Date: 02/01	7:00 PM
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Nickolye's WWE NXT recap for February 1, 2022 at 8 PM ET! The Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic continues into the semi-finals, we get Imperium vs. Diamond Mine in a six-man tag match, Cora Jade goes one-on-one with Raquel González, and also Legado Del Fantasma take on Bron Breakker and Tommaso Ciampa! NXT has a makeover in 2.0 fashion. Hit F5 or refresh as often as you like for the latest updates!

* Imperium vs. Diamond Mine

The crowd chants "WALTER" as Imperium step into the ring. Gunther boots Roderick Strong during his entrance and the brawl is on before the bell. They settle down enough for Fabian Aichner and Brutus Creed to properly start the match. The Creed Brothers have the offense going while Roderick Strong struggles to get back up, then Aichner uses his stength to deliver a rolling senton on Brutus. Marcel Barthel tag sin and puts him in an armbar, but Brutus powers out and tags out. The crowd chants "Walter" again as Julius comes in for some beatings, but Barthel comes back with a penalty kick, kicks him in the head, butterfly suplex, diving European uppercut and gets a near-fall. Gunther comes in, the crowd chants his old name, and he chops down Julius Creed then slams him. Barthel tags back in, Strong is on the apron, Julius delivers a headlock suplex and both sides tag out. Strong clotheslines, chops and forearms Aichner, delivers a backbreaker, knocks Gunther down with a forearm smash, hits running forearm smashes to Aichner, and Gunther clotheslines him before our first commercial break.

We get picture-in-picture here and Strong is getting checked on. but Gunther beats him up around the ring Aichner tags in and puts him in a chinlock, then clotheslines him. Barthel tags in, hits a snap suplex, 2-count, a chinlock, Gunther tags in, beats him down, Aichner tags in, body slam, elbow drop, and gets a 2-count.

When we come back, Strong fights back and makes the hot tag. Julius goes wild, scoop slam to Barthel, slaps Brutus in the face to tag him in, gutwrench suplexes his brother onto Barthel, and Brutus gets a 2-count. Aichner tags in, The Creed Brothers plant him with a spinebuster, and Gunther chops Julius on the back to break the count. Strong and Gunther tag in, Strong chops him, escapes a powerbomb, ducks a chop, and hits the Sick Kick! Brutus tags in, Gunther fights him off, they all start brawling again, Gunther puts Brutus in the sleeper hold, Brutus throws him off, clotheslines him, Gunther slaps him on the chest, and powerbombs him for 3! WINNERS: IMPERIUM!

Earlier today, LA Knight made comments on Grayson Waller and his new bodyguard, saying he's got hell to pay. Joe Gacy and Harland showed up behind him, Gacy offered to help him move on and grow from this experience, but Knight wants to move on to the ring for a match and maybe there will be two more restraining orders. "You will get your ass stomped and that's not an insult, that's just a fact of life. Yeah!" Breaktime.

Toxic Attraction head to the ring when we come back from break and they have all the gold. Gigi Dolin and Jacy Jayne address Indi Hartwell and Persia Pirotta, and at Vengeance Day they put their NXT Women's Tag Team Titles on the line. Before Mandy Rose can speak, Kay Lee Ray comes out to interrupt and try to persuade Rose to give her the NXT Women's Title match that she wants. KLR drops her bat, Dolin and Jayne leave the ring, KLR and Rose go face-to-face, and KLR reminds her that she's the longest-reigning women's champion of the modern era. Rose decides to talk about herself instead and how many magazine covers she's been on. KLR says none of that compares to her in-ring skills as she was champion for 649 days (in NXT UK). KLR: "I dominated an entire continent while you were slipping on your ass at WrestleMania, and sucking the face off Otis!" Rose says she's what this company needs a champion and tells her all the talent in never will never replace her. KLR vows to get her title match by the end of the night, Rose doubts her, KLR slaps her and chases them off with her bat.

