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NXT TV RESULTS
DECEMBER 2, 2025
WINTER PARK, FLA. AT THE CAPITOL WRESTLING CENTER
LIVE ON CW NETWORK
REPORT BY KELLY WELLS, PWTORCH CONTRIBUTOR
NXT Commentators: Vic Joseph, Corey Graves
Ring Announcer: Mike Rome
Backstage Correspondent(s): Sarah Schreiber
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-WOMEN’S IRON SURVIVOR MATCH SUMMIT: Ava turned it over to the women. Sol Ruca started by saying last week Ethan Page called her a world champion caliber talent, and although she doesn’t usually care what comes out of his mouth, she said it’s time she started believing it too.
Jordynne Grace said it’s never that simple, and she’s come so close so many times that she can’t let it happen again. Lola Vice said she’s been grinding just as hard and no matter how many times she gets screwed, she still believes in herself. She said if not for Lainey, she’d be a champion right now. Kendal Grey said that the only champion in the ring right now is her, and she’s built on big moments.
Kelani Jordan told her to shut up, and she was booed loudly. She said she’s used to swimming with fish, and now she’s swimming with sharks. She said nobody’s excuses will matter after she wins. The crowd was ridiculously loud when booing her; is there some sort of “loudest fan” contest again? (There really used to be one in NXT; I’m not sure whether it’s still around or not)
Jacy Jayne and her cronies hit the ramp. She said it doesn’t matter, because nobody’s taking the belt from around her itty bitty size 2 waist. She talked down all the women in the ring.
-In the pantry, Joe Hendry and Thea Hail talked about the next time they team up. Stacks and Arianna Grace happened by and mocked them, and they devolved into a pre-teen mocking voice match that led to a match tonight.
-Thea made her entrance ahead of the match with Arianna. [c]
-Ava instructed some security guys to take care of the eight-man later tonight. She then ran upon Fatal Influence, and barred extra women from the ring later tonight.
(1) THEA HAIL (w/Joe Hendry) vs. ARIANNA GRACE (w/Stacks)
The two got going quickly, so this might not be getting a lot of time. As Hail took control, Stacks tried to get involved, but Hendry chokeslammed him on the steps. In the ring, Hail trapped Grace in the Kimura Lock for the immediate tap.
WINNER: Hail in about 2:00.
(Wells’s Analysis: Grace is funny enough that she qualifies as wildly underused. Hard to believe Stacks, even with this quick appearance, is still doing better than anyone else formerly of the Family faction)
-OTM almost go hit by a car in the parking lot that was driven by Uriah Connors & Kale Dixon. Andre Chase tried to smooth things over, but OTM said “next time we see them, it’s on sight.” Chase went to his students and said he didn’t know what on sight means, but OTM sounded pretty pissed off.
-Josh Briggs made his entrance. [c]
-Ava talked with the babyfaces from the Iron Survivor Challenge, and said if any of them scores the pin in the main event, they get to choose their spot in the Iron Survivor Challenge, but if DarkState wins, Dion Lennox gets to choose. Not a bad deal for Dion, honestly.
(2) TAVION HEIGHTS vs. JOSH BRIGGS
The two brawled outside the ring before the bell. Not long after they made it inside, Briggs got a two count after a chokeslam. Things slowed down and Heights hit a waistlock takedown, then another. The two exchanged forearms until Heights caught Briggs with a slick suplex with a leg hooked, right into a two-count. Fireman’s carry takedown by Heights. Briggs gained some separation with a hard right. Heights got dumped, then tried to hop back in, but Briggs kicked him in the mouth (it looked like it may have connected hard). Heights drove Briggs into the barricade, and the crowd said some allegedly naughty words and the show was muted as it went to split-screen commercial. [c]
A side slam got two for Briggs. The big spots before the break were replayed. Briggs kept it slow as he continued the heat sequence with a boot followed by an armbar on the mat. Briggs missed an elbow drop. Heights threw some rights and hit a single-leg dropkick. Briggs again took control and leaned on Heights with some elbows, and then a corner charge and elbow, then another set in the opposite corner. He went for a third, but Heights moved and got some separation with a hip toss. Running lariats by Heights. Heights hit something like a sling blade, then went for a second but ate an elbow. Briggs tried to use a chain but Heights caught him and hit a suplex with a bridge. The ref couldn’t count right away because he was dealing with the chain. Briggs got a foot on the rope at the last moment, and as Heights argued with the official, Briggs hit a hard lariat to finish. Briggs argued with some fans that may have been plants, as they were shown up close for kind of a while.
