A second title rematch has been made official for the October 2 episode of NXT.
WWE announced today that NXT Tag Team Champions The Undisputed Era (Kyle O’Reilly & Bobby Fish) will defend their titles against The Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins & Montez Ford) on Wednesday, October 2. Candice LeRae will also challenge for Shayna Baszler’s NXT Women’s Championship on that episode.
O’Reilly & Fish won the NXT Tag Team titles by defeating The Street Profits last month.
October 2 is the first time that NXT will air live on USA Network for the full two hours. Due to the final two episodes of the USA Network series “Suits,” last week’s and this week’s NXT have been split across the USA Network and WWE Network.
October 2 is also the night that AEW Dynamite premieres on TNT.
LeRae challenging for the NXT Women’s title was set up by her defeating Mia Yim, Bianca Belair, and Io Shirai in a fatal four-way number one contender’s match last week.
After it was confirmed at June’s television tapings, the Tag Team title match for NXT TakeOver: Toronto has now been officially announced.
The Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins & Montez Ford) will defend their titles against The Undisputed Era (Kyle O’Reilly & Bobby Fish) at the SummerSlam weekend special. The Scotiabank Arena is hosting TakeOver: Toronto on Saturday, August 10.
Dawkins & Ford have been NXT Tag Team Champions since defeating O’Reilly & Fish, Oney Lorcan & Danny Burch, and The Forgotten Sons (Wesley Blake & Steve Cutler) in a ladder match for the then-vacant titles at TakeOver XXV last month. O’Reilly dealt with a staph infection after hurting his back in that match.
The Street Profits made their main roster debut on the July 1 episode of Raw. They’ve continued to appear in segments since then but have yet to wrestle.
Adam Cole will defend the NXT Championship against Johnny Gargano in a two-out-of-three falls match in the main event of TakeOver: Toronto. In storyline, Gargano will pick a stipulation for one fall and Cole will pick the stipulation for the other. If it goes to a third fall, William Regal will choose the last stipulation.
NXT’s Kyle O’Reilly will no longer be wrestling at EVOLVE’s shows in New York this weekend.
EVOLVE announced via Twitter today that O’Reilly won’t be able to make his scheduled matches at EVOLVE 129 and 130: “We are sorry to inform you that Kyle O’Reilly will not be able to compete at EVOLVE this weekend. We were just given the news. We will have more information and updated cards later today or tomorrow. Thank you for understanding.”
O’Reilly had been set to team with Roderick Strong against JD Drake & Anthony Henry at EVOLVE 129 in Queens, New York this Saturday. O’Reilly vs. Josh Briggs was scheduled for EVOLVE 130 in Brooklyn on Sunday.
O’Reilly tweeted on June 14 that he wasn’t going to be able to appear at NXT UK’s television tapings at Download Festival that weekend because his back was still hurt from the Tag Team title ladder match at NXT TakeOver XXV: “The medical man told me my back is still hurt so unfortunately I won’t be able to attend @DownloadFest this year. Im sorry to all the great UK fans, believe me I’m gutted to be missing @Tool but at least now @rikbugez has an actual chance of winning the air guitar contest.”
It was announced last week that Bobby Fish also won’t be wrestling at EVOLVE 129 and 130 but will still be appearing and doing meet and greets.
Two members of the Undisputed Era have been added to EVOLVE’s June shows.
WWE.com announced today that Kyle O’Reilly and Bobby Fish will be in action at EVOLVE 129 in Queens, New York on Saturday, June 29 and EVOLVE 130 in Brooklyn, New York on Sunday, June 30. They join their Undisputed Era stablemate Roderick Strong on the shows, with Strong also set to be a special guest at WWN’s seminar/tryout in Brooklyn on June 30.
O’Reilly wrestled for EVOLVE over WrestleMania week last month, with EVOLVE Champion Austin Theory defeating O’Reilly to retain his title.
O’Reilly, Fish, and Strong will be available for meet and greets at both June shows. Tommaso Ciampa, who underwent neck surgery in March, is doing meet and greets at those two shows, along with EVOLVE/Dragon Gate USA’s 10th anniversary event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Saturday, July 13 and EVOLVE 132 in Melrose, Massachusetts on Sunday, July 14.
