Tonight on NXT, Tony D’Angelo throws down with Ricky Saints, a Gauntlet Eliminator to determine the No. 1 Contender to the NXT North American Champion, Thea Hail takes on Kelani Jordan, The WrenQCC (Wren Sinclair & Kendal Grey) battle Fatal Influence (Fallon Henley & Lainey Reid), Elio LeFleur & Eli Knight collide with Shawn Spears & Niko Vance of The Culling, and more.
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Clips from last week’s NXT Show from Houston, Texas are shown. We then see Shiloh Hill and Robert Stone talking backstage. Tatum Paxley comes in and demands to know where Blake Monroe is. Paxley says she needs to find Monroe – she and Hill leave. Josh Briggs comes to talk to Stone but a ref comes in and tells Stone he has to come with him and Stone leaves.
Match 1: WrenQCC (Wren Sinclair & Kendal Grey) -vs- Fatal Influence (Fallon Henley & Lainey Reid) w/Jacy Jayne
Henley attacks Sinclair and Sinclair knocks Henley. Henley gets Sinclair in the corner and boots her. Sinclair rolls up Henley and Henley breaks free and clobbers Sinclair. Sinclair elbows Henley and knocks Reid off the apron. Henley beats on Sinclair and tags in Reid. Sinclair is double teamed and then covered for a near fall. Sinclair takes Reid down with a headscissors and Grey is tagged in. Reid kicks Grey and slams her to the mat and Grey tries for a pin and Reid kicks out. Sinclair is tagged in and Reid is double teamed and covered for a near fall. Reid slams Sinclair in the corner and tags in Henley. Sinclair kicks Henley and Henley goes to slam Sinclair but is taken down with a shoulder tackle and then a facebuster. Sinclair suplexes Henley and Henley tries tossing Sinclair but Reid tags in and Sinclair is double teamed and Grey is knocked off the apron and we cut to a break.
Back to the match, Henley has Sinclair in a headlock and Sinclair punches out of the hold. Sinclair punches Henley and Henley chops her down. Sinclair punches Henley and tries to tag out but Henley won’t let her. Reid is tagged in and Reid takes Sinclair down and covers her for a near fall. Sinclair kicks Reid off of her and then dropkicks Reid. Reid stops Sinclair from tagging out Sinclair drops Reid and tags out to Grey. Henley is tagged in too and Grey takes down both Reid and Henley. Grey suplexes Henley and then DDTs Henley. Henley is covered and she kicks out at two. Reid is tagged in and Grey si double teamed and covered – Sinclair breaks the pin sending herself and Henley out of the ring. Grey hits a stunner and elbows Reid. Grey covers Reid kicks out. Grey tries to submit Reid and Reid rolls through. Grey gets Reid in an armbar and gets the win.
Winners by Submission: WrenQCC
Sinclair & Grey get on the mic after the match. Grey tells Jayne she’ll take her title from her. Lola Vice comes out and says it’s time a new woman runs the division. Vice says at Stand and Deliver she’ll become the next women’s champion. Robert Stone comes out and says next week Lola Vice will battle Kendal Grey and the winner faces Jayne at Stand and Deliver. We also found out that Elio LeFleur and Eli Knight were taken out earlier.
Sol Ruca is shown walking backstage and she confronts Zaria, next.
We come back from a quick break and Sol Ruca is in the ring with mic in hand. Ruca says part of her doesn’t want to talk about this and she has no idea what she wants to say. She says Zaria has changed and she thought they were stronger than what’s happening. Ruca says she did nothing wrong and Zaria just flipped. Ruca says she trusted Zaria and Zaria was her best friend. Ruca says she always gave Zaria the benefit of the doubt and she included Zaria in everything. She says Zaria didn’t want a team and that Zaria just wanted her own moment and when she couldn’t make her own moment she took Ruca out. Ruca says she only wanted to pull Zaria forward and she included Zaria in all her opportunities and that’s where she may have went wrong. Was Ruca too loyal? Ruca blames Zaria for losing her North American Championship and then says she was fighting for them and Zaria was waiting to make everything about Zaria. Ruca says she sees Zaria, she hears Zaria and now she knows who Zaria really is. Ruca challenges Zaria to a match at Stand and Deliver and Zaria makes her way out to reply Ruca. Zaria says all she wanted was “us” and Ruca was too busy doing her own thing and she was never Zaria, she was always Sol Ruca’s partner. Zaria says for the first time she wasn’t in Ruca’s shadow like she always has. Zaria tells her ZaRuca started at Stand and Deliver and that’s where it ends. Zaria says Ruca never wanted to share anything and held Zaria back. Zaria says she hated watching Ruca succeed and hates that she always stood behind Ruca and supported her. Zaria says she cares – she cares enough to know as long as Ruca is there, Zaria will never get her time in the light. Zaria says this is about her finally choosing herself. Ruca asks how she’s the villain and tells Zaria that their friendship was transactional to Zaria. Zaria says she earned what she has and when she didn’t give them to Zaria, Zaria threw it all away and calls Zaria insecure. Zaria says Ruca isn’t the villain in Zaria’s story… Ruca is the mistake. Zaria leaves the ring.
Backstage, Ricky Saints and Ethan Page talk backstage. Page tells Saints he wants to be NXT champion. Josh Briggs sits by them and is pissed Robert Stone won’t talk to him. Joe Hendry pops up and says he has to handle Tony D’Angelo before he can focus on either Saints or Page.
