{"id":54796,"date":"2018-01-31T23:20:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T05:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=54796"},"modified":"2018-01-31T23:22:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T05:22:44","slug":"1-31-nxt-tv-report-takeover-aftermath-strong-vs-bate-1-contender-uk-championship-cross-vs-evans-tm61-ring-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/01\/31\/1-31-nxt-tv-report-takeover-aftermath-strong-vs-bate-1-contender-uk-championship-cross-vs-evans-tm61-ring-return\/","title":{"rendered":"1\/31 NXT TV Report: Takeover aftermath, Strong vs. Bate for #1 contender to UK Championship, Cross vs. Evans, TM61 in-ring return"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1914083288\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><h3>NXT TV REPORT<br \/>\nJANUARY 31, \u00a02018<br \/>\nTAPED IN PHILADELPHIA, PA. AT WELLS FARGO CENTER<br \/>\nAIRED ON WWE NETWORK<br \/>\nREPORT BY HARLEY PAGEOT, PWTORCH CONTRIBUTOR<\/h3>\n<p><i>Commentary: Mauro Ranallo, Percy Watson<\/i><\/p>\n<p>-We opened with a video package covering all the major highlights from Takeover: Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>-Theme song.<\/p>\n<p>-Nikki Cross was out alone for our first match.<\/p>\n<p><b>(1) NIKKI CROSS vs. LACEY EVANS<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ranallo put over Evans\u2019 new mission statement, which is a sort of anti-feminist character who thinks there\u2019s no place in NXT for women who aren\u2019t beautiful and ladylike.\u00a0 Cross dove onto Evans but Evans came back with a roundhouse kick.\u00a0 Cross trapped Evans in the apron and wailed on her with a rampage of blows.\u00a0 Evans with a Thesz press and a series of right hands as Ranallo reminded us that Evans beat Aliyah with a punch two weeks ago.\u00a0 Evans attempted a moonsault but Cross rolled out of the way and fired herself up.\u00a0 Running forearm smashes from Cross and she hit her swinging fisherman\u2019s neckbreaker out of nowhere for the win.<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: Nikki Cross in 2:30.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Pageot\u2019s Perspective: Your usual reporter Justin James is off on assignment tonight so I\u2019ll be filling in this week.\u00a0 The commentators called this a big win but the short length didn\u2019t do Evans too many favors.\u00a0 We remain with a women\u2019s division where there are only three people with records better than .500 so some people need to start picking up significant wins.\u00a0 Cross is certainly over with the crowd but all signs point to Sanity heading up to Raw or Smackdown in the near future.)<\/i><\/p><div id=\"pwtor-703958942\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>-Video package on the Takeover tag title match between Fish &amp; O\u2019Reilly and The Authors of Pain.<\/p>\n<p>-Video package on the Takeover women\u2019s title match between Ember Moon and Shayna Baszler plus Baszler choking out Moon after the match.<\/p>\n<p>-Kayla Braxton interviewed Shayna Baszler after her match.\u00a0 She claimed things went the way she\u2019d hoped.\u00a0 Moon didn\u2019t beat her; she survived.\u00a0 Baszler claimed the fact that she was still standing fine while Moon was beat up is proof that Baszler actually won.<\/p>\n<p>-Photo montage on Moon\u2019s surprise entry in the women\u2019s Royal Rumble match.<\/p>\n<p>-Video package on the Takeover extreme rules match between Adam Cole and Aleister Black.<\/p>\n<p>-After the match a wounded Undisputed Era were shown limping through the back.\u00a0 Fish &amp; O\u2019Reilly were helping support Cole.\u00a0 They were complaining loudly and wondered aloud what happened before blaming Cole\u2019s loss on Sanity.<\/p>\n<p>-Video package on the Takeover match between Velveteen Dream and Kassius Ohno.<\/p>\n<p>-Braxton asked Velveteen Dream about failing to beat Ohno in 30 seconds like he\u2019d promised.\u00a0 Dream told Braxton to read his trunks.\u00a0 They said \u201cdream over.\u201d\u00a0 She didn\u2019t seem to know what that meant.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-1169913257\" class=\"pwtor-content-1 pwtor-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: pwtorchcom_test_300x600 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __300x600\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><b>(2) TM61 (Nick Miller &amp; Shane Thorne) vs. EALY BROTHERS (Gabriel Ealy &amp; Uriel Ealy)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ranallo said it\u2019s been over a year since TM61 has competed on NXT television.\u00a0 TM61 worked over one of the Ealys with chops.\u00a0 Thorne hit a twisting moonsault over the top rope onto both Ealys at ringside.\u00a0 Miller with forearms on Uriel in the corner.\u00a0 With the ref\u2019s back turned the Ealys pulled twin magic.\u00a0 Gabriel took control of Miller.\u00a0 Uriel tagged back in and hit some blows.\u00a0 Thorne with the hot tag.\u00a0 Rolling cannonball onto one Ealy.\u00a0 Back body drop to the other twin.\u00a0 Tag to Miller who hit a moonsault but the other Ealy broke up the pinfall.