WWE NXT is live tonight (May 5, 2026) from the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida, and tonight NXT continues rebuilding after the last round of main roster callups!
Advertised for tonight: AAA Mixed Tag Team Champions Lola Vice and Mr. Iguana (and La Yesca of course!) take on the Culling’s Izzi Dame and Niko Vance!
Plus, Vanity Project’s Jackson Drake takes on Jasper Troy and Kali Armstrong takes it to Jaida Parker! Get ready with our preview here!
Come right back here back at the normal start time of 8 pm ET. That’s when the NXT live blog will kick off in the space below once the show starts on the CW.
WWE NXT RESULTS AND LIVE BLOG FOR MAY 5
Look deep in the mirror, look deep into its eyes. Your face is replaced, a creature you despise, but I know what you’re made of, it ain’t much I’m afraid. I know you’ll be lying until your dying day, but me? I’m just here to liveblog this pro wrestling show, folks.
The show opens with a recap of last week’s show focused on all the new talent.
Tony D’Angelo tells a camera these guys don’t want to wait so he’s not gonna wait either, and he charges Tavion Heights, who’s eating at a table, and dives over the desk to spear him!
We get entrances for our opening match and off we go!
Jaida Parker vs. Kali Armstrong
A shoving match breaks out, Parker with waistlock takedowns, Armstrong shoots her off but Jaida catches her with an arm drag! Straight suplex, Kali reverses to a side headlock, snapmare, Parker rolls away from the elbow drop, off the ropes and she slides right into her own side headlock! Armstrong firing elbows off, Jaida sidesteps her to the floor!
Parker out with her, Kali rams her into the apron, Parker returns the favor, throws her back inside, boot from the apron, off the ropes and both women go for neckbreakers at the same time and end up down and out to send us to break.
Back from commercial, Armstrong with a springboard lariat, turning jabs, legsweep, dropping knees to Parker’s temple! Off the ropes, fist drop, shoulder blocks in the corner, disdainful slaps, right hand from Jaida but Kali rams her into the corner and puts boots to her! Parker hangs her in the corner, hits the seated senton and high steps!
Armstrong with a head of steam…
Kali Armstrong wins by pinfall with a flying shoulder block.
Tony D’Angelo goes into general manager Robert Stone’s office and Stone asks him what the hell is going on. Tony says he’s not gonna be the champion who gets blindsided, he’s the hunter, not the hunted, and he wants Tavion Heights tonight. Robert gives him the match after some initial reluctance.
We get a hype reel for Jackson Drake vs. Jasper Troy tonight and we go to break.
Back from commercial, Birth Right are complaning backstage when Fit Finlay rolls up.
He says they’re not supposed to get outmaneuvered by gamers with no pedigree and he calls up William Regal who says he’s sent Charlie Dempsey back to the Snake Pit in Wigan to train and next week they’ll have a trios match and they best make the most of it.
We get a promo video from EVIL in Japanese where he talks about his career in Japan and how his warrior soul is never satisfied. NXT is entering a new era and this is his moment to strike, and Tony D’Angelo sits at the top of NXT with the biggest prize, one that he wants. He says he didn’t give him a gift, he gave him a proclamation.
One day they will do battle for the NXT Championship, and it’s written in the rising sun.
The video package closes by telling us that Naraku debuts next week, so that’s his new name one presumes. Shame, EVIL has a certain ring to it.
Jasper Troy makes his entrance to set up our next match.
But we’re not going to break first, because Jackson Drake makes his entrance alongside Swipe Right.
Jackson Drake vs. Jasper Troy
Troy throws Drake corner-to-corner, hard left hands, shoulder blocks, Swipe Right runs interference and Jackson manages to drop Jasper with a diving Meteora to send us to break!
Back from commercial, Troy with big palm strikes, ramming Drake into the corner, backflip up and over, off the ropes, crossbody, Jasper catches him but Jackson manages to counter the Black Hole Slam! Up top, Troy recovers, chokeslam and a senton follows! Out to the floor, Jasper throws right hands taking Ricky Smokes and Drake out but for Brad Baylor he picks him up and throws him into the ropes!
Myka Lockwood comes down and slaps Troy on the floor! Back inside, Jackson off the top…
Jackson Drake wins by pinfall with a 450 splash.
