WWE NXT live results: Ava to address future of the NXT Championship
WWE NXT on Tuesday, January 13 will feature the fallout from last week’s New Year’s Evil.
Following Oba Femi leaving the NXT Championship belt in the ring on the January 6 show, NXT General Manager Ava is set to address the future of the title on this week’s show.
We will also hear from the new NXT North American Champion Izzi Dame following her win over Thea Hail in an open challenge at New Year’s Evil.
The TNA International title will be on the line this week as well when Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo defends against Shiloh Hill. Also, Jasper Troy will defend the men’s Speed Championship on Tuesday against Tavion Heights.
Also scheduled for Tuesday is a no disqualification match between Joe Hendry and Dion Lennox. Lola Vice vs. Kelani Jordan is also scheduled for the show.
Our live coverage of WWE NXT on Tuesday, January 13 begins at 8 p.m. Eastern time.
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NXT is on the air from a sound stage at the Performance Center in Orlando. The show begins with a recap of New Year’s Evil from last Tuesday.
Lights in the sound stage are dim with a spotlight on the men’s NXT Championship belt in the center of the ring. Oba Femi vacated the NXT title last week in a cliffhanger ending to the show, and this week is a follow up on Femi’s departure from NXT.
The lights come up and NXT General Manager Ava is in the ring picking up the vacated title belt. Surrounding the ring is the men’s roster on NXT, and they listen while Ava says some may see Femi vacating the title as a challenge. Instead, she sees it as a “perfect opportunity” as the men’s division is “wide open” with no better time than right now.
Interrupting Ava’s speech is the entrance of Ricky Saints. He gets in the ring dressed in street clothes. The other wrestlers stand around awkwardly as Saints poses on the ropes. Saints claims to have accomplished a “absolute hat trick” by running Trick Williams, Je’Von Evans and Oba Femi out of NXT. They are the past and he is the now. He plays on the then-now-forever slogan.
Saints says we have some talented men right now, but all eyes are on him right now. Saints will shut up so Ava can award him the title. Ava scoffs at that, and basically says the whole roster gave her a similar pitch on why they all deserve to be champion.
Ava goes on to announce a six-man ladder match for the championship on February 3. The winner becomes the new champion of the men’s division. Qualifying matches begin next week on NXT. Ava places the NXT title belt on a hanger, and it is raised above the ring while wrestlers roll into the ring for a wild brawl.
Joe Hendry is first to roll in the ring, followed by the rest as a melee breaks up. Hendry and Saints square up as a brawl erupts around them. Everyone is fighting when Keanu Carver debuts on NXT by storming to ringside to wreak havoc. He recently signed to the roster, and Carver gets a mega push from the start.
Carver is the last man standing, and all eyes are on him around he lays out everyone. Carver is getting a big push, and has his eyes on the championship. Carver bieled one person into the studio audience, and then he cleaned house inside the ring. Carver stands tall to end the segment.
— New NXT Women’s North American Champion Izzi Dame is seen arriving to the building during the next match. She is flanked by The Culling.
Kelani Jordan vs. Lola Vice
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The grudge here dates back several months. Jordan attacked Vice three weeks ago, which directly set up this match. The story is Jordan was once a in a “little sister” role, but she now steps up to challenge the locker room leader, who is Lola Vice.
The match itself goes through a commercial break. Vice is down selling as the show cuts to commercials. She begins a comeback when the show returns from the break. Jordan eventually cuts off Vice, and Jordan leaps off the top rope with a frog splash for a near fall.
Jordan intends to follow up with a split-legged moonsault, but Vice catches her in a triangle choke. Jordan escapes to deliver a tilt-a-whirl slam, and they soon go home.
Just before the finish, Jordan tries to hold the ropes for illegal leverage on an O’Connor roll. The referee refuses to count. Jordan then turns around and walks into a spinning back fist. Vice then covers Jordan for a three count.
Match result: Lola Vice defeated Kelani Jordan via pinfall.
— A hype video previews the next match.
Jasper Troy vs. Tavion Heights for the WWE Speed Championship
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Tavion Heights challenges for the the Speed title in a match with a five-minute time limit. Troy works over Heights for much of the match, but Heights fires up at times on offensive. In the final minute, Troy delivers a Bossman slam. Troy then pins Heights. And still…
Match result: WWE Speed Champion Jasper Troy defeated Tavion Heights via pinfall to retain his title.
— In a post-match angle, Lexis King attacked Heights. King ambushed Heights and laid him out with his finisher. After a commercial break, King is backstage with a walking can and a cowboy hat. King argues with Chase U. Up walks Stacks and Arianna Grace. Stacks says they should listen to King, and they all leave. The camera follows Robert Stone after the tells King that attacking people like that is wrong. Myles Borne pitches Stone for a qualifying match. Stone tries to blow him off, but Borne grabs him and insists on a qualifying match.
— Elio LeFluer is featured in a personality profile that hypes his debut on the NXT roster. His first opponent is named in a backstage skit that follows the video package.
— NXT North American Champion Ethan Page asks Ava when his qualifying match. Page figured he would get a shot, but Ava had other ideas. She tells Page he can have a qualifying match if he forfeits the North American title. Ava goes on to announce Page is defending his title against the debuting Elio LeFluer next Tuesday on NXT.
Jaida Parker returns and confronts Blake Monroe
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Blake Monroe enters the sound stage for an in-ring promo. Monroe talks about attacking Thea Hail, and Monroe defends her actions. There is a lot of inside baseball of sorts. Monroe boasts when she is so talented that some people do not know what to do with her. Monroe puts herself over as she continues to brag on herself.
