Who the heck airs a new content on New Years Eve? NXT, that’s who. Our brains are a bit scrambled and fried from last night so here’s your slightly hungover NXT report for the final show of 2024.
Oh, yeah. Happy New Year…then, now, forever, together.
Kelani Jordan versus Lola Vice
Notice that Kelani has a bit more swagger and attitude lately? She is coming into her own for sure. It doesn’t take long for both women to start shoving and trash talking. Jordan does one of her little flips and Vice catches her in a sleeper hold. Jordan bashes Vice into a corner and the ropes. Vice refuses to let go. Finally, Jordan just falls backwards with Vice breaking the hold. Cora Jade runs down to the ring with a kendo stick in hand leaping up onto the apron. Vice collides with Jade knocking her off the apron as Kelani rolls her up.
Jade starts beating both women with her kendo stick. Stephanie Vaquer hits the ring. She and Jade have a standoff. Jade swings with the stick. Vaquer catches and traps it. Jade backs up into Vice. Vice unleashes a back fist but Jade ducks. Vice nails Vaquer instead. Whoops. Vice tries to apologize.
Winner: Kelani Jordan
A massive montage highlighting NXT’s Year End Awards.
Here are your winners:
Match of the Year: Oba Femi vs. Josh Briggs vs. Dijak (Stand and Deliver)
Moment of the Year: Joe Hendry arrives in NXT
Tag Team of the Year: Fraxiom (Nathan Frazier & Axiom)
Female Superstar of the Year: Roxanne Perez
Male Superstar of the Year: Oba Femi
PLE of the Year: Stand and Deliver
Cedric Alexander is interviewed backstage. He is furious that Page broke Je’Von Evans jaw. Alexander claims that Evans’s jaw is wired shut and they can only communicate via text. Page took away Evan’s quality of live. Page interrupts. He tells Alexander he is going to end up right beside Evans in the hospital. They brawl in the back into some kind of production room where Page’s head is smashed off a table.
Ethan Page versus Cedric Alexander
Both men fight into the arena with officials trying to break them up as the crowd chants: Let them fight?
GM Ava demands their match scheduled for tonight start right now.
Alexander plants Page with a Michinoku Driver. Page barely kicks out. Page kicks Alexander in the face pinning him with a cutter.
Winner: Ethan Page
After the match, Page pummels Alexander.
Booker: Page has already knocked his bicuspids into the front row.
Funny that.
Page throws Alexander into the steel ring steps. Page pulls out a tool box from under the ring, puts Alexander’s hand in it and slams it shut. Alexander’s cries out in agony holding his injured hand. Page just laughs.
Backstage, Hank and Tank argue with Tyson Dupont and Tyriek Igwe over Tyriek’s actions last week. Dupont tries to smooth things over. Igwe says it is all about checks and championships. Shawn Spears appears. He offers his guidance. Wes Lee steps up to Spears. He claims they aren’t lost or in need of help. Spears cryptically says he everything he needs and walks off. Hank and Tank cannot believe that Lee, Dupont and Tyriek are going to listen to Spears, of all people. Lee points out that Hank and Tank are down a man now. Hank and Tank wonder who they can find to back them up on such short notice.
Lash Legend and Jakara Jackson versus Shotzi and Gigi Dolin versus Kayden Carter and Katana Chance
Shotzi dives through the ropes and ends up crashing, burning on the floor. As the official checks on her, Jackson leaps off Legend’s shoulders in the ring onto everyone on the floor. Jazmyn Nyx leaps onto the apron distracting the official. Jacy Jayne shoves Dolin off the top rope. Legend and Jackson put Dolin away.
Winners: Lash Legend and Jakara Jackson
Unholy Union appears on the big screen. They will have no problem running through Legend, Jackson if that is what it takes to reclaim their championships.
In the backstage area, Vice continues to apologize to Vaquer. Jordan gives her two cents. Vice says what happened is all Jordan’s fault. Vaquer shoves Jordan. All three women start arguing as officials break them up. Jade stands in the background laughing and smiling. GM Ava approaches Jade announcing a Fatal Four-Way, Number One Contender’s match for next week involving all four women at New Years Evil.
Ava meets with William Regal, Lexis King and Charlie Dempsey. Ava argues that the Heritage Cup really doesn’t change hands on a disqualification. King argues he was declared the winner. Ava has decided that King and Dempsey will meet for the Heritage Cup at News Year’s Evil but the match will be Sudden Death, only one fall. Regal says he will have nothing to do with the situation or the match. He walks off. Ava demands Lexis hand over the cup. She hands it back to Dempsey. “But, I did everything right!” argues King. You know where this is heading. King is robbed so he flips back to a heel.
Izzi Dame versus Sol Ruca
Zariah is at ringside taking it all in. Ruca leaps off the top rope hitting Zariah instead of Dame as Dame pulled Zariah into harm’s way. Dame pins Ruca with a powerbomb.
Winner: Izzi Dame
Wes Lee, Tyson Dupont and Tyriek Igwe versus Andre Chase, Hank Walker and Tank Ledger
Andre Chase comes to the ring wearing a long buttoned up white dress shirt and doesn’t look particularly happy to be there. Chase goes to for a tag sees that it isn’t someone from Chase U, there is no Chase U cheering section, tag out and just walks out on the match. Igwe pins Tank.
Winners: Wes Lee, Tyson Dupont and Tyriek Igwe
Ashante “Thee” Adonis is backstage leaving a lovey, dovey voice mail for Karmen Petrovic. Nikkita Lyons, who looks like she was powerbombed through a make-up table, approaches Adonis. She invites him to a “hot New Years Eve party”. Adonis declines. Lyons bounces off screen. Adonis weighs his options.
Shawn Spears congratulates Izzi on her win. She tells Shawn to leave her alone. She doesn’t want his advice. The entire D’Angelo Family cuts Spears off. Tony tells Spears to leave Izzi alone.
“A man who listens. That’s new,” says Izzi about Tony before walking off.
Spears says he was listening…to the beatdown the Don received last week.
Tony tells his boys to “take care of him”.
A dejected Andre Chase is wandering around the backstage area. Kale Dixon asks Chase when the next semester begins.
“Son, don’t you know. Chase U is dead,” says Chase and just bumbles off.
Back in the ring, Mike Rome is about to announce the NXT Superstar of the Year. Oba Femi’s music hits. Femi calls the award a popularity contest. It means nothing. He doesn’t care if the fans cheer for him or not. He will still destroy everything and everyone in the ring.
Trick Williams begs to differ. He slams Femi for turning his back on the fans. Eddy Thorpe appears shoving Femi into Williams. He takes the award smashing it over Femi’s head. Thorpe poses with the NXT Championship.
