WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.520 --> 00:00:04.120 Let's going on, guys. It is a Tuesday night. I 2 00:00:04.160 --> 00:00:07.879 am the Solid Monster and this is a very special 3 00:00:08.279 --> 00:00:12.720 double a review for NXT and AW Dynamite for the 4 00:00:12.720 --> 00:00:16.280 second year in a row. Now Dynamite and NXT running 5 00:00:16.839 --> 00:00:18.879 kind of head to head, head to head for an hour. 6 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:21.879 It was a little bit of overlap between the two shows, 7 00:00:21.920 --> 00:00:25.000 but because of Baseball, Dynamite got bumped up by a 8 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:27.640 night and so this was the go home show to 9 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:30.120 Wrestle Dream. They are a big pay per view coming 10 00:00:30.199 --> 00:00:33.240 up this weekend, and they went up against an NXT 11 00:00:33.399 --> 00:00:36.920 show from Saint Louis with a special appearance by Randy Orton, 12 00:00:37.479 --> 00:00:41.679 Saint Louis's own Randy Orton. And we're gonna talk about 13 00:00:41.679 --> 00:00:45.119 bull shows because I have watched bull shows, including the 14 00:00:45.240 --> 00:00:47.560 one hour where I had two different screens going at 15 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:50.439 the same time. So we're gonna be talking about both 16 00:00:50.439 --> 00:00:53.159 of these things. This was the second episode of NXT 17 00:00:53.359 --> 00:00:57.439 on the CW network. Last week was their debut, and 18 00:00:57.479 --> 00:01:00.679 I was not overly impressed last week with that first 19 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:04.560 CW show. This week was a big improvement from last week. 20 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:09.599 Actually really liked the NXT show tonight, just the whole 21 00:01:09.719 --> 00:01:12.120 vibe of the show. They were in a different location, 22 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:14.760 they were in a much smaller venue, and I really 23 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:16.879 think it made the show. Just the energy in the 24 00:01:16.959 --> 00:01:21.120 vibe of the show was much improved, and they had 25 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:23.560 some great action as well, including the main event, which 26 00:01:23.599 --> 00:01:26.719 was Randy Orton against Javon Evans, the twenty year old 27 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:30.480 phenom in NXT who's been getting a bit of a 28 00:01:30.519 --> 00:01:33.200 push throughout the year, and he was in there in 29 00:01:33.239 --> 00:01:36.599 the biggest match of his life tonight, and in the 30 00:01:36.640 --> 00:01:39.760 biggest moment in what could have been, up to this point, 31 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:43.480 the biggest moment in his young career. Because you know, 32 00:01:43.599 --> 00:01:47.159 all week long he was thinking about it, how are 33 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:51.040 we going to do this? RKO spot right. He was 34 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:55.120 going to bed every night thinking about this. And unfortunately, 35 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:57.959 whatever it was that they had in mind, whatever he thought, 36 00:01:57.959 --> 00:01:59.599 oh man, this is going to go viral, this is 37 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:02.680 going to be huge, it didn't quite work out that way. 38 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:06.120 And I'll tell you what, if it was fifteen years earlier, 39 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:10.960 Randy Orton would have reacted in a very different way 40 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:13.520 than he did tonight. You could tell how Randy Orton 41 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:18.319 has matured over the years, because the reaction he had 42 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:20.759 to that botched finish was not going to be the 43 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:25.039 reaction that he would have had many years ago, but 44 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:28.199 I thought it was a very enjoyable show on the whole. 45 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:32.599 Over on TBS, we had aw Dynamite, a show that 46 00:02:32.639 --> 00:02:36.520 they billed as Title Tuesday. That you would think a 47 00:02:36.520 --> 00:02:39.319 show called Title Tuesday. They also have their Battle of 48 00:02:39.319 --> 00:02:42.879 the Belts that they're contractually obligated to do four times 49 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:45.360 a year, but you would think on a show called 50 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:48.599 Title Tuesday, Okay, well, there's going to be some championship matches. 