TNA World Champion Trick Williams is bee-bopping to the arena wearing his headphones. NXT World Heavyweight Champion Oba Femi stomps his way Full Sail University but…is that Matt Cordona behind him?
Lexis King vs. Myles Borne – Lights Out Match
Lexis rises from his throne only to have Borne first flip a giant switch – Is that’s how house lights work? – and attacks Lexis from behind. Lexis fights back with his scepter. Borne starts throwing crap into the ring as only lights spotlighting the ring are on. A garbage can bounces off Lexis. The bell finally rings. Borne hits Lexis in the face with the chair. Borne suplexes Lexis on the chair. Lexis kicks the chair out from under Borne. Borne gives himself a chin breaker on it. Lexis clotheslines him from behind. Lexis smashes the chair over Borne’s back and into his stomach. Lexis suplexes Borne onto the chair.
Lexis places Borne in a corner beating him with a garbage can. Borne catches Lexis slamming him onto the can. For some moronic reason, Lexis gave Borne a Coronation on the announce table DURING THE COMMERCIAL BREAK.
Borne takes his belt off and whips Lexis. Lexis puts a chair around Borne’s neck and sets him up on the steel steps. Borne escapes while Lexis readies a stomp. Borne spears Lexis through a barriade. Borne whips Lexis with the belt. Lexis tries to suplex off Borne steel steps onto a table. Borne turns things around DDTing Lexis on the stairs. Borne puts Lexis through a table for a the pin.
Winner: Myles Borne
GM Ava calls Robert Stone and Stevie Turner backstage. She is still stuck in England. They saw some TNA wrestlers arriving all day long. They are concerned. They want to know if Ava invited them. Ava says they are cutting out and cannot hear them. She eventually hangs up.
North American Champion Ethan Page walks by Myles Borne backstage. In the ring, Page points out that AAA’s Latin American Champion Doctor Wagner Jr. is in the audience. Page rips into Wagner for “screwing him over” at Worlds Collide. Wagner stands up glaring at Page. Page challenges Wagner to a match.
Doctor Wagner Jr. versus Ethan Page – NXT North American Championship Match
Wagner hops the barricade. Page calls for a referee. Page taps to Wagner’s ankle lock in literally seconds.
Wagner takes off the mask and it is Tavion Heights!
Winner: …and new NXT North American Champion, Tavion Heights.
Back in the women’s locker room Jordynne Grace and Arianna Grace. Jordynne takes offence to something Arianna said. Arianna explains that last week she just wanted Blake to know they are not related in any way. Jordynne challenges her to match to prove how “different” they are.
Candice LeRae vs. Lainey Reid – WWE Speed Women’s Championship #1 Contenders match
As the match is going on we get an update from backstage. Xia Brookside and Léi Yǐng Lee, TNA’s The Angel Warriors, have arrived. Reid pins Candice with a knee strike.
Standing in the Crow’s Nest, Zaria and Sol Ruca are holding signs that read: Lainey I Guess and You Ass Is Mine!
Winner: Lainey Reid
Jaida Parker cuts a video promo on Lash Legend. Jaida Parker hits harder, talks louder and looks better.
Lyra Valkyria chats with Tatum Paxley. Lyra explains that any time she makes a friend they betray her. Tatum starts playing with Lyra’s hair saying nothing is ever her fault, ever.
“You are weird but you are consistently weird,” said Lyra mentioning that she needs Tatum back in her life.
In the background, TNA International Champion Steve Maclin can be seen walking by.
Izzi Dame interrupts. She reminds Tatum that Lyra dumped her before. She leads Tatum away by the hand.
Chase U chats backstage too. Andre Chase shows off his black eyes. NASCAR drivers Sam Mayer and Cole Custer stop by. One of them is wearing a racing helmet though. They want to know that if…You say his name will he really appear? DarkState surrounds them all. Hendry’s name is said. The NASCAR racer with the helmet on takes it off. It is Joe Hendry! Dark State challenges them to a six-man tag match.
Jordynne Grace versus Arianna Grace
Arianna gets in some offence but Jordynne basically destroys her and pins her with Direct Effect.
