NXT Review & BattleGround Predictions

great show. This was This was our go home episode to Battleground, which is happening on Sunday night at eight o'clock Eastern time, and this is turning out to be a really packed show. At Battleground, we do a little bit of predictions. I mean, I'm not labeling this a prediction show, but I am going to do a little bit of prediction for as we go through. Uh just kind of you know, in in in the conversation for Battleground, especially the TNA World title match between Joe Hendry and

Trick Williams, because who knows. But we'll get into that before I forget. I just wanted to, you know, wish my heartfelt get well too, zoways Stark. Everybody at this point, everybody has seen what happened was Zoe on Monday night. Raw Wow. I mean felt so bad. I felt so bad for all three of them, because I mean you can you could tell that both that all three of like the Riha and Kyrie Sane were really upset too.

So you know, my heart heartfelt. But we'll just go out to Zoe and I hope she comes back sooner. But I tell you, after seeing it, and of course we have view after view after view of of what happened, and I mean after seeing the view of what happened to her knee, I can't imagine she's gonna be back anytime soon. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think I am, unfortunately. But anyway, we're here to talk n x T and the NXT episode on the twentieth of

May was a really good Tuesday was really good. It was a fantastic episode which started out with them with an amazing match, which one by a gentleman who not many people have heard of, aside from the Royal the Battle Royal that happened a few weeks ago that Miles Bourne won. This is why I think people should watch Evolve. I watched a couple episodes. I do want to get back into it again, like to start from just start from now, start fresh from now. But there are a

few episodes that I watched of Evolve. We're really good, Like they're really wrestling focused. I mean, yeah, they do they do some storylines. I mean obviously they can't not do storylines. But there's a lot of people coming up to NXT soon that I can't I can't wait for them to get here because it's gonna be really really cool. So let's talk about Tuesday Night NXT. We So anyway, let's go, let's like just do this. This is the thing that I always do. We We had the NXT

from the Performance Center in winter Park, Florida. We had our commentators Vic, Joseph Booker, t and Corey Graves and we are re announcer of course is Mike Rome. Thank god Mike Rome is on NXT. I have to tell you, I like the guy on SmackDown. I forgot his name. I don't really care for Alicia Taylor. I've mentioned that many times, but the guy on SmackDown is really good for a new guy. But my attend to me. To me, Mike Rome is the best of the three and I'm

glad we have him on an XT. This show started out with, to me, the match of the night and I'm I understand why they did this first because they couldn't do it last, but the entire Jo Hendry Trick Williams saga understandably so. But the match was between as a triple threat match, apparently unofficially for the for number one contender ship for the NXT North American title, which apparently then became official as the show went on. The whole thing was weird. It was Javon Evans, Sean Legacy

and Ashanti the Adonnas now a Shanta the Adonnas. I you know, I've been back in wrestling now for about two and a half years. Yeah, I think two and a half years and Shanda the Adonnas. Prior to well, when I first came in, was part of it, was part of the tag team with Top Doll and be Fat. I can't I can't remember what their names were, whatever, it doesn't matter. But and then ever since he's been on,

he got sent down a NXT. He and Cedric g Alexander got sent down NXT at the same time Saja Alexander was cooking and then they let him go, which I don't understand. And I don't be surpris And I know a lot of people don't. They listen to this, don't watch a w but I wouldn't be surprised if you saw him with Bobby Lashley and MVP and Shelton Benjamin and the Hurt Syndy Kate and Amy w if you do watch that. But that's just a thought that I had. But and I don't watch a w but

I follow generally like I listened to. I listened to a whole lot of wrestling podcasts for me and also from how to help Me prepare for expressing how I how I feel things are going with you guys. So I listened to other podcasts just to kind of get an idea of what you know just kind of rehash in my mind. And one of the podcasts that I am that I had heard said something about maybe Tajrick Alexander ending up int a w with the Hurt Syndicate. So but then they also had a shot to the

