WWE NXT Live Coverage - October 14th, 2025

[Kemo]

Battle Royal to determine No. 1 Contender to the NXT Women's Title at Halloween Havoc

The No. 1 Contender to NXT Women's Champion Jacy Jayne will be determined in a Battle Royal featuring NXT and TNA Superstars.

— We start the show with clips from the NXT/TNA Showdown from last week.

— Lola Vice, Jaida Parker, Zaria & Sol Ruca walking backstage before the show.

— Vic Joseph and Booker T greet audiences at home as Ricky Saints makes his way to the ring.

Saints says when his back is against the wall, he'll fight for himself and the fans while Trick Williams folds under pressure when things get tough. Saints says the night he became NXT Champion, everything became clear for him. He says Williams abandoned "NXT" when it got hard for him, then calls him delusional and says he won't be waiting for a new Number One Contender to emerge and challenges Williams to a NXT Championship match at "NXT" Halloween Havoc.

Williams appears on the jumbo tron and says Saints is just following in his footsteps. He says his size 15 shoes are too big for Saints to fill, and while Saints waited his whole life to get where he is now, he's a VIP and didn't have to do that. He says he knows Saints is mad enough to put his NXT Championship on the line, but says they'll do things on his time.

Saints says he should've expected Williams not to come to the ring to face him like a man, then says he'll show Williams why he's "Absolute".

— Leon Slater and Je'Von Evans are backstage. The Hardyz come in and talk about being DarkState. Jeff and Matt say both Slater and Evans are top stars and tell Evans and Slater they'll get receipts for them in their rematch.

— We see Jordynne Grace and Kelani Jordan arguing backstage via a hidden camera stream. They will see each other in the Battle Royal tonight.

— Matt Cardona makes his way to the ring. Josh Briggs follows.

Matt Cardona vs. Josh Briggs

The bell rings and Cardona fires off right hands on Briggs. He rains down right hands on Briggs using the middle rope for balance, but Briggs trips Cardona and fires off stomps on his spine. He continues wearing him down in the corner and mocks Cardona with his signature chant, but Cardona dumps Briggs out of the ring and flies over the top rope to level Briggs on the outside.

Back from the break, Cardona delivers a DDT to Briggs and runs him over with a clothesline. He sends Briggs crashing into the mat face first and fires off forearms on him in the corner, then follows it up with an Unprettier as an homage to his wife Chelsea Green and goes for a pin. Briggs kicks out.

Cardona rocks Briggs with a boot to the side of his head on the outside, but Briggs catches Cardona with a back elbow on the apron. He follows with a backbreaker and a sit-out chokeslam, then goes for a pin but Cardona kicks out. Briggs then grabs his chain, but the referee catches him. This opens the door for Cardona to deliver Radio Silence to Briggs and pin him, but Briggs manages to kick out.

Cardona ascends up to the middle rope and looks to fly, but Briggs intercepts Cardona with a powerbomb mid-air and runs him over with a big boot for the win.

Winner: Josh Briggs

— Hank & Tank, Chase U and Lyra Valkyria are backstage talking about number one tag contenders. Valkyria asks where Tatum Paxley is and The Culling come up and Izzi Dame tells Hank & Tank and Chase U that Shawn Spears and Niko Vance are the best tag team.

— A video for Fatal Influence where they introduce Lainey Reid as their newest member.

— El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. makes his way to the ring. Lexis King follows.

El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr. vs. Lexis King



The bell rings and the two go back and forth with one another. King rocks Wagner Jr. with a kick to his face, then steps over his spine. Wagner Jr. levels King with a shoulder tackle and steps over his spine, then fires off shoulders on his midsection. King slaps Wagner Jr., then clocks him from behind before Wagner Jr. can get fired up. Wagner Jr. then flies off the middle rope with a moonsault to level King.

Back from the break, King delivers a double knee to Wagner Jr. and cinches in a Figure Four Leg Lock on him. Wagner Jr. manages to escape and clocks King with a right hand, then runs him over with a pair of clotheslines and lands a knee on the side of his face. He follows it up with a powerbomb to King and goes for a pin, but King kicks out. Wagner Jr. then delivers a Michinoku Driver to King for the win.

Winner: El Hijo del Dr. Wagner Jr.

— After the match, Wagner Jr. calls Ethan Page to the ring. Page's music hits and he makes his way out, and the two get into a verbal confrontation that ends with Page telling Wagner Jr. that he'll beat him at Halloween Havoc. Wagner Jr. then reveals that himself and Page will be facing off in a Day Of The Dead match at Halloween Havoc.

— We then head backstage where Zaria gets mad at Sol Ruca for participating in the NXT Women's Championship Number One Contenders Battle Royal later tonight and storms off, telling her she doesn't want her at ringside for her upcoming match.