Ciampa will be joined by Johnny Gargano for the meet and greets in Philadelphia and Melrose. As was previously announced, the 10th anniversary show will feature Matt Riddle vs. Drew Gulak, with Riddle and Gulak also doing meet and greets that night.
The next NXT Tag Team Champions will be crowned in a ladder match at TakeOver XXV.
William Regal announced on tonight’s episode of NXT that Oney Lorcan & Danny Burch, The Undisputed Era (Kyle O’Reilly & Bobby Fish), The Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins & Montez Ford), and The Forgotten Sons (Wesley Blake & Steve Cutler) will face off in a ladder match for the vacant titles at TakeOver XXV. The special is taking place at the Webster Bank Arena in Bridgeport, Connecticut on Saturday, June 1.
The match was first announced at this month’s NXT television tapings, though the ladder stipulation wasn’t confirmed until now.
The NXT Tag Team titles were vacated after The Viking Raiders were called up to Raw in this year’s Superstar Shake-up.
On the NXT TV episode that aired last week, The Viking Raiders bowed to the fans and left the titles in the ring. That came after their title defense against The Street Profits ended in a no contest when The Forgotten Sons got involved and started a brawl, which also included Lorcan & Burch.
Velveteen Dream defending his North American Championship against Tyler Breeze was also announced for TakeOver XXV tonight, along with a singles match between Matt Riddle and Roderick Strong. NXT Champion Johnny Gargano will defend his title against Adam Cole at the special, and Io Shirai will challenge for Shayna Baszler’s Women’s Championship.
Adrian Jaoude submitted Harlem Bravado with a kneebar
Kazusada Higuchi defeated Curt Stallion
The former Sumo wrestler and current member of the DDT roster was just too powerful for the LaBoom favorite Stallion. This was a hard hitting ten plus minute match that ended with a Dr. Bomb by Higuchi.
– We had an In-ring interview by Josh Briggs to discuss his recent injury. He thanked the fans for supporting him and vowed to win the EVOLVE championship when he returned. Briggs was interrupted by EVOLVE champion Austin Theory who took a cheap shot and laid out Briggs. As Theory mocked Briggs’ crutches, the big man made it back to his feet and delivered a chokeslam to Theory.
AR Fox and Leon Ruff (w/ The Skulk) defeated The Beaver Boys (Alex Reynolds and John Silver)
This was a wild showcase match woith great action by all four men. Fox scored the pin after a 450.
Anthony Henry defeated Darby Allin (w/ Priscilla Kelly) by ref stoppage
Henry was wearing a white version of Allin’s ring gear and similar face paint to mock his opponent as these two have been going at it recently. Henry even went for The Last Supper, the pinning combination that has won countless big matches for Allin the last few years. The referee called for the stoppage as Henry had both Allin’s arms hooked and was delivering stomps to the back of the head. Post match, Brandi Lauren attacked Kelly to make a statement before their mixed tag match Friday with Allin and Theory.
Dawkins won after a pop-up spear. Post match, Dawkins called out anyone else from Corino’s The Unwanted group, but he was interrupted by WWN Champion JD Drake who offered an impromptu title match right now.
WWN Champion JD Drake defeated Angelo Dawkins to retain
This was an exciting and athletic hoss fight which is to be expected from a Drake match. The “Blue Collar Badass” won with a stunner, a cannonball in the corner, and a moonsault. The crowd cheered on both men after the match to show their appreciation.
– A video package was shown to promote the EVOLVE 10th anniversary show on July 13th at the 2300 Arena in Philadelphia.
– The former Stokely Hathaway made his return and joked that he hasn’t been released as it’s only been a few weeks. This was his formal goodbye and thank you to the promotion that helped him get to NXT.
Montez Ford defeated Shane Strickland
This was a hard hitting match with “Swerve” using his technical abilities to stretch Ford early on. Ford was down after some vicious strikes yet still kicked out of a Swerve Stomp. A mid rope assisted leg drop followed by a frog splash won it for Ford.
EVOLVE Tag Team Champions Eddie Kingston and Joe Gacy defeated DDT’s Takeshita and MAO to retain
The crowd showed major respect for the guests from Japan’s DDT throughout the match including a “Please come back” chant after the match.