Adonis come down NXT. And he has been in the some in this weird romantic thing, either with Karma Petrovitch or other other people, and it was just I don't know, the whole thing was weird, I have to tell you though. And so he really got a chance to really shine. But you put him in the ring. This is a Chanta the Adonis if you put him in the ring. But number one Javon Evans. Now, as far as I'm concerned, Javon Evans is the champion and waiting. I have said

to you and I am not changing this. I have said to you that the person who is going to dethrone Oba Femi at some point is Javon Evans. That's that's not even a question. The question is when probably you know, I can see Oba Femi holding this title. Well, the respect to Miles Born and whoever else you know wrestles Obafemi in the next year. I I expect Obafemi to hold this title for a year until Javon Evans dethrones. I'm probably at stand and deliver next year. Again, I

could be wrong. That's just that's just my personal opinion. He's Javon Evans to me, is the champion waiting. But you put a Shanta Theodonnas in a match with Javon Evans, and then and then Sean Legacy. Who is Sean Legacy. Sean Legacy's on Evolve. I've seen Sean Legacy. He played a couple of times when I watched Evolve. He's good.

And if you don't think he was before, like if you watched the match last night, he kept up with Javon Evans the entire Obviously, Javan Evans is a different stratosphere. Javan Evans is bouncing like bouncy right, the whole bouncy thing. He's like going, you know, doing all these things, like just back and forth like the man. The man he's

almost he's barely a man. He's eighteen nineteen. I don't know how old he is, but he's he's doing his thing, jumping around and and Sean Legacy did such a good job a keeping up with Javon Evans b also making Cedric Or making Shanti the Adonnas look good and which, by the way, he was good in his own right, but again, wrestling with these two guys made him look even better. This match was the triple threat match between Javon Evans Sewn Legacy and a Shanta Diadana's was by

far the match of the night. Other things happened shenanigans, let's say, but really didn't have a lot to do with the participants in the match. But if you haven't seen the episode and you're just listening to this, go watch that. Just watch that match. I mean, the rest of it was interesting and we'll go through it, but watch watch that match. That match was was so good. I mean, I'm not I'm not gonna sit here and say back to the Year contender, but like, definitely an

honorable mention for sure. Before the match comes out, though, we have Ricky Ricky Saints, I forgot his name, Ricky Saints coming to the arena and a car. He immediate walks out to the arena and sits down in a commentary. So he's gonna commentate this match, because again, this is match is officially and officially a number one contender ship for the North American Championship, so he's doing commentary. The match starts again, fabulous match. I'm not gonna go move,

but move because this is they would take forever. But eventually what happens is excuse me, eventually what happens is what's his name? Ethan Page, Ethan Page, greatest heal in the game. Sorry, John Cena, You're not as good of a heal as Ethan Page. Eathan Page jumps the barricade behind the commentator's desk and starts beating the crap out of Rickey Saints. The match is going on, there's security,

there's everybody trying to separate these two. As the match is going on, Javon Evans decides I'm going to get involved in that too, and Suicide dives over the top rope and takes out security spears not spears. Security, Ethan Page and Ricky Saints all gone like draw on the floor. Meanwhile in the ring, we had a shantiviodonnas and showing legacy continuing them. There they're back and forth and it was match ends. What is the move? I gotta figure

out the move? That Sean Legacy won the match with uh, what is it called the shambles? It's called the move is called the shambles, which is basically a suplex into a stunner. Like I don't I don't know exactly how to explain it. Cool move, and let me say, shown Legacy, he looks the part, he plays the part. He's really good. And apparently he is according to later in the show, he is going to get a shot at the NXT North American Championship against well, I guess against Rickey Saints.

But there's a whole caveat to that, which I'll go into in a second. And then and then so yeah, that was like again, great match, one awesome match. So then we go back after after that match is over and I keep talking about it, but I'm not going to just watch if you haven't seen it, watch it. If you have seen it, comment like, amazing. Again again, there's a reason why that match was in the beginning. I think that on a normal if they were going to do a match like that, normally would be at

the end. But because between the whole trick and Joe Hendry thing, I can see why they didn't do that. But that better to put it in the beginning than the end. Then we go back to ABA's office and Stevie Turner says it's a big victory for bull Legacy and Evolved, and Ava agrees with Stevie, but she's not

happy with the Ricky Saints Ethan page brawl. And Ava gives a big congratulations to Jasper Troy and then in Tyra May uh tyram May steal on being the newest, uh sorry, newest additions to NXT roster because they won season one of w w W w LFG. By the way, Jasper Troy is a big dude tearing around a JYD chain around his neck. And if you know what I'm

