Date: 04/01	11:00 AM
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NXT Stand & Deliver is BACK again this year, and this time it's in Los Angeles before WrestleMania 39 Night One takes place. Bron Breakker defends his NXT Championship against Carmelo Hayes in the main event. Roxanne Perez and five other women battle in a ladder match for her NXT Women's Championship! Isla Dawn and Alba Fyre challenge Kiana James and Fallon Henley for the NXT Women's Tag Team Titles, Wes Lee has a fatal 5-way challenge for the North American Title, Johnny Gargano faces Grayson Waller in an unsanctioned match, and so much more is on the line! Plus, Pretty Deadly will be the hosts for the premium live event! Join Nickolye for the live recap of Stand & Deliver today 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!

Happy WrestleMania Weekend! This Saturday afternoon is the start of it all with NXT Stand & Deliver! The Kickoff show begins at 12 noon ET with a lot of discussion over today's matches. However, we're getting a Kickoff match to kick this off!

* Chase U & Tyler Bate vs. Schism 

The winners of this 8-person mix tag team match will gain control over Chase University. Andre Chase starts the match hot against Rip Fowler. Jagger Reid tags in and the action continues hot, then Tyler Bate tags in and hits a diving European uppercut for a 1-count. Duke Hudson tags himself in against Bate's readiness, prompting Andre to set things right. Thea Hail tags herself in, Ava steps in, but then Ava tags out opting not to fight yet. Joe Gacy attacks Andre Chase and mocks him, but Chase fights back, tags Bate in, clotheslines Gacy in the corner, Bate hits a avalanche splash, and hits a shooting star splash for 2.

Ava and Thea tag back in, Ava shoves her down overpowering her as she is in her first NXT match, clubs her on the back, delivers a suplex, and covers for 2. Ava gloats over her work, Thea fights back, hits a back splash in the cover, hiptoss, flipping senton, springboard senton, and Jagger Reid breaks the count. Bate and Reid both tag in, Bate goes for a German suplex, Reid blocks it, Flowler tags in, and The Dyad drop Tyler Bate on the top rope. Bate blocks a suplex, dead-lifts Fowler into a suplex of his own, Gacy tags in, Bate lands on his feet and tags out.

Andre Chase runs on fire, body slam to Gacy, diving crossbody block, Bate tags back in, and Duke clearly wanted the tag. Chase and Bate double-team Gacy, and Reed breaks the count. Bate fights off The Dyad, Duke Hudson comes in off the tag, and runs through both men with a double clothesline! Hudson hits the Chase U bionic elbow, Ava slaps him, Thea attacks her, Fowler drags her off, and Thea goes for a diving moonsault, but Reid catches her, and she drops him with a tornado DDT! Bate hits the Bop & Bang to Gacy, ducks the handspring clothesline, and Duke Hudson accidentally boots Bate in the face! Hudson gets pulled out the ring by Fowler, Gacy hits Bate with the handspring lariat, makes the cover, and Chase breaks up the count at the last second! Gacy attacks Chase, tags in Fowler, who tags in Reid, and The Dyad hit the powerbomb backstabber to Chase. All four gang up on Thea, so Ava body slams her, and Hudson protects her and stands up to them as he's on his own.

Gacy steps up to Hudson, speaks quietly to him, they hand him a Schism t-shirt, and he takes off his Chase U shirt as Chase, Thea and Tyler look on with shock! Hudson takes the Schism shirt, puts it on, the Schism are all happy, Chase is upset as he stands with Thea and Bate, and the crowd chants "You sold out! You sold out!" BUT IT WAS A RUSE! Hudson rips off his Schism shirt and the fight is on!! All four hit Bop & Bang to each of Schism and in unison they do the C-H-A-S-E-U stomp. "CHASE U!" Tyler Bate tags in Duke Hudson, hits the suicide dive to Joe Gacy, and Thea Hale hits a springboard senton to Rip Fowler! Back in the ring, Hudson and Chase hit the Fratliner onto Reid, and Hudson covers for 3!!! WINNERS: TYLER BATE & CHASE U!

