And welcome to Finishers and Factions Does NXT.
This week's NXT is taking place from Las Vegas,
Nevada in the Fountain Blue Theatre, which is
a nice change of pace from the Performance Center,
I will be honest. As always, my name is Adam,
and I would normally be joined by my co -host,
Rich. As I mentioned in our Raw episode, it is
a case that I've been... How do I... We came
to an agreement to split the workload. WrestleMania
weekend is an incredibly busy weekend for wrestling
fans in general. Whether you're... Attending
the events live or whether you're watching them
from home. It is a brutal weekend of wrestling
as you get sort of like especially if you're
just watching WWE there's Five days worth of
wrestling some days. There are two events on
at once or two events on in that day as you have
friday night smackdown we had stand and deliver
for nxt in the uh on the saturday uh saturday
early well for the uk it was uh sort of early
afternoon later that night we had wrestlemania
night won and on Sunday we had WrestleMania night
two and then things did not let up from there
as we had the next night we had the Monday after
WrestleMania which we've covered in our last
episode which was just myself and then we come
to this episode which is NXT after Stand and
Deliver. We have said, myself and Rich, that
our experiences of NXT are limited or non -existent
at best. Now, this was my very first Stand and
Deliver, and do you know what? I really enjoyed
it. I enjoyed this. I enjoyed Stand and Deliver.
I thought it was really well put together. I
thought the performances were solid. The storylines
were well told. Yeah, just loved every aspect
of it. Really did. Now, let's dive into this
episode of NXT, which I'm assuming will work
very much. I assumed going into it that it worked
very much the same way as as the roar after WrestleMania,
that it's the it's the restart. It's the reset
button going into going into the new the new
wrestling year, if you like. Now. We have an
opening VT to begin with, which recaps stand
and deliver as an event in very much the same
way we did on Monday Night Raw with WrestleMania.
We then go straight into match one, which is
a WWE Women's Tag Team Championship match, which
sees our four time new… World Tag Team Champions
Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez, just 24 hours
removed from winning back their titles, are putting
them on the line yet again against NXT's own
Tatum Paxley and Gigi Dolin. Now, I feel it's
necessary to point out Paxley and Dolan earn
this opportunity on the Stand and Deliver pre
-show, the countdown show, whatever you want
to call it, in a four -way elimination tag team
match. Now, they beat Fatal Influence, I believe
it was, as their last sort of team to beat, to
then move on and have this match pre -ordained
for them. Now... To start the match off, Liv
and Tatum start. Now Liv taking very early control
as the veteran in the ring, as the one with the
most experience. I believe that's true. And yeah,
I mean, Paxley showing again that she's that
she's just not intimidated by the champs at all.
Once Rodriguez is in there, she's yeah. If you've
ever seen Tate and Paxley and Gigi Dolin, they're
impressive athletes for sure, but to look at
them, they are such slight women, it is untrue.
And nothing demonstrates that more than Raquel
Rodriguez using Tate and Paxley as a hammer throw
in the middle of the ring. Now... once sort of
Paxley had got out of the ring and let a tag
team partner have a quick go a quick go at trying
to put this away for them. Dolan was actually
doing some some impressive chain wrestling. I
enjoyed watching Dolan work. Now, Gigi went high
did go high risk at one point, but was thwarted
by Liv as Liv was taunting Gigi from the apron.
Paxley came came and gave her a shove off the
apron and then delivers a standing moonsault
off the apron itself, which, yeah, it was just
all really well choreographed. Everyone was where
they were supposed to be. Really well polished
loved it now part a standard part of Liv Morgan's
offense of light And has been her delivering
a three amigos now This wouldn't be a Liv Morgan
match if she didn't do this at least in this
match as well Which she 100 % did she delivered
a three amigos to Titan Paxley? and Yeah, Paxley
ends up reversing another move later on with
a DDT according to the notes that I've got down
here Now I did happen to notice that Paxley,
Tatum Paxley seems to be doing a lot of the heavy
lifting in this Spending a lot of time in the
ring getting the bejesus beaten out of her Whereas
Gigi's quite content to hang on the hang on the
apron a little bit now In the closing segments
of this match, Tate and Paxley and Gigi Dalin
do go for a cemetery driver on Rodriguez, not
realising that Liv is the legal superstar. They
obviously come to soon realise that when Liv
Morgan comes flying off the top rope into a code
breaker on Tate and Paxley. Gigi is then forced
to eat a tahuna bomb from Raquel Rodriguez and
an oblivion from Liv as Liv gets the cover to
win and retain their championships. Which, yeah.
