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NXT TV RESULTS
DECEMBER 30, 2025
WINTER PARK, FLA. AT THE CAPITOL WRESTLING CENTER
AIRED LIVE ON CW NETWORK
REPORT BY KELLY WELLS, PWTORCH CONTRIBUTOR
NXT Commentators: Vic Joseph, Booker T
Ring Announcer: Mike Rome
Backstage Correspondent(s): Sarah Schreiber
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-Ricky Saints and Je’Von Evans were shown arriving separately on a night when they’ll face one another. Vic said it was time to ring in the New Year as we get ready for our final episode of the year.
(1) MOOSE vs. ETHAN PAGE (c) – NXT North American Championship match
Moose got a nice reaction. The fans replaced the word “asshole” into Ethan Page’s “Ego” theme song, and amazingly, the prudish CW censor only muted it the first time. Mike Rome handled formal intros, but Page charged and sneak attacked Moose during Moose’s introduction. Moose got back into it with a spear not long after the bell rang, but he charged outside for an attack and ended up eating the steps. Page tried to yank Moose into the corner post, but of course the powerhouse Moose reversed. The two went back inside. Page hit a kick from the second turnbuckle, then gained separation with a neckbreaker. The show went to a commercial a couple minutes earlier than the usual. [c]
It had slowed down. Moose fought off two suplexes, but Page ran the ropes and laid in a boot. Moose hit a suplex right after and the fans chanted his name. Moose hit a back elbow in the corner, then hit a uranage and a senton. He charged a corner and ate a back elbow, then hit a sit-out powerbomb on a flying Page for two. They went to an exchange of shots and neither would go down. Big boot by Moose. Big lariat and a Confidence Breaker (jawbreaker) by Page. Page got dumped to the outside, and Moose followed.
Moose charged Page through a barricade, and there was an “NXT” chant for a spot that happens every single week. Back inside, Moose hit a spear and crawled slowly to a cover, and Page got his foot on the rope. They’re loving that spot again. Moose measured Page from across the ring, but Page bailed to the ramp side. Moose charged around the corner, and Page backdropped him on the lower half of the separated stairs. That looked insanedly painful. Back inside, Page hit a top rope splash for a long two. Page hit the Twisted Grin to finish.
WINNER: Ethan Page at 10:46.
(Wells’s Analysis: Decent action that gave fans a couple of hope spots, but I doubt anyone thought that this was the time, place or opponent to finish Page’s lengthy reign. Vic mentioned that the reign is getting somewhat near the longest ever, but he didn’t mention Wes Lee by name)
-The NXT male superstar of the year was named. The nominees were Je’Von Evans, Ricky Saints, Trick Williams, Ethan Page and Oba Femi. NXT insulted our intelligence by naming Evans as the winner, in a year where Femi had one of the best years ever for anyone in NXT. Evans, though, is likely going to end up winning the NXT Championship at Stand & Deliver, so I understand giving him this award to move toward that storyline. It’s possible he won the fan vote, given how lovable he is, but it seemed pretty convenient. Evans gave a typically charismatic and endearing thank you speech and said 2026 will be even bouncier.
-Backstage, Izzi Dame realized, in a talk with Shawn Spears and Niko Vance (Vance didn’t speak, as is the norm), that she’ll have to do things alone tonight. [c]
-Vic promoted SmackDown/Saturday Night’s Main Event for a few weeks from now in Montreal.
-Backstage, someone had attacked Kendal Grey in the back, and Wren Sinclair yelled for help. They do the secret backstage attacker a lot in NXT.
-Izzi Dame was in the ring with a mic, soaking up loud boos. She said Tatum Paxley made her be the bad guy and break her heart. She said Dame got the win because Paxley took Spears and Vance out in their match. She said Paxley can’t be fixed, so she might as well play with her dolls and chainsaws. Dame said she was never the villain in their story. She said she saw Paxley at rock bottom, and put her back there when she refused to evolve.
Paxley’s music played her out to the ramp in a new black and white ensemble that looked like it would be at home in Beetlejuice. She said Dame didn’t think Paxley listened, but she saw and felt everything. She said she had to say one thing: she’s sorry…that Dame is just so insecure. She said Dame has to put fear into people just to feel powerful. Paxley said that Dame is the one who’s too scared to look in the mirror. Paxley said she realized she doesn’t need friends like Dame, she needs friends like “all of them” (pointing to the crowd). She said she didn’t start this, but she’s ending it for herself.
