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Your announcers are Booker T and Vic Joseph.
We begin with a video package looking back at 2022.
Match Number One: Carmelo Hayes (with Trick Williams) versus Apollo Crews
They lock up and Crews with a side head lock and shoulder tackles. Crews with a drop kick. Crews with a side head lock and Hayes with a springboard clothesline. Hayes runs into boots but Hayes puts Crews in the ropes and hits a kick to the back and a springboard leg drop for a near fall. Hayes with a chop. Hayes with a punch in the corner and a chop. Crews with chops to Hayes. Crews with a delayed vertical suplex. Crews with a double jump slingshot senton and a splash into the corner. Crews with a tilt-a-whirl back breaker for a near fall. Crews with a chop and Hayes with a forearm in the corner. Hayes with a forearm to the back of the head and a belly-to-back suplex attempt but Crews lands on his feet and hits a German suplex. Crews holds on for a second one but Hayes blocks a third one. Hayes with a snap mare and Crews with an overhead belly-to-belly suplex. Crews clotheslines Hayes over the top rope to the floor and Crews follows with a moonsault off the apron.
Crews goes to the floor and he sends Hayes into the apron and follows with a chop. Hayes with a forearm and chop. They return to the ring. Crews with forearms and a snap mare. Crews with a springboard elbow drop for a near fall. Crews with a reverse chin lock. Crews with a take down. Hayes with a head scissors. Crews with a forearm to the back and a bear hug. Crews with punches to the back. Hayes with a front face lock and Crews backs Hayes into the corner. Hayes pie faces Crews and then sends Crews to the apron. Trick tries to trip Crews but Crews avoids him. Hayes blocks a kick and connects with a kick to the leg to send Crews to the floor. Hayes sends Crews knee first into the ring steps. Hayes gets a near fall. Hayes puts Crews’ leg in the ropes and Hayes kicks the knee. Crews with an Irish whip but Hayes drop kicks Crews in the knee as Crews charges into the corner and Hayes hits the turnbuckles. Hayes with a power bomb and he gets a near fall. Hayes with a single leg crab. Crews tries to roll through but Hayes holds on. Crews kicks Hayes away. Crews with an enzuigiri and both men are down.
Hayes and Crews exchange punches and Crews with a clothesline. Hayes misses a kick and Crews with a lungblower. Crews with a jumping clothesline. Crews blocks a kick and hits an enzuigiri. Hayes goes to the apron and Crews goes to the turnbuckles. Crews with a superplex for a near fall. Hayes with a bicycle kick and Crews with one of his own. Hayes with a cutter and he goes up top but misses when Crews moves. Crews with a boot in the corner followed by a Blockbuster for a near fall. Trick gets on the apron and he pulls Hayes out of the way. Crews with a clothesline to Williams. Crews with a jumping knee but he misses a moonsault. Hayes with a Codebreaker and he goes up top for the leg drop and connects for the three count.
Winner: Carmelo Hayes
After the match, Axiom with a cross body to Hayes and Williams. Axiom with a moonsault onto both men.
We go to commercial.
Match Number Two: Trick Williams (with Carmelo Hayes) versus Axiom
The match is joined in progress and Trick with an arm bar and chin bar. We see Trick hitting a pop up punch during the break. Trick with a punch in the corner. Axiom with a chop but Trick backs into the ropes to avoid a chop. Trick kicks Axiom away and hits a flying clothesline. Axiom with chops and a drop kick. Axiom with a running kick into the corner and then he goes up top. Axiom with a cross body for a near fall. Axiom with a cross arm breaker but Trick locks his hands. Trick gets to the ropes when Axiom is able to lock in the hold. Trick with a round kick and a running snap neck breaker for a near fall. Axiom with a punch followed by Golden Ratio for the three count.
Winner: Axiom
After the match, Williams holds Axiom and Hayes attacks Axiom from behind. They kick Axiom in the corner and Apollo Crews comes out to the ring and Trick and Hayes leave the ring.
Xavier and Kofi are with Pretty Deadly and they have more tasks to do.
Rip Fowler wants to know why The New Day are ducking them and they know that The New Day are their biggest rivals.
Woods says they don’t talk to them because they look like extras from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Kofi says they felt they needed Daddy’s permission.
Gacy says they are four roots and one tree.
Kofi says they lean on each other.
Gacy says they are a true family, unlike the New Day.
Kofi says their problem isn’t with Rip and Jagger, it is with Joe. How about if we do it tonight.
Joe says beating Kofi will only make the Schism grow stronger.