can't say much fairer than that. Now, switching
gears from there, we get a bit of a throwback
to Stand and Deliver. Now, one part of Stand
and Deliver that I particularly enjoyed, and
it's got nothing, well, no, it has, it's got
everything to do with the fact that I find Lexus
King to just be dead slimy and just, yeah, no,
I've got nothing to like about the guy. But Lexus
King, during Stand and Deliver, encountered Penn
and Now, if you don't know who Penn and Teller
are, they are a magical double act which are,
well, they practically live in different venues
on the Las Vegas Strip. They have been residents
there for, wow, probably longer than I've been
alive. And I'm 33. It is a case that, yeah, just
absolute dons of magicians and... phenomenal
showman and they performed a magic trick using
Lexus King's Heritage Cup where Penn was able
to make the cup disappear and replace it with
Teller. We never actually saw Lexus King have
that heritage cup returned to him for very good
reason because he didn't get it Now we do see
in this VT promo here from earlier in the day
Penn and Teller bring back Lexus Kinks Championship
Cup On the conditions that Lexus King looks straight
down the camera Apologizes to Penn and Teller
for insulting them and admits that they are magic,
that magic is real and that magic is what's about
to bring his heritage cup back. Now, the other
thing is that he is then forced to agree to defend
the heritage cup later on in the card, which
the only problem is he's got no idea who he's
facing, which is difficult for anybody under
any circumstances because Again, he's got no
way of knowing who he's up against and what sort
of offense to prepare for but Lexus King takes
it on the chin and Walks off with his heritage
cup knowing that he's got a match later on in
the card now We are then showing a slightly different
VT showing Tavion Heights and Charlie Dempsey
of No Quarter Catch Crew competing in Bloodsport
over WrestleMania weekend which is a combat sports
show. It was basically pitted some of the best
of the best against one another and seeing what
happens. We did see, I've seen clips on social
media of not just Tavion and Charlie competing
but also I've seen Carrie and cross competing
as well and yeah just Fantastic to see loved
it Supposed to have been a really good show now
Once we'd seen that footage of them doing, Charlie
Dempsey and Tavion doing really, really well
at Bloodsport, we cut to backstage where we see
the rest of No Quarter Catch crew being Miles
Bourne and Ren Sinclair. Discussing between themselves
why they weren't involved in blood sport themselves.
It turns out neither of them were invited But
this is when they seem to encounter Dark State
who had a phenomenal stand and deliver But these
guys are led by one Saquon Shuggers who basically
says that Yeah, there's no way that you guys
were going to be able to handle blood sport So,
quit dreaming. I don't know what you're on about.
They also go as far as to say that no quarter
catch crew should split up now, basically, before
Dark State has to do it for them. Now, another
familiar face that we see coming down the corridor
behind them is a Mr. Mr. Young OG himself, Jovan
Evans, who again, despite losing his match at
Stand and Deliver, I think he had a phenomenal
Stand and Deliver. That young man has nothing,
nothing to be ashamed of, in my opinion. He's
come down. He's spoiling for a fight. He lost
at Stand and Deliver and feels he has something
to prove So he's gonna pick up an old rivalry
with with Dark State And it turns out that him
and Miles Bourne will be teaming up in a two
-on -two against Dark State later on which will
be a really interesting one to to sit and listen
to it to sit and watch and From there we get
another promo from somebody else who is doing
a victory lap and the revolution is televised
people as we see Ricky Saints fresh off his first
title defense of that North American Championship.