Match 2: Kelani Jordan -vs- Thea Hail
We get the bell and then women lock up. Jordan flips around and reverses a hold and clobbers Hail. Hail takes down Jordan and punches her out. Jordan slams Hail down and mounts her and starts punching Hail. Hail is slammed down with a suplex and covered and Hail kicks out at two. Jordan sends Hail into the turnbuckles and slams her head into the corner. Hail slams Jordan’s head into the buckle several times and then takes her down with some forearms. Hail crashes into Jordan in the corner and Jordan counters and suplex. Hail slams down Jordan and locks a body submission and Jordan slams down Hail breaking the hold. Hail jumps on Jordan again and locks her in a submission hold. Jordan slams into the corner again breaking the hold and then hits a facebuster on Hail. Jordan hits her split legged moonsault and gets the win.
Winner: Kelani Jordan
After the match, Jordan attacks Hail. Jaida Parker runs out and makes the save.
Shiloh Hill and Tatum Paxley sit backstage. Paxley wants to find Blake Monroe and Hill says he knows where Monroe is. Hill has Monroe’s location and tells Paxley where she is. Hill leaves for his match.
Match 3 – NXT North American Championship No. 1 Contenders Gauntlet Eliminator Match: Shiloh Hill -vs- Jackson Drake -vs- Dion Lennox -vs- Charlie Dempsey w/Birthright (Arianna Grace, Stacks & Uriah Connor) -vs- Johnny Gargano w/Candice LeRae
The bell rings and they lock up. Drake gets Hill in a headlock and Hill takes down Drake with a shoulder check and covers him for a quick one count. Drake tries to roll up Hill and Hill kicks out. Hill DDT’s Drake and Drake guillotines Hill on the ropes. Drake kicks Hill in the face and stomps on Hill several times. Drake with a knee to Hill’s face and Hill is covered for a near fall. Drake kicks Hill and stomps on Hill’s face. Hill punches Drake and Drake takes down Hill and covers him for a near fall. Drake hits Hill with a forearm and covers Hill who kicks out at two. Hill slams Drake and hits a shooting start press and covers Drake and Drake kicks out. Hill an elbow and covers Drake and Drake kicks out. Lennox comes out next and immediately attacks Hill and Drake. Lennox throws Hill and then spinebusters Drake and we cut to a commercial break.
Back to the Gauntlet Match, Drake suplexes Lennox and Charlie Dempsey is out next and he takes out Drake, Hill and Lennox. Dempsey elbows Lennox to the apron and then chokes him out against the ropes. Drake puts a sleeper on Dempsey and Hill puts a sleeper on Drake creating a chain. Lennox breaks free and the hold is broken. Hill slams down Dempsey and then slams down Lennox and throws Drake on them both and covers all three and they kick out. Dempsey trips Hill and puts Hill in a submission. Drake breaks the hold and starts to punch Dempsey. Dempsey elbows Drake and outside the ring, Lennox throws Hill into the barricades. Lennox runs in the ring and suplexes both Dempsey and Drake at the same time. Lennox punches Dempsey and the two trade punches. Candice LeRae comes out and says Johnny Gargano is the last entrant in the match. LeRae drags Gargano out to the ring and he looks hesitant and then gets in the ring. Drake kicks Gargano immediately and Lennox powerbombs Drake and Drake kicks out of the pin. Dempsey and Lennox trade blows and Dempsey gets Lennox in a submission hold. Lennox powerbombs Dempsey and breaks the hold. Lennox is kicked out of the ring by Drake. OTM runs out and attacks Lennox. Lucien Price and Bronco Nima throw Lennox back in the ring and Hill slams him down and eliminates Lennox and we get a commercial break.
Dion Lennox has been eliminated
We come back and Dempsey has Drake in a leg lock. Gargano is laying on a barricade and Hill puts Drake’s other leg in a leg lock. LeRae urges Gargano to get in the ring and Gargano slowly gets into the ring. Hill breaks the hold and runs over to Gargano and punches him and then gets back to Drake and joins Dempsey in the leg lock on Drake. Hill and Dempsey start fighting and break the hold. The two start fighting outside the ring. Drake flips over the ropes onto them. Back in the ring, Drake hits a 450 splash on Hill and Hill kicks out of the pin. Dempsey chops down Drake and Drake counters a suplex and knocks Dempsey out of the ring. Drake flies through the ropes and takes out Dempsey. Hill catches Drake and drops Drake and covers him and eliminates him.
Jackson Drake has been eliminated
Dempsey gets in the ring and punches and kicks Hill to the mat and covers him. Hill kicks out and Dempsey tries again and Hill kicks out again. Hill punches Dempsey and Dempsey suplexes Hill. Dempsey hits another suplex and bridges into a pin and Hill kicks out at two. Hill slams down Dempsey and eliminates him.
Charlie Dempsey has been eliminated
Stacks and Connors attack Hill after Dempsey is eliminated. Hill is thrown back in the ring and LeRae pushes Gargano onto Hill and Hill gets pinned.
Winner: Johnny Gargano
After the match, Myles Borne comes out and stands face to face with Gargano.
Robert Stone talks to Brad Baylor and Ricky Smokes. They ask about who will replace Elio LeFleur and Eli Knight. Stone says he has someone. Josh Briggs wants to talk to Stone and Stone says he doesn’t have time and sends Briggs away. Jaida Parker comes by and says she wants Kelani Jordan and Stone agrees to set up a match for them.
Sarah Schreiber talks to Bronco Nima and Lucien Price backstage. OTM calls out DarkState and says next week they have a six man tag match and their partner will be someone outside of NXT – Mike Santana from TNA.