[narrator] You know Vegas.
The sights. The sounds.
The glitz and the glamour.
But before this ostentatious oasis took over the Nevada desert.
There were beginnings.
Humble foundations with not so humble dreams.
Fortune-seeking pioneers
who claim their stake.
Ready to turn the sand below their feet from dust into gold.
Almost a century later,
that thirst for gold…
it's as strong as ever.
The pioneers keep coming.
To forge their own path to fortune,
on the Vegas Strip.
["Survivor" playing]
♪ I'll never crumble I'll never lose ♪
For some that means claiming the top spot.
[Joseph] …Triple Threat at Stand & Deliver.
[Evans] I'm coming for the NXT Championship.
[Williams] I fought for this. I sacrificed for this.
Oba, Je'Von, make sure you're on your A game
because you're gonna need it.
I'm ready right now to get to that number one spot.
Je'Von Evans and Trick Williams will find out the hard way
that the ruler can't be stopped.
For others, it means taking their first steps to preeminence.
[Graves] Hank and Tank earn an opportunity
to challenge Fraxiom in the NXT Tag Team Championship.
6 woman Ladder Match to crown the next NXT Women's North American Champion.
Some fortunate few hit the mother lode early.
♪ Fire ♪
♪ Tidal wave ♪
♪ Nothing in the world's gonna stop me ♪
Leaving others to cope with envy.
[Graves] And Page just stole the spotlight from Ricky Saints.
♪ Liars ♪
♪ Enemies ♪
Just when we thought we knew the answers…
-No friends. -[Graves] …Giulia's changed the question.
Rematch.
[Joseph] It will be a four-way for the NXT Women's Championship.
I want all of them.
♪ That's how I'm wired I'm a survivor ♪
But out here, every gamble.
[Joseph] They are 4 men with 1 mission. To create havoc.
[Graves] Another massacre at the hands of DarkState.
[narrator] Risks dealing with the house.
Messing with the D'Angelo family has severe
consequences.
[Joseph] The emotions couldn't be held in check.
[Graves] Absolute chaos. Absolute madness.
Just like the pioneers forever changed the desert skyline.
It's time for NXT to blaze a new trail in Sin City.
[Joseph] Who will have luck on their side? Who hits the jackpot?
Who stands and delivers?
[music ends]
["Survivor" playing]
[Joseph] We're live in Las Vegas, center of the wrestling universe,
the entertainment capital of the world, and of course, home to WrestleMania.
You are looking live at the T-Mobile Arena, sight to last night's SmackDown
as the NXT universe is filing in this morning here on the West Coast.
Because they say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but everything
that happens this WrestleMania weekend will be heard worldwide.
You want to become immortal?
This is the first step for these superstars to cement their legacy,
can they do it with a roll of the dice and a flip of a card?
Welcome to Stand & Deliver.
["Welcome to the Revolution" playing]
The revolution has arrived on WrestleMania weekend.
[bell dings]
[Rome] The following contest scheduled for one fall
is for the NXT
North American Championship!
Introducing first, from New Orleans, Louisiana, weighing in at 200 pounds,
he is the NXT North American Champion,
Ricky Saints!
[Joseph] Uh, Graves, how has the revolution taken NXT by storm?
[Graves] Look no further, just open your eyes.
The North American Champion Ricky Saints.
You can see the emotion on his face.
How much this match, how much this day,
how much this weekend means to Ricky Saints.
Welcome in ringside, Booker, are you ready for WrestleMania?
[speaks indistinctly]
Oh, yes, man.
-Next year. -He doesn't even know
what the hell he just said.
Welcome to Stand & Deliver.
["With a Smile" playing]
♪ Ego ♪
♪ Kill 'em with the rhythm Kill 'em with a smile ♪
♪ Ego ♪
[Rome] And his opponent. From Hamilton, Ontario, Canada,
weighing in at 225 pounds,
"All Ego"
Ethan Page!
[Joseph] Graves, both men entering their first WrestleMania weekends,
but All Ego certainly does have plenty of premium live event experience.
[Graves] Ethan Page is a ruthless, cerebral competitor,
a thinking man's wrestler if you will, and Page understands
the opportunity at hand.
Ethan Page wants nothing more than to snuff out the momentum that Ricky Saints
has built since arriving at NXT and doing it on the biggest stage NXT has each year.
[Joseph] And out of those out there, Booker, these two are kicking off
WrestleMania weekend, what is the significance of that?
[Booker T] Man, I mean, both of these guys,
I mean, Ethan Page as well as Ricky Saints,
both of these men have set records, but only one, only one can set
the record tonight, and that's Ethan Page,
go out here tonight and walk away as the new North American Champion.
Oh, yes, man.
[Joseph] We know the history of both these men.
Nobody watches you harder than the people who have doubted you,
and these two right now squaring off one on one.
And Booker, do you agree with what…
Oh, my… what Ricky Saints said this past Tuesday.
-[Booker T] What's that? -[Joseph] Page's ego is fragile?
[Booker T] I totally disagree.
I mean this dude, this dude Ethan Page has been rock solid.
He's coming into the NXT like I say, he set the record first
and like that he's trying to do it again.
[Joseph] Right now Ethan Page has to feel like
his greatest accomplishment since arriving
at NXT has been erased by Ricky Saints,
and tonight's an opportunity this morning I should say
is an opportunity to set things straight.
[Booker T] But how smart was Ethan Page setting himself up for the first shot?
Come on, man. How beautiful was the work?
[Graves] I think it's absolutely brilliant.
I'm a big fan of what All Ego brings to the table.
The question is, does he have enough to topple Ricky Saints,
a superstar who comes highly touted by the likes of CM Punk, by the likes
-of the American nightmare Cody Rhodes? -[Booker T] Yeah. Uh-huh.
[Joseph] But Page did earn this opportunity,
winning that four-way on Tuesday,
but has attacked the Champion, blindsided, I might add.
Nice enzuiguri though by Saints.
[Booker T] No, that's exactly my point right there.
Ethan Page went out there and he fired the first shot
and Ricky Saints, Ricky Saints responded in this situation right here.
Was that a bad move?
We're gonna find out here tonight.
[Joseph] We're finding out right now, it might be early in the morning
on the West Coast, but the NXT universe is fired up to witness the revolution.
[Graves] Caffeine is flowing,
the adrenaline's pumping, Ricky Saints showing up and showing out.
Charging right back in. Bang! Clothesline taking out Page.
[Booker T] I mean, I'm not gonna lie. This kid's got a lot of charisma.
But is there any substance?
-That's the question. -Let's go!
[Booker T] He's the Champion, but is he a fly by night?
Is he here today and gone tomorrow? That's, that's the question.
[Graves] Would you listen to yourself? Is there any substance?
Saints is the North American Champion.
-[Joseph] Oh! -[Booker T] I gotta say,
look here. Winning the Championship is one thing, defending it, defending it?
That's something totally different, Gravy.
[Joseph] Well, Graves did bring up a good point earlier from his debut
to a Championship at NXT.
No one has done it faster than Ricky Saints, but Ethan Page…
[Graves] Oh, my God! That's it.
[Booker T] See that? See that? That's the kill shot, right there.
[Joseph] That's the type of brutality we can expect
all weekend long when the stakes are as high as they are for each and every match
that takes place this weekend.
These superstars will stop at nothing to destroy one another.
Case in point, All Ego may have broken the Champion's back.
[Graves] And now you just see Ethan Page at this juncture
and, Booker, we were there.
It was in Las Vegas when Page made his official in ring debut for NXT.
[Booker T] One thing about Ethan Page,
if he gets you in the crosshairs, he's gonna
take you out just like that last shot right there, the hardest part of the ring.
That's Ethan Page right there, man.
[Joseph] Graves, did you notice Ethan Page didn't go for a cover?
He's trying to punish Saints.
[Graves] Everything Ethan Page does is by design. There are no mistakes
for All Ego.
[Graves] Page has meticulously laid out his game plan and he's executing it
to perfection right now.
[Joseph] It looks like he's focusing on that lower back, Booker.
[Booker T] Not Corey agreeing with me.
[Joseph] I don't know if Corey disagreed with you.
I just thought you guys were seeing it in a different vantage point.
-[Booker T] Okay. Yes. -[Joseph] Is that okay?
You're fired up this morning. Just like everybody here.
[Graves] I'm looking at it with both eyes open, you know.
It's a different perspective.
-[Booker T] What are you trying to say? -Booker looks at it with a nose wide open.
[Joseph] As Ethan Page, center of the ring, bam, right to the jaw.
[Booker T] See that's what I'm saying. Ethan Page, he's about being serious
inside the middle of that 20 by 20.
I love everything about this man.
[Joseph] And don't get me wrong, Booker. I mean Page is special.
First four premium live events, he was in the main event.
We called those. Into the cover looking for the title and a kick out.
And I mean he took this place over, Graves.
You were at SmackDown.
I mean, he took this place over like that.
[Graves] All Ego wasted no time carving out his own niche in NXT
and he's made the entire WWE universe pay attention.
One of the reasons why he is opening Stand & Deliver this week,
Ethan Page has proven himself.
Ricky Saints, in the opinion of Booker, still has some proving left to do,
but that makes it all the more important that he succeeds here this morning.
[Joseph] Speaking of opening, Stand & Deliver, our main event,
you can actually look at Ethan Page because he was really the one who started…
[Booker T] Oh! See that?
[Joseph] Internal change and walk that into the cover and another kick out.
He has been stealing smiles. He has been stealing the spotlight.
Je'Von Evans is in there as well,
and there's nothing more that Ethan Page wants to do tonight than steal
the smile of everyone.
He's looking out now here in the T-Mobile Arena and once again
stealing the spotlight from Ricky Saints.
[Booker T] I just watched that reversal right there
by Ethan Page into that slide slam right there,
and I'm gonna tell you this kid is methodical and he's very, very technical.
His ring IQ is very, very high, and tonight he could walk away
to be Champion, man.
I'm feeling something in my bones, man. I'm feeling it.
[Joseph] Well, Saints right now trying to feel some energy
because ever since that power slam
right here in front of us where the steel meets wood,
Saints has not been the same.
[Graves] I don't care how tough you are, your body is still made of
the same flesh and blood as everybody else,
and Ricky Saints may be having a lot of trouble right now
even executing his own offense.
There's not as much behind those right hands as their ordinarily will be.
That's a smart strategy by Page.
You attack the lower back, the core of your opponent.
[Joseph] Not only is this about the Championship, as you see Saints in pain,
it's a stark contrast for these two men on how they crafted their paths here.
Saints… Whoa, Saints.
[Graves] No, wait. Don't do this, Ricky!
No! Dang it!
-Call… He's hurt. -[Joseph] Ref! Ref, ref.
[Graves] Ricky Saints may be seriously injured guys.
He immediately clutched at his left knee.
[Joseph] I'm looking at the replay, Graves,
but I'm looking at what's in front of us at our feet.
Ricky Saints right now, his back is red and he's holding on to his left knee,
and here comes this egomaniac, Ethan Page.
Shut the hell up, Vic! Come on.
[Graves] I would take his advice if I were you, stretch.
Page now muscling the Champion back inside the ring.
We could be on the precipice of a brand new North American Champion.
[Joseph] Five Championships on the line tonight
and the first one could change hands.
Swing and a miss. Page going back in. Taking down Saints
and he's looking for a Boston crab, and think about that lower back right now.
-[Graves] Absolutely right. -[Joseph] Screaming in pain.
[Graves] Ethan Page, so methodical,
so meticulous kicking away at the lower back.
Boston crab is in.
Right now, Ricky Saints has to be
feeling the Championship slipping through his fingertips.
[Joseph] Saints has to remember the journey. What got him here to the WWE.
What got him here to WrestleMania weekend, the Championships,
all those nights sleeping in a car for this.
You can't give up, Ricky.
You gotta dig deep.
[Booker T] He's done. He's finished right here.
-[Joseph] He's not. -He's finished.
-[Joseph] He's getting to the bottom rope! -[Booker T] Wow!
-[Joseph] But how much is left? -[Booker T] Let me tell you something.
All the pain that Ricky Saints is going through right now
is from a beautiful setup from Ethan Page when he rolled in,
rolled out, and just set Ricky Saints up for the biggest fall of the night.
Trust me on that.
[Joseph] Oh, that kick right to the lower back
and again just looking up from the monitors
you can see the welts that are forming on Saints's back.
[Graves] It's just a testament to the killer instinct.
-"All Ego" Ethan Page. -[Booker T] He's smart.
He's very, very methodical.
-He's definitely gonna try to-- -Looking for that Ego's Edge.
-[Joseph] Saints slipping down. -[Booker T] Oh, big shot, big shot.
[Joseph] But to Graves's point, Booker,
how much can really be behind those rights?
[Booker T] No, you wonder if, you know, is he suffering from, you know, uh,
that one big shot here on the outside steal.
Right now, he's laboring, trust me on this.
Oh! Oh, my God!
[Joseph] Gnarly, nasty landing for Ricky Saints.
-[Booker T] Did you see that? -[Graves] All Ego
is showing complete disregard
for the well-being of his opponent, and that's what it's going to take
to knock off Saints.
[Joseph] Just launching Ricky Saints across the top rope and allowing him
to crash and burn down to the floor.
Ethan Page has got to be loving his odds right now.
[Graves] Like him, love him. He is systematically--
[Booker T] Oh, yes!
-[Joseph] Tornado DDT! -[Booker T] That was nice. That was nice.
[Joseph] And Booker at this moment, and a Champion,
what is going through the body, the mind and the soul of Ricky Saints?
[Booker T] Now Ricky Saints is gonna have to dig deep down,
intestinal fortitude, mental attitude.
It's all about digging deep as you possibly can.
And I'm gonna tell you right now, I wonder,
I wonder if he got it in his bones. I'm wondering that.
[Joseph] Book, we saw how emotional Ricky Saints was
making his entrance tonight.
Is it possible that Saints is crumbling under the pressure of Stand & Deliver?
[Booker T] Like I said, it was one thing, winning the Championship.
It's a totally different thing going up there and defending that Championship
under the bright lights here at Stand &…
Oh, yes! Oh, yes.
[Joseph] And, Booker, you got to admire the moxie of the New Orleans native.
[Booker T] I give this kid a lot of, a lot of credit, man, because he,
he didn't just slip on a banana.
[Joseph] Bam! Michinoku!
-Cover. -[Booker T] Oh yes, here we go. He did it.
He did it by a lot of hard work.
[Joseph] The bruises forming on the body of Ricky Saints,
but also now on Ethan Page.
They are rowdy here this morning in Las Vegas.
Wherever you are watching around the world,
welcome to WrestleMania Saturday. Page--
-[Booker T] Oh, here we go. -[Joseph] Oh.
See that? Right on the back of the neck.
[Graves, Joseph] Oh.
[Joseph] That was across the face.
Saints starting to fire back, and kick, rocking the Champion.
Challenger now right back in. He's not even allowing space.
[Graves] Watch this. Power down! Power slam.
[Booker T] You gotta love it, man.
[Graves] For the title. Saints got that right shoulder just off the mat.
[Booker T] Talking about kicking this thing off hot tonight.
[Graves] Look at the agony etched on the face of the Champion Ricky Saints
in all types of jeopardy right now.
He's got to be having a hard time catching his breath, his, his entire abdomen,
his lower back, his kidneys have to be just agonized right now.
[Joseph] Not only is this about the North American Championship,
it's about the journey
both these men were on to get here.
[Booker T] I just said tonight it feels like tonight, right?
It feels like midnight right now.
It feels like, you know, it's hot and heavy here in Vegas
and it is, it's going down.
[Graves] Very apropos here in Vegas. It was dark when we walk in the building.
[Joseph] Whoa!
[Graves] It'll be daylight when we leave.
-And what a way to set the tone. -[Booker T] Here we go.
-Did he do it? -These two now--
-See that? -Saw that little bit of slip.
