WEBVTT 00:00:34.500 --> 00:00:37.380 Good morning, good afternoon, good evening and 00:00:37.380 --> 00:00:40.439 welcome to another episode of Finishes and Factions 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:46.280 Does NXT. This week we came from the Performance 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:48.920 Center in Orlando, Florida like we have done 00:00:48.920 --> 00:00:54.700 for the last few weeks as our last NXT before 00:00:54.700 --> 00:01:00.340 Stand and Deliver coming This Saturday from Las 00:01:00.340 --> 00:01:05.719 Vegas as part of WrestleMania week. And this 00:01:05.719 --> 00:01:09.120 episode as much as I love with NXT every week 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:12.519 does this a solid and jumps straight into the 00:01:12.519 --> 00:01:16.299 first match. Which is a fatal four way number 00:01:16.299 --> 00:01:20.299 one contenders match for Ricky Starks North American 00:01:20.299 --> 00:01:24.459 title at stand and deliver and this was between 00:01:24.459 --> 00:01:31.319 Ethan Page, Wesley. Lexus King and Eddie Thorpe 00:01:31.319 --> 00:01:37.299 with Ricky Saints sitting at commentary for the 00:01:37.299 --> 00:01:39.519 start of this match and this one started off 00:01:39.519 --> 00:01:42.400 with Lexus King in the middle being surrounded 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:45.599 by the other three guys in this match basically 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:51.280 just being teed off on and Eddie Thorpe eventually 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:54.640 takes the start off with a roll up two count 00:01:54.640 --> 00:01:58.680 on Lexus King after a clothesline. Now at some 00:01:58.680 --> 00:02:01.000 point in the beginning of this this encounter 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:03.159 I was informed by Adam when we were talking about 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:05.900 this off -podcast that Lexus King actually managed 00:02:05.900 --> 00:02:09.379 to grab hold of Wesley's Twig and berries at 00:02:09.379 --> 00:02:12.259 some point at the start of this match, so Watch 00:02:12.259 --> 00:02:14.520 out Lexus King. You could be on the same charges 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:18.879 as Vince McMahon very soon, but uh We do start 00:02:18.879 --> 00:02:21.500 getting into the nitty -gritty of this one. We've 00:02:21.500 --> 00:02:24.639 got some quite incredible different bits that 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:28.199 I've made notes of here We've got Wesley putting 00:02:28.199 --> 00:02:31.439 a double stomp into the spine of Eddie Thorpe 00:02:31.439 --> 00:02:35.460 at one point Lex's king sets Eddie from page 00:02:35.460 --> 00:02:38.879 Wesley and Eddie Thorpe up against the one in 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:41.439 the corner of all in the same corner and as he 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:47.900 runs out them to do like a chest style move one 00:02:47.900 --> 00:02:49.919 moves to the left one moves to the right one 00:02:49.919 --> 00:02:52.099 goes straight up over the top of him he misses 00:02:52.099 --> 00:02:54.840 all three of them and runs straight into the 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:59.129 turnbuckle at which point Ethan Page manages 00:02:59.129 --> 00:03:02.550 to try and pull a cover on Wesley for a two count. 00:03:03.009 --> 00:03:05.069 Now here's where things got a little bit interesting. 00:03:05.189 --> 00:03:08.750 So at one point, Ethan Page and Eddie Thorpe 00:03:08.750 --> 00:03:14.909 had set Lexus King up for a superplex. So you've 00:03:14.909 --> 00:03:19.250 got Lexus King set up on the top turnbuckle. 00:03:19.830 --> 00:03:22.969 You've got Eddie Thorpe and Ethan Page on the 00:03:22.969 --> 00:03:26.629 second rope. And then Wesley, comes in underneath, 00:03:27.110 --> 00:03:30.150 sets them both up and sends all three of them 00:03:30.150 --> 00:03:35.349 flying for an incredible super superplex which 00:03:35.349 --> 00:03:38.870 looked like it took more damage to the damage 00:03:38.870 --> 00:03:41.750 was split four ways in that one because all of 00:03:41.750 --> 00:03:43.909 them hit the deck and were very much like holy 00:03:43.909 --> 00:03:48.340 crap that hurt. Wesley got it all up and running 00:03:48.340 --> 00:03:51.120 again with a Shooting Star press on Ethan Page 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:54.180 and then a cover which Eddie Thorpe broke up 00:03:54.180 --> 00:04:00.500 for a two count. We then get into a little section 00:04:00.500 --> 00:04:05.919 where Wesley dives through the second rope and 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:09.580 takes out Lexus King and Eddie Thorpe pushes 00:04:09.580 --> 00:04:12.860 Ethan Page into Ricky Starks on the outside. 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:17.060 Ricky Starks at this point is boost and ethan 00:04:17.060 --> 00:04:20.240 page has got this big big grin on his face like 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:24.459 this guy's an absolute wanker i hate you but 00:04:24.459 --> 00:04:26.740 because you get that much hatred for the guy 00:04:26.740 --> 00:04:29.779 you can tell he's doing his role as a heel very 00:04:29.779 --> 00:04:32.939 very well and up until ricky saints took the 00:04:32.939 --> 00:04:36.819 north american title off sean spears last week 00:04:36.819 --> 00:04:43.139 um it was very much uh ethan page was the the 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:46.600 The fastest ever debut to title holder in NXT. 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:49.060 And Ricky Saints took that off him. And Ethan 00:04:49.060 --> 00:04:52.300 Page has got something here. He wants to go off 00:04:52.300 --> 00:04:55.399 and do something about that. Now after Ricky 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:58.240 Saints starts getting a little bit mouthy and 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:01.279 a little bit pushy and chubby, the referee in 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:03.360 this match decided it was time for Ricky Saints 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:08.379 to go and call off and removed him from the equation 00:05:08.379 --> 00:05:11.079 and told him look mate, into the back you go. 00:05:12.290 --> 00:05:14.490 And then Ethan Page set this up a right tree. 00:05:14.509 --> 00:05:16.410 He knew exactly what he was doing to get Ricky 00:05:16.410 --> 00:05:19.649 Saints to pop and bang. And in the process of 00:05:19.649 --> 00:05:25.189 doing so, get him sent to the back. So just after 00:05:25.189 --> 00:05:29.350 that, we end up with Eddie Thorpe reversing Lexus 00:05:29.350 --> 00:05:32.889 King and dropping a pretty hefty backdrop on 00:05:32.889 --> 00:05:36.470 the guy. While you've got Wesley going off against 00:05:36.470 --> 00:05:41.629 Lexus King in a corner and eventually takes him 00:05:41.629 --> 00:05:47.100 down for a two count cover. I've written down 00:05:47.100 --> 00:05:49.139 here, this is quite an interesting spot. So Wesley's 00:05:49.139 --> 00:05:53.019 got a triangle hold locked in on Alexis King. 