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Speaker 2: He everyone, It's Jay for your NXT review for April eighth,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. How y'all doing today. It's been a
Speaker 2: rough week for me. I'm not gonna lie. I wish
Speaker 2: things coul get better, but I definitely watch NXT because
Speaker 2: we are on the road to stand and deliver. As
Speaker 2: they told you probably a whole bunch of times. Did
Speaker 2: you know? Did you know we were on the road
Speaker 2: to WrestleMania and stand and deliver? Did you know? Did
Speaker 2: you know? Because they told us, They told us the
Speaker 2: last two days a Monday and Tuesday nights, they told us.
Speaker 2: I can't tell you how many times I lost count.
Speaker 2: I lost count. There was so many times. But anyway,
Speaker 2: were on the road to stand and deliver. And it
Speaker 2: seems like every NXT is doing a really good job
Speaker 2: doing having things progress forward. And it took a long
Speaker 2: time to get here. We're only we're only like what
Speaker 2: ten days from this recording room, like well nine days
Speaker 2: from Stand and Deliver, and and they're still putting together
Speaker 2: the card. They're doing that for WrestleMania too, which I
Speaker 2: thought was really strange. Like there was just an Instagram
Speaker 2: post from Nick Aldis saying that there's gonna be a
Speaker 2: match of WrestleMania between Damian Priest and Drew McIntyre, and
Speaker 2: it's like, yeah, we know, dude, thanks for letting us know,
Speaker 2: Like we figured out that that was gonna happen. And
Speaker 2: there's they didn't do a twist tonight NXT for the
Speaker 2: women's title more one than I don't think anybody was expecting,
Speaker 2: which I'll talk about in a second, but but we're
Speaker 2: getting there. I will tell you, well, yeah, I guess
Speaker 2: I'll run some stuff. I will tell you that this
Speaker 2: WrestleMania Slash Stand in Delivery season weekend seems like it's
Speaker 2: heavy on the multi person matches, triple threats. There's a
Speaker 2: few fatal four ways, there's a six one ladder match
Speaker 2: for NXT. Uh. It's just it's so many multi person,
Speaker 2: I say, multi person, multi man, multi woman matches, and
Speaker 2: I just don't understand why there's so many. I guess
Speaker 2: they just want to get as many people in as possible.
Speaker 2: Although I saw this thing about on Stroman about how
Speaker 2: I feel like braun Stroman is is kind of the
Speaker 2: unsung hero this year. He's basically doing everything that they're
Speaker 2: asking him to do, but then they leave him off
Speaker 2: of the card at WrestleMania, which I think is kind
Speaker 2: of it's kind of b yes, you know, it's kind
Speaker 2: of yes that they would leave him off of WrestleMania card. Hopefully,
Speaker 2: you know, he has some kind of a thing happening there,
Speaker 2: but but he has really been like he's he's really
Speaker 2: put over right now, He's putting over the the some
Speaker 2: of the other guys. He's putting over l A. Knight,
Speaker 2: He's putting over Jacob Fachu. I know this isn't a
Speaker 2: main event podcast, you know show, but you know, a
Speaker 2: main roster show. But still I like to talk about
Speaker 2: it because it goes into the fact that they're having
Speaker 2: multi person matches all over the place the entire weekend.
