Posted on 6/03/126 by Bob Magee
Live! From Orlando, Florida.
Vic Joseph and Booker T were on commentary.
The competitors in tonight’s main event were shown walking
into the building to hype the Tony D’Angelo NXT title
defense against Kam Hendrix.
Zaria v. Lizzy Rain
Zaria blocked a tornado DDT and knocked Rain to the mat with
a pump kick. Zaria whipped Rain around the ring, targeting
her injured back. The Women’s North American Champion Tatum
Paxley came out to join the commentators in an attempt to
distract Zaria. She was unfazed though, knocking Rain to the
floor with a solid forearm shot.
Back from a commercial, Rain took Zaria to the mat with a
super hurricanrana. But Zaria sprang right back up and cut
Rain in half with a spear. Both women exchanged forearms,
and Rain ducked a charge and hit Zaria with a clothesline.
Rain hit a tornado DDT off the ropes for a near fall.
Zaria came back with a pop-up headbutt. Rain got a near fall
with a victory roll. Zaria caught Rain with a knee out of
the corner and a rolling lariat for another near fall. Rain
fired up and caught Zaria with a cutter and then a modified
DVD for a near fall. Zaria came back with a German suplex
and a spear. Zaria finished off Rain with an F5.
Match Result: Zaria pinned Rain (10:32).
After the match, Zaria tried to beat up Rain some more, but
Paxley stopped her by offering up a title match for next
week.
— Saquon Shugars attacked Dark State as they were on their
way to the ring. After the break, Vic Joseph announced that
the Dark State match would occur later tonight. He also
hyped up Booker T as “Mr. Great American Bash” and… really?
OTM (Bronco Nima & Lucien Price) v. The Culling (Shawn
Spears & Nico Banks) (w/ Izzy Dame)
Nima and Price attacked Spears and Banks before the bell.
Price and Banks had an awkward exchange that I think was
supposed to end in Banks flipping over Price, but he didn’t
clear him and basically planted his groin in Price’s face.
They figured it out and then redid the spot. They went to
the floor and Banks threw Price into the ring barricade.
After a break, Nima suplexed Spears. Price got the tag, then
dropped to the floor to suplex Banks on the apron. Price
took both Spears and Price down at once. Price press-slammed
Banks onto Spears. Price floored Banks with a knee for a
year fall. Banks put down Price with a sharp elbow. Price
shoved Spears into Banks. Nima and Price hit their finisher
on Spears (kind of like a double-team Angle Slam) and got
the pinfall.
Match Result: OTM beat The Culling when Nima pinned Spears
(9:27).
This was moves with no real flow.
— EK Prosper, Tate Wilder and Kam Hendrix chat in the locker
room about their upcoming matches tonight. Well not EK
Prosper, who doesn’t have a match. But he’ll get to tell his
grandkids he was in the building when Kam Hendrix won the
NXT Championship!
Jackson Drake (w/ The Vanity Project) v. Tate Wilder
Wilder took down Drake with a sling blade, and he dropped to
the floor to regroup. So Wilder took all of them out at once
with a cannonball off the stairs.
CW paid a lot of bills with a long commercial break during
this match. When they finally got back to it, Wilder hit
Drake with a flying forearm. They fought on the ring apron.
Wilder caught Drake with a gamengiri, but Drake came back
with a spear to the floor. Back in the ring, Wilder avoided
a 450, then hit Drake with a TKO (the move, he didn’t ask
him to take a 50% pay cut) for a near fall.
Wilder went to the top, but Drake hit the ropes and crotched
Wilder. Drake went to the top, but Wilder powerbombed him
out of the corner. Wilder hit a twisting splash off the top
for a near fall. The members of the Vanity Project jumped on
the apron, but Wilder knocked them down. He tried to take
out Myka Lockwood with a rana, but she blocked it,
powerbombed Wilder into the ringpost and then onto the ring
apron. Back in the ring, Drake finished off Wilder with a
450 splash.
Match Result: Drake pinned WIlder (8:35).
— Robert Stone was interviewed by Emily Agard about the
upcoming Great American Bash. Someone comes in to start
yelling at him, but Jasper Troy interrupted. They got in
each other’s faces, and another member of Dark State
attacked Troy and soon it was complete chaos in the back.
Lola Vice Sets Up Her Next Challenger
Lola Vice came out to the ring for a promo and talked up her
recent victories in NXT and AAA. She wanted to know who her
next challenger was going to be. This brought out Kelani
Jordan. Jordan said that she’s proved herself by going to
TNA and winning the Knockouts title, but she didn’t get the
same praise that Lola Vice did for going out and winning the
AAA Mixed Tag Team titles. Vice wasn’t impressed with
Jordan’s TNA title right, because “if you blinked, you
missed it.”
Kendal Grey came out (with Wren Sinclair, hobbling behind
her) to throw her name in the ring, too. She, after all, won
the Iron Survivor and pinned both Jordan and Vice. Lola Vice
got sick of all the complaining, and made the match between
Grey and Jordan for next week, with the winner getting the
title shot at the Great American Bash. On her way out,
Jordan pulled at one of Vice’s title belts, causing her to
spin into Grey and hit her with an elbow.
