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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, this is Jay with your NXT review for
Speaker 2: the episode. Well, okay, so I'm going to say this
Speaker 2: is for the episode on April twenty ninth, twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: but for the second week in a row. I'm actually
Speaker 2: going to be giving you some updates from Sunday, Monday,
Speaker 2: and Tuesday. Tuesday being the episode, but then you know,
Speaker 2: there was some NXT happenings on Sunday at TNA Rebellion
Speaker 2: and then also on Monday and Monday night RAW. So
Speaker 2: I'm gonna talk a little bit about those. First. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go in chronological order, just like I did last week.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go in chronological order from Sunday to Monday
Speaker 2: to Tuesday, and uh yeah, so much is going on
Speaker 2: and I have a lot of questions. I have a
Speaker 2: lot of questions about the women's division, both on NXT
Speaker 2: and on Monday Night Raw. And I really want to
Speaker 2: know what y'all think about that. So let's let's first
Speaker 2: talk about t and A Rebellion. So Tea a Rebellion happened.
Speaker 2: We all know what happened last week with uh on
Speaker 2: on NXT, with Trick being rown out of the ring
Speaker 2: by Oba and Joe Hendry and and uh and so
Speaker 2: that kind of continued. So Joe Hendry had a title
Speaker 2: match for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship at t and
Speaker 2: A Rebellion on Sunday Nights. I did not see it myself,
Speaker 2: but you know, there's clips on the internet, and of
Speaker 2: course you can pretty much watch a whole show just
Speaker 2: by watching clips on the internet. I mean, you all
Speaker 2: know that. So at the end of his match, which
Speaker 2: is which was a triple throat match between Joe Hendry
Speaker 2: and his challengers were Any Skazarian and Ethan Page. Joe
Speaker 2: Hendry ended up pinning Ethan Page, and then as he
Speaker 2: was celebrating at the end, Trick Williams. Trick Williams comes in,
Speaker 2: gives him a kick to the head and the trick
Speaker 2: shot and lays him out. Yeah, at the end of
Speaker 2: his own pay per view. They have pay per views
Speaker 2: in on PLS because you have to pay per the view.
Speaker 2: So so Trick Williams lays out Joe Hendry at the
Speaker 2: t Anda Rebellion on Monday Night, which then we'll come
Speaker 2: up again on Tuesday on the show, which I will
Speaker 2: talk about in the second but before that, I wanted
Speaker 2: you want to talk about Monday Night Raw and for
Speaker 2: the second week in a row, and I and I
Speaker 2: have some thoughts about this and I just want to
Speaker 2: share them. For the second week in a row, we
Speaker 2: had a match first between Stephanie Vacaire and Ivy Nile.
Speaker 2: Stephanievacare obviously you're you're NXT Women's Champion. She went against
Speaker 2: Ivy Nile again, another banger match. Stephanie is so good.
Speaker 2: Ivy is actually is is low key good. They had
Speaker 2: a great match together. Not not the same level as
Speaker 2: Stephanie and EO Sky the week before, but it was
Speaker 2: it was definitely a great match. And this this this
Speaker 2: match ended with Stephanie reteed, well it wasn't. It wasn't
Speaker 2: a title match, I don't believe, but Stephanie did end
Speaker 2: up winning the match with her s v D. She
Speaker 2: calls it s v D. So second week in a
Speaker 2: row that Stephanie has a match on Monday Night Raw,
Speaker 2: then we also had another. So first we had a
Speaker 2: match with Ria Ripley going against Roxanne Perez, and there
Speaker 2: were times where I honestly thought Roxanne could pull it out.
Speaker 2: But I mean, it's it's real, real, bloody Ripley. There's
Speaker 2: no way that it's not that she's gonna lose to
Speaker 2: Roxanne Perez. As much as they want to build Roxanne up,
Speaker 2: but the but the good news is they built in
Speaker 2: order to build up Roxanne and Matt talked about this
Speaker 2: in the Raw review, in order to help build up
Speaker 2: Roxanne and to not show that Rhea can just beat
Speaker 2: the crap out of her. Ria did end up winning
Speaker 2: the match by d Q when Julia comes in and
Speaker 2: takes her out again, and so Julia and Roxanne start
Speaker 2: beating the crap out of Rio Ripley, and then EO
Speaker 2: Sky comes down and saves Ria, just like Ria did
Speaker 2: the week before for EO. So the second week in
Speaker 2: a row we have Julia, Roxanne, and Stephanie on Monday
Speaker 2: Night Row. Now I understood why they did it. The
Speaker 2: first week after wrestling the first Monday we're after wrestling,
Speaker 2: because generally that's what happens is they bring out, they
Speaker 2: bring out the champions usually last year I it was
Speaker 2: Ilia dragonof had a match and Roxanne I believe had
Speaker 2: to match after Wrestling weekend on Monday Night Raw. And yeah,
Speaker 2: so the question I have is that it was a
Speaker 2: good and a way is sis? I expected that they
Speaker 2: that the next two people would be at the first
Speaker 2: Monday after Monday Roy after WrestleMania, but then to have
Speaker 2: them come out the second week in a row, all
Speaker 2: three of them separate reasons, separate separate matches, well, Julia
Speaker 2: and Roxanne and one and then Stephanie in a separate match.
