Tonight on NXT, Lash Legend collides with Jaida Parker, TNA’s Director of Authority, Santino Marella and NXT General Manager, Ava, select their teams for the special NXT -vs- TNA Showdown event next week and more!
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NXT opens with clips from last week’s show where TNA Wrestlers invade NXT during the main event, as well as highlights from NXT’s No Mercy.
Our new NXT Champion, Ricky Saints makes his way out to the ring. Saints poses on the turnbuckles and then grabs a mic. Saints thanks the crowd for the “You deserve it” chants. Saints says he did what he said he was going to do back in February and that the reality is him winning the NXT championship and that’s his reality now. Saints talks about how people were asking if he could do it – and he did it. He says he’ll always stand on business and he bet on himself and he walked out the new champion. He says this is proof the only person you need to bet on is yourself. Jacy Jayne interrupts Saints and says there are bigger things to worry about. She says they need to worry about TNA threatening to invade NXT. Ava interrupts Jayne and agrees that they have more important things to worry about because she’s decided that Saints and Jayne are the team captains of NXT and they need to decide who will be on their team. Ava says she needs the best on the NXT teams and Ava is then interrupted by Santino Marella. Marella says that’s a great idea and he will be picking his captains and “Tricky Williams” won’t be their captain because he can’t trust someone named Tricky and then calls out Mike “Santanana”. Santana comes out and then Marella says he does trust one NXT wrestler to be his captain and calls out Kelani Jordan who is the TNA Knockouts Champion. Ava says she needs both team finalized. Marella says this isn’t an invasion but a showdown. Jayne has an issue with Williams not being the men’s champion, yet Jordan is the women’s captain. Saints tells Santana he’ll see him at the end of the night at the Summit.
Lash Legend and Jaida Parker are seen walking backstage in different areas headed to the ring for their match.
Leon Slater from TNA and Je’Von Evans talk backstage. They talk about how well each other are doing. The Culling come by and Shawn Spears says he’s not surprised Evans is talking to a TNA champ. A match between Niko Vance/Shawn Spears and Je’Von Evans and Leon Slater. Lyra Valkyria comes by and gives Tatum Paxley a Lyra Valkyria doll and Izzi Dame tells Paxley they need to leave.
Match 1: Lash Legend -vs- Jaida Parker
Legend storms the ring and starts with shoulder checks on Parker in the corner. Parker fires back with punches to Legend and Legend smokes Parker with an uppercut. Legend suplexes Parker and covers for a two count. Legend tosses Parker to the apron and Parker kicks Legend down and gets back in the ring. Legend punches Parker to the mat and Parker rolls out of the ring. Legend goes after her and is pushed into the apron. The women fight outside the ring and Parker hits a Samoan Drop to the outside on Legend and we cut to a commercial.
Back to the match, Legend slams Parker’s head against the mat and then hammers down on the back of Parker’s neck. Parker is swung into the corner a couple times and then clotheslined down and covered for a near fall. Legend connects with some shoulder checks and then hits a backbreaker on Parker. Legend covers Parker who kicks out at two. Legend puts Parker in a submission hold and Parker punches out of the hold. Parker tries to sunset flip Legend and does and Legend kicks out of the pin. Legend puts Parker in a single leg crab in the middle of the ring and Parker does her best to get out of the hold. Parker crawls to the ropes and grabs it and Legend has to break the hold. Legend misses a splash on Parker and Parker runs at Legend and hits a rolling Blockbuster on Legend. Parker takes down Legend with a shoulder check and slams into Legend in the corner. Parker hits a DDT and covers Legend for a two count. Legend gets Parker in a sleeperhold and Parker punches out of it and then slams Legend into the corner breaking the hold. Parker places Legend in the corner and hits her booty drop on Legend. Legend no sells it and pumpkicks Parker who rolls out of the ring. Legend throws Parker into the steel steps and then into the barricade. Back in the ring, Legend sets up for the Lash Extension and Parker counters and hits Hipnotic and gets the win.
Winner: Jaida Parker
In the locker room, Ricky Saints is with some of the NXT roster. Je’Von Evans comes in and congratulates Saints. Trick Williams comes in and says he’s a co-captain and wants to be on the team. Saints says he has one spot on his spot and gives it to Myles Borne. Williams says they need size and suggests Jasper Troy or Josh Briggs. Saints he gets to decide who is on is time, Williams says Briggs and Borne should battle tonight to see who gets that spot and Saints agrees.
We come back from a commercial break and the NXT North American Champion, Ethan Page, comes out to the ring. Page says he’s done it again and he’s turned away another dangerous threat. Last Saturday he defeated an Olympic sized threat when he beat Tavion Heights. He says no he’ll take his business to the south because he has a “medical professional” who wants his title. He calls out Dr. Wagner Jr III from AAA and instead Mustafa Ali comes out. Ali says he has no issue with what Page has said, but he has an issue with Page being the North American Champion. Page tells Ali unless he’s the man behind Wagner’s mask he doesn’t owe Ali anything. Ali says that’s true but NXT owes him something – a shot at the North American Champion because this opportunity never came for him. He says two years ago he was promised a match for the North American Championship, and instead he was released from his contract. 749 days later, Ali is still waiting for his championship match that he earned. Page asks Ali if this is where he starts crying because of his sob story and then tells Ali to find someone else to tell this story to. Ali says he won’t cry for a match but he’s talked to Ava – next week Page will defend the North American Championship against him. Page says he’s not surprised that everyone is coming for him and next Tuesday, Ali will be disappointed. He says he won’t give him a release but he will wish Ali the best in his future endeavours. Ali clocks Page and sends him out of the ring.
Kendal Grey and Wren Sinclair talk about make-up backstage. Jacy Jayne comes in and tells the women’s locker room that she has to pick her team. She picks Jaida Parker and Sol Ruca. Lola Vice says she should be on the team and she’s willing to put her differences aside. Fallon Henley says she gets the last spot and the locker room starts to argue. Jayne tells everyone to shut up and says Henley will battle Vice tonight for the last spot. Zaria asks Ruca if they cans speak privately and we cut to a commercial break.