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:58.319 And Ethan Page comes in and puts in a wrist lock. 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:04.019 And Eddie Thorpe come and locks in another move 00:06:04.019 --> 00:06:07.420 on Ethan Page. So all three of them are trying 00:06:07.420 --> 00:06:14.089 to submit each other. Yeah, got hold in on Nexus 00:06:14.089 --> 00:06:18.810 King. Ethan Page locks in on Wesley. So basically 00:06:18.810 --> 00:06:21.089 they're chokeholds from behind. Like we've seen 00:06:21.089 --> 00:06:23.589 Gunther sneak up and do to Jey so a few times. 00:06:24.490 --> 00:06:27.089 And then, so you've got Lexus King on the floor. 00:06:27.870 --> 00:06:33.329 You've got Ethan Page wrapped around. Yeah, Lexus 00:06:33.329 --> 00:06:35.170 King on the floor. Wesley wrapped around his 00:06:35.170 --> 00:06:37.910 neck. Ethan Page wrapped around Wesley's neck. 00:06:37.990 --> 00:06:39.870 And then Eddie Thorpe locked in on Ethan Page. 00:06:40.439 --> 00:06:42.800 Basically Lexus King breaks this all down. I 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:44.980 could sit down and stun him to be fair He kind 00:06:44.980 --> 00:06:46.779 of manages to get myself up and then just suit 00:06:46.779 --> 00:06:50.600 drops and the rest of them all peel away But 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:55.199 uh, I mean We're getting to the the real the 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:58.420 real thick of it here we've at this point had 00:06:58.420 --> 00:07:02.139 a great match with some incredible spots and 00:07:02.139 --> 00:07:09.670 Just looking to see Kind of you know how much 00:07:09.670 --> 00:07:12.370 better it can get here and it does you know. 00:07:12.750 --> 00:07:15.269 Ethan Page and Lexus King reverse each other 00:07:15.269 --> 00:07:18.370 in a series of chain moves with Ethan Page locking 00:07:18.370 --> 00:07:22.230 in a Boston crab on Lexus King and Eddie Thorpe 00:07:22.230 --> 00:07:24.949 coming in to lock in a cross face and then Wesley 00:07:24.949 --> 00:07:27.829 gets in an armbar as well so poor Lexus King 00:07:27.829 --> 00:07:30.269 man he's he's been taken an absolute beating 00:07:30.269 --> 00:07:33.029 and I'm hoping this isn't all just because he 00:07:33.029 --> 00:07:37.089 grabbed hold of Wesley's twig and berries. But 00:07:37.089 --> 00:07:41.230 yeah, we end up having Wesley hits a whisper 00:07:41.230 --> 00:07:45.149 in the wind on Ethan Page while he had Eddie 00:07:45.149 --> 00:07:47.810 Thorpe locked in a headlock and Alexis King on 00:07:47.810 --> 00:07:51.069 his shoulders. Again, Alexis King taking a massive 00:07:51.069 --> 00:07:55.209 bump, doing a lot of work here and working his 00:07:55.209 --> 00:07:57.910 way to a position where he's, I feel, probably 00:07:57.910 --> 00:08:00.670 one of the strongest in here. That's why everyone's 00:08:00.670 --> 00:08:05.879 picking on him. But we basically get a double 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:08.980 cover on Ethan Page and Eddie Thorpe at one point 00:08:08.980 --> 00:08:11.579 So you've got sorry Ethan Page is covering Eddie 00:08:11.579 --> 00:08:14.079 Thorpe and Wesley's covering Lexus King at which 00:08:14.079 --> 00:08:18.259 point both kick out it to with you end up with 00:08:18.259 --> 00:08:21.980 Wesley and Ethan Page exchanging shots in the 00:08:21.980 --> 00:08:25.279 middle of the ring while Lexus King hits a Swanton 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:29.139 on them both right Lexus King hits the Swanton 00:08:29.139 --> 00:08:32.220 on Ethan Page and Eddie Thorpe drops an elbow 00:08:32.220 --> 00:08:37.740 on Lexus King while Wesley hits the Meteor Aura. 00:08:38.620 --> 00:08:41.259 Eventually, a few moments later, Ethan Page hit 00:08:41.259 --> 00:08:43.740 Twisted Grin on Lexus King for the three count, 00:08:43.820 --> 00:08:48.159 which means that Ethan Page is off to stand and 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:51.440 deliver to face Ricky Saints for his North American 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:53.700 title, which is going to be a match. That's definitely 00:08:53.700 --> 00:08:57.200 going to be an interesting match for the Saint 00:08:57.200 --> 00:09:01.409 versus all -ego Ethan Page. Now I'm very much 00:09:01.409 --> 00:09:04.230 going to be looking forward to that one. It's 00:09:04.230 --> 00:09:06.789 definitely, I'm not 100 % sure I'm going to say 00:09:06.789 --> 00:09:08.649 it's going to be one of the matches of Stand 00:09:08.649 --> 00:09:11.490 and Deliver but it's definitely going to be one 00:09:11.490 --> 00:09:15.950 hell of a match on that card. This next section 00:09:15.950 --> 00:09:20.029 we hear a little bit from Jordan Grace and about 00:09:20.029 --> 00:09:23.370 her history in wrestling and Now she basically 00:09:23.370 --> 00:09:26.070 got into wrestling to show everyone that she 00:09:26.070 --> 00:09:28.509 was something after feeling that she was a no 00:09:28.509 --> 00:09:32.730 one. And kind of given us a brief impact of what 00:09:32.730 --> 00:09:35.450 she's done where and the accomplishment she had 00:09:35.450 --> 00:09:38.750 over at TNA, which I'm not going to list off 00:09:38.750 --> 00:09:41.289 for you because there is an incredible amount 00:09:41.289 --> 00:09:45.009 of accomplishments here. And basically talking 00:09:45.009 --> 00:09:48.740 about You know letting us know that she's she's 00:09:48.740 --> 00:09:52.159 prepared for her part in the fatal four -way 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:55.500 match at stand and deliver for the NXT Women's 00:09:55.500 --> 00:09:58.019 Championship and So obviously that's going to 00:09:58.019 --> 00:10:01.220 end up being Stephanie Baker Jordan grace Julia 00:10:01.220 --> 00:10:06.399 and Jada Parker and we move on from there in 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:12.340 to an evolve VT Just kind of giving us an update 00:10:12.340 --> 00:10:15.340 on on what's going on there and and what evolve 00:10:15.340 --> 00:10:22.220 is And then we move into a Hall of Fame VT. So 00:10:22.220 --> 00:10:26.960 Adam is doing his own special WrestleMania Hall 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:29.860 of Fame episode. I have listened to it. It is 00:10:29.860 --> 00:10:34.580 fantastic. We're not as normal. He's not doing 00:10:34.580 --> 00:10:37.179 a recap of the Hall of Fame. He's just giving 00:10:37.179 --> 00:10:40.480 you a general overview of who's going into the 00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:43.490 Hall of Fame and why they're going in. You can 00:10:43.490 --> 00:10:48.009 catch that one live when it goes live on Hall 00:10:48.009 --> 00:10:50.769 of Fame day That will be finishes and factions 00:10:50.769 --> 00:10:55.309 does the Hall of Fame We then move from there 00:10:55.309 --> 00:10:59.149 in to a backstage segment where we see a solo 00:10:59.149 --> 00:11:04.129 Ruka and Zarya and also in the background we 00:11:04.129 --> 00:11:08.850 see Kalani