WWE Main Event this week took place at the Canadian Tire Center in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on Monday.
Alba Fyre w/Isla Dawn defeated Ivy Nile (5:17)
Ivy Nile looked good here as she controlled the match bell to bell, but a mistake at the end meant she picked up the loss.
Nile was able to show off both her strength and improving in-ring work in this one as Fyre let her take control. The highlights were a delayed suplex, complete with squats, as well as a belly-to-back suplex that left them both gasping for air.
Dawn was essentially just there to distract and she did so twice, once early on and then again later to play into the finish.
A chinlock partway through slowed things down but did go to show that this crowd likes Nile. WWE probably needs to pay attention to that, because she for sure has a lot to offer.
The finish made Nile look pretty stupid, though, as Dawn hit the apron to distract her and, after Nile took her out, she got nailed from behind and finished off with the Gory Bomb to give Fyre the win.
For those keeping count, the loss here means that Nile is without a singles win since February and only has two wins to her name in all of 2024. She has certainly looked a little better than those stats would indicate.
This was a solid rematch from last week to leave these two teams evenly booked. The Creeds remain wildly entertaining, but this one never really got to that level.
It has felt a little jarring to see The Creeds being beaten on this show over the last few months. You have, in Julius and Brutus, raw talent that can provide you with some frankly jaw-dropping moments. That isn’t supposed to be hyperbole, it’s just how it is. Why they are being beaten is just as questionable as why they aren’t mainstays on a main roster show right now.
They kind of booked this match like a mirror of last week. LWO took the early going and nailed The Creeds with stereo dives over the top rope, instead of what they did last week where The Creeds took us to the ads on top.
The Creeds have been significantly more cocky of late, with Brutus attempting a pin with one foot on Lee in this one. But eventually, the tide turned and Wilde got the hot tag. He used a smooth-looking tornado DDT on Julius that brought Brutus back in.
The finish saw Lee get taken off the top rope and Wilde get knocked off the apron so that Julius could superplex Lee and Brutus could hit the Brutus Bomb for the win.
A possible rubber match next week would be good and it will be interesting to see which way they book it. Based on this, it seems like LWO will get the nod, but we will stay tuned to find out!
Josh Barnett announced Monday on social media that Brutus and Julius Creed are heading to the next Bloodsport event, which will take place on July 28 in Brooklyn, New York. Opponents have not been named.
“From the amateur wrestling mats, to the ring of @WWENXT, this pair of brutes are now storming their way to Bloodsport mat,” Barnett wrote on X. “Brutus and Julius Creed are coming to Josh Barnett’s: Bloodsport XI.”
From the amateur wrestling mats, to the ring of @WWENXT, this pair of brutes are now storming their way to Bloodsport mat.
Brutus and Julius Creed are coming to Josh Barnett's: Bloodsport XI.
It was announced last week that Shayna Baszler will be making her return to Bloodsport after debuting during WrestleMania weekend. On that show, she was accompanied by Zoey Stark to the ring where she defeated Masha Slamovich. NXT star Charlie Dempsey also made his debut for Bloodsport during WrestleMania weekend, defeating Matt Makowski.
A match between Mike Santana and Homicide has been announced for July 28. Other wrestlers scheduled to appear are Mike Bailey, Slamovich, Makowski, and Akira.
This week’s WWE Main Event was taped at the Huntington Center in Toledo, Ohio before Monday’s episode of Raw.
Bronson Reed defeated Akira Tozawa (4:04)
This was pretty much an extended squash, but Tozawa is always entertaining, even in defeat.
These two have had quite a few Main Event matches in the last year or so and they largely follow a similar pattern. The difference now is that in his current gimmick, rather than just plucky, Tozawa gets to tear his shirt a la Hulk Hogan, and the crowd loves it.
Probably the only newsworthy thing here was that Tozawa managed to bloody up Reed’s nose after kneeing him to block a suplex, but it was otherwise big man vs. waspish babyface by the numbers.
It was funny that Reed played the match in such a strong way here that even when Tozawa managed to finally get him off his feet with a DDT, the cover barely resulted in a one count.
Tozawa dodged a charge so that Reed smashed into the turnbuckle and he used a spinning kick and super kick to take control. But once the shirt was ripped, it was all over as Reed had clearly had enough and he launched him into the air before finishing him with Tsunami.