Speaker 2: But then braun Stroman gets luffed off, which I think
Speaker 2: is kind of sad. I do think, just again, to
Speaker 2: wrap this up. I do think the unsung hero of
Speaker 2: WWE all Together, like like in Toto, is Seth Rollins
Speaker 2: like to me, Seth Rowland like Seth Rollins for the
Speaker 2: last Like I think about this for a second, I
Speaker 2: just I'm gonna leave it at this. If Seth Rollins
Speaker 2: doesn't do the deed for Cody Rhodes, there may not
Speaker 2: be a Cody Rhods right now. Like I know the story, YadA, YadA, YadA,
Speaker 2: but Seth Rollins, first he loses to him at WrestleMania
Speaker 2: as a surprise opponent, then he loses to him again,
Speaker 2: then he loses to him, and a hell in a
Speaker 2: cell with Cody has half an arm. Anyway, I need
Speaker 2: to move on NXT. I apologize. I go off on
Speaker 2: a tangent. So this week's NXT again from the Performance Center,
Speaker 2: because you know, we're going full force into Vegas next week,
Speaker 2: Vegas Baby, and we were till it was on April eighth,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Again from the Performance Center. I went
Speaker 2: to Part Florida. We had your commentators Vic, Joseph Booker,
Speaker 2: t and Corey Graves. We had your ring announcer Mike Rome,
Speaker 2: and we are going full force. So The first thing
Speaker 2: that happens is before we go into the ring. The
Speaker 2: first thing that happens is Stephanie v A Kerr tells
Speaker 2: Kelly Kincaid, one of the you know, she's not one
Speaker 2: of the interviewers in the back, that she will make
Speaker 2: her decision regarding the NXT Women's Championship matches stand deliver
Speaker 2: after the upcoming match. And the upcoming match was Jordan
Speaker 2: Grace and Jada Parker. And obviously we know this. It's
Speaker 2: been a couple of weeks now. It has been an
Speaker 2: ongoing thing between Jordan and Jada. So this was kind
Speaker 2: of the match that culminated it. And they were kind
Speaker 2: of Vic Joseph was trying to trying to like call
Speaker 2: it an unofficial Number one contenders match, like basically, so
Speaker 2: Stephanie went out for commentary, although you know, she really
Speaker 2: able to say much because English isn't her language, Like
Speaker 2: I understand that, but Vic Joseph's trying to get her
Speaker 2: to say, like, so you're picking the person that wins
Speaker 2: this matches. She wouldn't commit to that, so and we'll
Speaker 2: see why in a second. So we had Jordan Grace
Speaker 2: was Jada Parker. This was a great match. Listen, Jordan
Speaker 2: Grace not only is she great a great wrestler, but
Speaker 2: she's a great seller. She made Jada Parker. I like, Listen,
Speaker 2: I love Jada Parker. I think she's awesome. She's going
Speaker 2: to be in the main roster, I believe at some
Speaker 2: point in the future. But she's not Jordan and she's
Speaker 2: not Stephanie. She's really good, but they are superior, and
Speaker 2: that's that's just the way I feel. But but Jordan
Speaker 2: made her look really good in this match. And at
Speaker 2: the end of the match, we have Parker going for
Speaker 2: a dragon sleeper, but then Grace counters with with dragon
Speaker 2: sleeper of her own. Parker then hits a niche, a
Speaker 2: couple of knee strikes, and then has a gourdbuster, but
Speaker 2: Grace avoids the hypnotic, which is that hip bump that
Speaker 2: she does. It's her finishing move. Grace then lands a
Speaker 2: suicide dive. If this is a suicide dive that I'm
Speaker 2: thinking of, though, I gotta remember she she got totally
Speaker 2: got her toes caught on the rope. She hit up
Speaker 2: side of the mat and the ground hard. There has
Speaker 2: been multiple people recently that have done suicide dives that
Speaker 2: keep getting caught in the ropes, and I don't know
Speaker 2: if this is a there's a reason for that or what.
Speaker 2: But there's been like like jay Uso did that one time,
Speaker 2: and there's another time, I believe, so I don't forget
Speaker 2: who it was. And then now Jordan, Grace tries a
Speaker 2: suicide dive and gets her toes caught in the rope.
Speaker 2: So I wonder if the ropes are closer together or something.
Speaker 2: I don't know. And then Grace uh hits four I'm
Speaker 2: sures and eventually inadvertently closed lines Stephanie outside the ring,
Speaker 2: which and then and then Stephanie no, Stephanie inavertnity closed
Speaker 2: lines Jordan, which then leads to a disqualification. After the match,
Speaker 2: all help kind of breaks loose and Julia in the
Speaker 2: middle of all three of them fighting. Julia comes out
Speaker 2: and she helps Stephanie take care of Jordan and Jada,
Speaker 2: and then Julia attacks Stephanie. And there's a couple of things.
Speaker 2: Number One, I didn't think Julia would be back this soon.
Speaker 2: I thought the whole reason for me, I thought the
Speaker 2: whole reason why Julia and Stephanie fought at Roadblock. A
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago was because Julia was hurt and
Speaker 2: she was gonna be out for a little while. Apparently
Speaker 2: that's not the case. She's back. And not only that,
Speaker 2: later on we find out I'm just gonna say it
Speaker 2: now for the sake of time. Later on we find
Speaker 2: out that Stephanie decided that she's going to fight all
Speaker 2: three of them in a fatal four way for the
Speaker 2: women's title. So we have a triple threat for the
Speaker 2: men's NXT title, and we have a fatal four way
Speaker 2: for the women's NXT title. So who the heck knows
Speaker 2: is gonna win? I can tell you. I could tell
Speaker 2: you two people that are probably not gonna win and
Speaker 2: in my predictions, and I'll do my predictions next week.
Speaker 2: But the two people I think that are probably not
Speaker 2: gonna win are Javon Evans, just and not because he's
Speaker 2: not good enough, because it's just not yet his time.
