WWE NXT is live tonight (May 26, 2026) from the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida, and tonight’s show is, absent of a supercard to build to, NXT trucking along to establish its new status quo.
Advertised for tonight: Izzi Dame challenges Lola Vice for the NXT Women’s Championship!
Plus, excellent weirdo Shiloh Hill faces Charlie Dempsey, the rest of the Culling is in action against OTM, Wren Sinclair faces off against Kelani Jordan, a new Speed tournament begins with Dorian Van Dux against Sean Legacy, and more! 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 26
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The show opens with the usual montage of talent arriving at the arena.
Wren Sinclair makes her entrance ahead of our opening match, accompanied by Kendal Grey (who’s wearing huge wide-legged jeans and one of those drapey backless tops that looks like a scarf loosely draped to cover her breasts and ugh why are all the worst things girls wore when I was in high school coming back?)
(I know, I know, girl that dresses like it’s 1959 isn’t happy with modern fashion, film at eleven.)
Kelani Jordan then makes her entrance and attacks Wren before the bell, beating her down in the corner!
Kelani Jordan vs. Wren Sinclair
Feeling out, Kelani looking for a spinning toehold, Wren fights out, takeovers into a dropkick, Jordan rolls to the floor! Back inside, takedown into grounded punches from Kelani, Sinclair rolls over and gives her some back, and then they break. Front kick from Jordan, Wren with an armbar takedown into the Fujiwara armbar!
Back out to the floor to get away from the armbar, there’s some back and forth and Wren lays her out arm-first into and throws her back inside! Jordan fights back, clutching her injured arm, Sinclair passes her to the floor again, duck a lariat, big back body drop from Wren! Referee Victoria D’Erico bails to the floor to check on Kelani and we go to break!
Back from commercial, Jordan in control, working Sinclair’s leg over, calf slicer, wrenching it in, shifting gears to kind of a figure four toehold, but Wren gets the ropes to force the break! Big back elbow in the corner, back body drop puts Kelani on the apron, boot nails Sinclair in the face and she wrenches a half-crab over the ropes!
Back inside, Wren putting it together, ducking lariats, big overhand chops, float over, butterfly suplex connects! Karelin lift follows, duck the split-legged moonsault, crucifix pin for two, Jordan counters a Karelin lift, deathlock STF applied! Shifting gears, wrenching her legs back…
Kelani Jordan wins by submission with a deathlock calf slicer.
Backstage, Tatum Paxley and Lizzy Rain chat.
Paxley apologizes for Rain getting caught up last week and Shiloh Hill rolls up to get them to sign his Mr. NXT petition.
Tristan Angels rolls up says he can’t believe Lizzy is contributing to this nonsense and grabs the petition and points out all the fake signatures on it before saying he hopes Charlie Dempsey stretches some sense into Hill.
Rain says she has to go put some sense into Zaria, she’s going redhead hunting! Shiloh offers to help and they go off together.
We get a recap of some DarkState business and go to break.
Back from commercial, DarkState make their entrance, with Saquon Shugars’ skull crossed out with a big red X in their graphics.
Osiris Griffin, in plaid capris, gets on the mic and says Shugars was always the odd man out, because the other three of them were standout college athletes, but Saquon was “just” an indie wrestler. Dion Lennox says he knew his way around a ring and he had street smarts, but he didn’t fit in. Griffin says he always took the path of most resistance, and Cutler James says he took himself out of the group.
They gave him so many chances to get back on track, but he became a liability. He was reckless, rushed into every situation blind, never understood the consequences, and he failed. Last week was the last straw. Dion says he was shocked to see him cut last week, and that could have been him, but he realized it was the play, eliminating the weak link.
Saquon tried to turn his brothers against him because of his own jealousy, tried to say he was acting like the leader of DarkState, well he doesn’t act, he just is. John Cena picked him to be in Iron Survivor, Robert Stone picked him to be in the eliminator for the North American Championship, he earned that and Shugars knew that.
“We want Saquon!” / “No we don’t!” chants go up as Lennox continues, saying if you think there’s a DarkState without Dion Lennox, you’re tripping big shoes, fool. He built this brick by brick and he’ll be damned if he’ll let you tear it down. Osiris says they’re gonna get back to what they do best– when the lights go down, you best have your head on a swivel.
Dion says DarkState is back and everybody best watch out.
Kendal Grey and Lola Vice are in the trainer’s room checking on Wren Sinclair when Kali Armstrong rolls up to talk trash. She and Lola go back and forth and Vice adds her to her list of girls she wants to knock out.
Back from commercial, Sean Legacy makes his entrance ahead of our next match.
Dorian Van Dux follows immediately to get things going.
Dorian Van Dux vs. Sean Legacy (WWE Speed Men’s Championship #1 Contender’s Tournament First Round Match)
Fast-paced feeling out, off the ropes, Legacy trips him up with a drop down, big dropkick, to the floor, huge tope con giro but Van Dux catches him, fireman’s carry, throws him into the ringpost! Back inside, diving splash, thinking about a powerbomb, Frankensteiner counters, corner gamengiri from Sean, cover for two!
