WWE NXT Live Coverage - August 1st, 2023
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Lyra Valkyria to take on Jacy Jayne in bitter grudge match
The bitter battle between Lyra Valkyria and Jacy Jayne comes to a head this Tuesday on NXT as the two Superstars will collide. Valkyria and Jayne have been at each other’s throats for weeks, and after their most recent match, Jayne plucked the sacred feathers from Valkyria’s ring attire, causing the Irish Superstar to reevaluate her next plan of attack. Now, after wise words from WWE Women’s World Champion Rhea Ripley and after the two fought backstage at NXT Great American Bash, Valkyria and Jayne will tangle in what should be a vicious fight.
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– The post-Great American Bash edition of WWE NXT opens up on the USA Network with a graphic in memory of “Exotic” Adrian Street, who passed away on July 24 at the age of 82. We go to a video package of highlights from Sunday’s Premium Live Event. We cut to the back parking lot of the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida as Vic Joseph welcomes us. He’s joined at ringside by WWE Hall of Famer Booker T. A black SUV pulls up and out comes new NXT Tag Team Champions Tony D’Angelo and Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo. Gallus attacks The Family as soon as they step out of the SUV. Gallus triple teams the champs as Joe Coffey talks trash. Gallus walks off, leaving The Family laid out.
Lyra Valkyria vs. Jacy Jayne
Jacy Jayne makes her way over to the announcers, interrupting them. She tells Vic to stop talking, then says tonight she will finish what she started at The Great American Bash, but this time no one will be there to pull her off Lyra Valkyria. The music hits and out comes Valkyria as Alicia Taylor does the introductions.
Jayne runs over and attacks Lyra at the entrance-way. They bring it to ringside and Jayne nails Lyra off the apron to boos. Jayne brings it into the ring and we get the bell.
Jayne immediately beats Lyra down in the corner and unloads. Lyra fights back and slams Jayne for 2. Jayne turns it around and delivers two stiff kicks for a close 2 count. Jayne with more offense in the corner as the referee warns her.
Lyra fights out of the corner and knocks Jayne to the floor. Lyra launches herself over the top rope, decking Jayne on the floor. Lyra yells out and keeps the attack going as we go to commercial.
Back from the break and we see how Jayne took control during the break. More back and forth now. Jayne drops Lyra and hits a big dropkick for 2. She sits up laughing.
Fans rally as Jayne kicks Lyra around. Lyra catches a kick and unloads, dropping Jayne with two big kicks. Lyra side-steps and knocks Jayne to the floor, then charges and lays her out. They bring it in and Lyra hits a top rope crossbody, then the Northern Lights suplex for 2. Fans rally for Lyra as she kicks Jayne around and talks trash while Jayne is on her knees. Jayne fights back and hits a Spinebuster in the middle of the ring for 2.
Jayne is frustrated now. She rams Lyra into the corner as the referee warns her. They trade strikes but Jayne gets dropped. Lyra goes back up top and hits a big splash for the pin to win.
Winner: Lyra Valkyria
– After the match, Valkyria stands tall as the music hits. We go to replays. Valkyria poses in the ring while Jayne sits on the aisle, looking at Lyra.
– NXT Champion Carmelo Hayes is backstage with Trick Williams. They talk about The Bash main event and Hayes retaining over Ilja Dragunov. Trick says the match could’ve went either way, which is why he grabbed the title belt and yelled as Hayes for motivation. Hayes thanks Trick and says he needed it. Trick says now that Dragunov is in Carmelo’s rear view mirror… Trick means what he said last week, he’s going to start doing this for himself. Hayes tells Trick to go get his bag, yes. Trick says it will always be Trick Melo Gang but he’s not a sidekick. Hayes says he doesn’t see Trick as one. Trick says no but everyone else does. Trick says Hayes is doing his thing and is on track to be one of the greatest, he’s champion… but Trick isn’t. Trick wants to defeat Dragunov. He says he will slay The Mad Dragon. Hayes respects that. Trick says this is no break up, but he’s gotta be on his own. They have a show of respect and love, and they embrace. Trick walks off.