— Santino Marella and Ava talk to Je'Von Evans and Leon Slater and the latter want a tag match at Halloween Havoc. Channing "Stacks" Lorenzo and Arianna Grace come in and they ask for a match against Leon Slater. A commotion is heard backstage. Trick Williams has Ricky Saints laid out. Ava yells for medical.

— Back at ringside, Blake Monroe makes her way to the ring. Zaria follows.

Zaria vs. Blake Monroe

The bell rings and Monroe cinches in a waist lock on Zaria. Zaria sends Monroe crashing into the mat spine first, but Monroe delivers a chop block to Zaria and levels her with a shotgun dropkick. She lands a running uppercut on her in the corner, then lands another shotgun dropkick on Zaria's leg this time. Zaria cinches in a sleeper on Monroe, then fires off forearms on Monroe on the outside and dumps her back in the ring. Monroe then sends Zaria's throat bouncing off the top turnbuckle.

Back from the break, Monroe wears down Zaria with a submission hold. Zaria powers up to her feet to send Monroe crashing into the mat, then fires off overhand chops on her. Zaria gets fired up and runs over Monroe with a clothesline.

Monroe grabs a chair from under the ring and slides it inside, but Sol Ruca runs down to the ring and takes the chair from Monroe before she can hit Zaria with it. As the referee is still distracted by Ruca, Monroe grabs a hair pin out of her hair before Zaria sets up for an F5 on her. Monroe rakes the hair pin across Zaria's throat and connects with the Glamour Shot for the win.

Winner: Blake Monroe

— Ava talks about how the Men's Speed Tournament starts on NXT next week.

— Hank Walker and Tank Ledger make their way to the ring. Chase U and The Culling follow.

Triple Threat Tag Team Match: The Culling vs. Chase U (w/ Andre Chase) vs. Hank Walker and Tank Ledger

Uriah Connors, Niko Vance, and Ledger begin the action. The bell rings and all three men take turns rolling one another up and kicking out. Vance rocks Walker with a right hand as Walker stands on the apron and tags in Shawn Spears. Spears delivers a Codebreaker to Ledger, but Walker tags in. Spears catches Walker with a boot, but Walker responds with a spinning slam to him. Walker and Ledger then get hyped up and land a double running splash on Spears and Vance before Connors and Kale Dixon fly to take out Walker and Ledger on the outside.

Spears dumps Walker back in the ring and tags out to Vance. Vance rains down right hands on Walker and sends him crashing into the mat, then goes for a pin but Dixon breaks the fall. Vance sets up for a superplex on Dixon, but Dixon fights him off. Walker and Ledger send Vance crashing out of the ring over the top rope, but Dixon and Connors deliver double splashes off the top rope on Walker and Ledger. OTM runs down to the ring, and Lucien Price and Bronco Nima beat down everyone, causing the disqualification.

Winners: N/A (no contest due to outside interference)

— After the match, Bronco Nima and Lucien Price of OTM beat up all the teams.

— We then head backstage, where Sol Ruca decides to give her spot in the upcoming NXT Women's Championship Number One Contenders Battle Royal to Zaria as a means of proving to her that she wants them both to have all the gold.

— Ricky Saints screams for Trick Williams backstage. Ava tells Saints that Williams has gone and Ava tells him that he'll see Williams next week for a contract signing for their match at Halloween Havoc.

— Backstage we see DarkState has The Hardy Boyz laid out. They want their titles back.

— Back at ringside, all of the entrants in the NXT Women's Championship Number One Contenders Battle Royal then make their way out.

NXT Women's Championship Number One Contenders Battle Royal

The bell rings and everyone begins brawling with one another. Lash Legend looks to powerbomb Tatum Paxley out of the ring, but Paxley hangs on. Paxley rocks Victoria Crawford with a right hand and Legend looks to dump her over the top rope, but Crawford hangs on. Legend delivers a boot to Crawford as Jessie McKay delivers a boot to Karmen Petrovic's face to eliminate her while Petrovic is standing on the apron.

Eliminated: Karmen Petrovic

Kali Armstrong brawls with Jordynne Grace and Léi Ying Lee as Crawford and Arianna Grace square up to brawl with one another on the apron. Jordynne sends them both crashing onto the floor to eliminate them both crashing onto the floor, and Arianna berates Crawford as she blames her for the elimination.

Eliminated: Arianna Grace and Victoria Crawford

Jordynne beats down Kendal Grey as Kelani Jordan brawls with Wren Sinclair and Lee pulls Armstrong onto the apron. Armstrong sends Léi Ying crashing onto the floor to eliminate her.

Eliminated: Léi Ying Lee

Cassie Lee and Jessie McKay send Wren Sinclair crashing onto the floor, and Sinclair essentially eliminates herself by trying to walk around the ring and crashing the ring post.

Eliminated: Wren Sinclair

Cassie whips McKay into the corner, but Grey sends Cassie crashing onto the apron and looks to dropkick McKay into her. McKay hangs onto Cassie and Cassie slides back into the ring, but Cassie is sent crashing over the top rope by Grey to send her to the back.