51 00:02:48.759 --> 00:02:51.439 Well you would be wrong if you thought that there 52 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:56.520 would be championship matches being plural. We had one championship 53 00:02:56.560 --> 00:02:59.919 match tonight, which was for two titles, the TBS time 54 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:03.599 in the New Japan Strong Women's title, and that was it. 55 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:08.280 One title match on a show called Title Tuesday, which 56 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:11.919 is quite absurd. So I'm not even sure why they 57 00:03:11.960 --> 00:03:14.159 called it that in the first place, unless they were 58 00:03:14.159 --> 00:03:17.360 referring to the number one Contenders match, which had title 59 00:03:17.439 --> 00:03:20.960 implications for the Women's World title or wrestl Dream this weekend, 60 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:23.479 but that's a bit of a stretch. So yes, we 61 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:26.039 had Title Tuesday with one title match, and frankly, it 62 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:29.800 wasn't even a significant title and that's what we ended 63 00:03:29.879 --> 00:03:33.479 up with there, DYNAMI I could already tell from the 64 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:36.080 Pole results, and we're going to check out the pole 65 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:38.960 results later on from Twitter, so you can go vote 66 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:41.719 right now, so I could already tell the reaction is 67 00:03:41.719 --> 00:03:44.680 going to be mixed. I don't think I disliked this 68 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:46.400 episode of dynam by the way that some of you 69 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:49.039 may have. I thought, on the whole it was a 70 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:52.639 solid show. You know, it wasn't the worst Dynamite I've 71 00:03:52.680 --> 00:03:55.199 ever seen or anything like that. It just didn't do 72 00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:56.680 a whole hell of a lot to get me any 73 00:03:56.719 --> 00:03:58.840 more excited for Wressel Dream this weekend. This was the 74 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:01.759 go home show. This was the last ditch effort to 75 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:05.520 get people pumped up for Wrestle Dream, which I am 76 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:08.599 sure when Wressel Dream comes, as is usually the case 77 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:12.400 with these aw shows, it'll be an excellent show. Yeah, 78 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:15.039 you get a lot of quality matches on there, and 79 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:17.639 they do pay per view very well. I'm not worried 80 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:20.079 about that aspect of things. You know, in the ring, 81 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:22.480 they can handle their business on those shows, but just 82 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:24.680 going into it as far as the stories, as far 83 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:27.160 as the key matches, they didn't really do a whole 84 00:04:27.160 --> 00:04:29.120 hell of a lot tonight to get me excited for 85 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:32.759 that show. It didn't make me less inclined to be excited, 86 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:34.439 but they didn't get me any more excited for it. 87 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:36.800 But we did get a couple of really good matches 88 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:39.160 on the show, including one that I was not expecting 89 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:44.079 to necessarily enjoy as much as I did, maybe because 90 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:47.279 there was just so much wrestling going on tonight, and 91 00:04:47.319 --> 00:04:49.399 it was a match that you would absolutely just see 92 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:54.480 thrown out there on rampage maybe collision. It has absolutely 93 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:57.639 no bearing whatsoever on the pay per view this weekend, 94 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:00.800 and yet it stole the show from an ring perspective. 95 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:04.519 It stole the show between Hologram and Commander. I mean, 96 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:08.920 that's a rampage match if I've ever heard one. But 97 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:10.680 it was the best thing bell to bell on the 98 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:13.519 entire show. And then there were some other things on 99 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:16.920 the show that were head scratching, but that's sort of 100 00:05:16.959 --> 00:05:19.199 part of the course lately when it comes to Dynamite. 