– We see NXT North American Champion Dominik Mysterio and WWE Women’s Champion Rhea Ripley walking backstage. Back to commercial.
– Back from the break and NXT Tag Team Champions The Family are in the trainer’s room. McKenzie Mitchell walks in and says this isn’t the type of celebration they had in mind. She asks Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo for a medical update. Tony D’Angelo interrupts and goes on about Gallus, calling the attack an act of desperation. Tony says tell Gallus to turn their car around because The Family wants them tonight… all of them. Stacks points to how it will be 2-on-3. Tony says he will make a call. Stacks asks who? Tony says you know who… we’ll see if he picks up. Tony says let’s go. The trainer says he’s not done but Tony says he’s good, Stacks is good. The Family heads out.
– We go back to the ring and out comes NXT North American Champion Dominik Mysterio and WWE Women’s Champion Rhea Ripley to boos. Ripley announces that Dominik is still your champion.
Ripley says Dominik proved he’s more of a man than Wes Lee and Mustafa Ali, and all of you here. Dominik says that makes him the greatest luchador ever. The music interrupts and out comes Dragon Lee to a pop.
Dragon says he won’t let Dominik disrespect the NXT Universe or his heritage any longer. Ripley says look, it’s Rey Mysterio Junior Jr. Dragon says he doesn’t like Ripley. Dragon says no one, including Dominik, believes this “greatest luchador” stuff because Rey is the greatest luchador of all-time. Dominik goes on about how he made the Mysterio name relevant. Ripley and Dragon disagree about how big Dominik’s balls are. Dragon challenges Dominik to prove he’s the best by defending the title next week.
Dominik says he’s a fighting champion so he will see Dragon next week. Ripley says she will be in Dominik’s corner. Dominik says Mami is all he needs. Ripley says wherever her Latino Heat goes, she goes. Dragon says he won’t be coming alone either… 2023 WWE Hall of Famer Rey Mysterio appears on the big screen to a pop. Rey says he’s proud to be coming to NXT next week to be in the corner of someone who truly deserves it, the future of lucha libre. Rey says he will have the best seat in the house and can’t wait to see Dominik lose the title. The music starts back up to end the segment as fans boo Dominik and Ripley.
– NXT Champion Carmelo Hayes is backstage when an angry Wes Lee walks in. Hayes tells Lee to calm down… Lee says he’s lost three weeks in a row, while Hayes is on top of the world. Lee says Hayes has had this and that, but Lee is scraping for inches and fighting for his life. Lee tells Hayes… don’t act like you know. Hayes says he went to war on Sunday, and can barely breathe, but you don’t see him knocking over things like this. Hayes goes on about what he has coming, including a possible rematch for Ilja Dragunov, and says Lee has no idea how to be champion. Hayes says now he understands why Bron Breakker snapped. Lee says he knows what it takes to be champion. Meta-Four interrupts and Noam Dar is proud to be NXT Heritage Cup Champion but Lee reminds him he’s the fake champion. Dar says Nathan Frazer never pinned him for the Heritage Cup, but Lee was pinned twice by NXT North American Champion Dominik Mysterio. A quick fight breaks out between the two sides but officials rush in to keep them apart.
Dijak vs. Eddy Thorpe
We go back to the ring and out comes Eddy Thorpe. Back to commercial.
Back from the break and we see stills from The Great American Bash. We go backstage to Chase U with McKenzie Mitchell now. A deflated Thea Hail is disappointed about the loss to NXT Women’s Champion Tiffany Stratton, but says she gave it all she had, she did not give up. Andre Chase goes on about how he had to throw the towel in. Duke Hudson is also there as they argue. Hail screams, then Baron Corbin walks up. Corbin says this interview is over. Chase and Corbin have words. Corbin calls Hail “little girl” and says this job is not for everyone, you tried and failed, you’ve already peaked and that’s it. Chase steps up and calls Corbin a piece of shit and tells him he can’t talk to Hail like that. They have more words and Corbin walks off. Chase turns to Hail and says he will not let Corbin talk to her like that. We go back to the ring and Dijak is out now as Thorpe looks on.
