Midweek wrestling

TNA XPlosion

-Commentators:  Mike Tenay & Jeremy Borash.
-Frankie Kazarian d. Sam Shaw after the Fade To Black(behind-the-back Tombstone).

WWE NXT

Commentators:  Tony Dawson(fare thee well), S. William Regal, & Renee Young.  Ring announcer:  Byron Saxton.

The Ascension(Conor O'Brian & Rick Victor) vs. Corey Graves & Adrian Neville for the NXT Tag Team Titles:  This is Graves & Neville's rematch after losing the belts two weeks ago.  Victor literally comes out swinging, but Graves is ready to fight and gets the better of the exchange.  O'Brian finally runs interference against Neville, pulling the middle rope so that he falls out to the floor.  The champs overpower Adrian and do some damage to his leg, but Graves finally gets the hot tag and cleans house!  Graves takes out O'Brian with a leg dive and hooks the Lucky 13(Fuller Leglock) but Victor breaks it up.  Graves tags out to Neville(despite Neville not being in good condition to re-enter the fray) and one dropkick to the knee by O'Brian is enough to stop him in his tracks.  Neville nearly makes the tag, but Victor sends Neville crashing into his partner with a high knee to the back.  Tag to Conor, Total Ascension(legsweep by O'Brian/flying European uppercut by Victor), and that's the ballgame.

Afterwards, Graves yells at his partner for blowing the match...it seems like cooler heads will prevail, but Graves snaps and legdives his partner!  Ladies and gentlemen, we have a heel turn...Corey pummels Neville out of frustration and Adrian does Stay Down(tm).

C.J. Parker vs. Tyler Breeze:  Wow, full plate this week.  Parker's been the antagonist in this feud, but Breeze is the arrogant type so he's the heel.  The partisan crowd actually seems to favor Breeze...clearly they don't know what they want.  Parker starts off with chops and an airplane spin, causing Breeze to seek refuge on the floor.  C.J. follows him out and re-enters with a sunset flip for two, but he whiffs on a dropkick and Breeze takes over.  Parker teases a punch(NOT THE FACE~!) and gets a La Majistral cradle for two, then a big flying clothesline...Breeze begs off and Parker pulls him to mid-ring, but Tyler hangs onto the ring apron banner and the referee has to fix it.  Odd priorities for the ref and it causes him to miss a thumb to the eye by Breeze.  One spinning heel kick later, Breeze gets the win...Regal is proud of the heelish tactics.  Breeze takes a selfie with his downed rival, but Parker fires back with a huge uppercut palm strike(Moon Shot?).  Breeze rolls out but forgets his camera phone...so C.J. decides to borrow it for some glamour shots with the fans.

NXT Women's Champion Paige Knight & Emma Tayla vs. Summer Rae & Sasha Banks:  The faces aren't quite on the same page and that may make the difference, but Paige immediately takes the fight to Sasha.  Summer tags into the match only to get more of the same...Emma gets the tag and Summer wants no part of her.  Sasha takes her turn...the ref gets occupied with Paige and Summer takes down Emma with a well-timed hair yank.  That puts the "BFFs" in control...Emma pulls off a nice reversal to nearly pin Summer, then finally makes the tag to Paige!  Paige pulls Summer to the ropes and knees her repeatedly in the face, but Sasha grabs the foot to slow her down.  Paige still gets off a dropkick...for two.  Perfectplex nearly wins it but Sasha breaks it up.  Sasha sends Emma to the floor, Paige sends Sasha to the floor, and Summer hits the Sunset Split to pin the NXT Women's Champ!

Bo Dallas vs. Sami Zayn for the NXT Title:  OLE~!  The champ seems hesitant to lock up and Zayn gets the better of the technical exchange, getting several quick near-falls in a row.  Bo finally slugs his way back into things and keeps going for pins, but he can't keep Zayn down.  CRAVATE~! slows him down but not for long...looks like rally time!  Corner boot HITS and he gets the pin(!)...but General Manager John Bradshaw Layfield is quick to interrupt, showing the replay where Bo got his foot on the bottom rope out of the referee's field of vision.  JBL orders a restart("Referee, don't make me learn your name!")...you may not like it, but that was the correct call.  The bell rings and Dallas bashes Zayn out of the ring with a forearm smash...this one's not over yet.

Bo keeps up the pressure(CRAVATE~!) but gets low-bridged out of the ring...then Zayn nails the no-hands somersault plancha!  Back in the ring, a Steamboat Press gets two.  He lines up for the corner boot again but Bo blocks it this time, only to get caught in a Blue Thunder Bomb...for 2 1/2.  Bo fires back with a flurry of offense ending with a turnbuckle-walk bulldog...for 2 1/2!  Inverted DDT...gets 2 1/2.  Zayn holds the ropes to avoid the snap belly-to-belly suplex, gets off a boot, and then hits Bo Dallas with his own spear...for 2 1/2!  He sets up for the ropewalk tornado DDT but Bo swats the grip away, causing Zayn to crotch himself on the top rope.  Bo hits his own spear...but only gets 2 1/2!  Dallas goes back on offense and sets up a superplex but Zayn blocks...he fights out of the move and hits the sunset bomb...for 2 1/2!  What'll it take?  German suplex...Bo tries to hang onto the ropes but Zayn hits another one, causing Bo to pull off the turnbuckle pad.  One more?  Bo blocks again and pulls Zayn forward...right into the exposed turnbuckle!  Dallas rolls him up and that's enough for the pin...once again, an exposed turnbuckle makes the difference for Bo Dallas.

TNA Impact

-Commentators:  Mike Tenay & Taz.
-Robbie Eckos won a four-corner match with Shawn Hernandez, Eric Young, and Christopher Daniels when he stole the pin on Daniels after Young's Macho Elbow.
-Tag Team Champion Phil Gunner(w/ James Storm) d. Mike Knux(w/ Garett Bischoff) via spear.
-Samoa Joe d. Chris Sabin(w/ Velvet Sky) by countering an O'Connor Roll attempt with the Kokita Clutch.  Austin Aries attacked Joe afterwards which brought out Jeff Hardy and then X-Division Champion Manik to join the fight.
-Heavyweight Champion Bully Ray(w/ Brooke Tessmacher) d. Brutus Magnus(non-title).  The referee was bumped and Ray went for his chain, but Sting stopped him from using it.  The referee got distracted by Sting and Ray took out Magnus with a low blow for the cheap win.