That might help Page out.
Page right now able to get back to his feet,
big right hand right to the Champion.
Both these men now teetering, but look, you see maybe some exhaustion
because again this is their first WrestleMania.
There's a lot more that goes into it than just the match, Graves.
[Graves] And, Book, talk to me about how you feel if you're the Champion,
if you're Ricky Saints and you're realizing
your body is failing you in the middle of the ring.
-What do you do next? -[Booker T] You think about that six-man.
The fans is the only thing that's gonna wield Ricky Saints to actually be able
to get this done here tonight, trust me on that.
[Graves] Will his back hold up?
[Joseph] Looking for the power bomb. Holding up Page. Bam!
-[Booker T] There it is. There it is. -[Joseph] Folding into cover.
To retain his title and…
Page got that left shoulder up.
[Graves] But I don't know that Saints had enough in him
to execute the hook of the leg.
Had he, this match might be over.
But instead, All Ego's opportunity remains to become North American Champion.
[Joseph] Ricky Saints, who proved himself
all over the world to get this opportunity…
[Joseph, Graves shout]
[Joseph] A confidence breaker…
-[Booker T] Wow. Walked right into it too. -…from Ethan Page.
Page now looking for the Ego's Edge.
[Graves] Hoisted way up high.
Nasty landing by Saints. Page to crown himself Ch…
-Not quite yet. -[Booker T] Okay.
[Graves] See the shock on the face of the challenger,
All Ego was certain this match was over.
[Joseph] That certainly was not three, but it was pretty damn close.
[Graves] You can feel the energy shifting inside T-Mobile Arena.
[Joseph] And Page now looking for that Twisted Grin countered though by Saints.
Saints right now ducks the clothesline, picking up some speed and hit a spear.
Right back in Saints now knows this is the opportunity.
Trying to hoist up Ethan Page,
maybe looking for that Roshambo!
Into the cover goes Saints and the revolution continues.
[Rome] Here is your winner
and still the NXT North American Champion,
Ricky Saints!
[Joseph] What a way to kick off WrestleMania Saturday.
[Graves] The revolution continues at Stand & Deliver after a hard fought battle
and surviving the Ego's Edge from the challenger,
Ethan Page was certain that he had just become North American Champion,
but Ricky Saints had other plans.
A spear opened the door for the Roshambo.
[Joseph] And bam.
[Graves] Still NXT North American Champion,
-Ricky Saints. -[bell dings]
[Joseph] How good it must feel
for everything this man has gone through
to retain his title on the biggest stage NXT has
because the spotlight is centered on our North American Champion Ricky Saints.
[Joseph] There is Oba Femi, one-third of our main event here at Stand & Deliver.
The odds not in the favor of the Champion in this matchup.
There Trick Williams, he's looking for a historic third NXT Championship reign,
but the other man in this equation is looking to become
the youngest NXT Champion ever.
Who will leave Las Vegas NXT Champion after our main event here tonight
at Stand & Deliver?
But on the topic of luck, it certainly was on the side
of our challengers this past Tuesday.
But is Lady Luck still with them tonight?
Hank and Tank try to dethrone Fraxiom for the gold here at Stand & Deliver.
["Burn This Engine Out" playing]
[bell dings]
[Rome] The following contest scheduled for one fall
is for the NXT
Tag Team Championship!
Introducing first, the challengers Hank Walker, Tank Ledger,
Hank and Tank!
[Graves] Vic, you were asking about luck as pertains to Hank and Tank.
I think what we witnessed this past Tuesday on NXT and their performance
was nothing short of divine intervention.
[Joseph] Well, for these two certainly realizing a dream.
And to win the Championship,
WrestleMania weekend, Book, certainly would be a dream come true.
[Booker T] You see Tank Ledger, he's got the nose strip on
like Harlem Heat back in the day, man.
Oh, yes, it's hot this weekend, all right. It's about to get hotter.
[Joseph] If you ever work at reality or wrestling,
all of a sudden you're one of Booker's guys.
[Booker T] I love these guys.
I know because I think they were your Champions at one point.
[Booker T] Hank Walker and Tank Ledger.
Oh, my God, man, the future.
[Graves] What are the odds Hank has a Slapjack in his back pocket?
♪ Never slow down ♪
Oh, can the Belly Bandits take down these two men?
[Booker T] Man.
[Rome] And their opponents.
They are the NXT Tag Team Champions,
Nathan Frazer and Axiom,
Fraxiom!
[Joseph] And Graves, when we break this down at its core,
do you see this as a battle of speed versus power?
[Graves] I see this as one of the most complete tag teams
in the business in Fraxiom.
Perhaps the best tag team in the business in the opinions of many
versus a team that has a lot of opportunity in front of them,
has a lot of potential, but I'm still out.
My opinion on Hank and Tank is still out.
I've been impressed with them recently, but I'm not ready to christen them
the next big thing yet.
Fraxiom, they are the big thing right here, right now.
And in my opinion, Fraxiom wouldn't be out of place tonight at WrestleMania Saturday
or tomorrow at WrestleMania Sunday. They're that good.
[Joseph] That's a bold statement there by Graves, and a lot of people would
-agree with him onto that point, Book. -[Booker T] He ain't lying.
[Joseph] What does it mean to you to see tag team wrestling under the spotlight
-of WrestleMania weekend? -[Booker T] It's huge, man.
Tag Team division right here in NXT and not just NXT and WWE.
It's hot right now, but right here at NXT Fraxiom is on top and Hank and Tank, man,
after that gauntlet match, they did something special.
Can they keep the momentum going? That's the question.
[Joseph] We're gonna have a pair of former NXT Tag Team Champions,
the War Raiders,
New Day meeting later today at WrestleMania
for the world tag team titles,
and both these teams believe to great point
they can get to that WrestleMania stage.
[Booker T] I mean, they can.
I mean, it's all about being in the right place at the right time.
I always talk about that, but Fraxiom, this team right here, man,
are what I call extraordinary. It's hard to handicap these guys.
They can compete with anybody in the world.
[Tank] Good, Hank. Good Hank.
[Joseph] Right now early on up front
and it's Hank and Tank who have taken some advice from so many teams that are
still trying maybe to mold it in to their own,
but this is certainly going to be a doctorate if they can earn it.
Here tonight against these two.
[Graves] What we saw from Hank and Tank Tuesday in the Gauntlet match
was an overabundance of guts, of passion.
What it takes…
[Booker T] Wow.
[Graves] What they lack in experience and technical skill they make up for in guts.
You got to respect that.
[Joseph] Nathan Frazer moves like a blur, strikes like a cobra.
[Booker T] Do you see that?
[Joseph] Not just trying to get back into this matchup,
maybe Hank trying to regroup himself,
but he's far away from his tag team partner
and they won the titles at No Mercy.
Did Fraxiom over two separate reigns.
Had the second most total days as NXT Tag Team Champions looking to retain here
in this moment and a kick out early on.
This is the 2nd Championship match tonight.
Tag was made and it's Tank who's legal who caught Frazer
plants him face first and look at the big man with the motor.
[Graves] And this is what it's gonna take for Hank and Tank.
Add a few new wrinkles to your game plan. Show us something new.
Big senton!
[Joseph] Quickly into the cover hook to the leg
for the Championship gold and a kick out.
Tank, a former Northwestern defensive lineman,
part of the first ever NIL class was a team captain there.
[Graves] Right now, Tank flexing his power at the expense of Axiom
as we take another look at the spectacular teamwork of the challengers.
[Joseph] Oh, there again some of that tag team continuity.
So, Booker, let's go back to Tuesday.
Hook to the leg for the titles. And another near fall.
What truly stood out to you the most that Hank and Tank
successfully ran the entire Gauntlet?
They won it from spot number one.
[Booker T] I always talk about being in the right place at the right time,
but I think that night on that night it was that "never say die" attitude.
You talk about that cardio.
You talk about having that gas in the tank.
Hank and Tank both did that just last week and they did a hell of a job.
Just got caught right there though.
[Joseph] A barrage of offense from the Champions.
Look at Fraxiom go.
[Booker T] Oh, these guys are so dynamic. So, so dynamic.
[Joseph] Graves, you've called main events at WrestleMania,
Raw, SmackDown, everything in between.
Have you ever seen a duo move as fast and as precise as Fraxiom?
[Graves] I don't believe I have.
When it comes to tag team competition, tag team in ring work,
Fraxiom are second to none.
So precise, so fast,
and they manage to make their opponents try to wrestle their match.
That is why Fraxiom is so successful.
[Joseph] That what makes 'em special?
[Booker T] That makes them special, but Axiom seems to…
For me they always seem to fight up to their competition. Tonight,
for me it seems like they're a little bit overconfident tonight
as well as coming out here and winning this matchup.
[Joseph] Into the cover hook to the leg.
[Graves] And you know, Book, I see your point there
and I think that could be a great detriment to the Champions
if Fraxiom are overlooking the competition,
if they're not taking Hank and Tank incredibly seriously as challengers,
it could be very, very bad for the champs.
[Booker T] If I could be serious, I would overlook Hank
and Tank as well if I was Fraxiom as good as I did,
if the team to not beat… I would overlook these guys.
[Graves] That running drop kick into the bottom turnbuckle from Axiom.
This is a little uncharacteristic, I gotta say.
Little too much bravado from Axiom.
[Joseph] Little bit of showboating not usually what we're seeing.
And now a big slap and I don't necessarily know…
[Graves] Hank may not be the brightest star in the sky,
but he's not about to sit there
and be disrespected.
[Joseph] And there goes Hank swung.
But he got bait… and no tag was made.
He's illegal, but Hank don't give a damn.
Big clothesline and Hank got caught.
Double ax handle off the top, super kick back in,
knife edge chop across the chest.
Frazer now picking up some steam, bouncing off, ducks the clothesline
right back in, goes right around, comes in and, bam, right to the face.
[Booker T] This guy is so quick. He's so quick. Oh, my God!
[Joseph] Into the cover, hook to the leg to retain the titles.
And another near fall in this match.
Take a look, Gravy.
[Graves] Nathan Frazer picture perfect running shooting star press
very nearly ended the match in favor of the champs.
But Hank with a little too much left in the tank.
[Booker T] Well, after Tuesday, they have that never say die attitude right now.
Hank is definitely hanging in there right now.
[Joseph] Looking for body scissors here
doesn't have it quite all the way locked around the massive frame of Hank.
[Graves] It's a smart strategy nonetheless what Nathan Frazer is attempting to do,
utilize his leg power to just continue wearing down the bigger, stronger, Hank.
[Joseph] Fraxiom, the Houdinis of NXT always seem to escape.
They overcome opponents, situations, and sometimes themselves.
[Graves] You call them the Houdinis
as though people are expecting them to be knocked off at all times.
Why not put a little respect on the Champions' name?
Have they not earned that by this point?
[Joseph] I agree and see where you're coming from,
but the back and forth they've had over the last year trying to one up each other.
I mean, Nathan Frazer didn't even know Axiom was going to Spain
when he took on Gunther a few weeks back.
Same could be said as right now Axiom locking in a submission,
but all that thrown away now looking for a triangle.
Can he lock it in and, oh, look at the hands were grasping, looking to break--
[Graves] Great assist by Frazer now.
Octopus hold applied by Axiom.
[Joseph] Oh, smart strategy by the Champions.
But look who overcomes the odds this time.
Hank, a little bit of a Houdini in his own right.
Uh-oh, and the big Tank.
[Graves] The only magical thing I'm wondering
is how Tank made it through college.
[Joseph] That motor is turning. Reaching out.
Desperately needs to make that tag.
[Booker T] Here we go, baby, here we go.
[Joseph] Shades of Tuesday.
Being able to overcome the odds in their own right for Hank and Tank,
being able to rise to the occasion.
This past Tuesday they snapped a six-match losing streak and so Booker,
-you saw everything. -[Graves] Whoa!
[Joseph] The Challengers on Tuesday. Is it starting to click again?
[Booker T] Definitely clicking right now and I talked to these guys.
I talked to Hank and Tank. It's about preparation.
Preparation is the only luck you're ever gonna have in this ring tonight.
Here we go.
[Joseph] Big splash running right through the clothesline.
I said he had a motor, Graves.
Tank deceptively agile, rocking and rolling all over the ring.
[Booker T] The people are going crazy, man.
[Joseph] And here's that power and… Oh!
That was a fisherman's suplex into a spine buster
of sorts for the titles. Another kick out.
Some innovative offense from Hank and Tank.
[Graves] Certainly unique and effective,
but still unable to finish the task at hand
and knock off the NXT tag team Champions.
Tag made. Hank now legal for his team.
[Joseph] Think about all the teams that have given them advice.
Can they put it together? Golden ratio by Axiom.
Frazer, crucifix cover.
Another kick out this match continuing back up.
Frazer running out, but I, I don't necessarily know if a tag was made.
I believe Axiom is the legal superstar. I believe Axiom made a tag, Graves.
I don't know if you saw the official signal, that, or not.
Oh, he just wasn't… No tag was made.
If you look at the official, he said no tag.
Big right hand as these two, slugging it out.
[Graves] Understandable confusion when you're talking about Fraxiom.
Two men who move at the speed of light.
Super kick right on the jaw of Hank.
[Joseph] Combination offense,
as you see how much all 4 of these men have laid it on the line.
[Graves] Dumped Frazer back inside the ring.
[Joseph] You see here Axiom calling for the tag this time and they certainly
have worn down Hank in this matchup.
-And-- -[commentators shout]
A two for one!
[Booker T] You gotta be kidding me.
You gotta be kidding.
[Graves] I kid you not, Booker. That was unbelievable.
I don't even know if that was the plan.
Whatever it was, it was effective for the Champions.
Tag made now active from the top frogs flash, on the money.
Here comes Frazer.
[Joseph] Frazer looking to fly!
Add 'em up, you get a 450.
One, two…
[Joseph] No. Not yet.
And this is that resilience from Hank and Tank
that was on display, Booker, this past Tuesday.
[Booker T] This is a little bit different tonight.
Axiom and Nathan Frazer haven't found themselves in this situation
in quite some time, guys.
[Graves] You go back all the way to the countdown
this Stand & Deliver, everyone that has stepped in this ring tonight
has stepped in with a purpose.
[Joseph] Because tonight is about passion.
Tonight is about showing the entire WWE universe who you are, what you're
capable of, and where you belong, whether it be at Stand & Deliver or WrestleMania.
As tag team Champions… Cover here.
[Joseph] Will it be enough? Hook to the leg…
Aw, and Axiom just breaking this up.
What a match for the NXT tag team titles. Graves is a former NXT tag team Champion.
You are seeing the legacy get carried on right here.
[Graves] This is well beyond the legacy.
This is a whole different level of competition.
This is what we've become used to.
We're spoiled as fans to be witnessing this level of tag team action
on a regular basis.
And right now, Hank and Tank,
the challengers need to figure something out quick.
[Booker T] Oh, baby. Got caught in the high ring district.
[Joseph] You can say that again. I--
-[Graves] Oh, man! -[Joseph] Going for broke.
Some of the lessons learned, working together, more of the lessons learned,
falling into the cover for the titles.
-[Booker T] That's it. -[Graves] Frazer had a kick out.
-'Cause look across. -[Joseph] Hank has Axiom in a cross face.
[Graves] Axiom couldn't break up the hold.
Hank needs to figure out a way to try again.
Hook both legs, figure something out. You got Frazer.
[Joseph] Lessons have been learned, but the question is,
can they put it together again?
[Graves] One thing to learn the lesson, it's another to pass the test.
Frazer face first off our announce desk.
[Joseph] And now… You see Tank? Tank's--
[Graves] What the hell are these two thinking?
[Joseph] I think he gave him a look?
This Mack truck's not gonna fly right at us, is it?
[Booker T] He's not gonna do that.
[Graves] Get out of the way, gentlemen. There's a lot of man coming this way.
Dang.
