Wednesday, January 10, 2018

WWE NXT

-Commentators:  Mauro Ranallo, Nigel McGuinness, & "Showtime" Percy Watson.
-Shayna Baszler d. Dakota Kai via referee stoppage due to Baszler injuring Kai's arm with an elbow stomp (1:34).  Afterwards Baszler choked out Kai with the Kirifuda Clutch(sleeper with bodyscissors); NXT Women's Champion Ember Moon hit the ring and Baszler backed off.
-Backstage:  General Manager S. William Regal warned Baszler that her actions wouldn't get her an NXT Women's Title shot.  Baszler dismissively asked "We done here?" before walking away.
-Kassius Ohno d. Raul Mendoza after a flying forearm to the back of the head (4:26).
-Earlier today:  Zelina Vega was dismissive of Johnny Gargano's chances against NXT Champion Andrade "Cien" Almas at Takeover.
-Backstage:  Johnny Gargano was interviewed about his upcoming title shot, but he was interrupted by "Velveteen Dream" Patrick Clark; Dream wanted to be thanked for Gargano taking his spot in the contenders' series while he was hurt, telling him that he didn't deserve that spot.
-Backstage:  The Street Profits(Angelo Dawkins & Montez Ford) asked G.M. Regal about getting an NXT Tag Team Title shot...Regal granted them a contenders' match on next week's show against The Authors Of Pain(Akam Dhinsa & Rezar Selmani).
-Lars Sullivan d. Lio Rush with the Freak Accident(waistlock uranagi) (1:54).  After the match, Lars said he wanted to lock up with Killian Dain again...
-The scheduled NXT Tag Team Title match between reDRagon(Kyle O'Reilly & Bobby Fish) and Sanity(Eric Young & Killian Dain)(w/ NIkki Cross) never officially started as O'Reilly, Fish, and Adam Cole attacked the Sanity members backstage.  However, Regal said the titles would still be defended...
-reDRagon(Kyle O'Reilly & Bobby Fish) d. Aleister Black & Roderick Strong to retain the NXT Tag Team Titles; Adam Cole distracted Black while O'Reilly got the pin on Strong after he and Fish hit the legsweep/flying kick combo (8:13 aired).  The Undisputed Era trio beat down Black after the match...and Regal announced Black vs. Cole for Takeover in an Extreme Rules Match.

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