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WWE NXT REPORT: STRONG VERSUS DRAGUNOV, TAG TITLE MATCH, PRIME TARGET, THE POOR CRAFTSMANSHIP OF THE RINGSIDE AREA IS EXPOSED, AND MORE

We are back and Jessi with a top wrist lock.  We see footage from the break when Jessi pulled Indi to the mat.  Jessi pulls Indi to the mat by the hair again.  Indi avoids an elbow drop from Jessi.  Indi kicks Jessi away and Stone accidentally makes the tag.  Dexter with punches to Stone followed by a clothesline in the corner and a bulldog.  Lumis with a spinebuster and Jessi breaks up the cover but splashes Stone instead.  Indi tags in and clotheslines Jessi and then sends Stone to the floor.  Indi with a spinebuster for a near fall when Stone breaks up the cover.  Jessi kicks Indi's hands and she slams Indi.  Jessi with a single leg crab but Indi gets to the ropes to force a break.

Jessi kicks Lumis off the apron and Stone with a pescado and he misses Lumis by three or four feet.  Jessi with a forearm to Lumis on the floor.  Indi sends Jsssi into the plexiglass.  Inid with a uranage into Silence and she taps out while Dexter does the same to Stone.

Winners:  Indi Hartwell and Dexter Lumis

Lumis crawls to Indi and then Indi crawls out of the ring and goes over to Beth who has some advice for her.

Indi brings a box into the ring and she gets on her knees and presents him with a ring and he says yes.

We see Karrion Kross walking in the back as we go to commercial.

We are back and McKenzie ambushes Roderick Strong about his loss.  Malcolm says that you talk to him.  Ilja is a heavyweight, not a cruiserweight so that match did not count.  Strong has a guaranteed match against KUSHIDA.

Beth asks Raquel if she thought she would be standing across the ring from her best friend.  Raquel says she knew what she was getting into.  If Dakota could turn on Tegan, she knew it would happen to her.  Dakota asks where her crystal ball was when she knocked her out.  Raquel mentions that Dakota got a title match out of it and she wonders what took her so long.  Raquel says she has dominated the division.  She is not a star in the making, she is a super star.  You will not take the title from me.

Dakota calls Raquel delusional for thinking she is unbeatable.  She taught Raquel everything she knows, but not everything that Dakota knows.  You wanted to be a somebody.  I am the person who made you a somebody.  At Takeover, you will be the somebody who becomes champion.  Raquel asks who will be her next Raquel.  There is no one like her.  You might be one of the best but you don't have a real bone in your body.  You use people and get jealous when they become bigger stars than you.  You are going to have to take care of this on your own after I have taken care of your problems.

Dakota tells Raquel to call her whatever she wants, but in five days you will call me NXT Women's Champ.  Raquel says she is looking forward to the challenge.

Match Number Four:  Carmelo Hayes versus Duke Hudson in a Breakout Tournament SemiFinal Match

They lock up and Hudson backs Hayes into the corner and Hayes escapes.  Hayes with a waist lock and Hudson tosses Hayes to the mat.  Hayes with a side head lock and Hudson with a shoulder tackle.  Hayes with a kick to the leg but Hudson kicks Hayes.  Hudson with a side head lock.  Hudson sends Hayes to the mat and returns to the side head lock.  Hayes with a side head lock.  Hudson with a belly-to-back suplex but Hayes lands on his feet and returns to the side head lock.

Hudson with a shoulder tackle and Hayes with a springboard forearm.  Hudson sends Hayes over the top rope to the floor.

We go to commercial.

We are back and Hudson with an abdominal stretch and he sends Hayes into the corner.  Hayes with a jaw breaker and enzuigiri that sends Hudson into the corner.  Hayes goes for an Irish whip but Hudson blocks it and he connects with a knee to the head and a clothesline in the corner.  Hudson with an overhead belly-to-belly suplex.  Hudson slaps Hayes and Hayes sends Hudson to the floor.  Hayes with a scissors kick as Hudson returns to the ring.   Hayes with kicks to the head while Hudson is on the apron.  Hayes with a slingshot DDT onto the apron.  Hayes with punches to Hudson followed by a tilt-a-whirl waist lock take down for a near fall.  Hayes goes to the turnbuckles and Hudson goes for a press slam but Hayes with an inside cradle for a near fall.

Hayes with a bicycle kick followed by a codebreaker.  Hayes with a leg drop to the back of the head and he gets the three count.

Winner:  Carmelo Hayes (Advances to face Odyssey Jones in the Finals)

Samantha irvin is with Carmelo Hayes and she mentions his match against Odyssey Jones in the finals.  Hayes says he called his shot about making it to the finals and he is a man of his word.  He faced men who were two or three times his size and that wasn't enough for him.  In the end, you have to face the final boss.  Odyssey Jones . . . plot twist because I am that final boss.

Odyssey Jones comes out and he laughs at what Hayes said.  After I win this tournament, the whole NXT Universe is going to sound the alarm.

We have a video package for Jacy Jayne..  They are not going to be silenced.  They have been caged for far too long.  You are going to feel us in your soul when we break free.

MSK are in the back as they prepare for their title match.

We go to commercial.