The bell rings and Dijak charges with a big boot but Thorpe dodges it and goes to work with strikes. Dijak is dropkicked into the corner.
Back and forth between the two now. Dijak takes Thorpe to the corner and unloads. Dijak keeps control and hits a big sit-out chokeslam in the middle of the ring for a close 2 count.
Dijak goes on dominating with a focus on Thorpe’s shoulder. They trade kicks. Dijak with a belly-to-belly suplex for 2. They tangle and Dijak blocks a German suplex. Dijak works on the arm and sends Thorpe into the turnbuckles shoulder-first. More back and forth now. Dijak goes for Feast Your Eyes but Thorpe counters with a big German suplex. Thorpe with a jumping elbow drop but Dijak rolls to the floor to avoid the pin.
Thorpe grabs Dijak from the ring and tries to pull him back in but Dijak slams Thorpe’s head over into the ring post, then decks him. Dijak comes back in with a big kick to the hurt shoulder, then a Cyclone Kick for the pin to win.
Winner: Dijak
– After the match, Dijak stands tall as the music hits.
– NXT Tag Team Champions Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo and Tony D’Angelo are backstage. Tony is on the phone with someone. Tony says to this person… if anyone understands business is business, it’s you… if you do this for me, we’re even. Tony hangs up and Stacks asks if this person is in. Tony says he’s in. Stacks says good, let’s go get Gallus. They hurry off and we go to commercial.
– Back from the break and we see Dana Brooke backstage with Kelani Jordan, and they’re watching Dana’s win over Cora Jade in last week’s Kendo Stick Match. Dana says this match brought out the dark side in her. They agree this was a side everyone needed to see. Dana brings up how she’s went through some things in her career, and she’s read some things in fan comments, so when she took that kendo stick, she changed, she saw red, and she liked it. Jordan says Brooke is a badass. Brooke says something has gotten into her. Brooke gives Jordan some praise for her progress, and says she needs to find her aggression and killer instinct because she will need it. Brooke walks off as a somewhat confused Jordan thinks things over.
Lola Vice and Elektra Lopez vs. Valentina Feroz and Yulisa Leon
We go back to the ring as Valentina Feroz and Yulisa Leon are already waiting. Lola Vice and Elektra Lopez are out next. We see Vice and Lopez on Instagram during The Great American Bash, making fun of Leon and Feroz.
The bell rings as Leon goes at it with Lopez to start. Lopez goes for an early Sleeper but Leon fights back. At one point Feroz tags in as Leon hit a slingshot slam on Lopez for 2.
Lopez and Vice double team Feroz to take control. Lopez slams Feroz face-first into the mat, then she and Vice hit a series of double team moves to keep Feroz down. Vice dominates Feroz for close pin attempts. Vice and Lopez keep control with quick tags and double teaming. Leon gets a hot tag and runs wild, hitting a big suplex and a Michinoku Driver for 2. Lopez and Feroz go at it until Feroz is sent to the floor. Leon clotheslines Lopez, but Vice ends up hitting a big kick to Leon for the pin to win.
Winners: Lola Vice and Elektra Lopez
– After the match, Lopez and Vice celebrate as the music hits. They pose in the ring while Feroz and Leon sit up on the floor, watching them.
– Still to come, NXT Champion Carmelo Hayes teams with Wes Lee. Back to commercial.
– We return from the break, to a TikTok video of Tiffany Stratton talking about her successful defense of the NXT Women's Championship at Great American Bash while she puts on makeup. She teases her appearance for next week where she just may reveal the next challenger to her title.
