Date: 04/02	11:00 AM
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NXT: Stand & Deliver Recap. NXT: Stand & Deliver is BACK this year, and this time it's happening in the afternoon before WrestleMania 38 Night One! Dolph Ziggler defends the NXT Championship against Bron Breakker. Mandy Rose defends her NXT Women's Championship against Cora Jade, Kay Lee Ray and Io Shirai. MSK and The Creed brothers challenge Imperium for the NXT Tag Team Titles, and so much more! Join Nickolye for the live recap of Stand & Deliver tonight starting at 1 PM ET/12 Noon CT on Peacock (U.S.) and the WWE Network (worldwide), and continuing through the entire broadcast. Hit F5 or refresh as often as you like for the latest updates!

The Kickoff show goes on an hour before the main show. Kayla Braxton, Peter Rosenberg, Sarah Shrieber and Sam Roberts are all involved on the panel previewing tonight's matches.

* NXT Women's Tag Team Championship: Raquel González & Dakota Kai vs. Toxic Attraction {C}

This match takes place on the Kickoff show. It's been 8 months since Raquel González have been a tag team, and they were the very first NXT Women's Tag Team Champions in NXT history. Will they capture the gold again? Are they to be trusted to work together?

The bell dings and Toxic Attraction jump their challengers at the bell! Raquel tackles Jacy Jayne and boots her off the apron, then drops Gigi Dolin on the ropes and clotheslines her. Dakota tags in, assisted double stomp gets a 2-count, Gigi with an inside cradle for 2, Dakota with a crucifix pin for 2, Gigi with her own crucifix for 2, Dakota does another crucifix pin for 2, and Gigi does the prawn hold pin for 2. Dakota clotheslines her in a corner, Raquel tags in, knocks Jacy off the apron, avalanche to Gigi, Dakota tags back in, pump kick, and Raquel does an airplane spin into the neckbreaker. Dakota gets a 2-count, Jacy gets the tag, running neckbreaker to Kai, taunts González, Gigi tags in, clotheslines Kai, Jacy hits the senton and Gigi kicks her in the back. Gigi hits quick kicks to the side of the head, works on the left leg, Dakota kicks her off, Jacy tags in, Dakota breaks free and makes the tag, but the referee says it's not a legal tag (she wasn't holding the tag rope, so Dakota has to come back in and re-do the legal tag).

Raquel clotheslines her, Jacy escapes the Chingona Bomb attempt, Raquel hits the big boot, lands the springboard spinning senton, and gets a 2-count. Dakota tags in, delivers a spider German suplex, covers, and Gigi breaks the count. Gigi counters a powerbomb with a leglock, Dakota hits her with the pump kick, Jacy and Dakota punch each other, both kicks are blocked then they hit each other with pump kicks and both women are down. Jacy and Dakota punch each other back up, Gigi tags in, Jacy hits a snap German suplex, Gigi delivers a second German suplex and bridges for a 2-count. Jacy tags back in, they hit the Toxic Shock double high-low kicks, Jacy covers, and gets 2.9!

Gigi can't believe Kai kicked out, and when she turns around Wendy Choo made her way down to the ring, smacks Dolin with her pillow, splashes orange soda in her face, then Raquel drops Dolin with the big boot on the floor! Jacy sees this from the ring (but the referee didn't), Dakota hits her with the scorpion kick, connects with the running kick in the corner, Raquel tags in, finishes with the Chingona Bomb, and covers for the 3-count to win the titles! WINNERS and NEW NXT Women's Tag Team Champions: RAQUEL GONZáLEZ & DAKOTA KAI!

Raquel and Dakota were not only the first-ever tag champions, but they have become the first-ever TWO-TIME NXT Women's Tag Team Champions in NXT history! Santos Escobar and Grayson Waller head to the ring before the main show gets underway.

* NXT North American Championship - Ladder Match:
   Santos Escobar vs. Grayson Waller vs. Solo Sikoa vs. Cameron Grimes vs. Carmelo Hayes {C}

Carmelo runs his mouth from the very beginning, they all start attacking him, and Trick Williams pulls him out the ring to save him. The other four starts battling, but Trick pulls Solo Sikoa out the ring and they throw him into a ladder at ringside. Grimes and Escobar go at it, Hayes shoves Grimes off the turnbuckles to the floor below, and he asks Trick Williams for help getting a ladder. Solo gets back in the ring, the crowd chants UCE at him, Hayes avoids a superkick and clotheslines him out the ring. Escobar squares up with the champion, hits a dropkick, Grimes pulls Escobar out the ring, and trades punches and kicks on Hayes along with Sikoa. Escobar and Waller get back in the ring to stop the attack, and now Sanga pulls a ladder for Waller while Raul Mendoza and Joaquin Wilde pull out a ladder for Escobar. There's too many men at ringside!