We are back and Cameron Grimes is in the medical room.  Ted DiBiase shows up and says maybe they have bitten off more than they can chew.  Grimes says he got himself into this mess.  I came into a lot of money and I lost my mind.  I wanted to be the Million Dollar Champion and you gave me the opportunity.  However, I dropped the ball.  When I lost hope, the Million Dollar Man was there.  I am not a butler.  After Takeover, together we will be Million Dollar Champions going TO THE MOON.

Match Number Five:   Wes Lee and Nash Carter versus Fabian Aichner and Marcel Barthel for the NXT Men's Tag Team Championship

Lee and Aichner start things off and Lee with a waist lock.  Aichner with a waist lock and he tosses Lee away but he lands on his feet.  They lock up and AIchner sends Lee to the mat.  Aichner misses a shoulder in the corner when Lee floats over.  Lee with a side head lock.  Aichner blocks a boot and Lee with a crucifix for a near fall.  Lee with punches and Carter tags in.  Lee with a kick to the back of the head and Carter with a Bronco Buster.  Carter gets a near fall.  Barthel tags in and he gives Carter an arm drag into a hammer lock.  Barthel with a headstand to add more pressure to the hammer lock.  Barthel with a wrist lock.  Carter with an arm drag.  Barthel with a European uppercut.  Barthel with a snap mare and kick to teh back.

Barthel with an Irish whip  but he runs into a boot.  Carter with kicks and he comes off the turnbuckles but Barthel with a punch to the midsection and a butterfly suplex.  Barthel with an elbow to the back of the head and Aichner tags in.  Aichner with a chop and he goes for a slam but Carter gets to his feet and Lee tags in.  Carter and Lee with kicks and Carter with a double stomp to the back.  Barthel is sent over the top rope to the floor on a back body drop.  Lee and Carter go for suicide dives but Barthel and Aichner stop them and slam Carter and Lee on the floor.

Aichner brings Lee back into the ring and connects with a European uppercut.  Aichner with a tilt-a-whirl back breaker for a near fall.  Aichner with a short arm clothesline and Barthel tags in.  Barthel punches Lee.  Barthel with an Irish whip and European uppercut into the corner.  Barthel goes to the turnbuckles and hits a clothesline for a near fall.  Aichner tags back in and he connects with a forearm to the back.  Lee with punches but Aichner with a knee.  Lee lands on his feet on a belly-to-back suplex and applies a waist lock.  Aichner with a short arm clothesline in the corner for a near fall.  Barthel tags in and he applies a reverse chin lock.  

Lee with a snap mare and punches to Barthel.  Barthel avoids an enzuigiri and applies an ankle lock.  Lee rolls through and Barthel knocks Carter off the apron.  Barthel blocks a kick and returns to the ankle lock.  Aichner tags in and he biels Lee into the turnbuckles.  The referee checks on Lee.  Barthel tags in and they hit the double drop kick on Lee and Barthel gets a near fall.  Lee sends Barthel over the top rope to the floor and Lee kicks Aichner off the apron.

WALTER makes his way to the ring while Barthel keeps Lee from making the tag.  Aichner and Carter tag in and Carter with a clothesline and kicks followed by a drop kick.  Carter with a knee in the corner followed by a kick to the chest.  Lee tags in and Lee tosses Carter onto Barhtel and Lee gets a near fall.  WALTER gets in the ring and Carter is sent to the floor.

Dragunov attacks WALTER on the floor and WALTER slams Dragunov.  Barthel is kicked off the turnbuckles.  Carter tags in and they hit the blockbuster and spinebuster combination off the turnbuckles for the three count.

Winners:  Wes Lee and Nash Carter (retain Championship)

After the match, WALTER works over Dragunov and then takes care of Lee and power bombs Carter on the apron.  Dragunov chops Aichner but WALTER chops Dragunov.

WALTER with a sleeper on Dragunov.

Samoa Joe and NXT Men's Champion Karrion Kross walk in the back as we go to commercial.

We are back and Pete Dunne says they warned you and let what he did to Ilja last week as a reason why you don't come after us.  We don't care how long Thatcher and Ciampa have been doing this.  Holland says he likes that they have the bollocks to challenge them.  Dunne pushes past tough men to get to a fight.  Holland says he will get there at Thatcher's expense next week.

The announcers run through the card for Takeover.

Samoa Joe makes his way to the ring.

Joe tells Karrion Kross the venom that seeps from his lips when he talks to you, he was hoping to enjoy this moment to verbally eviscerate you a little more.  Joe says he realizes it is pointless.  He is not a man to hurt your feelings.  I am a man who is here to hurt you.  He tells Kross to tuck his clock in the back pocket and he tells Kross to stroll his ass down here.

Kross says this isn't about you or me.  It is about the future of the brand.  Do you think you are going to walk into Takeover and become champion after taking a year off.  At this present time, I am going to call NXT Security to the ring.  He says it is not protection for him, it is protection for you.  Do you think you have a shot?  Kross says he is going to drop Joe and you know.  I think I am going to drop you real fast.

Joe punches Kross and security is knocked to the floor while Kross joins them.  Joe with a suicide dive into everyone and then he sends Kross into the plexiglass.  Joe with punches to Kross and security and officials make their way to Joe and Kross.

Kross sends Joe into the ring steps and then Kross goes for a Saito suplex over the announce table.  Joe sends Kross into the fencing and it falls down.  They fight into the crowd while some wrestlers stand around and watch while Kross runs Joe and some security through the ringside barrier.

We go to credits.

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