Steve Notes NXT 2/25/2021 LIVE NOW ON TWITCH!

Steve Notes NXT 2/25/2021

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The Way is backstage, they put their hands in and say thats the way uh huh uh huh i like it!

Austin: That’s should be a song!

They make sure Austin is ok before heading out to the stage

Austin goes for the wrong side on the no look high five

Dexter Lumis vs. Johnny Gargano

Lumis with an impressive stalling suplex

On the outside, John takes advantage slamming Lumis into the apron, onto the floor, ground and pound

Gargano breaks the count, comes back out, goes for a PK, Lumis ducks, kips up, slams him into the apron

Austin comes up to him, backs off, Indi comes up to him, smiles, gives him the CALL ME sign, Candice goes for a head scissors, gets dumped back onto the apron

Lumis continues to dominate from commercial, hits a spinebuster as John tries a comeback

Austin geta a chair for johnny, lumis sees it and stomps it when its slid in

Johnny distracts the ref so Austin could hit Lumis with a chair, Lumis catches on, confronts Austin, who’s reluctant to hit him, Johnny rushes Lumis, who sends him into the chair, then Lumis wins after Gargano passes out in Silence

***¼

MSK doc, they show old pictures, I REALLY wish they would have used pics with Trey and pixellate out his head- Nash talks about his Dad dying when he was a freshman in high school

This was great, they did more in three minutes to get them over with me than

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DURING THE INTERVIEW GYV DESTROY MSK!

Earlier in the day, Bivens challenges Ruff to a match against Rust

Bivens promo:

When I think about Leon Ruff, I think about the son I didn’t want and never wanted. BUt that’s why I’m giving you an opportunity against THE DIAMOND IN THE RUST!

Tyler Rust vs. Leon Ruff

Before the match, Swerve attacks Ruff, takes him to commentary, tells them he’s gonna start taking more opportunities for himself, then DVDs him into the apron corner

Bivens raises Tyler Rust’s hand via forfeit

Yesterday, Regal tells Zoey Stark she has a non-title match against Io

Interview with Zoey: something got glitched in the interview, I’m assuming she’s happy to have the opportunity

Cameron Grimes is watching old Dibiase footage of the basketball thing, grimes laughs and says Dibiase is a smart guy, with enough money you can humiliate people! He does the basketball thing to a dude nearby, but the guy dribbles it ten times, much to Grimes’ dismay. He says the million dollar man took the ball away. Grimes says man I knew I shoulda watched the rest of that video! Dibiase thinks hes smarter than cameron grimes!?!?

KO update: not medically cleared for 4-6 weeks

Io Shirai vs. Zoey Stark

Shirai kinda takes Stark lightly, and pays for it, heading into commercial she gets kicked off the top onto the floor

Shirai takes her a bit more seriously, but Stark has momentum out of commercial

When Zoey takes riskier moves, Io counters, Zoey went for a top rope splash, Io dodges and hits a fun splash, zoey comes back with a german for 2

Io hits big rana off the top, backbreaker for 2

Io hits corner knees, moonsault for 3

***

After the match, Toni Storm says look at you, willing to fight anyone in the division except ME. Last week I kicked your head off and you didn’t do a damn thing about it. There’s a reason you pinned mercedes at takeover and its cuz you can’t beat me.

Io: I will fight you anytime, anyplace, anywhere!

Toni: Will you though? Surely by now you would have gone to regal by now, cuz you’re scared. PROVE ME WRONG. Find Regal, make the match.

The Way Interview

We’re trying to leave before Lumis comes after us. Turns to Austin, all you had to do was hit Lumis with the chair. Why is that so hard?

Austin: A chair is so unfair, Lumis is just a misunderstood guy.

John: HE KIDNAPPED YOU! HES A PSYCHOPATH!

Candice: He should be in jail.

Indi: actually, I think he’s kinda hot.

Candice: WHAT THE F

John: WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE? I’m not gonna let your whatever that is and your stockholm syndrome get me down. We’re gonna fix this, you’re going to THERAPY!!

Grimes with the ball again

He finds three PC recruits hanging out sitting, he says “I’m doing this challenge…he sees that the first person is a younger, kinda athletic-looking black guy, says “probably not gonna be you!”  The girl next to him, says ten dribbles? Like the million dollar man thing back in the day? She stands up and is former WNBA player Anriel Howard, he tries to kick the ball out from her as she gets to 9, she dribbles through her legs and jukes him out, takes his money, says don’t hate the player, hate the game, which makes Grimes get so much more pissed at Dibiase. I really need a Grimes/Dibiase meeting.

