Our WWE NXT Heatwave results for tonight include Chelsea Green & Ethan Page taking on Tyra Mae Steele & Tavion Heights, Jordynne Grace seeking revenge against Blake Monroe, DarkState challenging Hank & Tank for the NXT Tag Team Championship, Jacy Jayne defending the TNA Knockouts World Championship against Ash by Elegance, and Masha Slamovich, Jaida Parker clashing with Kelani Jordan and Lola Vice in an NXT Women’s Championship #1 contenders match, and Je’Von Evans challenging Oba Femi for the NXT Championship. Here’s our review and grades for tonight’s show, live from the Met Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
WWE NXT Card:
- NXT Championship Match: Oba Femi (c) vs. Je’Von Evans
- Jordynne Grace vs. Blake Monroe
- NXT Tag Team Championship Match: Hank & Tank (Hank Walker & Tank Ledger) (c) vs. DarkState
- TNA Knockouts World Championship Match: Jacy Jayne (c) vs. Ash by Elegance vs. Masha Slamovich
- NXT Women’s Championship #1 Contenders Match: Jaida Parker vs. Kelani Jordan vs. Lola Vice
- Chelsea Green & Ethan Page vs. Tyra Mae Steele & Tavion Heights
WWE NXT Results:
NXT Women’s Championship #1 Contenders Match: Jaida Parker vs. Kelani Jordan vs. Lola Vice
Parker takes control early, slamming Jordan and Vice. Parker stacks Vice on top of Jordan in the corner and flattens both women with a teardrop hip attack. Jordan gets dumped out of the ring by Parker. Vice tries to fire up, but Parker lands a Samoan drop for a near fall. Parker tries to trip Jordan off the apron, but Jordan leaps up and lands a double stomp. Vice gets hung up in the ropes. Modified fadeaway by Jordan. Parker pulls Jordan out of the ring. Jordan sends Parker flying with a rana. After a series of reversals, Jordan blasts Vice with a sit-out X-factor.
Parker knocks Jordan off the top. Vice rolls Parker into a triangle. Jordan breaks up the submission hold with a frog splash off the top! Parker and Jordan fight out on the apron. Parker tosses Jordan back into the ring, but Jordan lands on her feet. Superkick by Jordan. Jordan surprises Parker and Vice with a corkscrew splash. Handspring stunner by Jordan. Vice kicks out, but Jordan transitions Vice into a single-leg crab. Jordan wrenches it in. Vice kicks her way out of it. Vice locks Jordan in a dragon sleeper. Jordan flips out of it and eats a series of kicks from Vice. Parker walks into a flurry by Vice. Vice crushes Parker and Jordan with multiple running hip attacks.
The finish…
Vice traps Jordan in another sleeper. Parker breaks it up with a running blockbuster. Parker sets up a superplex. Vice cuts it off and sends Parker and Jordan careening to the mat with a mini-tower of doom. Parker, Vice, and Jordan trade strikes. Parker destroys Vice with a spinning back elbow. Jordan lands an axe kick and sets up the One of a Kind Moonsault. Parker gets her knees up. Parker sets up Hipnotiq. Vice counters with a spinning backfist. Jordan tries a 450 splash. Vice reverses it into a triangle. Jordan escapes and hits a spinning angle slam. Vice locks Jordna into a guillotine. Parker breaks it up with Hypnotiq. Vice rolls up Parker for the win.
Winner and NEW Number One Contender, Lola Vice!
Grade: B
This was a fun triple threat match. One of the biggest issues with these types of matches is the long periods of someone just lying on the floor while two people brawl. There was some of that here, but they kept it to very brief periods. Everyone involved here killed it. Vice winning was a bit of a surprise, but hopefully this goes better than the last time.
NXT Tag Team Championship Match: Hank & Tank (Hank Walker & Tank Ledger) (c) vs. DarkState
Shuggars acts like he’s starting the match, but Lennox attacks Hank from behind. It will be Lennox and Osirus for DarkState. Hank and Tanks work over Lennox. After a distraction outside the ring, a four-way brawl breaks out. Tank and Hank clear the ring and land dives. DarkState takes over and works over Hank.