He's done, he's done. He ain't getting up.
[Tank] Hank, get up!
[Joseph] Look at the face of the Champions.
[Graves] This is carnage.
And this is why we call it high risk, guys.
[Joseph] Oh, and right there another super kick under the jaw.
Hank and Tank are done.
Hank and Tank are out. Fraxiom quickly realizing it,
some of that killer instinct, Graves.
[Graves] This is what it takes to retain Championships in this business.
-[Booker T] That's it, guys. -[Joseph] Into the cover
-to continue the-- -[commentators shout]
-[Graves] Are we sure? -[Joseph] How?
This is what we said Tuesday about these two.
How are they continuing? How are they moving?
Take a look. A big dive.
Going for broke. And you talk about high risk, high reward.
I don't necessarily know if there was a reward for Hank and Tank, but they're
still in this match, Graves, at this point.
[Graves] It's nothing short of amazing that Hank and Tank have hung tough
this long that they've survived to this juncture in the matchup.
[Joseph] Booker, Tank's by himself right now.
Hank isn't moving. How do we know that?
Because he's out cold on our announce desk.
[Booker T] He's out, man. He's out like a light.
But right now, Tank Ledger, he's still fighting. He's still in the fight, guys.
He's still in it.
[Joseph] How much longer, Graves, because he just got rocked and now we've
seen these men go to the top.
We've seen this combination in the past.
Here on the biggest stage NXT has to offer.
There is the Spanish fly.
[Graves] Step one, here comes the Phoenix splash.
And this is how you retain the Championship.
-Holy crap! -[Booker T exclaims]
You gotta be kidding me!
[Joseph] Hank was laid out on this desk motionless.
[Graves] Let's go!
The Phoenix splash right on point
surely a victory for the Champions, but no.
Back from the damn dead come Hank.
This place is starting to rock right now, Graves.
[Booker T] That was unbelievable.
[Joseph] Bam! Super kick under the jaw again.
Axiom charging in. Got taken out, big clothesline by Tank.
Frazer on his feet, he comes in, Sling Blade.
He's the only one standing. He's the only one moving.
Now he's looking to fly. Title's on the line.
Looking up! Oh!
Rolling right back through tag.
Frazer, I don't think realized it came up a little bit late.
Boss man slam connected. Oh, big fella.
[Graves] Oh, my God! Tank--
[Booker T] It's gonna happen.
[Joseph] Tag was made again.
-[Booker T] It's gonna happen. -[Joseph] It's Hank!
It's Tank! It's the Belly Bandits!
[Booker T laughs]
Can they do it?
Bang!
-Cover. Count. -One, two,
-three. -[Joseph] They did it!
They put it together and they did it.
[Rome] Here are your winners,
and the new
-NXT Tag Team Champions… -[Booker T] Oh, baby!
…Hank and Tank!
[Joseph] Everyone standing in the T-Mobile Arena,
wherever you are watching around the world
on Netflix, you're on your feet for the new Tag Team Champions,
and this match was fast, it was furious.
It had everything in between.
There was the area on Sanity.
Into the cover wasn't able to get the job done.
You talk about high risk. Hank and Tank did it too.
They tried to use a playbook and a page out of Fraxiom's book
to try to get the job done.
Bam. This match would continue with more high risk because these two teams
laid it all on the line to call themselves Champions.
And right when we thought Champions would retain, uh-uh.
Hank and Tank would continue to show that resiliency
that made them the number one contenders and after right here on the biggest stage
we have to offer in Las Vegas,
WrestleMania weekend, they can finally call themselves
Champions.
[Graves] I finally have audio back. I think Hank took out my headset.
What… Oh, my God, wait a minute.
[Booker T] Wow.
[Graves] Unbelievable.
[Booker T] Is that the greatest upsetting?
[Graves] It's gotta be up there, man.
[Joseph] From uncertainty to the top of the tag team division here in NXT.
[Joseph] We've had two championship matches.
How about the 4-Way, for the women's title still underway?
There is the former champion, Giulia,
who comes back to action against Jordan Grace,
who chose to come to NXT,
because it was the best women's division in the world.
That matchup, still to come live tonight.
-[crowd cheer] -I am here with a very special guest.
He is one half of the longest running headliners in Las Vegas history.
"History of Las Vegas"?
-Very long running, yes. -[chuckles]
and a costar of Penn and Teller's
-Fool Us on the CW. -Yeah.
-Penn, welcome to Stand & Deliver. -Yes, it's very nice to meet you.
Aw, it's great. Uh, we, we get very excited this time of year, you know.
We've been, we've been Vegas natives for a long time.
And we get here, we do, uh, we do our magic show,
and, uh, people seem to like it a lot.
Uh, there's some people, you know, who don't believe we really can do magic
and they're, they're annoying, but we do…
As a matter of fact, I don't.
-I don't think you can do magic. -Speaking of annoying.
Well, we can do magic.
Know what it is? It's a ruse.
It's a facade. It's all smoke and mirrors, okay?
You might be able to fool all these simpletons in Las Vegas,
but the king is an intellectual.
-Intellectual? -Yeah.
-That's the word you used? -The only thing real in this circle
is this NXT Heritage Cup Championship.
-That's the only thing real to you? -Realest thing you're gonna see.
-Really? -Yeah.
-Yeah, it looks, looks kind of real. -Yeah.
-Seems nice. -Yeah, you like that?
How's I put it in here? Keep it safe. There's bars.
-Oh. -Keep it safe.
-This is one of your little tricks. -Put it right on there.
-No, we'll keep it safe. -You'll turn it into a flock of doves?
Hey, that's solid gold, brother.
[stammers] It ought to be very s--
-Oh, that'll be so safe there. -[kisses]
Oh, that's good. Make sure your name is facing there really nice.
There you go.
We'll just, uh, look how safe this is.
That is not going anywhere.
I'll just roll this down here so the light doesn't fade it, you know,
-sometimes the light will hit it… -Oh, yeah.
…and some of the colors will go, uh, go a little darker.
We don't want that to happen. We don't want to wash it out at all.
We just wanna make sure that it's safe in there, in the bars.
There-There it is.
-Oh, don't you just hear someone say, uh-- -What?
-Yeah, I think I did. There's your trophy. -What? Dude, where's my cup?
-It's gone, man. -Dude, you can't just--
What, did he eat it?
Why are you eating me? Stop eating me and get me my cup.
It's gone.
That's a little bit of, uh…
[Joseph] I really love, Penn and Teller.
But coming up in a moment,
these 6 women all qualified for this opportunity.
Now who will be the one to retrieve the title?
Who will walk out of Stand & Deliver the new Women's North American champion?
And there is the Women's North American title.
-Booker, look at it high above the ring. -[voice 1] ♪ I'm a grown-ass woman ♪
[rock music playing]
Let's go!
[bell rings]
[announcer] The following is the NXT Women's North American Championship
Ladder Match!
Introducing first, from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
Thea Hail.
[Joseph] Hey, is your microphone working?
-[Graves] Yeah, it is. -I will make sure,
after everything that we just saw in the last match,
we better be on guard, because as you look around the ring,
there are ladders scattered everywhere.
There is Thea Hail,
who made her shocking return this past Tuesday.
Does that surprise return give her the edge in this match?
[Graves] I'm gonna say no.
I think the long layoff may have been good for Thea Hail,
but it may be her enemy in this situation.
This is a ladder match where creativity, athleticism and insanity collide.
[Vice] ♪ If you want it, come get it ♪
-[Joseph] Calm down, Book. -[Booker T laughs]
[announcer] Next, from Miami, Florida, Lola Vice.
[Joseph] Well, being a submission specialist,
I don't necessarily know who's gonna help her much in this matching.
-[Booker T] They're gonna help her? -[Joseph] No, because…
…she also went in media this week and said she's very afraid of heights.
She's scared of ladders.
That could be detrimental to Lola Vice's aspirations
of becoming North American champion, absolutely.
But what Lola Vice does possess is knockout power
in her hands, in her feet, in her elbows, in her knees.
She could knock out the rest of the field and take all afternoon making the climb.
[Booker T] I was thinking the same thing.
I was thinking the exact same thing. Just creep up there and get that trophy.
[Joseph] That's why you're the best. Bringing up points.
♪ …but there's pain bringing it to light ♪
[rock music playing]
[announcer] Representing The Culling, Izzi Dame!
[Joseph] Corey, is Izzi the jewel of The Culling?
If you really start to break it down…
[Graves] How about you ask me after this match is over,
-and I'll give you a more honest answer. -[Joseph] Fair enough.
[Graves] Potentially, yes,
Izzi could be the jewel within The Culling.
If Shawn Spears has his way,
Izzi Dame is leaving Las Vegas as Women's North American Champion.
That could do a lot to swing the power into the favor of The Culling within NXT.
[Joseph] Booker, you've been on record.
You are not a fan of competing in a ladder match.
Of course, you did at WrestleMania Weekend,
back at WrestleMania 23.
[Booker T] No, I'm not a fan of matches like this,
but a match like this is a once in a lifetime thing.
This is an opportunity.
And for these ladies, it's all about one thing:
The North American Championship.
And you know me. You know me. Jack said what? Jack said what?
-[Graves] Championships. -[Booker T] Oh, yes.
[electronic music playing]
[announcer] From Palm Beach, Florida, Kelani Jordan.
[Joseph] Well, this woman, the last time we were here in Vegas
with a ladder match for this title,
she went to the… [indistinct]
[Booker T] Kelani Jordan. She's going to the mountain top.
The first. The first North American Champion.
She knows what it's like,
but the question is, can she do it all over again,
under the bright light with this plethora of talent inside the square?
[Graves] Sir, Book, a few months ago I might have questioned
as to whether or not Kelani had what it takes,
but I think even you would agree we've seen a new level of aggression,
-a vicious side of Kelani. -[Booker T] No doubt.
[Joseph] It's gonna serve her very well in this one.
I believe she can go back to the top, but in a matchup like this,
like I said earlier,
it's about being in the right place at the right time, for that right moment.
Oh, yes.
[rock music playing]
[announcer] And making their way to the ring,
Sol Ruca and Zaria!
[Graves] Guys, I'm gonna ask both of you this question. I'll start with you, Book.
Will the partnership last with Zaruca?
[Booker T] You know, just this intro, just this intro. I don't like that.
I mean, Zaria got full, full blast right there.
Sol Ruca, she's pulling up the rear.
I don't like this, Corey.
[Graves] I, I don't like it either, Book, but I think you should--
you should tread on Sol Ruca at your own peril.
This is a woman who became Women's Speed Champion earlier this week.
Sol Ruca is in the middle of a red hot streak.
She could very well be the next North American Champion.
[Booker T] Not saying that she can't go out there
and do it, but it's just the right attitude. That's the question right there.
This is for all the marbles.
[Graves] What do they say about,
"Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer," right?
I got you. All right.
[Graves] Sol Ruca is one of two women in this match
with ladder match experience.
The other, of course, is Kelani Jordan.
As the women look up top at what's hanging high above the ring.
[Joseph] Of course, the Women's North American Championship was
vacated by Stephanie Vaquer,
who was a double champion at the time.
She sacrificed the championship,
so that the women's division had something to fight for.
So that the rest of the division could compete,
over something of high value. which is how this match came to be.
[Joseph] She did it for the betterment of the women's division, Booker.
-Do you agree with that? -[Booker T] Let me tell you something.
Stephanie Vaquer, she unified the championship,
defended the championship. She made history.
It was time to move on and give the ladies a shot at history.
A shot at glory.
[Joseph] Well, we are gonna crown a new champion in this matchup.
as we just crowned new tag team champions.
We got a tug of war here in front of us.
Sol on the other side, taking out Kelani.
-[Graves] Oh, Lord, Book. -[Booker T] Damn!
[Joseph] Book almost lost a finger.
[Graves] Sol Ruca soaring through the sky, takes down Izzi.
I think Izzi looking--
I think she tried to warn you before she--
Another tug of war mid-ring this time.
-Jordan gets trapped between the steel. -[Joseph] Are we too close to the ring?
I'm asking after everything that's happened this far tonight. Look at…
If it were up to me, Book, we'd be in the ring still,
but our bodies had other plans.
Sol Ruca now.
All by her lonesome in the center of the ring. A long way to go.
-[Joseph] Now the first climb again. -[Booker T] She's a little bit early.
[Joseph] It's the first woman to climb the ladder,
retrieve the championship,
will become the new Women's North American Champion.
It's Thea Hail. Nice DDT from field.
and it has been a rough, excuse me, a 2024, trying to turn things around here,
making her return this past Tuesday. There it comes.
Lola Vice with those vicious kicks. That MMA background.
And now the climb, very carefully. As you see Lola climbing, Kelani clinging.
[Booker T] Kelani Jordan, I'm gonna tell you that.
She says it all the time. "Nobody does it like Lani."
Can she do it again here tonight at Stand & Deliver?
[Graves] Look at this outrageous flexibility from Jordan,
and Thea Hail looking to reap the benefits.
Oh. Oh, God!
That was like a little two for one for Lola Vice in this matchup.
And there comes Zaria with a double spear.
[Zaria screams]
[Joseph] I'm curious to see how Zaria fares
trying to make the long climb up the ladder.
That's like trying to drive a bulldozer up a tightrope.
[Graves] Oh, God!
[Joseph] She was starting to climb up the ladder,
got speared, and knocking it down with Sol Ruca.
And now it's Zaria, Sol's tag team partner,
trying to move it around and it's already twisted, it's turned,
it's bent, it's mangled, but somehow, some way,
-it's getting hoisted up by Zaria. -[Zaria screams]
[Graves] All six of these women qualify for this matchup.
This is ill-advised at best. [stutters] I stay out of the ring, ladies.
What are you doing? Oh, Jesus.
Back in it. Oh, Izzi. Turning it around with a dropkick.
[Izzi] You speared me? Are you dumb?
[Joseph] And you know Shawn Spears has had her mind crafting
all sorts of ways to use this ladder to her advantage.
[Graves] I like this power display from Izzi Dame,
but Zaria able to fight out of harm's way for the moment.
-Oh, my God. -[Joseph] Yikes.
[Booker T] God! Man, that hurts.
[Joseph] This is why you don't like the ladder match.
[Booker T] This is a match right here, guys. Nobody walks away unscathed
in a matchup like this.
[Graves] Oh, Lola Vice back to a vertical base,
throwing hands and feet on the outside of the ring.
Kelani able to get back to a vertical base,
but here comes Lola Vice.
[Joseph] I feel bad for the officials in this match.
There are bodies all over the place. There's ladders all over the place.
That title hanging high above the ring. There goes… [ indistinct]
Interesting legdrop across the back of Vice's neck.
Big Ten background from Michigan State.
[Booker T] Talking about a ten. She got a ten
-on form right there as well. -[Joseph] Certainly.
Then Izzi, cleaning house again and, oh, got caught.
[Graves] Book, you know as well as a anybody:
Style points don't necessarily win championships…
-[Joseph] Ooh. -[Graves] …in this game.
Well, for Kelani, she has won this championship.
[Booker T] Here we go, bitch. I got your dial right here, though.
Check out my style. [indistinct]
[Joseph] And if you go back to last summer,
Kelani's kind of sticking to the same game plan, Booker,
-that she had then, too. -[Booker T] Kelani Jordan
is gonna go out here and just let it all hang out,
and let the chips do their thing. Let the chips fall where they may.
I think that's what the-the strategy in the game plan is here tonight.
[Joseph] And we've talked about experience a few times, Graves.
How will experience play a factor in this sought of-- Whoa.
In this sort of matchup?
[Graves] It's very rare, but… [exclaims] …on occasion,
what you don't know can actually help you.
If you enter without the fear of experiencing the steal,
without knowing how disastrous and catastrophic this can be to your body.
-[Joseph] Oh! -[Booker T] Still…
[Joseph] One of a kind, split-legged moonsault.