Dame said if Paxley had listened, she’d still be NXT Champion. She said she didn’t care if Tatum was delusional anymore. Paxley said when it’s her time, and she’s rotting in the dirt and the worms eat her brain, they’re going to see the memory of what Paxley did to Dame. Dame said if she wants to live with the pain of losing to her twice, she’s all for it, but playtime is over. Dame started to leave. Paxley said it’s not over until she says it is. Dame tried to attack from the back, but Paxley was ready and she laid out Dame. A nice effort from both women.
-NXT Tag Team of the Year. Nominees were Hank & Tank, ZaRuca, The Culling, Fatal Influence and DarkState. Big yikes to that field on a brand with a very stacked tag team history. ZaRuca were named – and correctly so (considering they didn’t include the departed Fraxiom) – the winners. They held the award together and gave a decent babyface acceptance speech that would, this week, suggest that the split is off. [c]
(2) WREN SINCLAIR vs. JACY JAYNE (w/Fallon Henley & Lainey Reid)
Non-title. Sinclair did her usual entrance, but looked concerned after the attack of Grey earlier. Jayne hit an early senton after a series of reversals and evasions. Jayne made a clean break against the ropes, but got in Sinclair’s face and called her a loser. Sinclair fired up and beat Jayne around the ring until Jayne hung up Sinclair on a rope. There was an “NXT” chant out of absolutely nowhere; no idea what the crowd is doing here. There was also a chant that seemed to be “Let’s go Jacy/Fallon sucks” for some reason. Sinclair worked Jayne’s arm, hitting a wringer and then an uppercut to the soft part of the arm. Sinclair took Jayne down and did a cross-armbreaker. Sinclair blocked Jayne to the mat, then hit a bulldog for a long two.
Rope run and Sinclair hit a back kick. Henley tried to trip Sinclair, who hopped over it, but the opening allowed Jayne to take control. Fatal Influence preened into the camera as the match went to commercial. Like the previous match, they didn’t use split-screen here. [c]
Jayne leaned on Sinclair, then hit her with a running neckbreaker. Double stomp by Jayne at the ropes. Sinclair tripped Jayne into the ropes, then laid in a big palm strike. Sinclair hit a couple of lariats and fired up. Double-underhook suplex by Sinclair, who covered for two. Jaynegot in a back elbow, and after some reversals, a big knee to the jaw for a long two. Sinclair bailed to evade a running move in the corner, then hit a high cross-body for two. Sinclair worked an interesting submission that you’ll have to see to call, and Jayne rolled her up to break. Inside cradle by Sinclair got two, but Jayne managed the Rolling Encore out of relative nowhere to finish.
WINNER: Jacy Jayne at 11:06.
Fatal Influence attacked Sinclair afterward, and a hurting Kendal Grey charged the ring and still managed to destroy all three, and get a visual tap out of Jayne. Vic reminded us that the Championship is on the line next week at New Year’s Evil.
(Wells’s Analysis: Very strong stuff here as Jayne remains on the biggest roll of her career. This is more time than Sinclair ever sets in a singles setting, and she acquitted herself pretty well. The Grey-Jayne match next week should have show-stealing potential)
-Joe Hendry sang a few scales (with the words “We believe”) ahead of his concert. [c]
-Hendry hit the ring, where a chair, a mic, and two guitars sat. Booker T got way into it, as he’s done a lot lately, and sang along to the entirety of Hendry’s theme song. Hendry said 2025’s been a huge year for him: he won the TNA Championship, he appeared in the Royal Rumble, he wrestled Randy Orton at WrestleMania and he laid out The Miz at Saturday Night’s Main Event. He said he wrote a song to cap it all off. He sang that NXT’s had a special year. He put over the women’s division, Je’Von Evans, mocked Ethan Page and Chelsea Green for eating pie, and also swiped at Page for getting his car stolen by Mr. Iguana. He went to Trick Williams, who was back to crying and releasing terrible songs. He sang that Ricky Saints turned into a whining little bitch. He said he made DarkState famous. He sang that NXT had big plans for 2026, and started into his next line, but the lights went out and DarkState charged the ring. Nice of the production team to turn off the lights for them, eh? Nobody made the save and they left Hendry laying in the ring. [ed. – apparently, I missed that Tony D’Angelo was lurking and watching from afar]
-Ava sent off Robert Stone to make sure everything else went off without a hitch. She went into her office, where Blake Monroe had wandered in, still weird and disoriented, as she’s been since losng her championship. I know she was supposed to retain, but this broken, paranoid version of her has added a lot to who she is and I think will ultimately prove to have been a new thing. She tried to get Ava to promise that it would be a different referee from the one who allegedly made a mistake when Thea Hail won the title.