Once again, nothing wrong with this, but we’ve been here for a while now with Bronson Reed. They clearly don’t know what to do with him. At least, they haven’t turned him into a comedy character or made him go on a losing streak…yet.
The Creed Brothers (Brutus & Julius Creed) defeated New Catch Republic (Pete Dunne & Tyler Bate) (7:55)
Needless to say, this was a ton of fun. If you are in the crowd waiting to watch a Raw taping, this was exactly the kind of curtain jerker you want to whet your appetite and get the blood pumping. All four never fail to deliver and no exception here.
This was a rematch of the match they had on this show back in May and the result has them even.
After the early going, the ring filled and New Catch Republic cleared the Creed Brothers out. Bate did a tope and Dunne hit a sweat moonsault to keep them at bay and we crashed to the break.
After the ads, they made it clear that while we’d been watching commercials Brutus and Pete had been working hard and after a German from Brutus, they both stayed down and crawled to make tags.
Bate used a head-scissors on Brutus and, after a springboard forearm, Julius had to break up the pin to make the save. Dunne and Julius then brawled outside and Bate used a discus clothesline for a near fall, before using the airplane spin. This got over huge last week, just as it always does, and the Toledo crowd dug it here, too.
In the end, Julius took out Tyler Bate to leave Dunne isolated and Brutus engineered a way to damage his knee in a suplex attempt. They set up and hit the Brutus Bomb for the win and it felt right to give them the win after having met a few defeats over the last month or so on Main Event.
This week’s WWE Main Event was taped at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio before Monday’s episode of Raw.
The last episode of the show before next week’s draft was run-of-the-mill, but the Creed brothers always seem to find a way to dazzle.
Ivar defeated Apollo Crews (4:50)
They worked hard here and got going in the last few minutes, but it was a turnaround in fortunes for Ivar who had lost to weaker opponents the last two weeks.
Ivar continues to work well as a solo performer while his partner recovers from injury, but Crews feels entirely rudderless at the moment. Despite his ability, with the latest round of cuts to the roster, you do wonder whether some of these guys will stay on much longer.
Early on, Crews showed his incredible strength when he went to scoop slam Ivar and held him for a good few seconds while pretending that his back was giving out. Ivar crashed down on top of him and took control.
After a period where Ivar just slowly beat Crews down, they went on to hit some nice high spots. Crews rolled out of the way of a top rope splash and hit a top rope cross-body for a near fall.
Ivar looked like he had it won with a sit-out powerbomb, but somehow Crews kicked out. They finished by fighting on the top turnbuckle until Ivar hoisted Crews up and came off the second rope with a falling powerslam.
The Creed Brothers defeated Mark Coffey & Wolfgang (w/ Joe Coffey) (7:12)
This was a rematch from the bout these two teams had a few weeks back, but unfortunately, this wasn’t quite as strong as that outing. That said, you can’t help but enjoy Julius Creed, who is just incredibly talented and wildly entertaining.
It’s been nearly two months since we were treated to the Creeds on Main Event and the last time that any of these men appeared here was back on the March 4 edition of the show when they faced off against each other.
They hit all their marks as they did in the previous match, with an early showing of the Creeds’ ability to do everything in stereo: we were treated to stereo hip tosses, kip-ups, and moonsaults before the break. It went sour, though, when Wolfgang blind tagged in and sent Brutus to the outside as we headed to commercial.
After the ads, Gallus had the advantage, and the match was now built around getting Julius the hot tag. He came in to a roar of appreciation and suplexed Coffey and Wolfgang before hitting Northern Lights suplexes to boot. He ended with a standing shooting star press but the pin was broken up by Coffey.
The end was poor because Gallus were obviously slowing everything down and waiting for things to happen and the smoothness was taken out of what had been a really strong match thus far.
Wolfgang was clotheslined over the top and Brutus was sent out with him, but Julius nailed Joe off the apron when he tried to interfere, and then he and Brutus set up and executed the Brutus Bomb for the win.
After turning heel, Chad Gable could be forming a new faction in WWE.
Gable’s heel turn happened in the main event angle of this Monday’s WWE Raw episode. He snapped after unsuccessfully challenging Sami Zayn for the Intercontinental title.
Following their match, Gable attacked Zayn as he was celebrating with his wife. Raw went off the air with officials breaking things up as Gable had Zayn locked in an ankle lock.
Dave Meltzer writes in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter that “the belief going around” is The Creed Brothers (Julius & Brutus Creed) will also be turning heel and forming a group with Gable. Julius Creed posted a tweet this week teasing the potential alliance.
