Here’s a place to check results and comment along with the newest episode of WWE NXT, airing live on Tuesday night at 8PM Eastern time slot on USA Network.
Advertised for tonight from the WWE Performance Center: Wes Lee, Josh Briggs & Joe Coffey fight for the right to challenge North American champ Oba Femi.
We’ll also watch as qualifiers continue for Battleground’s Six-Pack Ladder Match for the new Women’s North American championship, with Jaida Parker taking on Brinley Reece, and Fallon Henley battling Thea Hail. Natalya & Karmen Petrovic face Shayna Baszler & Lola Vice in tag action... and more!
SPOILERS for this pre-taped episode are out there, including here. If you’d like to discuss them, please either do so in the SPOILER post, or use the SPOILER tag.
Come right back here at 8pm ET when the NXT live blog kicks off once the show starts on USA. A running record of everything that happens will be below this line here.
Enjoy the show!
WWE NXT RESULTS AND LIVE BLOG FOR MAY 21
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The show opens with a recap of last week’s show.
Fallon Henley vs. Thea Hail (NXT Women’s North American Championship Qualifying Match)
Hail working an armbar early, arm drags, Henley to the floor, Thea wipes her out with a suicide dive into grounded forearms! The referee ejects Chase U for trying to point out Fallon trying to cheat and we go to break!
Back from commercial, Henley with a nearfall, stereo boots and both women are down and out! Hail with axhandles, off the ropes, snap running blockbuster connects! Nearfall, Fallon up top, Thea chases after her, jockeying for position, Henley gets the better of it, action to the floor, ramming Hail into the barricade...
Fallon Henley wins by pinfall with a Shining Wizard, qualifying for the NXT Women’s North American Championship.
Post-match, Jazmyn Nyx runs in wearing a baffling grey bodysuit and lays Hail out with a Pele Kick!
We get a segment of Axiom and Nathan Frazer meeting with the D’Angelo Family.
Frazer congratulates Tony D’Angelo on winning the Heritage Cup and the Family gently rib Axiom, asking if he ever won the Cup and riffing on who would call themselves A-Kid. The end result of all of it is Stacks and Luca get themselves a tag title match... tonight.
The D’Angelo Family make their entrance and we go to break.
Back from commercial we get a recap of Gallus’ return from last week and an update that Ivar is out of action and social media back and forth getting Joe Coffey into Ivar’s place in a NXT North American Championship contender’s match.
Gallus are interviewed backstage, they wish Ivar a good hospital stay and tell Wes Lee and Josh Briggs they turned out stronger than expected, and Oba Femi should watch out.
Axiom & Nathan Frazer (c) vs. D’Angelo Family (Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo & Luca Crusifino) (NXT Tag Team Championship)
Quick tags in the feeling out, Stacks takes Frazer down and keeps him off-balance, champions come back, tag to Axiom, octopus hold into a dropkick, cover for two and we go to break!
Back from commercial, challengers in control, beating Nathan down in a heat segment until he makes a path and tags Axiom in! Off the ropes, two-for-one on the Family, chest kicks and a tag back to Frazer. Chasing the Dragon, cover... CRUSIFINO BREAKS IT UP! Double-team, Axiom breaks it up, the match breaks down!
Lorenzo tags himself back in, Nathan with a reverse STO into the turnbuckles, skin the cat up top, Channing cuts him off! Jockeying for position, superplex connects, Axiom cuts Luca out of midair with a superkick when he tries to add a splash! No Quarter Catch Crew come down to attack Tony, Nathan has him...
Axiom & Nathan Frazer win by pinfall with an inside cradle from Frazer on Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo, retaining the NXT Tag Team Championship.
Post-match, the Good brothers attack the champions and beat them down... MAGIC KILLER ON FRAZER!
Backstage, Robert Stone is schmoozing one of the women about maybe being managed by him when Lexis King walks up to talk trash about Chelsea Green not even wanting anything to do with him and says he’s never gonna get anywhere with anyone but King.
Ava Raine rolls up and tells Lexis he has a match tonight and he’ll find out who he’s wrestling when he’s in the ring. Stone says he wants to hand King his ass and Ava points out he didn’t do great in his last match and they’ll find the perfect opponent.
