Post by Slade on Mar 12, 2021 17:58:40 GMT -5
Date: February 24, 2021
From: Full Sail Live at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida
Commentary Team: Mauro Ranallo and William Regal
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The show starts with a quick video message from Vince McMahon naming William Regal as the General Manager of the NXT brand (in addition to his administrative duties on the brand, he will join Mauro Ranallo every week on commentary). Regal comes to the ring and gives a speech about how he intends to make NXT the premier brand of sports entertainment enthusiasts the world over. Furthermore, he announces that tournaments for the NXT Women’s Championship and the NXT Tag Team Championships will begin to tonight. The finals of those tournaments will take place at the first NXT: Takeover on Saturday, April 3!
EMBER MOON vs. BILLIE KAY : Ember Moon executed the Eclipse and pinned Billie Kay to win the match and earn a spot in the semifinals of the NXT Women’s Championship tournament. (6:32) Winner: Ember Moon
LUCHA BROTHERS vs. LEGADO DEL FANTASMA : Rey Fénix and Penta El 0M had to contend with Legado del Fantasma’s leader, Santos Escobar, constantly interfering to help Raul Mendoza and Joaquin Wilde. When they had Wilde set up for a package piledriver and diving double-foot stomp combo, but Escobar climbed onto the ring apron and held onto Fénix’s foot. Mendoza ran in and gave Penta a dropkick. He grabbed Penta, lifted him into a vertical suplex and dropped him into a lungblower. Fénix managed to shake off Escobar, but then Wilde jumped up and went for a super frankensteiner. Fénix landed on his feet, then did a matrix evasion to a clothesline attempt by Mendoza. Fénix gave him a handspring cutter and gave Wilde a Fire Driver to get the win. (12:09) Winners: Lucha Brothers
Imperium came to the ring to celebrate WALTER’s victory in last week’s battle royal. In winning that match, WALTER became the inaugural NXT Champion. A claim made during this celebration was that WALTER will reign as the first and only NXT Champion because he is unbeatable. This prompted Johnny Gargano to come out and say that as the last man eliminated in the battle royal, he wants to be th first man to challenge WALTER for the NXT Champion, and claims that he could and would beat him one-on-one. WALTER scoffs at him, saying that it was all too easy to throw him out of the ring. Then, Dominik Dijakovic entered the picture, saying that he’s the only man big enough not to get thrown around by WALTER. He wants eliminated by WALTER, so if he’s looking for a real challenge, he’s the man. Pete Dunne came out next and said that he would be more than happy to take that strap from around WALTER’s waist. The segment ends with William Regal getting up from the commentary table to announce an impromptu 8-man tag team match between Dunne, Dijakovic, Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa and Imperium. He says that if they can beat Imperium, then one of them will get an opportunity to be WALTER’s first challenger, but they can’t, then he will pick someone else who steps up to the plate and impresses him.
PETE DUNNE, DOMINIK DIJAKOVIC and #DIY vs. IMPERIUM : This 8-man tag team match had the crowd at Full Sail on its feet for the entire match. It had many big moments. Tommaso Ciampa executes Widow’s Bell on Alexander Wolfe. Fabian Aichner and Marcel Barthel executed a diving European uppercut and powerbomb combo on Ciampa to nearly get the win. Pete Dunne gave Aichner the Bitter End. Johnny Gargano put Barthel in the Gargano Escape. Wolfe gave Dunne a death valley bomb. Aichner and Barthel gave Ciampa a spike piledriver. As decorum began to breakdown, Dominik Dijakovic took WALTER down with a a discus big boot, then lifted him onto his shoulders. WALTER hammered away at the side of his head with his elbow and gave him a Rip-Chord Lariat. Gargano tried to give him a superkick, but WALTER blocked it chopped him down and then gave him a folding powerbomb. He tagged Aichner, who quickly tagged Barthel, and together they executed the diving European uppercut and powerbomb combo on him. Barthel made the pin to get the win. (19:43) Winners: Imperium
After the match ended, the members of Imperium decided to keep beating up on their opponents. Suddenly, without notice, Kevin Owens appeared at ringside. He pulled Aichner out of the ring and gave him a powerbomb on the side of the ring apron. Wolfe ran around the ring apron to clothesline him. Owens ducked, then kicked him in the mid-section and gave him a stunner. He climbed into the ring and got into it with Barthel. He gave him a pop-up powerbomb. After WALTER finished laying a beating in on Dunne, he turned around to a waiting Owens, who gave him a kick to the mid-section and a stunner! As the Full Sail Live audience popped, Owens went to ropes and shouted down at Regal, sitting at commentary to ask if what he had just done was impressive enough.
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