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NXT TV RESULTS
JUNE 2, 2026
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): Emily Agard, Blake Howard
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-Vic established with some aerial shots that we’re in Orlando, which was odd because we usually are. Tony D’Angelo and Kam Hendrix were shown arriving separately. Vic mentioned we’re officially on the road to the Great American Bash.
(1) LIZZY RAIN vs. ZARIA
Booker heavily put over the harsher Zaria we’ve had for the last couple months, but he’s also big on Lizzy Rain so he got into her entrance also.
Zaria charged Rain hard to a corner to open. Rain fought out of it with a boot and hit a dropkick into the other corner. They went to some evasions and Rain missed from the top, but then hit something that looked like a Rocker Dropper but changed into a huracanrana. Rain leapfrogged Zaria then hit an enzuigiri that showed a lot of light from an unfortunate angle. Zaria fought off a tornado DDT and booted Rain to the mat. She yanked Rain as she was holding the bottom rope and just dropped her on the mat after some hangtime. Zaria charged Rain hard into a corner. Zaria looked to follow up, but became distracted as Tatum Paxley walked down the ramp and joined the announce table. Zaria booted Rain out to the floor on the announce table side and she and Paxley stared each other down as the match went to split-screen. [c]
Zaria hit a spear upon return to full-screen and both women laid on the mat. Paxley finally made a comment, saying she wasn’t worried about either person because she has to take care of business regardless. The two exchanged some boots and strikes, and Rain strung together some offense and hit a flying back elbow, and then a tornado DDT for two. Vic was amusing himself by using a lot of Metallica references to explain the action, some of which were a real stretch, but I appreciate the silliness, honestly. Rain Matrix-ducked a lariat and planted Zaria for two. Roundhouse kick by Rain followed by a German, but Zaria hit another spear, and then the F-5 for the victory.
WINNER: Zaria at 10:31.
Zaria threatened another F-5, and Paxley got her to stop and said if she wants a title match, she’s got it next week.
(Wells’s Analysis: No surprise as Zaria continues her post-Ruca roll, and Rain is so fresh she can sustain a loss or two. Rain’s been entrusted with a lot of in-ring minutes and she’s showing up big already, and the crowd is definitely into the retro rock gimmick)
-Borne and Heights got psyched for their match while talking to Sean Lgacy and Dorian Van Dux. The scene ended and all three members of The Culling showed up to talk. Izzi Dame said they should all put last week behind them and focus on this week. Vance said “Let’s go, Spears,” and slapped him on the arm. Shawn Spears, wondering how this dynamic has come to pass, walked with them, a little stunned.
-DarkState were announced for their tag match, but Saquon Shugars showed up in the crowd to beat one of them with a blunt object I couldn’t quite catch in low light. Vic wondered if the match would still be on as they went to commercial. [c]
-The Great American Bash will be on Sunday, June 28th and will be the first PLE that goes straight to the CW.
-Vic said he got word from the desk of Robert Stone that the tag match has been postponed. We didn’t actually hear from Stone, so maybe he’s not around this week?
(2) OTM (Bronco Nima & Lucien Price) vs. THE CULLING (Shawn Spears & Niko Vance) (w/Izzi Dame)
OTM jumped the Culling during their entrance. Nima and Spears hit the ring eventually and the bell sounded. Nima charged Spears to a corner and he and Price pancaked him there. Price tagged in and smacked Spears with a loud palm strike. Vance tagged in and he and Price slugged it out for a bit. Vance took over on offense and the crowd chanted “OTM.” Price turned it around with an inside-out lariat, and he booted both members of the Culling to the floor. Price put Vance inside but walked right into a boot. Vance charged Price to the barricade and the Culling were in control as the match went to commercial with no split-screen. [c]
Nima hit Spears with a suplex. Vance tagged in. Price tagged in and dominated both Vance and Spears, taking both down at once. Price pressed Spears and just casually threw him into the charging Vance. Price slammed Vance and got two. The illegal men got taken out. Chaos reigned for a bit and Spears had a trail of blood that led from the nose to the ear (I think it’s a nosebleed that traveled as he was on the mat). OTM hit their finisher.
WINNERS: OTM at 9:29.