Wes Lee & Carmelo Hayes vs. Noam Dar & Oro Mensah
Now we head back inside the CWC where we get ready for our next match of the evening. Wes Lee's theme hits and out comes the former NXT North American Champion to a good fan reception. He settles in the ring and his music dies down.
The theme for his tag-team partner hits and the crowd goes bonkers as the reigning NXT World Champion Carmelo Hayes makes his way out, without Trick Williams by his side for the first time. He joins Lee in the ring and the two give each other glares.
From there, the lights go down and the theme for The Meta-Four hits. Out comes Noam Dar with his faux Heritage Cup Tropy, Oro Mensah, Jakara Jackson and Lash Legend as the fans loudly boo. They take their time making their way to the ring and then are met at ringside by Lee, who splashes onto them after a suicide dive through the ropes.
Mensah and Dar start double-teaming Lee on the floor after that, but then Hayes hits a big splash out to the floor. Now Lee and Hayes beat down Dar and Mensah from opposite sides of the ring.
Eventually, the fight finds its' way into the ring where the bell sounds. Hayes and Dar kick things off for their respective teams. We see some good back-and-forth action and then we head to a mid-match commercial break with Hayes and Lee still in firm control of the bout.
When we return from the break, we see Mensah working over Lee as the fans try and rally behind the former NXT North American Champion. He finally hits a hope spot and both guys are down. They both struggle to get to their corner to make the tag, and each eventually do.
Hayes and Dar each hit the ring, but it is the NXT World Champion who comes in like a bat out of hell and takes over. Despite interference from Jakara and Legend at ringside, we see Hayes remain in control. Lee requests the tag and Hayes gives it to him. He heads to the top and in comes a distraction once again. Lee ends up hitting a big splash.
Lee looks for the Cardiac Kick but he accidentally hits Hayes. He then turns around into a big shot from Dar as the fans chant "You f*cked up!" so loud it has to be censored on the television broadcast. Dar then finishes Lee off. Lee loses for the fourth week in a row.
Winners: Noam Dar & Oro Mensah
– After the match, we see Hayes telling Lee it's okay what happened with the accidental Cardiac Kick. He goes to leave but Lee grabs his arm and turns him around. He yells at him that he's not okay with it. He asks where Hayes was. Hayes walks off to end the emotional post-match scene.
– We go to Bron Breakker backstage, who gloats about his attack of Von Wagner on last week's show.
He then tells Wagner he can come find him like he claims he wants to, but warns him that if he does, he'll make that photo of him with the scary scar on his head as a baby look like nothing compared to what he does to him.
– We shoot to the parking lot and we see Dominik Mysterio and Rhea Ripley leaving the building together when they are approached by Axiom. He stops them and Dom says didn't you already tell us how much you love my dad earlier.
Axiom says that was Dragon Lee. Mustafa Ali runs up and says he and Dom need to talk about Sunday. Axiom asks why Ali interrupted him.
Ali turns to answer and when he does, Dom and Rhea leave. Axiom tells Ali he didn't appreciate being disrespected like that. Ali says who cares, he's been disrespected for six years. He says that NXT North American Championship is his.
Baron Corbin vs. Andre Chase
From there, we head back inside the CWC where we hear the familiar sounds of Baron Corbin's theme song. The fans boo loudly as "The Lone Wolf" makes his way to the ring for our next match of the evening.
As he settles inside the squared circle, we head to a quick pre-match commercial break. When we return from the break, the theme for Chase University hits and out comes Andre Chase and Thea Hail and Duke Hudson with his Chase U MVP trophy.
The bell sounds and we're officially off-and-running with this one. We see Chase faring well early on as the fans chant and cheer for him the whole time. Corbin gets in some offense and completely takes over when the fight hits the floor, as he hoists Chase up and slams him into the ring post.
Again the commentators point out the night-and-day difference in Thea Hail's personality after her loss over the weekend. The fans are also focusing on her, chanting "We love Thea!" Corbin takes Chase back in the ring and continues working him over.
