WWE NXT The Great American Bash Results — Bron Breakker Defends NXT Title, More
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Here's what's in store for tonight:
- Bron Breakker (C) vs. Cameron Grimes — NXT Championship
- Carmelo Hayes (C) vs. Grayson Waller — NXT North American Championship
- Creed Brothers (C) vs. Roderick Strong & Damon Kemp — NXT Tag Team Championship
- Toxic Attraction (C) vs. Roxanne Perez & Cora Jade — NXT Women's Tag Team Championship
- Wes Lee vs. Trick Williams
- Tiffany Stratton vs. Wendy Choo
Live Coverage
- The show opens and we see various members of the NXT 2.0 roster at a pool party and barbecue for the 4th of July and we head to the ringside area where our commentary team of Vic Joseph and Wade Barrett welcome us to tonight's show and it's time for our opening contest of the evening.
Toxic Attraction (Gigi Dolin & Jacy Jane) (with Mandy Rose) (C) vs. Roxanne Perez & Cora Jade — NXT Women's Tag Team Championship
Jane and Jade start this one off. Jane with an arm drag, Jade counters and lands one of her own. Jayne shoves Jade into the ropes but Jade rolls her back for a pin attempt but Jane kicks out. Jade with a kick to the chest, then lands a snap mare followed by a sliding front kick before going for the cover but Jane kicks out. Jade makes the tag to Perez as Jane does the same to Dolin, who sends Perez into the corner and Jane wallops her with an elbow. Dolin chokes Perez with the middle rope as Rose and Jane yell in Perez's face and we head to a commercial break.
Back from the break and Dolin's working over Perez while in the middle of the ring. Dolin cracks Perez with a lariat then chokes her with the bottom rope as Rose yells in Perez's face. Dolin shoves Perez's face into the rope and goes for the cover but Perez kicks out before Dolin makes the tag to Jane. Perez shoves Jane back and they nail each other with simultaneous front kicks. Both competitors struggle to their respective corners but eventually make tags to Dolin and Jade, respectively. Jade with a sidewalk slam then a cover but Dolin kicks out. Dolin rocks Jade with an elbow and then makes the tag out to Jane. Jade runs over to Dolin and knocks her off the apron before slamming Jane's face into the mat with a snap mare and goes for the cover but Jane kicks out.
Jade tags in Perez and they hit a double sliding kick on Jane and Perez goes for the pin but Jane kicks out. Perez makes the tag right back to Jade, who scoops and slams Jane before going for the cover but Rose pulls the referee out of the ring. Rose is ejected, back in the ring, Jade rolls Jane up, Jane kicks out and they each make tags to their partners. Everyone's in the ring, Jade spears Jane to the outside, Jade plants Dolin with Pop Rox and gets the 1-2-3! New champs!
Winners - Roxanne Perez & Cora Jade (C) (NEW NXT Women's Tag Team Champions)
- We then see NXT Champion, Bron Breakker arriving at the arena, earlier today and we see Vic Joseph and Wade Barrett at ringside who send us backstage where we see Tony D'Angelo, Stacks, Elektra Lopez, Cruz Del Toro, and Joaquin Wilde of The D'Angelo Family. D'Angelo shows Lopez, Toro, and Wilde a video of Santos Escobar in the hospital and says the same will happen to them if they don't start abiding by The D'Angelo Family's rules. D'Angelo and Stacks storm off and we head back ringside where Wes Lee is making his way down to the ring and he'll face Trick Williams, after the break.
Wes Lee vs. Trick Williams (with Carmelo Hayes)
Lee shoves Williams to the mat and Williams crawls over to the corner where he and Hayes talk strategy. Williams and Lee both miss spin kicks, Williams slams Lee to the mat and goes back to his corner where Hayes gives him some water. Williams slams Lee and goes for the cover but Lee kicks out and Williams starts dropping some stomps on the chest and ribs of Lee. Williams chokes Lee with the middle rope and then applies a headlock back in the middle of the ring. Lee trips Williams, clocks him in the mid-section, lands a chop to the chest then a step-up enziguri, and follows it up with a double stomp to the back. Lee kicks Williams out of the ring, Williams takes some vaseline and covers his hands with it then wipes his hands in Lee's eyes before drilling him with a spin kick and gets the three-count!
Winner - Trick Williams
- We then see Tiffany Stratton getting her hair and makeup down backstage but Wendy Choo comes in and tosses powder in her face, Stratton runs into the door before rushing out of the area and we head to a commercial break.
Wendy Choo vs. Tiffany Stratton
Choo sends Stratton to the corner with a lariat and goes for the cover but Stratton kicks out. Choo sends Stratton right back to the corner and goes for a splash but Stratton catches her and slams her to the mat into a pin combination but Choo lifts the shoulders. Stratton goes for another slam, Choo slides out and plants Stratton with a back-body drop and goes for the cover but Stratton kicks out. Choo immediately applies the rear-naked choke, Stratton powers out but walks into a suplex but Choo, then goes for the cover but Stratton kicks out yet again. Choo goes for a German suplex but Stratton lands on her feet and tosses Choo to the corner. Stratton plants Choo with her finisher and gets the 1-2-3!