(Wells’s Analysis: The on-again, off-again OTM push appears on again, but this might be more about the Culling suffering yet another loss on their way to something resembling a total breakup)
-EK Prosper and Tate Wilder talked in the locker room to try to get him fired up for tonight. Kam Hendrix showed up and said he’s already beaten two former champions and he’s about to win the NXT Championship while Wilder is searching for his first “dub.” Wilder said he’ll beat Jackson Drake tonight, and he took off. Hendrix said to Prosper it’s a big night for him too, because he can tell his grandkids he was in the building when Kam Hendrix won the NXT Championship. Prosper yelled at an exiting Hendrix that he hopes Tony D beats his ass.
(3) TATE WILDER vs. JACKSON DRAKE (w/The Vanity Project (Myka Lockwood & Brad Baylor & Ricky Smokes)
Booker compared Wilder to a young Randy Orton in style and look, and I hadn’t thought much about it, but I think it’s apt. Drake took down Wilder and did a little hip thrust in the direction of his opponent. Wilder took down Drake, who bailed to the ramp side. He took a powder with his boys, and Wilder exploded off the steps with a rolling senton for all three guys. Wilder fired up as the match went to commercial. [c]
Wilder hit a cross-body. The two went to the apron and threw hands. Drake went inside and speared Wilder out on the apron, and weirdly, Wilder bumped on the apron while Drake continued on and hit the floor, so Vic said he didn’t know which got the worst of it. Wilder went up the ropes but he got crotched on them. The camera failed to catch Drake hitting the rope so for a second it looked like Wilder just slipped. Wilder put Drake on the mat and hit him with a splash for two. The men of Vanity Project got involved and Wilder took them out. Wilder tried a rana on Lockwood, but she caught him and smashed him against the post. She threw him in and Drake finished him off.
WINNER: Jackson Drake at 8:38.
(Wells’s Analysis: It amused me that Wilder was the one who went after Lockwood, but she had no problem with him. This dynamic with the mighty Lockwood being the protector for the pretty boy Drake is so much fun)
-Emily Agard talked to Robert Stone, who was trying to put over Great American Bash, but Osiris Griffin tried to complain to Stone about the attack from Shugars earlier. Jasper Troy showed up and mocked Griffin and started to “make it his business,” but Dion Lennox charged in and smashed a chair onto the back of Troy. Lennox and Griffin beat down Troy.
-There was quick hype for Lola Vice, likely up next. [c]
-Vice was introduced and she hit the ring in street clothes. She said she’s the complete package whether it’s AAA or NXT. She said she continues to prove everyone wrong. She said she didn’t win this out of luck, she won because she goes to bed every night for four years now envisioning her name on the side plates. She said she doesn’t do excuses and won’t accept them from anyone here. She wondered who’s next and said the “woman’s” championship deserves “woman” who are eager to step up.
Kelani Jordan hit the ramp and said she couldn’t be overlooked any longer. She said Vice made a name for herself in AAA and got herself to the NXT Championship. She said Vice went somewhere else and a star was born, and Jordan went somewhere else but the rules changed, and instead of getting praised, she got questioned. She said the people who praised Vice were the same ones who criticized her and threw her out of the locker room. Jordan ran down the women she’s beaten and said she only needs one chance. The two started to break down verbally when Kendal Grey’s music played and she and Wren Sinclair, still on a crutch, hit the ramp.
[HOUR TWO]
Grey asked if they forgot she won the Iron Survivor Challenge. She pinned both Kelani and Lola in the match. She said if anyone here has unfinished business, it’s her. She said she has an unwritten receipt for Jordan, who cut her off and said she only needs one chance, but Kendal can’t win the big one and she’s shown it multiple times.
Vice cut them off and said that next week, the two will face off and the winner will get a title shot at GAB. Jordan went for the belt and then ducked the backfist from Vice, who instead inadvertently hit Grey. Jordan admired her work and took off casually.
-Next week is the Mr. NXT Pageant between Shiloh Hill and Tristan Angels. They’ll be graded on Attire, Talent and Public Speaking.
-Hill and Tatum Paxley talked in the back somewhere about the pageant. After Hill left, saying he had a problem because a raccoon befriended his pets, Zaria showed up out of nowhere and beat down Paxley. Hill reentered the scene and called for help.
-The Speed Championship match is up next. [c]
-Vic promoted Saturday Night’s Main Event on July 18th at MSG.
