4/23 WWE NXT Results – Joe vs. Balor vs. Aries main event, Nakamura, NXT Tag Title 2/3 Falls match, Asuka vs. Bliss

NXT Rhode Island - April 22, 2016 (photo credit Sean Radican @SeanRadican)

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WWE NXT Live Results
April 23, 2016
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

WWE concluded its latest road trip Saturday night at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center. Included was Finn Balor getting his NXT Title re-match after losing the title to Samoa Joe at Thursday’s NXT live show…

(1) Chris Girard (f/k/a Biff Busick) beat Mojo Rawley in the opener.

(2) Bayley & Carmella beat Dana Brooke & Peyton Royce.

(3) Manny Andrade beat Tommaso Ciampa. Attendees said this was an excellent match.

(4) Shinsuke Nakamura beat “The Drifter” Elias Samson. They did the imaginary air guitar spot from last night’s tag team main event involving the referee.

[Intermission]

(5) NXT tag champions American Alpha (Jason Jordan & Chad Gable) beat The Revival (Dash & Dawson) 2-1 in a two-out-of-three falls match to retain the NXT Tag Titles. American Alpha won the third fall with stereo anklelock submissions.

(6) NXT Women’s champion Asuka beat Alexa Bliss via submission to the Asukalock to retain the Women’s Title.

(7) NXT champion Samoa Joe beat Finn Balor and Austin Aries in a three-way No Holds Barred match to retain the NXT Title. This was Balor’s re-match from Thursday, but with Aries added. Aries ended up taking the fall to Joe.

Afterward, Balor teased leaving for the main WWE roster and staying at NXT to keep everyone guessing.

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