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WWE NXT REPORT: THE MILLION DOLLAR GRIMES, A STREET FIGHT, MORE TITLE MATCHES ON THE HORIZON, COLE EXPLAINS HIMSELF, AND MORE

By Richard Trionfo on 2021-02-24 22:03:00

We atart with a video package for the match between Karrion Kross and Santos Escobar.

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

The Way is in the back and Johnny does not appreciate how little Austin Theory knows about 1970s music.  He asks Gargano if Theory will be okay with Lumis in the ring.

Match Number One:  Dexter Lumis versus Johnny Gargano (with Candice LeRae, Austin Theory, and Indi Hartwell) in a Non Title Match

Gargano charges at Lumis and Lumis raises his fist and Gargano falls to the mat.  Gargano punches Lumis from the floor and Lumis punches Gargano on the apron.  Gargano returns to the ring and Lumis hides under the ring and Theory is excited that he sees Lumis behind Gargano.  Lumis with punches to Gargano.  Lumis with an Irish whip and boot followed by a Thesz Press and punches.  Lumis with a forearm to Gargano for a near fall.  Lumis sets for a suplex and Gargano tries to escape but Lumis keeps Gargano up for a delayed vertical suplex.  Gargano goes to the floor.

Lumis goes to the floor and Gargano sends Lumis into the apron and then to the ramp.  Gargano with punches and then he returns to the ring.  Gargano breaks the count and returns to the floor but misses a boot.  Lumis sends Gargano into the apron.  Lumis with a punch and he sends Gargano back into the ring.  Theory tries to attack Lumis but he thinks otherwise.  Indi does the same and she backs into the ring post as she backs off.  Candice goes for a rana off the apron and Lumis catches her and she is sent back to the apron.  Gargano with a baseball slide and suicide dive onto Lumis.

Gargano sends Lumis into the apron.  Gargano chops Lumis against the apron.  Gargano with a slingshot spear for a near fall.  Gargano punches Lumis on the turnbuckles and follows with a snap mare and drop kick to the back of the head.  Gargano gets a near fall.  Lumis punches Gargano.  Gargano with forearms in the corner.  Gargano with an elbow to the back of the neck.  Gargano with a side Russian leg sweep for a near fall.  Lumis is put in the ropes by Gargano and then he slams Lumis and gets a near fall.  Gargano with a camel clutch.  Lumis backs Gargano into the turnbuckles but Gargano with a sleeper into an abdominal stretch.  Lumis with a back breaker.  

Lumis punches Gargano and hits a clothesline in the corner.  Lumis with a bulldog and a slingshot suplex.  Lumis iwht a belly-to-back suplex followed by a leg drop for a near fall.  Lumis gets Gargano up but Gargano gets back ot his feet.  Gargano floats over and rolls up Lumis.  Lumis stares at Gargano to prevent the round kick.  Lumis with a rollup to counter GargaNo Escape and he tries for Silence.  Gargano with a crucifix for a near fall.  Gargano with a super kick but Lumis with a spinebuster for a naer fall.  Lumis goes up top and Gargano grabs the leg.  Lumis with punches from the turnbuckles and Gargano is down.  Lumis misses a double stomp and rolls through.  Gargano wit helbows and Lumis with a pop up uppercut.  Gargano with a super kick for a near fall.

Candice gets on the apron and Austin takes his time to get a chair and give it to Johnny but Lumis stands on it.  Lumis with a punch and Gargano with an enzuigiri.  Gargano has the referee check on his knee pad and Theory grabs the chair and he takes his time to use it and Theory decides that he would rather live than hit Dexter with the chair.  Gargano bumps into Theory and Lumis with a sit out side slam and he applies Silence.  Gargano passes out.

Winner:  Dexter Lumis

We see William Regal and he goes into the most dangerous parking lot in sports entertainment and he tells the cameraman to tell Escobar to see Regal when he shows up.

We go to Wade Barrett and he is on location.

We take a look at MSK.  Lee says he had a weird calm over his body during the match and Carter says he was nervous.  Carter says they have struggled on the way up but Lee says they fight for every opportunity and when they get it, they won't let go.  Carter says that when they won, they both burst into tears.  Everything they did finally paid off.  Lee says they want to be a force in the tag team division.  Carter says people were so happy for him.  Carter says he got into wrestling because of his dad.  He mentions that he passed away when Carter was a freshman in high school and that made him love wrestling even more.  Lee says no one really understands what it means for him.  Carter and Lee say they will never forget this moment.  They say it is only the beginning. 

We go to commercial.

We are back with a Shotzi Blackheart video.