That was such a feel-good match. Zoey Stark comes out first as the Stand & Deliver premium live event is about to get underway. We get an opening video package narrated by the hosts Pretty Deadly. The NXT Women's Championship hangs above the ring for our first match of the main card! Vic Joseph and Booker T welcome us to the show as the entrances continue.

* NXT Women's Championship - Ladder Match: Zoey Stark vs. Indi Hartwell vs. Gigi Dolin vs. Tiffany Stratton vs. Lyra Valkyria vs. Roxanne Perez {C}

The bell dings, the match is underway, Indi and Lyra collide with ladders outside the ring, and the other four battle inside the ring. Zoey hits a German suplex to Gigi and kips up. Roxanne gives Zoey a spinning headscissors sending her into Tiffany, hits a running European uppercut to Tiffany in the corner, drops Lyra with a Thesz Press, and hits Indi with a suicide dive! As Roxanne goes for a ladder, she gets wiped out. Gigi attacks both Zoey and Tiffany in the ring, grabs a ladder, Zoey ducks a clothesline and baseball slide to knock the ladder into Gigi. Tiffany and Zoey battle, Indi clotheslines them both, picks up a ladder, hits both of them with it, and Lyra dropkicks the ladder into Indi.

Lyra brings the ladder in the ring first, Roxanne takes hold of it, Lyra shoves the ladder backing her in the cover and boots her in the face. Gigi comes in, Lyra suplexes Gigi onto the ladder, and that finally knocks Roxanne down. Indi shoves a ladder into Zoey, Tiffany grabs another ladder, fights off Indi and catapults her as Zoey hits Tiffany with a flipping neckbreaker. Lyra is the first to set the ladder up, Zoey stops her, shovers her face into the ladder, goes for the monkey flip, Lyra lands on her feet, climbs up the ladder, Tiffany goes up the other side, Lyra knocks her out, and Zoey dropkicks Lyra off the ladder. Indi comes in to dispose of Zoey, re-positions the ladder, Tiffany climbs up the ladder with her, Roxanne pops back up, knocks Indi down, Tiffany reaches up, and Indi shoves the ladder down with both women falling down.

Indi climbs up the ladder looking up at it, Gigi hits her with another ladder, slams her down on it, leans the ladder in a corner, and swings another ladder with a helicopter spin. Gigi back drops Lyra onto the ladder, puts her in the tree of woe in one of the rungs, and ducks as Zoey crossbody blocks into Lyra. "This is awesome! This is awesome!" Gigi sets up the ladder under the championship, climbs up one side, Tiffany pulls her down onto her shoulders, hits the Rolling Thunder onto the ladder! Tiffany blocks a Russian legsweep, Roxanne avoids a ladder toss, climbs up, Tiffany climbs up the other side, and they fall down. Tiffany drops the champ, climbs up, Indi picks her up and hits a SPINEBUSTER ONTO THE LADDER!!

Zoey stops Indi from climbing the ladder, superkicks her, rams a ladder into her midsection, Indi fights back, but Zoey kicks her in the head, hits a springboard corkscrew splash onto her on the ladder, and connects with the 360 GTS! Zoey gets to the top of the ladder, Roxanne grabs her leg hanging by it, drops her down, blocks the finisher, and hits POP ROX! Tiffany is back in the ring, sets up a powerbomb, but Roxanne counters with a hurricanrana to send her out the ring. Roxanne climbs up the ladder, Gigi brings her down, swings her into the ladder, and hits the CRUCIFIX BOMB! Lyra is back in the ring, Gigi fights her off, Lyra dropkicks Zoey knocking her into Indi and they fall on a ladder. Lyra climbs back up, Gigi brings her down, hangs her upside-down, climbs up the other side, Lyra sets back up, but Gigi throws her back down