EVOLVE Champion Austin Theory defeated Kyle O’Reilly to retain
Each man had ring announcer Trevin Adams pause his introduction multiple times to add extra nicknames. The crowd was into this and taunted Theory with “Ta-Hee-Ree” chants the way Kyle has been pronouncing Austin’s name in the build for this match.
The finishing sequence saw Theory attempt to leave with the title only to get brought back into the ring, Theory shoved KOR towards the referee before hitting a DDT on the title for a major near fall before then immediately hitting Ataxia for the three count.
Post match, Bobby Fish and Roderick Strong beat down Theory and sent him packing. The three Undisputed boys talked up EVOLVE and said this isn’t the last we’ve seen of The Undisputed Era in EVOLVE.
A member of the NXT roster is the latest wrestler announced for PROGRESS Wrestling’s Super Strong Style 16.
PROGRESS announced on Wednesday that Kyle O’Reilly will be an entrant in the 16-man tournament. It’s taking place at Alexandra Palace in London, England from May 4-6.
This will be the first time O’Reilly has wrestled for PROGRESS.
O’Reilly has another match for a promotion WWE has a relationship with tomorrow (Thursday), with him challenging for Austin Theory’s EVOLVE Championship at EVOLVE 125 in Queens, New York. The show will begin at noon Eastern time and will air live on Club WWN.
The winner of Super Strong Style 16 will receive a future PROGRESS title shot. Here are the 15 entrants that have been announced thus far:
NXT’s Kyle O’Reilly will be challenging for the EVOLVE Championship during WrestleMania week.
At EVOLVE 124 on Saturday night, it was announced that Austin Theory will defend his EVOLVE title against O’Reilly at EVOLVE 125 on Thursday, April 4. The show is taking place at La Boom in Queens, New York and will begin at noon Eastern time.
Theory unsuccessfully challenged for JD Drake’s WWN Championship at EVOLVE 124 on Saturday. Theory cut a promo after the match where he said he only gives 100 percent when his title is on the line. He said there’s no competition for him in EVOLVE, on the indies, or in NXT. A video with O’Reilly and The Undisputed Era then aired, with it setting up Theory vs. O’Reilly for April 4.
Between departing Ring of Honor and signing with WWE, O’Reilly wrestled four matches for EVOLVE in 2017. He also had a stint with the promotion when it began in 2010.
Strong got the pin after hitting the Sick Kick. Strong dedicated the match to Kyle O’Reilly on O’Reilly’s birthday, which would become a theme throughout the night.
– Dominik Dijakovic defeated Punishment Martinez
Dijakovic won with Feast Your Eyes.
– Aleister Black & Ricochet defeated The Undisputed Era (Bobby Fish & Kyle O’Reilly) by DQ
The disqualification came when referee Drake Wuertz was pulled out of the ring during a pinfall attempt. Before the match, Fish attempted to sing happy birthday to O’Reilly but was interrupted by Ricochet’s theme.
– NXT Tag Team Champions War Raiders defeated The Forgotten Sons (Jaxson Ryker & Steve Cutler) to retain their titles
– NXT Women’s Champion Shayna Baszler defeated Mia Yim to retain her title
Baszler submitted Yim with the Kirifuda Clutch to retain.
– NXT North American Champion Velveteen Dream defeated Adam Cole to retain his title
Before the match started, Cole said he was dedicating his victory to “birthday boy” O’Reilly.
The other three members of Undisputed Era ran in from the crowd for a four-on-one attack on Velveteen Dream after the match. The lights went out — and Keith Lee, Aleister Black, and Ricochet were on the stage to make the save when they came back on.
After the four isolated O’Reilly in the ring, Dream took the mic and sang happy birthday to him, complete with a Black Mass and Purple Rainmaker in the middle of the song.
Black then took the mic and he and Ricochet gave speeches. They did the “We are NXT” speech to send the crowd home happy.
The tag team title match for TakeOver: Phoenix has been set.
General Manager William Regal made the announcement during tonight’s episode of NXT. The War Raiders will get another crack at the Undisputed Era’s Kyle O’Reilly and Roderick Strong.