talking about, then you know what I'm talking about. Jyd for the record, in case, in case you're too young, Junkyard Dog back in the eighties carry a chain, but this chain's even bigger. This chain is massive, and I don't mean like I don't mean like a necklace, I mean a chain. So both of them will be making their debuts over the next coming weeks and Tyra's beyond excited, but Jasper tells Ava that he is planning on making an impact on n x T starting tonight, so that'll

be interesting to talk about that. Then we have a promo for Jordan Grace. I'm not gonna talk about the promos. They did a promo for Jordan. So last week we had a tag team match to you know, the whole, the whole could they co exist between Jordan Grace and Stephanie Vacaier blah blah blah. It's the same thing they do before every match between like two baby faces or two heels they do, they do the whole. Can they

co exist in a tag team match? So so this week, all they did between the women's title match, they had Jordan Grace cut a promo and then Stephanie VC Coorge and did an interview slash promo as well. You know, Jordan Grace just she talked about the people that she that she you know, admires the people that came in

with her. To be honest, the only reason why Jordan Grace is and and maybe this will change on Sunday and I'll talk about that later, but the only reason why Jordan Grace is in the NXT Champion right now is just because Stephanie is there. And Stephanie is Stephanie

like Stephanie is Stephanie. Oh oh, I forgot to mention, Oh my god, obviously now we're the women's roster in n X Tier two women short because now officially Roxanne, I mean, to the surprise of no. One, to the surprise of zero people, Roxanne Perez is now signed with RA and Julie is now signed with SmackDown, Great excellent. Please.

And I've been I've been saying for months, and I think I said it again two weeks ago when I did my last my last review the women's roster main of main the women's main event rosters, main show rosters. They need a shot in the arm, and Julia and Roxanne will definitely and they have already been the shot in the arm for for both the visions. Roxanne has already qualified for her money in the bank. And don't be surprised if Julia qualifies too. I'm not saying she

definitely will. I'm not even saying she'll definitely win it. But I do see a lot of similarities between Roxanne and Tiffany Stratton from last year. It'll be interesting to see how that goes. Anyway, they do, they do the Jordan Grace promo. He Yeah, it's great. I mean, it was like it was a good promo. I liked it. There was no they you know, they weren't there together in the arena. They didn't go after each other. They didn't you know, Stephanie didn't hold the belt up in

Jordan's face. None of that happened. It's just promo. We have a match on Sunday. Here's the promo. Then we have Lola Ice telling Stephanie that she's she's in for a real battle this Sunday, and Lola is putting her her money on Stephanie. Stephanie then appreciates uh Lola say and tells Lola that she'll talk to her before her interview shot to her. After her interview, Lola runs into

fatal Influence. Jacy Jane says that Lola can suck up to the champion all she wants, but she won't get her a title shot, and Fallen Henley says that they'll they'll be the ones taking the title away from Stephanie. Lola. Then she said, Lola SE's otherwise with how they performed last week in the main event, and Fallen is not taking blame because she didn't get pinned Lola says that Fatal Influence can pretend to be a tig team, but

in reality they get in each other's way. It's really embarrassing. Jace says that Lola can think however she wants, but like Fallen, thinks she's the leader. Fallen reminds jac that she was the Nxteam Women's North American Champion. Jacy has a great idea, why didn't Why doesn't Fallon take on Lola tonight and prove that she's proved why she's behind them when it comes to nxt WA's championship and Lola tels fall and she'll see her in the ring. By

the way, where's Jasmine Nicks? Where is she? Like? She's not around? I don't understand, Like you're supposed to be three of them and I just and and for some reason, Lola Ice called them a tag team? Was Jasmine next part of the cuts? I don't remember that. I don't remember that she was anyway. By the way, if you're if you're following any of the people that were cut, Blaired, I've been following Blair Davenport and and uh cour Jade

and a bunch of other people. They're they're so NXT has a thirty day no compete clause, so like they're ready to go. They all have, they have bookings, they're ready to go. If you're the main roster, it's a ninety day no compete clause. So it's just let me tell you, they're all gonna end up someplace, even if it's just independence for a while, Like I'll go see an independent shows means that courage jaide is gonna show up, all right. So tonight then we had we had two

