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.