Speaker 2: What are they going to do now? I have some
Speaker 2: thoughts I have heard through grapevines, I've read the the
Speaker 2: Internet Wrestling community, the i w C as we're called,
Speaker 2: which I'm proud to be a part of. I have
Speaker 2: to say that they are gunning for all another. So
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago they had an all female,
Speaker 2: all women's p l E and from what I hear,
Speaker 2: they may be gunning to do that again in July
Speaker 2: so and maybe have backlash UH Saturday night main events
Speaker 2: at the end of May, and then I believe in
Speaker 2: June is money in the bank. And I from what
Speaker 2: I can see, from what I've been hearing in some circles,
Speaker 2: they're looking at having an off all women's ple e
Speaker 2: at in July. I don't know what it's gonna be
Speaker 2: called Evolution two point zero or I know they called revolution,
Speaker 2: the women's Revolution or whatever they're gonna call it, that
Speaker 2: would be. That would be awesome. And then to have Stephanie, Julia,
Speaker 2: and well Roxanne, I already I already figured Roxanne was
Speaker 2: gonna be what it was gonna be called up. That
Speaker 2: didn't surprise me at all. But but what surprised me
Speaker 2: is especially Julia. I didn't think Julia would be coming
Speaker 2: up so quickly. And I'm not I'm not gonna sit
Speaker 2: here and say that all three of them are being
Speaker 2: brought up because number one Stephanie still has the title,
Speaker 2: and number two Julie just I feel like she just
Speaker 2: got here, like I don't know if she I mean, listen,
Speaker 2: could the three of them all come up to the
Speaker 2: to the main raw roster. Does the main raw roster
Speaker 2: desperately need all three of them? Absolutely absolutely? And you know,
Speaker 2: I actually mentioned to this to this to Matt A
Speaker 2: couple of months ago, I sent in a letter for
Speaker 2: his mailbag show, and and I had said that the
Speaker 2: Raw the Raw Division women's division could get it could
Speaker 2: use a shot of NXT women's wrestlers, and and that's
Speaker 2: what's happening right now. Again, I'm not sure if this
Speaker 2: is long term. I don't know who's gonna get called
Speaker 2: up specifically, technically, the three of them are still n XT,
Speaker 2: so so maybe that will be there's there'll be a
Speaker 2: thing possibility of things to come. Maybe not, I don't know,
Speaker 2: but it's gonna be interesting to see. And if we
Speaker 2: can get another we get another go around between Stephanie
Speaker 2: and EO for real this time, like not like in
Speaker 2: a real match, one on one that would be amazing.
Speaker 2: Or possibly Ria and EO versus Julia and and Roxanne
Speaker 2: that would be great too. So we'll have to see
Speaker 2: what happens. That whole storyline did continue the next night,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to talk about it in a second,
Speaker 2: and we kind of interjected also Jordan Grace on NXT
Speaker 2: before I get into the show, though I forgot one
Speaker 2: thing and I meant to go chronologically and I should
Speaker 2: have started with Friday. And this is really all all
Speaker 2: it is is me saying thank you Phraxium for all
Speaker 2: you've done. And it seems like now Phraxium has been
Speaker 2: officially called up to the SmackDown roster. They took on
Speaker 2: those scars is on Friday Night. Great match. It's just
Speaker 2: I don't want to say typical, but as in a
Speaker 2: bad way, like it's just vintage. I guess vintage Phraxium
Speaker 2: with the stuff that they did those scars is really great.
Speaker 2: They're really awesome and they had a banger match and
Speaker 2: it was you know, it was great to be able
Speaker 2: to showcase them. The only thing I would say is
Speaker 2: I don't quite understand why they would be on SmackDown.
Speaker 2: I like, right now, SmackDown has five solid tag teams, Yes,
Speaker 2: could they use another one? Sure? Sure they could use
Speaker 2: another tag team. I mean six is better than five,
Speaker 2: right if there's room for them. However, Monday Night Raw
Speaker 2: has what two real time teams? Maybe now that JD's back,
Speaker 2: him and Finn are another tag team. But do we
Speaker 2: all do any of us really want to see another
Speaker 2: tag team title run between with Finn and JD. They
Speaker 2: defended the title. What twice in six months, the second
Speaker 2: time losing them losing the tag team titles Viking. As
Speaker 2: Matt said the other day, the Viking Raiders are a
Speaker 2: true tag team. They're They're like the old days with
Speaker 2: demolition and powers of pain and you know all those
Speaker 2: tag teams from back there, like real tag teams from
Speaker 2: the late eighties early nineties. Why isn't Phraxium on Monday
Speaker 2: Night Raw? They are desperately needed on Monday Night Raw.
