{"id":76428,"date":"2019-03-13T21:54:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T02:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=76428"},"modified":"2019-03-13T21:56:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T02:56:12","slug":"3-13-nxt-tv-taping-report-spoilers-state-of-the-nxt-championship-final-build-to-takeover-new-york-dusty-classic-finals-debuts-and-farewells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/03\/13\/3-13-nxt-tv-taping-report-spoilers-state-of-the-nxt-championship-final-build-to-takeover-new-york-dusty-classic-finals-debuts-and-farewells\/","title":{"rendered":"3\/13 NXT TV Taping Report (Spoilers): State of the NXT Championship, final build to Takeover: New York, Dusty Classic finals, debuts and farewells"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-84566197\" 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 TAPINGS<br \/>\nMARCH 13, 2019<br \/>\nWINTER PARK, FLA. AT FULL SAIL UNIVERSITY<br \/>\nREPORT BY TOM STOUP, PWTORCH CONTRIBUTOR<\/h3>\n<div>\n<p>Kayla Braxton jokingly hyped her obligatory emergency exits announcement and prompted regulars in the crowd to gesture toward the exits along with her. She announced Kairi Sane vs. Bianca Belair, appearances from Keith Lee and Matt Riddle (Lee did not appear), and the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic finals.<\/p>\n<p>A Full Sail photographer directed and captured \u201cNXT\u201d chants prior to bell time.<\/p>\n<p>(A) Chelsea Green pinned Jessie Elaban in a dark match. The Unprettier put Elaban away.<\/p>\n<p>Triple H came out with the NXT Championship. He called NXT a special place, and said he had planned to announce the long-awaited Tommaso Ciampa vs. Johnny Gargano Takeover match for the championship. He said reality forced Ciampa to currently be laying in a hospital bed in a neck brace, but the dream continues as Gargano will compete for the title at Takeover: New York. He said Gargano&#8217;s challenger will be decided when Ricochet, Adam Cole, Aleister Black, Velveteen Dream, and \u201cthe undefeated\u201d Matt Riddle compete for the spot. He paused to let the Velveteen Dream chants breathe, and said the match at TakeOver must be definitive and thereby it will be two-out-of-three falls.<\/p>\n<p>Break. The NXT Championship was propped on a pedestal on the stage.<\/p>\n<p>(1) Adam Cole defeated Aleister Black, Velveteen Dream, Ricochet, and Matt Riddle for the right to challenge for the NXT Championship at Takeover: New York.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Cole entered to an updated Undisputed Era tron. Ricochet declared to Cole, \u201cThis is why I came here.\u201d Velveteen Dream flaunted his North American Championship at Ricochet. Matt Riddle kicked his sandals at Dream. Aleister Black circled in the ring, glaring at each of his competitors. The wrestlers quickly began pairing off in the ring while three of them would wait for their spot to swap in from the outside. Black and Ricochet shook hands when it was their turn to face off. Black signaled a slash across his throat before attempting a Blxck Mass on Dream. Black and Riddle simultaneously kicked one another in the head and fell at the same time, drawing one of the many &#8220;NXT&#8221; chants that peppered the proceedings. The continued pairings turned in to a series of near falls broken up by whichever wrestler was reentering the ring. Dream tapped to the Bromission but Cole dragged official Drake Wuertz out of the ring. Black kicked Riddle to the mat. Dream hit Black with a Dream Valley Driver, but Black and Ricochet flung Dream to the outside before Dream could capitalize with a Purple Rainmaker. Ricochet hit a shooting star press on Riddle, but Cole broke up the cover with a Last Shot and pinned Ricochet.<\/p>\n<p>Black and Ricochet stood in the ring in solidarity after Cole posed next to the belt on the stage, but the Forgotten Sons ran in and laid them out.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-4147832674\" 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>(2) Punishment Martinez pinned Riddick Moss. Martinez\u2019 tron still reads \u201cPunishment\u201d but he was introduced as Luis Martinez.<\/p>\n<p>Break.<\/p>\n<p>(3) Humberto Carillo pinned Albert Hardie, Jr. (AKA ACH). Carillo and Hardie competitively mimicked each others\u2019 moves to start. Hardie screeched as he went for a dropkick in the corner. Carillo got the three after a moonsault.<\/p>\n<p>Break. Kayla Braxton announced a face-to-face between Adam Cole and Johnny Gargano.<\/p>\n<p>(4) War Raiders defeated a tag team via pinfall. Hanson &amp; Rowe made quick work of their unnamed fodder.<\/p>\n<p>Rowe said William Regal had allowed them to send a message to their TakeOver opponents. Hanson said those opponents didn\u2019t have to listen, just watch. Rowe invited out a next team.