[Graves] It can serve you well under the right circumstances.
[Joseph] Well, there goes Kelani.
She's the only one in this matchup to have obviously won a ladder match.
She's looking to make it two in a row here in Las Vegas.
[Graves] That championship is way up there.
Yeah. That is a big, big ladder.
Now Kelani-- Look around, Graves. [exclaims] Nobody's around.
[Booker T] Everybody's down. Right place at the right time.
-We talked about that. [Joseph] Kelani's scaling.
-Hands back on the title she once held. -[Booker T] Oh, yes.
-[Joseph] Trying to grab it. -[Graves] And there goes Lola Vice.
Jabs right out of the…
[Joseph] Almost to the throat as well,
getting a little bit of separation, clearing her path.
Now, to the gold. There goes Sol Ruca.
[Graves] Could the nerves be playing a factor?
Lola Vice was about 80% of the way to the championship
and started to slow herself down.
Look at this. Guillotine applied with the body lock.
[Joseph] And this is what she said earlier,
if she can knock out, put to sleep her opponents,
it makes her climb that much easier to the top.
[Graves] It's gonna take a lot longer to incapacitate your opponent.
[Booker T] Oh. There we go.
[Graves] Via submission. I like what Lola Vice did just there.
[Joseph] And here we go again, and this time it's Thea Hail.
-Look at the leg… -[Booker T] Educated feet right there
by Lola. Oh!
And we, and we gotta get that… [indistinct]
[Joseph] Oh, she's the queen of the underground.
Can she call herself "champion"?
Back in, and now it's Izzi taking some shots.
[Graves] It's extra here in Book, but there's plenty to go around.
Lola Vice now, once again, with a little daylight.
Uh, Kelani Jordan back up.
-[Vice grunts] -[Jordan grunts]
[Joseph] And this is the difficulties of a multi-woman ladder match,
because I don't even know how many times this is for Lola in a row.
She's trying to get to the top. Every time she climbs, she gets stopped.
This time it's Ruca again.
Oh! Back fist to the…
[Graves] Vice migh'tve broken her hand.
[Joseph] Oh, Izzi just dropped Lola.
[Izzi] Suck it.
[Joseph] And now Lola to the outside.
Izzi up, and trying to take out the tag team.
[Graves] Izzi's big boot collides with Zaria.
Now Kelani, keep your eyes on the top turnbuckle.
[Vice screams]
[Joseph] Oh, she did. She got caught. But look how high is Sol. Look at Saul.
-[Booker T] Wow. -[Joseph] Sol's halfway up the ladder.
[Graves] Sol, arguably the fastest competitor in this matchup.
[Joseph] What the hell? Izzi, climbing up.
Oh, wow, and that's part of that format,
that sadistic side of Shawn Spears that he has brought out…
-[Booker T] Don't waste any time. -[Joseph] …in Izzi Dame.
[Booker T] Don't waste any time, Izzi. This could be your time.
-[Graves] An absolutely brutal landing. -[Joseph] She's to the top, guys.
She's to the top. She's right there, but the ladder just
a little bit off center, Graves. Just a little bit.
[Graves] Well, that tends to happen
when the ladder's been used as a weapon for the past several minutes.
It's gonna warp. It's gonna-- it's gonna be bent out of shape, quite literally.
[Hail screams]
-[Graves] Headbutt by Hail. -[Joseph] Look at that one again.
Thea Hail here, Booker, branching out on her own
and, right now, it seems to be pretty beneficial.
[Booker T] Ever since Thea Hail abandoned Chase U,
I'm gonna tell you, that's the best thing she could've did.
Right now, she's focused. She's motivated.
[Graves] World's littlest swing.
[Joseph] By some little risk, but a big reward.
And now for Thea Hale,
this is that opportunity she has dreamed of since she was wanting
to become a superstar since she enrolled in Chase U.
This is what Andre Chase helped mold her to do, become a champion.
[Graves] Turning it around. And, oh, no.
[Joseph] I think it's safe to say, Thea has far surpassed her mentor.
I think I saw Mr. Chase in the lobby bar before I left this morning.
[Booker T] Of course she surpassed him.
[Joseph] Graves, we left at 5 a.m.
[Graves] That's not my problem.
[Booker T laughs] Let's be real. Let's be real.
Thea Hail, ever since she took those classes with the NQCC,
I'm gonna tell you, that right there, I-I think
-is what really, really motivated her. -[Joseph] To the top, Book.
-[Booker T] Let's not forget… -[Joseph] She's motivated now
by what she sees right there.
The title's so close.
[Graves] Now is not the time to savor the moment, Thea.
Rip the title down.
[Joseph] No, and out of her grasp.
And, aw, Izzi pulled that ladder away. Pulled it out.
[Graves] Smart move by Izzi.
[Joseph] Well, now, Izzi a little bit too far away from the top.
Look at the kimora. Look at the kimora locked into the top.
[Graves] Oh, my God.
This is a perilous predicament for both of these women atop the ladder.
Arm bar!
Oh, and it-- Hey! The Culling. Spears, Jensen, Vance. Thea, though.
It's coming. Oh, so close.
[Graves] I-I don't think Thea's got a shot here.
Her limbs aren't long enough.
[Joseph] And, oh. Thea now. What's-- Look at-- look at Zaria.
-The power. -[Booker T] Oh, my God.
[Joseph] Watch out below.
[Graves] Thea Hail spilling all The Cullings Kool-Aid
here at Stand & Deliver.
[Joseph] What risk, Graves, Because now, I mean, Book, also look.
Thea holding the lower back as this place, again, becoming unglued,
here at Stand & Deliver.
[Graves] And give the assist to Zaria, tipping the ladder in the direction
of The Culling on the outside.
Crash-landing for Thea Hail.
But now Zaria has daylight of her own.
-[Booker T] Yeah. -[Graves] Uncontested mid-ring.
-Make the climb. -[Booker T] A great move there by Zaria.
I mean, Thea Hail had no choice but to make that dive.
Right now Zaria's in prime position to win it.
[Joseph] Zaria making sure this ladder is centered,
and now she starts her climb.
She took a look at the landscape, but there comes Kelani Jordan.
Kelani picking her spot.
Again, the only one to have won a ladder match in this match.
And the first Woman's North American champion as well.
I mean, she's got a lot of accolades under her belt…
-[Joseph] Oh, my. -[Graves] Here we go.
-…here tonight. -[Graves] This is what it's gonna take--
[Joseph] Well, look at Sol, saving her partner.
-[Graves] Why? -[Joseph] They're on the same page.
They're working as a unit. They're working as one.
[Graves] So is Zaria now.
[Joseph] This is unfortunately not a tag team matchup, Vic.
I gotta question the strategy from Sol and Zaria.
[Joseph] Let's go back to what you said
about Lola Vice being able to knock opponents out.
They're able to work together and wipe out the field,
and it's just them fighting for the title.
They can eliminate everybody around them.
And, oh. You might get eliminated just by-- Oh! Being in harm's way.
As Zaria starting to climb. And, oh,
This is the uniqueness of a ladder match, Graves.
You've called more than I have.
[Graves] Got a bit of an erector set happening here.
Limited only by the laws of physics and your imagination.
-[Booker T] I don't like this, guys. -[Graves] This is a wave,
Sol Ruca looks ready to surf. Surefooted as anybody.
[Joseph] Both women teetering as you look around.
[Graves] Lola Vice plays spoiler.
[Joseph] Well…
Lola spoke again this week.
What it has meant to her to be here at NXT, in WWE,
-to call herself, finally, a champion. -[Graves] Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Rear naked choke.
[Joseph] Using that MMA background, as you both said she would in this match,
to help-- And look at Zaria.
[Booker T] Zaria's gonna go to sleep here, guys.
[Joseph] Zaria's still climbing, though, Booker.
She's still moving, Booker. Graves, reaching up for the title.
[Graves] Zaria is fading fast
-is what she's doing. -[Booker T] Yeah, she's gonna go to sleep.
[Graves] At a very, very, very high height.
[Joseph] And now, coming back down.
Zaria trying to stay connected to that ladder. Oh.
[Graves] Zaria just melting onto the ladder.
Unfortunately for Lola Vice, she was caught in between.
[Joseph] You say that and-- Oh wait, a smile.
Kelani knows what she's got in front of her.
Looking to--
-[Graves] Oh! -[Booker T] Oh!
[Joseph] She didn't get both, but she got one.
[Graves] It looked like Kelani got the worst of that whole exchange.
Adrenaline is unbelievable in a matchup like this.
[Joseph] Graves, I think it's you who said it many times.
"Adrenaline will make any human do crazy things."
[Graves] Case in point. Kelani Jordan now seeing she's got a path to the top,
but here's come Ruca.
[Joseph] Sol springboarding. Sol and Kelani now. It's a race to the top.
Both women up there fighting.
Both so close to that Women's North American title.
Big kick by Kelani, rocking Sol for a moment.
Zaria trying to get herself back up that ladder.
Pulling, catching, and now looking to plant Kelani.
[Graves] How impressive is this from Zaria?
A woman who was nearly unconscious a matter of moments ago.
Zaria chucking Kelani to the outside and now look who's on the ladder, guys.
[Joseph] Booker, the two that are now up.
Who is gonna get to the top faster? Zaria, so much has been taken out.
Ruca as well.
[Booker T] A lot, a lot, a lot has been taken out of Zaria,
but you just saw that supernatural strength.
[crowd cheering]
[Joseph] What?
[Graves] Wait, oh!
[Joseph] Well, you knew it would come to this.
[Graves] Sure did!
-[Joseph] Checks. Championships. -[Booker T laughs] I told you. I told you.
I told you. When they get to that top rung,
what would happen if they met?
Here we go.
[Graves] Headbutt right between the eyes of Sol Ruca.
[Joseph] I don't know who got the worst of it. Both started to slide.
Zaria, obviously, the closer one at this juncture.
[Graves] Fingertips on the title.
[Joseph] She got her hand on the title, and look at Sol!
[Graves] Oh, my God!
Oh, my God!
[Joseph] Look at that. Core strength straight from Sol Ruca.
[Graves] No way.
[Joseph] Have you guys
ever seen someone get to the top of a ladder in this way?
[Graves] Never.
[Joseph] Sol's there. Sol's there.
[Graves] One more step, Sol.
[Joseph] There's Izzi. Izzi coming right back in.
Trying to hold on, trying to do anything she can to keep her.
[all shout]
[Joseph] Snatching the soul of Izzi Dame.
[Booker T] Dame!
Wow.
[Graves] Double it up. Boom! Double Sol Snatcher.
[Joseph] And now, all that's left is to ride the wave of momentum
all the way to the top.
-[Graves] Get up there, Sol. -[Joseph] And Sol has done it.
-[crowd cheering] -[bell rings]
[Booker T] Wow.
[announcer] Here is your winner, and the new
NXT Women's North American Champion,
Sol Ruca!
[Joseph] That is the innovation of the future of this business
on display here at Stand & Deliver.
[Graves] I think it's fair to say that it's not about the future.
It's about the here and the now.
And right now Sol Ruca is your new Women's North American Champion.
Unbelievable effort from all of these women.
Thea Hail being launched from the top of the ladder.
Here we see Sol Ruca delivering the Sol Snatcher to Izzi Dame,
the first of three victims.
Here come the other two.
Sol Ruca uncontested.
Making the climb all the way up the ladder,
much to the delight of everyone here in Vegas.
And new.
[Joseph] With with those Sol Snatchers, she got a three of a kind.
And standing high above us all, is the new champion, Sol.
Shining bright here at Stand & Deliver.
What a moment. What a week for Sol Ruca.
Well, we saw the other two challengers. There is the third, Jaida Parker.
All three looking to dethrone this woman, the Dark Angel, Stephanie Vaquer.
Can the champion overcome the odds later tonight
when the NXT Women's Championship is on the line?
And right now we'd love to go back to what happened earlier
on the countdown to Stand & Deliver.
It was an elimination 4-way tag team matchup
and right here in this moment
we all thought Fatal Influence was gonna get a golden opportunity this Tuesday,
but that would not happen.
This matchup would continue as Gigi Dolin and Tatum Paxley
would punch their ticket to a championship moment on NXT
by hitting this-- bang-- Cemetery Driver
for their moment this weekend here in Las Vegas,
and they're standing by with our very own Sarah Schreiber.
[Rome] Here are your winners, the team of Gigi Dolin…
Young ladies, congratulations.
You outlasted three other teams earlier today in the countdown show
to earn yourselves your first ever tag team title match
that you'll have this Tuesday.
Yes! This is my very first Stand & Deliver,
and I got to win it with my best friend ever. [squeals]
Oh, it's a dream come true, Sarah.
Listen, Tatum and I have been busting our asses these last few months
in NXT and in TNA,
and we're ready to bring those women's tag team titles back where they belong.
We are so ready, but wait.
Doesn't that mean there's a chance that we might go against my sweet dove Lyra?
I get… Look, I get what you're saying, but it doesn't matter
if it's Bayley and Lyra or Liv and Raquel.
-Yes. -Come Tuesday, this is our moment.
-You're so right. -We've been working for this.
-New champs! Let's go! Let's go! -New champs.
-Good luck. -Thanks.
[Joseph] We'll find out on Tuesday,
but coming up in just a matter of moments,
a lot about revenge,
a lot of bad blood between these two.
Who will survive tonight,
when the D'Angelo family takes on DarkState?
[D'Angelo] NXT.
Some say it's a battlefield, but to me, it's home.
And where there's a home,
there's a family, and mine runs these streets.
I can't remember a time that it wasn't me and Stacks against the world.
He's my right hand man.
He's the underboss. I trust him with my life.
Then there's Luca Crusifino, my consigliere.
He won his first match
and then turned around and sued his opponent for wasting his time,
and the glue that holds this family together is Adriana,
but everyone just calls her Riz.
Behind that smile is a natural born killer.
And me, I'm Tony D'Angelo,
and I clawed my way to become the Don of NXT.
I became a tag team champion, a Heritage Cup champion,
and an NXT North American champion,
solidifying the D'Angelo family on top of NXT.
Many have challenged for our territory, and one by one, we put them all down.
We've had some great times here at NXT,
but lately, things have taken a darker turn.
[commentator] Who the hell are these guys?
They're like a pack of wolves.
We saw the landscape of NXT, and that don't work for us.
We're reshaping it the way that we want.
[commentator] Absolute chaos and destruction.
[Shugars] When DarkState strike, ain't nobody safe.
[commentator] They came, they saw, they conquered.
And the chaos is gonna continue.
What do you got for me?
First on the docket, Dion Lennox.
He's a hothead with a short temper,
but Dion has a brain specializing in psychology.
Manipulative and explosive.
This is Osiris Griffin.
Has great instincts and anticipations for his opponent's next move.
I looked into Cutler James.
He likes breaking guy's will and spirit.
Saquon Shugars, the wild card of DarkState.
People follow him.
They listen to him, but he earned his degree from the pavement.
We got four legit badasses,
and it's all right because this is what we're gonna do.
T, we gotta take the fight to him.
Fight fire with freaking fire. We gotta go after him.
Whoa, whoa whoa. Stacks, this is your temper talking.
Emotion is a sign of weakness.
Yeah, but the same thing could be said about the family right now.
No respect.
But the last time you put together a plan…
You want me to sit in the back?
It didn't work out so well for me.
So I'm gonna need you to trust me.
Yeah, I trust you, T.
Hey, where's the Don?
T's not coming.
What? T didn't sign off on this?
Are you with me?
[D'Angelo] You want to cause chaos? Fine.
You four are gonna learn that messing with the D'Angelo family
has severe consequences.
Just ask Tony D what happens when we decide to get involved.
DarkState real, real simple. Four men, one goal.
[D'Angelo] What the hell are you doing?
Risking the family on something I didn't sign off on?
I had a plan. We're gonna do it on Stand & Deliver.
Do not question me again. You understand me?
Understood.
