NXT Review – 07.22.25

What’s happened in WWE this week? Let’s take a look: Raw | LFG | Slammiversary (I’m including this one due to the obvious connections to tonight’s show)

Then, Now, Forever….TOGETHER

Tonight’s show comes from the 713 Music Hall in Houston, TX. The announce team is the usual suspects, Vic Joseph, Corey Graves and Booker T on match calls, Mike Rome handles ring announcements, and Sarah Schreiber will update and interview from backstage.

Making their way to the building are Fatal Influence lead by the NXT Women’s Champion and TNA Knockouts World Champion Jacy Jayne. Next to arrive is Ricky Saints ahead of his big match tonight with Jasper Troy. Here’s NXT Men’s Champion Oba Femi looking dapper before his defense against Josh Briggs and Yoshiki Inamura. Finally, we see TNA Men’s World Champion Trick Williams who is giving a distinct Jim West vibe with his fit tonight.

Graves and Joseph open the show by wondering where hometown hero Booker T is, but of course Booker isn’t missing, he’s just got a microphone. Booker walks through Gorilla while putting over Texas and running down the card. (He completely botches Blake Monroe’s name but it’s Booker, it’ll be okay). Booker hits his catchphrase and here we go.

ZaRuca and NXT Tag Team Champions Hank & Tank vs The Culling

There’s a Pier Six before the bell rings and it breaks down to Vance and Hank starting. They slug it out in the corner and as Hank charges in, Vance lifts him and nails him with a right. Spears tags in, kicks Hank in the chest, and then tags Vance back in. Vance rams Hank’s head into the corner and then they tussle along the ropes. Spears tags in and hits a rolling neckbreaker on Hank before shit-talking Tank. Hank grabs Spears boot when he tries to stomp him again, before rising and whipping Spears to the corner. Tank tags in and he and Hank run double-team offense on Spears that ends with a Tank running senton. Tank covers for one.

Spears escapes an irish whip and tags in Paxley while Tank tags in Zaria. Paxley gets some ground and pound before Zaria hurls her off and pump-kicks Paxley to the mat. Dame comes in to complain so Ruca flies over Zaria’s head and hits an X-Factor on Dame. Zaria presses Paxley but she slips out of it and tags in Spears. Tank cartwheels in and clotheslines Spears before tagging Hank. Vance comes charging in so Hank disposes of him, but when he and Tank line up for HONK HONK, Vance charges back in to prevent it. Another Pier Six erupts. The babyfaces all hit simultaneous body slams on their opponents. Vance is left alone for the heels so all four babyfaces hit HONK HONK on him. We go to commercials.

After commercials, Vance is hammering on Tank as Joseph says Vance has been a “one man wrecking crew” throughout the break. Tank fires up and they slug it out before Vance nails Tank with a headbutt. Vance ascends but misses his flying headbutt attempt (Can we ban that move for good please?) Spears tags in and after some nonsense in the face corner, he irish whips Tank who is saved from the turnbuckle by Hank. Tank comes charging out and waffles Spears with a clothesline. Vance charges in to knock Hank off the apron. Tank back-body drops Spears and tags in Ruca as Paxley tags in for the heels. Ruca hits a couple of flying elbows before tripping Paxley to the mat. Dame charges in to help and she eats a Ruca forearm. Ruca wipes out Paxley with a superkick before using Spears as a springboard during a tornado DDT on Dame. Zaria tags in.

Zaria and Ruca hit an assisted drop kick on Paxley in the corner. Ruca ascends and she and Zaria hit their assisted top rope splash but Dame breaks up the pin attempt on Paxley. Zaria headbutts Dame off the apron before walking into a Paxley roundhouse kick. Tank and Vance tag in, although I didn’t see either tag. Hank and Tank hit a double team splash on Vance but Spears charges in and superkicks both of them. Spears runs the ropes but he’s immediately walloped by a Hank lariat. Dame charges in and hits a Codebreaker on Hank. Dame ascends and splashes Hank and Tank, while Ruca does the same to Vance in the opposite corner. Paxley and Zaria come back in and Paxley nails Zaria with a pump kick. Zaria hoists Paxley but Spears climbs onto the apron to distract. Zaria says the hell with that and hoists Spears up for an F5 to an enormous pop. (Spears did the Lord’s work in making it look like it killed him.) Paxley sneaks in and rolls up Zaria for two.