Gigi climbs back up the ladder, reaching to the top, and Jacy Jayne punches Gigi down falling onto a ladder bridge! The referees kick Jacy Jayne out of the arena as she taunts Gigi's misfortune and the crowd chants "You suck! You suck!" Tiffany climbs up the ladder, but Indi shoves the ladder over, and Tiffany falls onto Zoey, Lyra and Roxanne on the floor with a splat! Indi sets the ladder back up, looks up at the championship, she can't climb up due to bing hurt, and DEXTER LUMIS IS HERE!! Dexter Lumis gets under Indi as she's shocked to see him, he assits her climb up the ladder to reach her success, and INDI HARTWELL BRINGS DOWN THE NXT WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP!!! WINNER and NEW NXT WOMEN'S CHAMPION: INDI HARTWELL!!

What a heartfelt moment for Indi Hartwell finally reaching the pinnacle of the women's division! Even Roxanne Perez can't help but smile for her. As The Creed Brothers come down with Ivy Nile, we ses that Daniel Cormier is in the crowd behind the commentators.

* NXT Tag Team Championship: The Creed Brothers vs. The Family vs. Gallus {C}

Julius Creed, Tony D'Angelo, and Mark Coffey all start the match. They show respect, but then the action is all over the place. Stacks tags in, Coffey breaks a cover Julius powerslams him, D'Angelo is back in, Brutus tags in, D'Angelo suplexes Brutus, Stacks dropkicks Julius, D'Angelo delivers a twisting suplex to Julius, hiptosses Stacks into Brutus, and they hit a suplex/neckbreaker combo. The Family and Gallus fight outside the ring, both Creed Brothers hit moonsaults onto them, and they double-team on Wolfgang to drop him on the floor.

Brutus, D'Angelo and Coffey are back in the ring. Brutus powers both men, climbs to the top, comes down to a knee by Coffey, Wolfgang tags in, hits a senton to Brutus, and they hit a double full nelson. Wolfgang slams D'Angelo, covers for 1, hits a European uppercut, D'Angelo fights back, they both drop to a knee, Brutus tags out, Julius hits belly-to-belly suplexes to Coffey, D'Angelo, Wolfgang, and Coffey again. Stacks gets the tag, clotheslines Julius, springboard forearm to Julius, double stomps to Coffey's back, runs through Wolfgang, throws Brutus into the steel steps, and hits a diving crossbody to Julius for 2. Coffey picks up Stacks in the electric chair, Julius picks up Coffey into the powerbomb position, and Brutus hits a BRUTUS BALL ONTO THE TOTEM TOWER OF MEN!

Wolfgang shoves Brutus into the ringpost, Julius clotheslines Wolfgang, picks up Stacks (it looks like Coffey is injured) and D'Angelo attacks him from behind then hits the spinning fisherman's suplex. Stacks hits a diving splash onto Julius, makes the cover, and Coffey actually breaks the count! D'Angelo kicks Wolfgang out the ring, slams Coffey down, Stacks covers, and Wolfgang shoves D'Angelo onto the cover to break the count. D'Angelo clotheslines Wolfgang out the ring, The Family hit Bada-Bing Bada-Boom double-team onto Coffey, Stacks makes the cover, and JOE COFFEY makes his return by pulling Stacks out the ring!! D'Angelo sacrifices himself to save Stacks from a discus lariat by Joe Coffey. That was for naught however because Joe Coffey throws Stacks back into the ring so that Wolfgang can pick him up, Mark Coffey hits the running knee, Wolfgang slams Stacks down, and covers for the win! WINNERS and STILL NXT TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS: GALLUS!

Gallus is a complete unit once again, and it's still Gallus Boys on top! Pretty Deadly stand outside of Bron Breakker's locker room. They nearly gag at the idea of Gallus still on top of the tag division, they want to get thoughts from Breakker, but neither man can bring himself to knock on his door, so we move on. Time for a video package for Wes Lee.