["All About Family" playing]
♪ It's all about family It's all about the business, hah ♪
[bell rings]
[Rome] The following is contest is a six-man tag team match
scheduled for one fall.
Introducing first, accompanied by Adriana Rizzo,
Luca Crusifino,
the Underboss Channing "Stacks" Lorenzo,
and the Don of all NXT, Tony D'Angelo.
The D'Angelo Family.
[Graves] This is going to be a fight.
[Joseph] Got a turf war on our hands at Stand & Deliver.
Easy to say, it's another to do, Graves.
Gotta get over The Family's squabbles and hopefully they have.
[Graves] I can tell you right now,
the D'Angelo Family is not a united front tonight.
It won't be a long night, but it will be a battle.
[DarkState entrance music playing]
[Rome] And their opponents, accompanied by…
[Joseph] Oh. This is what we expected to happen.
You said it was going to be a turf war.
You hit it right on the head, and how do you even properly describe this
rogue group as now Tony D'Angelo's looking around and he's all by himself and I
haven't even heard a bell and Tony says,
Dan, let's just fight one and start swinging, Don.
[Booker T] Take it to the street, baby!
[Joseph] I mean, I don't know how anybody, the family or otherwise
can prepare for dark state.
We don't know much about them other than the fact that
these guys are athletically elite.
They are frustrated. They are angry and that no one is safe.
Oh, God.
[Booker T] Oh, baby. The color changes, he just went down.
[Joseph] And now it's Dark state on the back foot and it's finally under control.
Felix Fernandez, the officially a little bit of control and this one is underway.
It doesn't matter if you're watching this.
It's the morning, the afternoon or the night wherever you are around the world.
You have been in for quite a stand and deliver to kickoff WrestleMania.
The power of Luca Crusifino into the cover.
Quick kick out. You see the bandages on the back of Luca Crusifino.
Let's remember what happened this past Tuesday.
I mean, it was a war all around. I mean, these two units were just fighting.
I mean, the cops were called, the cops came.
Tony got everybody out. I mean it was all hell breaking loose.
You know Cyrus is a beast.
[Booker T] Osiris is a beast.
[Joseph] And Osiris made the tag.
It's Osiris. It's Dion Lennox. It's Shugars as the three competing.
Luca might be ready to.
[Graves] Luca ready to pull it back.
Look out, fellas. This is getting ugly.
Look at the intensity in the eyes of Dion Lennox.
[Joseph] Dion Lennox is the hothead of the group.
He's the one that needs to be called out. He's got the temper.
He's throwing everybody around.
He's here to beat someone's ass, plain and simple.
[Graves] We've got friendly fire going on on the side.
[Joseph] Graves, into the steal. Booker, did you see that?
[Graves] That steal girder that composes the ring.
No give whatsoever.
[Joseph] No give, no remorse.
DarkState doesn't care who you are, where you're from, what's your background.
They're here to take what is theirs. They did not like the pecking order.
[Booker T] Is this the same Dion Lennox I've been watching for the last 365 days?
[Graves] No, Booker, it's not.
This is a different man. This is a dangerous Dion Lennox.
[Booker T] God!
[Joseph] And look, you see Shugars right there calming down.
Everyone seems to listen. Everyone seems to follow Shugars.
Lennox just did Cutler on the outside, but in the ring, that's the big man.
Look at me.
My, I'm, I'm almost shocked here at what DarkState has done.
We don't know a lot about them, but they're damn effective.
[Graves] No kidding. I mean, look, look at the power of Dion Lennox.
[Booker T] You see that?
[Graves] Cover here.
Crusifino is a big human being
and he is being manhandled by DarkState right now.
[Joseph] These men arrived at Vengeance Day.
They've wreaked havoc on Tuesday nights.
Obviously, we witnessed what happened this past Tuesday, as I said.
Wearing the war wounds right now.
[Graves] Saquon Shugars, this guy is arguably the most dangerous of the bunch.
Probably the most mysterious, but what we've seen of Saquon Shugars
is that of a very, very dangerous man.
[Joseph] Shoulders down, and Crusifino somehow powering through.
He's powering through for his family right now.
[Booker T] That's for family. That's justice right there, baby.
That's what that's called.
[Joseph] Look at the Don fired up. He wants into this matchup.
He wants into this fight.
You hear him screaming at Luca right now.
Rizzo there on the outside and Tony looking around and he saw Cutler.
Creeping up on Stacks, the underboss. Underboss though making the tag.
And he's coming right back in and here comes the underboss firing away.
[Graves] Channing "Stacks" Lorenzo teeing off on DarkState right now.
[Joseph] Have you noticed Tony's reaction though?
Right there on the outside. He's coming over to help out.
[Graves] Listen, I understand the Don calls the shots,
but they're in the heat of the battle right now.
Don't worry about who gets what glory. It's all or nothing.
Your team either wins or you get your asses kicked. Period.
[Joseph] I want to ask you this, Booker. Is emotion the sign of weakness?
That's something we've heard a few times.
[Booker T] Of course it is.
You don't want to get emotionally caught up in the moment like right now.
[Joseph] Oh, the staring in from the Don to the underboss, but look at Stacks.
Stacks, to Graves's point, is going to risk it over the line.
In the heat of the moment in the heat of battle.
Flattened Shugars on the outside.
[Booker T] Took him out.
[Graves] Whoa, whoa, whoa. Oh, my God!
[Booker T] This guy, Osiris Griffin is a monster.
[Joseph] He's impressing you. I mean, you're, you're almost stunned, Booker,
and I mean two Hall of Fame rings, decades in,
I mean, have you ever seen anyone like this?
[Booker T] Talking about checking off every box.
Osiris Griffin had just moved to the top of the ladder, man.
[Joseph] I wanna point this out. I don't know after we just witnessed this,
I don't know if that's a look of anger, a look of concern,
a look of worry on the Don's face now
as the underboss has been isolated and taken out.
[Booker T] What it is is the DarkState is all about fear and intimidation.
Is the Don intimidated?
That's the question. Is the Don intimidated?
[Joseph] That is a great question.
Because DarkState, four men with one mission. And Graves, it's been very clear
the path of destruction this group is on.
-No doubt about it. -Take out everyone.
[Graves] And who's going to stop DarkState?
These are four elite-level athletes.
These are very dangerous human beings and they don't feel
like doing things the right way.
[Booker T] Oh, baby! Oh, baby!
[Joseph] And another kick out. And I want to point out something else.
Stacks see he was reaching out. Luca went to make the--
The Don hasn't moved.
The Don is a statue out there on the outside.
Bang!
And things starting to unravel. DarkState, they are some menaces right now.
[Booker T] Oh, man. See that? Just bold. Stacks down right there.
Stacks is in dire straits right now, guys.
Stacks is in dire straits.
[Joseph] Graves, this is who they called the wild card of DarkState.
[Graves] I think that's a very apropos descriptor of Saquon Shugars right now.
The man has an intensity in his eyes, Book, that reminds me of a pit bull.
You don't know if he's gonna come after you.
You know he can.
You know he may, but you're not really sure ever what's going on in his mind.
He's a highly intelligent human.
[Booker T] Intensity, I mean the veracity that he that he goes by with his work.
I mean, he's definitely unstable.
Let's just say that and it works to his advantage.
[Joseph] Body scissors applied.
All Stacks can do is reach and hope at this juncture,
trying to find an escape plan, elbows to the top of the thigh.
Shugars just trying to hold on right now
to pull Stacks back over near DarkState.
Luca reaching out for that tag, still a long way away.
[Graves] I don't like the language I'm seeing from the Don
if I'm being totally honest.
[Joseph] That's what I was trying to bring up. What is what is it?
I'm looking at you too, Stacks. It's uncharacteristic.
[Graves] Is he trying to teach Stacks a lesson?
I mean, I thought you were the Don.
This is your family. You got to lead by example.
You've gotta take your team to the promised land.
[Joseph] And Booker, right now is not a time to be trying to teach a lesson.
You got to win a fight.
[Booker T] I mean, DarkState is here. I mean they're here to take over.
I mean, this is the takeover of DarkState and we wondered, "Was the family going
to stop DarkState at the gate?"
Right now, we're not seeing it.
[Joseph] One more time, getting back to his feet.
Stacks, this may be his last golden opportunity.
Big running knee and this is now the moment.
This is when Stacks has to pull it together to crawl over to his corner.
Desperately needs to get out.
[Booker T] Is this tough love? Is that it? Is it tough love from the Don?
[Joseph] You hear the Don calling the shots. He said, "I got this."
Reaches out, makes the tag.
And in comes D'Angelo.
And D'Angelo has stood tall here at Stand & Deliver.
He's battled Tommaso Ciampa. He's fought for the NXT Championship.
And now he's taking over the match.
[Booker T] You want something done, sometimes you got to do it yourself, man.
You got to do it all by yourself.
Beautiful spinebuster.
[Joseph] Shugars though, got caught.
And the Don said he had a plan!
And he's trying to execute it now into the cover.
-[referee] One! Two! -[Joseph] Count!
And Dion just breaking things up and this goes back to Tuesday.
The Don said, "Follow my plan. I have a plan."
He told that to everybody.
[Graves] The Don seemed to be executing his plan rather well,
but the numbers game caught up.
What is this? Back and forth we go.
All the way to the outside.
[Joseph] Both these families.
-[Graves] That is terrifying agility. -[Joseph] Tag.
[Graves] Osiris Griffin, a man that big should not be able to move that well.
[Joseph] Dion Lennox is legal. Lennox coming right back in, hoisted up.
-[Graves] Backhammer. -[Joseph] Cover!
And the Don just got that right shoulder up.
And now Rizzo, a look of concern on her body as well.
I mean, Graves.
Take another look at the power of Dion Lennox hoisting up the Don.
[Graves] Look at this.
This is the move that they beat the main event with.
[Joseph] This is what we've seen in the past.
One last maybe ditch effort,
because I think some here in the T-Mobile arena right now are a little stunned
for just how effective DarkState has been because they're so unknown.
[Graves] They're unknown, but they shouldn't be.
Think about what DarkState did last time they competed.
Their first ever match on NXT.
They defeated all three men in tonight's main event.
Oba Femi, Trick Williams, Je'Von, all at one time.
That is impressive. That is incredible.
DarkState are a legitimate threat. They need to be treated as such.
[Joseph] And now we're squaring up.
We said it was going to be a fight. That fight breaking out.
[Booker T] Oh, yeah.
[Joseph] Performance center athletes that didn't accept the pecking order.
They ran into the Family.
The Don wants to run things his way,
but right now things aren't going the way of Luca Crusifino!
Cutler James, what a--
Hey! Whoa!
Rizzo fighting for her family.
[Booker T] The Rizz!
[Joseph] Back into the ring. This one continuing.
The Don, the underboss, on the same page.
And… Ooh.
Osiris Griffith, able to survive.
But they gotta get on the same page.
And Stacks again saying, "I got an idea."
That goes back to Tuesday.
When it was Stacks's idea for the fight when all hell broke loose,
[Graves] Stacks has, he's got freaking crowbars.
No, listen, man. I told you.
We're not doing that. It's not my call.
Give me that.
Stacks, give me the crowbar.
[Joseph] Oh, from behind!
And you can't give DarkState an inch.
You can't let them have any sort of moment, Booker.
Give an inch, they'll take a mile happily.
[Booker T] I mean, was that family business or what?
I mean, come on guys, come on.
[Joseph] Chaotic is all business. Turning around, but the Don--
[Booker T] Devastating spear.
[Joseph] Lennox tossed to the outside.
Griffin gets caught.
The Don coming in to save the underboss, to save his family.
[referee] It's legal. It's legal.
[Joseph] They're back on the same page.
The family is fighting.
[Graves] I'll give credit where it's due.
I had my doubts, but the Don does seem to have a plan.
[Joseph] Cutler not even in this matchup, trying to stick his nose in.
The underboss, saving the Don.
[referee] No, no, no!
[Graves] Cutler James about to clean--
[Joseph] Coming in high from behind.
Shugars jumping right on the back of Tony D'Angelo.
Referee's right here with Cutler.
[Graves] Stacks took out Shugars!
[Joseph] Almost a miscommunication.
But a moment.
Hey! Spinebuster!
Don, saving the underboss.
-[Booker T] We're on the same page, guys. -[Joseph] Finally.
Can I trust you, Stacks?
[Booker T] Beautiful.
We on the same page. That's what I'm talking about.
[Joseph] And now it's time to put an end to DarkState.
[Booker T] What the hell?
[Stacks] I never trusted you.
[Joseph] What to you mean he never trusted you?
What the hell did Stacks just do?
The underboss just turned his back on the family.
[Graves] Stacks just stuck the dagger in the back of the Don.
[referee] One! Two! Three!
[Joseph] And things certainly have taken a dark turn in NXT.
[Rome] Here are your winners. DarkState.
[Joseph] Rizzo in disbelief.
NXT Universe stunned.
I'm at a loss for words.
[Graves] You're not alone, Vic.
A truly unfathomable turn of events just when it seemed as though
the Don had his family back in order.
This, of course, earlier in the match. Impressive athleticism from Tony D.
Just when it seemed like all was right within the family,
chaos would ensue.
Cutler James gets involved.
The non-legal competitor for DarkState making his presence known.
Rizz doing her best, doing everything she could on behalf of her family.
And just when it seemed like it was gonna go south, Stacks flipped the script.
Takes out Saquon Shugars, and this false sense of security.
Down goes Cutler James.
Stacks and the Don would embrace.
A display of trust.
And the ultimate betrayal.
[Joseph] Shocked. I'm sickened and I'm shocked.
As you said, putting the dagger in the back.
[Graves] DarkState delivering more high impact offense
and picking up another incredible win.
No one is safe.
[Joseph] As DarkState continues to rise,
a dark cloud now hovers over the D'Angelo family.
Hank, Tank, congratulations. You are the new NXT tag team champions.
You defeated the undefeatable Fraxiom and earned your first ever WWE championship.
What does this mean to you?
In World Championships,
very rarely does the input and the output match.
Tonight was one of those moments where the output matches the input.
Before every match we say the same thing.
"There's no one else I'd rather do this with.
There's no one else I've been championships with."
-No one else, brother. -No one else, brother.
Sarah, when you come to the WWE, when you join NXT,
you know you're joining for these moments right here.
The championship opportunities, those title moments.
I knew I was signing up for that.
I knew I was gonna put the work in to get there.
I had no idea that I'd be having those moments with my brother.
These moments are not possible without each other.
These moments are worth it because of each other.
You bet your ass we're gonna have more of these moments because of each other.
There's no one else, brother.
Enjoy the moment, champs.
Well, that was a feel-good moment
with the crowning of the new tag team champions.
But Graves, I got to talk about what we just witnessed with everything going on
with the D'Angelo family.
It's a bitter pill to swallow, but it seems as though Stacks
had finally had enough.
Maybe he got tired of taking orders.
I'm sure we'll get our answers one way or another, but that was tough to watch.
It's gonna be interesting to see what happens this Tuesday.
NXT live here in Vegas as well, but another question is who will be
the women's champion when we get to NXT this Tuesday night on the CW.
That's coming up in a matter of moments.
It will be these four women who are all looking for one title.
The odds not in the favor of our champion.
Who will leave Stand & Deliver with gold around their waist?
[Vaquer] I had the opportunity to go to any promotion.
But I selected NXT because I want to make history
in the best women's division on the planet.
I proved why I am La Primera.
[Joseph] And the NXT women's division now goes through one woman,
The Dark Angel.
[in Spanish] The best of the best.
[in English] I get to pick who I face at Stand & Deliver
for my NXT women's championship.
[Joseph] Jordynne Grace is here.
The Juggernaut just sent shock waves through NXT.
Stephanie, I'm so happy to hear that you get to pick your opponents.
We can focus on the match that everyone has really been looking forward to.
The Juggernaut versus La Primera.