Backstage, Cora Jade gets interviewed about her match tonight, and she wants to prove to Raquel González that she has what it takes to be go far in the Women's Dusty Classic. Raquel shows up, tells Cora she can still back out, Cora still wants to go through with it, so Raquel tells her good luck. After a commercial break, Toxic Attraction are trying to leave but they're stopped by the cameraman asking quesions, and Rose declines KLR a title opportunity. Dolin and Jayne get in their car, but KLR drives off with them inside leaving Rose out!

* Raquel González vs. Cora Jade

Jade tries her damnedest in this match but González is too dominant for her. Jade is able to get in a dropkick and forearm smash, but González counters a monkey flip with a back body drop for a near-fall and controls the pace after a swinging sidewalk slam and a suplex for more near-falls. The crowd chants for both Raquel and Cora as González puts her in a surfboard strretch over her shoulder. González catches her in mid-air from a crossbody, but Jade counters into the Black Widow stretch, but unfortunately due to a malfunction of González's wardrobe WWE/USA Network has to black-out the screen so we miss a lot of back-and-forth action. Jade does a schoolgirl rollup for 2, superkicks her, does a step-up springboard hurricanrana, hits a step-up enzuigiri, but then González plants her with the Chingona Bomb for 3. WINNER: RAQUEL GONZALEZ!

González turns to leave, but goes back to Jade to help her up and agree to teaming with her in the Women's Dusty Tag Team Classic. We get a video package for Sarray talking about 2021 as her first year in WWE but didn't go as planned, so she's coming today to start 2022 on a better note.

After a commercial break, we get a video from Pete Dunne mocking Tony D'Angelo after getting back at him with the cricket bat. Dunne challenges D'Angelo to "settle it where it all started, inside a steel cage"!

* Sarray vs. Kayla Inlay

Sarray offers a handshake that gets slapped away. Both women trade opening holds, Sarray does an armdrag, kips up, running back elbow in the corner, and Inlay starts to fight back and puts her in a waistlock. McKenzie Mitchell cuts in for an update backstage that Kay Lee Ray has arrived back to the arena looking for Mandy Rose, but no word on Jacy Jayne and Gigi and Dolin's whereabouts. Sarray fights back with forearm srikes, rolls through a victory roll for a foot stomp, sunray dropkicks her in the ropes, hits the exploder suplex and gets the 3-count to get back on a roll. WINNER: SARRAY!

We get a video from Duke Hudson, he was addicted to taking people's money, but now he's addicted to making people hurt and suffer. Hudson cut his hair down some more and he'll be more ruthless. Breaktime.

Tommaso Ciampa meets up with Bron Breakker in the locker room, they show respect, and he wants to make sure Breakker remains NXT Champion. Breakker vows to handle business tonight and they agree they will kick some ass later.

NXT North American Champion Carmelo Hayes heads to the ring with Trick Williams by his sde. Williams mentions Cameron Grimes and running him down, Hayes says that he takes Grimes serious, and that is why he's going harder in the gym and spending more time in the ring. Grimes comes out after hearing enough to make sure the people are chanting "To the moon!" They're also chanting "Whoop that Trick" as well. Grimes cuts Williams off calling him Squidward because Carmelo's haircut looks like Spongebob's house, then adds that he caught them on OllieJayy's Instagram liking all of her Bikini Bottoms. Williams retorts a mile a minute, Grimes didn't catch any of it, and asks exactly who is he fighting, so Hayes steps up to tell him in two weeks he will shoot for the moon. After they step out the ring, Grimes tells them at Vengeace Day it'll be a one-star match, and that one star is going "TO THE MOON!"

In the locker room, Malik Blade and Edris Enofé try to think of a tag team name. Enofé suggests asking Mandy Rose, he tells Blade to imagine if she were to walk into the room and ask for her opinion, and luckily enough Mandy Rose stumbles into their room and onto Malik's lap! Rose asks for their help, Kay Lee Ray bursts into the room with her green bat, Rose runs away and KLR goes after her. Enofé is excited enough to follow them, but Malik needs a minute, but Edris is ready to go, but Malik "needs a minute" before he can stand up. Wade Barrett: "Looks like the competition to get a date with Mandy Rose is stiffening up."