WINNER: Josh Briggs at 11:35.
(Wells’s Analysis: Really slow stuff here, and I’m glad a match knows how to slow down, but they didn’t spend much time in any other gear. This still feels like a feud that just isn’t going to end, but maybe we’ll get lucky and each guy will be given something new to do)
-Izzi Dame, flanked by the men from The Culling, walked through the back ahead of the next segment. [c]
-The Culling headed to the ring. Izzi took the mic and said she looked out at the crowd, and she gets it. They’re just like Tatum, because none of them want to be alone. The damned loser on the censor button killed about 15 seconds of Dame’s promo because they were busy muting the crowd, so I’m not sure what she was saying. She said she’s the one who gave Tatum a voice and propped her up. She said Tatum was selfish and stubborn. The crowd chanted the beat to the Addams Family theme song, and followed up by “We want Tatum.” Izzi used it and said “I’M the one who made her name worth chanting. She said this Saturday, they’re facing off one on one, and she’s finally going to finish this. She said she’s ending the version of Tatum that refused to Evolve.
The camera cut to Paxley sitting in the old Culling chairs. She asked why Dame took the only steady thing in her life from her. Dame said she became predictable. Izzi told her to come out unless she was scared. Tatum said she was scared because she doesn’t know what she’ll become without Izzi’s hand on her shoulder, and she’s going to have to make Izzi feel all of her pain.
-In the women’s locker room, Sol Ruca apologized for not being there fr Zaria’s match last week. Zaria said Ruca was obviously moving on, referring to the other women she’d be out there with tonight. Kendal Grey told Ruca she’d have her back out there. Wren Sinclair said that meant she’d be there, and although she’s not as scary as Zaria, she’s super supportive, which is kind of her thing. Zaria seethed as the women took off. This is looking like a Zaria villain origin story after all, which is a little irritating because Ruca acted like the heel for so long for it to get here, and really should be the bad one based on what we’ve seen. [c]
-A narrated hype video for the Iron Survivor Challenge laid out the rules of the match.
(3) SOL RUCA & LOLA VICE & KENDAL GREY (w/Wren Sinclair) vs. FATAL INFLUENCE (Jacy Jayne & Fallon Henley & Lainey Reid)
Vice and Reid started the match, but after one shove, all six women got into the ring and jawed, then turned it into a schmoz to get the obligatory mess out of the way. Vice hit a move outside and started her little dance, but Henley flew around the post and booted her in the face in a pretty funny spot. The brawl cleaned up as quickly as it started, and the match really got going.
[HOUR TWO]
Vice battered Reid in the babyface corner, and Ruca was tagged in. Reid got the upper hand fairly quickly and tagged Henley, who dropkicked Ruca for two. Graves called out Henley as perhaps the most underrated talent on the roster (I’m inclined to agree; she never should have stopped being the leader of this faction, though Jayne has learned on the job pretty well). Grey was tagged in and she dominated until Henley booted her in the face and tagged Reid, who ran the ropes and ate a double-underhook suplex. Jayne tagged in and Grey dominated her with some mat wrestling. Jayne put Grey on the apron, and with Jayne taking the ref’s focus, Henley yanked down Grey so she ate the apron. Fatal Influence preened for the camera as the match went to split-screen. [c]
Fatal Influence dominated until a hot tag by Vice, after which she controlled all three heels with a series of kicks. Fatal Influence ended up seated in three different corners, allowing Vice to hit her hip attacks on all of them in turn. Ruca tagged in and double-teamed with Vice, then hit a shoulderbreaker for two, broken up by Reid. It got messy again as several women got involved again, and in the chaos, Henley got the upper hand on Ruca. Reid and Jayne hit double knees on Ruca, and Ruca needed a pin save. Again everyone got involved and Vic was trying to keep track of who was legal. Ruca hit the Sol Snatcher on Jayne to win.
WINNERS: Ruca & Vice & Grey at 11:12.
