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We are back and Kai misses the running boot and Candice kicks Dakota in the knee. Kai counters a facebuster with a power bomb for a near fall. Dakota with forearms to the back and she sends Candice to the apron. Candice with a shoulder. Candice blocks a kick from Kai on the apron and then Candice with a belly-to-back suplex on the edge of the apron. Both women make it back into the ring and Candice with forearms and chops. Candice with punches and then she hits a running hip strike into the corner followed by a snap mare. Candice with a tornado DDT. Kai with a head butt and a running boot in the corner. Candice with an enzuigiri when Kai goes for another running kick and both women are down.
Candice goes up top and Kai blocks it. Kai with forearms to the back and Candice goes for a sunset flip power bomb but Kai holds on to the ropes. Kai grabs the knee brace but Candice pulls Kai onto the top rope and then hits a power bomb for a near fall. Candice misses a quebrada and hits a double knee back breaker for a near fall. Kai with Kawada kicks. Candice with a crucifix for a near fall followed by La Mistica and the GargaNo Escape. Kai tries to get to the ropes but Candice rolls back into the center of the ring. Kai gets to the floor.
Kai hits Candice with Tegan's knee brace when Candice goes for a suicide dive.
Winner: Candice LeRae (by disqualification)
After the match, Kai sends Candice into the ring steps and ring post. Kai sends Candice into the ring steps one more time. Kai throws someone down at ringside and takes their chair.
Rhea Ripley comes out and kicks the chair from Kai's hands.
Tommaso Ciampa is in the back and Cathy Kelley asks him about his match against Finn Balor. Ciampa says he issued the challenge because he wanted it. He can call himself the Demon or the Prince, but he is the longest reigning NXT Champion. However, Ciampa says he is the one who made NXT the A Show.
We go to commercial.
We are back with a Cameron Grimes video. He says he had a dream growing up to be in WWE. When he graduated high school he went to try to become an NXT Superstar. He said some things he might not have said. He says he has the quickest victory in the company. Because he is not a Bay Bay, he is a rogue. He has been doing this his entire life. He will cave in the competition in NXT.
We take a look at Rhea Ripley.
Match Number Four: Akira Tozawa versus Lio Rush for the NXT Cruiserweight Championship
They lock up and Tozawa misses a kick. Tozawa with a shoulder tackle and Rush with a side head lock. Rush with a shoulder tackle. Rush avoids Tozawa but Tozawa with a rana. Tozawa misses a back senton and Rush misses a splash. Rush offers his hand and Tozawa shakes it but then they try for kicks at the same time and they block it. Rush with a waist lock and a kick in the corner. Tozawa chops Rush on the turnbuckles. Tozawa gets Rush to flinch and Tozawa with a jab to stop Rush. Rush pulls Tozawa onto the apron and Rush with a forearm to stop Tozawa. Tozawa with a forearm on the apron and Rush tries for a German suplex off the apron. Tozawa with elbows.
Rush goes for a sunset flip power bomb onto the floor and Tozawa with a kick followed by a back senton on the apron.
We go to commercial
We are back and Rush stretches Tozawa. Tozawa gets Rush on his shoulders and Rush with elbows but Tozawa sends Rush to the mat and hits a drop kick that sends Rush to the floor. Rush moves out of the way when Tozawa sets for a suicide dive. Tozawa with a cannonball off the apron. Tozawa goes up top and hits a missile drop kick but Rush gets his hand on the ropes. Rush with strikes and Rush has a kick blocked. Tozawa with a back heel kick. Rush lands on his feet on a German suplex. Both men with kicks and both men go down.
Tozawa with a waist lock and Rush with elbows as he tries to get to the ropes to stop the German suplex attempt. Rush with elbows and he sends Tozawa to the apron. Tozawa with a waist lock and Rush with elbows. Tozawa with an emzuigiri and a German suplex off the apron to the floor. The referee makes his count and both men power up at nine to beat the count. Tozawa sets for another German suplex but in the ring. Rush counters with a victory roll. Rush with a kick and the mouthguard is out. Rush goes for the slingshot cutter and Rush misses.
Rush with kicks to Tozawa followed by a forearm. Rush goes for the slingshot cutter but Tozawa catches Rush and hits a German suplex. Tozawa with a deadlift German suplex for a near fall. Tozawa goes up top for the back senton but Rush gets his feet up. Rush goes up top and hits Shadows Over Hell. Rush goes up top and hits another frog splash for the three count.
Winner: Lio Rush (retains Championship)
We go to Finn Balor in the back with Cathy Kelley and she asks him for his final thoughts before the match. He says Tommaso Ciampa walks around like he is the toughest man in the world, but this is his world. He took care of Gargano alreay and put him in the hospital. Then he took care of Matt Riddle at Takeover. Tonight, Ciampa will find out.
We go to commercial.
We are back with a look back at highlights from the Pete Dunne versus Adam Cole NXT Championship match from Survivor Series.