Paxley misses a pump kick, so Zaria calmly spears her as Dame misses a charge on Ruca. Spears crawls over and retrieves Paxley’s doll (It had been put on the announce desk by Paxley earlier.). The lights go wonky and here’s Darkstate. When the lights come fully back on, Paxley has rolled up Zaria and gets three.

Okay, they went a LONG way for that “finish”. It was literally just Spears hands Paxley the doll, Darkstate show up, the lights come back fully on, and Paxley pins Zaria. They didn’t get the shot of what happened to cause it! The match was kind of an expected mess as these mixed matches usually are. The pace was too quick and nobody really sold for very long. Didn’t love this one and the finish really pisses me off. 1.5*

Winners – The Culling (Paxley rolls up Zaria)

Highlights are shown of Jacy Jayne hitting the Rolling Encore on Masha Slamovich to claim the TNA Knockouts World Championship at Slammiversary. Fatal Influence are heading to the ring for a chat as we go to commercials.

EARLIER TODAY Jordynne Grace is stopped by NXT GM Ava who tells Grace that because of putting hands on Robert Stone and Stevie Turner last week she’s not allowed in the building. Grace says one way or the other, she’s getting Blake Monroe tonight. Ava tells the Security goofs to keep an eye on her.

Booker is WILDLY excited about Jacy Jayne having two titles. The crowd chants “Jacy Two Belts” at the champ, who asks the crowd if the picture of her is worth a million bucks? At the end of the day, no matter what, Jayne says she runs women’s wrestling. Jayne says she’s running two brands now and despite everyone wanting to say other people are better than her, she’s the one ruling it all. Jayne says she did it all by herself without any help or support because everyone tried to write her off. Everyone wants their names written in the history books, says Jayne, but there’s nothing cliche about Jayne having two titles.

Here’s Lash Legend to interrupt. Legend says pointedly “No one expected YOU to be a double champion” to Jayne. Legend does however congratulate Jayne for taking her moment. Legend fires up and tells Jayne she’s at the top now but she’s going to “downward spiral” fast. Legend says it’s time for her to “LASH OUT” and have a moment of her own. Legend runs down her Evolution highlights and she came to the realization that because of that performance she can win one of Jayne’s titles.

Here’s Jaida Parker to join the proceedings. Parker puts over Legend’s performance at Evolution but this is NXT and Parker has a “direct line” to Jayne’s NXT title. Parker says she’s the future, not Legend. Jayne says she’s glad that Legend and Parker think so highly of themselves (Jayne does a taunting little clap here that’s hysterical). Jayne says she’ll let them hash it out and then says “Girls, get’em!” to Fallon Henley and Jazmyn Nyx. The heels are confused so Jayne charges over to punch Parker while Nyx and Henley confront Legend. Parker and Legend stand tall to dump the heels to the floor, and then they back into each other. (I think we’re getting a tag match, playa!).

THE NXT SPOTLIGHT PRESENTED BY PROGRESSIVE has Je’von Evans being approached by Ricky Saints. Evans is writing down some moves he wants to do in a notebook. Saints tells him not to overthink it, Evans is coming off a big win over Jasper Troy at the Bash and Saints is trying to do the same thing tonight. Evans says that Troy is a “hall of fame crash-out, always angry” kind of opponent but Saints should take his own advice and not overthink it. They dap it up and Evans tells Saints he’ll be watching. We go to commercials.

Here’s Tavion Heights, Charles Dempsey and Wren Sinclair as Heights hypes up Sinclair for her match. Dempsey tells her that the NQCC doesn’t get nervous, so Sinclair tells him that the “WrenQCC” does get nervous. Lexis King is doing something in the background as Myles Borne joins the NQCC crew to say he’s there to support Sinclair. Borne stares after King as we go back to the arena.

Jasper Troy vs Ricky Saints

Booker is noticeably silent during Troy’s entrance but he does say that this is the biggest mistake Saints has ever made in taking on Troy. The bell sounds and we’re off.

Saints slips a charge and goes to work on Troy in the corner with rights. Troy breaks out of that and tosses Saints to a corner so he can drive a shoulder in. Saints ducks out and starts chopping Troy before mounting and tossing right hands at Troy’s head. Troy pushes Saints off and he drops to the apron. Troy runs Saints over with a clothesline and then drags him to the middle of the ring. Saints escapes a splash attempt and puts Troy in a half-baked abdominal stretch looking thing. Troy’s had enough of that so he yanks Saints over his shoulder and plants him with an Oklahoma Stampede (Shoutout to JR, stay healthy my dude.). Graves says that Troy is the first monster that Saints has faced since joining NXT and he may not be ready for it. Troy hoists Saints over the top rope and casually tosses him to the floor. We go to commercials.