Speaker 2: I don't think Javon Evans is gonna win the NXT
Speaker 2: men's title, and I don't think for the reasons I
Speaker 2: just said, I don't think that Jada Parker is gonna
Speaker 2: win the women's title. I think it's either gonna be
Speaker 2: Stephanie retaining Jordan Grace winning or Julia recapturing. But I
Speaker 2: would say tend to tend to tend to believe that
Speaker 2: Julia won't regain the title. So it's really in my mind.
Speaker 2: And now, like I said, I'm gonna think on it
Speaker 2: and come up with predictions next week. In my mind,
Speaker 2: I think that it's either between Jordan or Stephanie, and
Speaker 2: I haven't figured that out yet, but I will. Anyway,
Speaker 2: Jordan Grace wins the match via disqualification, and then Julia
Speaker 2: Julia attacks Stephanie. I guess, as I said, and I
Speaker 2: read a tweet or something. I think it was a
Speaker 2: tweet that said that Julia Julia is there to win
Speaker 2: a championship back, not to not to make friends, which
Speaker 2: is why she she turned on Stephanie. So I was
Speaker 2: kind of a bit of a heel turn. I'm guessing
Speaker 2: it's a heel turn because everybody loves Stephanie from what
Speaker 2: I can tell, Like if you watch the Performance Center,
Speaker 2: all the fans there, they all really seem like they
Speaker 2: they they they're they're backing Stephanie. I think they think
Speaker 2: Stephanie's is And when I was at MSG and Stephanie
Speaker 2: won the title, she definitely was the fan favorite. So anyway,
Speaker 2: after after that, by the way, this ended really abruptly.
Speaker 2: It was really weird. It's like all of a sudden
Speaker 2: they were doing it and it was boom, it was done.
Speaker 2: It was and it was short. It wasn't I mean,
Speaker 2: it wasn't like terribly long. It was like maybe like
Speaker 2: ten minutes total, because you know, they had the commercials
Speaker 2: and everything. But anyway, after this, we have a video
Speaker 2: recav a Ricky Saints winning the North American Championship and
Speaker 2: then getting attacked by Ethan Page after the match. Then
Speaker 2: I mentioned them last week. There's a group named Swipe
Speaker 2: right there on w W E Evolve, which is the
Speaker 2: show on twob again if you like wrestling, it's actually
Speaker 2: it's it's more wrestling than story, but their story too.
Speaker 2: But they're wrestling there because they're all like young kids
Speaker 2: or people that are like have been around for a
Speaker 2: little while. There's one woman I forgot her name, she's
Speaker 2: from she was from TNA. They are it's wrestling at
Speaker 2: its like kids trying to make themselves look good so
Speaker 2: they can get up to the NXT roster and eventually
Speaker 2: the main roster. So uh, Swipe Wright talks to Hank
Speaker 2: and Tank in the backstage area and they want to
Speaker 2: take some notes during the match with Phraxium. So Swipe
Speaker 2: Wright is facing Phraxium tonight. Then we have the Culling
Speaker 2: making a promise to show on Spears that do everything
Speaker 2: they can to get back his NXT North American Championship.
Speaker 2: Spears appreciates the passion, but the title is no longer
Speaker 2: the focus. The title was a vessel to bring them closer.
Speaker 2: Spears wants collective success, just individuals, So tonight the focus
Speaker 2: is on Easy Dame qualifying for the Women's North American
Speaker 2: Championship ladder match at stand and deliver. Don't dwell on
Speaker 2: what happened last week, he says, focus on what what
Speaker 2: she can achieve. Spears is standing sending Brooks and Nico
Speaker 2: after Hank and Tank. Two.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Then we have a match between Fraxing and Swipe right.
Speaker 2: Swipe Wright is is really good. They're annoying, but that's
Speaker 2: the character. But I would so they're not in it.
Speaker 2: They're not officially on n XT. They're on they're on Evolve,
Speaker 2: But if they were on NXT, I would actually put
Speaker 2: them probably middle to high middle of the pack of
Speaker 2: the tag teams on an XT, and they're a real team.
Speaker 2: They're not just two guys thrown together. They they're a
Speaker 2: real team. They have a real real tag team name,
Speaker 2: you know. And they're like swipe right there, they're they're
Speaker 2: both like and there I think lower twenty. So it's
Speaker 2: it's a good it's a good name for them, uh
Speaker 2: to kind of go along with their young youngness. I guess. Uh.