Speaker 2: They are needed because there is such a vacuum of
Speaker 2: the tag team division and even Atown down Under from
Speaker 2: what I've heard, they were able to be seen for
Speaker 2: all of you guys that listen to this podcast in
Speaker 2: other countries besides you gotta States, did not see a
Speaker 2: town down Under in the interview that they had, You guys,
Speaker 2: all the rest of the rest of the world all did.
Speaker 2: And again Austin Theory gets grumpy with with Grayson Waller
Speaker 2: and so are they still a tag team? We haven't
Speaker 2: seen him in a while? Are they gonna break up?
Speaker 2: Who knows? Again? I go back to why why didn't
Speaker 2: Why is what didn't Fraxium go to Raw where they're
Speaker 2: absolutely needed because right now there is a dead Tag
Speaker 2: Team Division, Yes, New Day Real Tag Team, Viking Raiders, Sorry,
Speaker 2: war Raiders, Real Tag Team. But I just don't get
Speaker 2: why they wouldn't go there. I always thought they were
Speaker 2: gonna go to Raw, but especially especially since from what
Speaker 2: I hear, from what I've been, from what I'm what
Speaker 2: I'm hearing, SmackDown's gonna be going back down to two
Speaker 2: hours in June. So are they even gonna have a
Speaker 2: room for them any rights? Just look up. Let's talk
Speaker 2: about the NXT episode for Tuesday, April twenty ninth, and
Speaker 2: this took place back at the WWE Performance Center in
Speaker 2: Winter Park, Florida. We had our commentators of Vic Joseph,
Speaker 2: Booker t and Corey Graves. Our ring announcer was Mike Rome.
Speaker 2: All Right, so the first first person that comes out
Speaker 2: and it's it's funny. They did the whole thing where
Speaker 2: Vic Joseph said to his name Joe Hendry and boomed
Speaker 2: the music hit. So Joe Hendry comes out, crowd loves
Speaker 2: him as always. I mean, he's so hot, he's I
Speaker 2: actually thought last year that tna WW kind of lost
Speaker 2: momentum with Joe Hendry at the end of the year,
Speaker 2: But after his match with Randy Orton, especially being in
Speaker 2: a royal rumbo, then his match with Randy Orton WrestleMania.
Speaker 2: He's still He's still the guy. As far as concerned,
Speaker 2: He's still the guy. So Joe Hendry comes out and
Speaker 2: he says, say his name, and he appears. Joe Henry
Speaker 2: is back in front of the NXT universe. And what
Speaker 2: a journey it's been. I wrestled Randy Orton at WrestleMania
Speaker 2: U less than forty eight hours ago. I successfully defended
Speaker 2: my TNA World Championship at Rebellion. Unfortunately, you know what
Speaker 2: happens next, Trick Williams attacked me and as my back
Speaker 2: was turned, Trick, I know that I embarrassed you in
Speaker 2: Las Vegas, so I'm afraid it's so much worse than that,
Speaker 2: because you used to be somebody oops I jumped, I think,
Speaker 2: so I expect a retaliation, but my friend, for what
Speaker 2: you did, you just crossed the line and I called
Speaker 2: you entitled. But I'm afraid it's so much worse than that,
Speaker 2: because you used to be somebody that these people could
Speaker 2: get behind, used to be somebody that could lead lead
Speaker 2: the locker room. You were, mister, let's talk about it.
Speaker 2: But the truth is you can't stand the fact that
Speaker 2: they weren't talking about Trick Williams. They talking about Joe
Speaker 2: Hendry and what they were saying was we believe, And
Speaker 2: then the crowd starts chanting, and you were just not entitled.
Speaker 2: You're arrogant because instead of looking within, you wanted to
Speaker 2: blame everybody else for the fact that you couldn't win
Speaker 2: back your NXT championship. And you know that Obafemi won't
Speaker 2: just give you another title title match for that championship,
Speaker 2: so you thought you would just hop on over and
Speaker 2: take take a shot of the TNA World Champion. Trick.
Speaker 2: Let me reassure you, I am an entertainer, but I
Speaker 2: also have the antiagnostics side, so I recognize what this
Speaker 2: is and I will not fall for your deception. So
Speaker 2: I'm gonna make it nice and easy, Trick. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: say your names and make you appear Trick Williams, get
Speaker 2: your ass out here right now. Then Dark State comes in.