Jordan and Ariana Grace and two others 00:11:08.850 --> 00:11:12.700 that I'm not 100 % sure who they are But Soruka 00:11:12.700 --> 00:11:15.039 and Zarya are talking about the last two spots 00:11:15.039 --> 00:11:19.620 in the Aladdin map for the women's North American 00:11:19.620 --> 00:11:24.460 title, which we will then find out will come 00:11:24.460 --> 00:11:29.620 into play a little bit later. So far you have 00:11:29.620 --> 00:11:37.419 Zarya, Soruka and Lani Jordan all in that match, 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:42.600 and they're all basically saying, Izzy Dame as 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:45.879 well, sorry. All basically saying they're gonna 00:11:45.879 --> 00:11:48.080 win it and it's basically finished with Izzy 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:50.539 Dame saying that the championship's coming to 00:11:50.539 --> 00:11:55.240 the culling, which is obviously Sean Spears and 00:11:55.240 --> 00:11:59.019 his little family. But we will find out who is 00:11:59.019 --> 00:12:03.740 going to be another member of this match for 00:12:03.740 --> 00:12:07.139 the Women's North American Championship at Stand 00:12:07.139 --> 00:12:09.559 and Deliver because we have a qualifying match 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:15.379 popping up next. This one is Tatum Paxley versus 00:12:15.379 --> 00:12:19.580 Lola Weiss with Gigi Dolin accompanying Tatum 00:12:19.580 --> 00:12:25.340 to the ring. Now, I'm gonna admit to you with 00:12:25.340 --> 00:12:28.059 as much transparency as possible, but as far 00:12:28.059 --> 00:12:31.960 as I'm aware, this is the first time that I've 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:36.620 seen either of these two women wrestle, surely 00:12:36.620 --> 00:12:40.840 for the fact that I think if they've been on 00:12:40.809 --> 00:12:44.450 the televised episodes. It might have been the 00:12:44.450 --> 00:12:47.090 weeks where I was ill and was not watching any 00:12:47.090 --> 00:12:52.330 wrestling at all but they're definitely not names 00:12:52.330 --> 00:12:55.129 that I remember seeing too much of in the ring 00:12:55.129 --> 00:12:57.269 while we've been doing finishes with factions. 00:12:57.990 --> 00:13:00.909 So this was a nice little opportunity for me 00:13:00.909 --> 00:13:03.750 to be able to increase my knowledge and see some 00:13:03.750 --> 00:13:07.870 other superstars that were are on the NXT roster 00:13:07.870 --> 00:13:10.049 that we don't necessarily get to see as often 00:13:10.049 --> 00:13:13.889 as possible. Now, this one was quite an interesting 00:13:13.889 --> 00:13:16.070 one. It started off with my first note being 00:13:16.070 --> 00:13:19.830 that Lola Weiss locks in a cross face on Tatum 00:13:19.830 --> 00:13:24.370 Paxley and that Tatum Paxley ends up dropping 00:13:24.370 --> 00:13:28.629 Lola Weiss down in a bridging arm bar while Lola 00:13:28.629 --> 00:13:32.789 Weiss gets a reversal of a triangle choke hold 00:13:32.789 --> 00:13:37.720 locked in. and then hands up with a roll up two 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:43.919 count. I have also, this one was quite a cheeky 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:45.340 little one. I've not seen this for a little while, 00:13:45.460 --> 00:13:47.720 but Tatum Paxton hides under the ring at one 00:13:47.720 --> 00:13:50.559 point. And as Lola Weiss is trying to pull her 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:54.360 out, Tatum pulls her into the frame of the ring 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:59.740 and Lola Weiss bounces off that ring side quite 00:13:59.740 --> 00:14:03.139 harshly. and it looked like there could possibly 00:14:03.139 --> 00:14:05.879 have been a slight shoulder injury in there but 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:09.860 it was not to be. She did manage to finish this 00:14:09.860 --> 00:14:13.460 match and by doing so having some nice highlights 00:14:13.460 --> 00:14:17.139 of her own. One of those being a three amigos 00:14:17.139 --> 00:14:22.059 that she pulled off, nice little tribute to the 00:14:22.059 --> 00:14:25.019 late great Eddie Guerrero and that one we are 00:14:25.019 --> 00:14:26.899 seeing that one a little bit more commonly we 00:14:26.899 --> 00:14:31.440 see Dirty Don Mysterio do it quite a lot. over 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:36.279 on SmackDown and we have seen some other superstars 00:14:36.279 --> 00:14:40.500 like Liv Morgan do it as well. But it's always 00:14:40.500 --> 00:14:43.580 nice to see wrestlers paying homage to their 00:14:43.580 --> 00:14:45.440 favorite wrestlers as they were growing up as 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:52.779 well. This match, it went on for... Not particularly 00:14:52.779 --> 00:14:54.720 long, we're already sort of halfway through my 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:57.980 notes for this one. I've got up here that Lola 00:14:57.980 --> 00:15:00.559 Weiss sets up a triangle and Tatum packs and 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:04.580 powerbombs Lola Weiss out of it. And then Tatum 00:15:04.580 --> 00:15:08.759 takes Lola down shortly afterwards with a swinging 00:15:08.759 --> 00:15:13.419 net breaker, but no cover came up this time round. 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:18.960 So, you know, she was quite lucky that time. 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:26.179 Tatum packs Lee doing a running crossbody into 00:15:26.179 --> 00:15:29.840 the corner of the ring against Lola Weiss and 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:32.240 after the second or third one Lola Weiss gets 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:35.460 her knees up and kind of stops what Tatum's doing 00:15:35.460 --> 00:15:37.799 and starts kind of firing off with her and then 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:41.200 returns a running hip attack to get a two count 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:45.480 from that one. It basically finishes with this 00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:53.759 one where It wasn't an out and out sort of you 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:55.879 couldn't tell who was going to win this match 00:15:55.879 --> 00:15:58.659 from start to finish. It was very, very even, 00:15:58.740 --> 00:16:05.940 very, very good match. And it finished with Tatum 00:16:05.940 --> 00:16:09.259 Paxton using the ropes to jump into the ring 00:16:09.259 --> 00:16:12.360 from the apron, kind of like a phenomenal forearm 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:15.360 style thing AJ Styles does, jumps on the apron 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:17.740 onto the top rope and then launches himself off 00:16:17.740 --> 00:16:21.750 using the top rope. where Lola Weiss caught her 00:16:21.750 --> 00:16:25.710 with a kick and then hit a back fist which absolutely 00:16:25.710 --> 00:16:31.629 dropped Tatum Paxley at which point Lola Weiss 00:16:31.629 --> 00:16:38.070 managed to get the 1 -2 -3 which set her up to 00:16:38.070 --> 00:16:43.429 meet in the ladder match against Zarya, Sorruka, 00:16:43.909 --> 00:16:46.690 Kalani Jordan and Izzy Dane with one more spot 00:16:46.690 --> 00:16:50.110 left in that match. that we will find out about 00:16:50.110 --> 00:16:54.669 a little bit later on. For our next little section, 00:16:54.690 --> 00:16:58.330 we had a VT from Julia saying that she explained 00:16:58.330 --> 00:16:59.929 that she'd been waiting for a rematch and it 00:16:59.929 --> 00:17:02.470 didn't come and friendships only go as far as 00:17:02.470 --> 00:17:06.509 that NXT title. Last week when she made her appearance 00:17:06.509 --> 00:17:09.710 for the first time since she lost her NXT title 00:17:09.710 --> 00:17:14.369 to Stephanie Baker, she came out and reminded 00:17:14.369 --> 00:17:17.230 Stephanie what the beautiful madness is and well, 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:19.480 Jada Parker, she doesn't know her, but she says 00:17:19.480 --> 00:17:22.079 she's confident. She can't dish it out, but she 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:24.440 can take it. Jordan Grace is strong and she'll 00:17:24.440 --> 00:17:29.039 introduce her to her strong style. So we're going 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:31.759 to get a slight introduction to Japanese wrestling 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:35.940 from Julia here. And both Jordan Grace and Jada 00:17:35.940 --> 00:17:38.200 Parker are basically just obstacles in her way 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:40.619 to Stephanie Baker. And after losing her title, 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:43.380 she's more dangerous than ever. And she'll be 00:17:43.380 --> 00:17:48.819 leaving stand and deliver as Champion, which 00:17:48.819 --> 00:17:51.839 I mean, they're pretty, pretty big words. We 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:55.359 do know that Julia has the ability to take that 00:17:55.359 --> 00:17:59.259 title and do a lot with it. She's a very, very 00:17:59.259 --> 00:18:03.220 talented wrestler. Someone we've seen a lot on 00:18:03.220 --> 00:18:06.960 the Finishes and Factions podcast since we started 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:13.210 at the beginning of the Netflix debut era. From 00:18:13.210 --> 00:18:16.809 this, we went backstage to see Trick Williams 00:18:16.809 --> 00:18:24.809 arriving in his SUV. He will be around a little 00:18:24.809 --> 00:18:29.849 bit later as we see him for a promo at the end 00:18:29.849 --> 00:18:33.710 of the night. But it's always nice to see Trick 00:18:33.710 --> 00:18:36.109 Williams decide that he's coming. We then got 00:18:36.109 --> 00:18:40.000 an NXT. Shop advert, and I'm not gonna lie, there 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:42.539 is some stonking merchandise in the store at 00:18:42.539 --> 00:18:46.319 the moment. Some of these Oba Femi t -shirts 00:18:46.319 --> 00:18:51.740 are incredible. And then it moves on to WrestleMania 00:18:51.740 --> 00:18:57.599 Week's shop, you know, all the WrestleMania merchandise 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:02.640 that is available to pick up at WWE World. which 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:07.740 was going on all this week and in Las Vegas for 00:19:07.740 --> 00:19:14.779 WrestleMania. Now, we now move into another backstage 00:19:14.779 --> 00:19:19.059 segment, this time with Ava. And Ava saying that 00:19:19.059 --> 00:19:21.640 there's gonna be a triple threat tag match for 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:27.700 a chance at the women's titles at NXT after Stand 00:19:27.700 --> 00:19:31.059 and Deliver. Now there are a group of tag teams. 00:19:31.529 --> 00:19:35.450 round Ava at the time. Some of them, their faces 00:19:35.450 --> 00:19:40.029 I did not recognise and I have not had the time 00:19:40.029 --> 00:19:47.970 to jump in and research exactly who it is. So 00:19:47.970 --> 00:19:54.349 not really been able to help you with that one, 00:19:54.349 --> 00:19:58.849 but it looks like in the kickoff show, it has 00:19:58.849 --> 00:20:05.960 been announced that there is going to be a Fatal 00:20:05.960 --> 00:20:09.839 Four Way Elimination match for the Tag Team Championships 00:20:09.839 --> 00:20:13.019 and you're going to have Roxanne Perez and Cora 00:20:13.019 --> 00:20:17.279 Jade with the Metagirls, Lash Legend, Chikara 00:20:17.279 --> 00:20:20.759 Jackson, Fatal Influence, which is Fallon Henley 00:20:20.759 --> 00:20:25.839 and JC Jane against Gigi Dolin and Tatum Paxley. 00:20:27.040 --> 00:20:29.799 which is a bit of an interesting one because 00:20:29.799 --> 00:20:33.299 Roxanne Perez was told that she needed to find 00:20:33.299 --> 00:20:37.759 herself a tag team partner and that she basically 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:40.680 comes back in a little bit later on saying that, 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:44.920 you know, I'll do it on my own, which Ava says, 00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:49.900 nah, you're not allowed to do that. And Cora 00:20:49.900 --> 00:20:52.319 Jade pops in and goes, well, are you desperate 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:57.359 enough to make an apology? at which it seems 00:20:57.359 --> 00:21:00.960 that both Roxanne Perez and Cora Jade have put 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:05.920 their history behind them, surely just for NXT 00:21:05.920 --> 00:21:10.299 stand and deliver. So I am recording this a couple 00:21:10.299 --> 00:21:15.019 of days after NXT's programming purely due to 00:21:15.019 --> 00:21:17.299 work commitments, family commitments and it being 00:21:17.299 --> 00:21:20.759 Easter with the children off. So I am trying 00:21:20.759 --> 00:21:24.819 to do what I can here. Right, so we then go into 00:21:24.819 --> 00:21:29.799 our next match, which we are told is a tag title 00:21:29.799 --> 00:21:34.420 gauntlet match. And we see Hank and Tank come 00:21:34.420 --> 00:21:40.240 to the ring to face Tyson Dupont and Tyreek Igwe 00:21:40.240 --> 00:21:44.200 in their first match. And Dupont and Igwe are 00:21:44.200 --> 00:21:48.589 accompanied to the ring by Wes Lee. Now we are 00:21:48.589 --> 00:21:52.009 informed at the start of this match that Hank 00:21:52.009 --> 00:21:55.829 and Tank are on a 7 loss streak and we have covered 00:21:55.829 --> 00:21:58.490 all of those on Finisher's factions and they've 00:21:58.490 --> 00:22:01.349 lost to some pretty good teams but they've also 00:22:01.349 --> 00:22:08.809 performed very very well against them. So this 00:22:08.809 --> 00:22:13.369 I don't have a lot of notes for this one because 00:22:13.369 --> 00:22:16.240 quite frankly the The first few matches there 00:22:16.240 --> 00:22:19.119 was not a lot going on that was really kind of 00:22:19.119 --> 00:22:24.140 worth mentioning. I do have that Hank took a 00:22:24.140 --> 00:22:26.799 clothesline to the back of the neck and got covered 00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:30.980 for an instant kick out at one. Hank managed 00:22:30.980 --> 00:22:37.099 to drop a double team, well Hank and Tank managed 00:22:37.099 --> 00:22:40.759 to drop double teams on Tyson Du Pointe and Tyreek 00:22:40.759 --> 00:22:45.240 Igwe. to give them the three count to continue 00:22:45.240 --> 00:22:49.200 in to the next match. So that sent Tyson to point 00:22:49.200 --> 00:22:52.140 and Tyree to big way to the back. They were only 00:22:52.140 --> 00:22:54.500 out for about two, I want to say five minutes 00:22:54.500 --> 00:22:57.819 tops. It wasn't a long first match, which then 00:22:57.819 --> 00:23:02.140 brings us in Brooks Jensen and Nico Vance from 00:23:02.140 --> 00:23:05.420 the Culling, who we've already spoken about this 00:23:05.420 --> 00:23:14.779 evening with their One of their members, Izzy 00:23:14.779 --> 00:23:20.599 Dain, being in that ladder match at Stand and 00:23:20.599 --> 00:23:23.000 deliver for the North American Championship. 