Speaker 2: It was a great match. The match was great. Uh,
Speaker 2: swipe right put on a good show. And I mean,
Speaker 2: and Phraxium is Phraxium. The only reason I think, the
Speaker 2: only reason why Phraxim is still in the NXT is
Speaker 2: because there's no other good tag teams right now. That too,
Speaker 2: and if they moved up to the main roster, and
Speaker 2: they have been dabbling with Phraxium separately on the main
Speaker 2: roster with Acxium going against gun Gunther and then last
Speaker 2: week on SmackDown, Nathan Fraser went against oh my god,
Speaker 2: Ray Phoenix. So yeah, but it was it was, like
Speaker 2: I said, Swipe right and phrasing was a great match. Ultimately,
Speaker 2: of course Phraxie wins. They you know, they're they're not
Speaker 2: gonna get beaten by a team that's from the lower level.
Speaker 2: I guess we'll say for a lack of a better term,
Speaker 2: but but it was a great match, high quality, Probably
Speaker 2: the match of the night as far as wrestling goes,
Speaker 2: as far as actual wrestling goes. Praxium and Swape right
Speaker 2: was probably the match of the night, I would say,
Speaker 2: but Fraxium ends up winning. And then the reason the
Speaker 2: way they won was uh, Axiom did the the Avalanche
Speaker 2: Spanish Fly, which, let me tell you to me, every
Speaker 2: time Axiom does the Spanish Fly from the top rope,
Speaker 2: it's a thing of beauty. And then and then followed
Speaker 2: right up by Nathan Frazier doing the Phoenix splash, Like
Speaker 2: that's just it's so they're so they're so good, They're
Speaker 2: so good. They they really they could give, They really
Speaker 2: could give the tag teams and the main roster like
Speaker 2: they I would almost say they're the best tag team
Speaker 2: in all of w w E. I know that the
Speaker 2: Street Profits and the rest of them have been around,
Speaker 2: you know, and New Day have been around a long time,
Speaker 2: a lot longer, but like, they're really good and I
Speaker 2: really hope they don't break them up. I know this
Speaker 2: is different than what I've said in the past, but
Speaker 2: that was before. This is now. A person can change
Speaker 2: their mind, but yeah, they need to eventually that help
Speaker 2: they go to the main roster because the tight team
Speaker 2: division on the main roster, especially in raw, needs something
Speaker 2: like them. Then we see Fallon Halle and J C.
Speaker 2: Jane bickering with each other about who should represent Fatal
Speaker 2: Influence of the Women's North American Championship Ladder Match qualifier,
Speaker 2: and then Jasmin basically says nope, I got it, I'm
Speaker 2: doing it, and then she walks out. So the third
Speaker 2: match we have is so Ruka Mazari in her corner
Speaker 2: against Jasmine next with the rest of Fatal Influence in
Speaker 2: her corner, and it's a Women's North American Championship Ladder
Speaker 2: Match qualifier. That's a lot to say. Another great match again,
Speaker 2: And I know I keep saying this, and they obviously
Speaker 2: they're not going to keep bouncing people up to the
Speaker 2: mean roster, and I don't think this is gonna happen
Speaker 2: anytime soon. But so Ruka is She's gonna be on
Speaker 2: the main roster at some point, her finisher, and I
Speaker 2: think that when the when the normal regular, every day
Speaker 2: non nxt w W E fans, So like not us
Speaker 2: who watch nx T every week, but the but the
Speaker 2: WWE fans that have not seen the up and comers,
Speaker 2: when they see sol Ruka's soul catchers like a cutter
Speaker 2: that she does the sole Catcher, they're gonna be like,
Speaker 2: what the heck was that? It's so it's so good
Speaker 2: and she's so smooth at doing it. She hasn't winning
Speaker 2: the match with this, but the soul catcher because you know, hey,
Speaker 2: I mean, it's like you don't get up from that,
Speaker 2: the soul snatcher. Soul Snatcher, I think I think it
Speaker 2: was just soul snatcher. But yeah, that was It was
Speaker 2: a great match, not a huge I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 2: Jasmin Nicks was just okay, but so Rucas is awesome.
