WWE NXT live results: Carmelo Hayes vs. Tyler Bate

Two of NXT’s brightest stars will face off in a singles match for the first time ever tonight.

With both wanting to be the next challenger for Bron Breakker’s NXT Championship, Carmelo Hayes vs. Tyler Bate is set to take place on NXT. Last week’s episode saw Hayes stare down Breakker after Breakker retained the NXT title against Jinder Mahal.

Gigi Dolin returned to NXT last week for the first time since the implosion of Toxic Attraction. She immediately went after her former tag team partner Jacy Jayne, attacking Jayne during a match against Indi Hartwell. Dolin will address Jayne on tonight’s show.

Wes Lee issues another challenge for his NXT North American Championship tonight. He retained against Von Wagner in an open challenge two weeks ago.

Meiko Satomura, who is facing Roxanne Perez for the NXT Women’s Championship at Roadblock next Tuesday, will be in action against Zoey Stark. Sol Ruca vs. Elektra Lopez and Briggs & Jensen vs. Indus Sher have also been confirmed for tonight.

Our live coverage starts at 8 p.m. Eastern time.

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The show opens with bedlam backstage. Wrestlers were trying to brawl their way to the ring, looking to answer the open challenge thrown down by NXT North American Wes Lee. 

A swarm of bodies continue to fight. Malik Blade and Edris Enofe make it on the stage. As they try to decide which one will answer the open challenge, Dabba-Kato comes through like a freight train. He blasts through Blade and Enofe, plowing his way down the aisle. Dabba-Kato pauses at the end of the entrance ramp, very sure of himself.

Out of nowhere, Apollo Crews comes flying in to ambush Dabba-Kato. Crews peppers Dabba-Kato, but Crews is caught by an Undertaker goozle from Kato. Suddenly, a returning Nathan Frazier comes running down the ramp. Frazier leaps over Crews and Dabba-Kato, and Frazier jumps into the ring to answer the open challenege.  

NXT North American Champion Wes Lee defeated Nathan Frazier to retain his title

Lee pinned the returning Frazier, and normally I would be against someone losing upon making a big return. However, they had a banger, and Frazier still got over in losing. Great opener.

The live studio audience is hot from the start, chanting “welcome back” for Frazier. This is supposedly his first match on NXT since last October. Frazier returns with a bang, and he is back with a banger of a match in his return. 

They wrestle through a commercial break. When the show returns from the break, Frazier attempts a Phoenix Splash, but Lee is able to avoid it. Frazier rolls through and hits the ropes. He and Lee collide when both go for a crossbody. Double down.

Frazier gets a close near fall after a quebrada into a Dragon sleeper. Suplex slop drop, but Lee gets a shoulder up. Another great near fall follows. The first tease a superplex before executing it. Frazier hangs on suplerplex, rolls through, and Lee delivers a twisting neckbreaker. Yet Lee kicks out. The champ is not out.

Lee fights back, and he runs corner to corner doing a flip dive over the ropes to the floor. Back in the ring, Lee delivers his Cardiac Kick finisher. Lee then covers Frazier for a pinfall, and the champ retains his North American title. 

Lee and Frazier shake hands and hug after the match. They should be proud, as they had an outstanding match.

Brooks Jensen is feeling blue, and Josh Briggs tries to cheer him up in a locker room skit. Jensen is down about his relationship with Kiana James. They are still together, but he senses something isn’t right since Valentine’s Day. Briggs tries to cheer up Jensen, and Briggs tries to shift his focus to their match tonight.

Tyler Bate is the focus of a video package, hyping his match later tonight against Carmelo Hayes.

Hank Walker is being interviewed by McKenzie Mitchell when Axiom comes in angry about the brawl earlier tonight. Axiom and Walker exchange words, and Walker is thrown into a rage like Bruce Banner. This would seem to set up a math between the two.

Indus Sher (Veer & Sanga with Jinder Mahal) defeated Josh Briggs & Brooks Jensen

Veer pinned Jensen to win the match, after Jensen’s blues bleed over into his match. He costs his team the match.

Indus Sher works over the down-in-the-dumps Jensen. Briggs is growing frustrated, but he able to get the hot tag. Briggs is cleaning house when a groggy Jensen makes a blind tag. Jensen is slow to join in on tandem offense, and Briggs’ frustration boils over.

Briggs yells at Jensen, and Jensen is apologetic. Jensen rolls back into the ring, where he is caught in the clutches of Indus Sher. Sanga chokeslams Jensen, and Sanga whips Jensen towards Veer so that Veer can clobber him. Veer covers Jensen for a pinfall while Sanga blocks Briggs from making the save. 

Mahal cuts a promo after the match, challenging The Creeds to find a third partner for a six-man tag match at NXT Roadblock. 

Wendy Choo is attacked by an unknown assailant in the parking lot.

Gigi Dolan heads to the ring for a monologue. She enters to Toxic Attraction music. She cuts the music like Rick Rude, and Dolan says this is the last time she comes out to that theme music. She cuts a promo on her way into the ring. Holding a black rose, Dolan waxes on Jacy Jayne turning on her.

Things get very heavy, as Dolan brings up escaping an abusing relationship with her mother. Dolan likens it to the betrayal of Jayne. She goes on to cut a go-home promo, vowing to put a final nail in the coffin of Toxic Attraction.

