Tonight’s WWE NXT on the USA Network will air from the NXT Arena at Full Sail University in Winter Park, FL with the final hype for Sunday’s “Takeover: Portland” event.
Former NXT Women’s Champion Shayna Baszler is headed to the WWE RAW roster, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
Baszler is scheduled to be a regular on the RAW brand soon. The move has been planned for a long time, close to a year or so.
There’s no word yet on what WWE has planned for Baszler on the red brand, but she’s been rumored for a WrestleMania 36 match with RAW Women’s Champion Becky Lynch. It will be interesting to see how Baszler debuts on RAW in the next few weeks to set that match up, if that is the plan.
Baszler coming to RAW also opens the door for a potential storyline with fellow Horsewoman Ronda Rousey. There’s no update on Rousey returning to WWE, but she’s recently expressed interest in working a shorter schedule.
The ominous tease showed on NXT last week was revealed to be for the return of Velveteen Dream last night, and he came back with a vengeance.
Last night’s show ended with Undisputed Era wrestling against Tommaso Ciampa, Pete Dunne and Matt Riddle to an apparent DQ finish.
Undisputed Era took advantage of the numbers game afterward and beat down their opponents. Adam Cole then grabbed a can of spray paint and tagged Ciampa’s back. As the show was ending, the tease for 2/5/20 hit the screen again and the camera panned back to show Velveteen Dream on the top rope. He then hit an axe handle smash on the group and went wild fighting them off.
Velveteen Dream continued his storyline with Roderick Strong, including wearing tights that said “Call me up Marina” and had Dream, Marina Shafir, and Strong and Shafir’s son airbrushed on them.
Dream has been out of action since October due to injury. He was written off TV with an attack angle in which Undisputed Era beat him down backstage.
Former NXT star Charlotte Flair returned to the brand on Wednesday night and learned there’s more unity on the roster than she remembered.
As you’ll recall, Ripley showed up on Raw this week as Charlotte was announcing who she’d wrestle against at WrestleMania due to her Royal Rumble victory. Rhea then dared Flair to challenge for her NXT Championship.
Last night on NXT, Bianca Belair was in the ring talking about what happened with Flair/Rhea this week when “The Queen” interrupted the promo.
Flair then made her way to the ring and received a “welcome home” chant from the crowd.
Charlotte pointed out how Rhea seems to have overlooked Bianca before their TakeOver: Portland match, but Ripley cut her off by making her entrance. The three women then had a war of words that ended with Rhea telling Charlotte “we are NXT,” then taking her down with Bianca Belair.
Tonight’s WWE NXT episode on the USA Network will air live from the NXT Arena at Full Sail University in Winter Park, FL.
Tonight’s WWE NXT episode will air live from the NXT Arena at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida with the finals of the 2020 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic.
(Pre-Show) NXT UK Women’s Champion Kay Lee Ray vs. Mia Yim –
Winner: Kay Lee Ray
Finn Balor vs. Ilja Dragunov –
Winner: Finn Balor
NXT Cruiserweight Championship: Angel Garza (c) vs. Isaiah Scott vs. Jordan Devlin vs. Travis Banks –
Winner and New NXT Cruiserweight Champion: Jordan Devlin
Moustache Mountain vs. DIY –
Winners: DIY
Mercedes Martinez is shown at ringside. Dakota Kai is also shown at ringside. Tegan Nox suddenly flies out of nowhere and beats Kai down. Security tries to break them up but they keep going at it. Nox knocks Kai into the ringside area as the brawl continues. Security pulls them apart and fans boo.
NXT Women’s Championship: Rhea Ripley (c) vs. Toni Storm –
Winner: Rhea Ripley
Imperium (NXT UK Champion WALTER, Fabian Aichner, Marcel Barthel, Alexander Wolfe) vs. The Undisputed Era (NXT Champion Adam Cole, NXT North American Champion Roderick Strong, NXT Tag Team Champions Kyle O’Reilly and Bobby Fish) –
Winners: Imperium
January 25, 2020 at 7:00 PM ET (Preshow at 6:30 PM ET) – Toyota Center , Houston, Texas
NXT Women’s Championship: Rhea Ripley (c) vs. Toni Storm
NXT Cruiserweight Championship: Angel Garza (c) vs. Isaiah Scott vs. Jordan Devlin vs. Travis Banks
Imperium (NXT UK Champion WALTER, Fabian Aichner, Marcel Barthel, Alexander Wolfe) vs. The Undisputed Era (NXT Champion Adam Cole, NXT North American Champion Roderick Strong, NXT Tag Team Champions Kyle O’Reilly and Bobby Fish)
Finn Balor vs. Ilja Dragunov
Moustache Mountain vs. DIY
(Pre-Show) NXT UK Women’s Champion Kay Lee Ray vs. Mia Yim
Tonight’s WWE NXT episode on the USA Network will air live from the NXT Arena at Full Sail University with the final hype for Saturday’s Worlds Collide event.
Former NXT Cruiserweight Champion Tony Nese and 205 Live star Mike Kanellis worked as a tag-team during this weekend’s NXT live events as a test for a potential run on NXT television.
The two won Friday night’s NXT Melbourne live event match against Mohamed and Nick Ogarelli, which was Kanellis’ first bout since he asked for his release last October. They worked as a team again at the NXT Largo house show the following night, losing to the team of Isaiah “Swerve” Scott and Kushida.
Check out several photos from the NXT Largo show on Saturday night that includes their ring entrance and posing in the ring before the match, as well as video footage from their match against “Swerve” Scott and Kushida of what could be Nese and Kanellis’ double-team finishing move below.
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