00:23:23.079 --> 00:23:26.779 They want to try and bring the tag team titles 00:23:26.779 --> 00:23:29.539 back to the culling too. So that would give them 00:23:29.539 --> 00:23:32.619 a pretty hefty advantage in the locker room. 00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:36.319 This we are told is the third gauntlet match 00:23:36.319 --> 00:23:40.440 in NXT history. And as we are told this Hank 00:23:40.440 --> 00:23:43.079 and tank are running bombs into the corners against 00:23:43.079 --> 00:23:45.859 the culling and double teaming End up getting 00:23:45.859 --> 00:23:49.039 a double team at the end and a two count off 00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:53.740 it so we then see a tank lock in a cross face 00:23:53.740 --> 00:23:58.940 on Brooke Jensen and and then kind of ends up 00:23:58.940 --> 00:24:00.940 a little bit later on so just bashing him off 00:24:00.940 --> 00:24:04.920 the turnbuckle and then tagging Hank in and Hank 00:24:04.920 --> 00:24:11.009 comes in and gets himself a two count. The culling 00:24:11.009 --> 00:24:13.470 end up performing a double team on Hank after 00:24:13.470 --> 00:24:17.250 boshing his head off the announce table and Vance 00:24:17.250 --> 00:24:21.970 pretty much destroys Hank and Jensen gets a two 00:24:21.970 --> 00:24:27.829 count after the tag on him himself. We then end 00:24:27.829 --> 00:24:34.039 up with Brooks Jensen getting a two count on 00:24:34.039 --> 00:24:37.400 Hank and Hank dropping Brooks Jensen with one 00:24:37.400 --> 00:24:41.440 hell of a clothesline. And Nico Vance ended up 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:46.259 getting the two count on Hank after Brooks Jensen 00:24:46.259 --> 00:24:50.140 double teamed him behind the ref's back. Little 00:24:50.140 --> 00:24:53.039 bit of a dirty play out there and it still ends 00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:59.460 up going well for them. So Jensen gets a roll 00:24:59.460 --> 00:25:05.019 up on Tank. for a two and then catches a spinning 00:25:05.019 --> 00:25:10.579 heel kick once recovered from that heel kick 00:25:10.579 --> 00:25:12.980 and a little while later the culling perform 00:25:12.980 --> 00:25:16.339 a double team and tank and tank counters that 00:25:16.339 --> 00:25:20.400 double team and ends up getting the three count 00:25:20.400 --> 00:25:24.099 on them to send Brooks Jensen and Nico Vance 00:25:24.099 --> 00:25:27.779 back with their tails between their legs And 00:25:27.779 --> 00:25:31.759 as they are walking out, we get to see the next 00:25:31.759 --> 00:25:34.880 team come out, which was no quarter catch crew. 00:25:34.940 --> 00:25:39.819 This was Tabion Heights and Miles Bourne. As 00:25:39.819 --> 00:25:44.259 with every gauntlet match that we've seen recently, 00:25:45.140 --> 00:25:48.980 in the third match, it is a point where everyone 00:25:48.980 --> 00:25:54.759 is getting a little bit more tired. especially 00:25:54.759 --> 00:25:57.519 you know Hank and Tank who have already had two 00:25:57.519 --> 00:26:00.339 matches and then to come in and get Tavion Heights 00:26:00.339 --> 00:26:04.200 and Miles Bourne in the next one is a little 00:26:04.200 --> 00:26:08.880 bit of a kick in the proverbial gonads and I'm 00:26:08.880 --> 00:26:11.259 not gonna lie Tavion Heights got this he was 00:26:11.259 --> 00:26:13.359 down for business and he went straight in to 00:26:13.359 --> 00:26:16.559 get a roll up two count while Miles Bourne got 00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:19.660 a two count off a missile drop kick which was 00:26:19.660 --> 00:26:26.990 absolutely ruthless. to say the least. We then 00:26:26.990 --> 00:26:31.230 get Tank and Hank get a, no, sorry, Tavion Heights 00:26:31.230 --> 00:26:33.869 got a two count and managed to lock in a choke 00:26:33.869 --> 00:26:38.609 hold. Hank sends Tavion over the ropes and starts 00:26:38.609 --> 00:26:42.150 laying into Miles Bourne, pulling off a rather 00:26:42.150 --> 00:26:44.750 nice bulldog on Miles Bourne as well, to be fair. 00:26:45.509 --> 00:26:50.160 And while he's still, you know, humped up and 00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:52.599 hyped up after that we get the Hank Express on 00:26:52.599 --> 00:26:56.099 Tavion Heights after doing a lap of the outside 00:26:56.099 --> 00:27:00.380 of the ring and he absolutely destroys him. So 00:27:00.380 --> 00:27:03.539 while Hank and Tank are in the double team Miles 00:27:03.539 --> 00:27:06.799 Bourne comes flying over the top rope and takes 00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:11.220 them out on the outside and Miles Bourne rolls 00:27:11.220 --> 00:27:14.000 one of them back in to try and get himself a 00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:18.539 two count. It doesn't quite work and Tavion Tavian 00:27:18.539 --> 00:27:22.559 ends up doing a backdrop on Hank on the apron 00:27:22.559 --> 00:27:26.539 to roll him in for a two count as well and then 00:27:26.539 --> 00:27:28.779 there was another two count for Tavian Heights 00:27:28.779 --> 00:27:33.140 off a clothesline a little bit later on after 00:27:33.140 --> 00:27:37.640 that. We do end up with Miles Bourne pulling 00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:41.140 a snap suplex off for a two count and Hank gets 00:27:41.140 --> 00:27:44.579 the two count from a cradle roll up shortly afterwards. 