* NXT North American Championship - Fatal 5-Way: Ilja Dragunov vs. Axiom vs. JD McDonagh vs. Dragon Lee vs. Wes Lee {C}

Wes Lee stands in the center of the ring, Dragunov and McDonagh can't keep their eyes off of each other, and Lee lets them go at it, but instead Dragon Lee just clocks McDonagh and they throw Dragunov out the ring. Lee plays cat-and-mouse with Axiom and Dragon Lee, the ladder gets thrown out the ring, then Wes and Axiom take each other down. Dragunov and McDonagh meet again, but Dragon Lee is back to cut them off. Dragon Lee drops McDonagh with a headscissors, hits a slingshot kick to the face, running dropkick to Dragunov, low forearms, and hesitation dropkicks to McDonagh and Dragunov. Axiom dives into the ring, squares off with Drgaon Lee, eats a dropkick, rolls out th eirng, and Dragon Lee hits a tope con hilo onto Axiom and Wes Lee.

Wes and Dragon Lee are back in the ring, they face off, Wes gets tossed onto the apron, kicks him in the head, does  a slingshot snapmare, and sends him out the ring. Wes goes up against Dragunov now, backflips into a headscissors, and hits a running knee to the chin. McDonagh side-steps Wes and gloats, but Wes recovered from his dive unbeknownst to JD, and superkicks him as he turns around. Back in the ring, Wes hits the uppercut to knock Axiom off the turnbuckles. Dragon Lee hits McDonagh with a shoulder block, McDonagh hits a back elbow, running knee to Dragunov, Axiom drops him onto the apron, JD trips him, kicks Dragonuv, trips Wes Lee, hits an Asai moonsault to Dragunov and Axiom, corkscrew splash to Wes Lee, and a standing Spanish fly (bad landing) to Dragon Lee. McDonagh finishes off with the Devil Inside to Wes Lee, makes the cover, and Dragunov stops the referee's hand from making the 3!

McDonagh eats a dropkick from Dragon Lee, Dragunov and Axiom simultaneously, then Dragunov drops him with a German suplex. Dragunoc wipes out each man, German suplex to Dragon Lee, release German suplex to Wes Lee, Axiom blocks it, Dragunov hits the Constatine Special, running knee and diving keedrop to Dragon Lee, and a hard chop to Wes Lee. Dragunov goes up top, hits the diving senton, goes back up top, McDonagh shoves him down to the ground, Axiom drops McDonagh off the top to the floor as well, and Axiom, hits the diving moonsault from the top onto both McDonagh and Dragunov! Dragon Lee goes up top, Wes Lee hits him with a gamengiri, Axiom attacks both men, they drop him and fight each other on the top, Dragon Lee has Wes in the tree of woe and stomps on his chest.

McDonagh, Dragunov and Axiom are all in the ring now, McDonagh sends Axiom into Dragunov with a hurricanrana sending him into JD with a facelock position and hits McDonagh with a neckbreaker who drops Dragunov with the DDT! Axiom hits a double northern lights suplex, rolls through to kick McDonagh in the head, Dragunov rolls him up for 2, Axiom goes for the submission, McDonagh cuts him off, but Axiom is back and puts Dragunov in a double armbreaker. Dragunov grabs McDonagh in a submission of his own at the same time, Axiom applies the fujiwara armbar, then Dragunov and McDonagh headbutt each other! Axiom goes back for the submission, Dragon Lee puts McDonagh in a sleeper hold, Dragunov powerbombs Axiom onto the other two, makes the big cover, and Wes Lee breaks it up with a corkscrew senton!!

