Both brands pick up wins at WWE NXT vs. TNA Showdown
In the end, it was a tie.
Four matches took place at NXT vs. TNA Showdown on Tuesday, with brands walking away with two wins each. In the opening match, TNA Tag Team Champions The Hardys defeated DarkState to win the NXT Tag Team titles for the first time, becoming double champions.
That was followed by the women’s Survivor Series elimination match, which saw Team NXT (Jacy Jayne, Lola Vice, Sol Ruca, and Jaida Parker) defeat Team TNA (Kelani Jordan, The IInspiration, and Mara Sade). It boiled down to Jordan taking on both Jayne and Rouca. Jordan hit a Spanish fly but missed a 450 as Ruca got the knees up. Ruca hit a sol snatcher but didn’t realize Jayne tagged herself in, pinning Jordan to steal the win from Ruca.
After Ethan Page defeated Mustafa Ali, the main event took place pitting Team NXT (Ricky Starks, Trick Williams, Myles Borne, and Je’Von Evans) against Team TNA (Mike Santana, Moose, Frankie Kazarian, and Leon Slater) in the men’s Survivor Series elimination match. The key point of the match had Williams ditch Starks, leaving him as the only man remaining on team NXT. Starks battled all four TNA wrestlers by himself, managing to eliminate Kazarian and Slater. But the numbers game proved to be too much, as Moose and Santana ultimately picked up the win for their team after Santana connected with a discus clothesline.
The end of the show saw the NXT GM Ava and TNA Director of Authority Santino Marella congratulate each other on their team’s successes. Ava then invited the Knockouts division to compete on next week’s NXT in a battle royal to determine Jacy Jayne’s challenger for Halloween Havoc. Santino accepted the offer to close out the show.
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