00:27:45.069 --> 00:27:49.890 And then we ended up tank hitting a suplex with 00:27:49.890 --> 00:27:52.470 on Tavion Heights and then Tavion Heights getting 00:27:52.470 --> 00:28:02.390 up and hitting one on to Hank himself. Yeah, 00:28:02.509 --> 00:28:05.509 so after that you have Tavion Heights with a 00:28:05.509 --> 00:28:08.190 two count and Hank interrupts the count, the 00:28:08.190 --> 00:28:12.299 count gets tossed out of the ring. as no quarter 00:28:12.299 --> 00:28:14.599 catch crew are trying to set up a double team 00:28:14.599 --> 00:28:18.019 at tank rolls one of them up for another three 00:28:18.019 --> 00:28:21.980 count basically just saying you know we're not 00:28:21.980 --> 00:28:26.140 here to say we're gonna win this but we're here 00:28:26.140 --> 00:28:29.700 to have a damn good effort and their final opponents 00:28:29.700 --> 00:28:33.779 in this gauntlet match are Josh Briggs and Yoshiki 00:28:33.779 --> 00:28:39.759 Inomura This wasn't a huge end to it, you know, 00:28:39.880 --> 00:28:41.759 Briggs and Inamora came in just trying to finish 00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:45.880 them off. They had slams, big boots, choke slams 00:28:45.880 --> 00:28:52.079 onto knees. But in the end, it was Hank rolling 00:28:52.079 --> 00:28:56.319 up Josh Briggs to win the gauntlet match and 00:28:56.319 --> 00:29:00.000 go from a seven loss of seven match losing streak 00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:05.880 to a four match winning streak to then end up 00:29:05.690 --> 00:29:09.069 finding out that they will be going to meet the 00:29:09.069 --> 00:29:14.109 team of Nathan Fraser and Axiom for the NXT Tag 00:29:14.109 --> 00:29:19.630 Team Championships at Stand and Deliver. I personally 00:29:19.630 --> 00:29:28.349 see this one being a retention by Axiom but never 00:29:28.349 --> 00:29:30.650 rule out Hanging Tank as they have just shown 00:29:30.650 --> 00:29:33.630 us in this gauntlet match. i can't look much 00:29:33.630 --> 00:29:38.670 it was jesus christ man wasn't high flying but 00:29:38.670 --> 00:29:41.869 it had me on the edge of my seat for a considerably 00:29:41.869 --> 00:29:45.250 long time and yeah i was definitely all over 00:29:45.250 --> 00:29:47.910 this one when i uh when i started and i didn't 00:29:47.910 --> 00:29:51.470 even realize it was coming it just boom hop there 00:29:51.470 --> 00:29:55.210 we go i was like god damn but yeah no definitely 00:29:55.210 --> 00:29:59.819 really enjoyed this one Our next segment is actually 00:29:59.819 --> 00:30:01.759 a little bit different than what we get. We have 00:30:01.759 --> 00:30:04.579 Kali Armstrong talking to Sophie Turner, who 00:30:04.579 --> 00:30:08.779 is the Evolve GM, about being in the main event 00:30:08.779 --> 00:30:12.079 of Evolve this week with Kendall Gray, Brinley 00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:16.720 Reese, and Chantal Monroe, of which, you know, 00:30:16.859 --> 00:30:20.519 Kali Armstrong says thank you, and Ava says afterwards, 00:30:21.240 --> 00:30:26.880 Kali's gonna be a big star. talking about the 00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:32.200 surprise entrant that Eva has lined up for the 00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:35.180 match with the last slot in it for this ladder 00:30:35.180 --> 00:30:37.039 match that we keep talking about, it's stand 00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:41.759 and deliver. And I wonder who that could definitely 00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:45.220 be. One thing we do know is that we see Ovo Femi 00:30:45.220 --> 00:30:49.259 arriving in his SUV and we are asked the question 00:30:49.259 --> 00:30:52.380 by commentary about if that is dark state, that 00:30:52.380 --> 00:31:01.480 is sat behind him. We next have an NXT spotlight 00:31:01.480 --> 00:31:05.900 on Jada Parker saying how she learned, you know, 00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:09.099 where to fit, how she learned to fit in and it 00:31:09.099 --> 00:31:13.799 all started at Port St. Lucie in Florida where 00:31:13.799 --> 00:31:18.480 she made her name in the streets and that Jordan 00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:22.099 Grace and Stephanie Becker from other places 00:31:22.099 --> 00:31:25.059 and she's the only homegrown talent in this match 00:31:25.059 --> 00:31:27.960 and that's pressure, you know, and she's the 00:31:27.960 --> 00:31:31.900 pressure. She says that the NXT division is the 00:31:31.900 --> 00:31:34.700 best in the world and her best friend, you know, 00:31:34.700 --> 00:31:37.460 when she lost her uncle, she, she learned that 00:31:37.460 --> 00:31:40.160 she couldn't trust anyone anymore. And, you know, 00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:41.859 people are saying she's got a bit of an attitude. 00:31:41.940 --> 00:31:44.180 She says life made her hard and she needs that 00:31:44.180 --> 00:31:46.519 championship shit to show that she can't be broken, 00:31:46.680 --> 00:31:50.180 that she's not going to be playing around. Which 00:31:50.180 --> 00:31:54.900 leads us into what I can only describe for me 00:31:54.900 --> 00:32:00.740 was one of the more interesting segments of the 00:32:00.740 --> 00:32:06.539 program. Now, like a few of you who know me personally, 00:32:07.500 --> 00:32:10.319 I, when I was younger, was definitely not one 00:32:10.319 --> 00:32:13.180 to shy away from a good old scrap in a car park. 00:32:14.119 --> 00:32:18.059 But this specific scrap in the car park was one 00:32:18.059 --> 00:32:20.559 that we've been waiting for for quite a while. 00:32:21.099 --> 00:32:24.400 And this was between the members of the D 'Angelo 00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:31.500 family. with Tony D 'Angelo not being there and 00:32:31.500 --> 00:32:34.359 Stax has basically made a choice that Tony doesn't 00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:36.579 know about and they're gonna have a good old 00:32:36.579 --> 00:32:39.380 -fashioned sort out in a car park with Dark State 00:32:39.380 --> 00:32:43.819 and yet the D 'Angelo family have bought weapons 00:32:43.819 --> 00:32:47.019 too a lot of them are carrying crowbars ends 00:32:47.019 --> 00:32:50.019 up starting off in the car park it goes inside 00:32:50.019 --> 00:32:53.579 backstage and you know the D 'Angelo family are 00:32:53.579 --> 00:32:58.980 pretty much on top most of the time. You know, 00:32:59.119 --> 00:33:01.579 there's bins being thrown around. There's all 00:33:01.579 --> 00:33:04.019 sorts of chaos going on. This was not sanctioned. 00:33:04.019 --> 00:33:06.220 This is just, we'll meet in a car park and see 00:33:06.220 --> 00:33:09.259 what happens. One of the members of Dark State 00:33:09.259 --> 00:33:11.140 puts one of the members of the D 'Angelo through 00:33:11.140 --> 00:33:14.700 a table out in the background where they've got 00:33:14.700 --> 00:33:19.579 snacks and stuff and then... the family then 00:33:19.579 --> 00:33:22.220 decide to put him through a table and then one 00:33:22.220 --> 00:33:24.539 of them one of the dark state guys gets stuck 00:33:24.539 --> 00:33:28.720 in the wall with a crowbar and the two members 00:33:28.720 --> 00:33:31.819 of the D 'Angelo family just spear him through 00:33:31.819 --> 00:33:35.559 the wall and at which point they end up in a 00:33:35.559 --> 00:33:38.500 storage warehouse and they're still causing havoc 00:33:38.500 --> 00:33:41.799 and a member of dark state just sprays everyone 00:33:41.799 --> 00:33:45.259 down with a fire extinguisher and then they end 00:33:45.259 --> 00:33:47.400 up going back outside. I've even put in here, 00:33:47.539 --> 00:33:49.519 this is just pure chaos and I can't tell who 00:33:49.519 --> 00:33:52.519 is who and what's going on at this moment. I 00:33:52.519 --> 00:33:57.220 do know that Luca Crucifino gets brutally slammed 00:33:57.220 --> 00:34:00.119 onto the bonnet of a car