Date: 08/16	6:30 PM
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WWE is bringing the heat to NXT tonight with some heated contests! The show will feature several bouts including Cora Jade and Roxanne Perez settling their fiery feud, Giovanni Vince fights for the North American Championship from Carmelo Hayes, Santos Escobar takes on Tony D'Angelo with high stakes in a street fight, Bron Breakker will defend his NXT Championship against JD McDonagh, and more! Join us for a live recap of NXT Heatwave tonight starting at 8 PM ET and continuing through the entire broadcast. Hit F5 or refresh as often as you like for the latest updates!

Paul Heyman narrates the opening video package highlighting all the major feud heading into tonight's showdowns.

* NXT North American Championship: Giovanni Vinci vs. Carmelo Hayes {C}

Trick Williams accompanies the champ to the ring as Carmelo Hayes burns a shirt with Giovanni Vinci's face on it. In general, both men are heels, but the crowd takes the lesser of two evils and sides with Hayes in this match. Hayes hits the springboard clothesline early, and because it's early he gets only a 1-count from it. Vinci shows his athleticism as he hits a springboard crossbody in response. Vinci hits a hard chop that drops the champ, but Hayes fights back with a throat chop to stay in the fight, and both men clothesline each other before the first commercial break.

We get picture-in-picture and they continue the fight but Vinci dropkicks him to gain the advantage and puts him in a modified seated abdominal stretch. Hayes is back on top with a rolling senton into a pump kick, gets a 2-count, and keeps him down with a grounded front facelock.

Vinci gets back to his feet by the time we come back to throw him off then hits a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker. Vinci catches him off a springboard, hits the rolling senton, springboard moonsault, and gets a 2-count. Hayes rolls him up for 2, blocks a springboard, hits the Fade Away springboard legdrop and gets a 2-count. Hayes rolls him up for 2, hits a superkick, Vinci catches him for a brainbuster, and gets a near-fall. Hayes counters the powerbomb with a suplex cutter for 2.5, Vinci tosses him to the floor, hits a springboard diving crossbody onto Hayes and Williams, throws the champ back in, hits a DOUBLE springboard moonsault, and Williams helps Hayes get his foot on the bottom rope to save him! Vinci confronts Williams, Hayes shoves him into the steel steps, Vinci ducks under the diving legdrop, hits a hard clothesline, and Williams gets in the ring to break the fall for Hayes on a big powerbomb! Vinci plants Williams with the big powerbomb, Hayes counters another powerbomb with the hurricanrana pin, and gets the 3-count to retain his championship! WINNER and STILL NXT North American Champion: CARMELO HAYES!

We cut backstage to see Toxic Attraction arriving to the buiding earlier today. Mandy Rose chatted briefly with Bron Breakker about their upcoming championship matches.

On Twiitter over the weekend, Julius Creed made a video talking about the mishap during the 8-man tag match with Diamond Mine. The group is seen walking backstage as they will have their segment next.

After a commercial break, Mr. Stone mentions that even though Solo Sikoa beat his guy Von Wagner last week, Solo is the one who is out of action for six weeks while Von is still standing and boasts his accolades. Wagner adds that change is in the air and no one will survive in his jungle.

Diamond Mine, sans Ivy Nile, all head to the ring led by the NXT Tag Team Champions, The Creed Brothers. Julius Creed takes the microphone to get something off his chest saying the he and his brother Brutus jumped at the opportunity to work with a champion in Roderick Strong. They've busted their asses, won the Dusty Cup, and even became the NXT Tag Team Champions. Julius decides to call out the person to is destroying Diamond Mine -- Roderick Strong! Strong freaks out then states his case on bringing them into Diamond Mine and calls them the best tag team in WWE, even better than The Usos and calls them the future. Julius claims Roderick is gonna stab him in the back the first chance he gets, and Brutus has his brother's back. Strong warns him not to say any more derogatory words, so Julius hshows him the miscue from three weeks ago to state his case. Julius points out that Tony D'Angelo tapped the mat and gave Roderick "a look" before Strong hit Julius in the face with an "errant" knee. Even Damon Kemp is skeptical, so Strong has been literally backed into a corner - AND GALLUS IS HERE IN NXT ATTACKING DIAMOND MINE!! Gallus ran through NXT UK, and now they confront Roderick Strong and beat him down as well, showing no favorites.

