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Match Number One: Carmelo Hayes (with Trick Williams) versus Roderick Strong (with Diamond Mine) in a Title Unification Match
They lock up and they go around the ring until the referee forces a break. Hayes with a clean break. They lock up again and Hayes with a wrist lock. Strong with a reversal. Hayes with an arm darg and drop kick. Hayes with a take down and Strong with a head scissors. Strong with a head lock take down and Hayes with a head scissors. Both men with arm drags. Hayes and Strong each get near falls with a leg sweep. Hayes kicks Strong. Hayes with a chop and Strong misses some chops. Hayes with a side head lock. Strong chops Hayes a few times. Strong goes to the floor after Hayes and Williams almost gets chopped. Strong with more chops. Strong with a knee when Hayes returns to the ring and connects with forearms. Hayes flips over the back and Strong with a back elbow.
Hayes avoids a forearm and Hayes puts Strong in the ropes and connects with a kick to the back of the head and a springboard leg crop. Hayes comes off the ropes but Strong catches him. Hayes avoids a suplex. They go back and forth and Hayes sends Strong to the apron and Hayes with a slingshot DDT on the apron. Hayes goes up top and misses a boot. Strong with a flying boot for a near fall. Strong chops Hayes a few times. Hayes and Strong exchange chops and Strong chokes Hayes in the ropes. Strong kicks Hayes. Strong with a forearm and kick to Hayes in the corner. Strong with a suplex and he gets a near fall. Strong with an arm bar and elbow to the head.
Strong with a chin lock but Hayes with a jaw breaker. Hayes with a springboard clothesline and he gets a near fall. Hayes with a reverse chin lock into a double wrist lock. Hayes with a knee and Strong with a running clothesline. Strong with a back breaker followed by a second one. Strong with a third back breaker. Hayes with a tilt-a-whirl face buster for a near fall. Hayes with a crossface but Strong escapes. Strong goes for the Strong Hold but Hayes blocks it. Hayes with a Boston Crab on Strong. Strong with a Liontamer on Hayes. Hayes kicks Strong in the head to escape. Strong with a uranage back breaker. Strong gets a near fall.
Strong and Hayes exchange punches from their knees. Strong with forearms. Strong with running forearms followed by an Olympic Slam for a near fall. Strong tries to put Hayes on the turnbuckles but Hayes blocks it. Hayes floats over and goes for a sunset flip and hits a suplex into a cutter for a near fall. Strong with an inside cradle for a near fall. Hayes lands on his feet when Strong goes for End of Heartache and Hayes with a super kick. Hayes goes to the turnbuckles and Strong with a kick.
Strong with a super End of Heartache but Hayes gets a near fall. Hayes goes up top and hits a leg drop to the back of the head for the three count.
Winner: Carmelo Hayes (retains North American Championship)
We see Bron Breakker arriving at the building earlier today.
We also see Tommaso Ciampa earlier today in the locker room.
AJ Styles shows up and Ciampa tells AJ he looks like he is dressed for a fight. AJ wishes Ciampa luck tonight.
We go to commercial.
We are back and so is the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic. The men's tournament starts in 2 weeks and the women's tournament starts in February.
AJ Styles makes his way to the ring.
AJ tells the crowd he appreciates the chants for him. He says he has done a lot in his career and he will always enjoy that. He says he has won a lot of championships too. He thanks everyone for being amazing fans. AJ says he would be lying if he didn't say he had some regrets. When he first started in WWE he wasn't in NXT. AJ mentions that his debut was in the Royal Rumble. He was on Raw and Smackdown within months and he was at Wrestlemania. There is something about this place. There is something special about NXT. He says it is the passion. It is the passion that the fans have for the superstars and the passion the superstars have for the fans.
AJ says he doesn't care which NXT it is, it is passion that makes NXT go round. AJ says he'll be damned if he lets someone take that passion from you. AJ says he is talking about Grayson Waller. There is always going to be one who thinks they are bigger and better than the place. That is Grayson Waller.
Grayson Waller makes his way to the stage.