Speaker 2: Let's go out. Dark State comes in and they come
Speaker 2: in and they attack Joe Hendry and then that's the
Speaker 2: end of the segment. So the next thing we have
Speaker 2: is EVA come out. This was an earlier, an earlier
Speaker 2: thing from earlier in the day. Ava wants to welcome
Speaker 2: to EO Sky back to NXT, and then Jordan Grace
Speaker 2: tells Eo that she'll be her tag team partner and
Speaker 2: she'll do whatever it takes to get one step closer
Speaker 2: to the NXT Women's Championship. The Juggernaut and the Genius
Speaker 2: of the Sky will be a tag team. Then we
Speaker 2: have Karmen Petrovitch. She tries to give Gigi Dolan and
Speaker 2: Tatum Paxley some encouragement after suffering two losses with titles
Speaker 2: on the line last week. So just just to kind
Speaker 2: of recap a second, Ggi and Tatum they obviously they
Speaker 2: lost to Live in Roquel last Tuesday, and then this
Speaker 2: Sunday they had another title match for the TNA Knockouts
Speaker 2: Tag Team Championship at Rebellion and they lost that one
Speaker 2: as well. So a lot of crossovers right now, a
Speaker 2: lot of cross and I love to see it, and
Speaker 2: I honestly I wish, I really wish I could see
Speaker 2: more TNA. I just maybe I'll just suck it up
Speaker 2: and pay for it. I don't know, Okay, So anyway,
Speaker 2: so back to this so then Chante the Adonas tells
Speaker 2: Carmen that she shouldn't be worried about these losers. He
Speaker 2: got Karmen a match with sol Ruka and as Chante says,
Speaker 2: Carmen better get ready because if she wins, she'll gar
Speaker 2: and a title opportunity, or they'll get a title opportunity.
Speaker 2: And then at one point Carmen did actually say you
Speaker 2: need to stop the they're not losers. So there's definitely
Speaker 2: a little kinship going between them, or at least Carmen
Speaker 2: is starting to see the evil ways of Chanti the Adonas.
Speaker 2: So the first match we have is Ricky Saints defending
Speaker 2: the NXT North American Championship against Lexus King. Decent match.
Speaker 2: These guys are both really good, you know. I enjoyed
Speaker 2: this match a lot. Ultimately, though Ricky Saints wins. First,
Speaker 2: we had Lexus King super kicking Ricky King. King then
Speaker 2: goes for the coronation, but Ricky counters with the Tornado
Speaker 2: DDT and then connects with the Welsh Shambeau, which is
Speaker 2: basically a power slam that you land on your stomach
Speaker 2: instead of your back. So yeah, that was a good match.
Speaker 2: It was a really good match. Ricky Saints retains the title.
Speaker 2: I wasn't like, you know, like, oh my god, you've
Speaker 2: got to see this kind of match. But it was decent.
Speaker 2: It was a decent match. They're very decent, all right.
Speaker 2: Then Sean Spears is sitting in a circle with the
Speaker 2: Calling and he says that they've been falling short of
Speaker 2: expectations as of late, Brooks and Nico in the tag
Speaker 2: team galam match, is He Dame was fingertips away from
Speaker 2: capturing the Women's North American Championship of Sianta deliver. It
Speaker 2: hurts to lose, but they can't let their failures define them.
Speaker 2: Let their face teach, and if they fear failure, they're
Speaker 2: simply putting limitations on their lives. This is NXT women's
Speaker 2: roster is stacks. So Spears needs is He to figure
Speaker 2: out a way to stand out from the pack. She
Speaker 2: needs to rip the spotlight from someone and put it
Speaker 2: on herself. Brooks and Nico will need to dig down
Speaker 2: deep and find out the cohesion they need in order
Speaker 2: to take down Hank and Tank, and Spears wants the
Speaker 2: Calling to rise up and seize control of NXT. Then
Speaker 2: we had a segment between Tony di'angelo and Stacks Channing Stacks,
Speaker 2: Lorenzo or I don't know if he's called Stacks anymore
Speaker 2: because he's not a part of the family. I don't know.
Speaker 2: We have no idea what happens still to Crustipino. Like
Speaker 2: last week, his last thing he said was oh, f oh,
Speaker 2: oh oh, and then it went to black. Before he
Speaker 2: can say the word, because it's c you can't say
Speaker 2: the word. But still we don't know what happened to him.
Speaker 2: Tony d'angelo's out in the ring, and basically I'm not
Speaker 2: going to read it word for word, but Tony d
Speaker 2: Angel's out in the ring, basically telling telling the world
Speaker 2: that he can't trust Stacks, can't trust I was just say,
Speaker 2: we'll call him Stacks. I guess for now he can't
Speaker 2: trust Stacks. That he didn't he wasn't sure. If you know,
Speaker 2: they grew up together, they did everything together. But then
Speaker 2: he still couldn't trust him, and obviously he turned on him.
