WWE NXT live results: Randy Orton vs. Je’Von Evans
WWE NXT heads to Missouri tonight for its second episode live on The CW Network.
After winning the title on last week’s CW premiere, new NXT Champion Trick Williams will appear tonight. We’ll also hear from NXT Women’s Champion Roxanne Perez, after the returning Cora Jade helped her retain against Giulia last week.
One of WWE’s biggest stars will be in the building tonight as Randy Orton takes on rising NXT prospect Je’Von Evans.
Intercontinental Champion Jey Uso, Bianca Belair, Jade Cargill, Grayson Waller, and Austin Theory are set to appear as well. Belair & Cargill are teaming with Kelani Jordan to take on Fatal Influence. Waller & Theory have a title match against NXT Tag Team Champions Nathan Frazer & Axiom.
Another title match will see NXT North American Champion Oba Femi put his gold on the line against Tony D’Angelo. Plus, there will be a special performance by Missouri native Sexyy Red.
Join us for live coverage starting at 8 p.m. Eastern time.
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NXT is on the air from The Factory at The District in Chesterfield, Missouri. Opening the show is the new NXT Champion.
Trick Williams enters for a monologue. Williams gave himself a new nickname, “Tricky Two Times”. Say it two times because he is a two-time champion. Williams is soon interrupted by Wes Lee, who is in the crowd to cut a promo on Williams.
Lee says Trick is not “it”, and Lee vows to take the title from Williams. Interrupting Lee is the sudden entrance of Jey Uso. Big pop from the live crowd for Uso, as he looks like a superstar. He gets the microphone to saying he is in your city. Trick thanks him for being there. The crowd yeets with Uso, and they “yeet” along with Williams. Dueling chants from the crowd: “Whoop that trick…Yeet!”
They go from the previous segment right into introductions for the first match, which is a six-woman tag. The WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions team with the NXT Women’s North American Champion for the opening match.
Kelani Jordan, Jade Cargill & Bianca Belair defeated Fatal Influence (Fallon Henley, Jacy Jayne & Jaxmyn Nyx)
Jordan pinned Nyz to win the match. The story going into this trios match is Fatal Influence are upset over NIL athletes in NXT, and here they face wrestlers that were all athletes in prior sports.
Henley and Jordan started the match against each other. The heel trio makes quick tags, and Jordan is seemingly soon in trouble. She counters and fires up. Cargill & Belair come in to help clean house, and the babyface trio looks strong.
Henley hanging in the ring with a main roster talent like Belair just reinforces the belief she is ready for a call up. Meanwhile, she and the other heels do a distraction spot. Low bridge on Jordan, and she takes a bump on the floor as the show cuts to its first commercial break.
Hot tag when the show returns from the break, and Bianca Belair runs wild. She gets to shine before tagging out. Belair & Cargill with tandem offense on Nyz, and Jordan follows up with a split-legged moonsault. Jordan then covers Nyz for a pinfall.
NXT Tag Team Champions Nathan Frazier & Axiom interact with Randy Orton in a locker room skit. Orton asks them just how fast is Je’Von Evans, and Axiom remarks he might be the fastest in NXT. Frazier takes exception to that, and the champs begin to bicker. Frazier apologies for losing his temper, but Orton says sometime you need find that place. Orton wishes luck to the champs.
Sarah Schreiber is interviewing Giulia backstage when an “old friend” enters the room off camera. That ends the interview, as the show cuts to commercials. This would lead to the live debut of Stephanie Vaquer in the next segment in an angle that would seem to set up a tag program.
NXT Champion Roxanne Perez enters the ring for a monologue promo. She boasts and brags about retaining her title against Giulia. Perez then introduces her old friend, Cora Jade. Last week, Jade returned to NXT and helped Perez retain the title.
Jade was wearing her knee brace, so I figured the segment would turn physical, but not before Jade cuts a promo. Jade claims that not even Perez knew that Jade would be interfering in the match last Tuesday. Jade is back, and the Jade you used to know was a girl trying to make it in NXT, but now she is the woman that will make NXT.
Jade does says that Perez deserves to be champion. Jade also puts over Perez’s heel persona, and Jade says that is why they should be friends again. That is bad for the rest of the roster. Perez said she should have listened to Jade a while ago, but Perez finally learned her lesson.
Interrupting Perez and Jade is the entrance of Giulia. She stops in the aisle to wait for back up, and it comes in the form of her “old friend” from earlier. Stephanie Vaquer enters to stand alongside Giulia. They rush into the ring, and they brawl with Jade and Perez. The babyface duo clear the ring, and the heels flee the ring. This would seemingly set up a tag match, although a backstage skit that followed could set up a singles match for Vaquer’s in-ring debut in NXT.
Wren Sinclair is with the No Quarter Catch Crew talking about taking on Giulia. Charlie Dempsey is impressed by Sinclair, as she wants to challenge Vaquer to a match. The skit continues with Dempsey and crew meeting up with Lexis King, who wanted some idea for a gimmick match with Oro Mensah. Dempsey suggested some ideas with rounds. King and Dempsey talk it over.