<\/p>\n<p>(5) War Raiders defeated Cesar Bononi &amp; Adrian Jaoude via pinfall. Hanson &amp; Rowe made easy examples of their new victims, with Rowe pinning Bononi after a team finish.<\/p>\n<p>(6) Jaxson Ryker (with Wesley Blake &amp; Steve Cutler) pinned Oney Lorcan (with Danny Burch). Ryker willingly absorbed strikes from Lorcan, and hung Lorcan out to dry. Lorcan tumbled to the floor in front of the other Forgotten Sons. Blake and Cutler didn\u2019t involve themselves, knowing their psychopathic partner had things under control, but Burch still challenged them to try something. Ryker got a near fall off a gut buster. He bearhugged Lorcan, who fought his way out of the hold with a fistful of beard. Lorcan mounted a comeback but soon fell to Ryker\u2019s chokeslam powerbomb.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3895602727\" 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>(7) Bianca Belair defeated Kairi Sane via disqualification. Belair flaunted to begin with, and Sane responded with her own mimed jests before nailing an Interceptor. Belair kicked her way out of the Anchor, visibly frustrated. Sane kicked out of a cocky pin attempt and locked in an octopus stretch. Belair kept fighting to gain an upper hand but Sane wouldn\u2019t stay down, countering several moves in a row and eventually gaining the upper hand herself. Sane scored a near fall with a Kabuki Elbow, then clocked Belair with a spinning backfist. Belair scored three consecutive near falls off a superplex and a standing moonsault, after which Sane tried to grab a triangle hold. Shayna Baszler, Jessamyn Duke, and Marina Shafir ran in and attacked the competitors, beginning with Belair. Io Shirai came in for the save, followed by a swarm of officials. The women\u2019s locker room emptied out as Kacy Catanzaro, Jessie Elaban, Rachael Ellering, Reina Gonzalez, Lacey Lane, MJ Jenkins, Deonna Purrazzo, Mia Yim, and others rushed in and a massive brawl ensued. Belair Gorilla Pressed Lane on to the mob outside the ring, then Shirai slapped the taste out of Belair\u2019s mouth. Shirai hit a moonsault on to the mob, then posed with Baszler\u2019s championship.<\/p>\n<p>(8) Raul Mendoza pinned Brennan Williams. Williams did his \u201csit\u201d routine before Mendoza\u2019s entrance. Mendoza won with a springboard corkscrew not unlike his occasional tag partner Humberto Carillo\u2019s earlier win over ACH.<\/p>\n<p>Break. The Dusty Classic trophy was placed on the stage, and the NXT Championship was placed on a pedestal in the ring. Jeremy Borash appeared at his usual post on the fan side of the barrier and cupped his ear to liven up the crowd after Kayla Braxton announced Adam Cole and Johnny Gargano\u2019s face-to-face was up next. Borash appeared to be filming b-roll with his own camera.<\/p>\n<p>Dueling \u201cAdam Cole\u201d and \u201cJohnny Wrestling\u201d chants went long after Cole invited Gargano to the ring for their face-to-face, claiming he could list a million reasons he was going to win at TakeOver. Cole finally shut down the chants by saying, \u201cFor the record&#8211; shut up!&#8211; I don\u2019t need any of you!\u201d Gargano briefly revived the chants by saying he likes them. Gargano was in full babyface mode and hurled barbs from a perch atop the turnbuckle, goading Cole in to making good on this alleged list of a million reasons, but then he got serious and got in Cole\u2019s face. He said he\u2019s going to show Cole why he\u2019s known as \u201cJohnny TakeOver, bay bay.\u201d Cole responded by comparing his many TakeOver milestones to Gargano\u2019s TakeOver loss record, suggesting the alternate nickname \u201cJohnny Participation.\u201d Gargano called back to his 15-year history as an \u201cundersized\u201d wrestler that led to his fateful makeshift tag team with Tommaso Ciampa. Gargano said he fights for everyone who\u2019s ever been told they can\u2019t make it, and that he&#8217;s had to earn everything he has. He accused Cole of conversely being handed a top spot and a group of cronies from day one. Gargano said he will become NXT Champion, and his theme played as he and Cole glared at one another. As Cole left up the ramp, he waved off the music and said he found Gargano\u2019s story as inspirational as a Lifetime movie. He said he is going to win the 2\/3 falls match at TakeOver, \u201cand here\u2019s why.\u201d Bobby Fish, Kyle O\u2019Reilly, and Roderick Strong appeared behind Cole. He concluded, \u201cTriple H said this 2\/3 falls match will be definitive. Well Triple H was wrong. It\u2019s going to be undisputed.\u201d Cole posed with the rest of the Undisputed Era as the segment ended to his theme.