musical things happening tonight. One of them was a rap performance by Trick Williams. I don't particularly sorry if I offend you. I don't particularly care for rap, and really all all Trick Williams was doing is rapping to the voice. That was actually part of like he wasn't He wasn't. He was rapping to the person rapping on the recording, which was really weird. A lot about being, you know, going against an average joe, Like, I mean, can we

be a little more creative please? I don't know, like I like Trick, I like, I respect him so much just to see him have just to see him do this, I mean, I guess, I guess it's kind of hard because I'm a musician. I went to school for music at a college and Albany. It's now closed because of COVID. You know, they closed after COVID was over, and like it was just it was not good, and he just did it and he left. So that's what happened when we had Trick Williams of the rap performance to it

to basically insult Joe Hendry. Yay uh oh my god, they actually have the thing that I'm reading actually has all the words. Then me go to the locker room Aria and Joe Hendry says that the gloves are off while he is strumming his acoustic guitar. Then Kelly Kenny has a backstage interview with Josh Briggs. Briggs knows that it's been a while since he's been a singles competition. He wishes that Yoshiki an Amora we're here, but he's not. Things haven't been fun for breaks since Inamora went back

to Japan, and Briggs is not. Is now dedicating this match to Inamora tonight. So the second match we have of the night is Sean Spears versus Josh Briggs. This match was good, it wasn't you know it was? It was okay, it was it was to use match terminology, it was fine. It is really what it was the end of the match Josh Briggs and ends up losing to Sean Spears and the Color. And then afterwards, you know,

Josh gets ticked, starts attack, starts attacking Sean Spears. The rest of the calling come in start beating him up. They all still take turns beating up Josh Briggs, and then Hank k and Tank come out and and get the calling out of the ring, which then in turn sets up a match between the guys of the calling versus hankin, Tank and Josh Briggs. And I believe that's a battleground on Sunday. I'll have to double check that. I'll find out. But it was a it was a

decent match, Like I said, it was fine. It was fine. Sean Spears winsor via pinfall. Then we have Zaria and sol Ruka running into Colonnie Jordan in the women's locker room. Colonie says, just to be clear, when Colonie beat Zoria tonight, she'll face so for the NXT Women's North American Championship at Battleground. Soul agrees to the terms last week, and Colonnie said that she wouldn't be surprised if Soul went

back on her word. Zaria says that Soul is the most genuine person in w w E. Saul is not gonna go back on her word, just like Colanie won't be going to Battleground. Zaria then says that she'll be Colonie once again. Colonie tells Saul that she'll that she'll see her at Battleground. Bea Hale comes out and confronts Tatum Paxley and she wants to know what's up with her behavior. Now, Okay, I din't you get a chance to talk about this last week, so I'll talk about it now.

So they had the cut, right, they had the releases and two well, one of the releases was Gigi Dolan, who everybody should know if that follows an XT was a tag team with Tatum Pasley and then another. It wasn't a cut necessarily, it was more like your contract is up and we're not resigning you as Shatzi. So the three of them kind of had this like bond thing going on. And now the two of Gigi and Shatzi are now gone, and so Tatum is by herself

and I I have mixed emotions. I have mixed emotions, Like I think it's really cool that they're incorporating their releases in the storyline with Tatum Pasley, like she's sad because all of her friends are gone. I mean, she doesn't really say why, but we all know why. On the flip side, though, on the flip side, I think it kind of sucks that they're using the fact that they cut peace people, that they fired people as in

part of a story and an active storyline. Like most of the time, other people leave the company for whatever, for whatever various reasons, and they're just never mentioned again, I don't until the next time, Like I like, for instance, Alistair Black, like Alistair Black was going it was an aw for however long many years it was three, four or five, I don't remember how well, they never mentioned his name once until magically comes back, right, So you