Up and over, Dorian with a big lariat, release slam, cover for two! Backflip evasion, Van Dux up top, Legacy right with him, Frankensteiner out of the corner with a minute on the clock! Springboard 450 splash… THE KNEES ARE UP! Dorian springboard elbow drop, Sean cuts him off with a dropkick and both men are down with thirty seconds left!
Van Dux ducks a lariat, big knee, rolling elbow, back body drop to the apron, enzuigiri, Dorian up top, Sean with a superplex… TIME OUT!
The match goes to a time limit draw and both men are eliminated from the tournament.
As a result, Nathan Frazer vs. Romeo Moreno is now the tournament finals.
Layla Diggs is backstage chatting with Nattie Neidhart.
Neidhart thanks her for standing up to Jaida Parker on her behalf, Layla says she’s a legend and she’s happy to stand up for her, and Nattie says she’ll be in her corner tonight.
Jaida Parker makes her entrance ahead of our next match and we go to break.
Back from commercial, Layla Diggs makes her entrance for our next match, with Nattie Neidhart joining her after a moment, as according to prophecy.
Jaida Parker vs. Layla Diggs
Parker witha full nelson early, full nelson slam, Diggs pops up, slaps the back of her head, shimmy, Jaida takes her down and hammers her with grounded punches, Layla comes back with a short-arm knee lift, enzuigiri, cover for two! Duck a back elbow, trading body blows, Parker nails her with a lariat!
Hanging Diggs in the corner, the double jump seated senton misses, roll over, reverse roundhouse kick connects, leg drop, elbow drop, standing armbar applied! Arm drag from Jaida, Layla hammering her with overhand punches, Parker ducking and dodging, wading in with chops, whip reversed, big lariats from Jaida!
Gourdbuster follows, tossing her into the turnbuckles, double jump seated senton lands true this time and she goes high-stepping! Suplex lift, float over, Matrix Evasion, big back elbow from Diggs… NO DEAL! Nobody home on a moonsault, Parker lands Hipnotic…
Jaida Parker wins by pinfall with Deja Vu.
Birth Right are interviewed backstage.
Lexis King says Charlie Dempsey is gonna tear Shiloh Hill limb from limb and he has nothing to be worried about out of the tournament because he’s the fastest man alive.
Fraxiom roll up and Nathan Frazer takes issue with this, saying that’s like comparing a cheetah (himself) to a cow (King) and says he’ll show King next week, because Romeo Moreno has about as much a chance of winning as Spain does in the World Cup.
We get a hype reel for Tony D’Angelo and go to break.
Back from commercial, Tony D’Angelo makes his entrance and gets on the mic.
He says the influx of new talent has made NXT exciting and unpredictable for the viewers but not so much for him because they all want a shot at him. But next week he gets to fire back because he’s gonna wrestle Kam Hendrix. He’s not here to talk about his potential, but he can tell you he will NOT be the NXT Champion next week.
But right now he wants to talk about somebody that keeps showing up in his space, and he thinks it’s time he and Naraku met face-to-face.
Enter Naraku, obligingly enough.
Tony knows he likes to speak in riddles but he wants him to just come out and say he wants a shot at the NXT Championship. Naraku says he’s here to keep Tony-san and his title safe, and D’Angelo doesn’t believe it. Next week he’s gonna take care of Kam, and then he’ll handle him.
Naraku says he’s gonna make sure Tony keeps the title because it’s their destiny to go to war.
He tells everybody to take a good long look at Tony D’Angelo, because he’s got seven days left with the title, and next week it’ll be lights, Kam, action for the NXT Championship. Next week he’s running into a buzzsaw, and he’s not bragging, it’s straight facts that he’s the fastest-rising superstar in NXT history. Last week he beat two pillars of NXT and next week he beats the champion.
Tony says he’s cocky coming out here and interrupting them, Kam says he’s not cocky, it’s confidence, and D’Angelo says he’s confident no doubt, but Hendrix looks at the title as a status symbol, but him, he sacrificed everything to have this title. It took him five years of failure and doubt and now he has to stand across from somebody who hasn’t earned a single damn thing in NXT?
Congratulations, you won a match, but if you want the title, you’ll have to reach out and rip his heart out, and they both know that’s not gonna happen. Kam throws a punch, but true to his word, Naraku blocks, fires back with punches of his own, and throws Hendrix to the floor before turning and bowing to D’Angelo and taking his leave.
Backstage, Tavion Heights is apologizing to Myles Borne, saying he didn’t mean to cost him the match last week. Borne says he needs to slow down or they’re both gonna crash and burn, but Heights is still his brother.
DarkState attack outta nowhere and slam Borne against a wall before throwing his title belt at him! They leave Tavion under a couch and we go to break.