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WWE NXT REPORT: THE FINALS ARE SET, A MEDICAL MIRACLE, WHO HAS THAT GAMESTOP MONEY NOW?, AND MORE

We are at the Capitol Wrestling Centre and your announcers are Beth Phoenix, Vic Joseph, and Wade Barrett.

Match Number One:  Nash Carter and Wes Lee versus Joaquin Wilde and Raul Mendoza in a Semifinal Match in the Men's Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic

Wilde and Lee start things off and Wilde avoids Lee.  Wilde wants a test of strength and Lee obliges.  Wilde with a wrist lock take down.  Lee rolls through and Wilde with a hammer lock into a take down.  Wilde with a waist lock and take down.  Wilde works on the legs and Lee with an escape and arm bar.  WIlde with an arm drag and Lee holds on.  Lee with an Irish whip and Carter tags in and Lee kicks Wilde from the apron and Carter with a bronco buster for a near fall.  Carter with a wrist lock take down and Mendoza tags in.  Mendoza with a side head lock.

Mendoza goes for an arm drag and Carter blocks it.  Mendoza with a waist lock and Carter blocks an arm drag.  Mendoza leaps over Carter and Lee tags in and Carter and Lee with a series of kicks.  Carter with a double stomp and Lee gets a near fall.  Wilde and Mendoza with rapid tags and clotheslines in the corner.  They continue the tags and clotheslines.  Mendoza tags back in and he hits a clothesline.  Wilde tags in and they go for a double suplex and hit it.  Mendoza with a slingshot hip toss of Wilde onto Lee for a near fall.  Lee avoids Wilde and Mendoza and tags in Carter.  Carter with forearms to Mendoza followed by a knee and kick to the temple.

Mendoza sends Carter into the corner and Carter moves and hits a knee.  Carter with a rolling mare and a kick for a near fall.   Mendoza kicks Carter and Wilde tags in and Wilde hits a leap frog drop kick that knocks Carter off the apron.

We go to commercial.

We are back and Carter lands on his feet on a German suplex by Mendoza.  Carter with an enzuigiri and Lee tags in and hits a clothesline and back elbow.  Lee with strikes and a kick to Mendoza to sent him to the floor.  Wilde is sent over the top rope to the floor.  Lee pushes Carter off the apron for a cross body onto Wilde and Mendoza.  Lee with a flip dive onto Mendoza and Wilde.  Wilde kicks Carter and sends him into the ringside barrier.  Mendoza with a knee to Lee and Mendoza goes up top and hits a missile drop kick.  Wilde tags in and he hits a jumping Poisonrana to Lee and Mendoza with a swining brainbuster for a near fall that is broken up by Carter.

Mendoza kicks Carter and he gets him on his shoulders.  Wilde tags in and hits a 450 splash off Carter's back but Lee gets his knees up and Mendoza drops Carter onto Lee.  Carter is sent to the floor.  Carter trips Mendoza and pulls him to the floor.  Lee with a running thrust kick to Wilde and Carter tags in and Lee hits the Hart Attack Blockbuster for the three count.

Winners:  Wes Lee and Nash Carter (advance to finals to face winner of Grizzled Young Veterans versus Tommaso Ciampa and Timothy Thatcher)

We have a video package for Xia Li and she is next.

We go to commercial.

We are back and Mercedes Martinez says it has taken 20 years to get to this point.  Sunday, it is everything I have worked for and done.  The trials and tribulations.  This is the real me.  This title is my destiny and my goal.  This is why I came back.  Toni, you are just a little girl.  You are not ready for this.  Io, try to take me out.  It is going to take a lot more than that.  Your title reign has an expiration date and it is Sunday.  At Takeover, I will walk out of the ring as the NXT Women's Champion.

Before the next match, Kayden Carter and Kacy Catanzaro come out to talk to Xia.

Match Number Two:  Xia Li (with Boa) versus Cora Jade

Jade attacks Li from behind but Li with kicks to Jade.  Li with a kick and a jumping round kick for the three count.

Winner:  Xia Li

After the match, Li attacks Jade and Carter and Catanzaro get on the apron.

Carter goes to Tian Sha and Carter wants to know what is she doing to Xia.

Xia comes from behind and throws Carter off the stage.  

Xia says something to Tian and Tian moves her hand and she grabs Boa and Li attacks Catanzaro and sends her into the apron and kicks her.  Li kneels before Tian and Boa is released from clutches of Tian.

We go to William Regal in the back and McKenzie asks about the tournament matches.  REgal is happy for MSK and he says he has some business to take care of and he opens his office door and Scarlett is sitting on his desk.

Scarlett says she is here because if he comes, it isn't going to be good.  Escobar . . . time's up.  Next week.

Regal thinks about the match and he likes it.

Candice LeRae and Indi Hartwell walk in the back for their match and then we see Austin Theory pushing Johnny Gargano in a wheelchair.

We go to commercial.

We are back and Indi and Austin put Johnny Gargano on the turnbuckles as Wade Barrett mentions that Johnny is unable to walk due to a broken arm so they can bring the wheelchair into the ring.  Johnny is put in the wheelchair and is handed a mic by Austin.

