It is Wednesday! You know what that means! It is time for…NXT?!?!!?
Blood and Guts? What’s that? Let’s check out the better brand’s most stacked show to date.
Dragon Lee, Chad Gable and Rey Fenix versus The Vanity Project
Lee and Fenix are balanced on the top rope for dives but are knocked off by The Vanity Project. Brad Baylor gives Gable a backbreaker then turns his attention to Dragon Lee on the top rope. Lee turns things around double stomping Balor. Fenix stretches Smokes. Gable has Drake in an ankle lock. Lee pins Baylor with Operation Dragon.
Winners: Dragon Lee, Chad Gable and Rey Fenix
Shiloh Hill is backstage with CM Punk. Punk tells him he doesn’t want to experience any colour of mist or fog. Hill goes into all the experimenting he did. “That sounds safe,” laughs Punk. Punk calls him “touched” and “special”. “You have a bright future,” Punk says to Hill. Hill wants a title match when Punk wins. Grayson Waller interrupts. He is ticked off. He still has the title. He should be asking him not Punk. He tells Hill to stick to his “little trailer park experiments”. He tells Punk: “Welcome, don’t forget to wipe your feet.” Punk says he will wipe his feet for sure, on Waller’s face.
Kelani Jordan (c) versus Paige – NXT Women’s Championship
Who’s house? Paige’s house! Who’s house? Paige’ house!
Paige was the first woman to ever win the title. She had to give up the NXT Championship when she won the Divas Championship. She never lost the title.
Jordan kicks Paige in the stomach and throws her down to the mat. Paige flips the script slamming Jordan’s head into all the turnbuckles then stomps the crap out of her. Jordan flips over Paige landing on the apron. Paige just hauls off punching her in the face. As Jordan is collapsed over the middle rope Paige knees her over and over again in the gut. Paige with a cannonball off the apron.
“This is my house!” she screams.
Jordan misses her 450 Splash. Paige super kicks her in the face. Jordan barely kicks out of Ram-Paige. Jordan slaps a crossface on Paige. Paige rolls her up for two. Paige puts up her knees as Jordan attempts her split-legged moonsault. Jordan blocks Ram-Paige with a roll-up. She gets the pin.
Winner: …and still NXT Women’s Champion, Kelani Jordan.
Wren Sinclair, Kendal Grey and Sol Ruca are in the women’s locker room. Ruca congratulates Sinclair on her performance at Halloween Havoc. Izzi Dame interrupts. Dame laughs at Sol for “defending the losers”. First it was Zaria and now it is Wren. “It is a shame I cannot fix all of you,” says Dame before leaving.
Cody Rhodes arrives.
Noam Dar and Romeo Moreno versus Hank and Tank (Hank Walker and Tank Ledger) – 2026 NXT Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic Finals
Cody makes his entrance. The crowd sings his theme. He joins the commentary team.
Hank and Tank have Dar in their sights for their double-team finisher but Moreno grabs Tank from outside the ring putting him in an ankle lock while Dar has Hank in a knee bar. Hank and Tank lock hands. Dar pulls Hank back into the centre of the ring. Tank kicks off Moreno. Hank is about to tap but Tank leaps over and blocks that.
Moreno pulls Tank to the floor. Hank catches Dar in a Bossman Slam. Hank’s leg gives out on him, damage from the knee bar we assume. Moreno kicks him in the head. Dar hits a reverse elbow on Tank. Double Cross Rhodes from Dar and Moreno. Tank is pinned by the double-team High and Low attack.
Winners: Noam Dar and Romeo Moreno
Cody presents the trophy and reveals to Dar and Moreno that they will be challenging for the NXT Tag Team Championships next week on NXT.
Cruz Montana versus Dion Lennox – Unsanctioned Match
UFC’s Michael Chandler is in the ring as the official enforcer.
Montana attacks Lennox from behind as he is making his way to the ring. Montana lays in haymakers on the floor. I don’t understand his booking either. He talked about moving on from the gang life, becoming his own person and finding his way…and then he joins the 946? It makes no sense. The crowd doesn’t seem to care though.