Back live and Joseph says it’s been all Troy during the break, as he has Saints hoisted over his shoulders. Saints slips off and punches Troy in the back of the head before slapping him a couple of times. Saints runs the ropes but gets caught in a Troy bear hug. Saints makes the choice to BITE Troy on the head as the ref is dealing with some tape that Saints pulled off his wrist. Troy tries to dump Saints to the floor but Saints slips it and hits a tope suicida on Troy that doesn’t knock Troy down. Saints throws a couple rights and then slips a Troy counterpunch that unfortunately lands on the ring post. Saints starts working Troy over as the ref is counting, but Troy comes back and dumps Saints back in the ring. Saints stomps on Troy’s hurting left hand but Troy tosses Saints off when he tries for a tornado DDT.

Troy misses a charge in the corner as Saints ascends. Saints nails Troy with a high cross-body, but Troy bounces right up as Saints is forced to duck a clothesline. Saints hits Troy with a second rope springboard rolling DDT and covers for two. Saints runs the ropes and sends both of them tumbling to the floor with a big leaping splash on Troy. Troy recovers and for some reason starts stalking the referee up the ramp, so Saints jumps on Troy’s back and starts whaling him with rights. They start fighting on the stage at the top of the ramp as Joseph says the ref is using “discretion” at the moment (Discretion is becoming their code word for “we know we aren’t following traditional wrestling rules right now just shut up already sheesh”). At this point, something happens with the entrance ramp and Saints appears to have fallen through it. Troy looks down at a fallen Saints and decides it’s a good time to senton him. Troy manages to beat the referee’s count but Saints does not and Troy wins.

This was what I would call “rough”. Troy needed a win and I guess they wanted to keep the monster aura while not pinning Saints again, so we got this finish instead. Of course they missed the money shot of Saints falling through the gimmicked ramp part. That’s two missed big moments on this show so far. Troy has clearly been told to slow down and work deliberately, which he did. Saints offense is just so bland and punchy, he does nothing for me. Your mileage may vary, but I’m just not a fan. 2*

Winner – Jasper Troy (Saints counted out)

Here’s TNA Men’s World Champion Trick Williams with High Ryze. Trick says he’s going to call out the Dead Man tonight and Wes Lee says if he needs them to say the word. Williams says no, it’s going to be TrickNA and the Dead Man man-to-man. Je’von Evans, notebook in hand, is listening and thinks that’s funny.

The announcers do a very moving voiceover tribute to WWE Hall of Famer Ozzy Osbourne. As a huge fan of Ozzy myself, it hurts deeply. We go to commercials.

Trick Williams makes his entrance. Booker is predictably hyped. Trick says the man carrying two brands has finally arrived. Trick went to Slammiversary, TNA’s biggest ever pay-per-view, and main evented. He defeated “Average Joe” Hendry and the “Loud and Proud Boricua” Mike Santana and that makes him the greatest TNA champion of all time. Trick says he’s dropping everyone in his way and last week the Undertaker’s LFG group got in his way. Trick says they snitched on him and called the Undertaker. Trick says the Undertaker is in the Hall of Fame for a reason but it’s a fact that he’s never held down two brands at the same time. Trick says the Undertaker from LFG feels “soft” and the crowd noticeably reacts to that as Trick stares at the camera. Trick tells the Deadman to bring his ass out.

BONG. Guess who’s here. The Undertaker makes an entrance to “American Badass” as I die a little inside. Trick chirps at Undertaker as he gets in the ring. Undertaker is wearing blue-tinted glasses for some reason and whatever the crowd starts chanting gets censored by the CW. Undertaker asks what do we have here, and then answers his own question by saying what they have here is a “dead man walking”. UT admires Trick’s title belt and “bling” and then asks if his jacket is genuine cow-hide as Trick grins and says “It’s real cow-hide, dawg.” (Trick wins the whole segment no matter what for calling the goddamn Undertaker “dawg”). UT says Trick does have it all except for one thing – respect. UT says Trick as the TNA champ is a different guy from when he was NXT champ. UT says he watched the NXT champ version of Trick scratch and claw his way to the top because he was hungry. UT says now, it’s not a matter of Trick losing the TNA title, it’s just a matter of when because Trick’s attitude is going to be his downfall. (It’s at this point I’m begging for them to get to the fireworks factory with wherever this is going. Please.)