Johnny says the crowd is so rude and insensitive.  Before Indi and Candice punch their ticket to Takeover, what you see here is the result of an attack by KUSHIDA.  Last week, he was trying to get Not McKenzie fired.  KUSHIDA attacked me for no good reason and broke my arm.  He shows footage of the attack.

Johnny says he has four fractures in his arm and he is a lefty and a well known power walker.  He cannot swing his arm and he is in a wheelchair and you know how he feels about wheels.  The worst part of this is that I cannot defend my North American Championship against KUSHIDA at Takeover.  Johnny says he was looking forward to that match.  Johnny says that Mr. Regal should be suspended indfeinitely for injuring the most loved member of the NXT Roster.

WIlliam Regal comes out and he says that the medical team cleared you yesterday.  He tells Johnny to stop with this charade.  

Johnny says he will not trust the quacks in medical.  Johnny says he went to his own doctors and they show the x-ray.

Regal asks Johnny to name that bone.  Johnny says he does not know the name of the bone because he is Johnny Wrestling, not Johnny Doctor Guy.

Regal says that x-ray is of the right arm and Johnny would be in pain.

Johnny says the 'R' stands for real so it is legit.

Regal says that Austin Theory can be his surrogate for the title tonight.  Johnny says that is not happening.  Regal says that Johnny can forfeit the title right now.

Johnny says he will not forfeit.  He asks for a few weeks or a few months.  He will rehab with a Beautiful Day music video for his return.

Regal says he needs to talk to KUSHIDA first.

Regal asks KUSHIDA what does he think as he looks at the ring.

KUSHIDA stands behind Gargano and his friends and he pulls Gargano out of the wheelchair and Johnny holds the title belt with his broken arm.  KUSHIDA kicks Gargano into the chair and Candice has to be held back.

Match Number Three:  Candice LeRae and Indi Hartwell versus Ember Moon and Shotzi Blackheart in a Semifinal Match in the Women's Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic

The match is joined in progress and Shotzi and Ember with a double team combination on Candice for a near fall.  Shotzi with knees to Candice and Candice falls into the corner.  Moon tags in and Ember with shoulders in the corner.  Moon sends Candice into the corner and tags Shotzi into the match.  Hartwell tags in and Shotzi with forearms.  Hartwell with a hot shot and side slam for a near fall.  Hartwell kicks Shotzi in the corner.  Hartwell gets a near fall.  Candice tags in and sends Shotzi to the mat and gets a near fall.

Candice with a double wrist lock.  Shotzi with a forearm but Candice with a knee and snap mare followed by a leap frog neck snap for a near fall.  Candice pulls Shotzi to her corner and tags Hartwell into the match.  Indi with a back elbow and she taunts Moon before getting a near fall.  Candice tags in and she works on the arm and hits Sole Food for a near fall.  Candice with a double wrist lock.  Shotzi with forearms but Candice stops Shotzi and gets a near fall.  Shotzi with a jaw breaker and Ember tags in and hits a clothesline on Candice.

Ember with another clothesline followed by kicks and an enzuigiri.  Ember with a drop kick.  Hartwell tags in and Ember with a punch and Shotzi tags in.  Shotzi with a neck breaker followed by a Codebreaker from Ember and a kick from Shotzi for a near fall.  Shotzi with a head scissors and Ember with a clothesline and Ember gets a near fall.  Shotzi grabs Candice but Candice sends Shotzi into the announce table.  Indi sends Ember to the mat and Candice goes up top and with help from Indi hits a head scissors off the apron and Ember is sent into Shotzi.

Candice sends Ember back into the ring and gets a near fall.  Indi tags in and she kicks Ember.  Indi gets a near fall.  Indi gets another near fall.  Indi with a reverse chin lock.  Ember with punches but Indi sends Ember to the mat.  Candice tags in and she kicks Ember in the back.  Candice has some words for Shotzi before hitting a back senton for a near fall.  Candice pulls Ember towards her corner and Indi tags in.  Indi with a clothesline for a near fall.  

Candice tags in and she hits a leg drop to the back of the head.  Candice with an Irish whip and follows with a running hip into the corner.  Indi tags in and hits a clothesline in the corner and gets a near fall.  Indi with a reverse chin lock.  Indi misses a boot and is sent over the top rope by Ember.  Candice and Shotzi tag in and Shotzi with punches and a forearm.  Shotzi with a face buster and a back senton against the ropes for a near fall.  Ember tags in and she hits a kick and then Shotzi drops Candice on Ember's knees for a near fall.  Indi sends Shotzi to the floor but Moon kicks Indi out of the ring.  Candice hits Ember from behind.  Candice tags Indi back in.  Indi puts Ember on the ropes and Candice hits a quebrada onto Moon followed by a suicide dive onto Shotzi.

Indi gets a near fall.  Indi sends Ember into the turnbuckles and Candice tags in and she hits the turnbuckles when Ember moves.  Moon tries to get to her corner but Indi stops Ember.  Ember kicks Indi into Candice and Shotzi tags in and hits an enzuigiri on Indi.  Shotzi with forearms to Candice but Candice with kicks to the head.  Indi tags in and Candice with Wicked Stepsister and Hartwell with an elbow drop off the turnbuckles for a near fall that is broken up by Ember.  

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