WWE NXT Live Coverage - April, 22nd 2025
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Stephanie Vaquer defends the NXT Women's Title against Roxanne Perez
NXT Women's Champion Stephanie Vaquer defends her title against Roxanne Perez in a matchup between two of the best NXT Superstars in history. The Prodigy is a former two-time NXT Women's Champion and is determined to become a three-time titleholder by defeating La Primera just days after Stand & Deliver. Vaquer and Perez appeared on the Raw after WrestleMania last night, but The Prodigy interfered in Vaquer's non-title match against Women's World Champion IYO SKY. Can Perez become a three-time champion, or will The Dark Angel continue to prove that NXT belongs to her?
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– We are live! The show kicks off with a video recapping the events of Stand & Deliver this past Saturday.
– Vic Joseph, Booker T, and Corey Graves greet audiences at home as Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez then make their way out to the ring. Tatum Paxley and Gigi Dolin follow.
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WWE Women's Tag Team Championship Match: Liv Morgan & Raquel Rodriguez vs. Gigi Dolin & Tatum Paxley
Morgan and Paxley begin the action. The bell rings and Morgan fires off right hands on Paxley in the corner. She fires off stomps on her in the corner, then tags in Rodriguez. Rodriguez dumps Paxley across the ring, then tags Morgan back in. Morgan and Rodriguez double team on Paxley, but Dolin tags in. Dolin lands a kick on Rodriguez's head, then looks to fly off the ropes. Rodriguez catches her, then sends her crashing into the mat. The action spills out of the ring, and Paxley flies off the apron with a moonsault to level Morgan and Rodriguez.
Back from the break, Paxley lands a jawbreaker on Rodriguez. Morgan tags back in and delivers a boot to Paxley's midsection, then follows it up with The Three Amigos. Rodriguez tags in and gets Paxley up in a delayed vertical suplex, but Paxley escapes by firing off knees on Rodriguez.
Dolin and Morgan tag in, and Dolin levels Morgan with a clothesline. Paxley tags back in, but Rodriguez levels her and Dolin with a double clothesline. Dolin tags in and hits a crossbody on Rodriguez off the middle rope, and Paxley follows it up with a 450 Splash off the ropes. Paxley then tags back in and rocks Rodriguez with a double enzuigiri alongside Dolin. Dolin tags in, but Morgan connects with Oblivion for the win.
Winners and STILL WWE Women's Tag Team Champions: Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez
– Lexis King is backstage with Penn & Teller and talks to them about finding his Heritage Cup that has disappeared. He's told he has to defend the cup tonight and he has to admit Penn & Teller are magic and magic is real. King agrees to the terms and gets back his Heritage Cup and will defend it tonight against a surprise opponent.
– Myles Borne and Wren Sinclair are talking backstage. Dark States comes by and tells Borne to break up their faction before they have to. Je'Von Evans walks by and says he's looking for a fight. Borne suggests a two on two with him teaming with Evans.
– Ricky Saints then makes his way down to the ring.
Saints says he kicked off WrestleMania 41 weekend with a bang when he successfully defended his North American Championship against Ethan Page. He says he made good on his promise at Stand & Deliver, and lived up to everything he said he was going to do in "NXT".
Lexis King's music hits, and he makes his way out. He tells Saints that he spent his weekend in Las Vegas looking for his NXT Heritage Cup after it disappeared at the hands of Penn & Teller, and Saints questions what this has to do with him. King threatens to take Saints' North American Championship from him if he doesn't leave the ring, and Saints tells King that he does a lot of taking without actually being able to back it up. King calls Saints delusional and challenges Saints to defend his North American Championship against him in a singles match next week. He says that he'll put the Heritage Cup on the line as well in a Winner Takes All Match, and Saints accepts the challenge.
– Hank & Tank are backstage with Sol Ruca & Zaria. Thea Hail runs by and says she had fun at the ladder match. Jaida Parker comes by and tells Hail to get lost. Kelani Jordan says the locker room has changed since Hail was here. Fatal Influence comes by and pipes in and Fallon Henley gets annoyed with her team.
