WWE NXT Live Coverage 4/15 - Parking Lot Fight, Two No.1 Contender's Matches
Welcome to Wrestling Inc.'s live coverage of "WWE NXT" on April 15, 2025 live from WWE Performance Center!
We're four days away from "Stand and Deliver". There will be a tag team gauntlet match to crown Number One Contenders. No Quarter Catch Crew (Tavion Heights & Myles Borne) vs. Josh Briggs and Yoshiki Inamura vs. Hank & Tank vs. Tyson DuPont & Tyriek Igwe vs. The Culling (Brooks Jensen & Niko Vance) are the participants.
A Parking Lot Fight will take place in NXT's most dangerous place. The D'Angelo Family (Tony D'Angelo, Luca Crusifino, & Channing "Stacks" Lorenzo) will take on Darkstate (Cutler James, Dion Lennox, Saquon Shugars or Osiris Griffin).
A Fatal Four-Way will determine the Number One contender for the NXT North American Championship. Ethan Page will take on Wes Lee, Eddy Thorpe, and Lexis King.
NXT NA Four Way Contender Match
WWE NXT North American Championship #1 Contender Match: Wes Lee vs. Eddy Thorpe vs. Lexis King vs. Ethan Page
Due to technical difficulties, we join results with the match in progress. Ricky Saints initially did commentary but got in a scuffle before the match and went to the back. All four men have locked in submission holds on each other and they all break. Eddy Thorpe knocks down Ethan Page and climbs to the top rope. A tower of doom setup leads to Wes Lee hitting a Whisper In The Wind, taking out the entire lineup. Lee covers King for a nearfall.
Page and Lee trade blows. Lee drops Page and climbs to the top rope. King knocks him off the top rope and hits a Swanton Bomb on Page. Eddy Thorpe breaks up the cover with an elbow drop. Wes Lee breaks up Manifest Destiny with a Meteora. King hits a Coronation on King. Page hits Ego Twist on King for the pinfall.
WINNER AND NEW WWE NXT NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP #1 CONTENDER: Ethan Page
After the match, Ethan Page cuts a promo but is interrupted by Saints, who attacks him and poses with the title.
WWE NXT Women's NA Ladder Match Qualifier: Tatum Paxley vs. Lola Vice
Paxley dominates to start but Vice catches her with a triangle choke. Vice transitions to a headlock and Paxley fights to her feet. They bounce off the ropes and Lola slams Paxley to the mat. Paxley rolls out of the ring and Lola gives chase. Gigi Dolin gets between Lola and Paxley. Paxley hides under the ring and slams Vice's arm into the ring frame. We head to commercial.
Back from commercial and Paxley is bouncing Vice around the ring with punches and kicks. Paxley hits a crossbody in the corner. Vice gets her knees up and blocks the next attack, giving her an opening to unleash a flurry of kicks. Lola hits a running hip attack in the corner and covers for a nearfall. Paxley rolls up Vice for a nearfall. Paxley hits another corner crossbody and gets Vice on the top rope. Paxley hits a superplex and covers for a nearfall. Vice locks in a Sleeper Hold but Paxley counters with another rollup for a nearfall. Vice blocks a springboard and then hits a backfist for the pinfall.
WINNER: Lola Vice
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Tag Team Gauntlet for the Number One Contendership
Hank & Tank make their way to the ring first. Tyson Dupont & Tyriek Igwe come down next with Wes Lee. Igwe and Tank start us off. Igwe put him in a full nelson and took him down with a shoulder tackle. Dupont tagged in and continued the offense. Hank shoulder tackled Dupont and Tank knocked Igwe off the apron. Hank and Tank double team Igwe and Hank pinned him to advance.
Brooks Jensen & Niko Vance are the next team. Vance sent Hank to the corner so he and Jensen could cut him off and pound on him. Jensen sends him into the other corner before doing an Irish Whip into the opposite corner. Hank splashed Jensen and tagged in Tank. They tee off on Jensen in the corner, so Vance tried to stop it and they splashed them both over and over. Hank & Tank double team Jensen. Tank goes for the pin, but Jensen kicks out.
After the break, Jensen had his knee on Hank's throat, but he kicked out. Jensen put him in a reverse chin lock, but Hank countered with a backslide. Jensen put him in a log lock while tagging in Vance. Vance stomped Hank and pulled him up by the hair. Hank hit Vance with a lariat, but Vance put him in a leg lock. Tank tagged in, but the ref missed it. Vance and Jensen double teamed while the ref was turned, but Tank kicked out. Both men make it to their corner. Hank sent Vance over the rope and took out Jensen. Vance got back on the apron only for Hank to knock him off again. Hank took down Jensen with a clothesline and Vance broke up the pin. Hank tried to grab Vance, but he reversed and sent Hank to the outside. Tank sent Vance over the top rope. Jensen rolled him, but Tank kicked out.
Hank jumped off the turnbuckle and ate a spinning heel kick from Jensen. Jensen tagged Vance in and put Tank on his shoulder and Jensen tagged in before going up top. Tank reversed it in the air and pinned Jensen to eliminate them.