UT says he tries to teach his LFG team to not be like Trick, and Trick says no one on that team is a superstar at his level. Trick says no one in NXT or WWR is a superstar like him, either. UT says he’s got some advice for Trick and that is that he’s “too light in the ass to step to an OG” (END. THIS. NOW.). UT tells Trick if he wants to dance with the devil UT will make him famous. Trick takes a swing at UT and misses, and UT snatches Trick up for a huge chokeslam. Trick comically sells it like Curly Howard as “American Badass” plays again and the crowd laps it all up.

Blake Monroe, looking resplendent in red, makes her way to the ring as we go to commercials.

Back live with Jacy Jayne asking Jasmyn Nyx and Fallon Henley about dealing with Jaida Parker and Lash Legend from the earlier incident. Michelle McCool enters and says she thinks Nyx should deal with Parker while Henley should go with Legend. Jayne agrees and wants to go to Ava to make it official. Henley and Nyx point in opposite directions when Jayne asks them which way to go, so she leaves in a huff.

Wren Sinclair vs Blake Monroe

Monroe had wanted Jordynne Grace to be ringside as Joseph points out, but as we saw earlier, Ava has banned Grace from the building. (I bet she will find a way, Victor.). The bell rings and off we go.

Monroe lifts a knee and then rams Sinclair into the corner. Monroe puts the boots to Sinclair in the corner and then runs Sinclair’s ear along the top rope. Monroe puts her boot under Sinclair’s chin and pushes away. Monroe tries to run Sinclair again into the corner but Sinclair stops it and fights her way out. Sinclair covers Monroe for three straight two counts. On their feet again, Monroe charges and Sinclair wipes her out with a back roundhouse kick that was a thing of beauty. Monroe recovers and boots Sinclair down before ascending. Monroe hits a missile dropkick that staggers Sinclair. Monroe hits a Sling Blade and lazily covers Sinclair for two. Monroe grabs an arm and starts wrenching Sinclair’s neck in the opposite direction. Sinclair fights out of it and drives rights into Monroe’s midsection before arm-dragging her off.

Sinclair nails Monroe with chest strikes and then runs Monroe over with clotheslines and a shoulder tackle. Sinclair hits a facebuster and covers for two. Siclair grabs a double underhook but Monroe escapes and trips Sinclair onto the second rope neck-first. Monroe waffles Sinclair with a headbutt and then crushes her with a double underhook Implant DDT that Graves calls a “Butterfly DDT”. It’s academic after that as Sinclair covers for three.

Just a showcase that was just slightly more than a squash, quite frankly. Wren got a bit of offensive shine and sold her ass off as usual. Monroe was fine, nothing special, she just crushed Sinclair and will now move on. 2*

Winner – Blake Monroe (Butterfly Implant DDT)

Post-match sees Monroe grab a mic as Jordynne Grace rushes the ring with a chair. Security takes that away, but Grace leaps in the ring and it’s on. Grace starts wrecking Security goofs as Monroe bails to the floor. Monroe waffles Grace with a headbutt and then hits the Butterfly Implant DDT on Grace on the very chair she was carrying to the ring. (I *love* wrestling irony like that). Monroe admires her work as Grace sells.

Here’s NXT Men’s North American Champion Ethan Page making his way to the ring as we go to commercials.

In the ring, Page says it’s the 56th day of the greatest North American to ever hold the NA title. Page is at a dais with a belt stand and two flagpoles draped in black also in the ring. Page says 17 Americans have held the title before him and his goal is to have more dignity and class then all of them combined. (YOU WILL NOT DISPARAGE LEON RUFF SIR.) Page says his parents emigrated from the former Yugoslavia to give all of them a better life. This allowed him to see all the small towns and big cities from coast to coast as a wrestler. Page says if his family had made different decisions he might have ended up like the people in the crowd, but because he was born in Canada, things are different. Page unveils the Canadian flags to a lot of boos (This is not shocking in the slightest given the location of this event). Page says going forward the title is not going to represent the continent because that’s a lie. The damn censors from CW are so quick that the next part of his tirade gets totally silenced but he’s yelling about Mexico and representing something. Page says he was born in Canada and made in America and that makes him the greatest North American alive and it affords him the privilege of doing this – and he tosses the title belt out of the ring. Page then unveils a very Canadian-themed NA belt as the crowd showers him with boos.