[Joseph] That's Jaida Parker. What a championship matchup that could be.
This right here, it ain't gonna last too much longer, baby.
Because you said whoever comes out here
is your next opponent to look you in your eyes.
And baby, I am looking you dead in your eyes.
So be careful what you ask for, Steph,
because Jaida Parker will make you reap what you sow.
[Joseph] All hell's started to break loose,
but we're still left without an answer.
Who does Vaquer want?
Oh, my.
The Beautiful Madness is back.
The former NXT women's champion coming to the side of her friend Stephanie Vaquer.
Did Giulia just make that decision for Stand & Deliver for the champion?
[Giulia] Stand & Deliver. No friends.
Rematch.
[Vaquer] I have made my decision.
I want all of them.
My goal was to win the NXT Women's championship.
Losing it only made me more dangerous.
Now the biggest hurdle of my career is right in front of me.
I'm aware of exactly what I'm gonna have to do to leave Vegas
with my first NXT women's championship.
I stand and deliver. We're not shooting dice.
We're not playing no cards, and we damn sure not spinning no wheels.
We are getting a new NXT women's champion and you're looking right at her.
Clock it.
When Jaida Parker speaks, you listen. And she wants the championship.
Jordynne believes in herself.
She believes she can take my title. And I know everything
The Beautiful Madness is capable of.
At Stand & Deliver,
La Primera will walk out still NXT women's champion.
[Joseph] Graves, for Guilia, this is her first match back since roadblock.
How do you think she will be able to come?
Really, what was her first setback since debuting here in the WWE?
[Graves] I think mentally, Giulia has already solved the problem.
We heard it in the video package moments ago.
Rematch. No friends.
It's not about friendships. What's it about, Booker?
What is this game about?
[Booker T] It's about chicks, man. This is about chicks and championships.
[Joseph] Now, Book, I come to you as well,
someone who has won a plethora of world championships,
TV championships, tag team championships.
How do you think Giulia's mindset is coming into essentially what is
her rematch for the championship she lost in New York.
[Booker T] It's all about going out there like I said earlier,
riding all those ropes, going back to the top.
Taking no steps other than going straight to the top of that mountain,
and that is winning this title tonight, knocking Stephanie Vaquer
off the top of the mountain top.
Can she do it? Can she do it?
Yeah.
[Graves] Look, I already told you I put a whole paycheck on Miss Parker tonight.
[crowd chanting] Miss Parker.
[Booker T] Miss Parker, Miss Parker.
[Joseph] Well, Graves, it sounded Tuesday for Miss Parker,
she takes great pride in being homegrown here in NXT.
[Graves] Jaida Parker may not have the accolades,
may not have the globe traveled resume of the other competitors in this matchup,
but that's a testament to the performance center and the coaches
and how much damn hard work Jaida Parker herself puts in to get herself
to this position in such short order.
[Joseph] First one to gain pinfall submission
will win the NXT Women's championship.
Could it be this woman?
Because Graves, you talk about the journeys taken by some.
Jordynne Grace's journey has certainly prepared her for this.
[Graves] I'm about to say something that probably won't be very popular.
I need to see something big out of Jordynne Grace.
This is a woman who has coasted off her reputation for long enough.
Tonight, Jordynne Grace can shut a lot of people, myself included, up by winning
the NXT Women's championship.
Otherwise, we're gonna hear the story and it's just like so many others.
You scratch and you claw your way toward the top,
but if you don't sit at the top of the mountain, Book, does it really matter?
[Booker T] I totally understand what you're saying,
but we're talking about Jordynne Grace. We're talking about the Juggernaut.
Once she get rolling downhill, she's almost impossible to stop, my man.
[Joseph] Through the smoke, you see the Dark Angel.
Are the odds in Vegas too much for her to overcome, however, in this match?
Twenty-five percent chance she retains.
[Graves] You ask a lot of people, the odds are certainly against Stephanie Vaquer,
but if you ask the Dark Angel herself, she wouldn't want it any other way.
The NXT women's champion demanded this situation.
She demanded it be a fatal four way.
[Joseph] True, and this is the first WrestleMania weekend.
The first WrestleMania Saturday, competing at Stand & Deliver for all four of these
women, and they do it under the spotlight for the NXT women's championship.
Only thing left to do is to go to our ring announcer.
Mike Rome.
[bell rings]
[Rome] The following contest is a fatal four way match
for the NXT women's championship.
Introducing the challengers.
First, from Tokyo, Japan,
Giulia.
Next, from Port St. Lucie, Florida,
Jaida Parker.
And from Austin, Texas,
Jordynne Grace.
And their opponent, from San Fernando, Chile,
she is the NXT women's champion,
Stephanie Vaquer.
[Joseph] I hear the passion from our ring announcer, but for Mike Rome after that,
he might get carded somewhere here in Vegas later today.
[Graves] Or get in the ring with those four dangerous women.
He's about to get hair under his arms
and start having all kinds of different thoughts.
[Joseph] Again, it's the first one to gain pinfall submission will be victorious.
Unlike what we saw on Countdown to Stand & Deliver,
this is not an elimination matchup. This is one fall to a finish.
And it's all for the women's NXT championship.
[Graves] That in and of itself might be the most dangerous issue
for Stephanie Vaquer
because she doesn't necessarily have to be pinned to lose her championship.
[Joseph] All four starting to swing away here in this matchup.
Last time these four women shared the ring was in the women's Royal Rumble matchup,
and there is Jordynne Grace who, Graves, again,
you said needs to show you something.
This is someone who is a three-time T&A knockout champion.
[Graves] But this is a "what have you done for me lately" business.
That's my point.
I've been impressed with everything Jordynne Grace has done thus far,
but the time has come--
-Cover here by Grace. -[Joseph] Kickout.
[Graves] The time has come, in my opinion, for her to show a little bit more.
[Booker T] Grace made a choice to come here to NXT, and that is to create
the legacy that she's trying to build.
She's done everything, um, in T&A.
Right now, she's looking to do the same thing here in NXT,
and that's win championship gold,
and she has that opportunity here tonight.
[Joseph] Jordynne Grace, who chose NXT based off this championship,
based off the competition,
just like the other three women that are in this ring at this juncture.
It was The Undertaker who said it last night when he inducted his wife
Michelle McCool of the WWE Hall of Fame.
The women of the WWE right now are taking things to a whole new level.
[Graves] No doubt about it.
Jaida Parker right now showing exactly what he meant by that.
[Joseph] Parker coming right in to try to take out two for one.
And again, now it's the--
Oh, nice takedown. And again, Giulia, Stephanie Vaquer, friends.
They got quite the history here in NXT,
but it was Vaquer who beat Giulia for the women's championship.
Rolling her up and another near fall.
[Booker T] No love lost between these two, man.
[Joseph] A great deal of professional respect
between Giulia and Vaquer, but when gold is on the line, there are no friends.
Temporary allies at best, and here we go, another stare down between La Primera
and The Beautiful Madness.
Last time we saw these two face to face in a match, it was New York City theater
at Madison Square Garden.
Both championships on the line and in that night, Stephanie Vaquer
walked out with two pieces of gold.
[Graves] And and there's a part of Giulia that was humiliated by that.
Giulia was such a proud NXT women's champion.
Losing her gold might have done something to her mentally.
[Booker T] I mean, Giulia came here highly touted
and she did exactly what she said was gonna do,
and that was to go out there and win that NXT championship.
But losing it, has that done something to her?
[Joseph] Grace just kind of ran right through, showing that Juggernaut persona.
You know, and Booker, you've defended a championship under these sort of rules.
What was your championship strategy if you were Stephanie Vaquer?
If I was Stephanie Vaquer, I'd do exactly what she's doing right now.
Try to take this match into the deep water where that cardio is gonna come into play,
and trust me, it's hard to do that.
[Graves] Look, I remember when you used to do that on the ropes.
[Booker T] Yeah, yeah, right.
[Joseph] Booker also one time tried to talk about his submission moves…
And right now rolling back through.
Three to retain! And an air fall.
[Booker T] What are you saying?
Your boy got his submission moves. I mean, come on. Come on.
[Joseph] Jordynne Grace right now looking in.
-Charging into Vaquer. -[Booker T] Wait a minute.
[Joseph] A little miscommunication right there.
[Graves] That was Vaquer trying to run a misdirection on Jordynne Grace.
That was smart by the champion. But Grace didn't fall for it.
[Joseph] Grace will take advantage. Rolling right around.
From behind, shoulders down.
Air fall. Boom! Big kick to the arm, and now showing some strength
is the women's champion.
[Graves] Belly-to-back suplex from La Primera.
Wait a moment.
[Joseph] Into the cover.
Parker bringing it.
Did you notice after that belly-to-back suplex
Vaquer kinda move around that left arm a little bit
after that first shot from Jordynne Grace a few moments ago?
[Graves] Certainly something to pay attention to as one this unfolds.
Big kick by Giulia.
[Joseph] Giulia so impressive,
and is there an inch of her though, Booker,
that just wants to get back and beat Stephanie Vaquer,
or is she really focused on winning the title at the end of the day?
[Booker T] I think she's truly focused out there.
I think Giulia came here for one reason, and that was to be great,
and to be great here at NXT, you gotta have championship gold around your waist.
[Graves] Look at Giulia just unleashing hell
in the form of chops at the expense of Jaida Parker.
[Joseph] Quite the strikes from The Beautiful Madness,
who follows it up, knocking down Parker into the cover.
Hook of the leg. Title on the line.
And a near fall.
[Booker T] Talk about Giulia. Look in the eyes of Giulia.
Right now she's totally intent on going out here with a purpose tonight.
[Joseph] So with that, Book, are you seeing
a different sense of urgency in the former champion?
[Booker T] I am, and I think that urgency is to go out here
and do exactly what I need to do at the right time to win this championship.
[Joseph] Jaida Parker back on top.
I mean, Graves, dangers of a four way matchup.
[Graves] They never take your eyes off of any of your opponents.
They keep your head on the proverbial swivel.
A lot easier said than done, and a little disrespect from Miss Parker.
I like it.
[Joseph] Looking to put championship gold around her waist.
[Parker] This your champ?
[Joseph] Finally here in NXT, but what will the biggest hurdle be
maybe in this matchup for Jaida Parker?
Is it inexperience? Because she's already talked about everyone else
and what they've done around the world.
[Booker T] You know, I think like Corey said earlier,
being in this position and not knowing
is gonna be the greatest asset for Miss Parker
going out here and thinking you could do it
might propel you to actually going out there walking out and to do it.
Oh, wait a minute I thought we was gonna see something.
[Graves] We're gonna see something, Book. We're gonna see something.
I don't know what, but it's gonna be good with a T at the end.
[Booker T] Gut.
[Joseph] Giulia getting knocked down, Parker…
Oh, thought she was in control, but again so quick is Vaquer.
What made her a double champion here in NXT, the current and reigning
women's champion here in NXT now maybe looking for a superplex of some sort.
Trying to negotiate around
and Jaida Park right now trying to do her best to hold on to that top rope,
but in comes Giulia.
I don't know if Jaida is going to be able to hold on.
There comes the Juggernaut from out of nowhere.
And now, oh, you talk about power?
[Booker T] She's not gonna do that, is she?
[Joseph] What in the world?
[Graves] Oh, my God!
[Joseph] Double blockbuster from the top of the shoulders.
That was like a doomsday double blockbuster device.
-Innovation on display. -[Booker T] Wow.
[Joseph] Check this out.
[Graves] From the shoulders of the Juggernaut.
Jaida Parker delivering a double blockbuster--
[Joseph] Cover, cover, cover!
Oh. Back to the live action.
[Graves] And again by Grace.
[Joseph] Another near fall. And a third cover, looking for the title.
[Graves] Look at that. Here's the unfortunate part.
Jaida Parker, as breathtaking as that move was, may have harmed herself
as bad as her opposition.
[Booker T] I tell you, she had to have knocked all the wind
out of her body on that landing, Corey.
[Graves] High up on the shoulders.
[Joseph] Shoulders out one more time and this is Vaquer. Nice counter.
[Booker T exclaims]
[Graves] Grace overpowering!
Jordynne Grace leaving Book feeling some kind of way.
[Graves] And now up on the shoulders.
[Booker T] That's Juggernaut, man.
[Joseph] What goes up must come down.
Giulia risen up, running right back in.
And this is what, oh, Jordynne Grace had talked about.
Why she's here for this moment for this title to prove herself,
to prove doubters like, Graves, you said earlier, to show what she can do.
On the biggest weekend of the year, the biggest stage NXT has to offer,
Grace right now in control.
[Graves] Uh-oh.
[Joseph] German suplex with the northern lights twist.
Grace covering Parker, center of the ring, and Vaquer breaking it up.
Try to order one of those the bar later. Look at this power from the Juggernaut.
[Graves] But now Stephanie Vaquer able to survey the situation.
[Joseph] All four women
trying to regain their composure, but it's the Dark Angel who is rising.
[crowd chanting] La Primera! La Primera!
A lot of chants of La Primera throughout T-Mobile Arena trying to soldier forward.
The NXT women's champion.
Giulia, arrivederci.
[Graves] Didn't get a much of it as I think she would have liked.
Either way, it certainly stunned the champion.
But again, back to the four-way stipulation.
Other bodies were up and around.
It might not have done Guilia any good,
but she was able to clock Vaquer for a moment.
Charging in and, ooh, Parker.
Whoa, wow.
[Graves] Head butt by Guilia just turned out Jaida's lights.
[Joseph] I don't know if Miss Parker saw anything at LSU
quite like The Beautiful Madness, who took maybe a little bit too much time.
Jordynne Grace right now flying right up.
We don't see Grace leave her feet often though.
[Graves] Certainly not the Juggernaut's wheelhouse.
Giulia,
comfortably perched on the top.
Big drop kick takes down Jordynne Grace.
[Joseph] Missile-esque, wiping out the Juggernaut.
-But turn around and what do you see? -[Booker T] Oh, here we go.
[Joseph] Two of the very best in the world trading strike for strike.
[Graves] Oh, man. Giulia uncorked that right.
Made the champion weak in the knees for the moment.
[Booker T] The deep water I was talking about earlier, guys.
[Joseph] We got a couple of great white sharks in here right now.
And Giulia who's on top.
Giulia beating down the champion.
Almost knocking out the champion, and the referee in a great spot.
Derek Sanders right on top. Does not want to just call this match.
He was in there to see. Vaquer can still fight.
And now Giulia. [exclaims]
[Graves] Giulia wants the northern lights bomb.
Vaquer able to put on the brakes.
[Joseph] Couple of body shots, big knee to the midsection sent there.
Taking Giulia right over, and, oh.
-Booker! -[Booker T] Oh, baby.
Nearly did it. Wow!
Come on!
[Joseph] Yet again, Giulia able to counter her close friend, her ally,
someone she anyone else.
Could that be the final stomp?
Cover two, three.
Oh. Almost saying regain her championship.
But again, two other women in this match.
Blockbuster by Parker takes down Jordynne Grace.
Now Jaida turns her attention to Giulia.
Miss Parker with a Samoan Drop!
[Booker T] In the right place at the right time.
-Can she pull it off right now? -[Joseph] This is Parker's moment.
Again, champion does not need to be factored
in the decision to lose the championship.
A new champion the last two years has been crowned.
Three of the last four.
Is it Jaida Parker's night?
[screaming]
[Joseph] She is single-handedly taking over this matchup.
The moment is not too big for Miss Parker.
Come on. Come on!
[Joseph] Talking some smack and backing it up.
-[Booker T] Triple stack! -[Joseph] She's stacking 'em up!
[Booker T] Is it gonna be a triple stack?
[Graves] Oh!
Miss Parker teeing off on all three opponents.
[Booker T] Oh, baby. Oh, yeah!
High step, high step.
Oh, yeah! No go on and grab the tigers.
-Oh, yes! -All day!
[Joseph] Looking to put gold around her waist.