After the break, Diamond Mine get interviewed backstage and they're not in a good mood. The Creed Brothers strive for perfection and they plan to face Imperium for the NXT Tag Team Championships (provided they win the Dusty Classic). The Grizzled Young Veterans show up to tell them they need to focus on the tournament semi-finals, and they mock them for losing their focus.

* LA Knight vs. Joe Gacy

Harland finally steps out the ring for the match to start and Knight is eyeing him the whole time. Gacy misses a clothesline, Knight hits a neckbreaker, and stomps him down with every "Yeah!" Gacy clotheslines him in the corner, hits a spinning urinage, puts him in a seated ab stretch, delivers a back suplex, and Harland stoicly looks on. Both men just strike each other for a while, Gacy hits a European uppercut, Knight hits a jumping neckbreaker, scoop slam, jumping elbow drop, and they bump heads. Knight falls out the ring, the big bodyguard shows up, and Grayson Waller pops up at ringside with a rolling stunner! The referee counts LA Knight all the way up to 6... 7... 8... 9... and Knight gets back in at 9.5! Unfortunately for Knight, Gacy hits the handspring lariat for the 3-count. WINNER: JOE GACY!

Grayson Waller and his bodyguard Sanga get in the ring, he mocks LA Knight saying he owns NXT, Knight punches him, but for his luck he gets chokeslammed by Sanga. Waller tells him if he can beat Sanga next week, then maybe he'll get rid of the restraining order.

Wendy Choo wakes up to get ready for her match, and Tiffany Stratton looks on behind her before the break. When we come back, Robert Stone speaks on finding a new client to get away from the entertainment part and get serious, and that new client is Von Wagner.

* Amari Miller vs. Wendy Choo

Earlier in the day, Tiffany Stratton was complaining about Wendy Choo to Amari Miller, and offered to take her shopping if she takes care of Choo in her match. The bell dings, Choo stretches to wake up, pretends to go to sleep, kicks Miller off, then hugs her leg for a nap. Miller counters a hiptoss with the backslide for 2, Choo dropkicks her, running thrust kick, sleeping elbow drop, 2-count, Miller with a legsweep and hits a running senton for 2. Choo battles out of a chinlock, clothesline, hits an overhead belly-to-belly suplex, splash in a corner, exploder suplex, then applies a sleeper hold. Miller throws her off, hits the lungblower, gets 2, and Tiffany Stratton comes down with her black card to entice Miller to get the win. Choo rolls her up for 2, hits a Polish hammer, and covers for 3. WINNER: WENDY CHOO!

Stratton gets in the ring, lambasts Miller for losing, asks for her card back, and Choo has the card! Backstage, Dexter Lumis and Indi Hartwell show up to Persia Pirotta and they're excited for their upcoming tag team title match. Pirotta was looking at Duke Hudson's Instagram, Hartwell calls him trouble, Pirotta likes trouble and asks Lumis for his opinion, and Lumis gives Duke a thumb's down. Brooks Jensen shows up to ask for advice on how to talk to Kayden Carter, and Hartwell tells him that talking too much is a turn-off. All Dexter does is look at Indi, she gets excited, and they run off to the hot tub. "That's the hot tub look?" Persia is interested in someone else, and Brooks blabs on about Kayden.

We get a video package for a new superstar who is a former Marine for four years, and coming up Draco Anthony makes his NXT debut. After the break, we get another video package this time for Nikkiya Lyons growing up as the daughter of a bassist. She takes her experience traveling coast to coast for her life lessons in the booth and in the ring.

Sarray gets interviewed backstage, she thanks and loves her grandmother, and she talks about her necklace. Dakota Kai laughs at her, talks a bunch of nonsense, and walks off.