Speaker 2: Then we then we see on a video segment, and
Speaker 2: most not a video segment. It's it's a live video
Speaker 2: feed Stacks standing on a bridge for no reason, just
Speaker 2: standing on a bridge. I thought there was gonna be
Speaker 2: a reason. I thought he was going to do something
Speaker 2: on the bridge. Nothing happened. He's just randomly standing on
Speaker 2: a bridge, basically saying that that Tony you know, doesn't
Speaker 2: know how to leave the family and he should he
Speaker 2: should have stepped down and let let Stacks leave the family. So, uh,
Speaker 2: it's at one point and then and then at one
Speaker 2: point Stack says, you don't know who you can trust Stack.
Speaker 2: Uh uh Uh, Tony D had had security around him,
Speaker 2: and and uh, the security guards come up and attack
Speaker 2: Tony D. Tony D's henchmen are on the rink. They
Speaker 2: don't move the entire time for some reason. They don't
Speaker 2: move the entire time. That uh, that Tony's getting attacked.
Speaker 2: So I don't know what they were actually there for.
Speaker 2: And then Tony ended up cleaning the cleaning house with
Speaker 2: them and just dumping them all outside the ring. Anyway,
Speaker 2: it was a weird segment. I don't really I didn't
Speaker 2: particularly care for it. I don't really understand what it
Speaker 2: did for the feud. They just need to get together
Speaker 2: and beat the crap out of each other. Basically, they
Speaker 2: need to. They need to, they need to. They just
Speaker 2: they they need to they need to go. They need
Speaker 2: to go right now, not go in a bad way
Speaker 2: like they need to go. Okay, Noam Dar had a
Speaker 2: reunion backstage Metaphor Lash Legend says they need to talk.
Speaker 2: A lot has the changed since no I'm got injured? Honestly,
Speaker 2: Aura Mensa has always been in Noam's main man. Lash
Speaker 2: says that it's time for Orro to be the main
Speaker 2: man on Evolve, and Lash says that it's time to
Speaker 2: do her own thing. Metaphor has decided to disband and
Speaker 2: they had a huge group hug. So to be honest,
Speaker 2: I'm a little scared for that. I'm ass scared for
Speaker 2: the Meta girls. I'm not scared for Aura. I'm scared
Speaker 2: for Noam Dar. I feel that a lot of his
Speaker 2: character work was because of the other three, and I
Speaker 2: hope that he doesn't fall flat. I kind of get
Speaker 2: the feeling that Noam Dar is gonna fall flat, and
Speaker 2: I hope they do something real with him. Then we
Speaker 2: have the second match with his soul Ruka with Zari
Speaker 2: in her corner versus Carmen Petrovitch with Ashanti Viadanas and
Speaker 2: her corner. Good match, short match, Sobroka ends up picking
Speaker 2: up the win with the soul snatcher, which, like I'll
Speaker 2: I'll never get never get tired of seeing the the
Speaker 2: soul snatcher cutter that she does off the ropes. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's just such a good move. It's like it's a
Speaker 2: great twist on the cutter, because it seems like everybody
Speaker 2: now does a cutter. Cody does a cutter. The r
Speaker 2: k O is obviously a cutter. Other people do it,
Speaker 2: I think, uh, I think, what's his name, Carmelo Hayes
Speaker 2: does a cutter. But but I love so Rucas because
Speaker 2: it's a different twist. It's a different way to do it.
Speaker 2: I love the way she does it, and you know
Speaker 2: she's she's I hope, I hope she's a North American
Speaker 2: Women's champion for quite some time. But anyway, Sobroka wins
Speaker 2: the match that match via pinfall. Then we have Roxanne
Speaker 2: and Julia backstage, and Roxanne miss she wasn't the biggest
Speaker 2: fan of Julia when she first arrived at XT. Go figure.
Speaker 2: I think Julie didn't Julie defeat Roxanne for the title.
Speaker 2: Of course, she's not a biggest fan, especially when she
Speaker 2: took away the NXT Women's Championship, but the past couple
Speaker 2: of weeks have changed for her perspective because they are
Speaker 2: both in lockstep. Julius says that Roxanne is a great champion.
Speaker 2: The prodigy and the beautiful manness together can be unstoppable.