I mean, I'm not saying they're mentioning Gigi and Shazi, but the fact that they're kind of a part of the storyline even though they're not there, it's interesting to me. But then it's also kind of rude. Tell me what you think. Is it good or bad? I think it's

it's different. It's different. I'll say that it's different. So anyway, uh, Tatum says that THEA doesn't understand the toll it takes to lose everyone you're close to, and THEA says she'll agree to do disagree on that notion because THEA also lost Duke Hudson and Riley Osbourne, who were both with her in Chase. You now Adrian Chase. That's a whole separate thing. I don't really particularly care for the current

storyline that they're going through. But but THEA Chase's partners, Duke Hudson and Riley Osbourne both have gotten released in the last few months, So yeah, she does understand. Then Jada Parker blessed THEA with a hypnotic out of nowhere and and Jada says something like, oh, okay, you feel bad for you? She goes, oh you were, and Tatum's like, oh, you really feel bad for me? She's like, nah, bitch,

Like what's the point of that. I mean, Jada Parker went from like going for the NXT women's title at Standon's delivery to now like I mean, listen, don't get me wrong. I love the Ahale and Tatum Pasley, like like that's an hot that's those those two are both awesome. But like I feel like Jada was just like downgraded because she really was the odd I mean I said this during during standon Delivery season. She really was the

odd woman. Now, I mean of you know, of we had Julia Jordan Grace, Stephanie Vacier, and then Jada Parker. Janna Parker is good, but she's not on their level. Okay, who talking a lot because I didn't get a chance to talk last week. Our third match is oh Tim versus Calee Dixon and you're Riah Connors. So right now, so right now, Milesbourne is on the process of trying to go against Obafemi. So there's no really no quarter

Catch crew tag team and I'm more left. So now there's no Josh Briggs and a more a tag team. Who's a tig team anyway? The College, I guess, I mean, they're not really a tag team. They're a group that has a tag team part the Dark State, but they're not really a tag and they're a group. So so now they're trying to rebuild OTM. I don't. I mean OTM is Listen. I went through a long time where I didn't particularly care for Hank and Tank and show A. Michaels did his magic and made me care for them.

So right now I'm kind of feeling the same about OTM, and I'm also feeling the same about Chase You. I'm not even gonna talk about Chase You to I because the whole thing was just weird. But I don't this was a match where I don't care. Like I didn't care. I don't care about OTM. I don't care about kill Dixon and Uri Connor in Chase University, like Chase University with the Duke, thea Riley and Adrian Chase. That to me was Chase University. I don't know what this is.

I don't know what this is. It's it's funny right now NXC has so many awesome things going on, and then they have so many things. It's just like, I don't care. You've got two hours to fill use them wisely, and it's two hours on the dot. And I've said this before, like ten o'clock comes boom, the news is on anyway, But the bottom line is at the end of the match, OTM get gets the win against the guys from Chase University. There you go. I don't really

have much more to say about it. There's so many good things that happen in the show that I'm just I'm kind of just glossing over the things that were just okay or less than okay. Then we have a segment between Obafemi and Milesbourne. Now I'm gonna say this. Once I said this, I'm gonna say this a million times. Miles Bourne and the spoiler alert, Miles Bourne has no shot in hell of beating Obafemi. Uh, if you want

a big payout, put some money on Milesbourne. If if you're in New York you can't do this, but other states you can. And listen. I am not condoning gambling, and I don't think you should really do this, But if there's a sure bet, the sure bet is is on Obathemi and he's probably only getting a one one to one, one to two or one to two winnings. Anyway, Yes, I like I have fallen and liked with Miles Bourne.

I like what he's doing. I like the fact that they're kind of pushing the fact that he can overcome this disability that he has, and yeah, I think he'll put on a I think he'll put on a decent match. Who out there actually thinks that Milesbourne is gonna beat Obafemi? I mean, I guess we kind of said that about Tony di'angelo and he ended up winning the North American title, But that's only because Obafemi had to win the NXT title.