Post-match, Myka and the Vanity Project celebrate their way to the ramp.
Tristan Angels gets a promo video about how he’s the winds of change blowing through NXT and he’s here to bring real class to NXT. He talks about being a seventh generation sheep farmer but knowing he was destined for more than that and his sixth sense for winning and achievements, unlike Myles Borne, who doesn’t even have all five of the normal senses.
He talks about how he’s better than Kam Hendrix, Shiloh Hill, and Hank and Tank, and he’s the star NXT has been longing for, with shoulder broad enough to carry that burden.
Back from commercial, we get an NXT Chronicles video about Rhea Ripley.
Zaria makes her entrance and gets on the mic.
She says NXT feels different, there’s a change in the air and it could be anyone’s game. For the first time she’s standing in the middle of the NXT women’s division and no one is holding her back. No dead weight, no fake friends, and she’s starting to realize this is how it always needed to be, with her by herself.
And now she has a clear path to the thing that started this all, the very thing that came between her and Sol Ruca, the catalyst, the NXT Women’s North American Championship. When you spend enough time around something like that, holding it, defending it, you start to feel like it should be yours.
She says she understands that her title didn’t just fracture Zaria’s relationship with Sol, it shattered it, but that didn’t have anything to do with her, and now she’s here trying to figure out who she is by herself and that’s hard! Tatum gets that more than anybody, but if Zaria were to come for her title, it wouldn’t matter if she scorched the earth.
Paxley has ended friendships too, danced with the devil himself while putting a woman in a casket, and that doesn’t end with Zaria.
Enter Lizzy Rain, wearing a truly godawful pair of neon green snakeskin leggings.
She says Zaria’s right, it really is anyone’s game and she’s the new blood in the locker room, so she wouldn’t mind joining in on the fun. Last week she was the talk of the town, and while the lineage of the North American Championship is grand, wouldn’t it be great to add some heavy metal to the title?
She says that Lizzy was the talk of the town is the Nikkita Lyons rub, or the Divine Feline effect, but all she hears is the new flavor of the month shooting way over her head, and she’s seen girls like her come and go, so go touch grass because the new girl smell is already wearing off.
Tatum Paxley starts to talk about title matches but Nikkita sings to interrupt her and says she’s not done with the Maiden of Metal. Zaria lunges for Rain, a brawl breaks out, and one-by-one Zaria takes everybody out and holds the title high before dropping it on the champion.
Vanity Project run into Romeo Moreno backstage and he introduces himself.
They make fun of his painter gimmick and he tries to relate to them on the basis of being new but the Vanity Project aren’t having it.
Noam Dar rolls up and Vanity Project make fun of him for being old, but he’s back and he says Jackson Drake looks like perfect target practice and he challenges him to a match next week.
Myka Lockwood rolls up and slaps a hand on Noam’s shoulder and says Vanity Project are with her. Jackson says they are and if Myka wants to see him slap Dar around that’s fine by him.
They leave and Moreno tells Noam about how he used to watch his matches in Madrid.
Backstage, Tony D’Angelo is walking when Kam Hendrix attacks him from behind and lays him out to send us to break!
Back from commercial, Robert Stone grabs a headset off a random crew member and puts it on, telling Tim that Tony D’Angelo vs. Tavion Heights is off and we’re moving the mixed tag match up from the main event to right now.
Lola Vice and Mr. Iguana (and La Yesca!) make their entrance to set up our next match.
Lola Vice & Mr. Iguana vs. the Culling (Izzi Dame & Niko Vance)
Vance and Iguana to start, Niko lays Mr. out and he freezes dead on the mat. Vance with a fireman’s carry, Iguana floats over to a facelock, Niko shrugs him off, gets him in the Gory Special, Lola Vice passes him La Yesca and he slips out and whips Vance with the iguana!
Yesca makes a cover, Niko kicks out, Dame tags in and Vice comes in to light her up with body blows in the corner! Izzi with a flying lariat, passing Lola into the turnbuckles, scoop and a slam, cover for two! Vice with a schoolboy for two, arm drag, overhand chops set up an arm drag, kick sends Dame to the floor, tag to Iguana!
Tijeras sends Niko to the floor, Iguana up top, Vice tags in, diving seated senton to Niki, Meteora off the apron to Dame, the babyface team dance and then pose on the apron together to send us to break!