101 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:22.600 So we're gonna talk about both of these shows. If 102 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:24.319 I had to pick one over the other, which one 103 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:26.720 I enjoyed more, Which one I personally thought was the 104 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:29.000 better of the two shows? It was NXT by far, 105 00:05:29.879 --> 00:05:31.519 but we're going to talk about both of them here 106 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:35.519 because again, this is your NXT and Dynamite dual review. 107 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:38.160 I am the Solemn Monster. Thank you for hanging out 108 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:41.519 with me here for a little bit on a Tuesday night. 109 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:46.000 Usually I'm on a different channel on a Tuesday night 110 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:48.000 doing a different show. We're gonna be doing that show 111 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:51.879 tomorrow night, that's TNT, but tonight was a special night. 112 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:56.199 Had to cover both these shows. Like and subscribe. Super 113 00:05:56.279 --> 00:05:59.480 chats are open as well, and thank you to all 114 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:02.800 of our new channel members and everybody who has gifted memberships. 115 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:08.800 I do appreciate the patronage. It is very very cool. 116 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:15.160 Why don't we begin here with NXT since that got 117 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:17.639 the jump on Dynamite, so that is what we are 118 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:21.319 going to kick off with here. They were at the 119 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:24.319 Factory in Saint Louis, and for those of you who 120 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:28.519 don't know, the Factory is a relatively small venue. They 121 00:06:28.600 --> 00:06:31.720 downgraded from a larger arena. They booked a larger building, 122 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:35.680 probably thinking well, WWE is the hot ticket right now. 123 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:38.920 We got Randy Orton on the show, he's from Saint Louis, 124 00:06:40.439 --> 00:06:43.680 and they could barely sell two thousand tickets, and this 125 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:45.720 was a big building. This might have been like an 126 00:06:45.800 --> 00:06:49.199 NBA sized building. So they had to cancel the show 127 00:06:49.319 --> 00:06:52.279 from there, and they moved it to a much smaller venue, 128 00:06:52.360 --> 00:06:55.439 hence the Factory, and so it was much smaller, much 129 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:58.800 more intimate, and not for nothing, I think it enhanced 130 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:01.560 the show. And I just thought the look and feel 131 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:03.879 of the show tonight was a lot better than it 132 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:05.879 was last week, even though they were in a bigger 133 00:07:05.879 --> 00:07:09.160 building with more people. It's funny how that works sometimes, 134 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:13.439 so I really enjoyed it. The only thing is you 135 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:17.319 could tell they really kept the building dark. It's pretty dark, 136 00:07:17.759 --> 00:07:20.439 and not because they couldn't move tickets, but I think 137 00:07:20.439 --> 00:07:22.439 what it was they just didn't want people to see 138 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:25.560 how small the venue was. And I, you know, I'm 139 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:28.720 watching this and I'm like, come on, it's it's really 140 00:07:28.759 --> 00:07:31.120 it's not that big of a deal, you know, just 141 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:34.120 lighten it up a little bit. But it reminds me like, 142 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:37.639 you know, many many years ago, when times were very 143 00:07:37.720 --> 00:07:43.160 lean for them, WWF would run these syndicated tapings literally 144 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:47.279 sometimes at high school gymnasiums, and you could see in 145 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:50.199 the background, like you'd see the windows outside. You like 146 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:52.800 you could tell how small the venue was, or they 147 00:07:52.839 --> 00:07:56.079 would run some other places up and down the East 148 00:07:56.160 --> 00:08:00.519 Coast that were very small. But yeah, again, it's not 149 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:03.120 that big of a deal. I