– Noam Dar then makes his way out to the ring, revealing himself as King's mystery opponent in the upcoming match.
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NXT Heritage Cup Championship Match: Lexis King (c) vs. Noam Dar
The bell rings and Dar cinches in an Ankle Lock on King. King escapes, but Dar fires off a kick on his chest and follows it up with a dropkick. He goes for a pin, but King kicks out. Dar then wears King down with a submission, but King fires off kicks on his head and follows it up with a series of overhand chops. Dar fires off strikes on King, then catches him with a pair of kicks to his midsection. King levels Dar with a thrust kick and ascends to the top rope, then looks to hit a Swanton Bomb. Dar rolls out of the way, then levels King with a spinning back elbow for the win.
Winner and NEW NXT Heritage Cup Champion: Noam Dar
– Sarah Schreiber talks to Roxanne Perez backstage. Perez says this isn't Stephanie Vaquer's moment, but it's her moment. She tells Vaquer if Vaquer has a problem with it, she can deal with Perez tonight. Perez promises to walk out as champ.
– Fatal Influence is in the ring for Fallon Henley's match coming up next.
Thea Hail vs. Fallon Henley (w/ Fatal Influence)
The bell rings and the two lock up. Hail delivers an overhand chop to Henley, then rolls her up. Henley kicks out and returns the favor, but Hail kicks out and catches Henley with a boot. She follows it up with a hurricanrana and a pair of back elbows, then levels Henley with a clothesline. Henley delivers a T-Bone suplex to Hail and holds her in place on the outside as Jacy Jayne looks to land a boot on Hail while the referee is distracted by Jazmyn Nyx. Hail moves out of the way and Jayne accidentally hits Henley. She then clocks Nyx on the apron and cinches in the Kimura Lock on Henley for the win.
Winner: Thea Hail
– Oba Femi makes his way out to the ring.
Femi says he did exactly what he said he'd do in his defense of the NXT Championship against Trick Williams and Je'Von Evans. Evans says he may have called Evans a child and said he couldn't hang in the ring, but he brought it on Saturday at Stand & Deliver and gives him a shout out.
Williams' music hits and he makes his way down to the ring. He demands a one-on-one match for the NXT Championship, but Joe Hendry's music cuts him off as he makes his case. Hendry says Williams has changed since he was last in "NXT", then says while Williams used to soak in the cheers of fans, he now soaks in self pity. He then asks Williams if he's stopped to think that Williams is the reason that he hasn't won back the NXT Championship.
Williams tells Hendry that he's an outsider who doesn't belong in "NXT", but Hendry responds by reminding Williams that while he may have lost to Randy Orton at WrestleMania 41, he did it in front of a huge crowd. He then says he's come to talk to Femi about the NXT Championship and stares down Femi, but Williams pulls the two men apart. Hendry and Femi clock Williams, then dump him out of the ring.
– We cut to a clip of Channing "Stacks" Lorenzo in the desert and Luca Crusafino drives by and asks Stacks why he turned on Tony D'Angelo. Stacks tells Crusafino to quiet down and asks him why he invited Crusafino out here... Crusafino says "Aww fu-" and the screen goes black.
– Zaria and Sol Ruca are interviewed by Sarah Schreiber. Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez come by and poke fun at Zaria for have no titles and that Ruca has two. Ruca says nothing will get between them.
– Trick Williams is backstage tearing apart everything backstage. Ava tells him to get out.
DarkState (w/ Cutler James and Saquon Shugars) vs. Je'Von Evans and Myles Borne (w/ Wren Sinclair)
Dion Lennox and Borne begin the action. The bell rings and the two lock up. They go back and forth with one another, but Evans tags in. Lennox levels Evans with a right hand, but Evans responds with a pair of hurricanranas to him. Osiris Griffin tags in and sends Evans crashing into the corner. Evans looks to respond with a tope suicida to Griffin and Lennox on the outside, but Griffin intercepts him. Borne then flies over the top rope to level Griffin and Lennox.
