WWE NXT live results: Great American Bash go-home show

The final stop before this weekend’s Great American Bash is tonight’s live WWE NXT from the Performance Center.

The show will feature contract signings for the two headlining matches: NXT Champion Tony D’Angelo vs. Naraku and NXT Women’s Champion Lola Vice vs. Kendal Grey.

Women’s NXT Speed Champion Wren Sinclair will get her next challenger tonight as Izzi Dame takes on Arianna Grace in a no. 1 contender’s match.

Ahead of their match this weekend, Saquon Shugars and Dion Lennox will have a final face-to-face confrontation.

In tag team action, Hank Walker and Tank Ledger face BirthRight’s Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo and Uriah Connors.

EK Prosper goes one-on-one with Keanu Carver while the announced lineup is rounded out by Evolve Champion Aaron Rourke defending against Tristan Angels.

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NXT is back on the air in front of a live studio audience from a sound stage at the Performance Center in Orlando.

The show begins with NXT Champion Tony D’Angelo in the office of NXT General Manager Robert Stone. Tony D wants to know if Naraku signed the contract for their title match. Stone assures the champ that Naraku will sign tonight while also slightly gaslighting him. More to come from this story after the opening bout.

Wade Barrett is back in NXT tonight for color commentary in the broadcast booth alongside the longtime voice of NXT — Vic Joseph.

Opening the show in the sound stage is an Evolve title match.

Aaron Rourke vs. Tristan Angels for the Evolve Championship

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The match goes through a commercial break. Before the show cuts to the break, the lights in the sound stage go dark and flickering red light baths the ring. A cackle rings out, and Angels is briefly terrified. Shiloh Hill might be playing mind games with Angels.

Later in the match, Angels’ “Mr. NXT” sash becomes involved in the bout. Angels goes to retrieve his sash outside the ring, and he is dragged underneath the ring. Presumably more shenanigans from Hill, as Angels gets back into the ring looking bewildered. Hill is never identified by name, but was programmed with Angels in recent weeks.

Back in the ring, a disheveled Angels walks into a pump kick. Rourke then executes his Merry Go Round (somersault senton) off the top rope, and the champion hooks a leg to cover the challenger.

Match result: WWE Evolve Champion Aaron Rourke defeated Tristan Angels via pinfall to retain his title.

— NXT Champion Tony D’Angelo confronts Naraku in the parking lot with Robert Stone in tow trying to play peacemaker. Tony D wants to know if Naraku has the contract. Naraku hands Tony D the contract. Then goes a fireball gimmick. D’Angelo opens the contract and is blinded by a fireball. Robert Stone panics while Naraku offers a sinister laugh.

D’Angelo leaves in an ambulance after the show returns from a commercial break. The champ is yelling and threatening to kill Naraku. Stone watches as the ambulance leaves as sirens blare. To be continued…

— Saquon Shugars and Dion Lennox are both in street clothes as they meet in the ring for a face-to-face confrontation. They cut promos on each other, with Shugars arguably gaining the upper hand in the verbal battle.

Shugars says he does not move scared, but he moves smart instead. That is why to took out the other members of Darkstate ahead of his upcoming match against Lennox. Shugars plays on the idea he is just an indie wrestler compared to the others in Darkstate. Shugar put emphasis on him being a wrestler.

Lennox asks which one of them looks more like a superstar, meaning himself. Darkstate was never supposed to include Shugars. Lennox insists they took him in to get what they need from him, and they wil leave him in the past after Sunday (at The Great American Bash). Shugars claims there is no Darkstate without him, and was the glue holding them together.

Shugars puts down both Cutler James and Osiris Griffin before saying Lennox cannot lace Shuagrs’ boots. Shugars’ wrist tape could burn the wrists of Lennox, and Shugars boasts that his jock strap would not fit Lennox.

Lennox claims them dropping Shugars was a correction. Lennox concludes with bold statements, insinuating that Shugars signed his own death warrant for The Bash on Sunday.

This was a decent go-home segment, albeit far too long.

— Comedian Matt Mathews is back on NXT, and he will apparently be in the corner of Hank & Tank in the next match on tonight’s card.

Hank Walker & Tank Ledger (with Matt Mathews) vs. Birthright (Uriah Connors & Stacks with Lexis King, Charlie Dempsey & Arianna Grace)