Speaker 2: And so now it's interestingly we have so Ruka and
Speaker 2: Zaria both in the ladder match at Santa Delivery, so
Speaker 2: that that will be interesting, I think. Then Sarah Schaeffer,
Speaker 2: she's backstage an interview with Javon Evans. He knows, he
Speaker 2: knows what Dark State is. If Oba and Trick would
Speaker 2: have listened to him, they would have they would not
Speaker 2: be in the position they are tonight. He's tired of
Speaker 2: the little bro treatment and he's coming for the NXT Championship,
Speaker 2: and Javon is taking all of this step by step,
Speaker 2: he says. Then a reporter tried to ask Julia and
Speaker 2: the NXT parking lot why she attacked your best friend,
Speaker 2: and she's she wants to rematch with Stephanie a stand
Speaker 2: and deliver great Like that would be awesome. Obviously I've
Speaker 2: already ruined it and said what Stephanie decided, but that
Speaker 2: would like to have Stephanie and Julia go one on
Speaker 2: one without the confines of the NXT show on the
Speaker 2: CW would be so much better. Like the fact and
Speaker 2: I said this before the fact that there was I
Speaker 2: think I said this with DJ Kuzmo at the time.
Speaker 2: The fact that there was a time women on the
Speaker 2: episode and they were the last match really kind of
Speaker 2: I think it really didn't do them justice. Like it
Speaker 2: was a great match, don't get me wrong, but it
Speaker 2: would have been so much better if they didn't have
Speaker 2: the actual time constrain of the two hours of NXT
Speaker 2: on the CW. So then we have a fourth match,
Speaker 2: which is the Culling versus Hank and Tank. This was
Speaker 2: really just another another way for Hank and Tank to
Speaker 2: lose a match. I like Hank and Tank. They're fun,
Speaker 2: but you know, they're going on this losing streak and
Speaker 2: I am sure there's a purpose for it down the line,
Speaker 2: but they've literally not want to match it and then
Speaker 2: they're going every week and every week they're losing to
Speaker 2: No Quarter Catch Crew. This week they lost to the Culling.
Speaker 2: They've lost to like basically every tag team there is.
Speaker 2: So like I said, eventually, I'm sure there's gonna be
Speaker 2: a Hank and Tank payoff, which I'm looking looking forward to.
Speaker 2: To be honest, like I said, I like them. They're
Speaker 2: good guys. I mean, they're not the greatest wrestlers in
Speaker 2: the world. They look like, Yeah, they looked like they
Speaker 2: just stood up from a lawn chair, grabbed a beer
Speaker 2: and started wrestling. That they did that. That's to me
Speaker 2: the way they look. Not that that's a problem, but
Speaker 2: you know, that's their character. But it was a good match.
Speaker 2: It was a decent match Hank and Tank. You know,
Speaker 2: it really looked like they were gonna pull it out
Speaker 2: at the end, but unfortunately they did end up losing
Speaker 2: by a dominator flying knee drop combination from the color.
Speaker 2: So uh. Then there's a huh. There's a segment. It
Speaker 2: started by Ricky Saints. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: go through what everything was said because it was a long,
Speaker 2: long drawn out uh thing. I think it went too
Speaker 2: which times, too much, they put too many. I think
Speaker 2: they're setting up like, literally, they're gonna be setting up
Speaker 2: another multi person, multi man match, it seems like for
Speaker 2: the North American title now. And I thought we were
Speaker 2: getting Ricky Saints and Ethan Page and one on one,
Speaker 2: but it seems like now they're setting up like a
Speaker 2: five person fatal five man fatal four away or whatever
Speaker 2: for the NXT North American title. I don't know if
Speaker 2: this is where they're going with it, but they have.
Speaker 2: First we have Ricky Saints out there talking. Then Lexis
Speaker 2: King comes out and gives his spiel. Then Eddie Thorpe
Speaker 2: gives out, comes out and talks about how the North
Speaker 2: American title is his birthright because of the way that
Speaker 2: the white man stole his land. I mean, please, sorry,
Speaker 2: but come on. Then Wes Lee comes out and says,
Speaker 2: you can't talk about the North American title without talking
Speaker 2: about Wesley and that's true because he is the second
Speaker 2: longest running North American champion. And then finally Ethan Page
Speaker 2: comes out. There's a big braw with all the guys.
Speaker 2: Ethan Page basically lays out Ricky Saints again for the
Speaker 2: second week in a row. I hope, I hope they
Speaker 2: do Ricky versus Ethan one on one fan and deliver.
Speaker 2: But the way this is set up looks like it
Speaker 2: could be it could very well be a five person
Speaker 2: match of some kind for the North American title. I
Speaker 2: guess we'll find out next week because as of right now,
Speaker 2: Ricky Saints doesn't have a match to defend the title.
Speaker 2: So we'll see next week what happens. By the way,
Speaker 2: Standon's Delivered is looking to be something really special and
Speaker 2: I'm really looking forward to seeing it. Okay, Then we
Speaker 2: have Stephanie in Stephanie vcour in Ava's office with mister
Speaker 2: Stone and Stevie Turner there, and she's made a decision.
