Oba Femi vacated the NXT Championship last week at New Year’s Evil, leaving a hole in not only the lineage but the NXT men’s roster alongside recent call-ups in Je’Von Evans and Trick Williams. Before tonight’s show on X, NXT added five new roster additions: former WWE Evolve competitors The Vanity Project, Eli Knight and Keanu Carver.
Femi’s vacated NXT Championship sits in-ring, and the remnants of NXT’s male roster surround it. NXT General Manager Ava speaks on newfound opportunity before Ricky Saints interrupts – bringing back his superior, trap-drum theme song. Ava doesn’t flinch at Saints’ title demand and instead announces a six-man ladder match on Tuesday, Feb. 3 to determine the new NXT Champion. Qualifying matches are slated to begin next week, Ava straps the belt to the rafters, and the male roster commences in a brawl.
NXT’s newest signee Carver throws Knight into the first row and pounces Ricky Smokes over the ropes. He powerbombs Brooks Jensen through the announce desk and press-slams Evolve Champion Jackson Drake onto a mass of wrestlers, standing tall among the NXT roster with an immediate impact.
After break, Ava tells somebody on the phone she’ll see them tonight, and Tony D’Angelo looms behind her. Robert Stone relays that Blake Monroe has a lot to say tonight, and the general manager is ready to hear it.
Kehlani Jordan vs Lola Vice
Jordan jumpstarts with an outside dive, and Vice comes back with mild strikes. Cameras catch new Women’s North American Champion Izzi Dame entering the building, flanked by the red-clad Culling. Meanwhile, inaugural champion Jordan attempts to show a mean streak for another consecutive year, heading into commercial with a ringside lariat. The competitors trade bicycle kicks and roundhouses until Vice hits an apron leg drop and running hip attack. Jordan escapes a sleeper hold and hits a frog splash for a two-count, and Vice reverses a moonsault with a triangle choke. Jordan hits an Angle Slam and rolls up Vice with rope leverage. But the referee sees it, allowing Vice to capitalize with a spinning backfist for victory.
Winner: Lola Vice
In a promo package, Tavion Heights plans to reach new heights in 2026 by defeating WWE Speed Champion Jasper Troy. The latter responds, vowing to put a dead end to the challenger’s momentum tonight.
Tavion Heights vs Jasper Troy (c) – WWE Speed Championship
With a five-minute time limit, Heights quickly dropkicks his powerhouse opponent. Troy gains control with three splashes and eats time with a hold. Heights delivers a bodyslam at the two-minute mark, following up with an unreal overhead suplex. The champion kicks out of a frog splash, coming back with a Black Hole Slam for the pinfall victory. Getting payback for an eight-second loss, Lexis King blindsides Heights and finishes with the Coronation.
Winner: Jasper Troy
Zaria stops Evolve Women’s Champion Kendal Grey from heading into Ava’s office, claiming that either she or Sol Ruca are next for NXT Women’s Champion Jacy Jayne. Wren Sinclair and Grey advocate for each other, and all four cram into the office. Alongside Fatal Influence, Ava instead announces a triple-threat tag team match for next week, where the winners will challenge for the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Championships.
King tells Chase University that his attack was majestic, and TNA International Champion Stacks backs him up. Robert Stone says he’s telling Ava about the attack, insinuating that she doesn’t watch or keep up. But Myles Borne stops him, demanding a qualifying match.
Another vignette for French signee Elio LeFleur plays, and the masked man says luchador Nitro awarded it to him. “I represent him by wearing the mask… I’m here to slash the sky,” he says.
Backstage, Ava tells North American Champion Ethan Page that he doesn’t have a qualifying match unless he vacates his own title. She agrees his title deserves spotlight and subsequently announces Page versus LeFleur for the North American Championship next week.
Blake Monroe enters the ring, admitting that she attacked Thea Hail last week. “When you’re as talented as I am, people don’t always know what to do with you,” she says about Ava throwing her out, of course. “Last week, I lost patience with a system that doesn’t know how to exist when things aren’t convenient.” A returning Jaida Parker interrupts to a standing ovation and hearty “Miss Parker” chants. Parker reverses a right hand and delivers Hipnotic to Monroe with infectious confidence.
Shiloh Hill reflects on his 2025 in a promo package, including winning WWE LFG and defeating Stacks in Christmas Chaos two weeks ago. He then rambles about his Christmas and dropping his tooth on Arianna Grace last week.
Back from break, NXT Tag Team Champions DarkState have some reflection too. They plan on adding Joe Hendry and OTM to their list of bodies tonight, one featuring The Hardys and Leon Slater.
Stacks (c) vs Shiloh Hill – TNA International Championship
Grace slaps Hill, and Stacks follows with uninspired strikes. Hill starts the first chain-wrestling sequence of the night and takes it ringside with a back suplex. Grace saves Stacks from a spear, but the challenger recovers with a steel step-assisted somersault. After commercial, Hill pulls the straps down (takes his tooth out) and makes a comeback to “toothless aggression” chants. He does the bit, putting his arm around an unsuspecting Grace, who gives rope leverage to Stacks. The referee kicks the champion’s arms to a close near-fall, but Grace successfully reverses the momentum of Hill’s inside cradle. Stacks retains, but Hill continues winning over the NXT crowd despite the inexplicable gimmick.
Winner: Stacks
New Women’s North American Champion Izzi Dame enters the ring, shutting down detractors who wanted Tatum Paxley or Thea Hail. “I engineered my opportunity, I designed the outcome,” she says with poise. Paxley eventually arrives, headbutting an official and sending the champion ringside.
Ricky Saints is interviewed backstage, announcing he’s in the ladder match as a compromise for his NXT Championship rematch. He’ll be ringside for the qualifying matches, two being “Super” Sean Legacy versus Eli Knight and Josh Briggs versus Shiloh Hill. Stacks interrupts when hearing Hill’s name. “It’s alright! You still have the title, you still have the girl – c’mon!” Saints says to laughs. “Let’s talk,” Lexis King says to Stacks.
Blake Howard announces that Paxley has been removed from the building before The Vanity Project steps in. Swipe Right says they’re wrestling Chase University next week, and Evolve Champion Jackson Drake wants in on the qualifiers. They bail when Keanu Carver walks by, shoving the camera away from him.
Dion Lennox vs Joe Hendry – No Disqualifications Match
“I’m not gonna say anything,” Booker T says during Hendry’s entrance, admitting that someone told him to lay out. He sings anyway as OTM provides the equalization to DarkState, whose leader Lennox controls in the opening. Hendry hits a superplex before break, but Lennox regroups thereafter. Saquon Shugars wedges a chair between the turnbuckles, but it backfires via Hendry’s reversal. Bronco Nima hands Hendry brass knuckles for a two-count, and Cutler James hands Lennox a kendo stick. It backfires too as Hendry hits Standing Ovation, but Osiris Griffin breaks the count.
Lennox hits a rope-assisted powerbomb, and Nima breaks the count, leading to a two-on-three brawl between the outsiders. Lennox connects a spinebuster onto a chair, Hendry delivers Standing Ovation onto a chair, and the former hits a spear through the Slim Jim table for two. From behind, Tony D’Angelo whacks Lennox with a steel chair shot and spinebuster before delivering the same to Hendry. He drags Hendry’s body over for the pinfall and hands him the victory.
Winner: Joe Hendry
Ava brings out security, but D’Angelo fends off all five. “Like a vigilante in the shadows, it doesn’t matter who you are,” Vic Joseph says. “There is no loyalty from Tony D’Angelo.”