After the result, the faces were celebrating outside the ring, but Zaria flew in with a lariat. She meant to hit Ruca, but Ruca moved and Grey ate it instead. Ruca and Zaria started shoving one another and Jayne smiled from the ring.
(Wells’s Analysis: As with the vast majority of NXT tag matches, it was a mess with no regard for the rules, and completely failed to tell a story as a result. Everyone here is pretty talented, so this was just a total drag because they’re capable of so much better than nothing more than another chaotic mess)
-NXT_Anonymous, now with no specific social media platform attached, was in the men’s locker room capturing a conversation between Je’Von Evans and Ricky Saints ahead of Deadline. Evans talked about almost winning the Iron Survivor Challenge last year, but he was taken down by the man who Saints has to face this Saturday. The camera was so close to the two of them that it really made Saints and Evans look like idiots for not knowing someone was filming them.
-OTM made their entrance. [c]
-More hype for the Cena interview. This segment featured the Cena-Punk saga.
-Backstage, Dion Lennox told the rest of DarkState that he should hand over the belt to one of his teammates, since he’s in the Iron Survivor Challenge and has to be all in on the singles thing. Cutler James insisted he give it to Saquon Shugars, so that’s what happened. If Ava was half the genius GM the announcers insist she is, she’d vacate the titles after this. Oba Femi showed up and Lennox got in his face, and Femi told him not to get ahead of himself.
(4) CHASE UNIVERSITY (Kale Dixon & Uriah Connors) (w/Andre Chase) vs. OTM (Lucien Price & Bronco Nima)
Connors scored an early near-fall, but the much larger OTM took over on offense shortly afterward. Connors made the tag to avoid a prolonged heat segment that would threaten to make the match look like a classic tag match, and got in some shots before he too was dominated. Nima covered Dixon and then weirdly just let Dixon up after one. Nima and Price teamed up for a slam into a stomatch breaker. Dixon missed a lariat but reversed a slam and made the tag. Connors went up, missed but hit his feet, and then went for a cutter but got caught. He hit a tornado DDT on Nima for two, and you’ll never guess, but everyone got involved. Connors hit a stunner and the faces attemped high cross-bodies to the outside, but they were both caught and smashed into one another. Back in the ring, OTM hit their finisher on Connors.
WINNERS: OTM at 4:36.
(Wells’s Analysis: Have Dixon and Connors beaten anyone? It’s possible I’ve recapped a match they won, but I’m not entirely sure. Chase U could be rehabilitated and could have a decent spot on the show again, but it feels like the writers are done with them)
-Ava talked to Ethan Page, who was trying to leave the arena for a much-needed night off. He told her he’s a double champion, and she said maybe he needs to make a defense. She said he could maybe face…someone she’s thinking about right now. From the back seat, Mr. Iguana’s toy iguana appeared, attached to Mr. Iguana’s hand. Page ran out, and Iguana stole his car. Finally, babyface crime returns to NXT! [c]
-Shiloh Hill is back with “another download.” He said he tried raccoon once, and it was kinda greasy. He talked about upgrading a snowmobile and crashing during a race where he was well ahead, and he thought he was going to freeze to death. He said he covered himself with anything he could find, and he was one with nature. He said he felt alive, especially when the wolves started howling. He laughed as he said “Can you imagine what would’ve happened if I had eaten by wolves?” He talked about really connecting with The Undertaker and the adrenaline and dopamine he gets from wrestling. He said he had to go find his bleach and stepped out of frame. I love this weirdo so much.
-Corey and Vic promoted Deadline: Mr. Iguana vs. Ethan Page, Ricky Saints vs. Oba Femi, the Women’s Iron Survivor Challenge, Tatum Paxley vs. Izzi Dame, and the Men’s Iron Survivor Challenge. I’d say there’s a chance this is the match order, though it’s not ideal if Saints-Femi is match #2.
-Joe Hendry, then Leon Slater, and then Je’Von Evans, were introduced ahead of the main event. [c]
-Vic promoted a SmackDown/Saturday Night’s Main Event double bill in late January in Montreal. Right before Rumble?