Speaker 2: Then we talk about the number. So there they decided
Speaker 2: they're going to have a number one UH Contender's Battle
Speaker 2: Royal coming up next Tuesday, twenty five man Battle Royal,
Speaker 2: and the winner of the Battle Royal is going to
Speaker 2: be facing Obafemi at the next Poe which I can't
Speaker 2: remember what it is. Uh, I cant remember what it is. Whatever,
Speaker 2: you know, you guys don't know what it is. So
Speaker 2: some of the participants are Trick Williams, Josh Briggs, Yoshiki
Speaker 2: and Nomura show on Legacy. So there's there's not just
Speaker 2: not just nxt is TNA and Evolve people too, an LFG,
Speaker 2: LFG people, Sean Legacy, Ethan Page, Timothy Thatcher, Swipe Right,
Speaker 2: both of them, the coming Ridge Holland, Javon Evans, Chris Islands,
Speaker 2: Shiloh Hill and Thorpe, Tyson DuPont, Tyreek Eguay, Wesley, Lexus
Speaker 2: King and No Quarter Catch Crew. They will all be
Speaker 2: in the Battle Royal next week, so we will definitely
Speaker 2: see how that goes. Then we have a segment between
Speaker 2: Trick Williams and Ava. I'm not gonna again, I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna read this word for word. It was pretty long.
Speaker 2: Trick Williams just kind of telling people like Trick Williams
Speaker 2: is getting As much as I love Trick Williams as
Speaker 2: a babyface him as a heel, it gets old like
Speaker 2: he he just talks about the same thing over and
Speaker 2: over again, I will say, And he does have a point,
Speaker 2: and I've been saying this for months now. He why
Speaker 2: hasn't him and Oba Femi going one on one? I
Speaker 2: hope it should have been a standard deliver Again, nothing
Speaker 2: against Javon Evans, it should have been one on one.
Speaker 2: And I'm hoping that if that, Trick Williams just wins
Speaker 2: this Battle Royal, so I think it's battleground, So that
Speaker 2: battleground it can just finally be Trick and Oba Femi
Speaker 2: Oba Beach Trick one on one and then Trick moves
Speaker 2: up to the main roster. I'm hoping that that's what happens.
Speaker 2: It needs to happen. It needs to get over with.
Speaker 2: We need to move on. I like the fact that
Speaker 2: he's like going back and forth with Joe Henry hopefully,
Speaker 2: like there's a whole big thing with him and Joe
Speaker 2: Hendry's title is a little bit different than they're back
Speaker 2: and forth with. This thing with Oba Femi and Trick
Speaker 2: Williams has been going on for literally months. He needs
Speaker 2: to stop, we need to finish, we need to move forward.
Speaker 2: So basically, Ava Base tells Trick that she's getting sick
Speaker 2: and tired of hearing his crap and if he wants
Speaker 2: a number one to number one contender for the for
Speaker 2: the uh the NXT title, then he's got to win
Speaker 2: the Battle Royal. That's it. Win the Battle Royal. You're
Speaker 2: the number one contender. I mean, if you look down
Speaker 2: the list of people, there's probably two or three people
Speaker 2: that could win. Everybody else is going to get tossed
Speaker 2: over the top rope. I mean you, I just I
Speaker 2: just read you the list. You heard what you heard
Speaker 2: what it was. It's the only people that I could
Speaker 2: see even remotely having a shot outside of Trick Williams
Speaker 2: is Javon Evans and Wesley Period. Moving on. Keyler Kin
Speaker 2: Kid then has a backstage interview with Obafemi. Alba says
Speaker 2: Trick Williams is starting to cry like a grown child. However,
Speaker 2: he somehow he can, if he can somehow survive the
Speaker 2: Battle Royal, he'll face him a battleground. What Trick doesn't
Speaker 2: understand is it doesn't matter if Oba faces him one
Speaker 2: more time or a million times at battleground. The NXT
Speaker 2: will stay. The NXT title will stay on the shoulders
Speaker 2: of Obafemi. The Undertaker then comes and joins the conversation
Speaker 2: and says that the NXT isa's yard for now because
Speaker 2: he has some guys in LFG who are coming for
Speaker 2: him very soon. We see Anthony Luke, Shiloh Hill and
Speaker 2: Jasper Troy stay stand behind Oba, and Oba look says
Speaker 2: he looks forward to the challenge and shakes the Undertaker's hand.
Speaker 2: Then we have a tag team match that was set
Speaker 2: up last week for the NXT Tag Team Championship between
Speaker 2: Hank and Tank and Josh Briggs and Yoshiki and Amora.
Speaker 2: This was a low key, really good match. This match
Speaker 2: could have been. I was concerned these four guys cooked.
Speaker 2: It was It wasn't the it wasn't the best match
Speaker 2: of the evening and I'll talk about that later. It
Speaker 2: wasn't the best match of the evening, but it was
Speaker 2: a good match. Hank and Tank have really solidified they
Speaker 2: They've they have sold me. They have sold me on
Speaker 2: Hank and Tank. I said that last week Shaw Michaels Ava,
Speaker 2: Shawn Michaels has done a great job selling me Hank
Speaker 2: in Tank I honestly like now that Phrax Sinem is
Speaker 2: not there anymore, Hank and Tank are the guys. They're
Speaker 2: the ones that if anybody I like, as of today,
Speaker 2: if anybody says, name me a tag team in NXT Division,
Speaker 2: Hank in Tank will be the first people they say.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent, without a doubt, Hanking Tank is are
Speaker 2: the guys. It was a great match. Hank and Tank
Speaker 2: were great. Josh brags In and Amura were awesome, and
Speaker 2: like I said, it was a great match. And ultimately
Speaker 2: Hank and Tank do you end up coming out the
Speaker 2: winners of this match? And the great thing I love
Speaker 2: about the Hank and Tank matches are they have a
Speaker 2: tendency to always look like they're just about to lose.
