WWE NXT Live Coverage - January 13th, 2026
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Ava addresses the future of the NXT Championship
NXT General Manager Ava reveals the state of the NXT Championship after Oba Femi vacated the title at New Year's Evil.
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The show kicks off with a video recapping what went down with the Women's North American Championship last Tuesday.
Vic Joseph and Booker T then greet audiences at home as Ava stands in the ring.
Ava says while many people would see the NXT Championship being vacated by Oba Femi as a challenge, she sees it as an opportunity. She says whether the men have been surrounding the ring have been grinding for a while or are new faces, there's no better moment than right now.
Ricky Saints' music hits, and he makes his way to the ring. He thanks the fans for coming out tonight and gloats about running the main event of NXT Stand & Deliver 2025 (Femi, Trick Williams, and Je'Von Evans) out of NXT. He says like the WWE introduction says, he's the then, now, and forever before he says he sees talented men standing around the ring. He says they're the future and he's the present, then says he'll let Ava do the honors and hand over the NXT Championship to him.
Ava informs Saints she's not handing him the NXT Championship, and says while Saints deserves an opportunity, so do the men standing around the ring. She says there will be a Six Man Ladder Match on February 3 to determine who the new NXT Champion will be, with qualifiers starting next week.
Ava hangs the NXT Championship belt around an apparatus from the ceiling. Joe Hendry slides in the ring, with several others following him and a brawl breaking out at ringside. Keanu Carver makes his way out and dumps one of the men into the crowd as everyone else continues fighting. He powerbombs Ricky Smokes through the announce desk, then gets Jackson Drake over his head and dumps him on top of several men on the outside. Carver is left standing tall above everyone else in the ring as a stunned Saints watches him from the entrance ramp.
Kelani Jordan and Lola Vice are shown split screen heading to ringside for their match.
Ava is on the phone backstage. Robert Stone comes by and tells Ava that Blake Monroe is here and she has lots of get off her chest.
Kelani Jordan vs. Lola Vice
Jordan dropkicks Vice off the apron as she poses on it. She flies over the top rope to level Vice on the outside, then dumps her back in the ring and ascends to the top rope. She looks to fly, but Vice catches Jordan with a right hand on her midsection.
The bell rings and Jordan and Vice take turns raining down right hands on one another. Vice delivers a springboard arm drag to Jordan, but Jordan trips Vice with a leg sweep and fires off a stomp on her in the corner. Jordan then levels Vice with an ax handle, but Vice cinches in a submission on Jordan. Jordan crawls over to the bottom rope to escape.
The action spills out of the ring, where Jordan sends Vice crashing into the announce desk spine first and levels her with a lariat on the outside. She dumps Vice back in the ring and joins her inside during the break, then fires off shoulders on Vice's midsection in the corner and lands a knee strike on her. Jordan then cinches in a submission on Vice to wear her down and delivers The Three Amigos to her, but Vice reverses the third suplex and lands it on Jordan.
Vice rolls up Jordan, but Jordan kicks out and Vice lands a kick on the back of her thigh. She whips Vice into the corner of the ring, then exchanges right hands and kicks with her back from the break. Vice catches Jordan with a German suplex, then fires off a series of kicks on her and follows it up with her signature rapid fire kicks. She sets up for a Hip Attack on Jordan, but Jordan slides out of the ring before she can deliver the move.
Vice runs over Jordan with a Shining Wizard on her off the ring apron, then dumps her back inside and connects with a Hip Attack on her in the corner. Jordan rains down a few Hammer and Anvil elbows on Vice and delivers a Frog Splash on her off the top rope, then goes for a pin but Vice kicks out.
Jordan sets up for a split legged moonsault on Vice, but Vice traps her in a submission hold. Jordan escapes and rolls up Vice, but the referee catches Jordan holding the ropes. Jordan argues with the referee, but turns around into a 305 from Vice. Vice then pins Jordan for the win.
Winner: Lola Vice
Vice calls out Izzi Dame after the match and tells her she's coming for Dame's gold.
Tavion Heights has a video promo that plays. He talks about how he's ready to make his mark in 2026 and he talks about reaching new heights and tells Jasper Troy he'll beat him tonight. A video promo/response from Jasper Troy is shown and he tells Heights it's a dead end for him. We head for a break.
Back from the break, Jasper Troy and Tavion Heights are waiting in the ring.