Speaker 2: Like I said before, She's gonna go against Julia, Jordan
Speaker 2: and Jada in a fatal four way match. So that's
Speaker 2: what that's what the Stephanie's title defense will be. And
Speaker 2: I'll like you gotta talk about the predictions late next
Speaker 2: week when I when we find out what all the
Speaker 2: matches are because Reserve Right now, as of this moment
Speaker 2: in time, we still don't know what all the matches are. Okay,
Speaker 2: who a lot going on? Sarah Shreiver, She's backstage with
Speaker 2: an interview with Trick Williams. He's not here for any
Speaker 2: SOB story, but every time it comes to trying to
Speaker 2: get his title back, there's always someone in the way
Speaker 2: for Setdie Thorpe. Now Javon Evans taking a look at
Speaker 2: his resume. He's leaving Standon's Deliver with a title around
Speaker 2: his waist. He's he's concerned about the dark State. He
Speaker 2: needs Obafemi and Javon to bring their a game tonight. However,
Speaker 2: at stand and Deliver, the Trick is going to kick
Speaker 2: both of their butts. He didn't say bups PG show
Speaker 2: trying to keep it PG. Then the fifth match we
Speaker 2: have is Wes Lee against Yo Yoshiki anymore, I never
Speaker 2: I'm never gonna say his name right, another great match.
Speaker 2: I like Yoshiki, like his style. I hope to see
Speaker 2: more of him in singles competition. I mean he's good
Speaker 2: with Josh Briggs, Don't get me wrong. But like him
Speaker 2: in singles competition, and he's like, I guess he's like
Speaker 2: a mini sumo wrestler, Like he kind of did some
Speaker 2: sumo moves, but he's not like like a huge sumo
Speaker 2: wrestler like obviously yokozuna, you know, Rodney andoy he was
Speaker 2: bigger than life. But even like even like the regular
Speaker 2: size sumo wrestlers are pretty decently sized, he's not very big.
Speaker 2: He does the sumo thing, so I'm guessing that's his
Speaker 2: that's his stick in Japan, which is fine. He's uh,
Speaker 2: he was, you know, he was. It was a good match.
Speaker 2: Not the match of the evening. I mean, Wesley is
Speaker 2: always Wesley, but it was it was a very good match.
Speaker 2: I know I'm going through these these things quick, but
Speaker 2: there's a lot going on and I need to I
Speaker 2: need to have dinner, to be quite honest, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: have dinner. But I wanted to get this done because
Speaker 2: I wanted I wanted to be sure that you guys
Speaker 2: had a chance to hear it before the weekend. Then.
Speaker 2: Uh so the winner of the match ended up being
Speaker 2: Wes Lee. Uh he ended up doing a cardio kick
Speaker 2: to get to win. So I literally you know, the
Speaker 2: cardio kick is really cool too. Then we have a
Speaker 2: promo with Obafemi. He says, Dark State, your presence in
Speaker 2: here in NXT seemed to put the entire locker room
Speaker 2: on edge. Everyone is wondering what you will when you
Speaker 2: will strike, and where you will strike from. And the
Speaker 2: Ruler knows all too well about that. In addition, you
Speaker 2: attacking you're attacking me last week. I haven't forgotten about
Speaker 2: what you did to me at Vengeance Day because you
Speaker 2: hit me with your with your last shot, with your
Speaker 2: best shot, and you fail to put me down. So
Speaker 2: tonight I'm going to return the favor. And when I'm
Speaker 2: done with you, you four fools, I will turn my
Speaker 2: attention fully to Trick Williams and Javon Evans, because in
Speaker 2: two weeks I will be it will be there, it's
Speaker 2: only nine days. It will be their opportunity to hit
Speaker 2: me with their best shot, and they will find out
Speaker 2: the hard way that the Ruler can't be stopped and
Speaker 2: they will suffer the same fate that Dark State will
Speaker 2: suffer tonight, and that is defeat at the hands of Obafemi.
Speaker 2: So the sixth match we have is is he Dame
Speaker 2: versus Ren Sinclair again. I love Ren Sinclair. I think
Speaker 2: she's funny. If you ever ever watch her TikTok, she
Speaker 2: does like this this Wednesday, every Wenesday. Every Wednesday, she
Speaker 2: comes out with a TikTok. It's funny, it's cute. There's
Speaker 2: no she had no chance against Izzy Dame and even
Speaker 2: if she did win, for some reason, she would have
Speaker 2: had zero chances, the same as when she was in
Speaker 2: the Irish Iron Survivor Challenge earlier this year, like she
Speaker 2: would have zero chance of winning. But she didn't even qualify.