Oba Femi makes his entrance and we go to break.
Back from commercial, Riley Osborne blames Ridge Holland for them getting ejected but Ridge steps up to make a defense of his actions.
Riley blames him for Thea losing the opportunity of a lifetime, Ridge says he lost their match last week and he gave him the benefit of the doubt. They bicker and Andre Chase steps up and tells them to settle it in the ring and shushes Duke Hudson when he tries to step forward.
Joe Coffey vs. Josh Briggs vs. Wes Lee (NXT North American Championship #1 Contender’s Match)
Oba Femi is on commentary for this one.
Feeling out, Briggs sidelined, Lee with a tope con giro on Coffey and Josh returns to blast Joe with a lariat and knock Wes down with a boot to send us to break!
Back from commercial, Coffey and Briggs slugging it out in the middle of the ring, Josh off the ropes, thrust to the ribs, right hand from Josh, big splash, Wes off the top with a senton atomico and all three men are down! Lee leapfrogs Coffey, moonsault takes both of ‘em out, covers for nearfalls on both guys!
Joe taking charge on the floor, throwing Briggs back inside and getting run over with a big boot! Josh up top, Lee with an enzuigiri, jockeying for position, he dives into a chokeslam! Spinebuster on Coffey, goozle on Wes and he chokeslams him into Joe for a nearfall! Uppercuts in the corner, Coffey takes him out with a crossbody and Lee breaks it up at the last fraction of a second with a wildcard uppercut!
Trading jabs, front kick gets a rolling Koppu kick and Wes is feeling it! Crossbody wipes Joe out on the floor, the rest of Gallus take Josh out, Lee off the top, duck a lariat, headbutt cuts him out of mid-air, both Joe and Wes fall into pins...
Referee DA Brewer speaks to ring announce Mike Rome...
Joe Coffey and Wes Lee win via double pin, becoming #1 contenders to the NXT North American Championship.
Karmen Petrovic and Natalya are interviewed backstage.
Petrovic says they’re ready for tonight and Nattie says Karmen doesn’t give herself enough credit and they’ve really bonded and they’re going to win tonight.
Brinley Reece is working out backstage with Edris Enofe and Malik Blade.
Enofe is depressed about their bad luck of late and Blade gives him a pep talk about how they have to take a page from Reece and stay positive. She asks if they’re coming out and when Malik says they’d just weigh her down, she says it’s up to them and we go to break.
Brinley Reece vs. Jaida Parker (NXT Women’s North American Championship Qualifying Match)
A little light lucha libre to start, arm drag into an armbar for Reece, Parker hosses out of it and rams her into the corner but Brinley blocks with right hands! Whip into a hair pull into the corner, Reece up to the second, Jaida cuts her down with a kick to the midsection! Setting Reece up in the turnbuckles, hanging seated senton!
Parker in control, butterfly suplex for a nearfall and into a bodyscissors to grind her down! Brinley pries her arms apart, short senton, schoolboy for two! Shoulder block her into the corner, Reece up and over, duck a lariat, shoulder block! A little more back and forth, Malik and Edris come down and Reece is distracted and Parker gets her...
Jaida Parker wins by pinfall with a running hip attack, qualifying for the NXT Women’s North American Championship ladder match.
Backstage, Jazmyn Nyx talks to Fallon Henley about how she made a point of waiting until AFTER her match to get revenge on Thea Hail.
We get a Wendy Choo vignette of her waking up and getting out of bed (face unseen) and we go to break.
Back from commercial, we get a WrestleMania 41 hype reel followed by a Roxanne Perez hype reel.
Ava Raine is in her office on the phone talking about how everything’s in place and Roxanne will find out her next challenger next week.
Lexis King makes his entrance and gets on the mic.
He says he’s been on a bit of a hot streak lately and we all know that whoever walks through that curtain tonight is going to join a long list of gentlemen who have fallen to the king. In 2024 he’s virtually undefeated—
Enter Robert Stone, followed shortly after by Dante Chen!