Winner: Jordynne Grace
Stacks is out to comfort Arianna. Blake Monroe’s music plays. Blake is carrying a garbage can full of plunder. Jordynne grabs a steel chair. It is steel chair versus kendo stick. Kendo stick loses and Blake takes a steel chair across the back. Blake clobbers Grace in the gut and back with the kendo stick. They begin brawling. Robert Stone and Stevie Turner come out. They announce Grace versus Monroe in a Weapons Match inside a Steel Cage at No Mercy.
Kelly Kincaid interviews Reid about her big win. Fatal Influence walks by. Reid and Jacy Jayne wish each other good luck at No Mercy. Jayne tells the rest of Fatal Influence that she doesn’t need them. She can handle Lola Vice herself. Vice is sick of Jayne running her mouth so she comes out to halt her trash talking her in the middle of the ring. After they trade insults, Lola lays her out with back fist.
Josh Briggs cuts a promo on J’Von Evans in a video. Briggs says he doesn’t care what the fans chant when his boot hits Evans in the face.
DarkState versus Chase U and Joe Hendry
Hendry gets the hot tag. He takes them all on by himself. As the official is distracted, DarkState double teams Hendry. They hits the big slam on Uriah Connors for the win.
Winners: DarkState
Ricky Saints revisits his home of New Orleans in a video segment.
Kelly Kincaid talks to J’von Evans. He begins to discuss how he will beat Briggs at No Mercy…until there is a big crash.
Jazmyn Nyx has been attacked and knocked out. Fatal Influence don’t understand what happened.
“It was time to drop her any way. Only the strong survive,” says Jayne.
Oba Femi vs. Trick Williams – Title vs. Title Winner Takes All match
As Trick poses in the ring we see a whole slew of TNA talent in the stands including Moose and Maclin. Trick points at them saying: “What are you doing here?”.
Femi blocks a spin kick. Trick answers with chops to Femi’s chest. Trick escapes a power bomb attempt. Femi blocks and dodges some kicks. Femi dodges another Trick knee. Trick smiles pointing at his knee. Trick finally takes Femi down with a kick. Femi gets up shoving Trick to the mat. Femi bounces off the ropes knocking Trick down with shoulder tackles. Femi grabs Trick by the hair heaving him over the top rope.
Femi smacks Trick down on the apron. Trick picks up Femi dropping him face-first on the apron. As he does so, Mike Santana jumps the barricade. It is so great to see Santana being thrust into the spotlight after so many years. He honestly could be the next big thing. Santana puts on a headset at the announce table. He apologizes to Booker and Vic. Trick chops Femi back up against the barricade. Femi reverses things.
Back in the ring, Femi misses a big knee drop. Trick nails him with a spin kick. Matt Cardona arrives and the place goes mental. Femi kicks out of a Rock Bottom at one.
On commentary, Santana points out that this match was made without TNA’s involvement. Santana decided that him and the rest of the TNA talent should come down and see what’s what themselves.
Femi plants Trick in the middle of the ring with a one-arm slam. Femi blasts Trick with a series of running forearms in a corner. Trick turns things around but not for long. Femi drills him with a leaping, running forearm smash. Trick kicks out of Femi’s big slam.
Booker T wonders where security is.
Two kicks to the face scores Trick a two count. Trick leaps off the top rope for an axe handle. Femi catches him. Trick flips out of a chokeslam but takes a haymaker to the jaw. Trick fights back with a kick. Femi picks up Trick and throws him across the ring. Trick counters a Fall From Grace with a Roll-Up. A two count only.
Femi kicks out of the Trick Shot. Trick punishes Femi with forearms to the face then drags him to the middle of the ring.
The crowd chants: Whoop that Trick!
Trick lifts up Femi only for Femi to give him Fall From Grace. Trick kicks out.
On their knees, Femi and Trick haymaker each other. Femi clotheslines Trick over the top rope to the floor.
Trick whips Femi into the steel ring stairs but is distracted by Mike Santana’s mere presence. Santana throws off his headset. Trick slaps him in the face. Santana punches him in the face and chases him back into the ring. The official calls for the bell.
TNA storms the ring! NXT storms the ring! As everyone brawls around him, Ricky Saints walks by them all to the podium where the NXT World Championship sits. He admires the belt. Femi rises and grabs onto the title. They both lock eyes.
Winner: Match Thrown Out