MSK are in the back with McKenzie and they are attacked by the Grizzled Young Veterans.  Gibson stands on a chair on Lee's wrist while Drake holds Carter.

We see Malcolm Bivens in the medical room behind a bench and he sees Leon Ruff being checked out.  Malcolm asks Leon if he wants to face Tyler Rust tonight, if Swerve didn't beat him up bad enough.  

Leon says he will see Malcolm's diamond in the ring.

Malcolm thanks Leon.

Malcolm is in the ring and he says success is being able to get things done when you aren't supposed to.  He says Leon is the son he never wanted to have.  Tonight, Leon gets to face Tyler Rust and Tyler will prove why he is a Diamond in the Rust.

Match Number Two:  Tyler Rust (with Malcolm Bivens) versus Leon Ruff

Isaiah Scott attacks Ruff while he poses in teh ropes.  Scott says he is going to start getting opportunities after all of the hand outs that Ruff got.  Scott gets Ruff on his shoudlers and sends Ruff into the apron.

We see William Regal asking Zoey Stark if she wanted to face NXT Women's Champion Io Shirai in a non-title match.  Regal says after her debut last week, she wants to see Stark face Io.  Zoey accepts the challenge.

Zoey is in the back and she is asked how is she feeling.

Zoey says her heart is poudning but she is ready to get out there.

We take a look back earlier today of Cameron Grimes watching Million Dollar Man clips on the WWE Network.  He says with money you can humiliate anyone and he has a lot of money. 

He sees someone and he offers $1,000 for him to dribble the ball ten times.  Grimes sees him dribble the ball and then he pays the guy the money.  The guy tells Grimes that DiBiase kicked the ball away and Grimes says he should have watched the end of the video.

We see what Adam Cole did to Kyle O'Reilly last week and we are told that Kyle is not medically cleared and should be out for 4 to 6 weeks.

Match Number Two:  Zoey Stark versus Io Shirai in a Non Title Match

They lock up and Io kicks Stark away.  They lock up and Io with a take down and she holds on to the collar and elbow.  Stark with a take down as well.  Stark with a waist lock and Io with a wrist lock.  Stark with a wrist lock into a hammer lock.  Io with elbows and a side head lock.  Io with a take down and Stark with a back body drop.  Io with an octopus.  Stark with a rollup for a near fall and Io with a drop kick and another kick to Stark.  Stark with a kick and Io with chops.  Io chokes Stark in the corner.  Io is caught in the ropes and Stark with a pump kick.  Io with a kick through the ropes from the apron.

Io goes up top and Stark knocks Io off the turnbuckles to the floor.

We go to commercial.

We ar back and Stark wit kicks but Io with a take down into a half nelson but Stark escapes.  Io misses a kick and Stark with a single leg trip and a sliding knee for a near fall.  Stark goes up top and misses a 450 splas and rolls through.  Both women with cross body presses at the same time and both are down.  Stark with a half and half suplex for a near fall.  Stark with a sleeper and she tries for a kick to the back but Io blocks the kick.  Io with a forearm and clotheslines.  Io with a flapjack and she hits a Tiger Feint Kick.  Io with a missile drop kick for a near fall.

Stark with a back body drop and she goes to the turnbuckles but Io with a forearm to stop her.  Io with a Frankensteiner and a butterfly back breaker for a near fall.  Stark with a German suplex for a near fall.  Io blocks a German suplex and Io sends Stark head first into the turnbuckles and hits a running double knee strike.  Io goes up top and hits a moonsault for the three count.

Winner:  Io Shirai

After the match, Io offers her hand to Stark and they hug.

Toni Storm's music plays and she cannot let Io have fun.

Toni says you are willing to fight anyone in this division besides me.  I am not Zoey Stark.  I am Toni Storm and last week I kicked your head off and you didn't do a damn thing about it.  There is a reason why you pinned Mercedes at Takeover and not be.  It is because you can't beat me.

Io says she will fight Toni any time, anyplace, anywhere.

Toni says if you thought you could beat me one on one you would have gone to Mr. Regal.  You are scared.  Toni tells Io to prove her wrong and go find William Regal to make the match.

Io says that Toni is on.

McKenzie tries to tal to the Way but Johnny says they want to leave before that psycho shows up.  Johnny says that all Austin had to do was hit Lumis with the chair.

Theory says that is unnecessary.  He is just misunderstood.

Johnny reminds Austin of what he did to him.  Candice says that Dexter should be in jail.

Indi says that Dexter is kind of hot. 

Johnny says he won't let Indi's whatever is going on or Austin's Stockholm Syndrome take control.  They are both going to therapy.

We take a look back at what happened between Kacy Catanzaro and Xia Li over the last few weeks.

We go to commercial.

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