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We are back and JD with a sleeper and Crews goes to the turnbuckles and falls back to the mat to get out of the hold. JD recovers and locks in the sleeper again. Crews with a sleeper but JD with a belly-to-back suplex. Crews sends JD to the floor with a back body drop. Crews with a moonsault off the apron and then they return to the ring. Crews with a boot to the head and a clothesline. Crews with a splash into the corner and he goes to the turnbuckles. Crews misses a swanton but connects with a boot and a Tiger Bomb and a sit out power bomb for a near fall. Crews puts JD on the turnbuckles and JD pushes Crews to the mat. Crews with punches and JD goes under Crews and connects with an elbow to send Crews to the mat.
Crews with a boot to the back and a chop. Crews with an Irish whip and JD does a Michaels flip in the corner. Crews goes to the floor when JD moves. JD with an Asai Moonsault. JD goes up top and Crews stops JD and hits a back drop from the turnbuckles. They get back to their feet before the ten count. Crews with a chop and JD chops back. JD with a knee to block a suplex and he gets an inside cradle for a near fall. JD and Crews alternate rollups. JD with a Spanish Fly but Crews blocks Devil Inside. JD with a head butt. Crews with a sunset flip and JD counters with a sunset flip of his own for a near fall.
JD goes up top and misses a moonsault but lands on his feet and rolls through. Crews with a spinebuster for the three count.
Winner: Apollo Crews
After the match, Bron Breakker comes out and he appears to be ready to face Crews.
McKenzie is with Mandy Rose.
Mandy says she heard what Alba said. You need to listen to her. For the last year, I heard every prediction in the book. She can’t wrestle, the stage is too big, she can’t hold this title. Every one hit wonder, international ringer, and cliché has been sent to face her and Mandy says she is still the champion. You are looking at a one in a billion superstar. Alba will bring it tonight, but the title will stay with her.
We are back and Javier Bernal is with McKenzie.
Javier says he needs to seize the opportunity. He is going to be the one issuing challenges. He makes a challenge for Axiom. You are a hell of a competitor.
McKenzie asks Javier if he saw what happened to Axiom.
Javier asks McKenzie who are you to doubt Axiom.
Javier makes a challenge to Ilja Dragunov and McKenzie says that he is back in Germany rehabilitating.
Javier challenges any member of Gallus and McKenzie says that they are still suspended.
Javier blames McKenzie for being the problem.
Booker T is in the ring for the North American Championship Contract Signing.
Carmelo Hayes makes his way to the ring with Trick Williams.
North American Champion Wes Lee makes his way to the ring.
Booker says he is a fan of both of them.
Hayes says from a lower case g to a big g, it is an honor to be part of Booker’s Fave Five. Real recognize real.
Booker tries not to dis the champion and Wes says he appreciates Booker for trying to explain but he points out that Hayes is not the champion any more.
Booker says that Hayes is close to being a three time champion next week.
Hayes says he knows Wes will go to the limit to defend that title. Your absolute limit is where I start from. I am relentless being the A Champion and you will not understand. Next week, the fifteen minutes of sympathy and accomplishment will be over.
Trick says Wes is good but he has nothing on Melo. No ladders for you to climb. This will be your first and last title defense.
Booker brings up that it is Wes’ first title defense and he asks what will Wes do to stay champion.
Wes says everyone knows how hard he worked to earn this. If you told him a year ago that he would be here talking to Booker, he wouldn’t have believed him. From the ashes of what I had, I climbed the ladder to become champion. I will show that I am the new standard as NXT champion and I will risk everything to hold on to the title.
Booker gives the contract to Hayes to sign. Hayes signs the contract and then Booker gives the contract to Wes to sign. Wes signs the contract.
Trick asks Wes how did it feel when his head was slammed into the locker.
Wes and Hayes have some words and Booker says nothing is happening tonight. No one is going through a table tonight.
T-Bar says the truth is never simple. Until I am sitting across the table. You have two choices. Give him the truth or he will beat it out of you. NXT is a soft society but that will change. I am not a product of my environment.
We are back and Odyssey Jones is with Edris Enofe and Malik Blade. Odyssey asks Malik about the sweater vest. Malik says his father was a pastor and wore the best clothes. His father bought him a sweater vest for him and he is doing it to honor his father.
Match Number Four: Brooks Jensen and Josh Briggs (with Fallon Henley) versus Rip Fowler and Jagger Reid (with Ava Rayne and Joe Gacy)
Brooks and Rip start things off and they lock up. Rip with a side head lock and shoulder tackle. Brooks with a hip toss and head scissors take down. Brooks with a drop kick for a near fall. Brooks with an arm bar and Jagger tags in and punches Brooks. Brooks makes the tag and hits a bulldog. Briggs with a flying shoulder tackle. Brooks tags in and he works on the arm. Brooks with a shoulder tackle and he sends Jagger into the ropes and then they go to the floor and punch Jagger. Brooks tags in and he connects with a forearm. Rip makes the tag and he trips Brooks and pulls him to the floor. Brooks punches Rip and Ava stands between them. Jagger with a suicide dive that sends Brooks hard into the announce table. Rip drops Brooks on the apron.
