Ricky Saints was looking to escape Oba Femi’s shadow and prove himself a worthy NXT World Champion at Halloween Havoc as he took on former champion Trick Williams. The odd thing is that the crowd started to turn against Saints during the match and in the end although Saints successfully made it through another brutal championship war it really wasn’t clear if he had established himself as a formidable champion or just a fortunate survivor once again?
As the bell rings, Williams is on the attack. He leaps on Saints with a clothesline and then lands haymaker after haymaker on his head. Williams throws Saints to the floor. Saints quickly rolls back into the ring. Williams drops kicks Saints, bounces his head off a corner turnbuckle then heaves him to the floor. Saints scrambles back into the ring.
Williams dares Saints to get back to his feet after he slams him in the center of the ring. Williams throws Saints out once again. Williams bashes Saints’ head off the announce desk. Williams clears off the announce table. When he turns around to find Saints. He is gone. Williams looks under the ring but Saints is back in the ring. Saints mocks Williams.
Saints takes Williams down for some rights to his head. As Saints skins the cat back into the ring, Williams steals his signature pose. He takes a forearm to the face for that.
Saints dumps Williams on the floor. Williams clotheslines Saints. They brawl. Williams whips Saints into the ringside barricade twice and the announce table.
Williams puts Saints in a front face lock. Saints punches Williams in the stomach uses shoulder smashes in a corner to break out. Williams gets a two count with a Blockbuster off the ropes then goes right back to the front face lock. Saints has a cut over his eye that is bleeding.
The crowd chants…”Let’s go, Ricky! Ricky sucks!”.
Saints walks the ropes dumping Williams with a Russian Leg Sweep. Saints flips the script on Williams by putting him in a submission, a crossface. Williams does reach the ropes though and break the hold. Williams walks over retrieving the championship belt. Saints kicks him in the gut.
Williams hits a sloppy Bookend putting himself and Saints through a table. Trick Shot for a two count back in the ring. Saints bounces off the ropes, gets his neck caught in the ropes but manages to still clothesline Williams.
Both men lay exhausted on the canvass. Saints spears and pins Williams with a top rope DDT in somewhat of a messy finish.
NXT Halloween Havoc 2025 Results
Je’Von Evans and Leon Slater versus Mr. Iguana and La Parka
Evans and Slater are wearing matching gear, purple and green. Evan carries a skeleton to the ring just for fun. At the announce desk, Vic is dressed like The Riddler while Booker looks like…well, Booker. Booker says doesn’t need an iguana. He has a dog. Big cheers for Parka and Iguana.
Parka starts doing his chicken dance in front of Evans. Evans just gives him a forearm in the face. Vic jokes about playing NWO versus WCW and liking to choose La Parka because he started the match with a steel chair. Funny that. One of the first video games I ever reviewed professionally as part of Sun Media and G4 TV Canada.
Parka and Evan hit each other with shoulder tackles and pop back up. Really good chemistry between these two. Slater doesn’t know how to approach the crawling and slithering Iguana. Booker says Iguana has no wasted motion. Fans go mental for Iguana.
La Parka clotheslines Slater to the floor and then heaves Evans to the floor as well. Parka walks the ropes and then splashes everyone on the floor. Parka gets a two count with a press slam and a gut buster combination. Very impressive.
Evans suplexes Iguana down, dances in front of Parka but appears to be slightly limping. Not a good sign. When Parka and Slater start trading chops Parka takes off his glove. Iguana walks up to Evans his chest pushed out. He asks to be chopped. Iguana gets a hold of La Yesca and swings them at Evans and Slater instead of chopping them. Evans leaps over a post to take out both Iguana and Parka on the floor. Parka kicks out of Evans’ big frog splash from the top rope.
Slater leaps off the top rope but Iguana throws La Yesca at him. He catches it landing in the middle of the ring. Iguana slaps Slater with La Yesca. Parka spikes Slater for the pin but Evans makes the save diving into the ring.
Evans doesn’t quite land a flying cutter on Iguana as they both dive off the ropes. Parka get spiked though. Evans dives on Parka on the floor taking him out. Slater splashes Iguana for the win.
Winners: Je’Von Evans and Leon Slater at 17 minutes and 59 seconds.
Rating: 7.5 / 10
NXT North American Champion Ethan Page has a sitdown interview with Blake Howard in the locker room. Page claims again to be the greatest NXT North American Champion of all time. The proof is that he has defended the title against everyone and anyone but he was the only man on Team NXT that was victorious at NXT Showdown. “I am the greatest champion in WWE, currently,” says Page.
Sol Ruca and Zaria are entering the arena. Zaria reminds Ruca that the doctor cleared her to be at ringside this evening. Zaira has some cool make-up on. Ruca is still down in the dumps.
“Don’t worry. At the end of the night you will still be NXT North American Champion,” promises Zaria.
Izzi Dame enters the frame with Tatum Paxley. Izzi is not sure if Zaria will be successful but Tatum most definitely will be.