Miss Parker in the driver's seat.
[Graves] Jaida needs to keep her foot on the gas pedal right now.
She's got the opportunity.
-[Joseph] Guys, everyone's-- -[Graves] Vaquer!
-[Joseph] Into the cover! -[Booker T] Can she be the champion?
-Here we go! -[Joseph] Title's on the line!
-Hooking the leg! -[Booker T] Pow!
[Joseph] Gotta give credit to Stephanie Vaquer
able to kick out in that moment,
but that is why she is champion.
[Graves] Take another look at the triple stack from Jaida Parker.
But Jordynne Grace now has…
well, regained enough energy to…
That was a little bit of a hip nod, hip check.
[Joseph] But she didn't get all of it. A little bit of a short one.
Grace, though, got rocked.
Parker now trying to take advantage.
-[Graves] What is… -[Joseph] Looking for a submission.
Parker right now looking around. Giulia is back to her feet.
Giulia charged in and… Oh!
Crucifix and… Wait!
-[Graves] Oh, look at this! -[Joseph] Triple submission?
Who's gonna tap? Is Grace gonna tap?
Is Parker gonna tap?
What is gonna happen in this moment?
Double submission locked in center of the ring.
Sanders, our official, again in great positioning.
Looking around. Look at the bridge by the champion.
[Graves] Right now, everybody's gonna be just hoping that…
Oh, no!
…that the opponent they had the submission locked on would be the first to submit.
[Joseph] I think I said triple submission. It was a double submission.
Bodies were all contorted, looking for the SVB.
It was countered. Jawbreaker, though, connected.
Superkick under the jaw.
Grace certainly rocked. Vaquer is standing.
Giulia charging back in.
Oh! Eat the feet.
And Vaquer, boom!
Meteora in the bottom turnbuckle rocks the world of Jaida Parker.
And one for Miss Grace as well.
Looking for maybe a third.
But Giulia popping right back up.
And here we go again.
[Booker T] This is a fight right here, guys.
This is a fight for the ages.
[screams, panting]
[Joseph] It's all about the NXT Championship!
Dragon screw out the corner.
-[Graves] The confidence… Cover! -[Joseph] Cover.
And hooking the same leg she just whipped!
[Graves] And kicking out was Giulia and… and look at that, Booker.
That could be a damaging effect right here late in the game.
[Booker T] That could be an ACL, MCL tear or anything right now.
Being hurt is one thing, but being injured,
that's something totally different, man.
[Joseph] Maybe looking for the SVB,
but again, snapmare taking her over. Vaquer!
[Booker T] Oh… baby.
[grunting]
Oh, yeah!
[Joseph] La Primera calls that "The Devil's Kiss," Book and…
-[Graves] The devil's what? -[Joseph] Vaquer…
Kiss. The Devil's Kiss.
It looks like she's gonna be doubling it up.
[Booker T] Oh, yeah. Do it again! Are we gonna see it?
-[grunting] -[crowd] One, two, three, four, five!
[Booker T] Oh, yeah!
[Joseph] Obviously, that's all we needed
for you to finally wake up this morning, here in Las Vegas.
Turning around, Vaquer, big suplex.
[Booker T] Wait a minute. One tap. One tap.
[Joseph] His heart can't take it.
[Booker T] One time. One time.
[Booker T] One more time. One more time!
Here we go, baby. One more time.
-[grunting] -[crowd] One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, ten!
[Booker T] Yeah!
[Joseph] NXT Women's Championship is on the line.
Vaquer is in control at this moment!
It's the biggest weekend of the year. The spotlight is on.
The best division in the world, and the one who's at the top is Vaquer!
-[Graves] Here it comes. SVB! -[Joseph] Let's go.
SVB countered by Giulia.
Maybe looking for a backslide. Giulia trying to counter.
Former champion's got the shoulders down there…
-Aw. -[Booker T] So close.
[Joseph] Back up, boom! Another knee under the jaw.
Giulia now trying to fall and Vaquer, though, rolling to the outside,
but look who's up!
-Coming from behind. Big backfist. -[Booker T] Jordynne Grace.
[Joseph] Can she get it in?
-Bam! Beast mode activated! -[Booker T] Oh, yes!
[Joseph] Hypnotic!
Miss Parker now. This could be that moment!
-Hobbling in, hoisting up. -[Graves] Jaida fighting through the pain.
[Joseph] Jaida, no, Giulia, sliding right back out.
Shoulders down, title on the l…
[all] Oh!
-[Graves] Wow! -[Booker T] That was so close.
[Joseph] That was super close!
And it's the first one to gain pinfall, submission…
Gourdbuster from Parker.
-Charges in, bam! -[Graves] Hypnotic.
[Joseph] That connected on to Giulia, into the cover.
-Look at Vaquer! -[Graves] Spinal Tap!
[Joseph] To the spine of Parker!
Setting up for the SV…
-[screams] -[Graves] Oh!
[Joseph] [indistinct] trying to give out. So much damage has been done!
Finally!
Able to hit that SVB on Miss Parker.
-[crowd] One, two, three! -And Stephanie Vaquer retains the title!
[theme music playing]
[announcer] Here is your winner!
And still the NXT Women's Champion,
Stephanie Vaquer!
[Joseph] I'm gonna steal something you've said many times, Graves.
Try to follow that.
[Graves] Incredible effort from all four women
to the surprise of absolutely nobody.
But La Primera establishes dominance once again.
Look at this high-impact Train Wreck.
From all four women.
Jaida Parker with the Triple Stack Teardrop.
On numerous occasions,
it appeared as though each woman had their chance to steal the gold.
Jordynne Grace activating beast mode.
Jaida breaking it up with Hipnotic.
But an SVB from a weary,
tired, exhausted champion
gets the job done for the Dark Angel
on the grandest stage NXT has to offer.
Tonight, the Dark Angel stands and delivers.
[Joseph] There's many more Women's Championship matches this weekend,
but the Dark Angel just proved why this division is the best in the world.
And as I mentioned, what a morning it has been,
and it started with the North American Championship
being successfully retained by Ricky Saints.
We crowned new Tag Team champions.
We crowned a new women's North American champion.
We saw the dark cloud continue to hover over NXT
and then moments ago, we saw the Dark Angel rise through the field
to retain the NXT Women's Championship.
[sighs]
Hey, have you seen the Heritage Cup?
You know Penn and Teller? They make things disappear.
-What, did they put it in here? -No. Just ask them.
The magicians, ah, the magic. You heard about the magic?
-They're making my Heritage cup disappear. -Okay.
Hey, hey, hey. Look, the gig is up.
I get it. Magic's real. Whatever. Where's the Heritage Cup?
Sorry, I haven't seen your cup. -You haven't seen the cup.
Where'd they put the cup? Where could it be? It's gotta be somewhere.
Stacks. Stacks, wait!
Stacks, why would you turn your back on Tony?
Why would you do this to The Family?
Stacks, Stacks! What the hell was that?
-We're supposed to be a family-- -Luca!
Listen to me. I'll explain everything later.
Keep your phone close. I'll text you where I'll be.
I'll see you Tuesday.
[Joseph] While on the topic of Tuesday, we learned on our Countdown show
that Gigi Dolin and Tatum Paxley will compete
for the WWE Women's Tag Team titles.
The question is, which team will they face?
We'll find out at the end of WrestleMania.
But guys, it is time.
Triple Threat Match.
Three men with different paths.
They meet in our main event.
Oba Femi doesn't need to be factored in the decision to lose the title.
Who will cement their legacy here at Stand & Deliver?
[Oba Femi] Dread it, run from it, destiny will always arrive…
[Joseph] Trick connected with Thorpe,
but he also connected with that steel chair!
[Oba Femi] …just like I have arrived.
[Joseph] Fall from grace!
[Graves] We have a new ruler in NXT!
Oba Femi.
[Oba Femi] And I was definitely backed by destiny
when I became the NXT champion.
[Graves] The Ruler, the conqueror, the personification of dominance.
[Oba Femi] I am the one who directs the narrative.
I am the mountain that you cannot climb.
I am inevitable.
[Trick] Oba, it ain't over till I say it's over.
[Joseph] Things are getting hot. Trick wants his title back.
I fought for this. I sacrificed for this.
[Joseph] Trick hasn't been the same
since he won that NXT title for the second time.
From the penthouse to the outhouse.
I feel all the hate in the back. Y'all don't want me to shine.
What the hell has gotten into you?
That's what happens when you lose your title.
I'm proving all the doubters wrong. The same doubters who doubted me
and called me a sidekick when I was with Melo.
But look at me now.
I'm the man around here.
I was supposed to be the NXT champ.
And Oba, if you're still The Ruler, then you know where to find me.
[Evans] Hey Trick, just like you, bubba, I want that number one spot.
[Joseph] That's Je'Von Evans!
Hey! Tricks just shoved Evans!
They trying to, what, "little bro" me?
Ladies and gentlemen, Je'Von Evans, everybody.
The Young OG, this is what 20 years looks like.
[Tricks] Randy Orton said you got potential.
You got all these cosigns.
Good for you. You ain't champ. You ain't never gonna be champ.
[Oba Femi] And while you might be the future of NXT,
you live in the now, and the now belongs to Oba Femi.
I dropped, Oba, not once, but twice.
I didn't drop a regular wrestler, Oba.
I dropped the NXT champion.
And Trick, he's trying to snuff out my potential before it even sparks.
What you know about having the brand on your back?
You can't hold that title like I can hold that title.
Bubba, you ain't Trick Williams.
You Carmelo Hayes.
Everything that you're telling me right now
is everything Melo told you a year ago.
That makes you a damn hypocrite.
Honestly, I don't wanna be like neither one of them.
Neither you or you can touch me in this damn ring.
I'm coming for that title.
Je'Von, this was between me and Oba.
This had nothing to do with you.
But now, it does.
[Joseph] All bets are off. Oba Femi, Trick Williams, Je'Von Evans.
These three superstars will clash in a Triple Threat Match
for the NXT Championship.
[theme music playing]
[Trick] At Stand & Deliver, I'm leaving with that title around my waist.
Oba, Je'Von, I'm gonna whoop both y'all ass.
Trick Williams and Je'Von Evans, they will find out the hard way.
This title stays with me.
[Evans] I'll take it step by step.
At Stand & Deliver,
I'm coming for the NXT Championship.
[Joseph] Oh!
Je'Von Evans just cleared the deck!
Will it be his time at Stand & Deliver?
[Evans] I've got to win.
[dramatic music playing]
[Joseph] It is main event time of Stand & Deliver.
Will that man be able to retain his championship?
Or will The Young OG make history here in NXT?
Or will this man earn himself another victory in the main event?
-[theme song playing] -[crowd cheering]
[Booker T] Uh-huh.
-[crowd chanting] Whoop that Trick! -[Booker T] Uh-huh.
Whoop that Trick!
[Booker T] That's right.
What!
Yeah!
Uh-huh.
I like it. Oh, yeah, man.
Oh, yeah, man.
-That's Trick. -[chanting continues]
That's two times.
The two-time NXT champion.
That man. That… Look at it.
Chiseled and carved outta granite.
Is he ready?
-Oh, yeah! -I need that juice.
[whooping]
[Joseph] A multiple-time headliner here at Stand & Deliver.
-And listen to this place! -[Booker T] That's right.
-[crowd] Whoop that Trick! -[Booker T] Say what?
[crowd] Whoop that Trick!
[Graves] Main eventing for the second consecutive year at Stand & Deliver.
Last year it was with the winner of the André the Giant Battle Royal,
Carmelo Hayes.
Tonight, Trick could find his way to the top of the mountain yet again.
[Booker T] Look at it. Primed, motivated.
Oh, yes, man!
[Joseph] But as motivated as he is, so is the other challenger.
-♪ Your boy is… bouncy! ♪ -[crowd] ♪ Bouncy! ♪
[theme song playing]
Yeah!
[Joseph] Graves, how have you viewed the rise
of The Young OG, Je'Von Evans?
[Graves] This is a young man who's been guest premiered
at Stand & Deliver last year.
And tonight in the main event,
Je'Von Evans could not only become the youngest NXT champion in history,
he would be the youngest singles champion in WWE history
at the age of 20.
We talked about it before.
Sometimes what you don't know can help you.
That's where a precocious approach to this matchup
could be the secret weapon Je'Von Evans needs.
This dude could be playing with house money tonight.
[Booker T] What I'm talkin' about.
[Joseph] He told me this week, if you saw on the Countdown show,
he wasn't ready last summer when he was competing for the NXT Championship.
He's different now. He's ready.
Booker, how is someone not ready to be champion?
[Booker T] Aw, I'm believing this kid.
Like Muhammad Ali, 22 years, shook up the world.
And the world's still talking about it still to this day.
[Joseph] Well, this man shakes the ground when he walks.
[Graves] This is a man who will be talked about for generations to come,
a man who may be remembered forever,
a man who will have statues and casinos named in his honor.
Imagine WrestleMania someday at Oba's Palace.
-Sign me up. -[Joseph] It could very well happen.
This is a man who has never lost a Triple Threat Match.
He won last year under these rules to retain a title.
He won the NXT Championship under Triple Threat rules.
He is not fazed at all.
[Booker T] Only three things to say about this man, Oba Femi.
No bread, no water,
just meat!
Are you hungry?
[Joseph] Starving, Booker,
starving and ready for battle in our main event.
It is NXT title time in Sin City!
Who walks out with the gold?
Let's go up to our ring announcer, Mike Rome.
[bell rings]
The following contest is a triple threat match
for the NXT Championship!
Introducing the challengers.
First, from Columbia, South Carolina,
weighing in at 240 pounds,
Trick Williams!
[Booker T] Let's talk about it. Let's talk about it.
[Rome] Next, from Greensboro, North Carolina,
weighing in at 180 pounds,
Je'Von Evans!
And their opponent!
From Lagos, Nigeria,
weighing in at 310 pounds,
he is the NXT Champion,
Oba Femi!
[Joseph] Okay, triple threat rules.
Much like the women's championship match…
[crowd chanting] Oba!
…Oba does not have to be factored in
the decision to lose the NXT championship.
It's what it's about, the NXT title. One man will have his hand held high.
It gets no bigger than this, here at NXT, the main event of Stand & Deliver.
[Booker T] Here we go.
[Graves] Oh!
[Joseph] Well, look, Je'Von Evans got the better part of both these--
[all exclaiming]
[Graves] He was late for that cutter, then the cutter got caught.
[Joseph] Oba!
[Graves] Look at the quick in his hands. Look at this, yeah.
[Joseph] Cat-like agility from Je'Von Evans off of the opening belt.
This is Je'Von's bread and butter.
This is what he's gonna have to stick to, using his speed
and taking to the skies.
-[Graves] And… Oh! -[Joseph groans]
[Graves] Just got mowed down by Oba, from the SEC to NXT.
Booker, he's been nothing short of dominant.
[Booker T] Not just that. Oba Femi is so comfortable in these type of matches,
in these type of situations.
Every time we've seen him, he seemed to come out on top.
[Joseph] Little assist there from Trick Williams for Je'Von Evans.
And now there's Trick looking at Evans.
Trick said Evans doesn't belong in this match.
In this match, the business for the NXT title
surrounded Trick Williams and Oba Femi.
[Graves] And that's the exact kind of mentality
-that could cost Trick Williams big time. -[Joseph] Nice.
-Whoa! -[Graves] Wow!
[Booker T] Damn!
[Joseph] Anything you can do…
[Graves] Wow!
[Joseph] …I can do better, but damn, did you just see Trick do that?
[Graves] I sure did.
[Joseph] That boy bouncy. Flying right in,
going up, going around in another near fall.
What a night this has been.
Looking for that book end. It was countered though,
-and, oh! -[Booker T] Kid's good, man.
-This kid is so good. -[Joseph] Whoa.
He-- He countered the uppercut into a Backslide. Title's on the line
and then able to get out again. That's the danger for Oba Femi who's on the outside.
