- The Bollywood Boyz vs The Authors of Pain-My picks to win the whole Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic kick off this week's show against the Bollywood Boyz, who both competed in the Cruiserweight Classic. Rezar and Harv Shira start off, with Rezar quickly manhandling Harv and bringing him back to his corner. The Authors beat down Harv until Harv hits a jawbreaker on Akam and tags in his brother Gurv Shira. He is immediately clotheslined by Akam. The Authors quickly hit the Russian leg sweep/lariat combo, which is now called "The Last Chapter", for the win.
- We get another vignette for Dan Matha, who debuts tonight. He looks like an absolute beast...and looks like Simon Miller from WhatCulture.
- Rich Swann vs Patrick Cla...
- Uhh...what? What happened to the America tights? Why does he look like Prince now? What is going on? Anyways, I get a major Orlando Jordan in TNA vibe from this gimmick and we all know how poorly that turned out. Oh, and Rich Swann's face when this is going on:
- Priceless. Swann is MAJOR over with the crowd, as the crowd sings his awesome entrance music before the match starts. The two go back and forth before Swann hits a dropkick, only for Clark to respond with a big spinebuster for a near fall. Clark goes to work on Swann before Swann fights back with a spin kick to the gut followed by a high kick in the corner. Swann hits the Rich Kick before hitting a handspring moonsault for the win. Fine little match.
- Peyton Royce vs Danielle Kamela-Kamela gets some offense in early on, hitting a crossbody for a one and a dropkick, but Royce cuts her off with a spinning heel kick for a near fall. Royce works over Kamela, locking in a rear chin lock for a long time. Kamela fights back but after a series of reversals, Royce hits a running knee followed by a snap fisherman suplex for the win. Nothing match, but I'm glad Peyton Royce finally got a win in NXT.
- Backstage, Bobby Roode & Tye Dillinger get interviewed. Dillinger starts to talk, but Roode cuts him off and says that next they prove they're the team to beat and that Dillinger is taking the next step in his career by teaming with Roode. Dillinger says that Dusty Rhodes meant the world to him as Bobby Roode (for zero reason whatsoever) starts posing behind him:
- Roode asks Dillinger if he can feel how GLORIOUS it will be when they are victorious, but Dillinger just shrugs it off. They are asked about their opponents next week, SAnitY (that's how it's written on WWE.com), but Roode shrugs them off by saying that people should be talking about "Glorious 10." Roode says he's expecting big things from Dillinger next week before leaving and taking Dillinger with him.
- Dan Matha vs nobody. Samoa Joe comes down and beats down Matha. Joe takes the mic and simply says "TICK, TOCK, TICK, TOCK." Joe boots Matha from the ring before asking who will be next to get their head rocked. Joe says he took out William Regal's new golden boy, blue chip prospect, and says the future of NXT will suffer unless he either gets to face Nakamura or gets the NXT Championship back. As he walks off, Joe says Regal has one more week or he "escalates things."
- Backstage, No Way Jose & Rich Swann get interviewed. Jose says they decided to team up because Swann knows about going through hard times and he's still one of the best. Swann says that people take Jose lightly, but he's got Dominican fire. Both of them sing their entrance themes and dance off.
- SAnitY debuts next week against Glorious 10.
- Andrade "Cien" Almas & Cedric Alexander vs The Revival-Wilder & Alexander start off, only for Wilder to quickly tag in Dawson. Dawson knocks Alexander down twice before Alexander backflips into headscissors and arm drags Dawson. Wilder comes in to get arm dragged to before the Revival try to bring Almas into the ring. Almas reverses a double hip toss over the ropes into an arm drag on Dawson and a headscissor takedown on Wilder before Alexander & Almas dropkick The Revival out of the ring. After recuperating on the outside, The Revival try to sneak attack Alexander by making a tag outside the ring and sending Wilder in while Dawson is the legal man, but Alexander counters the sneak attack and brings Dawson to his corner. Almas & Alexander hit a double hip toss followed by a double dropkick for a near fall. Almas locks in an arm bar on Dawson, but Wilder distracts him by pulling his tights, allowing Dawson to take control. The Revival go to work, beating down Almas until Alexander makes a blind tag, allowing him & Almas to hit a double backbody drop on Dawson before clotheslining him out of the ring and Alexander backbody dropping Wilder out onto him. The Revival walk all the way to the other side of ringside, where Almas fakes a suicide dive, only for Alexander to hit somersault tope over him on the Revival. Almas works on Dawson until Dawson tags out to Wilder on a roll up attempt by Almas, allowing Wilder to slam his left arm into the mat. The Revival continues to work on Almas' left arm before the commercial break. We come back to see Dawson hit a wristlock Northern Lights suplex on Almas for a near fall. The Revival continue to work over Almas. Almas blocks a suplex and gets a visual three on a schoolboy attempt, but Wilder distracts the referee, allowing Dawson to kick out in time. Almas gets his foot up for Wilder on a diving nothing, but Wilder catches it and flips him up. Almas hits an enziguri and finally makes the hot tag to Alexander. Alexander runs wild, hitting a handspring enziguri on Dawson, but Wilder breaks up the fall. Almas saves Alexander on a double suplex and Alexander almost get the win off a jackknife cover on Dawson. Wilder yanks Almas off the ring apron, preventing Alexander from making the tag before the Revival hit the Shatter Machine for the win. Really good match, both teams did great. After the match, Almas turns on Alexander and beats him down before throwing him face first into the ring steps. Good, Almas needed to do something different because he was just not getting over. Hopefully, his heel run goes over better.
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