\u00a0 TM61 hit their finisher, a double-team gorilla press slam called Thunder Valley.<\/p>\n<p>WINNERS: TM61 in 3:17.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Pageot\u2019s Perspective: TM61 have always looked impressive in the NXT ring and the last two weeks of video packages has certainly helped begin to give them personalities.\u00a0 If we get to understand them more as characters going forward they seem like the most likely challengers to face Fish &amp; O\u2019Reilly at Takeover: New Orleans.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>-Photo montage on the 2017 NXT Year-End Awards.<\/p>\n<p>-Christy St. Cloud was backstage with TM61.\u00a0 They are the mighty and the mighty don\u2019t kneel.<\/p>\n<p>-Video package on the Takeover world title match between Andrade \u201cCien\u201d Almas and Johnny Gargano plus Tommaso Ciampa returning and breaking his crutch across Gargano\u2019s back.<\/p>\n<p>-Immediately after Takeover went off the air a swarm of reporters tried to interview Ciampa who just dead-eye stared past them and limped off down the hall, dragging his broken crutch behind him.<\/p>\n<p>-Photo montage on Andrade Almas\u2019 surprise entry in the men\u2019s Royal Rumble match.<\/p>\n<p>-Cathy Kelley asked Zelina Vega and Almas about his whirlwind weekend.\u00a0 Almas said this is only the beginning.\u00a0 Vega asked where Johnny Wrestling was while Almas was in the Royal Rumble.<\/p>\n<p>-Recap of EC 3 appearing in the crowd at Takeover and officially re-signing with NXT.<\/p>\n<p>-Photo montage on Adam Cole\u2019s surprise entry in the men\u2019s Royal Rumble match.<\/p>\n<p><b>(3) RODERICK STRONG vs. TYLER BATE \u2013 winner becomes #1 Contender to the UK Title<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Collar and elbow tie-up.\u00a0 Chain wrestling early on.\u00a0 Bate hit a big dropkick and kip-up for the first breather.\u00a0 Bate immediately into the airplane spin.\u00a0 Strong with the first backbreaker of the match for a two count.\u00a0 The men traded chops.\u00a0 Backbreaker #2 from Strong.\u00a0 Dueling chants from the crowd.\u00a0 Strong with a vice grip on Bate\u2019s neck.\u00a0 Bate fought out but ate backbreaker #3.<\/p>\n<p>Strong put Bate in a bow and arrow submission.\u00a0 Bate with a running European uppercut.\u00a0 German suplex on Strong for two.\u00a0 Bate with an exploder suplex and another kip-up.\u00a0 Running shooting star press for two.\u00a0 Bate went to the top rope but Strong cut him off.\u00a0 Strong tried for a superplex but Bate fought back.\u00a0 Strong yanked him off the top rope into backbreaker #4.\u00a0 Strong tried for a double underhook suplex but Bate hurricanranaed out of it.\u00a0 Bate with his lariat off the ropes for a close two count.\u00a0 \u201cNXT\u201d chant from the crowd.\u00a0 Bate tried for Tyler Driver \u201997 but his back was too sore.\u00a0 Bate with a roll-up for two.\u00a0 Strong with two of his signature jumping high knees and End of Heartache.<\/p>\n<p>WINNER: Roderick Strong in 9:57 to become #1 contender to the United Kingdom Championship.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Pageot\u2019s Perspective:\u00a0 Shorter than I expected but still pretty much as great as we anticipated.\u00a0 The outcome was somewhat obvious.\u00a0 Despite how good the Bate vs. Dunne matches have been (including winning Match Of The Year in the Year-End Awards) it felt like the right time to find a new challenger for Dunne and Strong vs. Dune should be a hell of a match.\u00a0 No mention from the commentators as to when that one will take place, though.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>My only issue is that I remain unclear concerning the specifics of the UK title.\u00a0 Since it was formed out of the UK tournament I assumed that only British wrestlers would be eligible to compete for the belt.\u00a0 But with Gargano challenging previously and Strong now that\u2019s obviously not the case.\u00a0 So is it just another championship with no specific qualifications?\u00a0 I mean I guess it\u2019s essentially become NXT\u2019s answer to the Intercontinental title, which is fine, but it\u2019s still a muddied situation since it\u2019s often positioned as being outside of the rest of NXT.\u00a0 Dunne appears infrequently for sporadic matches with no real feuds or TV build-up.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>-Next week:\u00a0 it\u2019s Adam Cole vs. Killian Dain and Eric Young &amp; Alexander Wolfe vs. Bobby Fish &amp; Kyle O\u2019Reilly for the NXT Tag Team Championships.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>NOW CHECK OUT LAST WEEK&#8217;S TV REPORT:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/01\/24\/1-24-nxt-tv-report-gargano-vs-velveteen-dream-takeover-title-shot-line-no-way-jose-vs-bononi-bel-air-vs-latoya\/\">1\/24 NXT TV REPORT: Gargano vs. Velveteen Dream with Takeover Title shot on line, No Way Jose vs. Bononi, Bel Air vs. Latoya<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-2604642322\"><div id=\"pwtor-509468004\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>NXT TV REPORT JANUARY 31, \u00a02018 TAPED IN PHILADELPHIA, PA. 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