Steve Notes NXT 9/24/20

Steve Notes NXT 9/24/20

Candice attacks Tegan’s knee before the battle royal, probably means she’s gonna win

Confident Rhea comes out next, which means she won’t win. Camera shows us Raquel, which might mean they’ll have a match instead.

Rhea eliminates Gia

Raquel elimn RAVEN WHATTABOUT ME?? WHATA BOUT RAVEN!

Elie almost murdered herself face first into the guard rail being eliminated by Rhea

Rhea eliminates Shafir, Raquel eliminates Avery

Raquel eliminates another one, who seems to hit her head pretty hard on the floor, then another one, which looks safe. 

Rhea elim EMILY

Raquel elim Catalina

Kacy has a Kofi moment, and then another, climbing the barricade jumping to the steps, kicked back by Indi, Carter lets her get on her shoulders

Rhea and Raquel go at it, elim each other

Kacy elim Indi, Candice and Kai double team Kacy, she gets kicked out

Kai & Candice go after Shotzi, who dumps Kai

Candice hits neckbreaker, has Shotzi on apron, Shotzi goes up to second rope, Candice meets her up, they both get dumped on apron- Shotzi pulls Candice’s arm so her head hits the turnbuckle, she lands on the steps, Candice flips Shotzi over to the ground, CANDICE WINS

Damien Priest interview- ASked about Gargano and Theory- he says Theory is better than his record suggests, but tonight he’ll take another L, then tries to hit on Sarah

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Fandango is up to his old fashion police tricks- he has a white board with names of the tag division, including Fabio Acne, Quinoa, Marty Barty, Robert Strong, Billy Fish, Uno Lorcan

He explains to regal his plan for a series of matches- Mendoza & Aichner vs. Strong/Burch, winning team fights each other, winner of that gets Breezango. Regal is confused, Burch explains it in Brit language code.

Ciampa vs. Jake Atlas

Atlas much more aggressive, looking to do the see saw under the mat thing Ciampa did before, before Ciampa nails him with a clothesline. Atlas eventually gets the advantage and hits a blockbuster, gets 2. He tries that AWFUL cartwheel DDT and Ciampa easily kicks him off the rope and hits his draping DDT, he goes for a pin, but lifts his head and starts mocking Atlas by saying you hungry?? Modified Fariytale Ending gets 3. 

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Ridge Holland tells a story about blacking out and killing four children. He played Rugby, he nurtured the skill of hurting people. 

Elimination Gauntlet video package

Roderick Strong/Danny Burcth mess up a simple handshake to kick it off- Strong is the only guy who gets his own entrance

BUrch starts out, gets isolated, Strong gets the hot tag, starts wrecking- until Aichner hits nasty spinebuster

Burch tags in after a Strong knee to Raul, hits a draping cutter on Raul for 3

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Strong does the handshake fakeout to Burch

Theory is doing resistance bands, Sarah interviews him- Gargano steps in, he pumps him up a bit, says if he softens up Priest before Takeover, he’ll appreciate it.

Austin Theory vs. Damien Priest

Priest takes control early

Theory targets Priest’s knee

Theory hits Blue Thunder Bomb

Theory’s face turned purple

On the outside, Priest hits cyclone kick, then Razor’s Edge on apron, goes inside, Reckoning, 3

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Gargano attacks Priest after the match

Weird/cool night vision vignette of someone (former champion?) returning 10.4.20

WHO IS IT

Swerve still wants a shot at Santos video

Antonio DeLuca vs. RIDGE HOLLAND

Stretch comes out strong against Ridge, but Ridge pounces him across the mat, belly to belly, Ridge then head-butts him to death

NORTHERN GRIT finisher gets 3

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Interview with Io- I don’t like Candice, never have never will

Candice and Gargano interrupt, then priest comes in

GAUNTLET ELIMINATOR- oh wow Kyle (spoiler he wins) starts this vs. KUSHIDA

WRESTLING

As time ticks down they exchange forearms, then Bronson Reed comes out next, to yet another new tron video- he does the power thing

Dream hits KUSHIDA with DVD while ref is distracted after a spot where KUSHIDA kicks Kyle off the apron to the floor, allows Reed hit TSUNAMI splash for 3

REED ELIMINATES KUSHIDA

Thatcher is next, followed by Grimes, starts cleaning house, til Reed comes alive again and starts cleaning house- Reed hits a huge clothesline, but all men are down.

Reed hits huge DVD on Thatch, gets 2

Reed hits big power bomb on Kyle, gets 2

KYLE ELIMINATES REED with top rope knee to the back

Kyle gets ankle lock on thatcher, who reverses, gets a knee on him, followed by Grimes hitting german on kyle, but thatch attacks Grimes

Thatch gets Kyle in sleeper, grimes tries to kick, gets caught by Kyle, ankle lock, gets out

Kyle gets ROLLUP on Thatch

KYLE OREILLY ELIMINATES THATCHER

Grimes immediately gets cave-in on Kyle, who puts his foot on the rope, Grimes thinks he won, starts kicking Kyle, yelling at him, saying YOU’RE NOT ADAM!

They run at each other, Grimes hits that spanish fly-power slam thing, gets 2

Kyle whips Grimes ankle, Grimes sets up for cave in, Kyle dodges, Kyle gets ankle submission, Graves taps out KYLE ELIMINATES GRIMES

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