Can we get a new NXT? Millions From Now is just awful. I can make better music with pots and cans in my kitchen.
A replay of the Tony D’Angelo and NARAKU title match from last week when Mike Santana….or Cruz Montana showed up.
The show gets hijacked by Grayson Waller. He details all of his accomplishments. He says he didn’t kiss ass and that is why his career has been in the toilet for quite awhile. He says he carried idiot Austin Theory. He calls him a “Marty Jannetty who is allergic to a microphone”.
“I was dressed for a funeral for my career but it is a new day,” says Waller. He says the state of the NXT Championship keeps him awake at night. It used to mean something.
“I am here to take the NXT title. Who is going to stop me? Cruz Montana? By the way, I love the new name. You walk in here like you are someone,” continues Waller.
He mocks Montana.
“It isn’t 2005, lad. Being the top guy in TNA is like being the best basketball player at the local YMCA. I am not impressed,” he said then called out Tony D’Angelo.
“I am going to send you home to be with that ugly new-born baby of yours,” laughs Waller.
A production guy asks Waller to wrap it up.
Waller says if Michaels doesn’t like it he can tune up the band.
HBK! HBK!
He calls the male roster sawft and that the women are running laps around them. He says HBK is smiling because he is telling the truth.
Grayson Waller. Grayson Waller.
“Hey, shut up. I don’t need your support right now. I am cooking. Let me cook,” he says to the crowd.
Finally, his microphone is shut off. He finishes his address speaking directly to the camera.
Fantastic and passionate stuff by Waller. You can tell he was razzing on people but he was speaking from the heart as he did on Australian Survivor.
Tavion Heights and NXT North American Champion Myles Borne chat about taking down the tag champs, The Vanity Project, next week. Mason Rook interrupts. He is pissed that Waller just did what he did. He believes the NXT boys are damn good and should show it. Rook isn’t sure that Borne or Heights can do the job tonight.
Izzi Dame versus Lizzy Rain
It is Izzi versus Lizzy. During an inset we see Waller pass by Montana as he leaves the building. Rain tries a baseball slide kick on Dame but Dame catches her slamming her face-first on the ring apron. Rain hits a missile drop kick from the top rope. Rain throws Dame halfway across the ring. Dame catches Dame coming off the ropes in a Blue Thunder Bomb.
Both women are down and a slugfest ensues. Dame spears Rain through the ropes and to the floor. Dame gets whipped into the ring stairs. Stunner. As Rain goes for her finisher Vance leaps onto the apron. Dame hits the big boot. Shawn Spears appears with a steel chair. Rain pins Dame with ThunderStruck. Spears leans against the barricade grinning.
Winner: Lizzy Rain
Noam Dar and Romeo Moreno welcome Montana back to NXT. Saquon Shugars stops by and thanks Dar and Moreno for their help last week. Shugars tells Montana he is a changed man, Kelani Jordan warns Montana before he signs a contract that he will be screwed over by management like she has been. She begins to whine and cry. Montana just leaves.
The Vanity Project is meeting with GM Stone. They complain that Myles and Tavion were given a title shot out of thin air. Jasper Troy enters the office. Project sneaks out as Myka Lockwood gives Troy the once over. Troy is cool. calm and collected. He just wants a rematch with EK Prosper. Stone grants it to him. Stone calls Waller and demands he return to the arena.
Lola Vice hypes the Underground match against Kendal Grey next week.
In the women’s locker room, Thea Hail congratulates Jaida Parker on her big win against Nattie last week. Parker thanks Thea for her help last week. Thea hugs Jaida.
Myles Borne (c) vs. Kam Hendrix – NXT North American Title Match
If Myles Borne doesn’t retain no tag team championship match next week. Borne dives through the ropes and Hendrix spikes him right into the apron. Heights comes out and warns Rook off. Borne kicks out of the Showtime Kick. Hendrix lifts Borne up into the air. Borne lands on his feet hitting Borne Again for the win.
Winner: Myles Borne
Rook runs into the ring attacking Hendrix. They get into a brawl on the floor. Heights shakes hands with Borne. Vanity Project blindsides Borne and Heights but the faces fight them off.
Lizzy Rain eats the same fast food chicken Hill had last week. Angels tells Rain she has sold out.
Berto and Angel wish Bronco Nima luck in OTM’s match tonight. Price gives them the side eye.
Stone is on the phone again demanding Waller return to the arena. Women’s North American Champion Zaria barges in. She wants to know who her next challenger is. Speed Champion Wren Sinclair enters wondering the same thing. Stone, for some reason, says he has to organize a tournament to figure out Wren’s next challenger. Why? Wren challenges Zaria. Wren will defend against Zaria and if she wins she gets to challenge Zaria.
OTM (Bronco Nima & Lucien Price) versus BirthRight (Channing Lorenzo and Uriah Connors)
Berto and Angel come out to ward the rest of BirthRight off. Bronco tries to get them to leave. The official doesn’t see BirthRight double-teaming Price for the pin.
Winners: BirthRight (Channing Lorenzo and Uriah Connors)
A video hyping Kendal Grey’s experience going into the Underground match.
Kelani Jordan, Izzi Dame and Kali Armstrong argue about who should be fighting Grey for the title.
Shiloh Hill versus Tristan Angels
The trade haymakers in the middle of the ring. A big boot sets up Angels for a slam. Angels dives off the second rope and gets slammed. Angels crotches Hill on the top rope. Angels Superplexes Hill from the top rope for a two count. Angels begins slapping Hill in the face. Angels throws Hill into the steel step. Angels misses a stomp on the stairs and gets slammed on the announce table. Hill beats Angels with the Super Thunder Breaker.
Winner: Shiloh Hill
Montana is heading to the ring and makes his way through the crowd.
Montana! Montana!
A very passionate promo, probably one of his best, by Montana. It is amazing to see someone who has had to rebuild their career and their life with such positivity. His story is an inspiration.
He is proud to be a WWE superstar, words he thought he would never say. There were times where he didn’t think he would see next week. Every day was a struggle. He has made mistakes he cannot take back. He was fighting himself. He wanted to be the man her daughter calls dad. They said he had reached the ceiling of the tag team division. I loves and appreciates what TNA did for him. He will meet Waller at whatever YMCA he wants to.
“I stand here as a WWE superstar and that was not given to me,” he said.
The NXT Champion Tony D’Angelo arrives. He praises Montana for his success but he isn’t going to be giving up his spot that easily. He calls Waller “Kangaroo Jack”. Waller attacks them from behind. Waller ducks and Montana clotheslines Tony.