Zayn won the Intercontinental title at WrestleMania 40, ending Gunther’s historic reign with the championship. He earned the WrestleMania title shot in a gauntlet match last month. Gable is the last person Zayn eliminated in the gauntlet.
In storyline, Gable helped train Zayn for his match against Gunther at WrestleMania. Gable challenged Gunther multiple times last year and came close to beating him for the IC title.
The Creed Brothers took part in a triple threat number one contender’s tag match on Raw this week. Johnny Gargano & Tommaso Ciampa won the match and will challenge The Miz & R-Truth for the World Tag Team titles on Raw this coming Monday.
This week’s WWE Main Event was taped at the Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas before Monday’s episode of Raw.
For my money, when the Creed brothers are on this show, you can’t go too far wrong.
Chelsea Green defeated Candice LeRae w/Indi Hartwell (5:29)
Chelsea Green is a devilish heel and thriving in the role. They did a nice finish here where she thwarted the good guys and made off like a bandit.
Green was in full garnering heat mode from the get-go. She walked on LeRae’s back, frequently hollered at the crowd, as well as the announcers, and even got some shots in on Hartwell to boot.
They went back and forth early on, with Green feeding LeRae so that she could get some arm drags in and a top rope missile drop kick.
They both went down when LeRae hit a German suplex on Green, but it was LeRae who got up first to get the hope. The legs were cut off her comeback when Green got her knees up to block a moonsault off the middle rope.
Green used the ropes for leverage to get a roll up but Hartwell intervened. When Green ducked a clothesline, she used the opportunity to transition into a baseball slide to take out Hartwell.
This time, Green went back to the rope-assisted roll-up and grabbed the win, leaving both LeRae and Hartwell thoroughly cheated out of the win.
The Creed Brothers w/ Ivy Nile defeated Gallus (Wolfgang & Mark Coffey) w/Joe Coffey (6:58)
It was good to see Gallus get some main roster minutes, but the Creed Brothers – particularly Julius here – continue to impress in a big way. This was fun stuff all around.
Julius and Mark started the match off together and they did some mat work. The smoothness with which Julius works around the ring was really stark here. He is a pleasure to watch.
When Julius tagged in Brutus, they both stayed in together and hit stereo fallaway slams followed by standing moonsaults and kip-ups. The crowd loved this as the brothers congratulated each other.
Gallus regained the advantage before we went to a break.
After the commercials, the match was all built around getting Julius the hot tag. When it came, the crowd was ready and completely into it.
Julius exploded into the ring, hitting four suplexes on both Wolfgang and Mark with a kip up after each. He then used a double Northern Lights suplex on both men simultaneously. This guy is seriously impressive, it’s stunning watching him work.
Gallus mounted a brief comeback after Mark used a blind tag, but they sent Mark over the top rope to isolate Wolfgang and finished him off with a Brutus’ top rope cannonball, toppling him off Julius’ shoulders.
WWE has revealed the teams that will be competing in a fatal four-way tag match on Monday’s Raw.
DIY (Johnny Gargano & Tommaso Ciampa) vs. The Creed Brothers (Julius & Brutus Creed) vs. Imperium (Ludwig Kaiser & Giovanni Vinci) vs. The New Day (Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods) will take place on Raw this Monday. The match is part of a mini-tournament to decide the next challengers for The Judgment Day’s Undisputed WWE Tag Team titles.
The tournament began with Pete Dunne & Tyler Bate winning a fatal four-way match on SmackDown last night. The team that wins Monday’s four-way will advance to face Dunne & Bate in a number one contender’s match on SmackDown next Friday (February 9). The winning team gets their title shot against Damian Priest & Finn Balor at WWE Elimination Chamber in Perth, Australia on Saturday, February 24.
Priest & Balor defeated Gargano & Ciampa on Raw earlier this week to retain their belts.
The Enterprise Center in St. Louis, Missouri is hosting Monday’s Raw. The updated lineup for the episode is listed below:
WWE Raw (Monday, February 5) —
Gunther celebrates passing 600 days as Intercontinental Champion
WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka & Kairi Sane) defend against Katana Chance & Kayden Carter
The Miz vs. JD McDonagh
Mixed tag match: Akira Tozawa & Maxxine Dupri vs. Ivar & Valhalla
Fatal four-way match: DIY vs. The Creed Brothers vs. Imperium vs. New Day
Two matches have been added to the lineup for this week’s WWE Raw.