Winner - Tiffany Stratton
- Backstage, we see the new NXT Women's Tag Team Champions, Roxanne Perez, and Cora Jade with McKenzie Mitchell. Perez and Jade say while they're over the moon by winning their first titles in WWE, they'll be fighting champions and look forward to defending their titles.
- We then see NXT Champion Bron Breakker and his challenger for tonight, Cameron Grimes, in the locker room. Breakker says he respects Grimes but tonight, he's walking out with the title he's walking in with. The two competitors stare each other down and we head to a commercial break.
- Back from the break and Apollo Crews makes his way down to the ring. Crews say he came back to NXT because he admired how the new generation of NXT 2.0 had so many hungry superstars looking for an opportunity. Apollo points out Tony D'Angelo, Nathan Frazer, Carmelo Hayes, Grayson Waller, Cameron Grimes, and Bron Breakker as potential opponents. Giovanni Vinci's music hits and out comes Vinci, who says Apollo didn't mention him because deep down Apollo knows what will happen if he did call him out. Apollo challenges Vinci to a match, right here, right now. Vinci says he's dressed to go out so they can fight, next week. Vinci says that gives Apollo plenty of time to make up an excuse to his kids on why Vinci beats him. Vinci tosses Apollo his microphone and exits.
We then head backstage where Ivy Nile is with McKenzie Mitchell. McKenzie asks Ivy if tonight's match between the Creed Brothers and Roderick Strong and Damon Kemp is the beginning of the end for Diamond Mine. Ivy says when they say Diamond Mine is forever, it's not just a phrase, they mean it and all tonight will prove is who's the best tag team in Diamond Mine. Ivy gets distracted by a bunch of nearby commotion and breaks up an argument between Tatum Paxley, Kayden Carter, and Katana Chance. Ivy gets Carter and Chance to leave and tells Paxley that she has to come to the Diamond Mine Dojo at 8:00 a.m. sharp, tomorrow morning.
- We then see promos from NXT North American Champion, Carmelo Hayes, alongside Trick Williams followed by Grayson Waller and their title match will go down, after the break.
- Back from the break and we see another vignette hyping up the debut of JD McDonagh, which happens next week.
Carmelo Hayes (with Trick Williams) (C) vs. Grayson Waller — NXT North American Championship
Waller applies a headlock to start. Hayes slides out, and Waller knocks him back with a pump kick, Hayes tosses Waller to the corner and plants him with a springboard flatliner before going for the cover but Waller kicks out. Waller slams Hayes, who rolls out of the ring but Waller dives over the top rope and takes out the champion on the outside. Waller and Williams bicker at ringside and we head to a commercial break.
Back from the break and Waller plants Hayes with a back-body drop then goes for the cover but Hayes kicks out. Waller hoists Hayes up on his shoulders, Hayes slides back and drills Waller with a running bulldog then goes for a cover of his own but Waller lifts the shoulders. Hayes applies a cross-face, Waller rolls him back and Hayes has to break the hold to kick out. Waller rolls Hayes up in a triangle choke, Hayes holds Waller's shoulders down to the mat and Waller now has to let go of the hold to kick out. Both competitors struggle to their feet, both get up and trade forearms, elbows, and slaps, Hayes backs Waller up into the ropes then cracks him with a springboard clothesline.
Waller whacks Hayes with a lariat then a middle rope package piledriver before going for the cover but Hayes kicks out at two-and-a-half. Hayes lands a pump kick then goes for a tornado DDT off the middle rope and Waller slides out and plants him with his patented pop-up cutter but Hayes rolls to the outside to avoid the pin attempt. Waller rushes to the outside and tosses Hayes back into the ring then walks up the entrance ramp and rushes back into the ring looking for another cutter but Hayes hits a mid-air codebreaker, goes up top, and lands a diving leg drop for the three-count!
Winner - Carmelo Hayes (C) (STILL NXT North American Champion)
- We then see the Creed Brothers, Damon Kemp and Roderick Strong alongside Ivy Nile of Diamond Mine, backstage and are all in a huddle. Everyone fist bumps, except Strong, and he and Kemp, make their way out to the ring and it'll be a battle of Diamond Mine for the NXT Tag Team Titles, after the break.
- Back from the break and we see NXT Women's Champion, Mandy Rose. Rose says Roxanne Perez and Cora Jade got lucky in their match against Gigi Dolin and Jacy Jane. Rose says Dolin and Jane have done this before and they corrected their mistake the very next week. Rose says Roxanne Perez won't ever beat her for her title and after next week, Perez will join her 'little BFF', Cora Jade as being on the long list of people who can't beat her.
- We then see a promo of Chase U with Andre Chase, Thea Hail, and Bodhi Hayward. Thea proposes that Chase U goes on a 'field trip' to the UK. Chase says that's a great idea and says Chase U is on its way to the UK. Possibly signifying that we'll be seeing Chase U on NXT UK programming in the near future.
- At the ringside area, we see the NXT Tag Team Champions Julius and Brutus Creed making their way down to the ring and it's time for our next match of the evening.
