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- Pedro Morales memorial graphic, and we’re on the open. Mauro Ranallo welcomes us to Full Sail, and Percy Watson & Nigel McGuinness talk up the men entering for our first match...
- Dominik Dijakovic def. Shane Thorne via pinfall following Feast Your Eyes
Nick Miller’s old partner is still working heel, and has changed up his look a bit as a singles competitor. They lock up early, and Dijakovic drives Thorne into the corner. A nose grab and some leg kicks let the Aussie take control, which he maintains with a wrist lock and inflicts punishment on the bigger man’s left arm. The big “Croatian” powers out and flattens Shane with a lariat. Before he can mount much more offense, Thorne targets the arm again and reverses into a suplex. Same thing happen when Dijakovic sets up for a superplex, but Dominik lands on his feet when he’s flipped to the mat. He superkicks Thorne to the floor, follows that with a corkscrew plancha, rolls him back in and hits his finisher.
- Undisputed ERA are in a new spot backstage. Adam Cole is tired of hearing that their 2019 got off to a bad start. Hasn’t anyone heard of speed bumps? Kyle O’Reilly says that’s all it was, and says they’ll get back on the road by reclaiming their NXT Tag Titles. Bobby Fish agrees, and Roderick Strong is excited that they’re teamed back up so he can go after singles gold. This year, all four of them will be dripping in it. Cole says that starts tonight when he faces Ricochet, who is in way over his head. This is still their year, and that is Undisputed.
- Flashback to last week when Io Shirai got the pin on Shayna Baszler in the trios main event, upsetting Bianca Belair. Io was interviewed backstage. She’s coming for the NXT Women’s championship. Kairi Sane says she is, too. The EST interrupts to say she doesn’t have a problem with them, but she had Shayna beat tonight and in Phoenix. So they need to back off, because the title is her, because she is un...de...fee...ted.
- Humberto Carrillo & Stacy Ervin Jr. are in the ring, but before their opponents get here...
- Kassius Ohno comes out to say he’s been back in NXT 2 years, and he just wants to say to all the fans in Full Sail... that they make him sick. He hates everything about them, their faces and their chants.They think they know everything, but he’s gonna tell them something they don’t know. He’s out of here! He’s gonna go somewhere he can prove he’s the best who ever did it... KEITH LEE BLASTS HIM WITH AN ELBOW. He mockingly says “oh no” to an unconcious Kassius, then sings “oh my god” instead. He says he should at least be thankful he didn’t hit him in the dangly bits like KO did to him. If he’s leaving, he shouldn’t let the door hit him in the ass on his way out. He apologizes to the guys in the ring for the interruption and says let’s get on with the show. That involves Montez Ford mocking Ohno by laying next to him on the ramp and pretending he’s having a seizure during the Street Profits entrance.
- Street Profits def. Humberto Carrillo & Stacy Ervin Jr. via pinfall following a super blockbuster (Ford on Ervin)
Fun, fast open with Carrillo & Ford, which ends in a stand still and a handshake offered by Humberto. Montez takes it, then kicks him in the mid-section. Into the corner for a tag and some striking combos. I honestly can’t keep up - it’s an evenly matched affair that really puts a shine on Carillo & Ervin. The story is that the Profits, and especially Montez, have some edge. Ford does a D-X crotch chop before launching off the top for the finish.
- Profits on the mic. Ford says everyone’s going for gold, and they want a piece of the action. Their time in NXT has been a bit of roller coaster, and roller coaster mean fun. But make no mistake, they’re always ready to go to war. And if the War Raiders want to go to war... that brings out Fabian Aichner & Marcel Barthel. European Union says no one deserves a shot at the tag titles more than them. They hit the ring and get ready to square up, and here comes Oney Lorcan & Danny Burch. All three teams start pushing and shoving. Here comes the champs! They say they hear a lot of talking, but no fighting. Hanson & Rowe start to march to the ring when the ERA ambushes them from behind! Roddy, Kyle & Bobby roll them in to the other three teams, who put the boots to them. But Hanson & Rowe fight back! They clear the ring, then press slam Burch onto the other men on the floor as Undisputed looks on frustrated that their plan didn’t work.
- The usually excellent video package focuses on Johnny Gargano’s 2018, and we’re reminded that he defends the North American title against Worlds Collide winner Velveteen Dream next week.
- Taynara Conti def. Aliyah via submission with a kimura (and some leg strikes to the head)
Taynara has poppier entrance (after dropping the gi, but she holds on to her black belt and kisses it after getting into the ring), Aliyah is wearing her “Versace” gear. The match almost ends quickly when Aliyah talks trash and almost gets caught in an armbar, but foot on the ropes gets the break. Vanessa Borne wanders down to ringside, distracting Conti and letting Aliyah take control. Nearfall off a suplex. Missed charge in the corner lets the Brazilian impress with a series of throws and a kick. Taynara goes to the corner and climbs, but Aliyah catches up. Hanging armbar in the ropes. Conti roars on the floor, but Borne grabs her feet when she tries to get back in the ring. Aliyah attacks and ends it.
- The newly aligned heels celebrate, but Shayna Baszler is here! Borne & Aliyah look to leave the ring to the Queen of Spades, but Jessamyn Duke & Marina Shafir attack from behind! They decimate all three of the women involved in the last match. The champ grabs a mic and says that was a message to the division. Don’t mess with them, and definitely don’t piss them off.
- Velveteen Dream highlight package covering the Worlds Collide tournament win, appearance in Phoenix and challenge to Gargano last week. We get another reminder about next week.
- Ricochet def. Adam Cole via pinfall following Vertigo
Cole is out alone to start, and the familiar foes lock up. Cole drives them into the corner, but Ric’s speed takes over. He sends Cole to the ramp, follows with a dive and lays in some punches before rolling him back in. They trade and I can already tell I probably won’t be able to keep up with this one either. The most important spot comes when Ricochet holds onto the ropes when Cole tries for a sunset flip powerbomb off the top. His left leg gets caught in the ropes, and Cole attacks in with kicks and throws it off the ringpost.
Attacking and selling the knee is the story of the match, and both men do it well. Standard spots like Ric landing on his feet out of a belly-to-back suplex now feature him wobbling on the landing and unable to climb the turnbuckles for moves off the tope. He keeps fighting throughout, occasionally hitting a big move and more often countering after evading, as he does for a roll-up two count after a Last Shot attempt by Cole. For his part, the Panama City Playboy varies his offense to focus on the hamstring and knee, including a spot where he feints a superkick and redirects to the leg.
He does manage an impressive looking one-legged springboard senton, but only lands on Cole’s legs and only gets two out of it again. They battle, including an extended sequence up in a corner where neither man can land a big move. When Ricochet is finally knocked off the turnbuckles, Cole picks him up but Ric punches out. Frankensteiner and an axe kick from the One And Only. Northern Lights suplex, roll through to another suplex (where Ric favors his right but still really uses both legs) and then the finish.
- The rest of the ERA run in for the beatdown after the bell. Aleister Black makes the save, but ends up eating a superkick from Cole and End of Heartache from Roddy.