Speaker 2: It happened in all four or five or whatever the
Speaker 2: matches in the Glet match to get him the one
Speaker 2: number one contendership every single match, and they were in
Speaker 2: the beginning to the end. So every single time they
Speaker 2: went on a match, every time they looked like they
Speaker 2: were going to lose, and every time they came back
Speaker 2: and then the match at Stand and Deliver with Phraxium,
Speaker 2: I thought they were gonna lose. It looked like they
Speaker 2: were gonna lose. Everybody thought they were gonna lose, and
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, boom, they pull it out.
Speaker 2: Same thing happened the other night. So I think it
Speaker 2: kind of goes back to the whole old school, like
Speaker 2: like tag team matches where you never know who could win.
Speaker 2: And then because that's another thing cool thing about Hank
Speaker 2: in Tank is they're always on the verge of losing,
Speaker 2: so you never know if they could just lose those titles,
Speaker 2: which to me is exciting. One of the things about
Speaker 2: Phraxim is you always expected that they were gonna win.
Speaker 2: You always expected at the end of the day they
Speaker 2: were gonna pull it out. Anyway, new Tag team Champion,
Speaker 2: Tank and Tank. I'm sorry, still still Tag Team Champions,
Speaker 2: Tank and Tank. Milesbourne then tells No Quarter Catch Crew
Speaker 2: that there will be superstars from Ross SmackDown, xt LFG
Speaker 2: and TNA will be competing next week in the Number
Speaker 2: one Contenders Battle. Royal Tavian Heights mentions that Charlie Dempsey
Speaker 2: is pissed because Miles decided to tag team with Javon
Speaker 2: Evans last week behind his back. Miles and says he's
Speaker 2: tired of listening to Charlie and it's time for No
Speaker 2: Quarter or Catch Crew to fend for themselves. So there
Speaker 2: are two factions that are breaking up this week. Dark
Speaker 2: State then brags about destroying Joe Henry on X. They
Speaker 2: showed that clip. Then all of a sudden, we've got
Speaker 2: Chase University back. Now. I know it's kind of been
Speaker 2: a build for the last few weeks, but where was
Speaker 2: the point of the stipulation that Andre Chase loses to
Speaker 2: Rich Holland and then Chase University disbands, only to have
Speaker 2: it come back up later on. Anyway, and by the way,
Speaker 2: Rich Holland says he's in the Battle World next week,
Speaker 2: I guess he is, but like he hasn't been around
Speaker 2: in a minute, and all of a sudden, Chase University
Speaker 2: is magically back in back in in in view with
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of people we don't know and one
Speaker 2: nerdy guy except that you know, except the two guys
Speaker 2: I don't remember their names are But there's no thea Hale.
Speaker 2: She's doing her own thing now. Uh. Duke Cutson was
Speaker 2: released from the company, so he's not doing anything anymore,
Speaker 2: or he's not with Chase University anymore. And I'm pretty
Speaker 2: sure that Riley Osbourne is now on Evolve, so it's
Speaker 2: all new Chase University students. I don't know what this
Speaker 2: means for NXT as far as Chase HU goes. But again,
Speaker 2: what was the point? What was the point? Anyway? Moving
Speaker 2: are Colaude Jordan passive aggressively congratulate Soil Ruka on her
Speaker 2: victory tonight, But she says, when I was champion, when
Speaker 2: I was North American Women's Champion, she put I put
Speaker 2: the title on the line every single week. Rucas says
Speaker 2: that Clownie has a problems, Clonie has a problem with
Speaker 2: how she carries a championship, then she can step up
Speaker 2: and do something about it. And Zaria says that Soul
Speaker 2: is not putting your title on the line next week
Speaker 2: against Colonnie. She is she is not just gonna walk
Speaker 2: around here handing out title matches like nothing. If Colonie
Speaker 2: wants to step up to Sol, then she has to
Speaker 2: face Soria first, and Colonie accepts Saria's challenge. One of
Speaker 2: the things that I forgot to mention during the Soul
Speaker 2: Ruca matches is how Zaria was eyeballing the and the
Speaker 2: North American Women's Championship. So there's definitely they're definitely setting
Speaker 2: something up there too. Last match of the night, the
Speaker 2: main event was EO Sky and Jordan Grace versus Roxanne
Speaker 2: Perez and Julia, And my god, was this a good match.