Match Number Five: Xia Li versus Vanessa Borne
They lock up and Borne with chops in the corner. Borne wtih an Irish whip and she misses a shoulder in the corner and hits the ring post. Vanessa misses a kick and Li with a power bomb.
Shayna Baszler, Jessamyn Duke, and Marina Shafir make their way to the ring.
Li with a kick to the head for the three count.
Winner: Xia Li
After the match, Shafir and Duke go after Li but Li fights them off. Shayna with a forearm to the back. Li with punches and kicks followed by a spinning back heel kick to Shayna. Li iwth a kick to Duke but Shayna with a clothesline. Jessamyn and Marina hold Xia for Shayna to connect with a knee.
Shayna takes the mic and she says everyone is trying to take credit for what happened this weekend, but she is the reason. She beat Smackdown Champion Bayley and Raw Champion Becky Lynch at the same time. Shayna says without her, there would be nothing to celebrate. She has held the title this time for more than a year . . .
Rhea Ripley's music plays and she makes her way to the stage and then to the ring.
As Rhea enters the ring, Shayna, Marina, and Jessamyn leave the ring.
Rhea says she has something to tell Shayna face to face.
Shayna returns to the ring.
Rhea congratulates Shayna. You did beat Bayley and you did beat Becky, but when you went face to face with me, I beat you. You know what? I will do it again, but next time, it will be for the NXT Women's Championship.
Shayna gets into the ring and she says she has heard this song and dance before. You might be the nightmare, but she is the reality. The reality is that you'll be tappin' or nappin' just like the rest of 'em. Shayna drops the mic and starts to leave the ring.
Rhea tells Shayna to try it now. She tells Shayna if you walk back into this ring, I'll drop ya.
We go to commercial.
We are back with a look at highlights from the Triple Threat Match at War Games. We see Damian Priest being checked out after the match and the possibility he injured his ribs.
Killian Dain will face Damian Priest next week.
Match Number Six: Tommaso Ciampa versus Finn Balor
They lock up and the referee tries to get them to break and Balor pushes Ciampa away. Ciampa with a chop and Balor with a side head lock take down. Balor with a lateral press for a near fall. Ciampa with a kick on the break followed by a chop and he sends Balor into the turnbuckles. Ciampa with a back elbow. Ciampa with a suplex and he gets a near fall. Ciampa with a sunset flip but Balor rolls through and hits a drop kick. Balor with a snap mare and a reverse chin lock. Balor with a knee and he sends Ciampa to the floor. Balor with a drop kick through the ropes.
Balor goes for the running kick and Ciampa blocks it and goes for an Air Raid Crash on the floor. Ciampa avoids being sent into the ring post and Ciampa catapults Balro into the ring post and then Ciampa sits on the apron and pats himself on the back. Ciampa sends Balor back into the ring. Ciampa chops Balor against the guardrails. Balor kicks the ropes when Ciampa returns to the ring and Balor with more kicks while the referee warns him. Balor with a slam and snap elbow drop for a near fall.
Balor with a reverse chin lock but Ciampa with a jaw breaker. Balor with a chop and kick. Balor with a rollup for a near fall. Balor with a reverse chin lock. Balor sends Ciampa into the corner and Ciampa with a kick. Ciampa with clotheslines and a kick to Balor. Ciampa misses a boot but Ciampa stops a kick on the apron and Ciampa knocks Balor off the apron into the guardrails. Ciampa with a running knee to the back for a near fall. Ciampa with chops in the corner. Ciampa with kicks to Balor. Ciampa goes for the running knee but Balor with Slingblade and a clothesline that sends Ciampa over the top rope to the floor. Balor with a running drop kick that sends Ciampa into the guardrails.
The referee checks on Ciampa and Balor sets for 1916 on the ramp and Ciampa counters with an Air Raid Crash on the ramp. The referee makes their count and Ciampa gets back into the ring at seven while Balor powers up for reentry at nine. Ciampa with a knee and Project Ciampa for a near fall. Ciampa sets for Fiary Tale Ending but Balor counters with a double leg take down and double stomp. Balor with a running drop kick and Balor goes up top for Coup de Grace. Ciampa gets up and stops Balor. Ciampa with Air Raid Crash off the turnbuckles but Balor kicks out.
Ciampa says this is for Johnny Boy and he goes for Fairy Tale Ending but Adam Cole comes to the ring and Ciampa with a forearm. Balor with a rollup for a near fall. Balor tries to hit Ciampa with the belt but the referee stops him. Ciampa with a rollup for a near fall. Balor with an elevated elbow drop onto the title belt for a near fall. The referee moves the title belt to the other side of the ring and Cole with an enzuigiri from the floor and Balor with 1916 for the three count.
Winner: Finn Balor
After the match, Cole enters the ring and he gets back his title belt. Cole stands over Ciampa and does the Undisputed Era pose. Balor stands over Ciampa and has the finger guns going. Cole thinks he has an ally but Finn with a Pele Kick.
We go to credits.
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