Ethan Page (c) vs. El Hijo de Dr. Wagner Jr. – NXT North American Championship, Day of the Dead Match
Page has half of his face painted as a skull. Wagner’s purple mask with a crown in the middle is a tribute to the mask worn by Rey Mysterion at Halloween Havoc in WCW.
As Booker reminds us, Page has been champion for six months. Day Of the Dead match means some of the lights are off and there are no DQs, apparently. Wagner kicks Page off the apron and gives him a hurricarana on the floor. Wagner pulls some steel chairs from under the ring. He whacks Page with one of them across the back. A spinning elbow smash and a running knee smash stuns Page in a corner. He slumps down to the mat.
Wagner puts Page in the Paradise Lock, leans a steel chair up against his butt and drop kicks him. Wagner takes a garbage can smashing it over Page’s back again and again. Page slams Wagner off the ropes onto the can. Page beats Wagner with the garbage can lid.
Page sets up a chair in the ropes, drags Wagner across the apron smashing his head into it. Wagner falls to the floor. Wagner reverses things hurling Page into the barricade. Page chokes out Wagner with the leg of a prop skeleton. Page gets his head bounced off the steel ring steps though.
Page trips up Wagner. Wagner falls on the leg of a table laying on the floor throat first. He comes up choking and coughing, holding his throat. Page rams Wagner’s hip into the steel ring steps and whacks him with a steel chair over the back. Page is bleeding from the forehead. It is smeared on his arm and Wagner’s gear.
Page slings Wagner into chairs propped up in two corners and follows up with a sidewalk slam on a steel chair for a two count. Page tears on Wagner’s mask. The crowd boos! He tears the top of the mask off exposing past of Wagner’s face.
Wagner starts shaking in anger. The crowd lets Page know he screwed up. Wagner goes nuts on Page hitting him with a jumping clothesline and some combination shots. Wagner hits a Code Breaker from the top rope on Page. Page barely kicks out.
Wagner puts Page’s head between a steel post and garbage can. A Coast to Coast drop kick equals another 2 count for Wagner. Page goes to the mask again and it is an Ego’s Edge on the garbage can. Wagner kicks out…just in time.
There are competing: Let’s go, Ethan! Ethan sucks! chants.
Wagner send Page off the top rope with a hurricanrana onto a steel chair for another two count. A springboard moonsault by Wagner is…another two count. Wagner sets up a table. Wagner lifts Page onto the top rope. They fight on the top rope. Page slips out and rips at the mask again. Page throws white powder into Wagner’s face and he pins him with a Twisted Grin through the table.
Winner: …and still NXT North American Champion, Ethan Page at 18 minutes and 35 seconds.
Rating: 8 / 10
TNA Knockouts Champion Kelani Jordan is in her own locker room. Jordynne Grace enters dressed like Velma from Scooby Doo. Jordan insults Grace yet again. Grace wonders where all the hostility is coming from. She was just trying to help her. Jordan wants Grace to wrap it up so she can speak to TNA Director of Authority Santino about her next challenger. As it so happens, Grace and Santino go way back. Grace would love to put Jordan in her place.
“Now that I am holding it the championship holds more weight than you,” snaps Jordan.
Grace slaps her across the face.
“You are going to regret that,” snarls Jordan as she storms away.
Like the Page interview segment earlier, I am not sure why we need this segment. The Kelly Kincaid interviews The Culling in a very dark room. Izzi interrupts when Lyra’s name is brought up. She says Lyra abandoned Tatum while the Culling was there for her.
Zaria (c) vs. Blake Monroe – NXT Women’s North American Title
Monroe’s attire is a tribute to Bride of Chucky. Using a cane and wearing a knee brace Ruca comes out with Zaria. Ruca kisses the belt before handing it to Ruca. As the bell rings, Monroe dives onto Zaria. Zaria fights her off with some haymakers and a pump kick. Blake jumps on Zaria’s back for a sleeper hold. Zaria shrugs her off. Zaria gives Monroe a Snake Eyes in a corner. Monroe drapes Zaria arm over the ropes and yanks down on it. Monroe targets and works over that arm and shoulder. Monroe causes more damage to the arm with a Tarantula over the ropes. Zaria comes back with a series of clotheslines and kicks. Two belly to back suplexes score Zaria a two count. Zaria lifts Monroe on her back in a Torture Rack but Monroe turns it into an arm bar.
Zaria breaks the arm bar with a one arm slam. The match becomes a slugfest. Both women head butt each other and go to the floor. Zaria misses a charge hitting the steel ring steps. Sol encourages Zaria to get back to her feet. Sol shoves Zaria into the steel post to put the shoulder back into place. Zaria is on fire suplexing and spearing Monroe. Monroe counters an F5 with an arm bar. Zaria kicks out of a big knee to the face.
Sol reaches into the ring. She grabs Zaria’s hand as Monroe pulls out that hair pick again. Zaria spears Monroe for a two count. Monroe goes to the floor. Zaria chases Monroe around the ring. Not watching where she is going, Monroe stumbles into Sol knocking her down. Zaria beats down Monroe in the ring before heading to the floor to help Sol up and make sure she is okay. Monroe attacks from behind. Glamour Shot on the floor. Glamour Shot in the ring. Monroe wins.
