We are back at the Barber Shop. He tells Trick this is where it all began. Good memories, great moments. Here he is, all alone. He says he is here for pride. He knows his principles stay intact. He didn’t snake his boy and get too big for his boots. He says he wanted Trick to experience everything and lift him up with him. This is how you repay him? By trying to be the number one guy in NXT? You could have been number five, or number three, or even number two. You wanted to be one of one and when you come after one of one, you realize no one is above Melo. Did you think that Trick would be ahead of him? To be on top, you have to be ruthless and have the killer instinct He knew that Trick wanted a piece of this. He saw Trick side eying the title. He knew it would be sooner than later that he had to get Trick before Trick got him.
Wherever you are at Trick, stay there. Your fifteen minutes are up. You want to see me Ilja? Get in line. If you aren’t going to talk about the championship, we have nothing to talk about.
Match Number Four: Arianna Grace versus Jacy Jayne (with Thea Hail and Jazmyn Nyx)
They lock up and Jacy with a wrist lock. Grace with a reversal. Jacy with a reversal and a leg sweep for a near fall. Grace with a snap mare and a shoulder tackle. Grace tells Jacy to kiss her hand and Jacy refuses. Grace is sent to the floor and Jacy tells Thea and Jazmyn to do something. Jacy sends Grace back in the ring and Jacy yells at Thea. Grace with an arm wringer. Jacy sends Grace into the turnbuckles and follows with an elbow and short arm clothesline. Jacy with a back senton for a near fall. Jacy with a rear chin lock.
Jacy is sent into the turnbuckles. Grace with a snap mare and an elbow drop for a near fall. Grace with an arm bar. Jacy sends Grace over the top rope to the floor. Jacy goes to the floor and Grace punches Jacy. Jacy with a back elbow and she rolls back into the ring. Jacy is held back by the referee and she wants Thea to interfere. Jazmyn takes the initiative and connects with a forearm. Jacy with a rolling elbow for the three count.
Winner: Jacy Jayne
After the match, Jazmyn raises Jacy’s arm and they celebrate while Thea feels like she has lost a friend.
Tony D’Angelo is at RESTAURANT and Rizzo and Channing show up. Tony says he wants to talk to them. Rizzo says she gave everything she had in the ring. Tony says it was a good showing so don’t feel bad. Channing says the loss was on him. He says that they will get the titles back. Tony says they lost track of the big picture. They have been playing small ball. The stuff with Chase U and OTM? They are the D’Angelo family. He is going to lead them in a new direction. They are going his way and if they don’t like it, they are out. He is going to be the Don of NXT.
We are back and Ridge Holland is with Sarah and she asks about what happened in the Gallus Gauntlet using the chair on all three men. She asks him what does he have to say.
Ridge says he can’t get the stench off of him. Gallus took his surgically repaired leg and put it in a chair and they smashed it. That is fine. When he gets that chair in his hands and he uses it, it becomes a weapon. He can’t fight fire with fire and he can’t defend himself without people judging him. Next week, he says he will address the people and he will apologize for everything he has done. Even if no one cares. With that chair in hand, that is not the man he is in his every day life.
Shotzi is in LOCKER ROOM preparing for her match against Lyra.
Match Number Five: Duke Hudson and Andre Chase (with Riley Osborne) versus Axiom and Nathan Frazer in a Number One Contender Match
Axiom and Chase start things off and Chase with a wrist lock. Axiom gets back to his feet. Axiom with a head scissors. Chase with an escape and an arm bar. Chase wrings the arm. Axiom escapes and he takes Chase down and gets a near fall. Axiom with a front face lock. Axiom with a waist lock take down and a bow and arrow. Chase with a lateral press for a near fall. Both men go for drop kicks at the same time.
