On Thursday night, the Yellow Brand held their latest batch of television tapings at Full Sail. Please be aware that everything you read in the subsequent paragraphs is an actual, massive, legitimate spoiler for what will happen over the next several weeks of NXT television. You may read on only at your own risk. But if you’re the sort of person who just simply cannot wait until next week to find out what happens next, congratulations! This post is for you!
Results from the September 14, 2017 tapings:
1. TM61 defeated Wesley Blake and Steve Cutler. This was the big return for TM61 after Shane Thorne’s injury. This might have been a dark match.
— Triple H came out to thank the Full Sail crowd for being there despite the hurricane, saying, “This is our home, too.” These tapings had originally been scheduled for Wednesday night but were pushed back a day due to Hurricane Irma.
— SAnitY entered through the crowd and called out Adam Cole, Bobby Fish and Kyle O’Reilly. Eric Young said that tonight, he will take Cole to the edge of sanity.
2. Lars Sullivan defeated Oney Lorcan. Sullivan won by pinfall, and tried to continue the attack after the bell but Danny Burch made the save.
3. Heavy Machinery defeated Demitrius Bronson and a partner.
4. Liv Morgan defeated Vanessa Borne.
5. Kassius Ohno defeated Fabian Aichner.
6. Adam Cole defeated Eric Young. Cole’s faction is indeed called The Undisputed Era. Prior to the match, Cole wondered how NXT ever survived without them. He said they are untouchable, unstoppable, and undisputed. Cole won via Shining Wizard while SAnitY and the Era brawled on the outside.
— The officials put pink tape on the middle ropes, so the matches that follow at this point in the taping will air in October.
7. Ruby Riot and Nikki Cross defeated Peyton Royce and Billie Kay. Once again, Riot made her entrance alone, but Cross appeared and tagged herself in, helping Riot get the victory.
— Lio Rush made his NXT debut. He was set to have a match against Aleister Black, but Velveteen Dream attack Rush during his entrance. Dream then taunted Black and said, “Say my name.”
8. Kairi Sane defeated Aliyah.
9. NXT Championship Match: Drew McIntyre (c) defeated Roderick Strong. McIntyre won via pinfall after the Claymore kick. Strong shook McIntyre’s hand, but on his way to the back, the Undisputed Era appeared and talked to him.
10. No. 1 Contender’s Match: Peyton Royce defeated Nikki Cross and Liv Morgan. This was a match for a chance to enter a Fatal 4-Way against Kairi Sane and two others for the vacant NXT Women’s Championship at NXT TakeOver: Houston. During the match, the Undisputed Era appeared with Taynara Conti, and Conti ran to ringside to cost Cross the match. Following Conti’s distraction, Royce hit Cross with a spin kick and the fisherman suplex to get the pin.
11. The Velveteen Dream defeated Lio Rush. Rush got a lengthy standing ovation for his proper NXT in-ring debut. Dream won with the diving elbow drop, and once again taunted Aleister Black after the match.
12. Lars Sullivan defeated Danny Burch.
13. The Street Profits defeated local talent. Montez Ford got the pin with a frog splash.
14. Andrade “Cien” Almas defeated Johnny Gargano. At the end of the match, Zelina Vega revealed she was wearing a #DIY shirt, distracting Gargano long enough for Almas to hit the hammerlock DDT and get the pin.
15. No. 1 Contender’s Match: Ember Moon defeated Sonya Deville and Rudy Riot. This was another match to determine a spot in the Fatal 4-Way Women’s Championship Match at TakeOver. Moon won by pinfall after hitting the Eclipse on Deville, who had Riot in an ankle lock at the time.
16. Aleister Black defeated Raul Mendoza. Velveteen Dream wandered to ringside during the match to wear Black’s vest and taunt him some more. Black got the pin after connecting with Black Mass.
17. Kassius Ohno defeated Cezar Bononi. Ohno connected with a rolling elbow to the back of the head to get the pin.
18. SAnitY (Eric Young, Killian Dain and Alexander Wolfe) defeated The Undisputed Era (Adam Cole, Bobby Fish and Kyle O’Reilly). The Authors of Pain appeared and attacked SAnitY. The Authors posed with SAnitY’s tag title belts as Undisputed Era watched from the ramp.