Corbin takes the fight back out to the floor and pummels Chase in front of Hail. As he does, the fans break out in a loud "Throw the towel!" chant at Hail, referencing her anger towards Chase for throwing in the towel at Great American Bash. Hail is holding the towel, too.
Moments later, Corbin gets Chase in a single-leg Boston crab. Hail throws in the towel but Corbin catches it and throws it back out of the ring. He turns and finishes off Chase and Hail simply walks off by herself.
Winner: Baron Corbin
– Now to a lengthy video package recapping Roxanne Perez's homecoming in Texas over the weekend for her Weapons Wild Match against Blair Davenport at NXT Great American Bash 2023.
– After the video package wraps up, we return live in the parking lot once again. This time we see a nice car pull up. Out pops a nice pair of fancy, expensive shoes. Vic Joseph speculates that The Family's mystery partner has arrived. We head to another commercial break.
– When we return from the break, we see The Meta-Four celebrating their victory over Carmelo Hayes and Wes Lee. In walks Tyler Bate who asks Noam Dar about being the Heritage Cup Champion in his mind. He challenges him to a match for the trophy next week.
– From there, we head to the ring where we see all of The Schism in the ring. Joe Gacy talks for a minute and then Jagger Reid and Rip Fowler lose their cool. It's time for The Schism Interrogation.
Ava Raine tells each masked man to step forward and take their masks off to reveal themselves. They want to know who put their hands on The Dyad. We see each person remove their masks until there are three left.
The third to last person is revealed to be Ikemen Jiro, who gets a big pop. They tell them this isn't a joke. Reid and Fowler drag the other two down and unmask them themselves. They are two more nobodies.
On the big screen, we see The Creed Brothers. They are in front of a green screen designed to be a beach. They mock The Schism about thinking they would be under those masks. The Schism freaks out and says they know Julius and Brutus Creed are around here somewhere. They want them delivered to them. After this wraps up, we head to another commercial break.
The Family & Santos Escobar vs. Gallus
Back from the break to footage from last week of Cora Jade throwing a fit in the women's locker room after losing to Dana Brooke. When that wraps up, Vic Joseph and Booker T run down some matches for next week's show promote WWE SummerSlam this weekend.
Back inside the CWC, the theme for Gallus hits and out comes the three-man team of Wolfgang, Mark Coffey and Joe Coffey. They settle inside the ring and await the arrival of their opponents.
The familiar sounds of The Family's theme hits and out comes the brand new NXT World Tag-Team Champions Tony D'Angelo and Channing "Stacks" Lorenzo. They talk into the camera about the old friend they called.
After a lull, we await the revelation of who their mystery partner will be. The theme for Santos Escobar hits and out comes the LWO member and winner of the 2023 U.S. Title Invitational to join The Family in our six-man tag-team main event.
D'Angelo, Stacks and Santos hit the ring and immediately start duking it out with Wolfgang, Mark and Joe, as the bell sounds to officially get this one off-and-running. The fans chant "Welcome back!" as Santos goes wild on offense early on.
We see some more brawling and then the smoke clears, the dust settles and D'Angelo works over Coffey as we shift gears and head to our final mid-match commercial break of the evening.
As we settle back in from the commercial time out, we see Gallus in control of the offense until Santos Escobar gets the hot tag and takes over. He hits a top-rope hurricanrana and then his big running double-knees in the corner.
He tags out and in comes D'Angelo and Stacks with their Bada Bing, Bada Boom double-team finisher for the pin fall victory. Fun main event.
Winners: The Family & Santos Escobar
– Before this week's show wraps up, we shoot to a video package that shows Ilja Dragunov talking about how Trick Williams is the lone reason why he isn't the NXT World Champion right now. He says he heard Trick say he isn't done with him earlier this evening.
He says that's good because he's not done with him, either. He vows that next week he will get his revenge until Trick Williams is "entirely terminated." That's how this week's show goes off the air.
