi and Javon Evans.
Javon Evans says Oberfemi's been glued to a title
since he got to NXT and he has been. Over Femi's
not been there very long. He's had the NXT title.
He had another title beforehand. I think it was
a North American title he held. But he's dropped
the champ twice and he's hype about it. Javon
Evans says that Over Femi will be main event
in WrestleMania soon. And he walks around like
the world revolves around him. But Javon Evans
wasn't supposed to make it to WWE and he did.
That's why he's the underdog and he enjoys being
the underdog Where over family replies that John
Evans is the future You know of NXT but over
family is the present and NXT does a role around
him because he has the NXT title Javon Evans
cannot handle that pressure because he's just
a kid At which point we get all three of them
kind of stood In a triangle staring each other
down looking at each other like which one of
you is going to make the move? And the first
move to be made is over Femi and Rick Williams
throwing Javon Evans out of the ring and they
start swinging at each other and Javon Evans
comes back in and they toss him out the other
side and go back to swinging. And eventually
Javon Evans jumps off from the top rope hitting
a cutter on both of them leaving them sprawled
out lying on the floor. and he lifts up over
Femi's title and raises it above his head. Now,
I don't know about you guys, but I do not think
that is gonna be happening at Stand and Deliver.
If that does happen at Stand and Deliver, I will
eat my hat. I will promise you that one, just
for the record. I don't actually wear a hat,
but we'll find something to eat that's not too...
Pleasant if Javelin Evans walks out of stand
and deliver holding that NXT title Right. Well,
I'm gonna thank you all for listening to my ramblings
for the last little while about the final NXT
of the year for WrestleMania and I hope you have
enjoyed the build -up to WrestleMania and stand
and deliver as much as I have over the last couple
of months was it has been Incredible. So it's
one of those we will have to sit back and see
what happens. With that being said, that is the
end of this week's episode. So thank you all
very much. I will leave you to enjoy Adam's finishes
and factions does. All of Fame class 2025 special
episode and we will catch you in the next episode
of finishes and factions does Smackdown with
the last Smackdown before WrestleMania. So peace
out and we'll see you all there. Enjoy.