I believe he, I forget who he faced at Stand
and Deliver, damn. Yeah, but he Ethan page he
faced Ethan page at stand and deliver Wow, I
can't believe I managed to forget that one And
what a match they had absolutely adored every
last second of that match not gonna lie now First
thing that Ricky Saints does is call out Ethan
page for being an eternal pain in the ass so
much so that apparently even Ricky's own mother
agrees and Yeah, it's basically saying he's dead
proud of himself for For getting us getting as
far as he's gotten He knows how hard it was and
yeah looking forward to what future holds now
Lexus King at this point interrupts, coming out
for what looks to be his match, which would be
next on the card, congratulates Ricky on his
win, but then basically proceeds to threaten
Mr. Saints, saying that if he doesn't get out
of his ring, he's going to take the North American
title away from him. Now, Ricky Ever the... self
-confident young man basically turns to Lexus
and say dude I'm pretty sure your mouth is writing
checks that your ass can't cash so shut your
hole and fuck off but Lexus rather ironically
tells Saints that no one likes Saints I mean
I personally not a huge fan of him I Don't really
see what all the hype is about. I will be honest.
He cuts an intense promo. Don't get me wrong,
but in ring Not really seeing the magic not yet.
I'm waiting for something really special because
that's what I'm expecting but at the moment he
feels a little bit like a Yeah, he's all mouth
and no action little bit He puts he puts the
working in the ring. I'm just not seeing The
amount of fanfare that he came in with relating
in in ring ability now Lexus King not one to
be diminish diminished at any point then challenges
Saints to a champion versus champion match next
week winner take all style and Saints wholeheartedly
accepts. We then switch from there to backstage
where we see Zarya Sol Ruka, Hank and Tank discussing
their respective stand and delivers. Now Hank
and Tank are more so deciding on how they're
going how best to wear their brand spanking new
shiny tag team championship belts as they won
their match against Fraxium in a absolute barn
burner at Stand and Deliver. When Thea Hale,
returning hero, chased you alum, comes along
to congratulate Sol Ruka specifically on her
win in the the women's North American title ladder
match which Thea Hale was a participant in and
basically goes on to say that you know what if
I couldn't win it you're the one I wanted to
win it which shows a tremendous tremendous sense
of turnabout fair play I like it It's not something
we see very often, it's very refreshing. Now,
at this point or at some stage during this promo,
I can't quite remember, Hank and Tank have fucked
off. They've gone elsewhere because... Fatal
injury... Hang on, bear with me. Yeah. Thea Hale
comes in, congratulates Sol Rooker with her normal
high energy. Yeah, I'm on crack. And Jada Parker
comes along behind them. She could very well
be hungover. I will be honest as that is the
impression I got from her to shut the energy
down basically and say, do you know what, Thea
Hale, go fuck yourself. I'm really not in the
mood for your bullshit. Kalani Jordan then comes
out of nowhere to basically echo the same sentiment
and When Yeah, so Jada Park has fucked off at
this point Kalani Jordan and Thea Hale are left
in the left to continue on and Yeah, they are
then interrupted by JC Jane and the rest of fatal
influence as Fallon Henley apparently seems to
think she's still big bad boss bitch who is capable
of barking orders as she tries telling JC Jane
and Kalani to shut Thea up and they both tell
her to go fuck herself and do it a damn self
which, do you know what? Turn about fair play,
love it. I absolutely adore it. Now, from there,
we go into the second match, which was the Heritage
Cup Championship match, which, yeah, we saw Alexis
King defending against a seemingly unknown opponent
at the moment. And it's at this point we find
out that... Lexus King's Heritage Cup Championship
opponent is none other than Noam Dar who is originally
from Tel Aviv, Israel but is introduced by the
ring announcer as being from Air Scotland which
also happens to be where one Drew McEncry hails
from as well. Now it is a case that He's been
out of action for a very long time, but comes
with a rather impressive pedigree of championship
accomplishments, which include Heritage Cup gold
on three different occasions before now. It's
a case that he was out of action because of Ethan
Page, basically. An attack from Ethan Page put
him on the shelf for 11 months. but being a three
time heritage cup champion before that and currently
holds the second longest heritage cup championship
reign at 341 days. But if you total up all of
his reigns, it is a case that he comes to a total
of 790 days, which is a phenomenally long time.