and you see a white 00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:02.799 car come flying into the car park and out of 00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:08.090 it jumps Tony D 'Angelo with a crowbar. and you've 00:34:08.090 --> 00:34:09.889 got police lights surrounding the background 00:34:09.889 --> 00:34:11.730 and stacks. It's kind of like, look, we need 00:34:11.730 --> 00:34:13.369 to get the fuck out of it, Tony. There's police 00:34:13.369 --> 00:34:16.150 and he's like, nah, they're with me. They were 00:34:16.150 --> 00:34:18.489 just here to scare everyone off. It's a bit, 00:34:18.489 --> 00:34:21.269 you know, I had a plan and the plan was we were 00:34:21.269 --> 00:34:23.949 gonna meet at stand and deliver and we were gonna 00:34:23.949 --> 00:34:26.530 do it properly. So instead you two, you know, 00:34:26.650 --> 00:34:29.929 you bunch of muffets decided that you couldn't 00:34:29.929 --> 00:34:34.920 wait for that. So. at stand and deliver sorry 00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:36.940 in WrestleMania week we're going to have Tony 00:34:36.940 --> 00:34:40.860 D 'Angelo, Channing Stacks, Lorenzo and Luka 00:34:40.860 --> 00:34:45.079 Cruz -Beno against three members of Dark State 00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:49.000 so that will either be Saquon Sugars, Leon Lennox, 00:34:49.300 --> 00:34:52.800 Cutler James or Osiris Griffin. They have not 00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:55.840 been confirmed as to which ones are going to 00:34:55.840 --> 00:35:02.079 be taking part yet but this was a in the car 00:35:02.079 --> 00:35:07.400 park. So as we've seen from Jordan Grace, we've 00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:12.019 seen from Julia, and we've seen from Jayden Parker, 00:35:12.219 --> 00:35:16.400 now it is time to get a little bit of Stephanie 00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:20.360 Baker. And she has been down in Chile doing some 00:35:20.360 --> 00:35:22.800 TV appearances and spending some time with her 00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:26.980 family and showing her dad the titles and stuff. 00:35:27.820 --> 00:35:29.619 And she says that when she told her dad that 00:35:29.619 --> 00:35:31.360 she wanted to be a pro wrestler, he was very 00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:32.900 worried. And she said, you know, one day I'm 00:35:32.900 --> 00:35:35.860 going to be a WWE double champion. Right. And 00:35:35.860 --> 00:35:38.119 she went back and she took those championships 00:35:38.119 --> 00:35:40.119 and copies of them and went, you know, these 00:35:40.119 --> 00:35:43.159 are the of what I was holding. And, and, you 00:35:43.159 --> 00:35:46.760 know, it was pretty cool. We then go into a backstage 00:35:46.760 --> 00:35:49.179 appearance with Hank and Tank talking to Kelly 00:35:49.179 --> 00:35:51.519 Kincaid about their stand and deliver Max and 00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:54.539 Fraxium who end up coming in from the side saying 00:35:54.539 --> 00:35:56.199 they're looking forward to meeting them at stand 00:35:56.199 --> 00:36:00.119 and deliver. but Nathan Fraser gets a little 00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:02.460 bit sour towards them and as Hank and Tank offer 00:36:02.460 --> 00:36:05.539 a hand to shake Nathan Fraser walks off with 00:36:05.539 --> 00:36:09.320 a bit of a huff while Axiom stands back and shakes 00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:13.800 both their hands. At which point Roxanne Perez 00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:16.760 is also talking to Ava, like I said earlier, 00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:18.539 saying that she's going to go in on her own at 00:36:18.539 --> 00:36:25.000 which point we find out about Cora Jade coming 00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:27.900 in. I'm talking to her, but I mention that to 00:36:27.900 --> 00:36:33.440 you a little bit later on. So we are gonna jump 00:36:33.440 --> 00:36:39.500 into our next match, which is the last qualifying 00:36:39.500 --> 00:36:44.139 match for the North American Championship Ladders 00:36:44.139 --> 00:36:49.599 match in Las Vegas as part of WrestleMania Weekend 00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:55.309 Stand and Deliver. And we have this match between 00:36:55.309 --> 00:37:01.349 Carmen Petrovich and, well, Carmen Petrovich 00:37:01.349 --> 00:37:03.769 comes to the ring and we get to see Cale Dixon 00:37:03.769 --> 00:37:08.110 and Uriah Connors talking to Andre Chase. And 00:37:08.110 --> 00:37:11.570 they basically, Andre Chase just apologised for 00:37:11.570 --> 00:37:14.449 saying that he ruined everyone's lives. Thea 00:37:14.449 --> 00:37:16.869 Hale comes in and says, hey, you didn't ruin 00:37:16.869 --> 00:37:20.219 mine. And even though she's not coming. back 00:37:20.219 --> 00:37:23.440 to chase university or to chase you. She'll always 00:37:23.440 --> 00:37:26.900 be the proud alumni, but right now she's got 00:37:26.900 --> 00:37:31.719 a match to win. And she goes out to face Carmen 00:37:31.719 --> 00:37:35.300 Petrovich in the ladder match qualifier. So the 00:37:35.300 --> 00:37:38.860 special person that Eva was talking about was 00:37:38.860 --> 00:37:43.420 Thea Hale. Now I've never seen Thea Hale wrestle 00:37:43.420 --> 00:37:48.039 in NXT. Her last singles match was at Great American 00:37:48.039 --> 00:37:51.079 Bash, which was The end of July, beginning of 00:37:51.079 --> 00:37:56.639 August 2024. I don't have a huge amount of notes 00:37:56.639 --> 00:38:00.260 for this match. Purely the fan in me took over. 00:38:00.420 --> 00:38:03.039 It was a good match to watch. I hadn't seen Fear 00:38:03.039 --> 00:38:05.079 Hail before. I was trying to get a little bit 00:38:05.079 --> 00:38:08.300 more information about her. And I just generally 00:38:08.300 --> 00:38:13.679 enjoyed watching this match. Now it started off 00:38:13.679 --> 00:38:16.809 with a quick roll up for a one count. From fear 00:38:16.809 --> 00:38:20.889 hail we then had a double arm drag from her and 00:38:20.889 --> 00:38:28.070 a suplex and then as Carmen Petrovich goes to 00:38:28.070 --> 00:38:32.590 the outside fear hail attempts a Suicide dive 00:38:32.590 --> 00:38:36.230 through the ropes, but Carmen Petrovich kicks 00:38:36.230 --> 00:38:41.070 her right in the face and we end up with Carmen 00:38:41.070 --> 00:38:43.889 Petrovich getting a two count roll up a little 00:38:43.889 --> 00:38:47.789 while later and after hitting a spinning back 00:38:47.789 --> 00:38:53.050 fist and Thea Hale hit a spinning neck breaker 00:38:53.050 --> 00:38:56.070 and a clothesline from her knees to finish off 00:38:56.070 --> 00:39:04.769 with a snap suplex slam too and no Thea Hale 00:39:04.769 --> 00:39:07.150 was being booked quite strongly in this one and 00:39:07.150 --> 00:39:09.690 at the I say it's very short match and she won 00:39:09.690 --> 00:39:12.289 this one with a double underhook pedigree into 00:39:12.289 --> 00:39:15.389 a Chimura look which is basically a wrist lock 