Welcome to Wrestling Inc.’s not-so-live coverage of “WWE NXT!” We had some technical difficulties with our actual live coverage tonight, but if you missed the show, we’re still here to let you know everything that went down.
- The show opened with a video package recapping Becky Lynch defeating Tiffany Stratton for the women’s title last week. Then Lynch herself entered the ring and welcomed the crowd to “N-BEX-T.” Lynch proceeded to do some poetry that would have made Heidenreich proud before putting over Stratton and offering her a rematch. Stratton came out and teased the rematch happening that night, but then said she needed a bigger stage and challenged Lynch to a match at No Mercy on 9/30. That match was later made official. Stratton continued to run down Lynch, who eventually started throwing punches, only to be attacked by Kiana James, who allied herself with Stratton.
- Some strung-together backstage/vignette segments aired. Tony D’Angelo and Stacks Lorenzo were seen backstage reflecting on their various challengers in unique Italian mobster style. No indication was given of who would get the next tag title shot. Afterward, Ilja Dragunov was interviewed briefly about his upcoming No Mercy match with Carmelo Hayes, but was interrupted by Lynch, who challenged Stratton and James to a 2-on-1 fight in the main event. Trick Williams was approached by Dominik Mysterio backstage. Mysterio appeared to be trying to sow dissent between Williams and Hayes, but Williams brushed him off.
- Butch defeated Tyler Bate to win Block A of the Global Heritage Invitational. Meta-Four were dressed up like “Matrix” characters to watch the GHI matches. This first one was fast-paced and hard-hitting, as you’d expect from these two. At one point they hit each other’s signature moves, with Butch hitting Bate with a Sucker Punch and Bate hitting Butch with the Bitter End. Butch won with a variation on the finisher that commentary called the Better End after about 12 minutes.


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