I mean, 790 days. What are we looking at there?
It's like two years. give or take total of being
the NXT Heritage Cup champion and yeah it is
a case that I've put down here Dar takes early
control. Dar has a vast majority of the control
in this match. Lexus King seems to be completely
outmatched here. even goes to the point of trying
to rub off Lexus King's beard, which honestly
I'm really glad somebody has. I'm glad that I've
seen somebody do it because his beard really
annoys me. But very much a case that it's a contrast
in styles between Lexus King and Noam Dar. Noam
Dar is very much a he's a very technical wrestler
from what I've gathered and it is a case that
he is oh what's the word a lot of his strikes
and moves are small moves which on their own
don't cause a huge amount of damage but when
you tie all them all together it is a case that
he does huge damage whereas Lexus King Little
bit more stocky a bill not quite as fast around
the ring So he relies on doing a lot of damage
in not a lot of moves So it's kind of a case
that he's a lot heavier hitting whereas no I'm
da lot quicker lot lighter Gets around his opponent.
No problem at all now Yeah, as I said this match
Isn't terribly long think it lasted maybe four
to six minutes in total, which was time enough
for Noam Dar to win with basically some precision
striking. Had a fantastic striking game out there
during that match and walks out the new Heritage
Cup champion, which obviously raises some questions
around the match that Alexis King had. put in
place for next week, but I think we may find
out about that a little bit later on. So we'll
we'll circle back round to that in just a little
while. And we go from that match to a backstage
promo, which sees Sarah Schreiber interviewing
the prodigy Roxanne Perez. And and yeah, basically
on how she got the NXT Championship match tonight
because she wasn't in the running for it before
and yeah seems to have gotten this all on her
own. Apparently after Stand and Deliver went
and really got in Stephanie Vacua's face and
ended up sort of getting her title shot that
way I suppose but yeah it's a case that Perez
confirms it was getting into Vickie's face, taking
what she believes she deserves. Perez always
has this massive air of entitlement and the entitlement
on its own really bugs me. But it's a case that
we take what we can get at this point, I suppose.
What works for her works for her. We can't sort
of go any any further on that. Now, she does
say that. She had no idea that Julia had the
same idea that she did on Monday Night Raw. So
they weren't in cahoots as we thought they might
have been. It is a case that they were operating
separately, but achieving the same thing, I suppose.
Perez is relatively confident that she's gonna
beat Stephanie tonight only because she feels
that Stephanie is just gonna be way too tired
with everything to do with a Everything to do
with a championship run Where is she gonna have
time to do anything else which you know what
I can't really blame her for I can't really say
Boo to a goose for it now the next match is match
three on the card. It's another women's singles
match and and Well, I say another one. I don't
think I've actually talked about one just yet.
I've got to go back. I'm just going to double
check myself now. No. So it is a women's singles
match rather than another one. And this is Fallon
Henley accompanied to the ring by Jacey Jane
and Jasmine Nix versus somebody who's becoming
one of my very quick favorites in this which
is Thea Hale I'm just really enjoying the energy
she brings I honestly wish I had that much energy
in day -to -day life because yeah energy levels
for me are an issue believe it or not it is a
case that This isn't for a title or anything
like that. This sort of predates back to another
section earlier on in the card for it. Fallon
Henley takes up my early control, but very much
underestimating Thea Hale. Now Thea Hale used
to be part of Chase U, which was run by Andre
Chase. A bunch of up and coming superstars were
all brought through all bought through sort of
Chase U to try and basically give them some working
skills, I suppose is probably the best way to
put it. And yeah, there's not really been many
Chase U alum that have gone on to do fantastically
great things, I don't feel, but it is something
that very much hangs on Thea Hale's resume for
it. and yeah Henley showing a lot of offense
and power whereas sort of Hale was being manhandled
especially early early doors of the match however
Hale at one point is sent to the outside now
at one side of the ring is we've got Jasmine
Nicks distracting the ref We see fatal influence
do this on a regular basis Very much play the
numbers games to to tip the scale in there in
their favor. It is a case that As Nick's is distracting
the ref JC and Fallon try to double team Hale
by with Fallon holding Hale in a sort of like
a full Nelson sort of lock it is a case that
Jaycee was going to come in and plant a boot
right on Hale to basically take a lot of the
offense out of her, make Fallon's night a little
bit easier. That would have been the case had
it not been for Thea Hale slipping the hold and
Jaycee delivering a big boot to Fallon Henley
sending her careening into the steel step shoulder
first which god damn look painful. Now Hale comes
back from this dropping her headbutt to JC Jane
tossing Fallon Henley into the ring and then
as she gets in the ring herself manages to go
and bump Jasmine Nix off the ring apron onto
the floor before locking in a Kamura lock to
win via submission. All in all, relatively short
match, not much to go over at all with that one.