You know. They they just didn't do the same thing did with Stephanie vac Care, but the with the double championship. I don't know. Again, I like Milesbourne. There's no universe where I see that he wins against Obami and if he does, cool cool. I don't know. Anyway, Let's let's let's see what they said. So oba Femi says, Miles,

I see you came alone tonight. I can't quite tell if that makes you stupid or brave, perhaps both, but I do I also do confidently feel that it's exactly why you made this made it this far, even even though a lot of these people don't believe in you were you didn't didn't believe you were gonna make it this far. I certainly believe that you that you couldn't make it this far. But look look at you now, you were a member, you were the number one contender

for the NXT Championship. And it's also in my understanding that this match is not just a fight for the title. There's also a fight for everybody. You're going to try to inspire and uplift again. Yes, yes, he definitely should inspire an uplift. Let me tell you, it's he's partially deaf. He's partially deaf enough where he's got a speech impediment. Obviously, we've all we all see that, and to not be able to hear both your opponent going back and forth.

If you're not being able to hear your you know, the crowd reactions and to make sure you're doing something good like fine. But yes, he's definitely going to inspire an uplift. It doesn't mean he's gonna win the title. Uh. And I find it and I find that to be admirable but also very very misleading. Life is cruel, Miles. Good things always happen to good people, and I know, deep down in my heart that you are a good person. But however, this is not a Disney movie. You do

not get the happy ending. You don't get the dream become true. You don't get to run off into the sunset with my title. No, no, no, Because your dream was two weeks ago when you won the Battle Royal yep. Your dream was last week when you beat Ethan Page yep. But make no mistake, This Sunday, when you step into the ring with me and that bell rings, your dreams will die because you will realize very quickly that you are standing in the ring with the ruler, the destroyer,

the bringer of war. And I'll be merciless, relentless, and unforgiving because you want me to treat you like everyone else. You want me to treat you like you're just like them. Right, So be it. Join the line, join the lists of victims. Your fate will end in the destruction at the hands of Obafemi. I will be in then, Miles respond. I will be out here by myself, Oba. I might be out here by myself, Oba, but I'm not alone to Tavian Ran and Charlie have been helping me train day

and night. They're not only the ones. They're not only ones. I have my back. I have an entire community. Every kid who feels different. Every parent who worries about their child isn't going to fit in. Yeah. Oh, but you're right. This is more than just winning a championship. It's about making a statement. So go ahead write me off as just another victim. Underestimate me, and like I said before, certainly wouldn't be the first doctors, nurses, and they misunderstood,

misunderestimated me. Every opponent I stepped in in front of an amateur wrestling underestimated me. Hell, I'm pretty sure some of the coaches at NXT Tryout underestimated me. But I proved them wrong. And at Battleground it's going to be the toughest match of my career. And I've been surviving battles ever since I was born. Oba, But you're right,

this ain't a Disney movie. But every ruler falls and I might be hard of hearing, but when I shot the world at Backleground, they're going to hear the one, two, three loud and clear. I like this promo. It was just this guy speaks, says what he says. This guy speaks says what he says, and then they then they walk out of the ring. No shenanigans, there's no beating anybody up between the two of them. It was just this is what I'm saying, this is what you're saying. Okay,

buy good, good good promo. Then then after Milesbourne leaves the ring, Jasper Troy from LFG, the guy who went LG I talked about before, the guy with the big chains. Uh. He drops Obafemi with a running body block and nails Uh, nails Femi with a black hole slam. Born then storms back into the ring to make the save. Femi refuses help from Born, and Borne hands the NXT title back to Femi. Femi and Borne have a standoff to close the segment. Okay, this segment they I'm about to talk

about just piss me off. I don't understand. So we're in Av's office. She's pissed at Ricky Saints and Eaton Page because they are fighting again, and Saints wants to finish the back and forth. Pages is having too much fun, and Saints offers to put the NXT. So, okay, so this is what happens. Saints says, he wants to fight you some, Paige, and he wants to put the NXT North American title on the line. Page says he likes

us out of that. Then Ava reminds them, okay, fine, fine, Ava reminds Paige AND's think that they don't make the matches. She does, and Sean Legacy has a claim to the title after the victory tonight, and then she makes the match that they ask for in the first place. She says, so the American title will be on the line. So she complains because they're making a match for the NXT North American title. So she complains that they don't make

the match. She does, and then she ends up making the match like what And I'm sitting and I'm sitting there watching this, going I can't wait until the podcast, until I until I do the podcast, because it's gonna