All five men are down in the ring, McDonagh is in the middle, the other four each in a corner, Wes Lee starts his backflips, but JD side-steps him and Axiom hits Wes with the Golden Ratio! Axiom and JD headbutt each other, Dragon Lee hits McDonagh with the snap German suplex followed by a clothesline, Dragunov hits a running knee to Dragon Lee and slams him down. Wes Lee breaks the count, hits a moonsault stomp with his knees, jumps off Dragunov's back for a hurricanrana, but Dragon Lee counters with a sit-down powerbomb and gets a near-fall! McDonagh slams Axiom onto Dragon Lee, hits the standing moonsault to Dragon Lee, covers, and Axiom kicks him in the head to break the count. McDonagh gets back to his feet, Axiom pops up for a springboard DDT, and covers for 1-2-KICKOUT!

"This is awesome! This is awesome!" Axiom kicks McDonagh in the back on the apron, hits a mule kick, Dragon Lee does a running hurricanrana sending McDonagh into Wes Lee on the floor, and Dragunov boots Axiom in the face. Dragunov dead-lifts Axiom from the apron into a superplex, hits a jumping forearm, covers, and the count is broken by Wes and Dragon! "Fight forever! Fight forever!" Dragunov fights both Wes and Dragon Lee, they fight back, he chops them both, they chop him back, several kicks to the head, and Dragunov hits a lariat. Dragunov hits Dragon Lee with the TORPEDO at the same time as Wes Lee hits Dragunov with the CARDIAC KICK FOR THE 1-2-3!! WINNER and STILL NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPION: WES LEE!!

Grayson Waller is ready to go in his locker room. Pretty Deadly show up outside the locker room of Carmelo Hayes and they mention that the unsanctioned match is next. They try to think of a way to knock his Carmelo's door politely, but Trick Williams shows up telling them he can hear them with his headphones on while they're trying to gameplan for tonight. Williams hypes up Carmelo as the man who is ready for Hollywood, and that's the scoop.

* Unsanctioned Match: Grayson Waller vs. Johnny Gargano

Candice LeRae and son Quill are in the front row. Gargano poses on the ropes, sees Waller with a chair and then he superkicks him to start the match! Gargano hits a suicide dive and throws him over the announce table, then clears the table, and Waller blocks the powerbomb. Waller gets in Vic Joseph's face, Gargano dives onto Waller, hits him with a monitor, throws him back into the ring, brings out a trash barrel, kendo stick, steel chair, and then hits the slingshot spear. Gargano hits him with the barrrel, clotheslines him out the ring from the Southpaw side, and Waller clocks him on the head with a weapon to block the dive.

Waller hits him with a chair, sets up several chairs at ringside, brings him onto the apron, picks him up, Gargano slips off, Gargano blocks the rolling stunner, and Waller powerbombs him into the barrel wedged in a corner. Waller sets up another powerbomb, Gargano escapes, kicks him in the head, looks back at the chairs, and suplexes him from the ring down onto the chairs!! "Holy shit! Holy shit!" Gargano brings him back into the ring, brings out a table from under the ring, sets it up at ringside, and the crowd chants "Johnny Table! Johnny Table!" Waller blocks another suplex, hits a running knee to block the slingshot spear, sets up for Sweet Chin Music, Gargano blocks it, hits a forearm, enzuigiri, Waller hits a discus forearm, Gargano hits him with a chair, bounces off the ropes and hits a modified destroyer on the floor!

Gargano lays him across the table, goes up to the top, Waller rolls off, leaps over the table for the rolling stunner, then POWERBOMBS GARGANO THROUGH THE TABLE! Waller brings him back into the ring, covers for 2, hits him in the ribs with the steel chair, then hits a sidewalk slam onto the chair. Waller hits him in the back with the kendo stick, looks over at Candice and Quill, and hits Gargano with the kendo stick in front of them. Waller taunts them as he beats him up, lays him across the steel steps, and Gargano avoids the chair shot to hit him with the kendo stick. Candice hands off her baby to a friend, hops over the barricade, and wallops Waller with a kendo stick! Waller catches the stick, Gargano hits him from behind, throws him in the ring, hits ONE FINAL BEAT, makes the cover, and gets the 1-2-KICKOUT!