Jensen fights out of the corner and Briggs tags in. Briggs with a butterfly back breaker to Rip and a boot to Reid. Briggs with a shoulder tackle to Rip on the floor and then he connects with a forearm off the ropes. Briggs with a uranage.
Kiana James comes out and Henley punches James but she falls onto Brooks.
Reid and Fowler with a double Codebreaker for the three count.
Winners: Rip Fowler and Jagger Reid
We are back and we go to Shawn Michaels.
Shawn says NXT is a brand for building the stars of tomorrow and innovation. They will be doing the Iron Survivor Challenge.
There will be one for the men and women. It will be a 25 minute match with two starting and then every five minutes someone enters. The one with the most falls wins. When a superstar wins a fall, they earn a point. The loser of the fall goes into the penalty box for 90 seconds. The most falls after 25 minutes will be the Iron Survivor and the number one contender. The participants will be announced in the coming weeks.
Match Number Five: Indi Hartwell versus Tatum Paxley (with Ivy Nile)
The lights flicker as the match starts and Indi sends Tatum into the turnbuckles. Tatum with a kick and drop kick for a near fall. Indi blocks a hip toss and Indi with a clothesline. Indi with punches and a clothesline. Indi with a reverse chin lock. Indi with an uppercut for a near fall. Indi with kicks and forearms. Tatum avoids an uppercut and she trips Indi. Tatum kicks Indi in the head and Indi is sent into the turnbuckles. Tatum sends Indi into the turnbuckles again and follows with clotheslines. Tatum with a neck breaker and a flip senton for a near fall.
Tatum gets Indi on her shoulders but Indi removes the mask and kicks Tatum. Indi tosses the mask to Ivy and hits a forearm to the back of the head for the three count.
Winner: Indi Hartwell
We go to the latest from Scrypts.
Your cameras couldn’t catch me. I got past your guards with ease. Now I am here, everything after this will only be a breeze. Because I’m fast as lightning, smarter than you think. Moves are incredible, you miss them if you blink. Next week, you will see that you and I are not the same. So tell me, who’s first to play a little game.
We go to commercial.
We are back and Indi Hartwell is stopped by Roxanne.
Roxanne congratulates her on her victory but asks if Indi went too far by pulling off Tatum’s mask.
Indi calls Roxanne little miss perfect and then asks would Tatum have worried if she was wearing a mask. Indi says she will do what it takes to get into the Iron Rumble.
Next week, Wes Lee faces Carmelo Hayes for the North American Championship. Wendy Choo faces Cora Jade.
Match Number Six: Alba Fyre versus Mandy Rose in a Last Woman Standing Match for the NXT Women’s Championship
Mandy goes to the floor and Alba follows. Mandy has a knee blocked and Alba gets Mandy up for a Gory Bomb but Mandy gets to her feet. Alba with a suicide dive to Mandy. Alba rearranges the announce table and Alba tries for a Gory Bomb through the table but Mandy escapes and sends Alba into the apron. Alba sends Mandy into the ring post and ringside barrier. Mandy slams Alba on a chair on the floor and the referee starts his count. Mandy with kicks to stop Alba from using a chair. Mandy goes for the running knee but hits the chair.
Alba has a steel bar and applies a single leg crab using the piece of the chair. Mandy gets to the ropes and she kicks Alba. Alba goes for a suicide dive but Mandy hits Alba with a trash can. Mandy throws the trash can into the ring. Mandy hits Alba with the trash can. Mandy with forearms to the back. Mandy with a forearm to the back. Alba gets Mandy on her shoulders but Mandy escapes and hits a spinebuster. Mandy gets the crowbar and hits Alba in the ribs with it. Mandy chokes Alba with it.
Alba with a snap mare and clothesline or two. Alba with a gourdbuster. Alba with kicks. Alba with a splash into the corner and a tornado DDT. Alba with a swanton off the turnbuckles o Mandy and both are down on the floor as the referee starts his count. Alba gets a ladder and hits Mandy with it. Mandy Irish whips Alba into the ladder. Mandy drops the ladder onto Alba’s arm. Mandy sends the ladder onto Alba a few more times. They return to the ring and Mandy puts the trash can in the middle of the ring. Mandy gets Alba up but Mandy misses a back breaker. Alba slams Mandy onto the trash can. Mandy beats the count. Mandy sends Alba over the top rope to the floor with a back body drop and Alba holds her shin. Mandy sends Alba over the ringside barrier and connects with a forearm. Alba fires back. Alba sets for a suplex off the ringside barrier but Mandy blocks it. Mandy pushes Alba to the floor. Alba gets up at nine. Alba with a super kick to Mandy as Mandy comes off the ringside barrier. Alba with a Gory Bomb into the apron. Alba hits Mandy with the baseball bat to the midsection.
Alba sets up the ladder and puts Mandy on the announce table. Isla Dawn shows up behind Alba and spits something in her face and pushes her off the ladder through the table. Mandy beats the count but Alba stays down.
Winner: Mandy Rose (retains Championship)
We go to credits.
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