WWE NXT live results: The fallout from No Mercy

NXT moves on from No Mercy and starts the build to Halloween Havoc tonight.

A new North American Champion was crowned when Trick Williams defeated Dominik Mysterio last Saturday. Tonight, Dominik gets his rematch for the title. If Dominik doesn’t win the championship back, he’ll have to answer to Rhea Ripley. Ripley has warned Dominik not to come home without gold.

It’s the start of a new era for NXT with Ilja Dragunov as champion. Dragunov won the title from Carmelo Hayes at No Mercy.

Becky Lynch retained her NXT Women’s Championship at No Mercy by defeating Tiffany Stratton in an extreme rules match. Despite not currently being cleared to compete due to an arm laceration, Lynch is scheduled to kick off tonight’s show.

The 2023 NXT Women’s Breakout Tournament begins tonight. The winner of the tournament earns a future title shot.

After Gallus cost him a chance to become Heritage Cup Champion, Butch teams up with Tyler Bate against Mark Coffey & Wolfgang tonight. A grudge match between Gigi Dolin and Blair Davenport is also set. Dolin vs. Davenport was originally supposed to happen last week, but Davenport instead took Dolin out in a backstage attack.

The show begins with a recap highlighting NXT No Mercy from last Saturday. 

NXT Women’s Champion Becky Lynch opens the show with her entrance to the soundstage. “The Man has come around to N-Bex-T,” declares the champ. The live studio audience chants “N-X-T.”

Lynch mentions she is not medically cleared to wrestle after her successful title defense at No Mercy. Lynch notes her opponent, Tiffany Stratton is also not cleared to wrestle tonight because on Saturday, as Lynch puts it, they “beat the ever-loving piss out of each other.”

Lynch says she would not have it any other way, as she wants to give her all when defending the title. She goes on to basically talk about how she is a fighting champion, and she is eyeing night one of the Halloween Havoc special for another title defense.

Lyra Valkyria suddenly interrupts Lynch’s monologue, and Valkyria gets in the ring with Lynch. Valkyria tells a story from June 2014, when Lynch made her NXT debut. That is the first episode of NXT that Valkyria watched, and she began training to wrestle that week. Valkyria says Lynch’s debut help “kick start” Valkyria’s career.

Valkyria asks Lynch is she know what she mean to Irish wrestling fans. Valkyria keeps putting Lynch over, mentioning that Lynch grew up not from from where Valkyria is from, and Lynch went on to be one of the first women to main event WrestleMania. Fast forward, and Valkyria was standing beside Lynch in the main event of No Mercy.

Valkyria then says she is also wondering what it would feel like to stand face-to-face with the champ. Lynch begins to agree with Valkyria when they are interrupted by Indi Hartwell. 

Hartwell comes to the ring bragging on herself, and Hartwell notes she never lost the NXT Women’s Championship. Lynch is not the only one that can come home. Now, Hartwell is back for something she never lost. 

Yet another interruption as out comes Roxanne Perez. She is booed by the studio audience. Perez cuts a great promo challenging Lynch, and Perez vows to take back her title at Halloween Havoc.

This all leads to Lynch booking a triple threat match tonight with Lynch on guest commentary. The winner of the three-way gets a title shot on the first night of Halloween Havoc.

A video package hypes the participants in the NXT Women’s Breakout Tournament.

Tyler Bate & Butch defeated Gallus (Mark Coffey & Wolfgang with Joe Coffey)

Bate pinned Mark Coffey, as Bate and Butch get a rather dominate win. Gallus jump the babyface duo after the match, leading to Ridge Holland running in for a save. 

Bate and Butch clear the ring and stand tall as the show cuts to a commercial break. The show returns with Bate in trouble, after Joe Coffey interferes by hitting Bate with a cheap shot. Hot tag to Butch, and he cleans house.

Butch drops Mark Coffey with a shining wizard, and Butch pounds him forearms doing a Sheamus spot. Butch then does a plancha to outside on Joe Coffey. As Butch gets back into the ring, he is cut off by Mark Coffey. However, Bate is able to soon tag in and come to the aid of Butch.

