WWE NXT Live Coverage - May 27th, 2025

[Kemo]

Ricky Saints defends the NXT North American Championship against Ethan Page

NXT North American Champion Ricky Saints will defend his title against Ethan Page in a highly anticipated rematch. Saints defeated Page at Stand & Deliver, but that hasn’t deterred All Ego as he has continued to attack the champion. After numerous chaotic encounters, NXT General Manager Ava had no choice but to make the match. Will Saints once again come out victorious, or will Page win the North American Title?

– The show kicks off with a video recapping the events of Battleground.

– Vic Joseph, Booker T, and Corey Graves greet audiences at home as Ricky Saints makes his way out to the ring. Ethan Page follows, and security guards line the outside of the ring.

NXT North American Championship Match: Ricky Saints (c) vs. Ethan Page

The two men start to brawl with one another before the ring announcement can even be complete. Officials pull the two men apart, but the referee of the match calls for the bell. Page wears Saints down with a submission hold, but Saints pulls Page out of the ring over the top rope. Page sends Saints crashing into the ring steps shoulder first, then grabs a chair. Security keeps him from using the chair, but Saints sends Page's head bouncing off the ring apron and dumps him back inside the ring.

Saints mocks Page and delivers a chop to him, but Page whips Saints into the corner chest first and fires off a couple of strikes on him. Page and Saints then continue firing off right hands on one another in the crowd. Page sends Saints crashing into the chair on the outside throat first.

Page rains down right hands on Saints back inside the ring, and the two men fire off right hands on one another. Saints connects with a DDT on Page, but Page sends Saints crashing into the mat face first and follows it up with the Twisted Grin for the win.

Winner and NEW NXT North American Champion: Ethan Page

– Sarah Schreiber is with Fatal Influence backstage. Fatal Influence are not on the same page. Jayne makes fun of Henley for losing Vaquer and Henley thinks she should be challenging Vaquer.

– A video package for Mike Santana plays.

– Josh Briggs is backstage with Yokishi Inamura. Inamura says he came back for Briggs. Briggs gives Inamura his vest back and Inamura says he couldn't leave when they have stuff to finish. Briggs has sights set on winning the tag championship and Inamura says to think bigger.

– Mike Santana then makes his way to the ring. No Quarter Catch Crew follows.

Mike Santana vs. Tavion Heights (w/No Quarter Catch Crew)

The bell rings and the two lock up. They take turns locking in submission holds on one another, but Santana delivers a dropkick to Heights. Santana delivers an uppercut to Heights in the corner and sends him crashing into the mat, then follows it up with a senton. Heights looks to land a delayed vertical suplex on Santana, but Santana escapes. Heights then catches Santana with a German suplex, but Santana responds with The Three Amigos and goes for a pin. Heights kicks out.

Heights sends Santana crashing into the mat and wears him down with a submission hold, but Santana delivers a boot to Heights and connects with a chop on him. Santana rocks Heights with an enzuigiri and follows it up with a rolling cutter, then goes for a pin but Heights kicks out.

Heights delivers a belly-to-belly throw to Santana and follows it up with a slam, but Santana responds with an off the shoulder facebuster to Heights. He follows it up with a clothesline for the win.

Winner: Mike Santana

– After the match, Heights shares a hug with Santana. Santana raises Heights' hand as an irritated Dempsey shakes his head.

– We get a video package for The High Ryze.

– Chase U is backstage, Andre Chase tells Kale Dixon and Uriah Connors to know when to take a risk. The boys interpret that as Chase telling them to take a risk. Ava walks by and Connors and Dixon tell her they want to take risks and she schedules a match against DarkState next week. Andre Chase is pissed.

– Tony D'Angelo is in a woodshop with Luca Crusifino. Crusifino says Stacks abandoned him and he didn't reach out because he didn't want to put people at risk but he had to come back. D'Angelo asks Crusifino what his intentions were and then says he can't trust anyone right now. Crusifino says to trust him.

– Trick Williams walks backstage, he's up next but first we have a commercial.

Trick Williams is in the ring and he says Hollywood Trick has arrived, then says he's making history by being the first "NXT" star to hold the TNA World Championship. Williams tells the live crowd not to clap for him because most of them were cheering for Joe Hendry last week, then says people like Kurt Angle, Drew McIntyre, Bully Ray, and AJ Styles have held the TNA World Championship. He says he's turning his back on the people because they turned their back on him last week.

Mike Santana's music hits, and he makes his way out. Williams says Santana made his first mistake by interrupting his champion, but Santana says Williams is not his champion and says Williams will not tear down TNA after himself and the rest of the locker room built up. He says people like Williams make him angry, then calls Williams a pretend fighter and a pretend rapper. He vows to be the one to dethrone Williams as TNA World Champion.

Santino Marella appears on the Titan Tron and congratulates Williams, then says Williams will be a fighting champion and announces that Williams will be defending the TNA World Championship against Santana next week.

Williams raises the TNA World Championship before Santana extends his hand to Williams. Williams opts not to shake it and looks to attack Santana, but Santana clotheslines Williams out of the ring. He eyes the TNA World Championship belt and grabs it, then stands tall as he holds it up.