Katana Chance & Kayden Carter vs. Tegan Nox & Natalya, and The Creed Brothers vs. Judgment Day’s Dominik Mysterio & JD McDonagh are now scheduled for the show.
WWE Raw General Manager Adam Pearce announced the news via Instagram on Saturday.
A stipulation match is set to kick off night two of WWE NXT Halloween Havoc.
The two-week Halloween Havoc special concludes on USA Network this Tuesday night. WWE announced today that a Tables, Ladders & Scares match with The Creed Brothers facing Angel Garza & Humberto Carrillo will open the episode.
Last week, the Tables, Ladders & Scares stipulation was chosen via Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal.
Both teams were part of a number one contender’s battle royal on the October 17 episode of NXT. The Creed Brothers eliminated Garza & Carrillo, but the referees didn’t see it. With their elimination going unnoticed, Garza & Carrillo returned and eliminated Julius & Brutus Creed. The Creed Brothers then got their revenge by costing Garza & Carrillo the match as well.
The Creed Brothers are looking to make their WWE Raw debut.
On Saturday, Chad Gable issued an open challenge for any team to face Alpha Academy on Monday’s show. On Sunday, Julius Creed accepted on behalf of him and his brother.
The Creed Brothers have wrestled on WWE Main Event and in a dark match at a SmackDown taping, but have not wrestled on WWE Raw or SmackDown.
WWE Raw on Monday will take place at the Bon Secours Arena in Greenville, South Carolina. According to WrestleTix, 9,756 tickets have been distributed to the event as of Thursday. It will be the go-home edition of Raw before WWE Crown Jewel on Saturday.
WWE Raw October 30 lineup:
Seth Rollins vs. JD McDonagh
DIY (Johnny Gargano & Tommaso Ciampa) vs. Imperium (Ludwig Kaiser & Giovanni Vinci)
John LaRocca and I are back with a brand new Fight Game Podcast.
We hit on our top five topics of the week as there was a lot to choose from thanks to last week’s AEW All In and two wrestling shows this weekend (AEW All Out and WWE Payback).
Here’s what we talked about:
Thoughts on the CM Punk and Jack Perry situation, and whether or not they should be suspended for All out
An AEW Dynamite that didn’t make a lot of sense because of illnesses and travel issues
An All Out card that, on paper, looks lacking
A WWE Payback card that is the most ho hum show in their current hot run
LA Knight’s character being made fun of by The Miz
On Tuesday’s show The Creed Brothers defeated The Dyad in a steel cage match, reinstating themselves back in NXT. The story of the match had The Schism’s followers attack Brutus as the Creeds were making their way to the ring, leaving Julius by himself against both Jagger Reid and Rip Fowler. Towards the end of the match, Brutus made his way back inside the cage. Together, they laid out both members of the Dyad with double sliding clotheslines to pick up the victory.
Back on the June 27 edition of NXT, The Dyad defeated The Creed Brothers in a loser leaves NXT match, leaving Ivy Nile by herself. In the weeks following their loss, The Creeds would taunt The Schism by appearing in the group of their followers, disguised under masks.
During last week’s Heatwave event, Ava was rescued by two of The Schism’s followers, taking her outside of the Performance Center and later revealing themselves as Yhe Creeds. The Schism ended up being forced to agree to a cage match where The Creeds would be reinstated if they win.
A steel cage match between The Dyad and The Creeds is set for next week’s NXT.
On Tuesday’s Heatwave, two of The Schism’s followers took away Ava following her loss against Ivy Nile. In a segment outside of the Performance Center, Ava taunted Nile, asking Nile to find her with her two followers. When Nile found her, it was revealed that the two followers were in fact The Creed Brothers. They proceeded to say that if The Schism wanted Ava back, they would have to agree to a steel cage match where if they won, they would be reinstated in NXT.
Later, an angry Schism agreed to the match as long as The Creeds let Ava go.
Also added to next week’s NXT is a four-way to determine the next challenger for Tiffany Stratton’s NXT Women’s Championship. Blair Davenport, Gigi Dolin, Kiana James, and Roxanne Perez all appeared in front of Stratton during her segment on Heatwave. It ended up leading into an all-out brawl.
An eight-man tournament will begin next week to determine Noam Dar’s next challenger for the Heritage Cup after he regained the title at Heatwave. Participants for the Global Heritage Invitational tournament have not been named, but the winner of the match will face Dar at NXT’s No Mercy event on September 30.