Butch moonsaults off the middle turnbuckle to the floor on Wolfgang. Moments later, Bate dives over the top rope on Wolfgang. Butch tags back in for the finish. 

Butch and Bate partner up for a double team hip toss/powerbomb combo. Bate then covers Mark Coffey for a three count. Immediately after the pinfall, in comes Joe Coffey to get Gallus’ heat back. Wolfgang and Mark Coffey join in, and they outnumber Bate and Butch. Gallus is administering a beatdown when Ridge Holland runs down to even the odds.

Holland helps Bate and Butch in clearing the ring of Gallus. This seems to clearly set up a six-man tag match.  

New NXT Champion Ilja Dragunov comes to the ring for his first live appearance on television since winning the title at No Mercy. Dragunov addresses the audience.

Dragunov puts over the former champion, saying Carmelo Hayes brought the fight to him at No Mercy. Dragunov can barely stand, but he stands. Even in pain, Dragunov stands before the audience as their champion. He promises to take the title to another level, and vows to protect his promise with his life.

“Long live the czar,” Dragunov declares just before he is interrupted by another new champion. Wouldn’t you know it, someone interrupts. 

New NXT North American Champion Trick Williams get in the ring to confront Dragunov, while the audience chants “WHOOP THAT TRICK!” 

Williams thanks Dragunov for him showing Williams something in himself when they wrestled several weeks ago. Williams now has gold and says he is only going up from here. Dragunov tells Williams that he is proud of him. Dragunov drops Williams catchphrase, and the studio audience pops.

Out comes former NXT champ Carmelo Hayes, who limps out to the ring to confront the two new champs. Hayes is upset with Williams for thanking Dragunov. Hayes claims he has encouraged Williams for much longer, and Hayes declares he is proud of Williams.

Hayes tells Williams that winning the title is one thing, but defending it as another. Hayes tries to defend his comment when Dragunov interjects. Dragunov then bows out so Williams and Hayes can talk. Before they can hash things out, Dominik Mysterio is out to interrupt. 

Williams insults Mysterio then jabs about “Mami.” Mysterio and Williams bicker when Hayes says he was Williams’ back tonight. Hayes says he will be in Williams corner tonight. Mysterio responds by asking Williams if he is still in Hayes’ shadow. Williams then declines Hayes’ offer to have him in the corner. Hayes says he won the title by himself, and he will defend it on his own.

Lyra Valkyria defeated Indi Hartwell and Roxanne Perez in a number one contender’s tripe threat match

Valkyria pinned Hartwell to win the match. Kiana James runs in just for the deciding pinfall, and James attacks Perez. 

The match goes through a commercial break. All three got to shine at times. Valkyria especially got to shine in the later stage of the match. She is knocked out of the ring.

Perez has Hartwell rolled up for a pin when Kiana James runs in to pull Perez out of the ring. James attacks Perez, but James eats a superkick from Lynch at ringside. Meanwhile, Valkyria recovers and climbs the turnbuckles. Valkyria leaps off the top rope with a Superfly splash on Hartwell, and Valkyria hooks a leg for a pinfall. 

After the match, Lynch gets in the ring with Valkyria when out comes Tegan Nox. She is Lynch’s next challenger, facing the “The Man” on Raw this coming Monday night. The winner of the match defends against Valkyria on night one of Halloween Havoc.

Bron Breakker meets up with Carmelo Hayes in a backstage skit. Breakker is playing mind games with Hayes, trying to lure Hayes to the dark side of the force. 

Baron Corbin confronts NXT Champion Ilja Dragunov in a backstage skit where Corbin vows to win the NXT title. In doing so, Corbin insults and belittles Dragunov, which leaves the champ seething in anger.

Gigi Dolan pinned Blair Davenport

Dolan pinned Davenport with a roll up in a grudge match.

This match was supposed to happen last week, but they shot an angle where Davenport attacked Dolan. In turn, Dolan returns the favor by jumping Davenport before the bell in there match this week.

Dolan was a house of fire from the start, until Davenport cuts her off. Dolan eventually fights back. The fight spills outside the ring as they brawl around the announce desk. Davenport grabs a metal folding chair, but Dolan is able to dodge a chair shot. 