-Tavion Heights entered ahead of the Speed Tournament finals, where the winner will go on to face Jasper Troy. [c]
-Matt Cardona weighed in on the Oba Femi vs. Leon Slater match, as did Elijah, Stacks & Arianna Grace, Mike Santana, Mara Sade, and Hank & Tank. Everyone picked their own brand-mate to win the match, except for Tank, leading to a dopey scene with Hank & Tank arguing over it. They both convinced the other one, so they both changed their minds.
(3) TAVION HEIGHTS vs. LEXIS KING – Speed Tournament Final
Heights hit a beautiful belly-to-belly powerslam and…oh, holy hell!
WINNER: Tavion Heights in 0:08.
Afterward, Jasper Troy stood on the ramp and held his championship and had a staredown with Heights.
(Wells’s Analysis: Well, that’s the kind of thing you can do with a guy like Lexis King, though he likely wasn’t thrilled. Heights comes out of this looking strong, though he almost certainly will have to put over the young Troy, unless they’re cooling on him, which feels possible given how little TV time he gets)
-Match of the Year nominees: Oba Femi vs. Je’Von Evans vs. Trick Williams, Sol Ruca vs. Kelani Jordan, Ethan Page vs. Ricky Saints Falls Count Anywhere, Jacy Jayne vs. Lola Vice, Oba Femi vs. Je’Von Evans, Women’s Iron Survivor Challenge. The winner was Femi-Evans-Williams from Stand & Deliver. They chose not to have the men accept the award, as it would be awkward with all three of them in one scene, and it’s awkward in the first place to have guys talk about how good a match was when the kayfabe reason to wrestle is to win. Of these choices, I’d say they got this one right.
-Ricky Saints got ready ahead of his match with Je’Von Evans. [c]
(4) OTM (Lucien Price & Bronco Nima) vs. SWIPE RIGHT (Brad Baylor & Ricky Smokes) (w/Jackson Drake)
Baylor started with Price, and he tried to sucker Price into the heel corner, where Price bealed Smokes over the top and out, and then tossed Baylor into the corner. The crowd was way into OTM on this night, eating up the badass babyface persona, as I’ve always thought they might. Nima tagged in and threw some rights down on Smokes, then hit him with a corner splash. Smokes snapped on a headlock but Nima tossed him to the corner. Baylor tagged in and got a backbreaker or gutbuster, sort of on the side of his body. OTM teamed up to curb stomp Baylor for two, broken up by Smokes. Drake got involved and got himself tossed for his troubles. Swipe Right hit some cheap shots away from the ref’s eyes just for Baylor to get a one count on Nima. Smokes tagged in and hit a big boot on Nima, then kicked the rope Nima was hanging on for a choke. Baylor laid some vicious elbows down onto Nima, did his Swipe Right taunt, and got promptly planted.
Both teams tagged and Price fired up and destroyed Swipe Right, then an interfering Jackson Drake. OTM hit their finisher on Smokes after clearing out Baylor.
WINNERS: OTM at 4:37.
(Wells’s Analysis: Now here’s a team that could’ve challenged ZaRuca for tag team of the year if only they’d been booked stronger, but at least it’s happening now. This was a ton of fun, with all of the Vanity Project feeding OTM relentlessly so they could just batter them around the ring as they bumped like crazy for them)
-Jordynne Grace and Thea Hail talked in the back. Grace said she liked Hail’s segment last week until she was attacked by Blake Monroe. Hail said she wanted Grace in her corner at New Year’s Evil. Grace balked but Hail insisted, and said she was sure Grace wanted to see Monroe cry again. Grace said “That’s fair.” Hail then also insisted on a hug, and Grace had to weather it despite not being into them.