– Ava talks to Stephanie Vaquer backstage and tells her that she'll be in a tag team match at Worlds Collide. Lola Vice offers her services as Vaquer's partner.

– Jaida Parker then makes her way down to the ring. Tatum Paxley follows.

Jaida Parker vs. Tatum Paxley

The bell rings and the two go back and forth. Paxley delivers a backstabber to Parker, but Parker fires off shoulders on Paxley's midsection and connects with her signature Hip Attack on her. Paxley sends Parker's head bouncing off her knee, then levels her with a pair of back elbows and an enzuigiri.

Parker grabs Paxley's doll of Gigi Dolin and throws it into the ring. Paxley spots it and begins crying. Parker takes advantage and blindsides Paxley with a Hip Attack for the win.

Winner: Jaida Parker

– After the match, Thea Hail runs down and takes out Parker.

– A video package for Jasper Troy plays and then we see him backstage with some training chains.

– Dante Chen makes his way out to the ring. Jasper Troy follows.

Jasper Troy vs. Dante Chen

The bell rings and Troy wastes no time going after Chen. Chen ascends up the top rope, but Troy pulls him off and delivers a back body drop to him. He dumps Chen out of the ring, then sends him crashing into the ring apron face first and dumps him back inside. Troy then lands a splash on Chen in the corner and follows it up with a backbreaker, but Chen fires off strikes on Troy and rocks him with an enzuigiri. He follows it up with a DDT, but Troy catches Chen with a splash and a spinning Sidewalk Slam.

Winner: Jasper Troy

– After the match, Oba Femi appears and tells Troy he had the respect not to attack him from behind like Troy did to him last week. He tells Troy that he hoped he enjoyed his 5 seconds of fame because they're over for him now.

– Myles Borne talks to Tavion Heights. Charlie Dempsey and Wren Sinclair come by and Dempsey tells Heights and Myles that they're not single wrestlers and they need to regroup. Myles asks if he beats Dempsey in a match he gets to compete in singles matches. Dempsey agrees.

– Back in the ring, Ethan Page is waiting inside.

Page says he's not waiting to celebrate becoming the new North American Championship, but Je'Von Evans' music hits and he makes his way out. He says he can't think of anyone more undeserving to win the North American Championship, then reveals Ava granted himself and Laredo Kid a shot at Page's title at Worlds Collide. Kid introduces himself, but Page says he won't let Kid and Evans ruin his night. Evans then reveals that there's one more person involved in the North American Championship match at Worlds Collide, and Rey Fenix reveals himself to be that person. Fenix says Page just became North American Champion, but he will lose it next Saturday in the Fatal Four-Way at Worlds Collide.

– Robert Stone, Stevie Turner and Ava talk backstage. Ava explains that the fatal four way was done to have performers from other brands. Turner asks when Sean Legacy gets his shot and Ava tells her that the winner of the Fatal Four will be the guy Sean Legacy faces.

– Jacy Jayne with Fallon Henley and Jazmyn Nyx walk backstage ahead of her match. We also see Stephanie Vaquer walking past the women's roster as she makes her way backstage. Lash Legend pushes Kelani Jordan out of the way so she can stare down Vaquer and we cut to commercial.

– Tatum Paxley is a mess backstage. Sol Ruca and Zaria come up to her and say they'll be her friend. The Culling lurks backstage watching all of this.

– Fatal Influence then make their way to the ring. Stephanie Vaquer follows.

NXT Women's Championship Match: Stephanie Vaquer (c) vs. Jacy Jayne w/Fatal Influence (Fallon Henley & Jazmyn Nyx)

Jayne blindsides Vaquer as she gets into the ring. The bell sounds and the two continue going back and forth. Vaquer looks to send Jayne's head repeatedly bouncing off the mat, but Jayne escapes and lands a thrust kick on Vaquer's head. She follows it up with a suplex to Vaquer. Dalys and Chik Tormenta hop up on the ring apron, but Lola Vice runs down and all three women begin brawling ahead of the Worlds Collide tag team match pitting Tormenta and Dalys against Vice and Vaquer.

Jayne lands another thrust kick on Vaquer, but Vaquer responds with a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker to Jayne. She follows it up with a meteora to Jayne and goes for a pin, but Jayne kicks out and connects with a running knee on Vaquer. She looks to follow it up with a cannonball, but Vaquer moves out of the way.

Vaquer sends Jayne crashing into the ring apron face first and sends her crashing into the ring steps, then dumps her back in the ring. Fallon Henley hops up on the apron to distract Vaquer, but Vaquer sends Jayne crashing into Henley before sending Jayne crashing out of the ring with a kick. Henley and Jayne begin yelling at each other, but Jazmyn Nyx tries to calm them down. Jayne and Henley both shove Nyx, but Vaquer levels them with a crossbody and dumps Jayne back in the ring.

Nyx distracts the referee as Henley delivers a kick to Vaquer while she brawls with Jayne in the corner. This opens the door for Jayne to level Vaquer with a spinning right hand for the win.

Winner and NEW NXT Women's Champion: Jacy Jayne

– Fatal Influence mocks Vaquer in the ring as Jayne holds up her title and we go off the air.

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