Tony D’ Angelo defeated NXT North American Champion Oba Femi to win the title
D’Angelo pinned Femi to win the championship after countering a powerbomb with a sunset flip. D’Angelo fought from underneath, and he ultimately prevails. The title change was quite a surprise for me, and the live crowd also popped accordingly. The match was also pretty good.
Femi looks strong at the outset, while “The Don” looks to outsmart the champ. Turns out Femi outsmarts him, as Femi chokeslams D’Angelo on the edge of the ring apron just before a commercial break. D’Angelo is being worked over when he show returns from the break.
A crowbar is slid into the ring for D’Angelo to use, but he tosses it out of the ring instead. Close near fall for “The Done”, after D’Angelo powerbombs Femi through the announce desk. Femi first teases putting D’Angelo through the desk, but “The Don” counters him. That foreshadows the finish.
For the finish, Femi goes for a powerbomb, but D’Angelo counters with a sunset flip and a roll up. D’Angelo holds Femi down for a three count, and D’Angelo wins the title. And new…
Lash Legend & Jakara Jackson run into Jade Cargill & Bianca Belair, where the women’s tag champs are challenged to a title match. Cargill accepts on behalf of her and Belair, saying they do not back down from a challenge. However, the champs want the match on Smackdown instead of NXT. The match is agreed to and set up for Friday night.
A skit sets up Lola Vice against Nikkita Lyons in a singles match for next week. Vice is in NXT GM Ava’s office, and Vice wants a match with Jaida Parker. Instead, in walks Lyons. She bickers with Vice, setting up a match between the two.
NXT Tag Team Champions Nathan Frazier & Axiom defeated Austin Theory & Grayson Waller
Frazier pinned Thoery to win the match and retain the tag titles. This was a really good match.
The match goes through a commercial break. Despite flying high early on, the babyface champs are in peril as the show heads into the break. Axiom is trying to rally when the show returns from the break, but a hot tag is broken up. A-Town Down Under continue to isolate Axiom. He eventually shoves Theory off the ropes, and Axiom lands with a splash. Hot tag to Frazier, and he runs wild with high spots galore. That guy is so dang good.
Thoery cuts off Axiom, and he gets a few near falls. Axiom tags back in, and the champs are soon in control with tandem offense. The match really heats up from here, and the pace soon quickens. There is a cool spot with double submission being broken up. Axiom caught Waller in a rear naked choke, and Frazier then catches with a guillotine choke on Theory. He counters Frazier, and Theory suplexes Frazier on Axiom to break up the other submission.
The finish was the champs tandem finisher. Spanish Fly by Axiom, followed by a Phoenix Splash from Frazier, and Frazier covers Theory for a pinfall. The champs retain their titles.
A video package recaps the story with Ridge Holland against Chase U. Holland is then interviewed backstage, where he is ambushed by Riley Osborne. They have a pull-apart brawl. A singles match between the two is clearly in the works.
Next up is a musical performance in the middle of a wrestling show, which rarely works well outside of a WrestleMania. Even then, an argument can be made it is still out of place. This was no exception. Sexxy Red is performing a rap song in the ring when she is (thankfully) cut short.
Ethan Page interrupts the Sexxy Red concert, and he gets in the ring to cut a promo. Red is looking on as Page rants and raves. Page says this is his ring, and he is not leaving until he gets a title rematch with Williams.
The entrance of Je’Von Evans interrupts Page. Evans confronts Page in the ring. Page tries to sucker punch Evans, but Evans blocks it. Evans punches Page several times, and Page is clotheslined out of the ring. Evans dances in the ring with Red as the show goes into a commercial break.
After the break, a video package hypes the arrival of DELTA (although she is not named in the vignette). The vignette portrays her as a kaiju monster wreaking havoc on a city.
In other news, “Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal” returns next week. However, it is being rebranded as “The Halloween Havoc Wheel.” For a WCW marl like me,
Randy Orton defeated Je’Von Evans
Ortin pinned Evans after the RKO. This was good, and it was a much different kind of match than Evans usually has on NXT. The pacing was more deliberate and not so frantic. When Evans would explode into a flurry of offense, it stood out more against a ring general like Orton.
Evans went for a dive, but Orton blocks it. Orton then drops Evans on the announce desk. Orton drops Evans several more times on the desk, but it does not implode. Orton keeps trying, and keeps dropping Evans on the desk.
Evans flew into a comeback, but Orton cuts him off. Orton delivers a draping DDT, and Orton teases the RKO. Evans counters with superkick, and he springboard into a flying cutter for a close near fall. Evans goes for another flying cutter, but Orton blocks the second attempt. RKO by Orton, and he covers Evans for a pinfall. Orton helps Evans to his feet after the match, and Orton raises Evans’ hand.
Wes Lee and Ethan Page are in Ava’s office, where she announces a number one contender’s match between Lee and Page. Ava was also impressed with Evans in the main event, and she adds Evans to make the match a triple threat number one contender’s match. That is set up for next Tuesday on NXT.
Overall, this was a good show. It was very wrestling heavy, with only a few silly skits. The title change was a surprise, and the matches all delivered.