WWE NXT live results: Stand & Deliver go-home show
Tonight’s WWE NXT is the last stop before Stand & Deliver.
In the main event of NXT’s WrestleMania weekend special, former friends Trick Williams and Carmelo Hayes are clashing in a grudge match. Williams and Hayes will meet tonight for one final face-off before Stand & Deliver.
Lyra Valkyria is defending her NXT Women’s Championship against Roxanne Perez on Saturday afternoon. Tonight, both will appear on Supernova Sessions.
The opening match of tonight’s show will determine Bron Breakker & Baron Corbin’s NXT Tag Team title challengers for Stand & Deliver. Joaquin Wilde & Cruz Del Toro, Axiom & Nathan Frazer, and Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson are facing off in a number one contender’s match.
NXT Champion Oba Femi will be in non-title action against Joe Gacy. Femi is defending against Dijak and Josh Briggs at Stand & Deliver.
Natalya will appear on NXT for the second straight week, accompanying Karmen Petrovic for her match against Lola Vice. Sol Ruca vs. Blair Davenport, Fallon Henley vs. Jacy Jayne, and Von Wagner vs. Lexis King are also set.
This go-home episode begins with footage of Carmelo Hayes and Trick Williams separately arriving to the Performance Center in Orlando. Inside the sound stage, NXT kicks off with a triple threat tag match to determine which team challenges the champions at Stand & Deliver.
Nathan Frazier & Axiom defeated LWO (Joaquin Wilde & Cruz Del Toro) and The OC (Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson) in a triple threat number one contenders’ match
Frazier pinned Del Toro to win the match. Axiom & Frazier will go on to challenge Bron Breakker & Baron Corbin for the NXT Tag Team Championship on Saturday.
Fast-paced action and lots of high spots. Good Brothers are jumped before the bell with stereo dives that wiped them out momentarily. The beginning of the match is almost like a long highlight reel. They wrestle at a frantic pace before a split-screen commercial break, and the wild spots continue after the show returns from commercials. Seemingly, everyone was doing dives. Even Karl Anderson got in on the fun.
After a crazy corkscrew, Del Toro goes for a Phoenix Splash. No water in the pool. Good Brothers try to capitalize by executing a Magic Killer, but they were cut off by Wilde and Axiom. Those two collide into each other. Axiom them dives out of the ring with a tope on Gallows, for seemingly no reason. Wilde gets out of the ring, as Frazier is climbing the turnbuckles. Frazier leaps off into a 450 on Del Toro, and Frazier covers him for a three count.
Kelly Kincaid interviews the challengers in the ring after their match. Axiom & Frazier vow to win the titles, as the champions look on from a perch overlooking the ring.
Lexis King is sitting on a thrown cutting a promo on Von Wagner and Mr. Stone. King says Wagner cannot hang with him without Stone’s help. King and Wagner meet in a match later tonight.
NXT Champion Ilja Dragunov discovers there is a boot on his car. Two gentlemen pull up in a dark SUV, and they remark that Dragunov should have paid his parking tickets. They insist Dragunov get in the car, and they will give him a ride to dinner with Tony D’Angelo. The two guys tell Dragunov that he does not want to keep “The Don” waiting. Dragunov smirks, and he gets in the car. What a wacky title program this has been. I remember when champions arrived in a limo, but here there is a boot on his car.
Jacy Jayne (Jazmyn Nix, Kiana James & Izzi Dame) defeated Fallon Henley (with Thea Hail & Kelani Jordan)
They were having a pretty good match when a melee erupted at ringside. The three heels in Jayne’s corner at ringside jumped the two babyfaces in Henley’s corner. Jordan is tossed aside, and Hail is about to be assaulted when Henley comes to her rescue. Henley makes a save for Hail, and Henley cleans house on the heels. However, that allowed time for Jayne to recover. Henley gets back into the ring, and she is rocked by a knee strike. Jayne then covers Henley for a pinfall.
Jayne and her heel pals come through the Gorilla Position, and Jayne cuts a promo on Hail. NXT General Manager Ava tells Jayne to move along. As Jayne is leaving, Hail and her babyface friends come through the curtain. Hail is ranting and raving about Jayne. Ava cannot take anymore, so she books Hail against Jayne in a singles match at Stand & Deliver.