— In the back, Zaria F5’d Tatum Paxley into a storage cage.
— Mason Rook and Tony D’Angelo talked trash about each other
until Robert Stone intervened and made a match for Rook and
Naraku for next week. If Rook wins, he “cuts the line” and
gets into title contention. (This was later made a #1
Contenders Match at the end of the show.)
Romeo Moreno (w/ Noam Dar) v. Lexis King (w/ Birthright) for
the NXT Speed Championship
Since this is a Speed Championship match, the time limit is
five minutes. Moreno caught King with a sunset flip, then a
dropkick. Moreno hit a German suplex and a dropkick off the
middle ropes for a near fall. Moreno caught King with a
cradle for a near fall. King came back and caught Moreno
with a diving dropkick in the corner for a near fall. King
repeatedly kept trying to cover Moreno, forcing him to kick
out multiple times.
King and Moreno exchanged a series of strikes. King went for
a half-crab, but he didn’t lock it in. Moreno rolled King
into a vertical suplex, then caught him with a superkick.
Moreno tried for a crossface, but turned it into the Rings
of Saturn. King escaped and dropped to the floor. Moreno
took out the other members of Birthright with a dive off the
top.
Moreno tried for a dropkick off the top, but King stepped
back and, if I can be serious for a minute, locked in a
half-crab. Moreno escaped and caught King with a cradle.
Moreno missed a move off the top, and King finished off
Moreno with The Coronation, and modified swinging
neckbreaker.
Match Result: Kingpinned Moreno to retain the Speed
Championship (4:34).
— Natalya and Jadia Parker exchanged words in the back.
Natalya sees right through Parker’s act. Natalya knows that
she’s soft.
Dark State (Dion Lennox & Osiris Griffin) v. Tavion Heights
& Miles Borne
Cutler James was taken out of this match in the attack
earlier by Saquon Shugars.
There were a few instances of miscommunication between Borne
and Heights in the early going. But they still combined to
take Lennox out with a double dropkick. Borne clotheslined
Griffin to the floor. Soon all four men were on the floor.
Heights tossed Lennox over his head with a belly-to-belly.
Dark State got the heat on Borne during the commercial.
Lennox and Griffin worked over Borne in their corner. Borne
backdropped Lennox out of his way to make the tag to
Heights. Heights hit an amazing belly to belly on Lennox,
then tossed Osiris around. Lennox tripped up Heights so
Griffin could give him a headbutt. Dark State finished
Heights off with the Doomsday Device.
Match Result: Dark State won via pinfall (11:02).
This didn’t feel like eleven minutes, probably because most
of it was during the break.
Next week’s show:
Kendal Grey v. Kelani Jordan to crown the #1 Contender for
the NXT Women’s Championship
Mason Rook v. Naraku (later announced to be a #1 Contenders
match for the NXT Championship)
Tatum Paxley v. Zaria for the NXT North American Women’s
Title
Shiloh Hill v. Tristan Angels in the Mr. NXT Pageant
Tony D’Angelo v. Kam Hendrix for the NXT Championship
I’m not liking Hendrix’s chances here, since they’ve already
set up another opponent for D’Angelo in Mason Rook.
Hendrix hit the Showtime Kick out of nowhere for a near
fall. Hangman’s neckbreaker got another near fall. After a
DDT, Hendrix got a third near fall. Naraku was shown
watching in the crowd. Hendrix started firing away with
forearms on D’angleo. D’Angelo caught Hendrix and dumped him
like a sack of potatoes. Hendix dropped to the floor to
regroup.
When Hendrix got back in the ring, D’Angelo was all over him
with clobbering forearms and clotheslines. D’Angelo tossed
Hendrix with a FU. D’Angelo tossed Hendrix over his head
with a belly to belly, then clotheslined Hendrix to the
floor. Hendrix went to grab the title belt, but Naraku stood
up and shook his head at Hendrix, who left the belt alone
and headed back into the ring.
After a commercial break, Hendrix got a near fall after a
suplex while Naraku looked on. D’Angelo came back with a
series of release German suplexes. D’Angelo hit a
spinebuster. D’Angelo hit a modified fisherman’s suplex for
a near fall. D’Angelo ran into a knee and Hendrix went for a
cradle with his feet on the ropes, but the ref caught him.
D’Angelo tossed Hendrix down with a suplex. Hendrix hit a
Showtime Kick, then followed up with a sit-out powerbomb for
a near fall. Hendrix and D’Angelo started exchanging
strikes, but Hendrix leapt into a powerbomb from D’Angelo
for a near fall.
Hendrix snapped D’Angelo’s neck against the top rope, then
crawled to the floor to get a steel chair. Mason Rook cut
him off. D’Angleo backdropped Hendrix onto the announcer’s
table. Back in the ring, D’Angelo hit a variation on the Sky
High to get the pinfall.
Match Result: D’Angelo pinned Hendrix to retain (10:48).
Naraku handed D’Angelo his title belt and offered him a bow
after his match. It was made official that Rook and Naraku’s
match next week will crown the #1 Contenders for the NXT
title.