We take a look back at Dijak kidnapping Channing Lorenzo during the North American Title match.
We go to footage from the morning after NXT.
Lorenzo is beaten up and handcuffed to a chair.
Dijak plays a tape for Channing. He says Channing will regret coming into his locker room. Lorenzo says he does what the Don tells him. Dijak says Channing and Tony have their way of doing business and he has his way. Dijak says he is the face of fear in NXT. Dijak punches Lorenzo in the midsection. Lorenzo tells Dijak to uncuff him so they can settle it in the ring. Dijak says this is just the beginning. He puts the key on the table.
We are back with Drew Gulak doing some training with members of Chase U.
Andre Chase wants to know what the f*** is going on.
Drew says he is willing to train Andre.
Andre says he knows that Charlie Dempsey is hurt.
Drew says Dempsey said that the Chase U students were soft.
Andre says no one who wears red is soft.
Match Number Three: Dijak versus Channing Lorenzo (with Tony D’Angelo)
Channing with punches and Dijak punches back. Channing blocks a kick and connects with a knee. Dijak grabs Lorenzo by the throat but Lorenzo with a kick. Dijak with a thrust kick. Dijak with a kick for a near fall. Dijak with punches. Dijak gets a near fall. Dijak with a boot to the midsection. Dijak with a knee to the ribs and he tosses Channing away for a near fall. Dijak misses a shoulder in the corner and hits the ring post. Channing with an uppercut into the corner followed by two more. Dijak with a cyclone kick for a near fall. Dijak with a knee to the ribs and he tries to toss Channing away but Lorenzo with a rollup for a near fall.
Dijak with a thrust kick and a slingshot into Feast Your Eyes for the three count.
Winner: Dijak
After the match, Dijak gets Channing up again but Tony pulls Channing off Dijak and Tony punches Dijak. Dijak goes to the floor.
Tony gets on the mic and he says Dijak wishes he had half the heart that Channing has. Next week, how about you find out about street justice the Tony D way.
Dijak accepts the challenge.
McKenzie is with Oro Mensah in the back.
Oro says he got his feet wet in 2022. In 2023, he is diving in head first.
Javier Bernal shows up and says this will be the year of Big Body Javy. He says he has a Big Bodi Christmas album.
McKenzie points out that it is a little late to release an album like that.
Javier mentions the songs.
Oro says he will take care of him tonight.
We go to commercial.
Jacy Jayne and Gigi Dolin make their way to the ring.
We are back and Gigi says that Toxic Attraction is, was, and will be the greatest group in wrestling. It is time to put 2022 in the past and it is all about her and Jacy. They will push the envelope more than they have in the last 18 months.
Jacy says they will be the ones calling all the shots. They don’t do stupid New Year’s Resolutions, we do revenge. While the world watches every single move of theirs, they only care about one woman. Roxanne Perez. You want to take down our Toxic Empire, we will rebuild it brick by brick.
Indi Hartwell makes her way to the ring.
She says she is so sick of hearing about Toxic Attraction. When Roxanne won the title, she thought it would be the end of Toxic Attraction. She is will to end it because it is time for some new blood at the top of the division.
Cora Jade shows up in the crowd and she says it is Tuesday so Indi is complaining. No wonder everyone in your life left you. No one cares about you. Cora says she deserves to be champion.
Nikkita Lyons shows up in the crowd and she says she is shocked that Cora’s ego fit into the building. All you deserve is a kick to the face. It is time for new blood in the division.
Zoey Stark shows up in the crowd and she says she smelled bad Tik Tok and regrets. Don’t you have something else to do like show off your assets for Instagram.
Wendy Choo shows up in the crowd and says Zoey is angry. No one wants to see an angry champion. You don’t have to insult Nikkita because you don’t like her. I don’t like Cora so I don’t call her egotistical.
Thea Hail shows up and screams for a Girl Fight.
Alba Fyre attacks Isla Dawn from behind.
Every woman in Orlando comes into the ring and they brawl.
Alba punches Isla on the floor and they fight to the back. Isla sends Alba into the wall and they fight into the most dangerous parking lot in Sports Entertainment.
Roxanne Perez appears on the HbalKony. She says you don’t have to fight. She says next week there will be a twenty woman battle royal and the winner will face her at Vengeance Day. She wishes everyone luck.
They continue to fight in the ring.
We cut to Alba and Isla fighting outside and Alba sends Isla against a dumpster and the truck gate. Isla with a kick and she sends Alba into the dumpster.
We go to commercial.
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