Waller drops Sikoa with a crescent kick, Sanga brings a tall ladder to ringside, Sikoa attacks Sanga, but Sanga overpowers him and throws him back into the ring. Grimes kicks Sanga, Sikoa hits a suicide dive onto Sanga, Escobar hits the torpedo dive to Sikoa, Grimes drops Hayes onto the apron, hits a tope con hilo onto Escobar, then Hayes does an Asai moonsault onto Grimes! Waller teases doing a dive, but he grabs a ladder instead, but Sikoa stops him and throws him into the ladder that he stood up. Sikoa hits Waller with the ladder, backs him into a corner, sends Hayes into the ladder against Waller's midsection, Escobar charges with another ladder and hits Hayes with it. Sikoa has then stacked up and hits the running hip attack to Escobar against a ladder sandwiches Hayes with Waller trapped in the turnbuckles!

Sikoa climbs the tall ladder, Grimes stops him, Sikoa drops him, Grimes avoids a superkick, drops Sikoa and starts climbing. Hayes kicks Grimes on his climb, tosses the ladder for Grimes to catch, and superkicks him. Williams doesn't want to get hit with the ladder, so Grimes blasts Hayes with it, then Escobar dropkicks the ladder into Grimes's face and hits a baseball slide for the ladder to crash into his groin! Escobar drops Waller, starts climbing, but Waller hits the rolling Stunner! Waller climbs to the top, Hayes pulls him down, Waller puts him on his shoulders, Hayes climbs the ladder, Waller punches him and starts climbing, but Hayes catches him with a springboard clothesline. Sikoa superkicks him to counter the springboard, climbs up the ladder, Escobar joins him, reaches the title, but instead hits a SUNSET FLIP POWERBOMB SENDING SIKOA LANDING ON A LADDER!! Grimes and Escobar trade running kicks, Grimes catches him with the flipping powerslam, and both men are down.

Trick Williams sets up the ladder, Sanga runs in to choke slam him, and he destroys the ladder! Elektra Lopez gets in the ring to distract Sanga long enough for Mendoza and Wilde to both hit him with a double springboard dropkicks. Mendoza and Wilde hit Sanga with the broken sides of the ladder, they drop him out the ring, and they help Elektra land a springboard crossbody onto Waller! Sanga is back up, but Legado sandwich him between two ladders. Sikoa picks him both Legado Del Fantasma members and hits a double Samoan drop! Sikoa climbs up the ladder, Escobar runs up the other side, but Trick Williams shoves the ladder knocking them down and out the ring. Trick, who is scared of heights, slowly and scarily climbs the ladder. Grimes shoves the ladder backwards and Trick lands on Sanga and Legado outside the ring!

Grimes is the only man left in the ring, suddenly Hayes pulls him down and drops him, so now he climbs up the ladder, Waller scales up the other side, they punch each other at the top, Grimes sets up another ladder next to them, Sikoa climbs up the second ladder with him, Escobar has a third ladder, and now all five men are battling under the hanging title. Grimes and Sikoa fall down, Waller drops Hayes, throws Escobar off his ladder, and now he's the only man with his hand on the title. Escobar is back up, costs him the victory, and hits a HURRICANRANA OFF THE TOP OF THE LADDER! Sikoa follows up with the Uso Splash from the top rope onto Escobar! Sikoa is climbing the ladder, Grimes pulls him down, Sikoa superkicks him, Grimes side-steps him in the corner, and hits the CAVE-IN ONTO TWO LADDERS ON THE APRON!! Hayes gets on the apron, they boot each other in their faces, Hayes fall across a ladder, Waller climbs up a ladder outside the ring, and goes for the diving elbow drop but Hayes moved out the way! Hayes gets back in the ring, climbs up the ladder by himself, Escobar grabs his foot, pulls him down and hits the PHANTOM DRIVER, THEN GRIMES HITS THE CAVE-IN FORM THE TOP ROPE AND RUNS UP THE LADDER TO GRAB THE CHAMPIONSHIP!! WINNER and NEW NXT North American Champion: CAMERON GRIMES!!

"To the moon!" After a video package for the next match, Tony D'Angelo pulls up in his car backstage with AJ Galante, who accompanies him to ringside.