Griffin bodyslams Evans back in the ring and tags in Lennox. Borne tags in on his side, and Borne connects with an uppercut on him. He follows it up with a dropkick as Charlie Dempsey and Tavion Heights appear on the top of the ramp. Evans tags back in, but Lennox whips him into the mat and hits a clothesline on him in the corner. He then sends Evans crashing into the mat and goes for a pin, but Evans kicks out.
Lennox fires off right hands on Evans, then whips him into the corner and tags in Griffin. Griffin levels Evans with a right hand, but Evans looks to land a crossbody on Griffin off the ropes. Griffin catches him and delivers a Fallaway Slam to him, then sends him crashing into the top turnbuckle face first and whips him into the corner. Lennox tags in and fires off right hands on Evans' midsection as Griffin holds him in place. Griffin tags in and connects with an over the shoulder powerslam on Evans. He goes for a pin, but Borne breaks the fall.
Griffin wears Evans down with a submission hold, then looks to land a splash on Evans in the corner. Evans moves out of the way and Griffin tags himself in, but Borne tags in and delivers powerslams to Lennox and Griffin. He lands a belly-to-belly suplex on Lennox and gets him up on his shoulders, then delivers a variation of a shoulderbreaker to him. Griffin tags in and lands a double powerbomb on Borne with Lennox for the win.
Winners: DarkState
– Shawn Spears talks with Ava backstage and tells her he's just looking out for his friends. Yoshiki Inamura comes in to thank Ava as he's heading back to Japan. He says he feels because they almost became tag champs. Josh Briggs comes in and asks what's going on and Ava feels bad and makes a title match for next week against Hank & Tank. Briggs asks Inamura how he got this match and Inamura tells Briggs he got them the match using an old Japanese secret.
– Tony D'Angelo walks through a hotel hallway. He knocks on Adriana Rizzo's room. Inside the room they talk about Stacks double crossing The Don. She asks D'Angelo how Luca Crusafino is doing and neither have heard from him. D'Angelo says he and Stacks will have to settle this on the mat. Rizzo asks D'Angelo to let her talk to him. D'Angelo says he doesn't trust Stacks and Stacks declared war and he can't put Rizzo at risk. He tells Rizzo she can't go home and has to stay in a safe house. They hug and he tells Rizzo everything will be alright.
– Sarah Schreiber talks to Ricky Saints about his match against Lexis King next week. Saints says even though King lost today he'll still defend his title. Ethan Page comes by and King runs and takes out Saints. Page tells Saints that they'll handle their business another time.
– A video of Andre Chase opening up a briefcase and pulling out a Chase U sweater plays. Chase says that Chase U is back.
– Roxanne Perez makes her way down to the ring. Stephanie Vaquer follows.
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NXT Women's Championship Match: Stephanie Vaquer (c) vs. Roxanne Perez
The bell rings and the two lock up. Perez whips Vaquer into the mat, but Vaquer pins Perez. Perez counters into a pinfall of her own, but Vaquer kicks out and hits a back suplex on Perez. Perez drags the ring skirt into the ring as Vaquer pulls her off the apron, then rakes her eyes as the referee fixes the ring skirt. She begins targeting Vaquer's hand and wrist, but Vaquer rolls up Perez. Perez kicks out.
Perez and Vaquer exchange right hands with one another, but Vaquer lands a crossbody on Perez over the top rope and onto the entrance ramp. She dumps Perez back in the ring and connects with a meteora on her in the corner, then sends her head repeatedly bouncing off the mat. Perez lands a thrust kick on Vaquer, but Vaquer connects with a backbreaker on Perez and ascends up the ropes. Perez trips Vaquer and delivers a hurricanrana to her, then cinches in a crossface but Vaquer escapes. The two women take turns pinning one another, but Vaquer lands a Dragon Screw on Perez out of the corner. She follows it up with the Package Backbreaker for the win.
Winner and STILL NXT Women's Champion: Stephanie Vaquer
– After the match, Giulia's music hits and she makes her way out. She stares down Vaquer from the entrance ramp as we see Jordynne Grace watching the pair from the crowd, Vaquer holds up her NXT Women's Championship, and the show goes off the air.