Here is the lineup so far for next week’s NXT:
Cage match: The Creed Brothers vs. The Dyad – if the Creed Brothers win, they are reinstated in NXT
Four-way match for NXT Women’s title number one contendership: Blair Davenport vs. Gigi Dolin vs. Kiana James vs. Roxanne Perez
The Creed Brothers, in storyline, are gone from NXT.
Per the stipulation agreed to on last week’s NXT, The Creed Brothers must leave the brand after losing a loser leaves NXT match on Tuesday’s show. The finish of the match had a hooded figure appear on the apron and strike Julius Creed. Rip Fowler then laid out Julius and pinned him.
Dissension between The Dyad and Joe Gacy has been building in recent weeks, with The Dyad telling Gacy last week that they were better off before they joined The Schism. The Creed Brothers then came out and confronted the group. Eventually, it was agreed that the two teams would meet in a loser leaves NXT match.
Earlier this year, The Dyad (formerly Zack Gibson and James Drake) announced on social media that they were denied their release from WWE, but would become free agents in October. Despite the announcement of their impending departure, the two have continued to wrestle and appear on NXT’s weekly television.
After tonight, either The Creed Brothers or The Dyad will be gone from NXT.
Julius & Brutus Creed are battling Rip Fowler & Jagger Reid on tonight’s pre-taped Fourth of July edition of NXT. The losing team will have to leave NXT for good. For the Creed Brothers, losing could mean a call-up to the main roster. For Fowler & Reid, it could mean a WWE exit. The Dyad requested to be released from WWE earlier this year but were denied.
An NXT Underground match is also set to take place with Eddy Thorpe battling Damon Kemp. To help train for the Raw Underground-style matchup, Thorpe enlisted the help of Olympic gold medalist Gable Steveson. Kemp is Stevenson’s real-life brother Bobby Steveson.
Lyra Valkyria vs. Jacy Jayne, Roxanne Perez vs. Blair Davenport, and Mustafa Ali vs. Tyler Bate are also set to air tonight. Plus, WWE will follow up on how last week’s NXT ended. Bron Breakker was seen yelling at Shawn Michaels and storming out of Michaels’ office. Breakker said we’ll find out what’s going on tonight.
Our coverage starts at 8 p.m. Eastern time.
The entrance of Blair Davenport opens the show, and she is ambushed by Roxanne Perez. Their match is kicking off the show, and the fight starts before the bell.
Blair Davenport defeated Roxanne Perez
Davenport pinned Perez to win the show opener. The match goes through a commercial break.
Perez was holding her own until she is sent crashing into the ring steps. Davenport followed that with a running knee strike that sandwiched Perez into the steps. She barely broke the ten count.
Davenport executes a Falcon Arrow, but Perez somehow kicks out. Davenport then gives Perez two consecutive knee strikes, and Davenport covered her for a pinfall.
Ivy Nile says she is nervous for The Creed Brothers, but she is also confident in them. NXT Women’s Champion Tiffany Stratton interrupts and she banters with Nile.
A vignette shows Baron Corbin at his home. He was everything he wants except for a reputation. He wants to be feared and respected, and the vignette shows him burning the gear from his old gimmicks. No gimmicks needed for him. Looks like a reboot for Corbin.
Mustafa Ali defeated Tyler Bate
Ali pinned Bate after hitting a 450 splash. This was really good, and the they wrestled through a commercial break. This taped show seems very wrestling-heavy so far. Not a complaint.
The finish came after Bate went for his twisting senton, but no water in the pool. Ali flips to the top turnbuckle, and Bate springs up to join him. Bate looks about ready to fall off the top rope, but Ali seemingly saves him from falling off.
Like the Highlander, there can be only one. In this case, only one challenger or the North American title. Ali lets go of Bate and Bate crotches himself on the top rope. Bate falls into the ring in position for Ali to leap off the top with a 2 Cold Scorpio 450. Ali then scored a pinfall on Bate.
After the match, Ali breaks the fourth wall by looking into the camera. Ali formally challenges NXT North American Champion Wes Lee to a title match at The Great American Bash on July 30th.
In a backstage interview with McKenzie Mitchell, Joe Gacy and Ava comment on the loser leaves town match later on. Gacy cryptically says they will eliminate a problem from NXT.