think it would have 150 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:05.519 been fine. I wish they would have lightened it up 151 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:09.759 a little bit. But you know what, actually this venue 152 00:08:09.800 --> 00:08:12.800 reminded me. I remember Lowell in nineteen ninety seven, they 153 00:08:12.879 --> 00:08:15.720 ran two episodes of Raw, one at the beginning of 154 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:18.519 the year, one later in the year, I want to 155 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:21.759 say the Lowell Civic Center, and maybe it was a 156 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:25.600 different building there, but that episode of Thursday Raw Thursday 157 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:30.279 where Shawn Michaels lost his smile, and then later in 158 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:32.960 the year it was the episode where Shawn Michaels and 159 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:36.960 Triple H had their fake European title match where Triple 160 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:40.120 H won the belt. That's what this building kind of 161 00:08:40.159 --> 00:08:42.519 reminded me of. I couldn't put my finger on it, 162 00:08:42.600 --> 00:08:46.240 but that's really what it made me think of when 163 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:48.159 I was watching this show, just the look and feel 164 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:52.480 of it. And the NXT Champion Trigg Williams was out 165 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:55.639 first to open the show, talked about how he is, 166 00:08:55.679 --> 00:08:59.320 of course the new NXT champion after his win last 167 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:05.120 week over Ethan Page, and he knows what that means. 168 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:07.240 He has a new title around his waist because they 169 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:10.320 have new belts made, and the sharks are circling in 170 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:12.840 the locker room. Now all eyes are on him. He 171 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:17.039 becomes public enemy number one. Wesley interrupted from up in 172 00:09:17.080 --> 00:09:19.480 the balcony, because you could do that sort of thing 173 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:21.879 when you're in a small venue. You can stand in 174 00:09:21.919 --> 00:09:24.600 the balcony with a microphone and you can look up 175 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:28.039 and you can interact with the other person. He says, 176 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:30.600 Trick is not the only one with a career defining moment. 177 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:34.240 Last week he shed some unnecessary weight plans to become 178 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:37.919 a triple crown champion in NXT. He says, right now, 179 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:40.399 Trick is the face of NXT, but he's gonna tell 180 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:42.799 him something that nobody else has the balls to tell him. 181 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:47.080 He ain't it and he plans to take the title. 182 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:53.360 So that brought out Jay Usso, because why not, boy, 183 00:09:53.399 --> 00:10:01.519 this took a turn out comes the Intercontinental Champion, and 184 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:04.960 he walks out to the ring and hugs Trick and 185 00:10:06.600 --> 00:10:10.039 he appreciates him coming out here. After Jay's went over 186 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:13.240 Xavier Woods n RAW last night, all fucking four minutes 187 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:17.480 of it. Says he knows Jay's tired, but they look 188 00:10:17.559 --> 00:10:20.240 good with gold around their waist, and we got competing 189 00:10:20.320 --> 00:10:22.720 chance of yeat and whooped that trick and whooped that 190 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:26.240 yeat and eat that trick and whatever it was. They're 191 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:29.080 going back and forth. That people were having fun, they 192 00:10:29.159 --> 00:10:33.679 posed together, and that was it. They made Jay usso 193 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:36.120 stay an extra day in Saint Louis just to do this. 194 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:39.799 I'd be pissed. I could be home with my kids 195 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:44.720 and my family and we never saw him again for 196 00:10:44.759 --> 00:10:47.559 the rest of the show. What they wanted was they 197 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:51.559 wanted Jay there so he could give Trick the rub. 198 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:56.559 