Waller says AJ really tugged at the heart strings and laid it on tight. It is a phenomenal deflection. You lost to Omos last night. You didn't lose, you got crushed. This whole I wish I started in NXT thing, I don't buy it. Grayson then says what AJ will say about being green and not paying his dues. Grayson says he is a student of the game and he knows why AJ lost. Waller says the fans didn't see it, but I did. You lost because the whole time in the ring, you were thinking of Grayson Waller. I am living in your head rent free. I wish I was there but I didn't want you to blame me for the loss.
AJ says that Waller is right. AJ says he is hurt, beat up, and not at 100 percent. AJ tells Waller to take advantage of the situation. AJ says he never had a match in NXT and he has his gear on. All we need is a ref and we can do this.
Waller says we are not on Phenomenal Time, we are on Waller Time.
AJ tells Waller to grow a sack and get in the ring and do something.
Waller takes off his shirt and he gets in the ring but he says not tonight. He says they can do it next week in the main event to give him the biggest victory of his career.
AJ says it will be the biggest embarrassment of his career.
Waller tries to punch AJ but he misses. AJ punches Waller. They go to the floor and then Waller kicks AJ when they return to the ring. Waller with a punch but he misses a clothesline. AJ with a Pele kick. Waller sends AJ to the apron but AJ with a forearm and he sets for a Phenomenal Forearm but Waller gets out of the ring.
Pete Dunne says he treated you like everybody else and break your fingers and you think that is getting one over you. This is the best you can do (as Pete shows his bandaged hand). This is just the beginning and there aren't four of ya, there is one of ya. It is too late to consider. I will rip your arm out of the socket and stuff it in your mouth. Next week, come face me and finish what you started. Bring the crowbar because you will need it.
We are back and Amari Miller shows up to talk to Kayden Carter and Kacy Catanzaro. Kacy says they are getting ready to become NXT Tag team champs.
Persia Pirotta and Indi Hartwell says their dreams will come up short.
Persia challenges them to a match and Indi asks about doing a handicap match.
Persia offers Tiffany to be their partner and she refuses and tells her dad that these women are icky. We see Wendy Choo behind her and Kayden, Kacy, and Amari tell them that she can be their partner.
Indi asks her who she is and Wendy Choo introduces herself.
Match Number Two: WALTER, Fabian Aichner, and Marcel Barthel versus Riddle, Wes Lee, and Nash Carter
Carter and Barthel start things off and Barthel with an arm drag into a hammer lock. Carter with a head lock and Barthel bridges to escape and holds on to the hammer lock. Barthel with an arm bar and reverse chin lock. Carter with a snap mare and Barthel with a wrist lock. Carter with a wrist lock take down. Carter kicks Barthel and hits a drop kick. Barthel with a side head lock and Aichner tags in and gives Carter an arm drag into an wrist lock. Aichner sends Carter into the turnbuckles shoulder first. Carter with chops and Carter with a rana and Lee tags in. Lee with punches followed by a handstand head scissors take down. Lee goes for a moonsault but Aichner catches him. Lee with a kick to the midsection.
Aichner with a clothesline.after blocking a kick. Lee has a kick blocked and Lee lands on his feet when AIchner flips him. Riddle tags in and so does WALTER. Riddle with a forearm and punches. Riddle with kicks and WALTER blocks a kick and chops Riddle. WALTER with a forearm to the back and Aichner tags in. Aichner with a slam and elbow drop for a near fall. Aichner with a reverse chin lock. Riddle lands on his feet on a belly-to-back suplex attempt. Lee and Carter tag in and they hit a series of double team moves. Carter with a double stomp to the back. Carter drop kicks Barthel over the top rope to the floor. WALTER with a shoulder to Lee and he kicks Riddle off the apron. WALTER kicks Carter. WALTER catches Lee and puts him on the turnbuckles and connects with a forearm. Barthel and Aichner with a double drop kick and Imperium poses in the ring.
WALTER kicks Carter in the back and stretches him. WALTER with a kick to the hamstring and Aichner tags in. Aichner with an elbow drop to the leg and he works on the ankle. Aichner with an STF. Aichner kicks Carter in the head. Aichner with forearms and Barthel tags in. Barthel with an Irish whip and European uppercut followed by a kick and butterfly suplex. Barhtel with a corkscrew back elbow off the turnbuckles for a near fall. Barthel with a cobra clutch. Barthel with a back elbow.
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