NXT followed the Great American Bash with an episode largely focused on promoting next week’s show on the road in Houston, Texas.
Multiple matches were confirmed for next week when the brand takes its show to Texas, including Oba Femi defending the NXT Championship against Yoshiki Inamura and Josh Briggs, and a singles match involving Blake Monroe against Wren Sinclair.
Results
*Trick Williams, Mike Santana & Joe Hendry vs. Saquon Shugars, Dion Lennox & Osiris Griffin ended in a no-contest
*EVOLVE Women’s Championship: Kali Armstrong vs. Karmen Petrovic ends in a no-contest
*Tony D’Angelo over Stacks Lorenzo and Luca Crusifino (Recommended)
*Masha Slamovich, Sol Ruca & Zaria over Jacy Jayne, Fallon Henley & Jazmyn Nyx
The Undertaker is coming
During a backstage segment, Trick Williams walked into the room with the members of ‘Team Undertaker’ from LFG (Shiloh Hill, Dani Sekelsky, Bayley Humphrey, and Drake Morreaux) and told the four of them to move.
As soon as Williams left, Hills’ phone rang IMMEDIATELY, and what was the ring tone? American Bad Ass by Kid Rock (seriously) and the avid CW viewer was announced for next week’s show in Houston and will confront Trick Williams.
Triple Threat for the NXT Championship
Josh Briggs cut a promo in the ring, stating Yoshiki Inamura lacked “killer instinct” to beat Oba Femi at the Great American Bash, but Briggs would go to “any means necessary” to win the championship. He complained that Inamura received a title shot on a PLE while he’s been in NXT for four years, having the best matches and has never sniffed a title shot. He, too, would like to headline a show going head-to-head with an AEW pay-per-view, but alas, he’ll have to settle for a TV match.
Femi and Inamura came down to the ring. Femi was furious that Briggs ruined their match, and now people are questioning his win (are they?). Inamura stated Briggs doesn’t speak for him, he will do whatever it takes, but he’ll do it with “honor” (those are contradictory statements). So, Briggs proposed a triple threat match next week, all three brawled, and within two segments, Ava announced the match. It took Briggs four years to come up with this.
The Family’s Final Battle
A series of retrospective pieces on The Family aired throughout the first hour on Tony D’Angelo’s history in NXT, bringing in Stacks Lorenzo, and eventually, Luca Crusifino and Adriana Rizzo.
It led to the triple threat match and turned out to be a very good television match with a hot ending. One highlight was Booker T. referring to Crusifino as an accountant, and Vic Joseph refusing to let it go and correcting that he was a lawyer.
D’Angelo hip tossed Lorenzo over the top rope to land on Crusifino and would hit them with a double release German suplex.
Lorenzo and Crusifino hit the Shatter Machine to D’Angelo. On the floor, Lorenzo swung a crowbar, but D’Angelo ducked and speared Lorenzo through the wall, and the audience lost its mind.
D’Angelo choked-slammed Crusfino onto the desk and delivered one to Lorenzo inside the ring to win the match. This was a really good match and felt like the end of this program.
TNA Representation
They made a solid push for the Slammiversary card this Sunday with appearances by Joe Hendry, Mike Santana, Masha Slamovich, and members of The System.
Slamovich confronted Fatal Influence in the opening segment and received back up from Sol Ruca & Zaria, leading to a six-woman tag in the main event. Slamovich used a spinning head kick and Snow Plough to pin the NXT Women’s Champion before their Title vs. Title match on Sunday, and you can’t say they didn’t promote Slamovich with that clean of a win.
The System’s Eddie Edwards, Brian Myers, and JDC ran out during the opening six-man tag involving Trick Williams, Joe Hendry & Mike Santana against DarkState. This was revenge for DarkState’s attack on The System and should lead to another match at Slammiversary after Matt Cardona was seeking help from The System to go after the group on Impact last week. It allows Cardona & Myers to team on Long Island this weekend, which they’ve been teasing for weeks.
Jordynne Grace is pissed
Grace interrupted the EVOLVE Women’s Championship match between Kali Armstrong and Karmen Petrovic, and it was thrown out. It was the second match with a non-finish in a row, and even for a minor belt like the EVOLVE one, it felt like a Cruiserweight title match on Nitro in 2000.
Grace demands that Blake Monroe show up, but she is not at the building. Instead, she shot, edited, hired a voice actor, and sent a video through Dropbox to invite Grace to watch her match in Houston next week.
Grace came all the way for nothing, so she beat up Robert Stone and Stevie Turner and now must fly to Texas.
Next Week in Houston
*The Undertaker confronts Trick Williams
*NXT Championship Match: Oba Femi © vs. Josh Briggs vs. Yoshiki Inamura
*Jasper Troy vs. Ricky Saints
*Wren Sinclair vs. Blake Monroe
*Ethan Page’s North American Celebration