A vignette highlights the rebooting of Josh Briggs’ character. He is now a “Man of Mayhem” like he is in an outlaw motorcycle club, so he is sort of doing a biker gimmick. It is different than most everyone else on the roster, and the persona seems like a step on the right direction for Briggs.
Lexis King defeated Von Wagner
King pinned Wagner clean. They keep pushing
Wagner shows fire at the start, but he is cut off by King. Heat on Wagner as King is in control. Comeback by Wagner. They fight on the apron, where Wagner chokeslams King on the apron’s edge. At ringside, Wagner goes to powerbomb King through the announce desk. King blocks a first attempt, and King counters a second attempt into a DDT that plants Wagner on the floor. Back in the ring, King delivers a Coronation, and he covers Wagner for a clean three count.
Ava tells Carmelo Hayes there are extra referees and security on hand in case things get out of hand. Hayes sarcastically says they need to be ready, because his personal security force will certainly be ready.
Natalya is giving Karmen Petrovic a pep talk when Roxanne Perez interrupts. Perez insults Nattie, as Perez tells her that Perez no longer needs Nattie or any of Perez’s other heroes.
In a locker room skit, Arianna Grace and Wren Sinclair bicker over Gigi Dolan getting a pageant makeover. Grace takes offense to what Sinclair says, with Grace calling it “fighting word.” It was not. Nevertheless, this sets up a match.
Lola Vice defeated Karmen Petrovic (with Natalya)
Vice submitted Pertrovic with a sharpshooter. This match was built up with an angle on social media, and it is also related to a program between Vice and Natalya. Thus, Vice uses Nattie’ own finishing hold on Nattie’s protege in front of Nattie herself. Vice is getting a serious push at the moment.
NXT Champ Ilja Dragunov arrives for his dinner with The Don. He arrives at what appears to be a warehouse. Menacing characters greet him with veiled threats. One guy is cutting drywall with a table saw. Another guy is holding a crowbar. Yet another guy is using a nail gun. They all follow Dragunov to a table with a red cloth covering it and two chairs. In walks Tony D’Angelo. To be continued…
Sueprnova Sessions with guests Roxanne Perez and NXT Women’s Champion Lyra Valkyria
Meta-Four are in the ring for Supernova Sessions, hosted by Noam Dar. Meta-Four hype up being the official hosts for Stand & Deliver. There is a couch in the middle of the ring, with two comfy chairs on either side. The challenger, Perez, and the champion, Valkyria, sit opposite each other.
Dar keeps pronouncing Perez’s first name like the song “Roxanne” by The Police. That was the main highlight for me, as these types of talking segments on a go-home show are overdone in WWE. There is even another version later in the show of a final face off. At least that one is for a hot program.
Valkyria and Perez argue back-and-forth. Valkyria gets up from her seat as she is cutting a promo on Perez. The champs says she is winning, and she tells Perez that all Perez does is bitch. Valkyria says Perez will have a whole lot to bitch about at Stand & Deliver.
Perez says she has a whole year worth of rage build up, and Perez vows to let out that rage on Saturday. Perez decks Valkyria, and Valkyria responds with a roundhouse kick. Valkyria then puts Perez through a coffee table with a Death Valley Driver. The champs stands tall and looks so strong here, I can only assume via WWE logic that she is dropping the title. We shall see.
A video package hypes Dijak. NXT North American Champion Oba Femi watches from a monitor, and Femi warns Dijak ahead of their match at Stand & Deliver. Femi then enters the sound stage for his match that is up next.
NXT North American Champion Oba Femi defeated Joe Gacy in a non-title match
Femi seemingly won after a referee stoppage. Gacy was injured after being tossed across the ring, and the ref stopped the match. This did not look like an angle, but no word on any official injury. Gacy would appear later in the show in a wacky skit.
Shawn Spears ambushed Gacy during Gacy’s ring entrance. Spears hits Gacy with a chair, and Spears then taunts Gacy. This plays off a prank Gacy pulled on Spears during a previous episode of NXT.