But yeah, still really entertaining. Can't take
anything away from that match. It's a case that,
yeah, it's grown a bit of a fandom for Thea Hale.
I think she's got some big things coming and
I'm really looking forward to seeing what it
is that they do with her in NXT. Quick drink
myself there just while I got that sorted next
we switch to in ring put we switch back to in
ring promo here where we see raining defending
NXT champion Ober Femi Who Has held the title
for over 100 days at this point As he won it
back at New Year's Evil in January the debut
episode of NXT on Netflix and the very first
episode that we covered here on finishers and
factions And he's out here doing his doing his
victory lap on a another successful defense and
Yeah, it is a case that Javon, he acknowledges
that while he has said in the run -up to Stand
and Deliver, he said some rather nasty things
to Javon Evans, but sort of regrets saying them
a little bit as at Stand and Deliver, Javon really
sort of showed his metal and... and impressed
the ruler. And well, and he over even goes as
far as to say, even though it is not Jevon's
time now, his best years are ahead of him and
he gives major props to the young OG. That must
have done absolute wonders for that young man's
confidence because yeah, it is a case that he's...
he did a phenomenal job in that stand and deliver
match. Now, he then turns his attention to Trick
Williams and other than the fact that Ober really
can't stand Williams, he says, as great as he
is, the ruler is that much better. This obviously
triggers Trick Williams to come out. he is not
very happy at all comes out to demand again another
or make another demand for a one -on -one and
I can sort of understand trick Williams's point
here is that every time he is asked for a match
he's got the match but then other people have
been allowed to muscle in on that match such
as Eddie Thorpe and Javon Evans Trick Williams
has never really got his like a rematch one -on
-one with Ober Femi which is sort of becoming
a bit of a pressure point for him I feel but
it is a case that so it comes out yeah using
the rationale that Ober won that match by pinning
Jovan Evans so legitimately beat Javon but didn't
actually be trick which again I can sort of see
the logic behind it's not completely lost on
me as it goes now We also find out that this
episode of NXT takes place on Ober Femi's birthday.
So many happy returns of the day. Obviously we're
past that day now, but many happy returns of
the day to the ruler himself. And hope you had
a fantastic birthday there, brother. Love that.