The entrance of Jaida Parker interrupts Monroe’s monologue. Big pop for the return of Parker, and the studio audience chants for her. Parker goes to speak when Monroe interrupts her. The fight is on and Parker pummels Monroe. Parker then does her signature spot, and she stands tall as Monroe flees the ring. Parker and Monroe are clearly set for a match soon.
— Shiloh Hill is the focus of a personality profile sponsored by an insurance company. His opponent in the next match is headed to the ring, and the entrance of Stacks precedes a commercial break.
— After the break comes a video package hyping up Darkstate.
Stacks (with Arianna Grace) vs. Shiloh Hill for the TNA International Championship
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The match goes through a commercial break even though it did not need to. Nonetheless, Grace gets involved at ringside. She interferes and tries to trip up Hill. He jumps her attempted trip, but the delay allows Stacks to counter a sunset flip.
Stacks holds the rope for illegal leverage, and Grace grabs his hand to help too. The ref catches them in the act, and does the Tommy Young spot where he kicks the heel’s hand off the rope. That spot would have been more effective if he had not seen a similar spot in a previous match on the show. Regardless, Hill gets a nearfall when he reverses the roll-up. Hill then hooks Stacks in a small package. Grace interferes again to kick Stacks into a reversal of the small package. The ref counts the pin, and still…
Match result: TNA International Champion Stacks defeated Shiloh Hill via pinfall to retain his title.
— Izzi Dame is headed to the ring to celebrate her winning the NXT Women’s North American title. Flanking her is Shawn Spears and Niko Vance of The Culling, but they did not escort her to the ring. They remained backstage, which was essential for the angle that follows.
Tatum Paxley attacks Izzi Dame
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Dame comes out to cut a heel promo where she boasts about becoming the new Women’s North American Champion. Tatum Paxley storms past security on her way to the ring to interrupt the monologue.
Paxley storms into the ring and attacks Dame, as Paxley looks for a measure of revenge on her former friend. Referees pulls Paxley away, and Paxley headbutts one of them. The ref sells big and he drops like a stone. Dame flees the ring and clutches her title belt.
In a backstage skit after a commercial break, roving reporter Blake Howards informs viewers that Paxley was barred from the building after her run-in.
— The Vanity Project is interviewed by Howard, and the heel trio brag about themselves. The tag team of Swipe Right reveal that next week they have a tag match against Chase U. Vanity Project flees when they see Keanu Carver storming through the backstage area. The camera goes to follow Carver, and he apparently assaults the camera operator after screaming to get the camera out of his face.
— Hard sell for next Tuesday just before the entrances for the main event.
Joe Hendry (with OTM) vs. Dion Lennox (with Darkstate) in a no disqualification match
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Joe Hendry appears out numbered by Darkstate until OTM enter to watch Hendry’s back in his corner. High drama, only for them to start the match with a collar and elbow lock-up to begin this grudge match of sorts.
The match itself goes through a split-screen commercial break. Hendry shows fire at the start. They tease a superplex, and Hendry takes a back bump off the middle rope. He kips up and leaps back onto the ropes, and Hendry gives Lennox a superplex just before the show cuts to the commercial break.
The are brawling as the show returns from the break, and Lennox grounds Hendry with a chinlock. Hendry is fighting back when Saquon Shugars interferes by wedging a metal folding chair between the top and middle ropes. The interference backfires as Hendry reverses an Irish whip and Lennox crashes into the chair.
Hendry is firing up by peppering Lennox with Roddy Piper punches. Hendry is handed brass knux. Hendry decks Lennox with a loaded fist for a near fall. Hendry does his signature turn, and she stomps the mat to get the crowd to chant. Hendry goes for a chokeslam, only for Lennox to be handed a kendo stick. Lennox escapes and Hendry feeds him his back for shots from the kendo stick. Hendry takes the stick from Lennox and hits him repeatedly in retaliation.
Standing Ovation chokeslam but Hendry, and he hooks a leg while covering Lennox. NWO spot where Darkstate pull Hendry out of the ring to break the count. Slingshot sit-out powerbomb by Lennox for a near fall. Playing on the earlier spot, OTM drag Lennox out of the ring. They attack Lennox, which prompts Darkstate to jump on the apron. They face off with OTM and a melee erupts in the ring. Darkstate and OTM brawl their way to the backstage area.
Back in the ring, Lennox and Hendry tease doing the Dan Severn-Tarzan Goto spot with dueling chairs. They duel is short-lived, but that spot led into another spot where Hendry takes a spinebuster on a chair. Hendry still gets a shoulder up, and they go on trade near falls when Hendry gives Lennox a chokeslam on a chair.
Meanwhile, a table is propped up in a corner. The table is adorned with Slim Jim stickers. Hendry takes a spear from Lennox, and they crash through the table. Hendry gets a shoulder up yet again. Lennox grabs a metal chair and teases a chair shot on Hendry. Before he can deliver the chair shot, Lennox is hit in the back with a chair swung by Tony D’Angelo. Complete with his new look, D’Angelo gives Lennox a chokeslam from hell.
D’Angelo extends a hand to help Hendry to his feet. That is a swerve, as D’Angelo lures in Hendry for a chokeslam. D’Angelo then drags Hendry over Lennox. The referee counts the pin with Hendry covering Lennox.
Match result: Joe Hendry defeated Dio Lennox in a no DQ match.
In a post-match angle, Ava orders security to removes Tony D’Angelo from the ring. D’Angelo dismantles and runs through the security team. D’Angelo then glares at Ava, as he walks past her when the show goes off air.
