WWE NXT Coverage - December 26th, 2018

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Heavy Machinery Challenge Undisputed ERA for NXT Tag Team Titles


The final NXT of 2018 could bring late Christmas gifts for several Superstars, as Heavy Machinery challenge Undisputed ERA for the NXT Tag Team Titles, and Mia Yim, Io Shirai, Bianca Belair and Lacey Evans square off in an NXT Women’s Title No. 1 Contender’s Fatal 4-Way Match


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We are at Full Sail University and your announcers are Mauro Ranallo, Nigel McGuinness, and Percy Watson.

We see Heavy Machinery in the back as they get ready for their title match against Undisputed Era.

Mia Yim vs. Bianca Belair vs. Io Shirai vs. Lacey Evans

Bell rings and Evans decides to head out to the apron and let the others wrestle. Belair and Yim start jawing and Shirai sneaks in for a quick roll-up. Belair gets sent out to the floor, Yim with a suicide dive that comes up a bit short. Shirai then gets whipped out of the ring by Evans and lands hard on Belair. With Belair out, Shirai and Yim team up to work on Evans. They land strikes in the corner, cannonball by Yim, double knees to Evans. Yim looks for a kick to Evans and ends up booting Shirai in the head.

Evans with some elbows in the corner, Yim tosses her to the apron, sweep kick by Evans into a slingshot elbow drop, cover, two-count. Evans trips up both Shirai and Yim in the corner, double bronco buster, cover on Shirai, two. Evans continues to dominate Shirai, gets tossed into the corner and runs straight into Belair, who uses Shirai as a weapon to knock Evans down. Belair charges Shirai and ends up missing, crashing to the floor. Evans goes back to work on Shirai, trips her, punch to the midsection. Yim tries to get involved, get sent out to the floor. Evans with a leg sweep on Shirai, cover, Belair with a double ax handle to break it up. Belair tries to lift Shirai, Evans breaks it up and she ends up yelling at Belair. Both stop yelling to drop Yim. Shirai with a double crossbody on Belair and Evans, Yim with a dropkick to send all three to the mat. Belair and Evans trying for covers on Yim, Belair and Evans start shoving each other.

Yim with a bell-to-back suplex on Belair, cover, Evans breaks it up. Evans with a shin kick to Yim, Shirai with a springboard missile dropkick, Belair hits a spear on Shirai and all four women are down. Belair tries to cover Belair, kick out, goes for Evans, another kick out, Belair getting frustrated. Belair lifts up Shirai who rolls through and hits a double stomp, 619 lands. Evans and Yim fighting in the middle of the ring, Evans hits the women's right on Yim, cover, and Shirai just barely breaks it up. Shirai with a bodyslam on Evans, looks for a moonsault, cover, Belair with the hair whip on Shirai over and over. Belair sends Shirai out to the floor on Yim, Belair lifts Evans on her shoulders, KOD (torture rack into a facebuster) hits, for the 1-2-3.

Winner: Bianca Belair

Jaxson Ryker (with Steve Cutler and Wesley Blake) vs. Mitch Taverna

Ryker shoves Taverna back to the corner and swings away on his opponent. Ryker tries for a powerslam and gets chopped to the chest, he pops up his opponent and drops him to the mat. Ryker hits a couple knees, rubs his face down into the mat, clubbing forearm to the back, and works a reverse chinlock. Ryker drapes Taverna's neck across the top rope and clubs him in the chest. Ryker nails a slingshot release powerbomb for the 1-2-3.

Winner: Jaxson Ryker

- Vignette for Velveteen Dream, who talks about his progress in 2018 and how the spotlight is now on him. We see a bunch of clips from his matches from the past year. Dream says if you don't believe the hype, don't listen to him, listen to Hulk Hogan, Shawn Michaels, John Cena, and Triple H (tweets are shown with their comments about Dream).

- Last week, we see the end of Johnny Gargano vs. Aleister Black where NXT Champion Tommaso Ciampa got involved to help Gargano win. The two former tag team partners would hit their dual kick to finish off Black.

- Random location, Ciampa says he is a man of his word and although he feels like he's talking to a wall most of the time, last week he felt vindicated when Gargano followed his lead. Gargano ended up winning against Black and maybe Gargano deserves a shot at a title— the NXT North American Title. Ciampa talks to him about how they were two kids who came into NXT without contracts and the upcoming TakeOver could be their TakeOver as dual champs. "Two kids taking over the world, Johnny, the possibilities are endless."

- Next week: nominees for the NXT year-end awards, also, Matt Riddle vs. Kassius Ohno.

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Undisputed Era (Roderick Strong and Kyle O'Reilly) (c) vs. Heavy Machinery

Strong and Tucker kick things off, O'Reilly try to distract early on, but Tucker is able to take down Strong, gator roll, one-count. Shoulder tackle, O'Reilly tagged in, kicks away at Tucker. Otis and Strong tag in, Strong tries to Irish whip Otis, no luck, gets sent into the corner and squashed. O'Reilly tries to strike from behind and a big forearm sends him sailing into the distance. Otis sends Strong into the corner, Tucker tags in, splash in the corner, cover, two-count.

Heavy Machinery both lift their opponents, crush them into each other, stereo overhead release suplexes. Tucker sends O'Reilly into the ropes, he grabs hold and runs to the outside. He tries to bait Tucker into Strong, who just ends up getting dropped to the floor. O'Reilly runs into the ring and kicks the leg out from under Tucker as he climbed into the ring. Strong from behind and hits a belly-to-back suplex from the apron down to the floor! Not sure if that was the plan with that move, but Tucker is back up and in the ring. O'Reilly and Strong with chops in the corner as they look to control the match.

O'Reilly tags in, Tucker fights them off, sends Strong out to the floor, O'Reilly with a dragon leg screw over the rope, cover, two. Goes for an ankle lock, knee lock, then just goes for open palm strikes to the face. Strong in there now, he continues to work over Tucker's legs who tries to drag himself towards Otis. O'Reilly runs in and yanks both men back in. Strong gets up and tries for a swing at Otis, nope, Tucker drops him, Tucker tags out. Otis runs over O'Reilly, big clotheslines on Strong in the corner. O'Reilly tries for a kick, nope, overhead release suples, double splash in the corner.

Otis hits his caterpillar elbow drop, tags in Tucker. Otis catapults O'Reilly into Tucker who hip tosses him. Tucker goes up to the top turnbuckle, moonsault, nobody home. Strong in now, misses with a knee in the corner, Otis comes in, catches a few forearms. Otis with a shoulder block, but gets some kicks to the face, and returns fire with a big lariat, cover, two. Otis now eyes the top rope and heads up, O'Reilly with a slight distraction, Strong with an enziguri to stop him. Strong heads up, looking for a superplex, O'Reilly gets under and helps his partner (and basically powerbombs him) to get Otis up and over. O'Reilly drops Tucker off the apron, both O'Reilly and Strong hammer away on Otis, cover, two. Strong with a dropkick on Tucker, high/low kicks on Otis will finish the match.

Winners: Undisputed Era

- Adam Cole and Bobby Fish comes out to the stage to pose with O'Reilly and Strong.