That's really That's really all it was. And to that end, 199 00:10:56.639 --> 00:10:58.799 you know, they they did what they wanted to do. 200 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:01.759 But the segment itself not much of a segment. Here. 201 00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:04.879 You know, Wesley calls his shot. He's gonna give Trick 202 00:11:04.919 --> 00:11:07.879 Williams a great match. I mean as a first challenger 203 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:10.399 coming out of last week's title win. You know, Trick 204 00:11:10.440 --> 00:11:14.000 now is a two time champion and Wes Lee as 205 00:11:14.039 --> 00:11:17.080 a challenger to kick off the second reign here for 206 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:20.360 Trick is not a bad idea. Doesn't leave any doubt 207 00:11:20.440 --> 00:11:22.840 as to who's gonna win. All Right, we know it's 208 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:25.840 not gonna be Wes Lee, but the reality is, you know, 209 00:11:25.879 --> 00:11:28.600 Trick needs an opponent. Wes is coming off of a 210 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:32.919 big win over Zach Wentz in that street fight last week, 211 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:35.879 so now he's as strong as he's probably been in 212 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:39.679 a very long time as a single, so it kind 213 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:41.320 of makes sense why they would want him to be 214 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:44.840 next in line. So from this they went directly into 215 00:11:44.879 --> 00:11:48.120 the entrances for the first match of the night, which 216 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:51.919 was the women's North American Champion Colonie Jordan and the 217 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:54.879 women's tag team champions Bianca bell Air and Jade Cargill 218 00:11:56.000 --> 00:12:01.120 taking on Fatal Influence fallon Henley, jac Jane and Jack Nicks. 219 00:12:01.840 --> 00:12:05.519 The story coming into this basically is that Fatal Influence 220 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:08.320 is not a fan of all of these athletes that 221 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:12.480 are populating NXT now who have come from other sports 222 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:16.120 Klonie Jordan, Jade car Gil, Bianca bell Air. They were 223 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:20.279 all great athletes before they ever set foot in wrestling, 224 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:23.080 so they would qualify. So that was sort of the 225 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:27.519 genesis of all this. So the Heels worked over Jordan 226 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:31.320 for a while. Brod wanted Jade, They got Jade. She 227 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:34.879 made a hot tag she was a one woman wrecking 228 00:12:34.919 --> 00:12:37.639 crew in here. She had a fallaway slam on Jasmin Nicks, 229 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:42.159 threw her halfway across the ring, got some height on 230 00:12:42.240 --> 00:12:45.799 a choke slam, choke slam this poor woman. Jacy Jane 231 00:12:45.840 --> 00:12:49.240 finally took her out with a neck breaker. Jordan took 232 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:52.480 out Jace went up top hit a moon sawt onto 233 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:55.840 the floor onto a couple of opponents, or at least 234 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:59.039 that was the idea. She didn't connect with any of them. 235 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:02.399 Not only that, but when she came down on the 236 00:13:02.440 --> 00:13:05.000 moon saw, she over rotated so much she ended up 237 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:09.360 on her back. So I mean, I'm not I'm not 238 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:11.919 gonna give her too much credit for that. In the ring, 239 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:15.200 Biaka and Jade they handled Nicks with their combo ddt 240 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:19.440 into the released German. But they gave Klanie Jordan the spotlight. 