Gargano locks in Gargano Escape, Waller jabs him in the eyes to take away his vision, dropkicks him in the legs, and hits the Rolling Unprettier. Waller brings in another trash barrel, places it over Gargano's head, goes up top, and hits the COAST TO COAST DROPKICK into the barrel! 1-2-NO! Waller throws him out the ring in front of the announce table, cleans it off, taunts Vic Joseph again, places Johnny on the table with a chair over him, climbs up to the top rope, but Gargano rolled off and throws the chair into his face, then POWERBOMBS WALLER THROUGH THE ANNOUNCE TABLE!! Waller screams in agony, Gargano picks him up, Waller with a low blow, hits the Rolling Stunner, and gets 2.9! The crowd starts dueling chants as Waller grabs another chair, whacks him with malice, yells in his face that he's nothing and not on his level, and Gargano gives him a low blow! Gargano whacks him on the back repeatedly, brings a second chair into the ring, hits him some more, places an open chair on his neck, whacks him with the other chair, locks in the GARGANO ESCAPE, AND WALLER TAPS!! WINNER: JOHNNY GARGANO!!

Candice LeRae celebrates with Johnny Gargano on the entranceway. Dexter Lumis and the new NXT Women's Champion Indi Hartwell come out to join the celebration!

Back in the locker room, Tony D'Angelo and Stacks try to recover from their loss wondering where Joe Coffey came from. Stacks feels bad for letting The Family down. Pretty Deadly show up to get words from them, mocking them in the process. This causes a scuffle between them and they have to be separated.

* NXT Women's Tag Team Championship: Alba Fyre & Isla Dawn vs. Fallon Henley & Kiana James {C}

Josh Briggs and Brooks Jensen accompany the champs to the ring for their big match. Fyre gets this started with a swanton off the top, and James pushes Henley out the way to take the fall! Henley attacks Fyre, and Dawn gets involved as well.

With Fallon and Isla in the ring, the match officially begins and Fallon drops her with a kick to the head, and hits a bulldog for 2. Alba tags in, trips up Henley, swings her around for a punch, knee to the neck, and covers for 2 as Kiana pulls herself up onto the apron. Isla and Alba team up for an attack, Isla puts her in a front facelock, Henley blocks a suplex, Alba tags in for a sunset flip, gets a 2-count, kicks her in the ribs, running shoulder to the midsection, Fallon gets the boot up, and hits a big punch. Alba grabs Henley's leg, but Fallon still makes the hot tag.

Kiana hops into the ring, knocks down both women, stomps Isla down in a corner, shoves Alba into a corner, throws both women out the ring, and takes them out with a diving moonsault off the apron. Kiana throws Alba back into the ring, flips over her, delivers a back suplex, covers for 2 and plants her with a spinebuster for 2. Fallon tags in, hits a swinging slam, Alba distracts the ref, Isla attacks Henley behind his back, and the challengers take control again. Fallon fights them off, hits a blockbuster to Dawn for 2, Isla slams her down, knocks Kiana off the apron, Alba tags in, they hit the tandem finisher, and James saves the match. Alba and Isla put Henley on the ropes, Kiana tags in, powerbombs Fyre after a missile dropkick from Henley, and Kiana covers for 2 as Dawn breaks the count!

Alba hits a gourdbuster, Isla tags in, hits double knee, they both superkick James, and Fallon shoves Fyre into the pile to break the count. All four women are down, Kiana hits a jawbreaker to Dawn, asks Brooks Jensen for her purse to win, he contemplates his decision as Josh Briggs tells him not to interfere, and that allows Fyre and Dawn to take over. Dawn hits the backstabber, Fyre hits the swanton, and Fyre covers for 1-2-3! WINNERS and NEW NXT WOMEN'S TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS: ALBA FYRE & ISLA DAWN!