Now, this did also trigger a rather surprising
entry from, well... an outsider essentially as
we saw we said his name and he appeared because
we all believe in Joe Hendry who came back to
NXT and yeah Joe is not here to mince words today
he calls out trick for changing giving into self
-pity basically lays down some honest talk saying
that Trick is not a hungry superstar anymore
he's made the step over into entitled and I think
what he's referring to with that is that Trick
Williams keeps coming out and making all these
demands for these matches which is great for
Trick Williams but the reason that Trick Williams
has never really got that one -on -one is because
every time He gets a match. It shouldn't really
make any difference if it's one -on -one. It
is a case that Trick Williams is sort of getting
in his own way and Even goes a like a step further
and just ends up calling him a whiny bitch now
Trick obviously is not going to take very well
to being called a whiny bitch even though he
is a whiny bitch and Trick is belittled by or
belittles Hendry, calling him an outsider, saying
that he doesn't belong and telling him to go
back to where he came from. Now, this is where
sort of Joe reveals his true purpose for being
here as he says, well, to be fair, dude, I don't
have any business with you. Henry basically turns
around and says that my business is more to do
with the NXT champion, Ober Femi. Now, at this
point, it is a case that Ober Femi just basically
says, look, dude, don't make the same mistake
that Moose did. At this stage we can see Trick
Williams very much getting between the two not
to stop the fight but so that basically he doesn't
get pushed into being secondary in this story
and honestly him muscling in between these two
heavyweight champions basically just causes those
two heavyweight champions to have a common enemy
at this point as both Hendry and Femi gang up
on Trick and toss him out of the ring. Now the
idea of Joe Hendry versus Ober Femi is incredibly
intriguing to me. He adds Obviously his WrestleMania
debut this year, which was against Randy Orton
I felt that match was a little bit squashy not
gonna lie, but I feel like it could have been
a little bit more competitive potentially but
a lot of people enjoyed it just for the fact
that Joe Hendry turned up so I'm not gonna say
any more about it realistically Now we go from
there into a VT promo showing Stax in the middle
of the desert now Obviously Stax is at odds at
the moment with the D 'Angelo family after low
-blowing Tony D 'Angelo in the six -man tag match
at stand and deliver and Yeah, he's there waiting
for Luca Crucifino Lucas turns up in a bright
red, looks like a Mustang to me. I could be wrong,
but it did look like a Mustang. Now, Luca goes
off on stacks basically saying, dude, what the
fuck? Why did you do what you did? What's the
deal? You need to come and have a sit down with
Tony, sort this shit out. You guys have been
friends since you were, since your assholes were
the size of shirt buttons sort of thing. And
all Stax does is go, dude, shush, points out
that they are out in the middle of nowhere. Luca
sort of has a realisation and all we hear is,
ah, fuck, and everything goes black. We don't
get anything else to do with Stax and Crucifino
following that or anything like that. We do get
another D 'Angelo family vignette, sort of leading
up to... leading up to later on in the card.
So we'll get to that as well. Now we return from
that VT to the announce desk. The announcers
start talking about something when all of a sudden
we are interrupted and shown a brief video VT
of. Trick Williams crashing out again in the
background or in the in the backstage area to
the point that even video feed cuts out and all
we are able to hear is Trick going absolutely
ape shit and Ava we assume it is Ava in the back
there trying to trying to pull everything back
together for it and Yeah, just complete chaos.
We then find out later on in the card that Ava
basically kicked Trick Williams out of the building
and we'll likely face some repercussions for
that next week. But that takes us very nicely
into... Match four, which is a men's tag team
match, which sees Miles Bourne and Javon Evans
facing two members of Dark State. The two members
in question on this occasion were Dion Lennox
and Osiris Griffin, who were accompanied to the
ring by Saquon Sugars and Cutler James. As when
you face Dark State, you don't just face one
or two or three of them. You face all four at
once and have to be very aware. of that normally.
Now, in fairness to Dark State for this match,
the Sequan Sugars and Cutler James were very
well behaved. It wasn't a case that they got
involved where they shouldn't have been or anything
along those lines. And I think that was mostly
because Osiris Griffin, complete powerhouse.
Dion Lennox, complete powerhouse. yeah we're
not looking at this being like horrendously they
weren't they weren't seeing the threat that they
posed even with uh even with uh javon evans's
uh fantastic performance at stand and deliver
um now i'll be honest i didn't get a massive
amount of notes on this match um It was a case
that, for the most part, Dark State had a lot
of the control. They had a lot of the control.
Osiris, Griffin, Dion, Lennox, very much exerting
their pressure in any way, shape or form they
possibly could. Now, that's not to say that the
young OG and Miles Bourne didn't get their fair
share of licks in on this. And they were even
joined by... Charlie Dempsey and Tavian and Tavian
Heights Who were looking on from the stage at
one point and but even so Dark state would just
sort of dominating 100 % It's a case that Honestly,
I thought at one stage towards the end of the
match miles born came in for a For a bit of a
comeback a bit of a hot tag comeback and he very
much channeled his inner coat his inner Randy
Orton in my opinion like even to the point where
a Lot of what he was do a lot like even he's
oh What's the word? Even he's Like the way he
looked was like a shorter version of Randy Orton
his body build and everything else Yeah, just
I got huge Randy Orton vibes off Miles Bourne
but Dark State do end up despite all of Javon
Evans and Miles Bourne's efforts at Dark State
Do end up walking out with the win after What
I can only describe as a dark state spine buster
to miles born for the win now We go from that
match into Ava's office catching the tail end
of a conversation between the lovely lady herself,
and Sean Spears, where apparently he's just looking
out for his friends. Now, as Spears leaves Ava's
office, it is a case that Yoshiki Inamura comes
in, and he's very respectful, very, like, he...