Roxanne Perez gets interviewed about her match with Cora Jade, and she says she's been nervous all day because she never thought she'd be facing her best friend.

After the break, we see both challengers for the women's and men's championship getting ready for their matches. Zoey Stark is working out with Nikkita Lyons there with words of encouragement, and JD McDonagh is relaxing in an ice bath.

* Cora Jade vs. Roxanne Perez

Roxanne charges the ring right away and the match begins with a fight. Cora tries to run away, but Roxanne takes her down with a suicide dive, brings her back into the ring, and gets a 2-count. Cora fights back in the ropes, hits a back elbow to the back, gets a 2-count, and now goes on the offense beating her down in a corner. Roxanne counters a suplex with a European uppercut, back body drop, running dropkick, tosses her out the ring, and Jade blocks a suicide dive to suplex her on the floor before a commercial break.

We go back to picture-in-picture to keep up with the match. Cora throws her back into the ring, hits a springboard double stomp to the back, covers for 2, Roxanne tries to fight back, but Cora suplexes her in the middle of the ring and gets another 2-count. Cora continues the assault in the ropes, hits the Bronco Buster, covers for 2, Roxanne hits double knees to the face, but Cora blocks a Russian legsweep, clotheslines her and covers for 2.

Back full-screen again, Roxanne battles back from a surfboard stretch, inside cradle for 2, Cora does the Oklahoma Roll for 2, Roxanne rolls her over for 2, Cora jackknife pin for 2, Roxanne fights back, and they both pump kick each other. They get back up, Roxanne gets the better strikes, Cora with a knee to the midsection, Roxanne with hammer fists, uppercuts in the corner, hits the Russian legsweep and floats over to cover for 2. Roxanne hits the sweeping mat slam for a 2-count, Cora counters the Pop Rox with a running knee, hits a full nelson facebuster and gets a near-fall. Cora grabs a kendo stick, swings and misses, Roxanne takes the stick, taunts Jade with it, drops with with internal conflict, Cora takes advantage of the delay and hits the double-arm DDT onto the stick and gets the 1-2-3! WINNER: CORA JADE!

The NXT UK Tag Team Champions Brooks & Jensen and Fallon Henley get interviewed, they briefly talk about Pretty Deadly getting the upper hand on them last week, but they're not finished with them. Gallus show up to approach the champs and tell them that the NXT UK Tag Team Championships "don't belong over here" (across the ocean), as they are former champions themselves. They plan to turn NXT upside-down, because Gallus boys on top, and they challenge them to a match for the titles next week.

We get a video package highlighting the feud between Santos Escobar and Tony D'Angelo. Breaktime. After the break we see Mandy Rose warming up with Toxic Attraction giving her positive encouragement. Bron Breakker is warming up as well as he's greeted by Apollo Crews, who looks at the NXT Title for a couple of seconds sparking interest.

* Street Fight: Santos Escobar vs. Tony D'Angelo 
  [If Santos Escobar wins, then Legado Del Fantasma are free from the D'Angelo family services]
  [If Tony D'Angelo wins, then Santos Escobar must leave NXT.]

All of Legado Del Fantasma head to the ring with el jefe Escobar as this could be the last time they are by his side. Channing "Stacks" Lorenzo comes out with D'Angelo to get him hyped up. Escobar throws a chair at D'Angelo's face to get the street fight started! Escobar is fired up with strikes and kicks, slams his head on the chair, and gives him a hurricanrana onto the chair for a near-fall. Escobar wedges the chair between the turnbuckles, chopblocks him, dropkick to the knee, avoids the wedged chair and hits a pump knee to the chin for a 2-count. Escobar hits a top rope diving crossbody, calls for a weapon, but Stacks takes out both men on the floor, and Escobar dropkicks D'Angelo. Vic Joseph and Wade Barrett note on commentary that D'Angelo hasn't gotten one shot on offense yet, and Joaquin Wilde takes down Stacks outside the ring. D'Angelo hits Escobar with a trash can lid to block the suicide dive and we go to commercials.