<\/p>\n<p>Referencing Jeremy Borash, Kayla Braxton told the crowd to be loud so \u201ca representative\u201d can give t-shirts to the \u201cloudest fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(9) Kacy Catanzaro &amp; Lacey Lane defeated Aliyah &amp; Vanessa Borne via disqualification. Catanzaro received a huge pop upon her entrance. The heels played chicken to lure Lane in to their trap. Shayna Baszler, Jessamyn Duke, and Marina Shafir sauntered to the ring, and Aliyah and Borne sheepishly walked away up the ramp. Duke elbowed Catanzaro from the apron. Catanzaro then tried to get the better of Baszler, but Baszler caught her in the Kirifuda Clutch. Baszler posed with the title in the ring, and then on the commentary desk as Lacey Lane and official Jessika Carr attended to Catanzaro.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBugenhagen\u201d chants, which had been intermittent throughout the night, got louder than ever but became agreeably silenced when Matt Riddle\u2019s theme hit.<\/p>\n<p>(10) Matt Riddle submitted Kona Reeves. Reeves looked more confident than ever and got loud heat upon his entrance. Early in the action, Velveteen Dream\u2019s music hit and Dream was wheeled out on the stage on a purple sofa. Reeves took advantage of the distraction exactly as he had when Dream interrupted his match with ECIII last year, and just like with that match the advantage did not last long. Reeves eventually scored a desperate two with a handful of tights. Riddle responded with a knee to Reeves\u2019 face and a decisive Bromission. Velveteen Dream cut off Kayla Braxton\u2019s victory announcement in order to deliver it himself, saying \u201cMatthew Riddle\u201d would get to journey to TakeOver to contend for the North American Championship. Riddle got in Dream\u2019s face and said, \u201cI\u2019ll see you in New York, bro.\u201d Dream\u2019s sofa attendants looked disgusted.<\/p>\n<p>(11) Aleister Black &amp; Ricochet defeated Wesley Blake &amp; Steve Cutler (with Jaxson Ryker) to win the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic and earn the right to face War Raiders for the NXT Tag Team Championships at TakeOver: New York. During his entrance Ricochet said to the crowd, \u201cYou guys are why I do this.\u201d The action started furiously, with Black and Ricochet looking every bit the superior team and then some. Ryker clubbed Ricochet in the back when the official was looking the other way. Jeremy Borash made himself scarce, possibly so to avoid repeating the crowd domination of last year\u2019s otherwise exemplary Moustache Mountain vs. Undisputed Era match (he reappeared to hand out the prize shirts after the match ended). Ricochet fought for the hot tag but Blake yanked Black from the apron. Finally Ricochet leapt over his opponents to tag Black, who got a great reaction. Cutler found a near fall on a backbreaker. The Sons swung clotheslines to intermittent success as they fed in to Black and Ricochet\u2019s fired-up offense. Ricochet fought to stay alive, landing on his feet after a reverse hurricanrana attempt off the top by Blake. He wagged his finger at the stunned Blake. Cutler chucked Ricochet in to the ring steps after Ricochet tagged out, and he landed an assisted flying elbow to Black\u2019s gut but Ricochet recovered and broke up the pinfall. Ryker was sent to the back after shoving Black\u2019s foot from the rope during another pinning attempt. Black hit a moonsault on to Cutler on the outside, and guarded the ring as Ricochet hit a 630 on Blake for the win. The winners looked happier than they ever have, embracing and playing to the crowd with incredible enthusiasm. Red, white, and blue confetti rained as they celebrated, and War Raiders hit the ring for a staredown.<\/p>\n<p>Ricochet took the microphone. A fan yelled, \u201cPlease don\u2019t leave me!\u201d Ricochet smiled and replied, \u201cI think you\u2019re going to hate the news I\u2019m about to give you.\u201d He said this will be his and Aleister Black\u2019s final NXT taping. When fans responded with a \u201cfight forever\u201d chant, Black quipped \u201cMy cardio is good but not that good.\u201d He said he and Ricochet are going to leave a part of their souls in NXT. The crowd lovingly mocked his pronunciation of \u201cReek-ochet\u201d and he said, \u201cI say everything with a little flair.\u201d He said the NXT fans and his love for them is \u201cbar none.\u201d Ricochet said despite his long career pre-NXT, the past year has been his best. He said the fans made him fall in love with the art of wrestling again, and said thank you. Ricochet began listing other NXT wrestlers we\u2019ll still get to see on the yellow brand, and when he mentioned his girlfriend Kacy Catanzaro Black told the crowd, \u201cHe\u2019s bad.\u201d The crowd chanted \u201cBugenhagen\u201d and Ricochet said, \u201cI\u2019m getting there\u201d (he didn\u2019t get there, but claiming he would was a fine way to move things along). Ricochet began listing things that will \u201cforever be NXT,\u201d even naming specific fans. Ricochet appeared emotional as he waved his final goodbye. 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