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WWE Speed Championship Match: Jasper Troy (c) vs. Tavion Heights
The bell rings and Heights levels Troy as the five minute time limit begins. Heights pins Troy, but Troy kicks out and sends Heights crashing into the corner spine first. Troy whips Heights into the corner spine first as the clock reaches three minutes, then delivers a backbreaker to him and goes for a pin. Heights kicks out, but Troy continues wearing him down.
The clock passes two minutes as Heights delivers a powerslam to Troy. He follows it up with a Frog Splash to him and goes for a pin, but Troy kicks out as the clock approaches one remaining minute. Troy catches Heights with the Big Black Hole for the win.
Winner and STILL WWE Speed Champion: Jasper Troy
Lexis King attacks Tavion Heights after the match and leaves Heights laid out.
Kendal Grey and Wren Sinclair stand outside Ava's office. Grey says she wants another title shot. Zaria and Sol Ruca come in and say they're next and ask Sinclair why she isn't next. Jacy Jayne comes out of the office and tells them all to keep quiet and they all barge into Ava's office. Ava tells the women that one of their women's tag teams gets a shot at the TNA Tag Titles and they'll have a triple threat tag match to determine who gets the shot. Fallon Henley, Lainey Reid, Jayne, Ruca, Zaria, Sinclair and Grey all argue as to who will be victorious.
Lexis King walks backstage and asks Chase U if they saw what happened. Andre Chase tells Kale Dixon and Uriah Connors that what King did is what they shouldn't do. King talks about how Ava says the top spot is open. Stacks and Arianna Grace come in and tell King he's right. Robert Stone walks into the screen and Myles Borne stops Stone and demands a qualifying match. Stone says he'll talk to Ava.
A video package for the new NXT Superstar "The French Luchador" Elio LeFleur plays.
Ava talks to Ethan Page backstage. He congratulates Ava for signing The Vanity Project. Page asks about the qualifying matches and Ava tells him he's not but if he wants to, he has to vacate his North American Championship. Page talks about what he's done for the North American Championship and Ava agrees and says that title deserves a spotlight and says Page needs to defend it next week against a debuting Elio LeFleur.
Blake Monroe walks backstage and she's up next to explain her recent actions. We head to a break.
Back from the brake, Blake Monroe makes her way out.
Monroe says she had every intention of reclaiming the Women's North American Championship last Tuesday, and while she was where she was supposed to be in the middle of the conversation, she was subjected to controversy. She says when someone has as much talent as her, people don't always know what to do and will call people like her controversial or whine about her on commentary. She says she is the standard and the most complete woman in NXT, and while Ava is talking lots about the future, she is "The Glamour". She says she didn't lose control last week, but rather patience with a system that doesn't know how to exist without convenient things.
Jaida Parker's music hits and she makes her way to the ring. She looks to speak, but Monroe cuts off Parker. Parker responds by going after Monroe and firing off shoulders on her midsection in the corner, then drapes Monroe across the middle rope and lands her signature Hip Attack on her.
DarkState has a video package of them that plays. They talk about everything they did in 2025 and how they're putting everyone on notice like they did last year.
Channing "Stacks" Lorenzo and Arianna Grace then make their way to the ring. Shiloh Hill follows.
TNA International Championship Match: Stacks (c) (w/Arianna Grace) vs. Shiloh Hill
Stacks dips Grace and kisses her, but moments after, Grace slaps Hill. This opens the door for Stacks to go straight after Hill as the bell sounds and whip him into the corner spine first, but Hill dumps Stacks out of the ring over the top rope.
During the commercial break, Stacks dumps Hill back in the ring and levels him with a neckbreaker. He goes for a pin, but Hill kicks out and Stacks drapes him off the top rope by his knees. He fires off a few stomps and right hands on Hill's midsection, but Stacks runs him over with a right hand back from the break. Hill catches Stacks with a uranage and a standing cannonball splash, then goes for a pin.
Stacks kicks out and lands a pair of double knees on Hill's midsection, then gets hyped up by Grace on the outside. He lines up for a Shining Wizard on Hill, but Hill avoids it and slides out of the ring to briefly interact with Grace. Grace tries tripping Hill on the apron, but Hill jumps out of the way. Stacks then pins Hill back in the ring while Grace holds his hand on the rope for leverage, but the referee spots them. Hill looks to take advantage and rolls up Stacks, but Stacks kicks out. Hill pins Stacks again, but Grace uses her leg to help Stacks reverse the fall and pin Hill for the win.