Speaker 2: It was. It was by far the match of the night.
Speaker 2: It was an amazing match. I wish I could describe
Speaker 2: it to you. I mean, I can't describe it. I
Speaker 2: could read it, but I'm not going to because you
Speaker 2: have to see the match. It was. It was like,
Speaker 2: I mean, and and and also and I and I
Speaker 2: heard this someplace too. They really limited, they really limited
Speaker 2: the interactions between EO. Sky and Julia, and I think
Speaker 2: that was on purpose. I again, I think they're gonna
Speaker 2: rehash Stephanie and EO at some point, and they're definitely
Speaker 2: going to do a match between Julia and and EO
Speaker 2: at some point this is I can't wait for this
Speaker 2: to happen like this, like EO EO to me EO,
Speaker 2: Stephanie and and Juliet together just our gold. Jordan Grace
Speaker 2: was awesome in this match. Roxanne was really good and
Speaker 2: the whole the whole match was great. Ultimately, so at
Speaker 2: the end of the match, Julia and and Jordan Grace
Speaker 2: started just beating the crap out of each other and
Speaker 2: kind of going into the back eventually, so we had
Speaker 2: EO and Roxanne Perez by themselves in the ring. Roxanne
Speaker 2: almost hits pop Rocks, not quite didn't didn't hit it.
Speaker 2: Leo comes back and eventually hits the over the Moon
Speaker 2: Salt and gets the p and over Roxanne Perez. Great
Speaker 2: match and then basically for like the next five minutes
Speaker 2: until until the show closed, EO was out there just
Speaker 2: just being just being goofy EO and was great. It
Speaker 2: was great. It was This was really solid episode for
Speaker 2: the for the second episode after stand On Deliver Wrestlemingia Weekend,
Speaker 2: Like this was a solid, solid episode with a great
Speaker 2: main event, a lot of ship stoopid almost said it,
Speaker 2: a lot of stuff and by the way, I feel
Speaker 2: like Matt's been doing that a lot more too. He's
Speaker 2: been like almost slipping saying stuff like that and then
Speaker 2: like and then we'll stop himself. You doing a good job, Matt,
Speaker 2: keep it up anyway. But yeah, great episode. It was
Speaker 2: a great episode. Like I said, that main event was
Speaker 2: was amazing, spectacular. And the last thing that happens before
Speaker 2: before the match is over. The last thing that happens
Speaker 2: is Ava and Stephanie are talking in the back right
Speaker 2: before the show closes, and and Ava says that, So
Speaker 2: Stephanie says, who's gonna be my next contender for the
Speaker 2: Women's Championship, and and Ava says, there's gonna be a
Speaker 2: match next week between Jordan Grace and Julia and the
Speaker 2: winner will fight uh Stephanie Vaciera Battleground for the NXT
Speaker 2: Women's Championship. Early prediction. I think Jordan Grace is gonna win.
Speaker 2: And the reason why is because either there's gonna be
Speaker 2: Shenanigans with Raya Ripley potentially, or Jordan Grace is just
Speaker 2: gonna flat out win because I think they have other
Speaker 2: things for Julia planned on raw and Jordan Grace right
Speaker 2: now has got really nothing going on as far as
Speaker 2: as far as a feud goes, So it just makes
Speaker 2: sense that it would be Jordan Grace versus Stephanie, which
Speaker 2: is being a great freaking match. There's so many great possibilities.
Speaker 2: It's amazing. And by the way, before I go, I
Speaker 2: need to say, it's nice to hear listen to the
Speaker 2: raw review this morning, and it's really nice to hear
Speaker 2: Matt the Stephanievacare train. Love it, love it, I love it.
Speaker 2: I'm so happy that he got to see he's getting
Speaker 2: to see stephanieva Care. I'm so happy that that he
Speaker 2: is enjoying her work, as we all have enjoyed Stephanie's
Speaker 2: work for the last however many months it's been. Even
Speaker 2: if you saw her before she was the n XT
Speaker 2: like she is, she's amazing. She's my she's my number
Speaker 2: one right now. And and I'm I'm really I'm happy
Speaker 2: that one of the things I know, I know Matt
Speaker 2: doesn't watch n XT. And that's fine. Obviously he's got
Speaker 2: he's got well, he's got you know, spouse, kids, all
Speaker 2: kinds of things going job. I understand you can't watch everything,
Speaker 2: but I'm glad that that Matt and people like him
Speaker 2: that aren't watching NXT are now getting a taste of Julia,
Speaker 2: Stephanie and Roxanne, like a real taste of them. And
Speaker 2: I only hope that it continues, and I can't wait
Speaker 2: to see what happens next. In the meantime, let's talk
Speaker 2: about next week when we get there. If you have
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