They shake hands and lock up. Chase with a side head lock. Chase with a hip toss and Axiom with a cartwheel. Axiom with an arm drag and drop kick. Frazer tags in and Axiom with a clothesline and Frazer with a DDT and shooting star press for a near fall. Chase with a kick and he tags Duke in. They send Frazer into the turnbuckles and they hit double sledges to the back. Duke with a shoulder tackle and he gets a near fall. Frazer with a side head lock and he floats over in the corner and returns to the side head lock. Frazer with misdirection and he tries for a drop kick and Duke blocks it and hits a shoulder tackle.
Chase tags in and Frazer gets to his feet and Axiom make the tag. Axiom kicks Duke and he goes for a head scissors and arm drag take down on both men. Duke goes to the floor. Axiom with a suicide dive onto Chase and Frazer with one to Duke. They do it again.
We go to commercial.
We are back and Chase with an elbow. Axiomn with a forearm. Frazer with a kick and Axiom with a half and half suplex. Frazer and Axiom with a double super kick for a near fall. Frazer with a rear chin lock and Chase with elbows. Chase sends Frazer to the floor and he hits a Side Effect when Frazer comes off the ropes. Chase gets a near fall. Duke tags in and he connects with a forearm and slam to Frazer followed by a boot to the head. Duker goes for a power bomb to Axiom but Axiom escapes. Axiom with a kick but Duke with a uranage to Axiom. Duke with a Chase Elbow and he hits a Samoan drop of Axiom onto Frazer. Duke tries for the Razor’s Edge but Axiom with a rana to escape. Frazer tags in and then Axiom tags back in. They set for a double superplex but Duke pushes them off. Axiom with a kick to Duke.
Axiom with Spanish Fly to Duke for a near fall. Frazer tags in and they kick Duke and Duke with a double clothesline. Chase tags in and he goes up top and hits a cross body on Frazer but Frazer rolls through and gets a near fall. Frazer blocks a sunset flip and drops down for a near fall. Chase gets a near fall with a sunset flip and then he gets the three count with a rollup.
Winners: Andre Chase and Duke Hudson
After the match, Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson attack Chase, Duke, Frazer, and Axiom as well as Riley. They hit Magic Killer.
Ilja Dragunov says since day one he saw through Carmelo Hayes. You pointed the finger at him? You are a coward to attack Trick from behind. You did the same to him. You are the lowest form of life. Ilja says he has what Hayes seeks. He says he will see Hayes at Roadblock under one condition. Show up next week and meet him face to face.
Ilja says he is coming for something more important than the title, your soul.
We are back and Fallon Henley says Josh and Brooks were like brothers.
Thea is in LOCKER ROOM too and she is not in a good mood.
Fallon talks about watching Brooks and Josh in a match.
Thea says everything other than Chase U getting the tag title match sucks. She says her date with Riley didn’t go well. She says she thinks she is losing Jacy as a friend.
Fallon says she had a bad Valentine’s Day date last year.
Match Number Six: Lash Legend (with Jakara Jackson) versus Kelani Jordan
Lash with a waist lock take down and Jordan pie faces Lash. Lash with a wrist lock and she lifts Jordan in the air by the arm. Jordan goes for a sunset flip but Lash blocks it and she picks up Jordan. Jordan with a victory roll for a near fall. Jordan with another near fall. Jordan with a side head lock. Lash with a bicycle kick when Jordan was going for an aerial move. Lash sends Jordan face first into the mat. Lash with a shoulder tackle and a second one. Lash with a uranage back breaker. Lash with a splash for a near fall.
Lash chokes Jordan in the ropes. Lash with an Irish whip and another one. Jordan with a back elbow to Lash but Lash with a forearm and a back breaker as she stretches Jordan. Jordan goes for an arm drag but Lash blocks it. Lash goes for a splash but Jordan gets her knees up. Jordan with a forearm and chop. Jordan with more forearms. Jordan goes for a head scissors take down but Lash blocks it and she goes for a power bomb but Jordan flips to her feet. Jordan with a boot and she goes to the turnbuckles for a head scissors.
Jordan drop kicks Lash into the corner. Jordan with a step over heel kick. Jordan goes for the split legged moonsault but Jackson gets on the apron. Jordan knocks Jackson off the apron and Lash with a choke slam for the three count.