Heights and Borne are next. Heights immediately did a Death Valley Driver on Tank, but Tank kicked out. Heights took him down with a lariat and tagged Borne in. Heights sent Tank in the ropes where Borne dropkicked him. Borne punched Tank and sent him into the corner and tagged in Heights. Heights with another Death Valley Driver, but Tank kicked out at two.
Heights hit him with forearms and put him in a chokehold. Tank makes it to his corner and tagged in Hank. Hank sent Heights to the outside and Borne started hitting him. They exchanged blows and took him down with an elbow. Hank splashed him in the corner and followed with a bulldog. Hank ran around the ring and did a flying elbow on Heights. Hank and Tank double teamed them, but Borne dove on all three of them.
After the break, Hank and Borne exchange blows. Heights and Tank both tag in and exchange blows. Heights ripped Tanks's shirt off and they continued to battle. Heights with a sidewalk suplex on Tank, but Tank immediately got up. Heights takes him down with a clothesline. Hank broke up the pin and Borne entered the ring too. Borne sent Hank to the outside. Tank pinned Heights to eliminate them.
Briggs and Inamura are the final team. Tank came at Briggs, but he got kicked for his trouble. Inamura throws strikes at Hank before suplexing him. Briggs tagged in and hit Hank in the back. Hank hit him in the mouth. Briggs said to hit him, but kicked him in the hand before sending Hank into the corner to splash him. He covered Hank for two. INamura tagged in and they double teamed him in the corner. Briggs tagged in to hit him with a big boot. Briggs with a chokeslam onto the knee of Inamura. Tank broke up the pin and hyped up Hank. Inamura and Briggs double teamed Hank. Hank wins with an inside cradle. Hank and Tank advance to "Stand and Deliver".
Winner and #1 Contenders: Hank & Tank
Parking Lot Fight
The D'Angelo family are in the parking lot and learn Tony isn't coming. Stacks said it was his call. Darkstate are waiting as the D'Angelos attack them with crowbars. Stacks and Crusifino and Shugars and James move inside the PC and attack each other with various objects. The rest of Darkstate make it in and continue the brawl. People go through tables. Griffin was sent through a wall.
The brawl continues elsewhere in the PC. Shugars uses a fire extinguisher on everyone. James lawndarts Stacks into a metal door. Stacks is thrown into a car. James slammed someone into a car. Darkstate slam Crusifino onto a car hood. D'Angelo drives up and takes out everyone with a crowbar. The police arrive. D'Angelo helps Stacks and tells him that he called in "their people" (the cops). D'Angelo asked why Stacks went over his head and messed up his plan. D'Angelo said they're going to take care of Darkstate at "Stand & Deliver". D'Angelo warns Stacks to not question him again and they hug it out.
Karmen Petrovic vs. Thea Hail
Backstage, Kelly Kincaid interviews Hank & Tank. They left it all in the ring and now they have a chance at the title. Fraxiom said they ran that whole gauntlet for nothing. Frazer left without shaking their hands.
Roxanne is complaining about not finding a tag team partner when Cora Jade arrives.
Karmen Petrovic comes to the ring first and is accompanied by Ashante Thee Adonis. Thea Hail tells Chase U that she's a proud alum before going to the ring. Hail rolls up Petrovic and she did the same to Hail. Hail with two armdrags. Petrovic went to the corner and Hail splashed her and suplexed her. Petrovic rolled out of the ring and greeted Hail with a boot to the face.
Petrovic with a swinging neckbreaker. Hail with an Irish Whip to the corner, Petrovic kicked her in the face before delivering a discus lariat to take down Hail. She pounded Hail when she kicked out. Petrovic had wrist control and kicked her in the midsection. When she went for another one, Hail grabbed her leg and headbutted her. Hail took Petrovic down twice and kicked her in the knee and hit a sliding clothesline.
Hail with a swinging neckbreaker and she followed with a bodyslam. Hail steamrolled over Petrovic and used the middle rope to slam onto her. Hail with a twisting double underhook and put her in the Kimura Lock for the win to advance to "Stand & Deliver".
Winner: Thea Hail
Final faceoff between Trick Williams, Oba Femi, and Je'Von Evans
Trick Williams said you either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain. He told Oba Femi he's coming back to get his crown and better luck next year for Je'Von Evans.
Femi makes his way to the ring. He said Williams is a broken record playing the same hits over and over again and no one is singing along. He tells him the spotlight is moving on and so should he. When he wins on Saturday, he's moving on. Williams said the fans are still chanting for him.
Evans makes his way to the ring. He tells Williams to shut up and that he was right about him a few weeks ago. Everyone is tired of Williams talking about getting his title back. He tells Williams he's dismissed before turning his sights to Femi. He said Femi has been glued to a title since he's been in NXT. Evans reminded Femi he dropped him twice. He patted Femi in the chest and Femi raised his eyebrows at him. Evans said he should be on the main roster, but he walks around the PC like everything revolves around him. Evans wasn't supposed to make it to WWE, but he did.
Femi said he has a phenomenal rookie year. Evans might be the future, but Femi is the present. Femi said Evans can't handle the title because he's a child. Evans said he wrestles circles around both of them. Williams and Femi grabbed him by the throat and sent him over the top rope. Femi and Williams exchanged blows until Evans came back and they both sent him crashing over the top rope. They go back to exchanging blows. Evans delivers double cutters and holds the title over his head.