Winner and STILL TNA International Champion: Stacks
Izzi Dame walks backstage with Niko Vance and Shawn Spears. The Culling is up next and we hear from Dame.
After a commercial break, Izzi Dame comes out solo to the ring with her Women's North American Championship.
Dame welcomes the fans to their new reality of her being the new Women's North American Champion instead of Thea Hail, Tatum Paxley, or Blake Monroe. She says she didn't stumble into success and simply outsmarted everyone else, then says she finds it funny that she lost to Paxley last week in their match. She says while some may have thought she would've cried and hid in the shadows, she studies losses, watches how the women in the locker room think, and watches how the women in the locker room react.
Dame says she engineered her opportunity and designed the outcome, which led her to being a champion. She says while the fans may love Paxley, love isn't enough to keep someone on top. She says she became champion because she thinks faster and pulls the trigger without hesitation, then says those who think they can get close to the Women's North American Championship are walking into a trap and playing a game they have no idea about.
Paxley's music hits and she makes her way to the ring while referees try holding her back. Paxley breaks free and rains down right hands on Dame. The referees pull Paxley off Dame, but Paxley breaks free of them and takes one of them out with a headbutt as Dame slides out of the ring.
Kelly Kincaid talks to Ricky Saints backstage. Saints calls Kincaid biased and he says he talks to Ava and he talked to Ava and she's put him in the ladder match and he doesn't have to qualify. Stacks and Arianna Grace come by and take offense to not being included in the qualifier matches. Saints leaves and Lexis King tells Stacks that they should talk.
We then head backstage, where Blake Howard spots Paxley being kicked out of the Performance Center. Vanity Project approaches Howard to brag about being among the newest members of the NXT roster before Howard looks to catch up with Keanu Carver. Carver demands Howard and the camera get out of his face.
Back at ringside, DarkState makes their way to the ring. Joe Hendry follows, bringing OTM with him as DarkState looks to surround him.
No Disqualification Match: Dion Lennox (w/DarkState) vs. Joe Hendry (w/OTM)
The bell rings and the two lock up. Lennox dumps Hendry out of the ring on the side with the rest of DarkState, but Hendry quickly slides back in the ring and fires off chops on Lennox in the corner. He dumps Lennox out of the ring, but Lennox gets back inside.
Hendry levels Lennox with an elbow and follows it up with a neckbreaker, but Lennox delivers a backbreaker to Hendry and goes for a pin. Hendry kicks out and teeters on the ropes with Lennox, but Lennox fights off Hendry. Hendry gets back on the ropes and delivers a superplex to Lennox before wearing down Lennox with a submission hold.
Lennox makes it up to his feet and delivers a stomp to Hendry, then follows it up with a knee to him and levels him with a clothesline during the commercial break. He goes for a pin, but Hendry kicks out and Lennox levels him back from the break.
Hendry lands a Fallaway Slam on Lennox and gets Lennox up, but Cutler James manages to hand Lennox a kendo stick from the apron. Lennox repeatedly cracks the kendo stick across Hendry's back, but Hendry manages to grab the kendo stick from Lennox and returns the favor by repeatedly hitting him with the kendo stick.
Hendry lands a spinebuster on Lennox and pins him, but Osiris Griffin pulls Hendry out of the ring to break the fall. Lennox then pins Hendry, but Bronco Nima pulls him out of the ring to break the fall. DarkState and OTM then stare one another down in the ring and begin brawling with one another.
Hendry and Lennox each grab a chair, but Lennox lands a spinebuster on Hendry on top of the chair. Hendry delivers a spinebuster of his own to Lennox on top of the chair, but Tony D'Angelo appears and hits Lennox with a chair before he delivers a chokeslam to him. He stares down Hendry and helps him up, but immediately lands a spinebuster on Hendry. D'Angelo then places Hendry on top of Lennox in order for Hendry to pin Lennox for the win.
Winner: Joe Hendry
After the match, Ava marches down to the ring with several security guards to take care of D'Angelo. D'Angelo delivers a spinebuster to one of the security guards and begins taking the rest of them out, standing tall as the show goes off the air. He tensely stares down Ava and heads to the back as the show goes off the air.