Winner: Lash Legend
After the match, Kiana and Izzi make their way to the ring to check on Jordan, who is still down on the mat
Izzi picks up Jordan and Kiana has some words for her. Jordan avoids Izzi and Kiana and then she pushes Kiana into Izzi to escape.
Shotzi walks in the back and so does Lyra Valkyria.
We go to commercial.
We are back and Luke and Karl are in the Most Dangerous Parking Lot in Sports Entertainment.
Karl says they are going to be in NXT as long as they want. Luke says he doesn’t know if Chase U will like it. Karl says they are going to separate the men from the boys in the tag team division. Luke says he didn’t realize Baron Corbin went to NXT to be the biggest comedian. He says they can be heroes to Bron. They are going to win the tag titles with a Magic Killer.
Next week, Ilja Dragunov and Carmelo Hayes will meet face to face. Noam Dar will defend the Heritage Cup against a member of the No Quarter Catch Crew.
Match Number Seven: Shotzi versus Lyra Valkyria for the NXT Women’s Champioinship
They lock up and Lyra with a waist lock and take down. Shotzi with a side head lock into a front face lock. Shotzi rolls through into a guillotine. Lyra escapes and she takes Shotzi down but Shotzi kicks Lyra away. They lock up and Lyra with a side head lock and a hip lock take down. Shotzi with a rollup for a near fall. Lyra with a rollup for a near fall. Lyra with a wrist lock and a crucifix cover for a near fall. Shotzi gets a near fall wit a rollup.
They lock up and Lyra with a side head lock. Shotzi with a shoulder tackle and she howls. Shotzi with a head scissors take down but Lyra with a handspring to land on her feet. Lyra with hip tosses to Shotzi. Shotzi with a chop and a wrist lock. Shotzi goes to the ropes and hits a springboard wrist lock take down. Lyra sends Shotzi to the apron. Shotzi with a forearm and she hits a hanging DDT on the apron and Shotzi lands awkwardly and her knee gives out.
The referee checks on Shotzi and the medical staff also shows up to check on Shotzi
Shotzi is helped to the back but she has trouble walking. Lyra goes to check on Shotzi as they try to carry her to the back.
Lyra is in the ring with the referee.
We are told that Shotzi is unable to continue.
Ava makes her way out and she says Shotzi is no longer allowed to compete. Ava says you will get a title match. Ava announces an open challenge.
Lash Legend comes out.
Match Number Eight: Lash Legend versus Lyra Valkyria for the NXT Women’s Championship
Lash misses a forearm and Lyra with kicks to the leg. Lash with a punch. Lash sends Lyra to the mat. Lash with a half nelson and she gets a near fall. Lash with a reverse chin lock. Lyra blocks a few suplex attempts. Lash with an Irish whip but she runs into a boot. Lyra goes to the turnbuckles and Lash catches Lyra on a cross body. Lash with a uranage back breaker. Lash gets a near fall. Lash with forearms to Lyra followed by an elbow drop to the back and Lash gets a near fall. Lash with a forearm in the corner.
Lash with an Irish whip and clothesline for a near fall. Lash with a back breaker over the shoulder and she adds more pressure. Lyra flips back to her feet and she connects with a head butt. Lyra with a clothesline.
We cut to LOCKER ROOM and Roxanne is ANGRY about what happened and she throws MONITOR to the floor.
Lyra with a head scissors and Lash blocks a spinning heel kick. Lash with a choke slam for a near fall. Lash with an Irish whip and she runs into a boot in the corner. Lyra goes up top and she hits a cross body. Lyra gets a near fall. Lyra tries to get Lash on her shoulders but Lash blocks it. Lash with a bicycle kick for a near fall. Lash puts Lyra on the turnbuckles and Lash sets for a superplex. Lyra with forearms to knock Lash to the mat. Lyra with a frog splash for the three count.
Winner: Lyra Valkyria (retains championship)
We go to credits.
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