Oh, big right hand from Evans, and--
-[Graves] Oh, my God. -[Joseph] Oh, man.
[Booker T] Wow.
[Joseph] Same idea, and this has been fast, Booker, out the gate.
And, Corey, this has been very quick.
[Graves] Extremely quick, which benefits Je'Von Evans.
And if you're still not a believer in the abilities of Je'Von Evans,
you know who you should ask? Randy Orton,
the man who Evans took to the limit earlier this year.
Unbelievable athleticism possessed by this young man.
[Joseph] Yeah, but also maybe gain the confidence
for Je'Von to say he is champion.
[Booker T] Oh, baby!
-[Graves] There's that… Unbelievable. -[Booker T] Oh, baby!
[Graves] The destroyer, the champion.
-[Booker T] Unbelievable, man. -[Joseph] I mean, who--
[Booker T] Superhuman.
[Joseph] Graves, who the hell can you compare Oba Femi to?
[Graves] I don't know if it would be fair to compare Oba Femi to anybody.
This sort of power, this sort of dominance is special.
[Joseph] And, Booker, now Oba is using Je'Von as a weapon
and then dropping with that Papa Shango-esque shoulder breaker.
[Booker T] I mean, Oba Femi want to prove here at Stand & Deliver
that he is truly the ruler.
He's truly the man, the NXT champion, and right now he's doing a hell of a job.
[Joseph] And right now this is unfamiliar territory.
[Graves] Think about Trick's size.
Trick, 250, 260 pounds.
Right in to the gut buster, into the cover.
[Joseph] Near fall for Oba.
Oba's been so dominant in these matches throughout his career.
[Booker T] Right now he's looking so comfortable in this moment.
[crowd chanting] NXT!
[Joseph] And if you look at the facts of this matchup,
Trick Williams firmly believes Je'Von Evans has no business being here.
Trick Williams believes this is his destiny, not to steal something--
[Graves] Trick Williams can believe whatever the hell he wants.
Trick can believe that the earth is flat, that up is down.
The fact is, the reality is, Je'Von Evans is in this match,
and Je'Von Evans could prevent Trick from becoming NXT champion again.
[Joseph] Oba turning around, but right at the right time.
[Booker T] Good shot there by the Young OG.
[Joseph] Marking the spot, and look at Je'Von.
[Evans] That's four times I've jumped your ass. You better watch your dumb ass.
[Graves] I love it. I love the confidence of Je'Von Evans.
[Booker T] Oh, you see that? Shut up when grown folks talking.
[Joseph] Well, Trick talking right now to Je'Von and hoisting up Evans.
This is so personal for all three of these men-- into the cover--
because it's all about the NXT championship,
and you touched on this, Graves. History could be made in this main event.
Trick Williams could become the only man to hold, or excuse me, the second man
to hold the NXT title three times.
That in itself is special, but for Je'Von Evans, he'd be the youngest.
[Graves] That's an incredible feat, and that's the opportunity at hand
for not only in this matchup, but all day, all night, Stand & Deliver
through the end of WrestleMania Sunday.
It's all a chance to capture the imagination of the whole world
because this is what everyone's watching.
[Joseph] Oh, my!
Tucked, crash and burn. Working on him. Shoulders down. And a near fall.
I mean, the athleticism Trick's showing right now
is something we haven't seen from him.
It's like a new side, a new layer of the onion for the former champion.
[Booker T] It's not about friendships or anything like that.
It's not about the fans, in this moment--
[Joseph] And the cover, crook of the leg, trying to become, as I mentioned,
only the second man to hold the NXT title three times.
[Booker T] It's about me, man. It's a selfish, selfish business,
and if Trick Williams is gonna understand that,
he needs to go out there and put the hammer down and try to win this match.
[Graves] Well, that chop from Femi had to feel like
a sledgehammer to the heart of Trick Williams.
My goodness, but every one of these…
Each one of these men should, and I guarantee do, have the aspirations
to next year headline WrestleMania. That's what this is all about.
This is all a step in that direction, to greatness, to becoming an icon,
to becoming immortal.
[Joseph] We take a look at tonight's WrestleMania Main Event.
Seth Rollins, the first ever NXT champion. Big right hand coming right back in.
And the Neckbreaker just caught the champion.
Trick Williams has been under the pressure of this main event before,
here on this stage.
Je'Von Evans hasn't, and--
-Yeah. -[Evans] It's like that?
Yeah.
[Graves] Again trying to one up it. Oh!
I don't know why Evans beat on Trick, tricked Je'Von Evans into the cover.
I don't know who got the worse of that exchange.
[Joseph] I have no idea what that even was.
[Graves] That was demolition derby using human bodies.
[Booker T] That was a car crash, man. It definitely was a car crash.
Right now Oba Femi is up, and he still got a lot left in the tank, man.
Just look the way he walk, man.
You can tell by the way… a man's walk.
[Joseph] You know, you take a look at everything
that's transpired throughout the night, all the growth for all these individuals.
Je'Von Evans, a year from his debut, is in the main event.
Trick Williams, as I mentioned, in a very short period of time,
two NXT championships,
and then you're talking about Oba Femi, as I said,
SEC to NXT in a blink of an eye. He's dominated this entire brand.
[Booker T] Tell you something, you wanna look at this kid as a rookie,
but I'm gonna tell you, his rookie years are behind him.
He's a very, very mature young man that's looking to cash in
on his first championship.
That's what I'm seeing.
[Joseph] Evans trying to hustle Williams up to a more favorable position.
[Graves] That Trick's size, man, played a factor in there… Oh!
[Joseph] Talk about size, talk about power.
[crowd groans]
[Joseph] Femi launched into the apron, but keep your eyes on Trick Williams
-making his way to the top turnbuckle. -[Booker T] What is he thinking?
[Joseph] He's thinking about the NXT title.
And wiping out the field.
There's been a different look in that man's eyes for some time, Booker.
[Booker T] You know, sometimes you finally get to that point where almost
like a light bulb goes off, and it becomes about something totally different.
[Graves] Holy crap!
-[Booker T] Oh, my God! -[Graves] Are you effing serious?
-Did you see that? -[Booker T] Did you see that?
[Graves] Je'Von Evans just did a moonsault off the bottom rope
after getting thrown into the ring to take control of this matchup
and possibly become the NXT champion.
[Joseph] The Young OG getting bouncy.
This is exactly what Evans wants to get done.
-[Graves] Here we go. -[Joseph] Look at this! Double stomp!
[Graves] Evans not wasting any time. The money's in the meter.
Started from scratch to make us all believers, and he can do it
here tonight in this main event.
Why doubt this man anymore?
[Joseph] Who's doubting Je'Von, aside from Oba Femi and Trick Williams?
Sounds to me like T-Mobile believes.
[Graves] No one can say that man is an underdog.
Je'Von Evans has been dropping these two for the last few weeks
and now slugging it out. Femi. Trick.
[Joseph] And I love this strategy from Je'Von, stick and move.
[Graves] And he flies through the air!
There was no whisper.
-That was as loud as it got. -[Booker T] Gotta love it.
[Graves] Cover for the title.
[Joseph] And, oh, kicking out, and look at Je'Von Evans, so wise, into another cover.
This time on Oba, and another near fall.
Wow, what, um… I mean, we're sitting here almost out of breath.
What the hell is going on with these three in the ring?
[Booker T] Don't waste too much time, young man. Don't waste too much time.
[crowd cheering]
Beautiful there, but you gotta add one more big shot
if you're gonna walk away with that NXT championship.
-Oh, man. -[Graves] Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Je'Von Evans had Oba Femi off of his feet for a moment.
[Joseph] Oh, but now Trick Williams did what Je'Von tried to do
with that body slam.
Come on.
[crowd chanting] Whoop that trick!
[Joseph] No love lost… Is Trick right to be upset that Evans is in this matchup?
At this point, it doesn't matter.
[Graves] Vic, listen, I'm as big a fan of Trick Williams as you're gonna find,
but Je'Von Evans absolutely belongs in this matchup, in this circumstance,
because Evans has earned it.
So has Trick, but Trick needs to figure out how to get the job done.
[Joseph] Oh. Oba Femi.
The NXT champion hoisted up Trick, and whoa, Trick just grabbed on to Je'Von.
[Graves] Oh, no. Oh, good God, this is not gonna end well.
Oh, God!
[Joseph] Have either of you two ever seen anything like that?
[Booker T] No.
[fans chanting] NXT!
[Joseph] Let's take another look, for all of our sake.
Off the shoulders, off the ruler, double stacked superplex,
Evans getting the worst of the exchange,
Trick Williams able to recover for the moment.
And that is why what you just witnessed, what we said earlier, stands out that
there's a different standard in NXT.
These are things these guys are doing that you wouldn't even do five, six,
seven, eight, nine, ten years into the business.
[Graves] This is passion personified.
This is about being the best tonight and forever.
[Joseph] Pop-up punch connect, big right hand from Oba.
Charging right in with the pump kick is Trick.
Je'Von Evans got caught, swing, and he definitely connected with Oba.
Big uppercut from Trick. Oba coming back in,
hoisting up one of his challengers. Super kick from Je'Von.
-[Booker T] What action. -[Joseph] German suplex from Trick.
[Booker T] Oh, baby!
-[Joseph] Oh, my word. -[Booker giggles] Yeah!
[Joseph] Double spinebuster!
[Graves] Behold the wrath of the ruler.
[Booker chuckles]
Man, talking about superhuman strength, this, this young man.
[Joseph] And that's why again these three,
everyone in NXT, gets held to a different standard.
It's excellence and it's… Graves, what you said,
setting the bar this weekend.
Evans to make history. Je'Von, from behind, just rolled up Trick.
Ooh, almost lost history was Je'Von Evans, but this matchup continues.
-He just went over Oba to drop Trick. -[Graves] Red dot between the eyes.
Je'Von now with a singular focus, trying to solve the ruler.
[Joseph] There's been a riddle for everyone.
Je'Von right now trying to look around to make a wise decision because
a little slip could be a costly mistake.
[Graves] Take your best shot. You may only get one.
[Joseph] Going for both!
-Splash! -[Booker T] He got caught. He got caught.
[Joseph] Booker, you had the angle. You saw it.
Oba Femi made Je'Von Evans believe.
But that belief may be going out the… Cutter! Cutter! Cutter!
Cutter! Cover! Cover! Cover!
-[Booker T] You gotta be kidding-- -[Joseph] Oh, man. Woo.
Je'Von, though, springboard. Look again!
And got caught. Overpowered by Oba… Turn it around!
That was like sliced bread, for a slice of history.
Oh.
Got to keep going though, end of two, keep going.
[Graves] Evans continues to apply pressure to the NXT champion.
Oh!
-[Booker T] One hitter. Wow. -[Graves] Goodbye.
Trick.
[Joseph] Trick dragging Oba out of the ring.
Trick preserving his own opportunity but may have had his back broken.
[Graves] Steel met spine.
[Joseph] Oh, no, no, no, Je'Von, you can't do it.
[Graves] Hoist up. Yes, he can!
-Yes, he did! -[Booker T] He did, baby!
[Joseph] You got to risk it all for immortality!
-[Graves] He's gonna do it. -[Booker T] He's gonna do it.
-He's gonna do it, damn it! Oh, yeah! -[crowd] One, two--
[Graves] Oh!
I don't know how Oba was able to…
and that goes to the fortitude of Oba Femi.
[Joseph] And I'm concerned. Look at the face of Evans as we look once again.
Hit the cutter from the top.
-I fear for Je'von-- -[Graves] Wait a minute.
[crowd] …two, one!
[Joseph] Trick Williams just ripped the referee.
Uh, there's no disqualifications, we know, in a triple threat match.
[Graves] Good on you, Trick.
-Win by any means necessary. -[Booker T] I like it.
[Joseph] Williams doesn't care what he's got to do.
[Graves] Here comes Je'Von!
[Joseph] To your point, Corey, Je'Von thought the same thing.
Maybe what do I have to do?
Trick might have just realized if he didn't take out the ref,
his championship dreams were going down the drain.
[Graves] Desperation started kicking in.
I think doubt started to creep into the mind of the Young OG.
Uh-oh! Back away for that Fall from Grace powerbomb.
Evans having to counter all the way to the outside.
What a match. What a main event.
And we are setting the bar like we always do here at NXT.
[Booker T] What a fight, guys. What a hell of a fight.
Taking it to the street, taking it to the limit right there.
[Joseph] You can say that again.
Oh! Oh, God.
-[Booker T] Man! -[Graves] Oba Femi is not human.
I don't know what this man is made up, but he may be bulletproof.
[Joseph] Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh!
You talk about being bulletproof!
Trick Williams just snapped back like a rubber band.
That was a Rock Bottom through the table.
[Graves] Trick's surveying the scene,
trying to figure out the best path to take.
[Joseph] Corey, Trick took out the ref. Trick took out the referee.
He doesn't even have someone to count the three because of his actions.
[Graves] And Trick's only got himself to blame. Trick Shot!
-Trick Shot! -[Joseph] Taking out the ref cost--
-[Booker T] The ref! The referee! -[Joseph] He cost himself the title!
Oba now!
Referee trying to count.
Oba pulling back. Hey, the referee just kicked off Femi!
[Graves] You gotta do what you gotta do.
[Joseph] This is--
[Booker T] Wow.
[Joseph] I give credit to Dallas Irvin. This isn't the NBA. It's not the NFL.
Our officials do what needs to be done.
He kicked off Oba Femi because he's not gonna be manhandled.
He's taking control. He wants a winner.
We need a champion. It's the main event, damn it.
[Booker T] My God, the people are loving it. The people are totally into this matchup.
Like I said, this is a fight.
[Joseph] And now it's not really… I could be wrong here.
You two competed in the ring. Right now to me this is not about who has more skill.
It's about who has more will to pull themselves off the mat.
[Graves] 100%. This is where the intangibles count.
This is where the greats separate themselves from the rest of the herd.
You've got Oba Femi, the ruler--
[Booker T] Oh, he did it again! He did it again!
-[Joseph] You got to go, Evans. -[Graves] Do it, Je'Von!
[Joseph] Double cutter, going to the top, for his grandmother.
[Booker T] Do it, kid!
-[Joseph] He got it! He did it! -[Graves] He's gonna do it!
[Joseph] Trick Shot! Trick Shot! A Trick Shot, back up!
Oh, Fall from Grace.
Williams into Je'Von and Oba, the ruler,
Oba the destroyer with another Fall from Grace, sit down style.
It's over.
Femi, who is still the NXT champion.
[Rome] Here is your winner,
and still the NXT champion,
Oba Femi!
[Joseph] Congratulations to Oba,
but take nothing away from Trick Williams or Je'Von Evans.
[Graves] Congratulations to all three of these men
for putting on a hell of a main event
on NXT's biggest stage, Stand & Deliver.
Another reign defining effort for the ruler, Oba Femi.
[Booker T] What a night. What a fight.
[Joseph] Say that again, and, as we try to catch our breath,
let's go back to some of these unbelievable moments
in this unbelievable triple threat.
[Graves] And what this does is make me excited for the future of Je'Von Evans,
for the future of Trick Williams,
and, yes, for the future of Oba Femi.
This matchup lived up to the hype and then some.
It fit right in on Wrestlemania weekend.
Amongst all of the controversy, these three men left it all in the ring,
for their right, for the honor of being called NXT champion.
A Fall from Grace for Trick Williams,
and a thunderous, earthshaking sit down powerbomb by Oba.
-[crowd] One, two, three. -[Graves] And still.
Unbelievable main event.
There you see Trick Williams, who gave a valid effort.
So did Je'Von Evans.
But in the end, it's one man who still reigns over NXT.
I said earlier, if you want to become immortal,
this is where the first step for these superstars would be taken.
The pride, the passion was on display
which made this a Stand & Deliver
we will never, ever forget. liver