Speaker 2: Izzy Dame Pope came out on top decent match. All
Speaker 2: the matches were decent tonight. I mean there was the one,
Speaker 2: the one tag team match with Fraxinem and Swipe Ray.
Speaker 2: I think to me took the night, but it was
Speaker 2: that was about pure wrestling style. But yeah, no, it
Speaker 2: was a decent match. And Issy Dame comes out on
Speaker 2: top of winds. And so now we have four four
Speaker 2: people involved in the the women's ladder match for the
Speaker 2: women the North American title. We have Zoe Ruka so
Speaker 2: Ruka Zaria, we have Izzy Dame and so somebody else
Speaker 2: I can't think of right now. I'll let you know
Speaker 2: next week. I'll let you know next week when I
Speaker 2: do my when I do my predictions. But we still
Speaker 2: have two more qualifiers for next Tuesday. We'll find out
Speaker 2: who the other two other qualifiers are and then we
Speaker 2: will get ready for the match on like a week
Speaker 2: from Saturday. Who Ava tells. Then David tells Roxane Perez,
Speaker 2: Last Last Legend and Fatal Influence that there won't be
Speaker 2: any last chance qualifying match this year and they should
Speaker 2: have won their matches. Ava has an idea for standing
Speaker 2: deliver in Roxanne says that she could not be not
Speaker 2: be a tag team because she doesn't have a tag
Speaker 2: team partner. It seems like they're going to be doing
Speaker 2: Fatal Influence versus the Meta Meta girls and Roxanne. Great,
Speaker 2: you know, great idea. I think it's just a way
Speaker 2: to get Roxanne and Lash like on the card because
Speaker 2: like Roxanne like she's I think her next step is
Speaker 2: to go to the main roster. I just don't know
Speaker 2: how it went. So h Then you're Riah Connors and
Speaker 2: Cale Dixon still wants guidance from Andre Chase. There's a
Speaker 2: little thing about that. Then we have Hank and Tank
Speaker 2: talking to the street Profits in the backstage area, and
Speaker 2: then they said they're going and there's going to be
Speaker 2: in the street. Profits say to them there's going to
Speaker 2: be ups and downs, and Ford tells Hank and Tank
Speaker 2: to lean into who they are. They don't have to
Speaker 2: be doing it, they don't have to do anything different.
Speaker 2: They just be Hank in Tank and the Profits tell
Speaker 2: Hank and Tank that there will be a tag team
Speaker 2: goal in match next week and the winners will battle
Speaker 2: fraxing it for the NXT Championship at Stand and Deliver
Speaker 2: and it's time to lock in. It's time to stand
Speaker 2: and deliver. And this is where I think that they
Speaker 2: they elevate Hank and Tank, right, So they've built so
Speaker 2: every other tie team so far has been a subplot
Speaker 2: to Hank and Tank constantly losing. However, there's by the way,
Speaker 2: I hate Gotland matches. I think gonlet matches are the
Speaker 2: stupidest things in the world. The fact that somebody has
Speaker 2: to potentially go for like for like four or five matches,
Speaker 2: depending on how many teams or people are in a
Speaker 2: gantlet matches. It's ridiculous. Hate Goldlet matches. There's gonna be
Speaker 2: one for the women's tag team titles on UH on SmackDown.
Speaker 2: I think there's gonna be a goal on the match
Speaker 2: for the women's tag team titles, and now there's gonna
Speaker 2: be a goallet match for the NXT Tag titles. And
Speaker 2: again I just to me, it's it's I wish there
Speaker 2: was a better way to do it. But either way,
Speaker 2: like like I like the whole tag team Battle royal thing.
Speaker 2: That was really cool. I should bring that back. But anyway,
Speaker 2: I have a feeling that this is this is a
Speaker 2: way to get Hank in Tank to be able to
Speaker 2: to be able to go against Fraxing for the tag
Speaker 2: titles and potentially we're the tag titles and not because
Speaker 2: they're obviously they're not better than Phraxing, but you know,
Speaker 2: Frank Fractionings had the titles for a while, and who
Speaker 2: knows what I mean now that they're kind of playing
Speaker 2: with them on the main roster, like both Axiom and
Speaker 2: Nathan Fraser, maybe they're trying to maybe they're trying to
Speaker 2: see about moving them forward. Who knows, we'll have to say.