* Tony D'Angelo vs. Tommaso Ciampa

During his entrance, Ciampa does Triple H's water spit in honor of the godfather of NXT. Ciampa and D'Angelo start hot after the bell, but D'Angelo loves to kick the man when he's down. Ciampa beats him down in a corner, hits the running knee to the jaw hoping he'll go to sleep, then hits him two more times with the running knee. Ciampa throws him into the steel steps, hits another running knee, then sits on the apron to applaud and pat himself on the back. Ciampa breaks the ref's count, then pulls the floor padding in front of AJ Galante who's sitting at ringside. D'Angelo is back in the ring, and he takes Ciampa down with mounted punches, much to the delight of AJ Galante. D'Angelo delivers a double-arm suplex, covers for 2, hits a running back elbow, says he's the guy then puts him in a chinlock.

Ciampa battles back into the match with punches and chops, clotheslines and more clotheslines, hits four more clotheslines in the corner, then drops him with a flying clothesline! Ciampa lowers his kneepad, D'Angelo avoids the knee strike, delivers the falcon arrow, covers for 2, Ciampa counters the fisherman's suplex, D'Angelo blocks the Fairytale ending, Ciampa picks him up, D'Angelo counters with a roll-up with the tights for 2, and Ciampa rolls him up for 2. D'Angelo takes time to talk trash, Ciampa chops him over and over, even exposes D'Angelo's chest for more damage, sets him up on the top rope, D'Angelo fights him off the ropes, but Ciampa hits the high knee in mid-air!

Both men are down, Ciampa is up first, they trade punches, Ciampa hits the ripcord discus forearm, D'Angelo hits a back elbow, and pulls out his crowbar from the corner. Ciampa avoids the crowbar, but not the lowblow, D'Angelo delivers the spinning fisherman's suplex, and covers for the 1-2-KICKOUT!! D'Angelo goes on a rampage yelling at ringside, grabs the crowbar again, Ciampa catches him coming in with the Willow's Bell, and hits the FAIRYTALE ENDING for the thr- NO!! D'Angelo kicked out, so Ciampa locks in the GARGANO ESCAPE, D'Angelo struggles to grab the ropes, and the crowd chants "Johnny Wrestling!" They battle outside the ring, making their way to the exposed floor, D'Angelo blocks a German suplex and plants him with a DDT onto the concrete! AJ Galante enjoys it, D'Angelo brings Ciampa back into the ring, kicks him in the back of the head, and covers for the 3-count. WINNER: TONY D'ANGELO!

"THANK YOU CIAMPA! THANK YOU CIAMPA! THANK YOU CIAMPA! THANK YOU CIAMPA!" Ciampa kisses the NXT ring goodbye before he takes his leave. Triple H himself had come out to personally acknowledge and thank Ciampa for his great work in NXT. Chase University are in the crowd scouting.

* NXT Tag Team Championship: The Creed Brothers vs. MSK vs. Imperium {C}

Brutus Creed, Wes Lee and Marcel Barthel start the match for all respect teams.  Lee dropkicks Brutus, kicks Barthel in the back of the head, Nash Carter tags in and hiits the bronco buster. Brutus grabs Carter from behind, Carter comes back with several kicks, Barthel gets back in and beats Carter down. Fabian Aichner tags in, ducks two clotheslines and hits a big shoulder block. Wes Lee tags back in, Aichner catches him with a pop-up backbreaker, and Brutus knocks him down. Julius Creed tags in, knocks down Aichner and Lee, the Brutus tags back in and double team their opponents. Aichner sends Julius out the ring, tags Barthel in, their double dropkick gets blocked, Brutus delivers a German suplex to Lee, and Carter tags in on the rebound. Brutus hits a German suplex (ironically) to Barthel, Julius tags in for a dead-lift butterfly suplex, and Carter dropkicks him. Lee tags in, MSK both kick him down, double team catapult superkick to Barthel, Lee covers and Julius breaks the count.

Aichner pulls Julius down, Barthel grabs Lee's foot, and shouts "Nein!" Barthel kicks him in the head, Aichner tags in, double dropkick to Julius, Aichner hits Lee with a shoulder block, boots Brutus off the apron, and body slams Carter in the ropes. Aichner clotheslines Lee, Carter breaks the count, Aichner throws him out the ring, hard chop to Julius, squate with Julius on his shoulders and hits the rolling senton. Carter gives Aichner the headscissors takedown, flying hurricanrana to Barthel sending him into Aichner, and Lee follows up with a cartwheel Fosbury flop onto Inperium! Carter hits the senton bomb onto Aichner, then Lee hits a twisting senton, and he covers for a near-fall!