Dante Chen vs. Lexis King
Collar and elbow, shot off, King with mounted punches in the middle of the ring! Whip reversed, boot up in the corner, Chen with a kick combo into a dropkick, whip across, big back body drop! Continuing back and forth, Dante with a big boot and an Ore ga Taue for a nearfall! Lexis comes back, in position for Coronation but Robert Stone gets on the apron to distract him!
King with a superkick, straitjacket... REVERSED INTO AN INSIDE CRADLE! DANTE DID IT!
Dante Chen wins by pinfall with an inside cradle.
Lola Vice and Shayna Baszler chat backstage and Baszler asks Vice to keep the dancing backstage but she begs off.
Trick Williams is shown walking backstage to send us to break.
Back from commercial we some hype for this year’s Clash at the Castle.
Trick Williams makes his entrance and gets on the mic.
He says when Noam Dar dropped him from behind he took that on the chin and then last week Dar got attacked backstage and if anybody knows how that feels, it’s him, and he wouldn’t wish that on anybody. So he’s gonna say it one time and make it crystal clear, he didn’t attack Noam Dar, and if he did attack him, he’d be unconscious and he wouldn’t have been holding his leg, he’d have a size 15 Jordan tattooed on his forehead, he don’t attack from behind.
Enter the rest of Meta-Four.
Jakara Jackson says he’s got these crusty musties tricked, but they’re not, and they know either him or Je’Von Evans attacked Noam. Oro Mensah tells Williams to grow up and admit he’s a low-life who doesn’t deserve to be champion. Lash Legend speaks up for him and says he didn’t attack Dar.
Oro questions her, Trick comes to her defense, and Joe Coffey of all people makes his entrance.
He says we’re probably wondering why he’s here and says you’re about to find out why, and Gallus attack Williams in the ring, beating him down until Je’Von Evans makes the save! Lighting them up with punches until That Damn Numbers Game overwhelms them and Joe hits a high cradle German suplex on him!
Trick recovers, wild right hands for Gallus but again, there’s three of them and he gets cut off and booted to the mat!
We see our main event competitors walking backstage and we go to break.
Back from commercial, Robert Stone gives Dante Chen a pep talk about his win when Ava Raine rolls up to congratulate him also. Chen thanks her for the opportunity but she gives Stone credit and Dante shakes his hand.
Commentary hypes up next week’s show.
Karmen Petrovic & Natalya vs. Lola Vice & Shayna Baszler
Baszler and Natalya to start, Shayna working her arm, wristlock into the ropes, Vice with a cheap shot, Queen of Spades with a knee, but Nattie kicks out! Tag to Petrovic, kicks to the midsection and a huge roundhouse! Whip reversed, heel kick out of the corner, running blockbuster, cover for two and we go to break!
Back from commercial, Baszler working a top wristlock on Petrovic, working her over, eventually she gets away and Neidhart tags in on Vice! Kicks, snap suplex, Shayna runs in, German suplex for her! Whip to the corner, slingshot back suplex reversed into an arm drag but Nattie comes right back with the discus lariat for two!
Karmen diving crossbody, looking for a Sharpshooter, Baszler runs in, the match breaks down! Nattie clobbers Shayna with a forearm, Vice lands a reverse roundhouse kick on her, wiggles her butt, looking for a Sharpshooter but Neidhart reverses into one of her own! Petrovic diving crossbody, Baszler puts her in the Kirifuda Clutch but Karmen slings her to the floor and gets back into position for the tag!
Natalya with a big body blow, tag made... HART ATTACK! IT’S OVER!
Karmen Petrovic & Natalya win by pinfall with a Hart Attack on Lola Vice.
Post-match, Baszler helps Vice up but Lola knocks her out with a flash kick and wiggles her ass at her! Shayna pops up while she’s dancing on the apron and puts her in the Kirifuda Clutch, choking her out as referees swarm! A pull-apart develops on the floor!
Ava Raine comes to the stage and says it’s clear that both of them are looking for a fight and she kinda wants to see it too, so they can do this at Battleground! Shayna takes the mic and says no, she wants an NXT Underground Match!
They go back to brawling.
That’s the show, folks.