Kelani Jordan (Dana Brooke) defeated Tatum Paxley
Jordan pinned Paxley in Jordan’s in-ring debut on NXT television. She got a full entrance accompanied by Brooke, while Paxley was introduced with no entrance and already in the ring. That did not bode well for Paxley by WWE logic.
For the finish, Jordan countered an attempted suplex into a stunner. Jordan then covered Paxley for a pinfall. Booker T and Vic Joseph sold the win for Jordan as an upset.
Jordan and Brooke were celebrating after the match when Cora Jade interrupted them. Jade cuts a promo on Jordan. Jade says a friend of Brooke is a enemy to Jade.
Heeling on the live studio audience, Jade starts cutting a promo on the fans when Jordan cuts her off. Jordan says she has another match left in her tonight, and she challenges Jade to settle it here and now. Jade says not to ever tell her what to do, and Jade leaves.
Andre Chase in a skit is back in the classroom at Chase U. Chase thanks and acknowledges Duke Hudson and Thea Hail. Chase begins to yell at a student for asking a stupid question. Hudson says he will handle it, and he yells at the student. This somehow builds to match with Charlie Dempsey and Drew Gulak.
Eddy Thorpe (with Gable Steveson) defeated Damon Kemp in an Underground match
Thorpe won via referee stoppage, after Thorpe caught Kemp in a triangle. Steveson was at ringside in Thorpe’ corner, and Steveson got into a post-match scuffle with several plants that attack him.
Unlike Raw Underground having its own separate set, NXT Underground takes place on the same soundstage in the PC as the NXT show itself. It basically looked like the Bloodsport shows promoted by GCW with better production value. Wrestlers in street clothes also surrounded the ring like lumberjacks.
There was some grappling and submission attempts mixed with wrestling spots outside of the ring. At one point, Steveson his comically holding his gold medal like Paul Bearer would do the urn for The Undertaker, willing him on to victory.
The fighting spilled onto the floor a few times. Kemp posted himself shoulder first, and Thorpe then targets the arm. Thorpe catches Kemp in a triangle. Kemp tries to power out, but Thorpe reapplies the triangle. The referee then jumps in to stop the match, awarding Thorpe the match.
Steveson was celebrating with Thorpe when one of the lumberjacks that surrounded the ring earlier suddenly jumps into the ring. The plant then starts fiddling with Steveson’s gold medal. This upsets Steveson. He takes off his medal, and he starts suplexing dudes like he was Taz in ’96.
Steveson gives he first dude a German suplex. Some other plant jumps in, and he gets dumped with a suplex. Another dude gets suplexed after trying to jump in. A fourth plant that towered over Steveson gets face to face with him. So Steveson suplexed him as well, after the guy pretty much jumped into Steveson’s arms. Thorpe puts the medal back around Steveson’s neck, and everybody lives happily ever after … except those dudes that got a suplex.
NXT Champion Carmelo Hayes and Trick Williams have a message for Judgment Day. Hayes invites all of Judgment Day to come into NXT and follow through with a threat made by Rhea Ripley on the previous episode of NXT.
Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo is visiting Tony D’Angelo in jail. Stacks tells Tony D that Stacks made a deal with Joe Coffey. In walks Coffey. The deal made between Stacks and Coffey is a match between them for next week. If Stacks wins, the charges against Tony D are dropped and The Family get a tag title shot at Gallus. If Coffey wins, Tony D stays locked up. Tony D is angry with Stacks over the stipulations, and Coffey reveals it was Stacks’ idea.
Lyra Valkyria defeated Jacy Jayne
Valkyria pinned Jayne to win the match. To get her heat back, Jayne attacked Valkyria after the match for a beatdown.
For the finish of the match, Valkyria counters Jayne to deliver a shinning wizard. Valkyria followed with a roundhouse kick, and Valkyria covered Jayne for a pinfall. Jayne then immediately jumped Valkyria after the match, and Jayne tore up Valkyria’s gimmick wings shes wears to the ring.
Noam Dar is talking to a picture of the Heritage Cup like it is Head and he is Al Snow. This was wacky.
Kiana James is going into her office. The door has a “WET PAINT” sign and inside James’ office is vandalized with paint and graffiti. In was apparently the work of Gigi Dolan, as a measure of revenge for James pouring paint on her last week. James warns the gloves are about to come off.
Back inside the soundstage, Von Wagner was pummeling Javier Bernal. Mr. Stone convinces Wagner to put Bernal into the ring. Wagner instead powerbombs Bernal on the announce desk. The booth crumples and Wagner is proud of himself. Mr. Stone not so much.