We get picture-in-picture again for this special event as D'Angelo finally goes on offense with a belly-to-belly suplex for 2, then blocks a running hurricanrana with a powerbomb for 2. D'Angelo throws him into the wedged chair, whacks him on the left shoulder with it three times outside the ring, then traps his arm in the chair slamming it against the ringpost. The fight continues around the ring as D'Angelo throws him into the steel steps, and slams his arm on the steps.

When we come back full-screen, D'Angelo traps Escobar's arm and kicks the steps to crush it then pulls out several chairs from under the ring and suplexes him onto them. Back in the ring, D'Angelo covers for 2, hits a falcon arrow for 2, gets a trash can from Stacks to hit Escobar on the back, and gets another 2-count. Escobar fights back, clotheslines him twice, hurricanrana, kicks him in the head from the apron, hits a diving axe handle, Elektra Lopez slaps D'Angelo for good measure, and Escobar wipes him out with a suicide dive through the turnbuckles! D'Angelo shoves his shoulder into the ringpost to regain momentum, hits an elbow drop, instructs Stacks to look for the crowbar, but Cruz Del Toro has the crowbar and WHACKS Stacks across the face! D'Angelo kicks Del Toro through the ropes, Escobar rolls up D'Angelo for the 1-2-NO, Wilde hands him the brass knuckles but D'Angelo rolls Escobar up for the 1-2-NO!

Escobar goes for the crowbar, but D'Angelo knocks Elektra Lopez down with a shoulder tackle as she shoves Escobar out the way! Escobar is MAD now! D'Angelo doesn't seem to care as he hits a low blow, throws him back in the ring, grabs the crowbar, Escobar superkicks him, and both men are down with the crowbar near D'Angelo and the brass knuckles near Escobar. Both men get to their knees yelling at each other, noticing the weapons next to them, both going for their respective wweapons, D'Angelo hits him first and falls on top of Escobar to get the 3-count! Santos Escobar must now leave NXT. WINNER: TONY D'ANGELO!

Backstage, Indi Hartwell tells the NXT Women's Tag Team Champions Kayden Carter and Katana Chance that she cried when they won the titles. Indi reminisces when she won the titles, but she's interrupted by a letter sent to her - and it's a hand-drawn picture of her and Dexter Lumis! "INDEX FOREVER" is written over the picture. Blair Davenport from NXT UK snatches the picture to rip it up and calls herself the future NXT Women's Champion! Speaking of, the NXT Women's Championship is next!

After the break, we get a video package between Tiffany Stratton and Wendy Choo. Next week, they will have a Lights Out Match.

* NXT Women's Championship: Zoey Stark vs. Mandy Rose {C}

Zoey blocks a kick and strikes first, Mandy blocks the 360 GTS, trips her, Zoey counters the ankle lock with a victory roll for 1, Zoey hits a flying forearm, and the champ rolls out the ring but Zoey hits a baseball slide. Mandy rams her back into the ring apron, throws her over the announce table, slams her repaired knee on the table and we take a commercial break.

We get picture-in-picture, and the ringside trainer is checking on Stark if she can continue. Mandy goes on the attack working over the left knee of her challenger by wrapping it around the ringpost and puts her in a modified ankle lock. Zoey tries but can't make a full comeback yet because her leg is in too much pain, so Mandy keeps going with the attacks, stretches and submisisons to the leg. Zoey fights back but she's tripped up by Toxic Attraction outside the ring.