Femi then rolls Gacy in the ring. The referee rings the bell to start the match when Gacy is able to get on his feet. Femi then attacks Gacy. Femi is pummeling Gacy until Gacy is able to execute a Saito suplex. Gacy follows up with a springboard moonsault. When Gacy goes for his finisher, he is cut off by Femi.
Femi tosses Gacy across the ring. Gacy lands awkwardly, and the referee backs Femi away. The ref checks on Gacy, and the ref throws up the dreaded “X” sign. The ref calls for the bell, and the ring announcer calls it a no-contest. However, the ref raises Femi’s hand like he is the winner.
Arianna Grace defeated Wren Sinclair
Grace won via pinfall with a cradle, while also illegally holding the ropes for leverage. Sinclair pleaded her case, but the ref did not see Grace breaking the rules. The match probably went too long even if it is fairly short, especially with that finish. Sinclair is not over, and Grace’s pageant queen persona is too over the top. They worked hard, regardless.
Finally, Tony D and Dragunov sit down for their meeting/dinner. The sit-down was supposed to be a dinner, but there was no food. I was told there would be food. Anyway, the champ and his challenger cut promos on each other.
Tony D grabs Dargunov’s injured hand (which was injured in an angle last week). Dragunov grimaces in pain as “The Don” tells Dragunov he could have him taken out at any time tonight. But, Tony D vows to do it while the whole world is watching on Saturday.
“The Don” tells Dragunov nothing personal, it is just business. Tony D motions for a tray, and it is sat down in front of Dragunov. Tony D tells the champ to enjoy his last meal. The champ looks so weak here, and the challenger looks like a stereotypical mobster. What a title program. The production itself here was good, but the storyline is too wacky to take serious.
Sol Ruca defeated Blair Davenport
Ruca won via a roll-up. The match is decent enough, and Ruca got to fight from underneath. She came back from an injury in real life, and she also came back from injury here to win this match. The finish does easily allow for a return bout.
Davenport rushes Ruca as the bell sounds to start the match. Ruca fires up, and the fighting spilled outside the ring. Davenport drops Ruca’s left knee (which Ruca is wearing a large brace on due to and old injury and surgery) on the metal ring steps.
The match goes through a split-screen commercial break, and Davenport works the knee during the break. Ruca eventually counters Davenport. Ruca suplexed Davenport near the ropes, and they both go tumbling over and out. Wild spot, especially for a transition spot.
Still selling her left knee, Ruca does a one-legged springboard with her right foot. Ruca springs off the top rope into a flying body press for a near fall. Moments later, Ruca does her top rope cartwheel spot into a swinging DDT for another near fall.
Davenport counters Ruca when Ruca went for her finisher. Davenport then executes her finisher, and Davenport goes for a cover. Ruca with a counter of her own, as she rolls up Davenport with a schoolgirl for a pinfall.
In a backstage skit, Dijak and Josh Briggs are bickering over which one of them will win the North American Championship. In walks the champ, Oba Femi, and he vows to retain at Stand & Deliver, where the three meet in a triple threat title match.
Ava is in her office when in crawls Joe Gacy. He is selling his back, but Gacy still wants a match on Saturday with against Shawn Spears. Ava books it on the spot, and the match is official for Stand & Deliver.
Final Face-off between Trick Williams and Carmelo Hayes
Hayes saunters to the ring flanked by his personal security force. Williams enters and gets in the ring for the face-off. Other security surrounds them, as Williams speaks first.
Williams notes that they are the first two African American males to headline a PLE on WrestleMania weekend in a match against each other. The live studio audience inside the sound stage are hot for Williams. He is super over with them.
They are some words thrown back-and-forth, and the talking was good. Jim Valley will be pleased to know there are “because of the fans” arguments thrown around.
Finally, Williams vows to “whoop that trick.” That sets off bedlam, and a brawl erupts. Williams and Hayes are fighting off security. They clear of the ring of security, and they square up. Hockey fight between the two, as the NXT locker room empties. Out comes others on the roster to break up the fight. The go-home show goes off the air with a pull-apart brawl.