Xia Li vs. Kacy Catanzaro

Kacy is able to counter a bit and evade a bit, but Xia is relentless as Mei Ying and Boa chill up on the stage. Kacy is able to get some strikes in the corner on Xia, gets her knocked down, hits a kick flip for 2

Kacy tries for a funsplash to the outside, Xia rams her had into the barricade fence on the outside, Kacy sort of lands with her leg up on the steps, and Xia STOMPS it, it bends awkwardly, the ref checks on her, Xia DRAGS her by her hair up into the ring, other refs come down, the ref stops the match, Kayden comes at Xia, Kayden goes to Mei Ying, Xia kills Kacy with a spinning heel kick and it’s great.

**

Regal is outside, waiting for Santos/Kross

Grimes outside, frustrated, finds a guy, offers the challenge, he’s at his wits end. ARE YOU GONNA DO IT OR WHAT? On the first dribble, HE PUNCHES THE DUDE OUT. TED DIBIASE KISS MY GRITS!!

Killian Dain/Drake Maverick come out

GIBSON: WE HAVE SOME BREAKING NEWS: WES LEE HAS BROKEN HIS HAND

Drake: THE BIGGER HEADLINE IS, MR REGAL HAS GIVEN US A HEFTY FINE, BUT WE WERE DOING IT FOR THE NXT UNIVERSE, IMAGINE A FEW WEEKS WITHOUT MSK JOKING AROUND LIKE LITERAL CHILDREN.

GIBSON: IN THE FINALS OF THE DUSTY CLASSIC, THE BETTER TEAM LOST. LETS MAKE NO MISTAKES, THERES ONE TEAM DESTINED FOR TAG TEAM GLORY AND ITS NOT MSK AND ITS CERTAINLY NOT SHREK AND DONKEY. ITS THE GYV SSSSOOON TO BE RECOGNIZED AS NXT TAG TEAM CHAMPION.

GYV vs. Shrek and Dinkey

Dain mandhandles GYV to start

Once Maverick is in, Gibson and Drake take over, assisted dropkick flatliner, Dain and Gibson go to the outside, Drake suicide dives Dain, Drake gets in a bulldog, but GYV hit him with Ticket To Mayhem for 3

**½

In the training room, Dain has Maverick, needs a doctor IMPERIUM walks through, Wolfe comes up to Dain, says, “what is this? You used to be a monster.”

As Kross’ entrance starts, we split screen with Santoss car outside, waiting for him to come out. Kross sneak attacks LDF, Santos attacks him from behind, they go at it in the parking lot

Kross puts Santos in a semi truck, Santos closes the door on Kross’ shoulder

Kross throws Santos onto the hood of the truck, fends off LDF but Santos hits him with a garbage can straight to his shoulder

They all run him into the truck, LDF holds him up, brings him intot he CWC, beat on him some more,

Kross sends LDF through the barricade plexiglass, Santos looks shocked, Kross takes over in the ring, Santos comes back with a chair, works Kross’ arm, wraps his arm in the chair and rams it into the post

LDF continue to chip away and distract Kross, who eats a suicide dive from Santos

Kross catches Mendoza, suplexes him, then catches Wilde, power bombs him into the barricade.

DOOMSDAY SAITO SUPLEX THROUGH THE TABLE

Again in the ring, then he says tick tock, times up, puts his forearm through Santos’ head

***½

Red LA Knight in his car with red seats, says WHOS GAME IS IT? It’s my game. When I debut it’ll be on my time, on my terms. Every one of the superstars in NXT has a one way ticket to getting stomped out by

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And that’s just a fact of life.

Adam Cole

They roll some footage of last week

I had every intention of coming out to explain myself, but after watching that footage, I feel sick to my stomach. Everyone knows the nxt title is important to me, and I do not like the guy I’ve become. At first, I was pissed that KO got opportunities and continued to fail. That does not excuse my actions. I am ashamed of myself. Kyle, I know you’re watching, I wish so badly we could have this conversation man to man face to face, but we can’t. We can’t because of me. I was dead wrong, you should be here, but instead I made a stupid mistake and I hate myself for it. Kyle I am so sorry and I am gonna try to fix this but if I can’t I’m gonna try.

Roddy comes out, says now you feel bad, now you feel bad but for the past ten days you haven’t told me? Everything has changed now, this was built on love, trust, a brotherhood. We did everything it took to have each other’s back. Just like that, you shattered that trust. Look at me and understand this, Kyle is gonna heal, but when he heals I don’t know if I can save you from what he’s gonna do to you. Balor comes out, attacks Cole, Strong takes him off, they go at it, Cole superkicks Balor. Strong punches Cole. Cole said he wants stuff to go back to normal. Strong says WHAT IS HAPPENING all silly and shit, Cole starts crying, Strong says I love you, you’re my brother and I love you. They hug. Strong gets up, offers his hand, COLE VIOLENTLY ATTACKS STRONG’S GENITALS. CALLS STRONG STUPID, YOU’RE DEAD TO ME. SUPERKICKS HIM, RIPS OFF HIS UE MERCH DOG TAG.