(5) JOE HENDRY & MYLES BORNE & JE’VON EVANS & LEON SLATER vs. DARKSTATE (Dion Lennox & Cutler James & Saquon Shugars & Osiris Griffin) – If a babyface scores the pin, he chooses his entry spot in the Iron Survivor Challenge; if a heel scores the pin, Dion Lennox chooses his entry spot in the Iron Survivor Challenge)
Weird for Borne not to get a televised entrance when he was the featured guy on the show last week; DarkState’s entrance was ending when they went back to the rng. Griffin, and then Shugars, got the upper hand on Borne early. Shugars worked a cravat until Borne flipped out of it, then turned a second one into a slam. He slammed Shugars and got two. An inset showed Ava approaching a table for an Oba Femi-Ricky Saints contract signing later, so this main event isn’t going to be as long as I thought.
Hendry tagged in and got the upper hand on Shugars. James tagged in and Slater followed on the other side, and he hit a rope running James with a dropkick. Evans tagged in and Slater charged him into a splash on James. Double stomp by Evans got a one count. Evans laid in some chops, but James hit a nice twisting backbreaker for two. Lennox tagged in and worked Evans over in the heel corner with some rights. Before long, EVERYONE GOT INVOLVED. Do they really not care that they do this during every tag match? DarkState got the upper hand and taunted the babyfaces, and the match went to split-screen. It’s ten to the hour, so this has to end pretty quickly after the show comes back if they want to get in a contract signing segment. [c]
It had broken down again, but the heels asserted control on Hendry shortly after the return from break. Lennox hit a leg drop on Hendry for two. Griffin tagged in and he and Lennox hit a lariat on Hendry. Shugars tagged in and hit one on Hendry as well. Hendry tried to crawl for a tag, but James tagged in. James missed an elbow drop and Lennox tagged in again, smacked some babyfaces from the apron, and dominated again. Hendry finally kicked off of Griffin and tagged Slater, who sped things up and hit Griffin early and often. James assisted Griffin on a double-chokeslam and Griffin got a long two. They went for their four-man finisher, but Slater dropkicked the two waiting men and tagged Evans. Evans and Shugars went through the announce table so fast, I legit don’t know how it happened. Evans flew everywhere and hit everything, and then hit a cutter on Griffin. He went high and hit another, and all three other DarkState members made the save. Everyone…got…involved. Action spilled outside, but the legal action was inside. All the babyfaces wanted the pin, and Borne was the last one to tag. He, Evans and Slater argued about it afterward. I’m glad they went there, because I was starting to think they weren’t going to acknowledge it.
WINNERS: Borne & Hendry & Evans & Slater at 14:49.
(Wells’s Analysis: By this time on the show, I was just totally done seeing schmoz after schmoz in every tag match, which is unfortunate because in a main event segment – and a match with this much on the line – this match really earned those spots. I genuinely hope someone is looking at all of this happening in three back-to-back matches and acknowledging that this needs to be saved for bigger spots. This one on its own was quite a bit of fun, and the sub-story of all the babyfaces wanting the pin was a good one, even if they only saved it for the tail end of the match. The hard sell for Borne is back in full effect, with the man scoring the final victory two weeks in a row now; he didn’t make the decision about his entrance in the Iron Survivor Challenge here, so that’ll apparently be saved for Deadline)
-With ONE MINUTE remaining to the hour, we went to the contract signing. Femi said this version of him was going to destroy Saints. Saints said there was always an exception to the rule, and the ruler, and his name is Ricky Saints. Ava said for the first time in NXT PLE history, the men’s championship match would open the show. Ricky said “perfect.” It really was just a one-minute segment.
FINAL THOUGHTS: I promise I was in a good mood before all the tag shenanigans started happening in every match (I’m also currently caught up on New Japan’s World Tag League, so I’m a little burnt out on tag wrestling in general this time of year). With that said, it was still a pretty blah go-home show, with two segments giving the hard sell to the ISC matches, a couple matches haphazardly thrown together at the last minute, and a lot of meandering. I do really like what they did with Tatum Paxley & Izzi Dame, though. And, as always, Shiloh Hill’s segment was beautifully bizarre. I also noted that now that we have so many champions on the brand, some weren’t shown at all (Blake Monroe was totally absent, and Jasper Troy has just disappeared for a couple of weeks now). I’ve got a rare bit of late-night errands to run tonight, so I won’t be on the podcast; Kevin Cattani will cohost along with Nate Lindberg tonight. Cheers.
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