Hank manages to tag in Tank. Tank clears the ring. Hank gets clobbered outside the ring. Osirus and Lennox double powerbomb Tank. Tank kicks out. Tank manages to tag in Hank, who made it back on the apron. Hank dives off the top and lands on everyone in DarkState, except Lennox. Hank and Tank set up their finish. James breaks it up. DarkState destroys Hank with a Doomsday Device for the win.
Winners and NEW NXT Tag Team Champions, DarkState!
Grade: C+
This writer said the minute Hank and Tank won the tag titles, they needed to just shine them up and hand them to DarkState. This match was just fine. Nothing special by any means, but the false finish that led to the actual finish was quite well done.
TNA Knockouts World Championship Match: Jacy Jayne (c) vs. Ash by Elegance vs. Masha Slamovich
Jayne clears the ring and lands a neckbreaker on Slamovich. Jayne flattens Ash with a senton off the apron. While Jayne celebrates with the rest of Fatal Influence, Slamovich takes them all out with a dive. Back in the ring, Slamovich blasts Ash with a PK for a near fall. Everyone trades big moves. Ash rolls out. Slamovich and Jayne trade strikes. Jayne lands a hangman’s neckbreaker. Ash breaks up the pin. Ash misses a moonsault. Jayne lands a senton off the top. Ash kicks out. Jayne sends Slamovich flying with a rana off the top. Running kick by Jayne.
Jayne pins Slamovich, but Ash breaks it up with a Meteora off the top. Nyx puts Henley’s foot on the bottom rope. The referee ejects Fatal Influence from the ring side area. Slamovich electric chair drops Jayne on the apron. Ash comes flying off the top and lands on Jayne and Slamovich. Slamovich kicks out of Ash’s pin. Slamovich tries a knee strike. Ash catches it and lands a nasty knee strike. Moonsault by Ash. Jayne destroys Ash with an elbow strike. Slamovich kicks out of Jayne’s pin! Jayne lands a Rolling Encore on Slamovich. The Elegance Brand pulls Jayne out of the ring. Ash flattens Slamovich with a swanton for the win!
Winner and NEW TNA Knockouts Champion, Ash by Elegance!
Grade: B-
Fun but overbooked match. It’s cool to see Ash by Elegance finally win singles gold (the WWe 24/7 Title doesn’t count).
Jordynne Grace vs. Blake Monroe
Monroe slaps Grace. Grace chases Monroe around the ring. Monroe tries to hide behind the commentators. Grace leaps over the desk. Grace suplexes Monroe all over the ring. The fight spills out of the ring again. Monroe slams Grace down on the ring steps. Grace lands with a sickening thud. Monroe slams Grace’s arm into the ring steps. Grace writhes in pain. Monroe works on Grace’s injured arm. Monroe traps Grace in an arm bar. Grace lifts Monroe in the air, bounces Monroe off the ropes, and lands a suplex. Grace and Monroe trade strikes. After a series of reversals, Grace lands a series of short-arm clotheslines.
Spinebuster by Grace. Grace immediately lifts Monroe up and hits a jackhammer. Monroe kicks out. Monroe crawls to the corner. Grace pulls Monroe into an Alabama Slam, but Monroe pulls off the bottom turnbuckle pad in the process. Arm Breaker by Monroe. Grace rolls out of it, but Monroe follows that with a nasty knee strike. Grace kicks out. Monroe and Grace trade headbutts. Running knee by Monroe. Grace kicks out again! Monroe set up rana in the corner. Grace reverses it into a sit-out powerbomb off the top. Monroe somehow kicks out. Monroe manages to curbstomp Grace’s face into the exposed turnbuckle. Double underhook DDT by Monroe. Monroe pins Grace.
Winner- Blake Monroe
Grade: B+
So far, this has been the match of the night. Monore and Grace exemplified what a grudge match is supposed to be. The cowardly heel acted cowardly and cheated to win. The finish was masterful, and even though it was set up earlier in the match, it happened naturally and wasn’t forced. Quite well done. This writer sees the hype with Monroe now.
Chelsea Green & Ethan Page vs. Tyra Mae Steele & Tavion Heights
Steele starts off by gator rolling Green. Green screams while Steele traps her in a bow and arrow. Heights and Steele toss Green and Page out of the ring. The crowd is behind Green and Page for reasons this writer doesn’t understand. Page even grabs a mic and tells the crowd that no matter how much time they cheer for Canada, they can’t have citizenship. Height tosses Page all over the ring. Green hits Heights as he hits the ropes.