Winner: …and new NXT Women’s North American Champion, Blake Monroe at 11 minutes and 12 seconds.
Rating: 7 / 10
Sol Ruca is devastated at ringside. Zaria comforts her.
Wren Sinclair fills Karmen Petrovic and Charlie Dempsey (who is on the phone, about how Evolve Women’s Champion Kendal Grey stood up to Lash Legend last week. Grey wasn’t going to let Lash push anyone around. Lash interrupts. She challenges Grey to a match. Grey challenges Lash to a match this week on NXT. Grey will even put the title on the line.
Jacy Jayne (c) vs. Tatum Paxley – NXT Women’s Championship Match
The crowd is chanting: “Let’s go, Tatum!” immediately.
Tatum cannot escape an arm bar. Jayne keeps hurling her back to the mat. A senton to the back has Tatum leaning into the ropes as Jayne calls her a “loser”. Tatum splashes Jayne in a corner. Jayne breaks out of a standing surfboard and knocks Tatum to the floor. As Jayne nears, Tatum hits her with a step-up kick to the head using the ring apron. The Culling surround Tatum cheering her on. Tatum charges Jayne.
Jayne catches her up in the ring apron. Tatum escapes under the ring. Fatal Influence haven’t a clue where she went. Tatum leaps off the ring steps but is caught by Jayne. Jayne gives Tatum a slingshot into the steel ring support, foundation. Jayne is all over Tatum just beating her all over the ring until Tatum lands a suplex.
Jayne catches Tatum on the top rope for an avalanche neck breaker. Tatum appears to be pinned but Shawn Spears puts Tatum’s foot over the ropes. Lainey Reid splashes The Culling off the top rope. Izzi Dame kicks her in the face. Fallon swings off a steel post kicking Dame. Influence and The Culling argue on the floor. The official boots them all from ringside.
“I need you guys! What am I going to do?” Jayne shouts after them.
When both women are down, The Culling and Fatal Influence rush down to the ring. Officials attempt to stop them. Izzi Dame isn’t there though. As the official is distracted by the commotion, Dame runs into the ring with the championship belt. It is not clear who she was really aiming for but Jayne nails Dame with her rolling elbow. Tatum pins Jayne with the Cemetary Driver. As The Culling lifts Tatum on their shoulders, Dame is looking on from the floor.
Winner: …and new NXT Women’s Champion, Tatum Paxley at 16 minutes and 20 seconds.
Rating: 7.5 / 10
I am not sure why NXT pushes angles with these kind of weekly NXT segments on a PLE but here we are. Myles Borne wants a match with Josh Briggs so he meets with GM Ava. Tavion Heights enters the room. He wants Briggs too. Borne says if it wasn’t for him Tavion would still be with The NQCC. Ava books Borne versus Heights for NXT this week.
NXT Deadline will be held on December 6th in San Antonio, Texas.
The Hardy Boys (c) vs. Dark State – NXT Tag Team Championship, Broken Universe Match
It isn’t a match at the Hardy Compound…unfortunately. It appears to be a Texas Tornado match too. It is in the arena. There are ladders around the ring though. The Broken Hardys come out ready for war. The Hardys go right after Dark State. It is a slugfest early on. Jeff leaps off Matt to nail Griffin with a flying clothesline and a double DDT. The other members of Dark State join the action early on so the Hardys are outnumbered. Hardys even the odds with steel chairs. Griffin is backdropped over the ropes. His legs hit a table on the way down. Matt uses a steel chair for an assisted Twist of Fate. Hardy puts Griffin through a table on the floor. The fight becomes a big brawl on the floor. Jeff lands a Swanton Bomb from the top rope putting Shugars though a table. Matt jumps off a ladder with leg drop on James putting him through a table.
Dark State fights back with kendo sticks and garbage can lids. Griffin slams Matt Hardy on a garbage can. They drop Matt with a 3D. Jeff rescues Matt with a kendo stick in each hand. The Hardys are speared though barricades. Jeff Hardy climbs to the top of a gigantic ladder dives off but ends up putting himself through a table. Matt fights alone as best that he can. As Matt is tied up in a corner, Jeff is lifted into an Electric Chair and pinned with flying clothesline through a table.
Winners: …and new NXT Tag Team Champions, Dark State in 19 minutes and 05 seconds.
Rating: 7.5 / 10
Another unnecessary angle in the back taking up time on the PLE with Evans and Slater. They are ticked that Dark State got one over on The Hardys. Evans suggests they chase Dark State for those NXT Tag Team Championships.
Ricky Saints (c) vs. Trick Williams – NXT World Championship Match
Winner: …and still NXT World Heavyweight Champion…Ricky Saints in 16 minutes and 48 seconds.
Rating: 7.5 / 10
Overall Event Rating: 8 / 10