be like, what was the point of that. I know that Shawn Michaels can't be on TV and can't be like the prominent figure, but Ava's got to go, or at least somebody who's giving her lines needs to give her better lines, because she just that that was the stupidest sounding thing I've ever heard in my entire life. Then we have a problem with Tony D'Angelo. Tony D'angelo's going against Stacks at Battleground as well, guess it's gonna be. It's gonna be a good match. I'm not gonna say that,

but I have to. I have to tell you. Nobody knows where Cruciphena is. Adrian and Rizzo who to me, she's the reason why we watched the family. Get my point. She's nowhere to be found. She's locked up in a safe house. She's not in a safe house. I don't know what's going on. The problems back and forth are getting old. It's like I said that Tony and Sax is gonna be a great match at Battleground. I think I think Sax is gonna win. That's my that's my

impression that Sax will win. To kind of throw at a prediction in there, but at the end of the day, I don't care, I really don't. I mean, it's it's interesting sort of the fourth match of the night. Now, this match would have been the match of the night if the triple threat from earlier what didn't happen. This was a great match between No I'm thinking of a wrong match anyway, it doesn't matter. Folla Hanley versus Lolavice

great match. I was thinking of a different match. I will talk about that later Foula Mattress Fella Hanley versus Little Ice. This was a great match, but a lot of good back and forth stuff. At the end of the match, Lola wins with the with the spinning backfist which comes out of nowhere and like all of a sudden, it's I think who else does that? It's like uh, Carrie saying, I think she does a spinning backfist too. I think it's a great move. I love Lola Ice.

Please push her like once once Stephanie leaves, give her a title shot like she I think she deserves it. But yeah, so anyway, the winner of that match was Lolavice. Then Kellik and Kaid had to sit down interview with Stephanie for Care. This was like Stephanie's promo. She talked a lot about, you know, all her journey through the through the wrestling world over the years and all the trials and tribulations she went. There was a really great interview.

Should definitely watch it. I'm not gonna go through the whole thing, but it's to set up, obviously, the final set up between Stephanie and Jordan Grace. Now hold my feet to the fire. This is what I think. I think, I don't know if if Roxanne and Julia weren't just signed by the main roster shows how I was going to say that Jordan Grace wins the title and Stephanie

like goes up to the main roster. There's enough women to carry that, to carry Jordan Grace as the champion with everybody else gunning for her, I think I'm gonna stand by that. I honestly do think that's gonna happen. I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't, like, because you know, I think Stephanie enjoys her time in NXT, but after the two matches she had on in it ROSS, Stephanie's clearly ready for the main roster. She needs to get up there. She needs to give him a boost, she

needs to give herself a boost. Jordan Grace, excuse me. Jordan Grace is very content and doing well in the n XT, and I think she would make a great champion and go against somebody like Zaria or Lolavice. There's people, there's people, so feats and fire. Jordan Grace wins the title and Stephanie eventually in the draft or whenever. However, that's gonna happen. She'll go up to the main roster. That's what I believe is gonna happen. Fifth match of

the night was Zaria versus Klannie Jordan. This is the match I was going to talk about. Was a great match. This If Claudie wins, she got the North American Women's title match. Long story short, she does win the match. It was a great match, back and forth the whole time. Zaria is clearly setting up something with soul Ruka for the future. I can't wait to see that love so Ruka loves Zaria. Sorry, I'm waiting for Zaria versus Jordan Grace, to be honest, that's the match I want to see.

But for now they're focused on the North American Women's Championship, which is fine. Colonie Jordan does end up winning the match at the end with via roll up, which now grants her a title shot at so Ruka's North American Championship. Do I think Colonie Jordan's gonna win? No, I think so Ruka is going to retain the North American Championship.