Eliminated: Cassie Lee

Zaria looks to deliver a Gorilla Press to Mara Sadè to send her crashing onto the floor over the top rope, but Sadè lands on the apron and rocks Zaria with a forearm. Lash Legend holds onto Sadè to save her from elimination, but lets go of one of her hands and hugs her. Legend reveals it's all a ruse when she lands a strike on Sadè to eliminate her.

Eliminated: Mara Sadè

Armstrong looks to eliminate Xia Brookside, but Brookside holds on. Armstrong then manages to send Brookside crashing onto the floor to eliminate her.

Eliminated: Xia Brookside

Jordan sneaks up behind Armstrong and looks to eliminate her, but Armstrong manages to hang on. Legend then hits Jaida Parker with a boot to send her crashing off the apron and onto the floor to send her to the back.

Eliminated: Jaida Parker

An enraged Parker runs over Brookside with a Hip Attack and rains down right hands on her, causing security guards to run down to the ring and pull Parker off Brookside. The rest of the participants toss Legend over the top rope and onto the security guards to eliminate her.

Eliminated: Lash Legend

Back from the break, Thea Hail flies off the ropes to take out Zaria and Izzi Dame. She levels Grey and Jordan with clotheslines, then delivers a belly-to-belly suplex on Paxley and low bridges McKay over the top rope. McKay hangs on, and Armstrong looks to deliver a bodyslam to Hail. Hail counters into a Kimura Lock on Armstrong, then looks to dump Armstrong out of the ring. Dame then tosses both Hail and Armstrong out of the ring as we see that Heather By Elegance was eliminated during the commercial break by Hail.

Eliminated: Heather By Elegance, Thea Hail, and Kali Armstrong

Grey and Jordynne fire off stomps on Paxley in the corner and look to eliminate her along with McKay. Zaria has Dame locked in a sleeper hold as she stands on the top rope, but Blake Monroe runs down to the ring and sends Ruca crashing into the ring steps and the barricade. Zaria sees what's going on and hops over the top rope, landing on the floor to check on Ruca but eliminating herself in the process.

Eliminated: Zaria

Lola Vice looks to eliminate Jordan and sends her crashing over the top and onto the apron. She cinches in a sleeper on her, but McKay sneaks up behind Vice and dumps her over the top rope to send her to the back.

Eliminated: Lola Vice

Grey goes after McKay, but McKay sends Grey's arm bouncing off her knee and dumps her onto the apron over the top rope. She looks to land a boot on her, but Grey manages to send her over the top rope and onto the floor to head to the back.

Eliminated: Jessie McKay

Paxley goes right after Grey and lands a boot on her. She sends her head crashing into the top turnbuckle as Jordan sends Jordynne crashing onto the apron from the top rope. She sends herself crashing over the top rope as she looks to drag Jordynne off the apron, but Jordynne fights off Jordan. Jordan catches herself in a handstand and looks to pull herself back up with a sit-up by using the bottom rope, but Jordynne sees her trying to do so and delivers a stomp to her midsection to eliminate her.

Eliminated: Kelani Jordan

We are down to four: Jordynne, Dame, Grey, and Paxley. All four women occupy a corner of the ring and stare each other down before Paxley lands a crossbody on Grace's midsection and Dame goes after Grey in the opposite corner. They team up on Jordynne and Grey, and look to send them crashing over the top rope. Jordynne and Grey skin the cat to pull themselves back into the ring, then catch Dame and Paxley with double boots before they brawl with one another.

Grey lands a boot on Jordynne's midsection, but Jordynne catches Grey with a Sliced Bread. Jordynne then lands a spinebuster on Paxley and a rolling Death Valley Driver on Dame, then sends Paxley onto the apron over the top rope. Paxley hangs on and delivers a kick to Jordynne's head, and Dame runs over Grey with a big boot to her. Grey lands a Tornado DDT on Dame and delivers a suplex to Jordynne, then sends Paxley crashing into the mat and looks to dump her over the top rope and onto the floor. Paxley hangs on, and Jordynne looks to dump Grey over the top rope. Grey hangs on, but Dame dumps her over the top rope on the other side of the ring to send her to the back.

Eliminated: Kendal Grey

We are down to three: Jordynne, Dame, and Paxley. Paxley has Jordynne locked in a sleeper, and Dame clotheslines Grace over the top rope and out of the ring to eliminate her. While she does so, she sends herself crashing over the top rope and onto the floor to eliminate herself as well, leaving Paxley as the last woman standing.

Eliminated: Jordynne Grace and Izzi Dame

Winner and new Number One Contender: Tatum Paxley

— After the match, Jacy Jayne appears on the entrance ramp alongside Fallon Henley and Fatal Influence's newest member Lainey Reid to stare down Paxley and hold up her NXT Women's Championship belt. Lyra Valkyria then joins Paxley in the ring to celebrate Paxley's win and give her a hug as the show goes off the air.

[Kemo]