Page starts putting over the Canadian way of life before the censors again strike. (I’m pretty sure they’re chanting “asshole” at Page and I have no idea how anyone didn’t expect this during creative for this promo – the censors are killing this). Page says he takes pride in being the champion as a Canadian. Page wants everyone to rise for the singing of “Oh Canada”. Graves is standing for this. Here’s TNA Director of Authority Santino Marella to interrupt.

I notice that they’ve put caution tape over the gimmicked part of the ramp that Ricky Saints fell through earlier in a kind of funny touch. Santino gets a hell of a reception from the crowd who start chanting his name. Santino says that “Ethan Pa-gay” has a big mouth. Marella says he’s from Italy and follows in the great Italian athlete’s footsteps like Bruno Sammartino, Canonball Parisi, and of course, Rocky Balboa. What people might not be aware of is that Marella currently lives in Canada and raised his family there, and they don’t think like Page does. Marella says the garbage coming out of Page’s mouth makes him sick. Marella calls Page a “bunghole boy” and the crowd of course starts chanting that. Page tells Marella to go back to TNA, but Marella says he was standing in the back with his good friend “Avahhh” and couldn’t take it anymore. Marella says that Page talks about having honor and pride and dignity but he actually has none of those things. Someone who does have those things is Marella and he’ll see Page next week. Page says no, we’re gonna do this right now but as he turns, Marella has the Cobra on and Page bails.

This segment was death until Marella showed up and the censors stopped screwing around. I desperately wish they would put up Parental Notices before these shows and not censor the chants because Page’s promo got ruined as it went along.

A staggering Trick Williams runs into Oba Femi backstage. Jacy Jayne ducks between them as they square up. Femi grins at Trick before leaving. We go to commercials.

Je’von Evans is still in his notebook as Yoshiki Inamura pulls up a chair. Inamura says he needs some advice and Evans reminds him that he’s only 21. Inamura says he’s right and goes to leave but Evans says he was just playing and how can he help? Inamura questions not listening to Briggs but Evans says Inamura has a code and is going down his path right now. Inamura says he likes Briggs but he doesn’t always like the way he thinks. Evans says you can love someone but not actually like them. Inamura says he feels what Evans is saying and clasps him. Inamura asks what Evans is doing with the notebook and Evans says he’s figuring out what’s next. Inamura says what’s next for him is the NXT championship.

Here’s the NQCC with Myles Borne, who Dempsey tells to leave. In walks Bubba Ray Dudley to tell Borne to stay, while he bellows at Dempsey to tell him to leave. Bubba tells Sinclair she had a great match and hugs her. Bubba addresses Dempsey and Heights and says he’s going to get a rematch between them that if Heights wins, he’s out of NQCC, but if Dempsey wins Heights stays and puts a smile on his face. They shake on it and leave, as Lexis King enters to call Myles Borne a “big fat phony“. King says Borne is faking being deaf because he can hear everything even with noise-canceling headphones on (This might take the cake for the Stupid Wrestler Takes Of All Time). Borne tells King that he’s not deaf or blind, but everyone around here wishes he was mute (BURN UNIT ACTIVATE).

At the announce desk, Graves talks up Roman Reigns wrecking shop at the end of Raw. Reigns put up a video on X earlier today where he asked if Jey Uso would trust him one more time and take on the “Bron Brons” at Summerslam.

Josh Briggs makes his entrance as we go to commercials.

NXT Men’s Championship: Oba Femi (C) vs Yoshiki Inamura vs Josh Briggs

Femi slugs Briggs at the bell and then tosses Inamura away. Femi clotheslines Briggs over the top rope to the floor as Inamura wades in with forearms. Inamura and Femi bull their way to the corner, and Inamura wins that skirmish. Femi reverses an irish whip and casually tosses Inamura directly over his head. Femi charges but a recovered Briggs snatches him and hits him with a drop Sidewalk Slam and a splash. Briggs covers for two as Femi kicks out. Briggs tries to get Inamura to work with him and they start barreling into Femi from the front and back. Femi fires up and nails Inamura with a clothesline as Briggs slips it. Femi yanks up Briggs and clobbers him with a clothesline for good measure.