Briggs looks on disappointed at Jensen for trying to interfere, while James and Henley recover from losing their titles. There is definite inner turmoil within this quartet.

The next premium live event will be NXT Battleground live on Sunday May 28 at 8 PM ET in Lowell, MA. Next Tuesday on NXT, Pretty Deadly will take on Tony D'Angelo and Stacks. Also, Dijak takes on Odyssey Jones one-on-one.

* NXT Championship: Carmelo Hayes vs. Bron Breakker {C}

Trick Williams is on the entranceway to introduce Carmelo Hayes. He wants everybody on their feet as names on jersey show all the men that Hayes has defeated. Hayes comes out wearing L.A. Lakers colors and he's in his zone ready to go. Bron Breakker makes his entrance next bursting out like a dog let out of the house. This is the youngest main event in WrestleMania weekend history. Alicia Taylor makes the championship match introductions. the referee shows off the title, both men are ready, the crowd is ready the bell dings, and the main event is underway!

They lock up collar-and-elbow, Breakker overpowers him, Hayes lets go, lock up again, Hayes with a rear waistlock, releases, Breakker slams him down, and they stand-off. Breakker backs him up, Hayes rolls in, leapfrogs over him, lands a dropkick, and the mind games continue. Breakker leapfrogs, hits a shoulder block, Hayes slips on the ropes, hits a jawjawbreaker, hits the springboard clothesline, but Breakker doesn't budge! Breakker shows off his skills, does a frankensteiner, gator roll, suplex, kips up, standing moonsault connects, and gets a 2-count.

The champ does another gator roll into a front facelock, Hayes gets to his feet, they roll into the middle of the ring, Breakker delivers a facelock suplex, Hayes does a drop toehold sending him into the turnbuckles, and stomps him down in a corner. Breakker misses a clothesline, Hayes connects with the springboard clothesline, covers for 2, then puts him in an armbar. Breakker counters with a roll-up for 2, Hayes sends him to a corner followed by a running chop, Breakker tries the same but Hayes avoids it. Breakker blocks an Irish whip, hiptosses him, shoulder tackle, Breakker with a tilt-a-whirl slam, and covers for 2.

Breakker puts him in his own armbar, hits forearms to the back, delivers a back suplex, picks him up for the torture rack, Trick Williams saves Hayes, so the referee EJECTS him from ringside! Breakker hits a tope con hilo onto both Hayes and Williams, brings his challenger back into the ring, goes up top, hits the diving bulldog, and covers for a near-fall. Hayes blocks a suplex, hits a tilt-a-whirl facebuster, does a suplex cutter, and covers for 2. Hayes goes up top, Breakker moves out the way, Hayes hits a pump kick, suplexes him into the ring from the apron bouncing the ropes, goes up top, and Breakker leaps up for a super frankensteiner!

Both men lean against opposite ropes, they pull themselves back up, start trading punches to "boo" and "yay" from the crowd, both men counter each other, Breakker powerbombs him, Hayes quickly goes for the crossface, Breakker counters with a cover for 2, hits the SPEAR and takes out the referee at the same time who was behind Hayes! Breakker applies the Steiner Recliner, but the referee is not there, so Trick Williams hits Breakker in the back with the NXT Championship!! Williams gets rid of the evidence, drags Hayes across Breakker, slips back out the ring, the referee comes to, and counts the 1... 2... NO! Hayes can't believe it! Breakker with the military press, Hayes counters with the codebreaker, goes up top, and hits NOTHIN' BUT YET FOR 1-2-3!!! WINNER and NEW NXT CHAMPION: CARMELO HAYES!!!!

MELO DON'T MISS!! Bron Breakker takes the NXT Championship from the referee, Trick Williams backs off with fear, Hayes looks on with trepidation, the new and former champions salute each other, and Breakker hands over the NXT Championship to pass the torch with respect to Hayes. Congratulations to the new NXT Champion!