To be honest, she really hasn't defended it. I don't know if she's defended it at all since Dannon delivered like she had one non title match and then Zaria has been fighting her battles so that they need to figure that out. But it was this. It was a really good match. And again, if it wasn't for the triple third match in the beginning, this this could have been the match of the night. So this is the match card and these are my predictions before we get

into the end. We have so Ruka versus Colonia Jordan for the NAMA TE Women Championship. I just said so, I think so Ruka will retain. We have Hank and Tank and Josh Briggs versus The Calling and a six VN tag match. I think the Calling is gonna win only because Hank, Tank and Josh are really not a group and the Calling is. I think that there's shenanigans and the Calling ends up winning the match with shenanigans. Again,

we talked about Tony and Stax Tony versus Stax. I believe that Stax is gonna win, but I flip a coin. Tony could win, Stax could win. I could see where Stax wins and and uh like uh, Christophina comes out and beats up Tony for Stax, maybe even her and maybe even him and Adrian Rizzo who knows Adrian Rizzo who cares. We have the women's championship Matt Stephanie versus Jordan Grace again. I think that George, I think that's

Jordan could win. I honest think that Jordan could take the title so that Stephanie can move up because that would be good for everybody. I believe we have all but Femi and the champion versus Miles Bourne. Again. There's no chance in hell of Miles Bourne winning this match if he does. To be honest, to be honest, if

Milesbourne pulls this off, okay, cool, it's a travesty. It's a travesty like especially and and by the way, you can kind of tell them that Oba's gonna win too, because the only way that Milesbourne is gonna win is if is if the dude from LFG comes back in Troy. He comes back in and and and costs over the match. I truly believe that he's not going to that. OBA will just be Miles Bourne and then they'll set up

the match between the two of them. Were your maagine going from LFG like directly into the main events scene at uh at franticst and then we have the Joe Joe Hendry versus Trick Williams for the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. I've avoided talking about this subject except for the whole Trick rap thing. We had a concert with Joe Hendry. He comes out, he sings a song, great, it's a funny song. He shows a video of him of Trick and mellow like running through that. I remember that the

haunted house thing. And then Joe Hendry's face comes as Trick screams and tricks. Trick gets a little butt hurt and he comes out and starts complaining to Joe Hendry. They have a little bit of a tussle. Trick Williams goes for the trick shot and Joe Hendry takes a guitar and just bashes him in the knee and the guitar obliterates and Trick Williams complicitly is like holding his knee. I don't I don't think it truly was hurt. I

think it was a ruse. It was a you know, but but yeah, no, So Trick Williams first he gets a guitar to the knee, the guitar obliterates, and then Joe Hendry does standing ovation on choke slam on Trick Williams now at the end of NXT, which, by the way, the show ended as soon as that was done. At

the end of NXT, Joe Henry stood tall before Battleground. Now, if you go with the way things go with last episodes before ples, not all the time, but the majority of the time, the person who is standing tall at the end of the go home episode is usually the one that loses the next match. If that's the case, I'm not saying it will be, but if that's the case, that means that Trick Williams could be the TNA World

Heavyweight Champion. Really you think like he would have to go on both brands, right, Like, how does that even work? If Trick Williams was the North was the NXT World to everyweight champion, how would that work? Like, I'm so excited to see what happens. I have no by and by the way, and I was listening to Busted Opener earlier and and Dave lok Greco was talking about the cool thing about this match is you have no idea who's going to win this match, which makes it like

you want them. Oh and by the way, let's not forget too that NXT background is going head to head with Double or Nothing in a w in the same night. This is the aw pay per view and Doubler and Battleground NXT is on the same night at the same time, So that'll be interesting to see about the numbers. But I don't who wins. Who wins the match? Okay, if I have to do a prediction, I said Trick Williams wins, and he's the NXT or he's the TNA World Everyweight Champion.

See if I'm right. And that's the end of the episode. Tell me, guys what you thinks. I I may or may not do, depending on how things are going in my life. I may or may not do a Battleground. So it's on Sunday night at eight o'clock and I have to go to work Brighton early the next morning. So I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try to do a review for Battleground. If not, it may just be an instant reaction after the show is over. And then but there's a there's a lot of matches on this card.

There is hold on there is one, two, three, four or five. There's six matches on and usually the nxt pl is only go two and a half hours, so it's gonna be interesting to see how that goes. But I but I think that I think I'm gonna try to I'm gonna try to do even if it's just an instant reaction after the after the PLA, and I'll send it to Matt and have them post it because I have to work on Monday and Tuesday. Why should not app Sorry, I actually Monday is a holiday. I

will have a review for the on the holiday. I will send it out to you. I almost forgot. That's so exciting. I have a day off on Monday. I hope you guys have a day off on Monday too. And in the meantime, I will talk to you this weekend. Bye.