The War Raiders have been feuding with all of Undisputed Era for the last few months. Back at the September tapings, the duo defeated the champions by DQ. They later squared off inside War Games, where they, Pete Dunne and Ricochet defeated the entire stable.
On tonight’s episode of NXT, the War Raiders made the save for E3 after all of the Undisputed Era jumped following a match against Adam Cole.
The only other matches announced for TakeOver thus far are is the NXT title match between champion Tommaso Ciampa and Aleister Black, as well as Shayna Baszler defending the NXT Women’s championship against Bianca Belair.
NXT TakeOver: Phoenix will take place at the Talking Stick Resort Arena in Phoenix, Arizona on January 26, one day prior to the Royal Rumble.
Mendoza ran wild on both Barthel and Aichner after a hot tag before winning with a driver.
– Punishment Martinez defeated Rick Boog
The South of Heaven chokeslam got Martinez the win.
– Mia Yim defeated Jessamyn Duke
Yim won with a low angle Seoul Food.
– Aleister Black defeated Jaxson Ryker by DQ
Johnny Gargano caused the disqualification. Black recovered and hit the Black Mass on Ryker.
– Matt Riddle defeated Kassius Ohno
Great action here, with a roll-up finish to leave more out there for the future. Riddle hit a delayed German suplex during the match, Ohno used a cyclone kick, and they had strike exchanges. These two are great together.
– Lacey Lane defeated Reina Gonzalez
Lane hit a flatliner to win a hard-fought match.
– Undisputed Era (Adam Cole, Kyle O’Reilly, Bobby Fish & Roderick Strong) defeated Otis Dozovic, Tucker Knight, Danny Burch & Oney Lorcan
There was comedy early with Heavy Machinery having their way with Undisputed. An airplane spin with jump rope action was a sight to see.
Undisputed scored the win and continued their beatdown before being run off so the good guys could celebrate with the crowd to close the show.
Babatunde ran wild and slammed Jaoude for the win.
– Matt Riddle defeated Luke Menzies
Menzies tried to slow the pace with holds and an abdominal stretch, Riddle was able to line up a knee strike to put him down.
– EC3 defeated Mansoor
EC3 got the victory after hitting the One Percenter.
– Mia Yim & Io Shirai defeated Jessamyn Duke & Marina Shafir by DQ
Baszler was originally set to face Yim one-on-one but wasn’t medically cleared after being cut last night in Ocala. She said her girls were ready though, and they surrounded the ring and jumped Yim before Shirai made the save and ran wild.
Yim and Shirai had the advantage until Baszler caused the disqualification. After the match, Yim challenged the Horsewomen for a trios match at the next Largo show.
– Heavy Machinery & Keith Lee defeated Kona Reeves & The Mighty
They did a lot of taunting and comedy stalling early. The crowd loved Heavy Machinery and Lee throughout. Otis Dozovic hit the caterpillar and Lee helped Tucker Knight set up the Trash Compactor for the finish.
Following the match, Lee even did the caterpillar as the crowd celebrated.
– The Street Profits (Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins) defeated The Forgotten Sons (Jaxson Ryker & Wesley Blake)
– Candice LeRae defeated Aliyah
LeRae won with the lionsault.
– Lars Sullivan defeated Raul Mendoza
There was a “Lars is gonna kill you” chant from the audience. Mendoza was great on offense, but Sullivan picked up the win. Sullivan came back after the match and dropped Mendoza with two Freak Accidents.
– NXT North American Champion Ricochet defeated Velveteen Dream to retain his title
Good match. Ricochet won with a cross-legged Michinoku driver.
Sane got the pin on Gonzalez after hitting the Insane Elbow.
– NXT Champion Tommaso Ciampa defeated Kassius Ohno to retain his title
It was announced that William Regal made this a title match. They had a great match that went about 18 minutes. Ohno is awesome. Ciampa retained with a brutal rope-hung DDT.
– Johnny Gargano, Oney Lorcan & Danny Burch defeated The Undisputed Era (Adam Cole & NXT Tag Team Champions Kyle O’Reilly & Roderick Strong)
Gargano submitted Strong to get the win. Cole is so over.