Page tries to sneak in the Twisted Green, but Heights escapes. Heights and Page boot each other in the face at the same time. Steele gets the tag and gets booed because the crowd is in love with Green. Steele suplexes Page. Fyre tries to save Page, but Steele suplex them both at the same time! Fyre sneaks in the ring and lands a superkick, which allows Green to drop Steele with the Unprettiher for the win.
Winners- Chelsea Green & Ethan Page
Grade: B
Fun match. This writer understands that Green is popular, but the crowd was out of line with how they booed Steele and Heights. Page did his best to try to rein in the crowd, but they were intent on hijacking the show. Steele and Heights both looked great out there tonight. If that crowd didn’t appreciate their work tonight, this writer sure did.
NXT Championship Match: Oba Femi (c) vs. Je’Von Evans
Evans‘ ribs are taped from going through a table this past week on NXT TV. Femi runs over Evans. Evans and Femi trade strikes. Evans flips out of a powerbomb and tries a springboard cutter. Femi blocks it and tosses Evans into the air. Lariat by Femi. Evans tries a springboard, but Femi catches him. Evans escapes and lands a superkick that knocks Femi on his butt. Femi is shocked. Evans superkicks Femi again. Evans tries a dive, but Femi gets his knees up, but Evans blocks that. Double stomp by Evans. The fight spills out of the ring. Evans avoids a chop from Femi, only to land another chop on the back end. Femi tosses Evans back into the ring.
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Femi works on Evans’ injured ribs. Evans fires up and lands a few strikes. Femi surprises Evans with a swinging backbreaker. Chokeslam by Femi! Evans kicks out! Evans unleashes a flurry of punches. Springboard clothesline by Evans. Evans lands a two bouncy kicks. Femi kicks out. DDT by Evans. Evans goes up top and barely lands a splash. Both men are down. Evans goes back up top and lands another frog splash. Femi kicks out again. Evans and Femi trade strikes. German suplex by Evans. Femi pops back up to his feet and turns Evans inside out with a lariat. Evans surprises Femi with a cutter out of nowhere.
The finish…
Evans tries a super cutter, but Femi catches Evans with a nasty mid-air European uppercut. Evans kicks out. Femi and Evans fight on the top rope. Femi pushes Evans off the top into the referee. Evans tries a top rope rana. Femi blocks it, but Evans sends Femi over anyway. Evans lands two more cutters. Evans tries a pin, but Femi’s foot is under the rope. One referee counts the three, while another says Femi’s foot was under the rope. Evans misses his twisting splash. Femi picks up Evans and sends him flying over the top rope through the commentary desk! Femi brings Evans back into the ring and hits the Fall of Grace Powerbomb for the win!
Winner and STILL NXT Champion, Oba Femi!
After the match, Ricky Starks comes to the ring and jaws back and forth with Femi. Starks says he’s up next.
Grade: A
Remember earlier when this writer said Monroe vs. Grace was the match of the night? See, what had happened was… this match stole the crown. Evans and Femi killed it tonight. Evans is the perfect underdog, and Femi is the ultimate beast. Femi tried to murder Evans, and Evans just kept on coming. It got to a point where Femi was very clearly sick of Evans’ sh*t so he gave him the Spike Dudley treatment. In less than a week, Evans has taken insane bumps through the commentary desk. One of the reasons a spot like this is so effective is that there wasn’t a ton of garbage match shenanigans throughout the PLE. Less is more, and it just worked here tonight.
WWE NXT Heatwave Review:
Tonight’s show featured solid in-ring action and set the stage for the next few months of NXT TV. Oba Femi and Je’Von Evans stole the show with a hell of a contest that featured one of the craziest bumps this writer has seen… well, since the last time Evans went through a table. Jordynne Grace and Blake Monroe had a banger as well, that ended in a way that most likely means this feud is far from over. Ricky Starks is poised to take the next shot at Femi, but can the ruler be beaten? Or is Starks destined to get the Uncil Phil treatment, too? Let us know what you think in the comments below!
Rating: B
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