Yeah, it doesn't feel either gets enough respect
out of out of the roster for all the work that
she puts in and Yeah, very much crawling up her
asshole. I feel but In a mora basically says
look my time is short. I'm not gonna be I'm due
to go back to Japan soon and Honestly, I just
feel a bit bad for for my tag team partner we
came so so so so so so close to tag team gold
and I just feel like I've let him down it's it's
a huge source of shame for me really laying on
the emotional blackmail thick and Ava being the
soft heart that she is basically says look Don't
feel bad, tell you what we'll do. We'll get you
a match for next week against Hank and Tank for
the Tag Team Gold. Gives you one more opportunity.
Now, Josh Briggs has come in part way through
this, seeing Inamura as being upset and... it's
only after Ava leaves and leaves Briggs and Inamura
in the office on their own that Inamura sort
of turns to Briggs after he's been asked what
happened? Like how did you manage to get that
match? He was like old Japanese secret which
is turn on the waterworks and they give me what
I want. So yeah, it looks like Briggs and Inamora
have got a tag team title opportunity against
Hank and Tank next week Now moving on from there
we go into another VT promo Now this one gives
us an aerial shot of Las Vegas strip to begin
with and then a generic hotel hallway Which sees
Tony D 'Angelo going to what turns out to be
Rizzo's hotel room and she seems quite reluctant
to let him in to begin with. Like, he'd been
followed and all the rest of it. She seemed very
cagey, very scared of what was happening within
the family. Now, I have got some very disjointed
notes here. It didn't all happen in this order,
but... Yeah, so once Tony's been let in, Tony
says that he's basically taking what Stax did
as an act of war. Rizzo doesn't know where to
put her loyalty as Stax helped her with bullies
when she was younger, but Tony's looked after
her since she's been part of the family, so she's
got very torn loyalties there. very much trying
to play the diplomat like saying what if we call
a sit down and all the rest of it and Tony's
already said on numerous occasions that he's
had his trust in Stacks has wavered on several
different occasions so I got a feeling that this
didn't come as a shock to Mr Diat to the Don
at all Basically Tony wants to put Rizzo in a
safe house for her own protection And yeah, it
just seems like no matter what I think stacks
could save his Tony's wife and kids and still
his heart would be cold to Stax no matter what.
I don't think there's much that Stax can do at
this point to redeem himself in with the family.
I think he's burnt his bridges and I know that
next week we are due to find out from a confrontation
between Tony and Stax what basically happened,
what caused this rift. And what goes on from
there? Now, we go backstage for the next promo,
which sees Sarah Schreiber interviewing Ricky
Saints, who confirms that despite Lexus King's
loss, he will still get a shot at the North American
title next week. Basically saying, look. I've
got nothing to gain from this apart from another
title defence but I'm a man of my word I'll give
you the opportunity you ask for and who knows
you might be able to pull something out of the
bag. Ethan Page interrupts the interview but
appears to be sort of acting as a distraction
for Lexus King himself who just basically blindsides
Ricky Saints blaming him for losing the Heritage
Cup and Page just simply says to him Look Ricky,
I think we'll pick up our shit later, dude. And
leaves him there in a broken heap on the floor.