Back full-screen now and the referee EJECTS both Jacy Jayne and Gigi Dolin! Nikkita Lyons runs down to attack Jacy and Gigi! Meanwhile, Zoey does an Oklahoma roll to the champ for 2, Mandy hits the chopblock, kicks the injured knee, knee strikes also, hits a kneebreaker, then applies the single leg crab. Zoey kicks her off, knees strikes, clotheslines, sliding knee, and covers for 2. Zoey does a snapmare, kick to the back of the head, 2-count, Mandy kicks her in the knee, hits the flipping exploder, and covers for a near-fall. They trade punches and chops, Zoey hits the 360 GTS, crawls to Rose, but Mandy rolls out the ring to catch a break! Mandy trips her leg in the ropes, stomps on the knee repeatedly, unclips the knee brace, Zoey counters the running knee with a schoolgirl rollup for 2, jackknife pin fo r2, Mandy hits the running pump knee, and covers for 1-2-KICKOUT!! Mandy Rose can't believe it, and Barrett notes that nobody's ever kicked out of that maneuver. Mandy puts on Stark's knee brace, hits the running knee HARD with the knee brace, and gets the 1-2-3! WINNER and STILL NXT Women's Champion: MANDY ROSE!

Mandy Rose retains the NXT Women's Championship and prances around the ring with it. Breaktime.

New NXT superstar Quincy Elliott says he's bringing all of "this" to NXT, and it's clear he's a little eccentric but proud of it. "Everyone in NXT may be superstars, but Quincy Elliott, I am the Super Diva." Coming soon.

Grayson Waller gets interviewed backstage and he claims that Apollo Crews is scared of him, but he's the one who walked away. Waller continues to talk down about Apollo, and says next week he will debut "The Waller Effect" talk show and his first guest will be Apollo Crews.

* NXT Championship: JD McDonagh vs. Bron Breakker {C}

Breakker shows he's still powerful, McDonagh tries to work on the right shoulder, but Breakker slaps him and McDonagh just smiles. McDonagh gives him a mokey flip but Breakker holds onto the arm wrench, tries an armdrag but Breakker keeps the hold, then he flips around with a snapmare but Breakker still maintains the hold. McDonagh pushes off a side headlock, Breakker does a gator roll into a delayed vertical suplex, kips up, and punches him off the apron. McDonagh tries to sucker the champ in but it backfires on him, Breakker lifts him up by the arm, delivers a hammerlock belly-to-belly suplex, hits a standing moonsault and gets a 2-count. Breakker clotheslines him, throws him out the ring, and we take our final commercial break.

We get the final picture-in-picture of the night as well. Breakker throws him around the ring with ease, McDonagh stays out the ring, trips him up, hits a slingshot corkscrew splash, snap suplex, and an elbow to the nose.

When we come back, Breakker is back in control in a corner as he sets him up on the top, but McDonagh trips him up, grabs him from the apron and hits a neckbreaker over the top steel truss by the turnbuckle. The referee counts up to 5 before McDonagh gets the champ back into the ring, hits elbows to the neck, and applies a standing armbar until a rope break. Breakker escapes a neck twist submission with a jawbreaker, fights back, shoulder tackles, and a catching powerslam. McDonagh side-steps the spear sending him into the ringpost, and applies crossface! Breakker gets to the bottom rope to break the hold, McDonagh goes up top, Breakker cuts him off, hits the FRANKSTEINER, and covers for 2.5!

Breakker goes up, McDonagh cuts him off with a kick to the chest, hits the Spanish Fly, delivers the BRAINBUSTER, and covers for 2.99! Breakker avoids a diving moonsault, hits the SPEAR, but can't make the cover as McDonagh rolls out the ring. Breakker brings him back into the ring, hits the SPEAR again, looks at a bloody McDonagh standing back up and laughing, Breakker hits a THIRD SPEAR, hits the MILITARY PRESS SLAM, and covers for the 1-2-3!! WINNER and STILL NXT CHAMPION: BRON BREAKKER!

Bron Breakker has successfully retained his championship... NXT UK CHAMPION TYLER BATE HEADS TO THE RING! The NXT UK Champion and the NXT Champion stand face-to-face in the ring! Vic Joseph: "I don't know what's going on, but could Worlds be Colliding here in NXT?!"