Lucien Prince and Bronco Nima are the focus of another vignette that introduces them to the NXT audience. They debut next week.
The Dyad (Jagger Reid and Rip Fowler with Joe Gacy and Ava) defeated The Creed Brothers (Brutus & Julius Creed with Ivy Nile) in a losers leave town match
The Dyad won after outside interference by a masked assailant. The Creeds are in storyline done with NXT, as they must leave the brand according to the stips. Since The Dyad reportedly asked for their release, the result here is a swerve of sorts.
The Dyad jump The Creeds before the bell officially starts the match. The Creeds quickly make a comeback. Brutus does a wild plancha over the ropes into a cannonball. Julius does a shooting star press and goes for a cover. Gacy breaks up the count by pulling Reid out of the ring they are in the NWO. Thus, the referee ejects Gacy from ringside as the show cuts to a commercial break.
Gacy is gone after the show returns from the break, but The Dyad are in control as they work over Brutus. Hot tag to Julius and he looks to run wild. The Dyad try to cut him off, but Julius still runs wild. He skins the cat and does a dive to the outside.
Julius is cut off, leading to The Dyad getting some near falls on him. Julius fights back, only for Fowler to chop block Julius in the knee. By the way, Fowler’s head smacked the mat hard after he took a tandem move from The Creeds.
The match goes through another commercial break, with Julius in peril as The Dyad work over the injured knee. Eventually there is a hot tag, and Brutus is a house of fire. Brutus springboards off the top rope into a 450 splash for a near fall. Brutus then applied an ankle lock on Fowler. After escaping the hold, Fowler jumps off the middle rope to deliver a codebreaker.
At the urging of his brother, Brutus hulks up. He and Julius go to set up a Doomsday Device. However, Fowler trips up Brutus and puts Brutus into an electric chair. The Dyad then do their own Doomsday Device on the floor as Reid jumps through the ropes into a tope that knocks Brutus off Fowler’s shoulder. Brutus takes a bump on the floor, and the Creeds appear in peril.
Julius takes on the The Dyad by himself with Brutus selling like he is out cold. Julius fights off The Dyad, he suplexes both of them at the same time. Still selling his leg, Julius does a kip up and bounds to the top rope. Julius does a moonsault press on both of The Dyad. Julius is on a roll.
Ava jumps in to interfere, but Ivy Nile also jumps on. Nile waylays Ava, and they brawl. An unknown assailant wearing a red hoodie and a mask hops the barricade and attacks Julius. The unknown assailant headbutts Julius with the mask, presumably doing the loaded mask gimmick like he was The Assassin. The Dyad do a tandem codebreaker on Julius, and Reid covers Julius Creed for a pinfall. The Creeds must now leave NXT.
Finn Balor responds to Carmelo Hayes and Trick Williams. Balor says he will see them next Tuesday.
Also announced for next Tuesday:
Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo vs. Joe Coffey (with Tony D’Angelo’s freedom on the line)
NXT Women’s Champion Tiffany Stratton against Ivy Nile in a non-title match
Andre Chase & Duke Hudson vs. Drew Gulak & Charlie Dempsey
Cora Jade against Kelani Jordan
Out comes Bron Breakker to close the show with a monologue. Breakker addresses his lose on a previous episode to WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins. Breakker says he was a fraction of a second away from winning the world title.
Breakker boasts he faced the world champ after only having 78 matches so far in his career. Breakker laments that Rollins had more PLE matches in his career than Breakker has total matches. Breakker says he did not have the “luxury” to “travel the world and wrestle in high school gyms in front of nobody to learn this.”
Breakker gets in a LA Knight reference, noting he beat Knight in Breakker’s first match in NXT. Breakker says get used to seeing this face because he was plenty more to do. Breakker begins to contemplates what is next for him.
Enter Ilja Dragunov to confront Breakker. Dragunov tells Breakker that he is next. Dragunov wants to eliminate Breakker from being a contender for the NXT title, saying Breakker is the only person standing between Dragunov and a title shot.
Dragunov concludes by saying Breakker is “standing in the ring with the most dangerous man in NXT.” With that, Dragunov hits Breakker with a flying knee strike. There is a huge pull-apart brawl as referees, officials and wrestlers pour into the ring trying to separate Dragunov and Breakker. The show goes off the air with bedlam and chaos.