A pre-taped skit with Chase U leads to The Schism hacking into the classroom for a threatening promo. Before Schism interrupts the Chase U class, Duke Hudson apologizes to Thea Hail for his behavior last week. However, Hudson notes he meant what he said about Chase U. That is when Schism hacks into the monitor, and the class turns into a horror flick. Normally I like the Chase U skits, but this was too silly for me. 

In another pre-tape, Dijak threatens to lock up Tony D’Angelo in their jailhouse match next week at Roadblock. Rules of the gimmick match are no disqualification and no countout. First one to “incapacitate their opponent and “lock them inside jail cell” wins the match. 

Meiko Satomura defeated Zoey Stark

NXT Women’s Champion Roxanne Perez is ringside at the announce desk for guest commentary. Perez defends her title against Satomura at Roadblock next Tuesday. 

Stark and Satomura wrestle through a commercial break, and their heated bout continues after the show returns. Satomura is great as usual, and Stark more than held her own. Really good stuff here. 

Gettiing to look strong despite losing, Stark gets several close near falls. She goes for a 450, but Satomura moves. Stark rolls through, but Satomura cuts her off to deliver a Death Valley Driver. Scorpio Rises finisher by Satomura, and she pins Starks for the win. 

NXT Champion Bron Breakker volunteers to be the Creeds partner for a trios match at Roadblock. Before Breakker can volunteer, Julius Creed has to ask Damon Kemp to be their partner. He turns them down, and Julius is embarrassed about it. Breakker and Brutus Creed pick on Julius, and they make fun of him over his hurt pride.

Sol Ruca defeated Elektra Lopez 

Ruca pins Lopez in a short match that gives Ruca a win, while also setting up a post-match angle with Lopez and Valentina Feroz.

Ruca is shining when Lopez shoves her off the top rope, and Ruca crashes outside the ring. Lopez works over Ruca when they are back in the ring. Comeback by Ruca, and she is cut off by Lopez. 

Valentina Feroz is ringside, and the reason why is clear at the finish. Lopez goes to retrieve brass knux she had wanted stashed in a turnbuckle pad. Feroz had the knux instead. Lopez is distracted by the mishap, and Ruca catches Lopez with a springboard cutter. Ruca then scores a pinfall.

Lopez shoves Feroz in anger after the match, and Lopez piefaces her. Feroz then decks Lopez with the brass knux, and Lopez is knocked out.

Wofgang committs assault in a skit at a pup. Gallus is there playing pool, and Coffey gets Wolfgang fired up. So, Wolfgang beats up a guy that bumps into him.

Pretty Deadly in a backstage interview challenge Gallus to a match next week at Roadblock.

Tiffany Stratton defeated Katana Chance (with Kayden Carter)

This match was set up in a backstage skit earlier in the show. 

Heat on Chance, leading to a rally by Chance and a comeback. Isla Dawn and Alba Fyre come down to ringside, which distracts Chance. Stratton capitalizes, and Stratton does a Christopher Daniels’ BME. Stratton then scores a pinfall.

Stratton in a post-match promo, vows to win the women’s title from whoever wins at Roadblock, be it Satomura or Perez.

Briggs & Jensen make up and mend fences … at least for now. Sadly, I fear this is leading to heartbreak for Jensen.

Axiom defeated Hank Walker

Axiom pinned Walker in a match set up earlier in the show.

Despite dropping the fall, the lose still provided some character development with Walker. This also provided Axiom with a good win over a larger opponent. Axiom won via pinfall after using his Golden Ratio finisher.

Shawn Michaels as the special guest on The Grayson Waller Effect is official for Roadblock next Tuesday.

Carmelo Hayes (with Trick Williams) defeated Tyler Bate

Hayes pinned Bate in a great match. Bangers bookend this episode of NXT, as the show opens with a banger of a match, and the episode closes with another banger.

Great sequences and reversals. Bell-to-bell, this was good as anything on the main roster. Just before the final commercial break on the show, Bate leaps over the ropes for a flip dive to the floor.

Hayes does a wicked-looking sprinboard suplex during a split-screen break. Trick Williams tries to interfere at one point, and Bate knocks him off the apron. Standing shooting star by Bate for a two count.

They would go on to trade near falls. Bate with an airplane spin, but Hayes kicks out. Then a slingshot lariat by Bate for two and half. Hayes with a double underhook into a falcon arrow, but Bate kicks out. Suplex into a cutter by Hayes, only for Bate to kick out yet again.

Bate with a super Northern Lights off the top rope, and Bate tries to follow up with his twisting swanton finisher. No water in the pool, thanks in part to more interference by Williams. Hayes then strikes with a codebreaker. Calling his shot, Breakker is “nothing but net” as he leapt high off the top rope to deliver a flying legdrop. Hayes then covers Bate for the deciding pinfall. Great match. 

I question pinning Bate clean so soon after his return, but Hayes looks like a superstar. Hayes is clearly being positioned as the challenger for Breakker at Stand & Deliver over WrestleMania weekend. Hayes breaks the fourth wall as he looks into the camera to cut a promo on Breakker as the show goes off the air.