Dolan fires up as they get back into the ring. After a near fall, Dolan rolls out to retrieve the folding chair. Dolan goes to swing the chair, but the referee steps in. Davenport is able to get the chair, and she goes to swing it, but the ref stops her by grabbing the chair. Dolan then rolls up Davenport with a schoolgirl for a pinfall. 

Davenport gets her heat back by fishhooking the ref, as Davenport screams that this is not over.

McKenzie Mitchell is trying to interview Kiana James, who is on the phone with someone. James tells them she is wiring money, and it will be worth their time. Sounds like a good old fashioned Harley Race “take the money” bounty. This leads to James revealing that Asuka is returning to NXT for a match next week.

James cuts a promo on Roxanne Perez, saying she will not give Perez another chance to win the title. That is reason for the run-in earlier. James then reveals Asuka as the opponent for Perez next Tuesday. If Perez wins, then she faces James in a match.

Participants in the NXT Women’s Breakout Tournament are introduced in front of the live studio audience. Those being introduced include Lola Vice, Dani Palmer, Arianna Grace, Jaida Parker, Jakara Jackson, Karmen Petrovic, and the two women kicking off the tournament — Kelani Jordan and Izzi Dame.

Kelani Jordan defeated Izzi Dame in the NXT Women’s Breakout Tournament 

Jordan pinned Dame after a split-leg moonsault in the first tournament match.

Duke Hudson and Andre Chase run into Thea Hail and Jacy Jayne as the two women are warming up backstage for their match. Chase asked if he and Duke could help Thea Hail with her match tonight. Hail scoffs at the notion, but Jacy Jayne surprisingly things it is a good idea. Jayne even leads them in a Chase U chant. Odd indeed.

Coming back from a commercial break, another vignette airs teasing the debut of Brian Pillman Jr. 

Thea Hail & Jacy Jayne (with Andre Chase & Duke Hudson) defeated Elektra Lopez & Lola Vice

Hail submitted Lopez with a kimura. Hail and Jayne looked pretty dominate as a team in winning, as Chase and Hudson look on. 

Carmelo Hayes says he had a phone call with John Cena. Hayes reveals that Cena will be in Hayes’ corner next week, when Hayes faces Bron Breakker in a match on NXT next Tuesday. 

Dominik Mysterio defeated NXT North American Champion Trick Williams to win the title

Mysterio pinned Williams after interference from Judgment Day. JD McDonagh also ran in. There were a lot of smoke and mirrors, but it was still an entertaining match. WWE Women’s World Champion Rhea Ripley was in Dom’s corner the entire match. Finn Balor and Damian Priest would emerge later in the bout.

The match goes through a split-screen commercial break. After returning from the break, out comes Damian Priest and Finn Balor of Judgment Day. They were seemingly there to motivate Dom, as Ripley had also told him to bring the title back home or do not come home at all.

Dom is able to work over Williams, only for Williams to soon fight back. Ripley slides the women’s title belt into the ring, and Williams bends over to pick it up. Dom rushes in to DDT Williams on the title belt, and Dom slides the belt out of the ring. Yet, Williams gets a shoulder up to break a count.

Dom dials up a 619, and Dom goes to follow up with a frog splash. Williams gets his knees up, and a moment later he delivers a jumping knee strike. JD McDonagh suddenly runs in, and he is sent packing by Williams.

Priest slides his Money in the Bank briefcase into the ring, and Dom goes to use it as a weapon. The referee plays tries to get the briefcase from Dom. The briefcase was a red herring, as Balor jumps on the apron and hits Williams with a belt shot. Williams falls face down on the mat, and Dom follows up with a frog splash. Dom then covers Williams for a three count, and the former champ has regained his title. 

Paul Heyman cuts in with a pre-taped promo that closes the show. Heyman announces that WWE Champion Roman Reigns will be in Bron Breakker’s corner in his match against Carmelo Hayes, who has John Cena in his corner.

Next week is a super loaded show on NXT, in what is possibly the most star-studded lineup in the history of the NXT brand.