241 00:13:19.799 --> 00:13:22.480 They allowed her to go up in her split legged 242 00:13:22.519 --> 00:13:26.200 moonsaw for the wind. And you know, Kalani look good here, 243 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:28.799 which should be the objective to make sure the NXT 244 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:32.559 talent come out of this looking good. And she looked 245 00:13:32.559 --> 00:13:34.919 like she belonged, you know, in their rubbing shoulders with 246 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:37.960 Bianka and Jade. So as with the opening, segment, yet 247 00:13:37.960 --> 00:13:41.240 another example of them utilizing main roster talent to try 248 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:44.759 to highlight and get over the NXT talent, and that 249 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:47.720 would really be a theme throughout this entire show, using 250 00:13:47.799 --> 00:13:52.200 stars from the main roster to mingle with, work with, 251 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:57.039 or wrestle members of the NXT roster to give them 252 00:13:57.080 --> 00:14:00.360 some shine. That's what they did in the main event 253 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:06.279 with Randy Orton. Sarah Schreiber was in the back with Julia, 254 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:10.440 asked her about Roxane Perez and Cora Jade and Julius 255 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:12.240 started to speak, but then there was a knock at 256 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:15.120 the door. Somebody walked in. We could not see who 257 00:14:15.159 --> 00:14:17.840 it was because the camera mean apparently it was frozen 258 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:22.120 in time and refused to move. Maybe he was having 259 00:14:22.159 --> 00:14:25.039 a muscle spasm. I don't know, but he stayed straight 260 00:14:25.159 --> 00:14:28.639 with that camera and Julius said, hello, my old friend. 261 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:34.559 Tell Sarah that we've got it, and then she walked 262 00:14:34.600 --> 00:14:41.399 off intrigue. Don't want to spoil the surprise now, I'm 263 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:43.039 not gonna lie. You know. My first thought when she 264 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:45.200 said hello, my old friend, I was thinking it was 265 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:49.799 going to be EO Sky or somebody. It turned out 266 00:14:49.840 --> 00:14:52.120 that was not the case, but that was my first thought. 267 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:57.360 So then we had Roxane Perez still the ed XT 268 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:00.759 Women's Champion after last week out the ring. Next for 269 00:15:00.799 --> 00:15:04.000 a promo, she gloated about her win over Julia said 270 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:08.200 that an old friendship has reignited, which brought out the 271 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:11.440 returning Coora Jade, who made her first appearance in probably 272 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:14.360 about nine months, nine or ten months on the show 273 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:16.480 last week. She had been out for most of the 274 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:19.360 year with a torn acl among other injuries. I mean, 275 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:22.159 I think her knee basically exploded. So she's been out 276 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:25.480 for a while. So these two used to be friends. 277 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:29.080 Now they're friendly again. All of a sudden, Cora said 278 00:15:29.159 --> 00:15:31.320 she was sick of all this talk about all the 279 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:35.639 great women's talent coming into NXT all year. When she 280 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:38.159 came back, she wanted to make sure that everybody paid 281 00:15:38.679 --> 00:15:42.240 for forgetting about her. She said, Roxanne deserves to be 282 00:15:42.279 --> 00:15:45.559 the NXT Women's Champion. It's the version of Roxanne that 283 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:48.440 she always knew she could be. And now they're back together, 284 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:51.559 and that's really bad for the deepest division quote unquote 285 00:15:51.879 --> 00:15:56.600 in WWE. So Julia's music interrupted. She walked about halfway 286 00:15:56.639 --> 00:16:00.879 down the ramp. Then she stopped and Julia looked behind 287 00:16:01.960 --> 00:16:08.440 and then we saw on the tron Stephanie Veker. She's arrived. 288 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:10.559 We only got her on the tron once before. This 289 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:13.600 is her first in person appearance here, her actual formal 290 00:16:13.639 --> 00:16:17.759 debut here on NXT. And Stephanie comes out. She got 291 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:19.440 a big pop. The two of them hit the ring. 292 00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:22.799 They fought off Roxanne and Cora. Then they both reached down. 293 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:26.120 They picked up the NXT Women's Championship. Stephanie had it 294 00:16:26.159 --> 00:16:28.440 from one end, Julia had it from the other, and 295 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:31.080 they held it up as they looked at Roxanne and 296 00:16:31.159 --> 00:16:35.120 Cora in the aisle, and just like that, just like that, 