Speaker 2: But anyway, there's gonna be a go on match next week,
Speaker 2: so we'll see how that goes next week on XTVE
Speaker 2: and Page will battle West will battle Wesley Kay and
Speaker 2: Ethan Page for a fatal four way match in the
Speaker 2: winner will go against Rickey Saints. I'm totally missed that.
Speaker 2: I totally miss that. You know, when it happens, I'm
Speaker 2: watching it as I go through my day, so sometimes
Speaker 2: you know, I'm making dinner while I'm watching it and
Speaker 2: I miss something. But so anyway, so Ethan Page will
Speaker 2: go against Wesley lexis Ki and what's his name Eddie
Speaker 2: Thorpe for on a fatal four we match, and the
Speaker 2: winner will go against Ricky Saints for the North American
Speaker 2: Titles standards delivery plus the final two qualifying matches. So
Speaker 2: this is this is I honestly think that this is
Speaker 2: just a way for Ethan Page to qualify to go
Speaker 2: against Ricky Saints. How could you not have Ethan versus
Speaker 2: Ricky Saints. You have to you have to, right right,
Speaker 2: you have to final match, seventh match. There were seven matches,
Speaker 2: seven matches on Tuesday. Then we have Obaa, Trick Williams
Speaker 2: and Javan Evans versus Dark State. This was a fun match.
Speaker 2: At the beginning, you didn't really know who the three
Speaker 2: members of the four of Dark State were going to
Speaker 2: go against each other. To be honest, I don't remember
Speaker 2: other names, so I know three of the guys ended
Speaker 2: up being in the match against Oba, Trick, and Javon.
Speaker 2: Javon is trying to be the kind of the glue
Speaker 2: that keeps him together because, you know, like the cheerleader,
Speaker 2: let's go, guys, we can beat him, YadA YadA. Turns
Speaker 2: out the answer to that is no, you can't. And
Speaker 2: the reason why was because Oba and Trick ended up
Speaker 2: getting into a brawl on the outside, which left Javon
Speaker 2: Evans in the ring by himself, and he got destroyed
Speaker 2: by Dark State. He got destroyed by them. They did
Speaker 2: that whole power bomb thing. We're two of the guys
Speaker 2: like kind of like a kind of like a Bloodline
Speaker 2: two point zero power bomb, but got Jacob two power
Speaker 2: bomb with one guy doing a power bomb. But anyway,
Speaker 2: it's hard to describe. One guy's on the ropes, two
Speaker 2: guys are pushing him down. Great move. They didn't They
Speaker 2: didn't really execute it very well, to be honest, but
Speaker 2: it's a great move nonetheless, and they painted Javon Evans,
Speaker 2: so Dark State actually won the match, and then after
Speaker 2: the match, Stacks gets up and says that next week
Speaker 2: they're they're going to do a match between a three
Speaker 2: way tag match between the family, the D'Angelo family versus
Speaker 2: Dark State, So we're looking we have to look forward
Speaker 2: to that next week as well. Wow seven, with all
Speaker 2: the other stuff going on, it was so packed this week.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize how packed it was until I started
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Speaker 2: do that though, That's how we get paid anyway. Anyway,
Speaker 2: can't wait for next week, can't wait for stand and deliver,
Speaker 2: can't wait for WrestleMania weekend. Man, I'm literally gonna be
Speaker 2: sitting in front of my TV from Friday night at
Speaker 2: SmackDown till Tuesday night at n XT. And it was
Speaker 2: just it's just gonna be nunst think about it. It's
Speaker 2: like it's like, what two So SmackDown is two three hours,
Speaker 2: so that's three and standing delivered another three hours. That's
Speaker 2: six WrestleMania probably four hours one night, that's ten four
Speaker 2: nights to the next night that's fourteen raws, and to
Speaker 2: say three hours just for sake of so that's sixteen
Speaker 2: and then stay and then next on Tuesday two hours.
Speaker 2: That's eighteen hours of wrestling over an entire weekend. And
Speaker 2: the way I haven't even mentioned I haven't even mentioned
Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame, the Slammies, the other they have
Speaker 2: roasts and stuff going out. That's like a whole big thing,
Speaker 2: Like it's gonna be it's gonna be great. And unfortunately, unfortunately,
Speaker 2: my dad's not doing well. He's in the hospital this week,
Speaker 2: not feeling well. He's got a bit of pneumonia and
Speaker 2: so unfortunately we may or may not be able to
Speaker 2: watch it together. I hope he gets out in time
Speaker 2: for us to watch it, but if not, I'm still
Speaker 2: gonna watch it, and I'll watch it again with him,
Speaker 2: because that's our thing. And if I don't talk to
Speaker 2: you before, I will talk to you next week.
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