-Tony D’Angelo & Mason Rook ran into each other in the back. Rook said it should be his match. D’Angelo said he’s got a lot of people trying to get his championship and he’ll take them out one by one. Rook said all but one. Robert Stone showed up and said it wasn’t his best night so he’ll just lay it out: next week Rook will face Naraku. Tony D said “Well, there it is. You beat Naraku, you cut the line.”
(4) ROMEO MORENO (w/Noam Dar) vs. LEXIS KING (c) (w/Birthright (Uriah Connors & Stacks & Arianna Grace)) – Speed Championship match
Mike Rome handled formal introductions. Does he always do this for Speed matches? I’m not sure he does.
They started quickly, of course, and Moreno got some early near-falls on rollups. Back elbow by Moreno, who went up but got dropped as King nailed the back of one of his knees. King ran coast-to-coast and nailed Moreno for two. King slowed it down and laid in a kick. He jawed at Moreno, who threw a right to try to get back into it. Moreno ran into a thrust kick, but caught a charging King and lifted him for a suplex. Moreno laid in another kick and hit a Samoan drop for two. Moreno worked an abdominal stretch on the mat as he laid in elbows. King rolled him up to break. King bailed. Moreno took out Stacks & Connors. Back inside, King caught Moreno in a single-leg crab. Moreno hit an inside cradle for two to break. Moreno hit a kick but missed a springboard moonsault. King hit a running knee, then the Coronation for the victory.
WINNER: Lexis King at 4:33.
(Wells’s Analysis: Moreno’s a good bump machine and seller, and it’ll be fun to see him in some stark big-small matches. I figure King might have a fairly lengthy reign just so Birthright has something to brag about)
-Jaida Parker and Nattie talked in a room somewhere as some of the currently less important players watched in the background. Nattie said she wasn’t fooled by Parker’s tough girl act. She said she knows deep down she’s scared. After Nattie left, Hank Walker said “If someone said that to me, I’d literally cry.” Karmen Petrovic and Nikkita Lyons talked smack to Parker as she left. [c]
-EK Prosper told Tate Wilder he told him so. Keanu Carver showed up and said Wilder was too dumb to listen. Prosper talked smack to Carver, who told him to keep it up and see what happens.
-The scene moved over to another chair in the training room where Wren Sinclair told Kendal Grey she’s just in the way with her crutch, and maybe she shouldn’t be out there next week. Grey said she wants her there.
(5) MYLES BORNE & TAVION HEIGHTS vs. DARKSTATE (Dion Lennox & Osiris Griffin)
Borne and Lennox opened. They both tried headlocks until Lennox blocked Borne to the mat. Snap mare by Borne into a headlock. They went to some grappling exchanges on the mat. Heights tagged in and lifted Lennox, who made a blind tag to Griffin. Heights worked over Griffin in a corner with some blocks, then another corner with boots and strikes. Borne tagged back in and they double-clotheslined Griffin, then dominated Lennox when he tagged in also. Griffin tagged right back in and took over, powering Borne back into a corner. Borne hit a dropkick, then clotheslined Griffin, which took them both to the outside. All four men got involved as the illegal men attempted to fire up their partners. The match went to split-screen, which is to say the sound cut, but the feed didn’t go to a commercial for a good ten seconds and it sounded like Vic was about to just start talking again after the snafu just as the commercial showed up. [c]
Lennox hit a backbreaker on Borne for two. They replayed it, as it got serious air. Griffin tagged in and hit a more conventional backbreaker to keep up the work on one body part. Borne managed a boot on a charging Griffin as he tried to make the tag. Griffin hit yet another backbreaker. Lennox tagged in and kept it slow as he attempted to keep the tag at bay. Griffin tagged in blind and Lennox flipped Borne back into the waiting arms of Griffin, who powerslammed him for two. Borne finally rolled to the hot tag, and Heights dominated Lennox and then pulled down his singlet straps. Griffin tagged in but fared no better as Heights slammed him, then set up his finisher. There was a convoluted spot as Lennox held Griffin’s leg to keep him from eating Heights’ finisher. They were able to hit the Doomsday Device to finish as Borne was still outside the ring.
WINNERS: DarkState at 10:59.
Borne & Heights weren’t on the same page afterward. DarkState celebrated on the ramp until they saw Saquon Shugars up on the perch with his baseball bat, pointing it out at them.
-Vic promoted next week, with Kendal Grey vs. Kelani Jordan, Mason Rook vs. Naraku, and the Mr. NXT Pageant.
-Kam Hendrix made his entrance ahead of the main event. [c]
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