Now, we go from there into another VT promo which
sees an un, like, no, we don't recognise who
it is who's walking through these hallways, then
into an office turning on the light, all the
while holding a briefcase. Which is then put
on a desk opened up and we see a chase you Jumper
sweater, whatever you want to call it a chase
you a piece of chase you clothing bought out
And is revealed to us that it is Andre chase
who we have been following with the camera for
the last few moments Declaring we're fucking
back, baby So I think we're seeing a return of
chase you I think Cale Dixon and crew have had
a massive effect on Andre Chase and we will see
the Andre Chase of old come back but we may have
to wait for next week for more information around
that because yeah I was not around for when Chase
U originally went out so yeah 100 % really looking
forward to that one and That leads us very nicely
into the main event of NXT And that main event
basically culminates in the NXT Women's Championship
match which sees our champion Stephanie Vecure
versus Roxanne Perez the prodigy and Yeah, it
is a case that this match the uh the the momentum
in this match is shifting by the second it is
a case that we can't possibly um be getting uh
yeah i just i there was a massive amount of feeling
out considering this was the first time these
two were faced off against one another but they're
going to have known each other really well as
it goes it just makes sense there was some absolutely
gorgeous chain wrestling in this match Stephanie
even goes for the kiss of death slamming Roxanne
Perez's face into the mat but Roxanne Perez sees
this coming and Yeah, basically rolls to the
to the ring apron forcing the the ring the rope
break Now as the cure drags Perez back into the
ring from this Perez drags the ring apron up
and into the ring with her which then triggers
the ref to go and try and fix it While the ref's
back is turned Perez typical heel move Rakes
the eyes with those rakes vacuous eyes with those
nails to try and gain an unfair advantage now
with Perez in control a few moments after this
fighting spills onto the entrance ramp where
Basically the two women leave the ring with Perez
in control Perez does not remain in control vacuous
takes control again and Vakur manages to hit
so normally when we see a 619 it's the opponent
is draped over the second rope second rope facing
outside of the ring this time Vakur did it the
opposite way round she was at Roxanne was outside
the ring propped up on the second rope facing
in the ring and Vakur hit the 619 that way which
do you know what I can't be mad at it for it
and drops the dime with a springboard cross body.
Now, the next kiss of death attempt that Stephanie
tries to exact is dedicated to Booker T. And
the reason we know it is because she stands in
the ring. points to Booker T. Now this either
means that it's dedicated to Booker T or we know
that Booker T himself is a massive, massive advocate
for Roxanne Perez. So it could be, yeah, you
caused this Rock Booker or this one's for you.
As we, like we saw a kiss of death on Raw, we
didn't have. Booker T's input on it, and it just
felt all kinds of wrong so this sort of soothed
a sore of the soul to hear Booker T going ah
knowing that he was going to end up on the couch
when he got home that night now Roxanne does
get her way back into this match, hits a hurricanrana
and goes straight into a cross -face submission
which Viqueur tries desperately to scramble to
the ropes to force a break but Roxanne not wanting
any of it, drags her back into the centre of
the ring going from there and Yeah, it is it
basically the cure finds another way out of this
submission hold and it just ends up in a chain
of a chain of pin falls One after the other Roxanne
pins the cure the cure pins Roxanne and it just
keeps going like this for a moment or two now
The cure does walk out of this match retaining
the title after hitting a dragon screw into an
SV be for the three count and NXT closes with
Julia coming out of the main entrance with Jordan
grace off to off to the one side within the crowd
just staring daggers into a once again victorious
Stephanie Vecure now that does bring us to the
end of finishers and factions does NXT does NXT
and Yes, thank you for putting up with me throughout
this entire thing. I've loved every last second
of it. Now, next episode that we will be releasing
will be Finisher's and Faction's Does Friday
Night Smackdown. This Friday Night Smackdown,
I believe, will take place from Fort Worth, Texas.
So... Yeah, we are well and true. This is the
last event that will take place in Las Vegas
as part of WrestleMania weekend and What a WrestleMania
it has been but we are now well and truly on
the road to backlash and backlash I believe somewhere
around the 10th of May I want to say somewhere
around there and Yeah, well and truly looking
forward to that but Yes, come back. And the plan
is for me and Rich to do Finishes and Factions
does Smackdown together. However, we are very
aware of sort of how late this is going out.
So we apologize for that. We are working our
way to getting back on track. So yeah, this episode
will drop as soon as we've managed to get it
ready between both of our work schedules. So
please bear with. I've been Adam, it has been
my pleasure to talk your ear off. And there,
this was finishers and factions does NXT. Thank
you.