* Andre Chase vs. Draco Anthony

Bodhi Hayward is at ringside, and Anthony didn't even get a televised entrance after his video package. They lock up, Chase does an armdrag, and calls that a teachable moment. Anthony puts him in a side headlock, Chase reverses, Anthony hits a shoulder block, ducks a leapfrog, Chase catches him in an inverted atomic drop and hits a neckbreaker for 2. Anthony hits a tilt-a-whirl powerslam, hits shoulder thrusts, exploder suplex, covers for 2, then puts him in the surfboard stretch. Chase breaks free, takes him down, and hits a Russian legsweep. "C" stomp, "H" stomp, "A" stomp, "S" stomp, "E" stomp, "U" stomp, "CHASE U!" Anthony takes the Chase U flag from Hayward, waves it around, stomps on it, Hayward takes it back, Chase goes wild, stomps a mudhole in him, hits a hammerlock flatliner, and gets the 3-count! WINNER: ANDRE CHASE!

"Next week, Von Wagner, you get an Andre Chase University-sized ass whooping!"

Mandy Rose is tired from running away, drinks some water, and Kay Lee Ray pops up behind her to dump a whole bowl of spaghetti on her, then throws a cake in her face! Mandy cries "Why are you doing this to me?!" as KLR continues to torment her. Next week, the Dusty Classic semi-finals take place as it'll be GYV vs. The Creed Brothers, and MSK vs. Malik Blade and Edris Enofé. Also next week, LA Knight takes on Sanga on NXT on SyFy.

* Legado Del Fantasma vs. Bron Breakker {NXT Champion} & Tommaso Ciampa

Tommaso Ciampa starts with Joaquin Wilde, and he takes down the former champion and hits a shoulder block. Ciampa chops him, dances to mock Wilde, gives him a drop toehold, Raul Mendoza tags in, springboards over him and lands a dropkick followed by chops to the chest. They both chop each other, Ciampa stomps him down, Wilde tags back in, and Breakker finally tags into the match. Breakker traps Wilde in the gator roll into a suplex, Ciampa joins him with Mendoza, both land their suplexes, sit up, and they pat themselves on the backs!

We go picture-in-picture for our final commercial break. Wilde has control over Breakker but not for long as the NXT Champion hits a backbreaker. Ciampa tags in, snapmare, kneedrop, but then Mendoza tags in. Breakker tags in and applies a chinlock as we come back full-screen.

Wilde battles out of the chinlock, Breakker clotheslines him, Santos Escobar looks on, Breakker brings Wilde back into the ring, and Escobar throws Breakker into the steel steps behind the ref's back. Wilde throws Breakker back into the ring, Legado Del Fantasma take over of offense tagging in and out repeatdly, double suplex, and Wilde gets a 2-count. Breakker fights out of a front facelock with a back drop, Ciampa gets the hot tag, clotheslines Wilde and Mendoza, hits both with a flying clothesline, Breakker tags in and hits a pop-up spinebuster to Wilde! Escobar jumps on the apron to distract the champ, Mendoza tagged in and hits a missile dropkick, connects with the PHOENIX SPLASH, and covers for 2.9! Legado Del Fantasma can't believe he kicked out. Mendiza kicks him in the head, Breakker hits a sharp SPEAR, covers, and Wilde breaks the count! Ciampa throws Wilde out the ring, knees Mendoza in the head to knock him off the apron, Wilde gets to the top rope, Ciampa brings Mendoza back in, and pushes Wilde off the top turnbuckle and Wilde crashes THROUGH THE ANNOUNCE TABLE!! Santos Escobar is in shock! Breakker lifts Mendoza in the military press, hits the powerslam, and covers for 3! WINNERS: TOMMASO CIAMPA & BRON BREAKKER!

Ciampa places the NXT Championship on Breakker's shoulder out of respect. Breakker challenges Escobar to step into the ring, Escobar gets on the apron as Elektra Lopez looks on, but Escobar steps down and leaves with her.

Kay Lee Ray has chased Mandy Rose into the ring, gets on the microphone, and she wants her title match next week! Rose finally agrees, KLR puts the bat down, superkicks her, hits the KLR Bomb for good measure, and the NXT Women's Title match is in one week! Good night!