Creed Brothers (Julius & Brutus Creed) (C) vs. Roderick Strong & Damon Kemp — NXT Tag Team Championship
Strong and Brutus start this one off. Strong applies a waistlock, Brutus scoops and slams Strong then makes the tag to Julius as Strong tags in Kemp. Julius lands a German suplex then goes for another but Kemp slides out and lands one of his own and tags Strong right back in. Strong backs Julius into the corner and Kemp makes the self-tag before slamming Julius to the mat. Julius knocks Kemp back with a kick and hoists him on his shoulders while walking over to his corner where Brutus tags himself in and the champions hit a double slam on Kemp. Brutus slams Kemp then makes the tag right back to Julius, who launches Kemp to the outside, makes the tag to Brutus and Brutus goes up top and comes crashing down on Kemp on the outside and we head to a commercial break.
Back from the break and Strong and Kemp have Julius secluded in their corner. Strong cracks Julius with a series of strikes but Julius shoves him to the side and makes the tag to Brutus, who clears house and plants Strong with a back body drop followed by a German suplex. Strong cheap shots Julius on the apron, cracks Brutus with a running knee and sends Brutus to the corner, and makes the tag to Kemp, who applies a headlock then plants Brutus with a fallaway slam then a spear and goes for the cover but Brutus kicks out. Brutus sneaks away and makes the tag to Julius, Kemp does the same to Strong and the brawl is on. Julius knocks Strong back with a lariat then a massive power slam, Strong tags in Kemp and rolls out of the ring, Julius slams Kemp and cracks him with a sliding lariat for the 1-2-3!
Winners - Creed Brothers (C) (STILL NXT Tag Team Champions)
- After the match, the Creed Brothers celebrate with their titles, Kemp congratulates them and Strong reluctantly joins them.
- We then see a vignette hyping up the debut of "Axiom", who looks and sounds a lot like the former A-Kid.
- A video package is shown highlighting the NXT Championship match between champion, Bron Breakker and challenger Cameron Grimes, which happens, after the break.
- Back from the break and Von Wagner is with Mr. Stone and Sofia Cronwell alongside McKenzie Mitchell. Stone says Wagner was wronged, last week. Cronwell says that the fans are disrespectful for booing Wagner week after week. Solo Sikoa interrupts and says that the NXT Universe doesn't owe Wagner anything. Wagner tells Sikoa that they can handle their business right here, right now. NXT officials rush in and break up the impending fight and we head back to the ringside area where Vic Joseph and Wade Barrett confirm a pair of matches for the 7/12 episode of NXT 2.0. Mandy Rose will defend the NXT Women's Championship against Roxanne Perez and Apollo Crews will face Giovanni Vinci.
- We see NXT Champion, Bron Breakker, and Cameron Grimes making their way through the backstage area in separate locations and it's time for our main event of the evening where the NXT Championship will be up for grabs.
Bron Breakker (C) vs. Cameron Grimes — NXT Championship
A lock-up starts this title match off. Breakker sends Grimes to the corner and breaks the hold per the referee's request. The two competitors reengage with the lock-up and Breakker shoves Grimes across the ring and applies a headlock in the center of the ring. Breakker scoops Grimes up but Grimes slides out and works over Breakker's injured right shoulder. Breakker clocks Grimes back with a clothesline and the challenger retreats to the outside and we head to a commercial break.Back from the break and Breakker plants Grimes with a suplex then lifts Grimes above his head but Grimes slides out and sends Breakker to the outside. Grimes rushes to the apron and nails the champion with a diving senton from the apron then tosses Breakker back into the ring and goes for the cover but Breakker kicks out. Grimes applies an armlock and wrenches at Breakker's injured right shoulder and rolls the champion back for a pin attempt but Breakker leaps himself out of the hold and pin. Grimes cracks Breakker with a kick to the mid section, then another and goes for a third but Breakker catches Grimes and shoves him into the corner, and plants him with a spine buster. Both competitors struggle to their feet and trade strikes while on their knees.Breakker is first to his feet, and Grimes joins him quickly thereafter, Breakker ducks under a clothesline and wallops Grimes with a lariat. Breakker evades a super kick from Grimes then goes for a running clothesline but Grimes catches him in a mid-air cross-body slam then goes for the cover but the champion lifts the shoulders at two-and-a-half! Breakker tosses Grimes to the apron, Grimes kicks Breakker back and goes up top but Breakker trips him and follows him up top. Breakker sends Grimes flying across the ring with a flying hurricanrana then goes for the cover but Grimes kicks out! Breakker lines Grimes up for a spear, Grimes slides out of the way and applies a stretch muffler hold. Breakker lifts Grimes up, Grimes sends Breakker into the corner injured shoulder-first, hits the Cave In, and goes for the cover but Breakker kicks out! Grimes goes to the corner and goes up top and dives down but Breakker nails him with a mid-air spear for the three-count!
Winner - Bron Breakker (C) (STILL NXT Champion)
- After the match, Bron Breakker celebrates with the NXT Championship on the stage but JD McDonagh attacks from behind and nails Breakker wth an overhead slam through a table. McDonagh stands tall over the NXT Champion as the show goes off the air!