297 00:16:35.159 --> 00:16:37.240 they've done a good job of shaking up the women's 298 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:41.559 division here in NXT. Roxanne's been the champion for a bit. Cora, though, 299 00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:44.679 is back after nine months on the shelf. Julia just 300 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:47.360 got there. You still got the new car smell with her, 301 00:16:47.960 --> 00:16:50.039 and Stephanie is brand new. This was her first in 302 00:16:50.120 --> 00:16:53.399 person appearance on the show tonight. So just those four alone, 303 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:55.559 we know who is going to be working with who 304 00:16:55.639 --> 00:16:59.120 now for the foreseeable future. And this is to say 305 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:02.159 nothing of Delta. We got another vignette for her tonight 306 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:05.279 as well, from Australia. She's on her way in so 307 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:08.000 I mean, they're really rocking and rolling right now with 308 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:11.079 his women's division in NXT. But as far as these 309 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:14.519 four here, there's any number of combinations that they could 310 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:16.759 work here. You could do the obvious tag team match. 311 00:17:17.640 --> 00:17:21.200 You could pair them off in separate programs, which I 312 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:24.240 don't think they're gonna do that, but that's one way 313 00:17:24.279 --> 00:17:26.480 you can go with it. Or you could just go 314 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:28.440 ahead and set up for a fatal four way match 315 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:31.960 at Halloween Havoc, which I believe is taking place in 316 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:37.119 two weeks. You know, look, Stephanie hasn't even had her 317 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:40.000 first match yet. You know, Seanie, Stephanie will have her 318 00:17:40.039 --> 00:17:44.119 first match next week. They've already announced that. As far 319 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:48.599 as the idea of Stephanie already being involved, you know, 320 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:52.480 in a championship match, you know, it's not really all 321 00:17:52.519 --> 00:17:56.319 that unrealistic when you consider the fact that Juliet had 322 00:17:56.359 --> 00:17:58.440 one match against Chelsea Green and then all of a 323 00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:01.319 sudden she was challenging for the time, right, So if 324 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:03.480 Stephanie goes out there and wins a match next week, 325 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:06.799 it's like, Okay, well, I guess I guess she's qualified now. 326 00:18:06.839 --> 00:18:09.200 She could challenge for the championship, but that would be 327 00:18:09.240 --> 00:18:13.039 stupid though, you know, why push her into that right now? 328 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:17.440 There's no need to jump right into that. I think 329 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:19.000 the way to go is to do the tag team 330 00:18:19.039 --> 00:18:21.400 match at Halloween Havoc and then you can build from there. 331 00:18:23.960 --> 00:18:28.839 We had Obafemi defending the NXT North American Championship against 332 00:18:28.880 --> 00:18:35.680 Tony di'angelo. Tony was the underdog coming into this, as 333 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:40.039 anybody would be. I would think against Oba Femi, but 334 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:42.119 that was the story they've been telling with him. He's 335 00:18:42.119 --> 00:18:45.920 the underdog. Tony, though, had the crowd on his side. 336 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:50.559 He dumped Oba to ringside. Oba, though, choke slammed him 337 00:18:50.559 --> 00:18:53.400 on the apron heading into a commercial break, and he 338 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:57.000 dominated all throughout the break. Tony reversed the power bomb 339 00:18:57.079 --> 00:19:00.119 with the back body drop. Stax was out there, all 340 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:02.839 of his family members out there with him. So Stax 341 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:06.880 was out there, slipped Tony a crowbar, just slid it 342 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:09.519 into the ring, and Tony stares at this thing and 343 00:19:09.599 --> 00:19:13.920 he decides he's not gonna use it. He's gonna go clean. 