-Vic said the Women’s Superstar of the Year award was up next. [c]
-Female Superstar of the Year nominees were Kelani Jordan, Sol Ruca, Tatum Paxley, Blake Monroe and Jacy Jayne. I know there’s no benefit to having those who were promoted up for this, but obviously Stephanie Vaquer should be there. Sol Ruca was the winner. Seriously?! Maybe they really did just do the fan vote. The nominee set also shows just how poorly they’ve booked Jaida Parker, who has still somehow not even won a championship.
-Vic promoted New Year’s Evil.
-Je’Von Evans was introduced ahead of the main event with 23 minutes to the hour. [c]
(5) JE’VON EVANS vs. RICKY SAINTS
After Saints was introduced, Evans attacked immediately. Vic said this is a side of Evans we’ve never seen, which was ridiculous because this is the version of Evans we’ve seen the most of for the last month or two. Evans hit a suplex and a back kick for an early two. Saints took over on offense shortly afterward and slowed it down. Saints hit a slam into the ropes, which is such a bad spot because it doesn’t look like it hurts but it opens up the receiver to a bad fall, so it’s the worst of both worlds. Saints dumped Evans to the announce table side, then charged him through the barricade. It was literally the same barricade segment that was gone through earlier in the night. Weird.
Back inside, and Saints bailed but Evans hit a huge plancha. Evans rolled Saints back inside, but Saints kept going and bailed to the announce table side. Evans chased him and, whaddya know, threw him into a barricade. Evans put Saints on the announce table and just lost it, throwing rights down on Saints. Evans hit a big springboard cross-body into the ring and covered for two. Evans closed in and Saints yanked him so he’d be hung up on the bottom rope. Saints pulled Evans out of the ring and pulled up the apron, setting something up. Vic said “You don’t need to do this!” but we didn’t see what he had in mind because the show went to commercial, again with no split-screen. Oh well. [c]
We returned with Saints in control with a front chancery. He hopped up for more torque. Evans locked on and hit a suplex to break the hold, then rolled to a corner and tried to fire himself up. Evans hit a crescent kick, a big right and a rolling kick for two. Evans charged into a big boot, but then got in a kick to the head. Tornado DDT and a dropkick by Evans got two. Evans looked frustrated that he hadn’t finished it yet.
Evans went up for a big splash but ate Saints’ knees. Saints hit a sit-out powerslam for two. Saints bailed to the announce table area, and Evans flew in and crashed the two of them into the table. Evans rolled Saints inside and hit a frog splash for another long two. Evans went for a springboard move but Saints kicked the ropes to trip him. Saints tried to win with his legs on the ropes, but the ref caught it and wouldn’t count. Spear by Saints for two. Tornado DDT by Saints got just one in the fighting spirit spot. Saints was in shock. Evans hit a cutter, then went up, and wanted a top-rope cutter, but Saints moved and he hit a cutter on the ref. That’s getting a little cute. Saints hit a low blow with nobody to stop him. Saints hit the Roshambo and a new ref counted it as if he hadn’t seen the low blow.
WINNER: Ricky Saints at 15:27.
(Wells’s Analysis: We’re in a weird spot with Evans where our Male Superstar of the Year has had to lose probably more than half of his matches all year long. I still think Evans will get back at Saints, and finally Femi, but tonight was the night to add more heat. Good match, of course)
-Vic ran down the card for next week’s New Year’s Evil, with Femi-Slater, Jayne-Grey and Paxley-Dame all going down.
-Ricky Saints celebrated to boos as the show ended.
FINAL THOUGHTS: Kind of a flat ending to this one, as Evans seemed like a man with momentum after his awards win in the opening segment (and now we know they got that out of the way early so they weren’t announcing his win right before he had to take a loss). This week felt a whole lot like filler, with one foregone conclusion of a championship match, and a series of matches otherwise that didn’t serve major storylines or were just helping add sizzle to one next week. I also have to question Joe Hendry’s sanity when he keeps having concerts despite being attacked at the end of every single one of them. A passable if forgettable show leading to a bigger one next week, but I feel like the pieces are already starting to fall a little bit to hype what will end up being the Stand & Deliver card. Nate Lindberg and I will cover it on PWT Talks NXT.
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