00:39:15.389 --> 00:39:19.510 and For those of you are not too sure about what 00:39:19.510 --> 00:39:21.510 that is. It was something Brock Lesnar used to 00:39:21.510 --> 00:39:26.429 use a lot in the UFC and Carmen Petrovich submitted 00:39:26.429 --> 00:39:31.110 to this one pretty quickly lining Thea Hale up 00:39:31.110 --> 00:39:34.730 to go against Izzy Dame, Kalani Jordan, Sol Ruker, 00:39:35.090 --> 00:39:39.389 Zarya and Lola Weiss for a shot at the Women's 00:39:39.389 --> 00:39:45.289 North American Championship. And this last section 00:39:45.289 --> 00:39:51.409 of the episode this week was a promo from Rick 00:39:51.409 --> 00:39:53.269 Williams in the ring saying it's been doing a 00:39:53.269 --> 00:39:56.010 lot of thinking over the last few weeks and you 00:39:56.010 --> 00:39:59.239 know he's either gonna die the hero or live long 00:39:59.239 --> 00:40:02.019 enough to be the villain and on saturday trick 00:40:02.019 --> 00:40:05.960 williams is coming back for his nxt championship 00:40:05.960 --> 00:40:11.139 of which the current holder of that title the 00:40:11.139 --> 00:40:15.159 ruler himself over femi comes out to say dude 00:40:15.159 --> 00:40:17.940 it's funny you're still talking like you're the 00:40:17.940 --> 00:40:22.659 man but ain't no one out here singing what for 00:40:22.659 --> 00:40:25.320 that trick the only person that's saying it is 00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:28.929 you you're just a Broken record man, and he's 00:40:28.929 --> 00:40:32.010 like look I'll give you some advice after stand 00:40:32.010 --> 00:40:36.309 and deliver when I retain my title the spotlight 00:40:36.309 --> 00:40:40.230 is gonna be moving on and I'm doing that you 00:40:40.230 --> 00:40:44.849 need to do the same thing at which Point, you 00:40:44.849 --> 00:40:46.550 know trick Williams says look it's gonna take 00:40:46.550 --> 00:40:48.750 more than a few black panther chance to be king 00:40:48.750 --> 00:40:51.869 back here and that Title looks heavy man. I'll 00:40:51.869 --> 00:40:55.469 help you out. I'll take it off you and At which 00:40:55.469 --> 00:40:59.809 point we see the third member of the, you know, 00:41:00.230 --> 00:41:04.889 this NXT Stand Deliver main event match, Jevon 00:41:04.889 --> 00:41:07.369 Evans comes out saying Trick Williams just needs 00:41:07.369 --> 00:41:12.510 to shut the fuck up. And to be fair, is he wrong? 00:41:12.869 --> 00:41:15.730 I mean, Trick Williams is basically turning into 00:41:15.730 --> 00:41:20.349 NXT's version of Drew McIntyre. God damn it, 00:41:20.510 --> 00:41:26.500 I'm fed up. You know, so. Javon Evans comes out 00:41:26.500 --> 00:41:28.280 saying he was right about Trick Williams a few 00:41:28.280 --> 00:41:30.139 weeks ago, saying he comes out here week after 00:41:30.139 --> 00:41:32.460 week talking about a match he doesn't deserve 00:41:32.460 --> 00:41:34.579 and they're tired about it. So if you're gonna 00:41:34.579 --> 00:41:39.199 talk, talk about something else. And he dismisses 00:41:39.199 --> 00:41:42.179 Trick Williams completely and it goes, you know, 00:41:42.199 --> 00:41:45.239 it's more like about Oberfemi and Javon Evans. 00:41:46.900 --> 00:41:50.260 Javon Evans says Oberfemi's been glued to a title 00:41:50.260 --> 00:41:54.090 since he got to NXT and he has been. Over Femi's 00:41:54.090 --> 00:41:56.210 not been there very long. He's had the NXT title. 00:41:56.409 --> 00:41:58.409 He had another title beforehand. I think it was 00:41:58.409 --> 00:42:03.070 a North American title he held. But he's dropped 00:42:03.070 --> 00:42:07.570 the champ twice and he's hype about it. Javon 00:42:07.570 --> 00:42:10.030 Evans says that Over Femi will be main event 00:42:10.030 --> 00:42:13.909 in WrestleMania soon. And he walks around like 00:42:13.909 --> 00:42:18.130 the world revolves around him. But Javon Evans 00:42:18.130 --> 00:42:21.090 wasn't supposed to make it to WWE and he did. 00:42:21.519 --> 00:42:24.880 That's why he's the underdog and he enjoys being 00:42:24.880 --> 00:42:29.500 the underdog Where over family replies that John 00:42:29.500 --> 00:42:35.079 Evans is the future You know of NXT but over 00:42:35.079 --> 00:42:38.280 family is the present and NXT does a role around 00:42:38.280 --> 00:42:42.019 him because he has the NXT title Javon Evans 00:42:42.019 --> 00:42:44.019 cannot handle that pressure because he's just 00:42:44.019 --> 00:42:47.880 a kid At which point we get all three of them 00:42:47.880 --> 00:42:50.099 kind of stood In a triangle staring each other 00:42:50.099 --> 00:42:51.980 down looking at each other like which one of 00:42:51.980 --> 00:42:54.940 you is going to make the move? And the first 00:42:54.940 --> 00:42:58.440 move to be made is over Femi and Rick Williams 00:42:58.440 --> 00:43:01.619 throwing Javon Evans out of the ring and they 00:43:01.619 --> 00:43:04.380 start swinging at each other and Javon Evans 00:43:04.380 --> 00:43:06.800 comes back in and they toss him out the other 00:43:06.800 --> 00:43:09.719 side and go back to swinging. And eventually 00:43:09.719 --> 00:43:12.880 Javon Evans jumps off from the top rope hitting 00:43:12.880 --> 00:43:15.920 a cutter on both of them leaving them sprawled 00:43:15.920 --> 00:43:18.769 out lying on the floor. and he lifts up over 00:43:18.769 --> 00:43:23.110 Femi's title and raises it above his head. Now, 00:43:23.110 --> 00:43:25.570 I don't know about you guys, but I do not think 00:43:25.570 --> 00:43:27.389 that is gonna be happening at Stand and Deliver. 00:43:27.389 --> 00:43:29.909 If that does happen at Stand and Deliver, I will 00:43:29.909 --> 00:43:35.610 eat my hat. I will promise you that one, just 00:43:35.610 --> 00:43:37.289 for the record. I don't actually wear a hat, 00:43:37.309 --> 00:43:41.269 but we'll find something to eat that's not too... 00:43:41.420 --> 00:43:44.639 Pleasant if Javelin Evans walks out of stand 00:43:44.639 --> 00:43:48.719 and deliver holding that NXT title Right. Well, 00:43:48.719 --> 00:43:53.179 I'm gonna thank you all for listening to my ramblings 00:43:53.179 --> 00:43:56.420 for the last little while about the final NXT 00:43:56.420 --> 00:44:03.460 of the year for WrestleMania and I hope you have 00:44:03.460 --> 00:44:06.099 enjoyed the build -up to WrestleMania and stand 00:44:06.099 --> 00:44:08.840 and deliver as much as I have over the last couple 00:44:08.840 --> 00:44:15.309 of months was it has been Incredible. So it's 00:44:15.309 --> 00:44:18.989 one of those we will have to sit back and see 00:44:18.989 --> 00:44:26.869 what happens. With that being said, that is the 00:44:26.869 --> 00:44:29.050 end of this week's episode. So thank you all 00:44:29.050 --> 00:44:33.929 very much. I will leave you to enjoy Adam's finishes 00:44:33.929 --> 00:44:39.320 and factions does. All of Fame class 2025 special 00:44:39.320 --> 00:44:44.719 episode and we will catch you in the next episode 00:44:44.719 --> 00:44:50.000 of finishes and factions does Smackdown with 00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:52.599 the last Smackdown before WrestleMania. So peace 00:44:52.599 --> 00:44:54.380 out and we'll see you all there. Enjoy.