344 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:19.519 He's gone soft. He doesn't want the help. He wants 345 00:19:19.559 --> 00:19:26.480 to do it all by himself. What a babyface, so 346 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:30.200 Oba reversed a spinebuster. Both men ended up spelling out 347 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:35.759 to the floor. Alba gave stacks and uh Luca and 348 00:19:35.799 --> 00:19:37.400 the other one I don't know the other's name, but 349 00:19:37.799 --> 00:19:40.920 gave them a shove all the members of Tony's family. 350 00:19:41.000 --> 00:19:45.119 Tony saw this, he got very angry. He speared Oba 351 00:19:45.240 --> 00:19:47.960 down to the ground, even got the big guy up 352 00:19:47.960 --> 00:19:50.000 for an overhead belly to belly on the ramp, which 353 00:19:50.039 --> 00:19:52.720 was very impressive. In the ring, both men brawled to 354 00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:55.559 the top rope, Oba dumped him out to the floor, 355 00:19:55.599 --> 00:19:58.799 and then he cleared off the announced desk and Oba 356 00:19:58.839 --> 00:20:01.319 was goo a power bomb. Tony reversed out of a 357 00:20:01.400 --> 00:20:06.839 power bomb attempt and he delivers a spinebuster to Oba 358 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:10.200 through the table. So Tony drags Oba into the ring, 359 00:20:10.519 --> 00:20:12.079 only able to get a two count out of it. 360 00:20:12.119 --> 00:20:15.839 Oba sat up like a monster, grabbed him by the throat. 361 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:18.960 Tony reversed the choke slam into a sunset flip for 362 00:20:19.079 --> 00:20:26.319 the shock Pin to win the NXT North American Championship, 363 00:20:27.039 --> 00:20:31.200 ending what I believe was the longest North American title 364 00:20:31.240 --> 00:20:37.000 reign since that title was conceived, since Uh Mommy and 365 00:20:37.079 --> 00:20:39.599 Daddy got together and nine months later Out popped out 366 00:20:39.599 --> 00:20:43.200 the North American title, so ends the longest rain in 367 00:20:43.319 --> 00:20:47.039 NXT history. Tony and the family celebrated after the match. 368 00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:50.680 He was draped in the Italian flag and it was 369 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:53.720 a great moment and everybody was cheering for Tony and 370 00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:57.000 very happy. And I thought the match itself really good stuff, 371 00:20:57.160 --> 00:20:59.839 better than their No Mercy match. I did watch No Mercy. 372 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:05.200 This was better than that. But if the story sounds 373 00:21:05.359 --> 00:21:08.960 kind of familiar, if cm punk may not know because 374 00:21:08.960 --> 00:21:11.720 cempunk evidently has never seen any of the Rocky movies. 375 00:21:12.920 --> 00:21:16.839 But this was copied directly from Rocky three. Like literally, 376 00:21:17.359 --> 00:21:24.079 there were segments that they ever sidro, Hey, Sidrow, what's 377 00:21:24.079 --> 00:21:29.160 going on? Thank you man? There were literally segments on 378 00:21:29.319 --> 00:21:33.000 NXT television okay over the last several weeks where they 379 00:21:33.160 --> 00:21:39.200 lifted copy text lines from the movie. They didn't bother 380 00:21:39.279 --> 00:21:42.920 to change any of it. They were literally quoting lines 381 00:21:42.960 --> 00:21:46.279 from Rocky three. So that is where the story comes from. 382 00:21:46.359 --> 00:21:48.839 They've been playing this out now for at least a 383 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:52.119 month now, word for word. Didn't even try to hide it. 384 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:56.200 So if you follow that story, then he had to 385 00:21:56.240 --> 00:21:58.759 win the championship. The payoff was always going to be 386 00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:01.200 him winning the championship, and yet still I call it 387 00:22:01.240 --> 00:22:04.519 a shock win because a big part of me just 388 00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:06.720 didn't think they were actually going to do a title 389 00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:09.839 change here. I thought there was a chance that Tony 390 00:22:09.839 --> 00:22:12.480 would lose and maybe he would get called up. Him 391 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:14.440 and the other family members would get called up to 392 00:22:14.519 --> 00:22:17.160 raw or SmackDown. You know, he's been down there now 393 00:22:17.160 --> 00:22:18.960 in NXT for a few years. I mean, he was 394 00:22:19.039 --> 00:22:21.480 really part of the launch of that whole two point 395 00:22:21.559 --> 00:22:24.359 zero era, the Rainbow era, when two point zero first 396 00:22:24.440 --> 00:22:27.240 kicked off and they were doing the goofy gimmicks. He 397 00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:29.799 was one of those guys. And when was that. That 398 00:22:29.960 --> 00:22:34.160 was three years ago now it was twenty twenty one 399 00:22:34.279 --> 00:22:35.839 or twenty twenty two. I want to say it was 400 00:22:35.839 --> 00:22:39.559 twenty twenty one when they blew everything up. So, you know, 401 00:22:39.640 --> 00:22:41.720