MSK cut Julius off the ropes, he knocks Lee down, Aichner and Carter try for a double suplex, Lee and Barthel fight it out, and Aichner and Carter double superplex Julius into them! Malcolm Bivens and Ivy Nile look concerned at ringside. Brutus gets the hot tag, climbs to the top rope, and hits a CANNONBALL onto the group outside the ring! Brutus throws Carter back into the ring, Julius gets the tag, Brutus hits a spinebuster, Julius makes the cover, Aichner pulls him out the ring, and Barthel shoves Julius into the steel steps. Brutus grabs Barthel, but Aichner sets him up in the powerbomb, and Barthel follows up with the European Bomb on the floor! Back in the ring, Carter hits the sunset flip bomb onto Aichner, kicks Barthel in the head, Lee hits a FRANKENSTEINER into a POWERBOMB by Carter, and that gets the 3-count! WINNERS and NEW NXT Tag Team Champions: MSK! 

MSK have now become TWO-TIME NXT Tag Team Champions!

Earlier today, Joe Gacy took Harland outside to talk about Texas landmarks. Gacy decides to it his responsibility to unite people and choose peace so nobody suffers loss or tragedy again. Vic Joseph and Wade Barrett take us back to the Kickoff show and the women's tag title match earlier where Raquel González and Dakota Kai defeated Toxic Attraction to become the new champions. From there, we get a video package highlighting the events leading to the next women's title match.

* NXT Women's Championship: Cora Jade vs. Kay Lee Ray vs. Io Shirai vs. Mandy Rose {C}

With the new and updates NXT Women's Championship shown off, the match finally bgins with all three women attacking the champion. Cora is next to be attacked, but Mandy pulls her out the ring and slaps her. Cora grabs Mandy, but KLR and Io both hit suicide dives onto them. Cora fights back against KLR showing she's not going to a complete underdog in front of the announce table. Io and KLR step into the ring one-on-one, they shake hands, KLR picks her up on her back, does a backslide for 2, Io with a sunset flip for 2, blocks a suplex, KLR blocks a suplex, Io lands on her feet, trips her onto the ropes, KLR avoids the feint kick, and Mandy pulls Shirai out the ring then slaps KLR. As Mandy stands over KLR, she's attacked by Cora, but she plants her with a spinebuster, KLR breaks up the count, but Mandy launches her outside into Shirai at ringside.

Mandy battles Jade in the ring, choking her on the rpoes and punching her in the back, then delivers a small delayed vertical suplex. Mandy dominates the ring until Cora dumps her over the ropes and hits a running cannonball, so Kay Lee Ray fly out with a springboard cannonball onto Cora, and not to be outdone it's now Shirai who hits a diving moonsault to KLR! Io battled KLR in the ring, blocks a German, hits the double-foot stomp, and Mandy throws Shirai out the ring to steal the pin. KLR traps her in the Koji Clutch, Io rolls Jade up for 2, then locks in the Texas Cloverleaf! Both submissions are in play until Jade kicks herself free knocking Shirai into KLR to break up her submission.

Cora catches Mandy with the hurricanrana, dropkicks her in the knee, hits the step-up enzuigiri, walks off the pain in her leg, hits a springboard foot stomp, and hits forearms in the corner. Mandy tosses her onto the apron, Cora punches Mandy, then hits the CANADIAN DESTROYER TO KLR ON THE APRON! Io hits the tiger feint kick to Jade's back, hits Rose with the missile dropkick, delivers the German suplex and bridges for 2. Mandy and Io fight in the turnbuckles, Io hits the palm strike, gets on the top rope with Rose, and IO HITS THE TOP ROPE SPANISH FLY, and covers for 1-2-NO as Cora hits the diving senton! Cora hits the running high knee to the champion, hits Sliced Bread, drops her with the double-arm DDT, and KLR breaks the count! KLR headbutts Jade, hits the KLR BOMB, goes up the ropes, Io pushes her off, goes up top herself, lands the DIVING MOONSAULT onto Jade, then Mandy hits the RUNNING PUMP KNEE STRIKE to Shirai's face and covers for 1-2-3! WINNER and STILL NXT Women's Champion: MANDY ROSE!

Mandy Rose is so far the only NXT superstar to retain their championship tonight. We go backstage to get the poll of hottest couple between In-Dex and Du-sia. Indi Hartwell and Dexter Lumis won with 89% while Persia Pirotta and Duke Hudson only had 11%. Duke is not happy, throws a fit, causes a scene, and several referees have to break them up.