946! 946!
Lennox whips Montana into a steel post and the steel steps. Lennox suplexes Montana on the floor. Montana catches Lennox’s kick dumping him on the apron. Montana steps up a table on the floor. Lennox smashes his back into the ringside barricade. Montana is thrown into some steel chairs on the floor. Montana suplexes Lennox through that wall that everyone always spears people through in NXT.
Montana rips up the mat exposing the concrete floor. Montana has Lennox on the steel steps setting him up for a powerbomb. Chandler questions Montana, appeals to him. That gives Lennox the opportunity the sweep out Montana’s legs. Lennox brings handcuffs into the ring. Chandler stops him from cuffing Montana. Lennox throws them away and shoves Chandler. Chandler keeps his cool, warns Lennox who brushes him off.
Montana clotheslines Lennox over the top rope to the floor. Montana goes to stomp Lennox’s face into the concrete floor. Chandler appeals for him not to. Dark State attacks Montana from behind.
“It is all legal though! It is unsanctioned!” Vic Joseph reminds us. Chandler motions to the audience that there is nothing he can do. His hands are tied.
946! 946!
The lights go out just as Darkstate are about to slam Montana through the announce table. Dark State and 946 get into a brawl. Cutler James is slammed through the announce table. Montana slams Lennox through a table. Montana pins Lennox with his spinning clothesline.
Winner: Cruz Montana
John Cena makes way through the backstage area and to the ring. He has missed the NXT Universe and the energy it has. He is there to talk about the John Cena Classic. The latest invitee to the John Cena Classic is…Zilla Fatu. Cena heaps praise on Zilla. Zilla appreciates the opportunity and thanks Cena.
Tony D’Angelo is shown staring off a bridge as ominous music plays….and nothing happens.
Kam Hendrix introduces himself to John Cena backstage. He wonders where his invitation is. Cena tells Hendrix that his opponent for next week is EK Prosper.
Grayson Waller (c) versus CM Punk – NXT Championship
Punk ties up Waller in an arm bar, rolls him up for a two. Waller backs off to a corner. As Punk approaches, Waller grabs his trunks and pulls him head-first into a corner. Waller punches and kicks Punk down. Punk slams him though and walks right over him twice, wiping his feet on Waller.
Punk backdrops Waller over the top rope to the floor. Punk attempts to dive through the ropes at Waller. Waller punches him in the face. A shoulder tackle knock Punk for a loop but he counters with shoulder tackles in a corner. Punk starts working over Waller’s mid-section with kicks and punches.
Waller clotheslines Punk over the top rope to the floor. Waller slides at Punk. Punk wraps him up in the ring apron. Punk mauls him. Back in the ring, more shoulder tackles to Waller’s ribs. Punk misses a charge though and hits the steel post, which doesn’t move an inch.
Waller rips off the covering on the hook end fitting on the turnbuckle so he can give Punk a neckbreaker on the exposed steel hook. The official holds Waller back as he checks on Punk. Waller don’t care. He pushes Punk into a steel post. Waller bounces Punk’s head off the announce table.
In the back we see Vanity Project arguing with GM Stone.
Waller puts Punk in a Tarantula Stretch in the ropes. Waller slides out of a GTS and punches Punk. Punk is on his knees. Waller brushes him with his boot in the face again and again. Punk gets to his feet. They start trading chops. Punk suplexes Waller over. Waller with rapid fire knee strikes in the ropes to Punk. Punk backdrops his way out of a piledriver on the apron. Waller hits the apron and then the floor. Punk dives onto Waller.
Back in the ring, Punk lands a high cross body from the top rope for a two count. A spinning neckbreaker sends Waller into a corner. Punk knees him in the face and drops him with a short-arm clothesline. Punk lands the flying elbow smash from the top rope. Waller kicks out.
Punk Superplexes Waller off the top rope. Kevin Owens arrives…as we knew he would. Security tries to hold him back A distracted Punk is rolled up by Waller.
Winner: …and still NXT Champion…Grayson Waller.