Inamura and Briggs are in opposite corner and Femi runs from one to the other dropping Euro uppercut bombs. Inamura comes charging out to snatch up Femi for a whirling bodyslam. Inamura’s cover is broken up at two by Briggs stepping on the referee’s hand. Meanwhile, Femi recovers and hits an enormous double chokeslam on both opponents. We go to picture-in-picture commercials.

During PIP Femi runs Briggs head-first into the turnbuckle, but Briggs comes back with an irish whip reversal into a running lariat in the corner. Briggs drops a big elbow on Femi’s head and tries to direct Inamura again. Inamura puts a couple of boots to Femi and covers for two as Briggs stops just short of breaking it up. Briggs and Inamura hoist Femi up for a backdrop slam and Briggs bails to get a chair. Inamura has ascended so Briggs puts the chair over Femi’s chest but Inamura refuses the splash and climbs down. Briggs gets grumpy so he snatches Inamura up and slams him on a prone Femi. Briggs covers Femi for two. Inamura then yanks Briggs up and slams him on Femi before covering for two. Briggs and Inamura slap hands as Femi finally gets back to his feet. They irish whip Femi and Inamura elbows Femi while Briggs hits a big boot. Inamura covers Femi but Briggs yanks him off and covers Femi for two. Briggs sets Femi up in the corner but when he whips Inamura in, Femi nails him with an elbow. Briggs charges in and eats a big boot.

Back to full screen with Femi looking for a superplex on a prone Briggs in the corner. Inamura sneaks under and puts Femi on his shoulders so Briggs tries to make a move and all three tumble to the mat. Inamura covers Femi for two. Inamura tries to cover Briggs who immediately snaps out of it and starts bickering with Inamura. There’s a tussle and Briggs ends up hitting Inamura with a back elbow. Femi charges them both and Inamura gets dumped to the floor. Femi charges but eats a big boot from Briggs followed by a Briggs lariat to the back of Femi’s head. Briggs hits a big chokeslam on Femi and covers for two as Femi just kicked out.

Briggs starts clubbering before Femi makes it back to his feet. Inamura charges and Femi slips it so Inamura runs over Briggs instead. Inamura starts clobbering Femi with strong style offense, and then runs the ropes to hit a leaping chop to the middle of Femi’s head. (He seriously karate chopped the shit out Femi’s head here). Inamura runs Femi over with a shoulder tackle and then yanks him back up. Inamura snatches Femi up and hits a sit-out powerbomb and that cover is broken up when Briggs yanks the referee out of the ring after a two count. The ref leaps back in and makes another two count so Briggs grabs Femi’s hand and puts it over the rope. Inamura bellows at Briggs and as Briggs walks away, Inamura sprints down the apron to waste him with a rolling shoulder tackle. Inamura charges back in and nails Femi with a uranage.

Inamura ascends and hits Femi with his huge splash. Inamura goes to cover but out of nowhere Briggs moonsaults the entire pile of humanity. Briggs covers Femi for two. Femi rolls out as Briggs and Inamura finally start slugging it out. They start throwing absolute bombs at each other and it ends with Briggs hitting a MASSIVE lariat on Inamura. Femi flies in and DESTROYS Briggs with a flying Euro uppercut before ending it with his Fall From Grace sit-out powerbomb on Briggs for three.

This was a wild defense for Femi because of the story-telling nature of the match with Briggs and Inamura. Femi had to sell a ton, which he did well. The pace was what you’d expect from three hosses, and I’m glad there was open conflict between Briggs and Inamura so we can move them on to other things. It got VERY physical towards the end which I really appreciated. Match of the night for me. 3.5*

Winner AND STILL NXT Men’s Champion – Oba Femi (Fall From Grace sit-out powerbomb to Briggs)

Post-match sees Briggs run over Inamura and scream at him.

Je’von Evans is still taking notes and in walks the Undertaker. UT says Evans should continue going after the biggest dog in the yard and glances at the screen more than likely indicating Oba Femi. Evans nods and grins and we’re out.

Too much yap for me tonight. I know they need shows like this to move things along angle-wise but WOW. The Page segment and the UT-Trick segments felt ENDLESS at times. The Monroe-Grace thing feels like the start of an intense rivalry and I’m here for that. Thumbs in the middle for this one but if you only catch highlights and watch the main event, you’ll be fine.

Thanks for reading and commenting as always. Have a good week, and I’ll see everyone for Smackdown and Collision later in the week. Y’all be cool.