* Gunther vs. LA Knight

They lock up collar-and-elbow, Gunther backs him to a corner, and lightly taps him on the chest. Knight fires up by stomping him down in a corner, and Gunther rolls out the ring, so Knight goes out to clothesline him from the apron. It doesn't take long for Gunther to hit a big move as he POWERBOMBS Knight on the apron, and takes time to pose in the middle of the ring. Knight gets back in and punches him, but Gunther remains in control with a hard body slam, covers for 1, and puts him in a rear chinlock. Gunther lets him up, hits European uppercuts, Knight swings back at him, Gunther hits forearms to the lower back, and sends him into the turnbuckles. Knight ducks the chop, hits the jumping neckbreaker, Gunther drops him with a big boot, then turns him over for the Boston crab to work the back. Gunther transitions to the STF, so Knight battles out, gives him a back body drop, but Gunther comes back with a big chop.

Knight counters and delivers a vertical suplex, gets tossed onto the apron, hits the shoulder to the midsection, connects with the slingshot shoulder tackle, and shouts "YEAH" with every mudhole stomp in the corner. Knight hits the running knee strike, Gunther blocks the finish, Knight hits the tilt-a-whirl slam, hits the elbow drop and gets a 2-count. Walter knocks him off the turnbuckles, but Knight still runs up for a big superplex and covers for 2.5! Gunther blocks the BFT, Knight blocks the big chop, Gunther slpas him on the chest, forearm to the back, and locks in the sleeper hold, but Knight counters with the BURNING HAMMER for 2.5! Knight goes up top, Gunther clubs him on the back, slaps him on the back, clotheslines him down, hits the DIVING SPLASH and plants him with the POWERBOMB for 3! WINNER: GUNTHER!

It's time for the main event! Robert Roode comes down to the ring with Ziggler, we get the proper title match introductions, and Ziggler slaps Breakker to get him riled up.

* NXT Championship: Bron Breakker vs. Dolph Ziggler {C}

 Breakker goes on the attack early in the ring, chases him around the ring, Ziggler beats him down as he enters the ring, and holds him down. Breakker hits a spinebuster, tackles him, pulls him to the center, and covers for 2. Breakker delivers an overhead belly-to-belly suplex, another overhead suplex, and a third overhead suplex. Breakker takes the straps down, says "We're done" but Roode grabs his leg, and the referee spotted him so Roode is EJECTED! Ziggler freaks out, Breakker side-steps the superkick, plants him with the back suplex, sets him on the top turnbuckle, but Ziggler crotches him on the top turnbuckle. Ziggler drops him with a neckbreaker and covers for 2, so he puts him in a rear chinlock.

Breakker powers up to his feet, battles back, Ziggler kicks him in the knee, hits another neckbreaker, and covers for 2. Ziggler hits the jumping elbow drop, gets a 2-count, and puts him in the crossface. Breakker fights back, hits a back elbow, gets on the ropes, but Ziggler trips him up and remains in control with a grounded sleeper. Breakker rolls over, Ziggler increases the pressure in a chinlock, Breakker gets back to his feet, and punches the body blows. Breakker blocks a neckbreaker, hits a shoulder tackle, tilt-a-whirl sidewalk slam, and covers for 2. Breakker sets him back up on the top turnbuckle, hits the top rope Frankensteiner, and covers for a near-fall. The former champion gets prepared in a corner, Ziggler blocks the spear, leapfrogs over him, but Breakker comes back to hit the big SPEAR for 1-2-KICKOUT! Breakker grabs him by the throat, Ziggler counters by tossing him out the ring, Ziggler hits a running knee, and covers for 2. Ziggler calls for the superkick, Breakker blocks it, hits the big TACKLING SPEAR again, hits the MILITARY PRESS POWERSLAM, and covers for 1-2-NO!

Roode is back to pull Ziggler out the ring and saves his partner! Breakker charges, hits the tope con hilo onto the Dirty Dawgs, throws Ziggler back into the ring, and throws Roode into the steel steps. As Breakker gets back into the ring, Ziggler hits the FAMOUSER AND ZIG ZAG, covers, and gets 2.999! Ziggler goes up top, hits the diving elbow drop, covers, one-two-NO!! Ziggler calls for the superkick again, tuning up the band, Breakker is back to his feet, clotheslines the champ, hits the TACKLING SPEAR for a third time, picks him up in the military press, Ziggler rakes the eyes, shoves him into an exposed middle ringpost, HITS THE SUPERKICK, covers, and gets the 3-COUNT to retain!! WINNER and STILL NXT CHAMPION: DOLPH ZIGGLER!!

Dolph Ziggler has outsmarted everyone and retained the NXT Championship! Robert Roode celebrates with his tag partner to close out the event.