This week's edition of NXT 2.0 featured all the fallout from last week's Halloween Havoc, which was NXT 2.0's best show yet (pretty low bar though).
Loser: 20 Minutes Until A Match
This week's show kicked off with a Mandy Rose promo, followed by a bunch of other stuff. It was over 20 minutes before a match took place. We're not saying that every single show has to open with a match, but it would be nice to change it up once in a while. It feels like every WWE show kicks off with a promo.
Sidenote: Promos are not one of Mandy's strengths, but they put a mic in her hand every week for some reason.
Loser: Xyon Quinn Does Karaoke
At Lash Legend's Halloween Havoc party last week, rising Aussie superstar Xyon Quinn put Robert Stone through a table. Stone was wearing an Elvis costume, and the whole thing was kinda fun. It didn't really need a follow-up, though.
Over the last few weeks, Xyon Quinn has been presented as a formidable, unstoppable beast. He hasn't said much, but he doesn't need to say much. He has a great look, and his ring work has been solid (although none of his matches have lasted very long). Anyway, he was being booked well and taken seriously ... until tonight when he participated in a weird karaoke/Dirty Dancing thing with Robert Stone. To be fair it was pretty funny and the dancing move dodge thing was cool, but did it have to Quinn?! It felt like an unused Fandango segment.
Winner: Bron Breakker
Bron Breakker bounced back from his loss to Tommaso Ciampa last week by scoring a win over Andre Chase this week. After the bell, Breakker got on the mic and conceded that Ciampa is NXT's number one guy before adding that losing really pissed him off and he intends to beat Ciampa for the gold eventually.
Breakker is still the heir apparent, and rightly so
Winner: Tony D'Angelo
Mobster Tony D'Angelo finally appeared on Lashing Out With Lash Legend and of course, it was the best edition of Lashing Out to date. It's hokey as hell, but he's absolutely nailing it. A big problem with NXT right now is how green and uncomfortable some of its talent seem to be on camera, but D'Angelo hits it out of the park every week. It's a goofy schtick, but he's making it work.
Full Results And Noteworthy Moments
- New NXT Women's Champion Mandy Rose opened the show with a promo in which she bragged and commemorated the start of her reign
- Mandy called for her Toxic Attraction teammates Gigi Dolin and Jacy Jane but the camera cut to the locker room area where the pair were attacking Zoey Stark
- Back in the ring, Mandy Rose was interrupted by Io Shirai, who demanded a match. Mandy called for a ref and then immediately but blindsided Io. The two women fought and Io gained the upper hand. Dolin and Jane appeared to assist Rose, but Kacy Catanzaro and Kayden Carter arrived to even the score. Shirai, Catanzaro, and Carter cleared the ring, and Toxic Attraction fled
- Toxic Attraction encountered Dakota Kai backstage, Kai told Mandy that she didn't interfere in the Halloween Havoc NXT women's title match to help Mandy win but to end Raquel
- Cameron Grimes played poker with Duke Hudson
- Dakota Kai def. Cora Jade via pinfall with a big kick
- After her win, Dakota Kai beat up Jade some more and dragged her to the bottom of the ramp where she placed the table on top of Jade's unconscious body. Kai claimed onto the apron to leap onto the table but had second thoughts and made her way backstage
- In a pretaped on-location video, MSK sat at a bus stop rued their title defeat at Halloween Havoc. Nash explained to Wes what MSK stands for but a bus went past and rendered the explanation inaudible
- Robert Stone confronted Xyon Quinn and did a silly dance. Quinn did some karaoke to HBK's entrance music as Stone tried to attack him. Quinn beat Stone up
- Xyon Quinn def. Robert Stone via pinfall with a Jackhammer
- In a pretaped vignette, Joe Gacy chastised social media and said that he and Harland are going to change the world together
- Elektra Lopez complimented Xyon Quinn backstage
- Legado Del Fantasma (Joaquin Wilde & Raul Medoza) def. Kyle O'Reilly & Von Wagner via pinfall after Wilde pinned Wagner with a schoolboy following a mistake from the referee
- Back in Duke's Poker Room, Husdon became fed up with the beginner's luck of Cameron Grimes
- Andre Chase cut an angry promo in the ring after being called a coward for his behavior in the haunted house last week. He issued an open challenge which was answered by Bron Breakker
- Bron Breakker def. Andre Chase via pinfall with
- After his win, Breakker cut a promo in which he acknowledged that Tommaso Ciampa is the man in NXT but said that he would beat Ciampa someday
- While being interviewed backstage, Imperium (Fabian Aichner & Marcel Barthel) were interrupted by Toxic Attraction's Jacy Jane and Gigi Dolin, the four tag champs kinda flirted with each other, or something. It was weird
- The Tony D'Angelo/Producer saga continued on this week's episode of Lashing Out With Lash Legend
- Solo Sikoa def. Jeet Rama via pinfall with a top rope splash
- Boa def. Grayson Waller via pinfall following a distraction from LA Knight
- Cameron Grimes defeated Duke Hudson at poker, much to Hudson's chagrin
- NXT Champion Tommaso Ciampa cut a promo in the ring in which he declared himself the "god of NXT"
- NXT North American Champion Carmelo Hayes and his hype man Trick Williams interrupted and confronted Ciampa
- Hayes and Williams insulted Ciampa and Ciampa laid Williams out before making his way back up the ramp
- As Ciampa was going up the ramp, Gargano was coming down it, making his way to the ring for the main event. Ciampa and Gargano acknowledged each other on the ramp
- Carmelo Hayes & Trick Williams def. Johnny Gargano & Dexter Lumis via pinfall after Hayed hit Lumis with a guillotine leg drop