WWE NXT Notes: Bloodline & TNA’s Hammerstone Surprise Appearances, Giulia Wins NXT Debut Match, Tavion Heights Surprise Return, Wes Lee Challenges Wentz to Street Fight, NXT Title & NXT Women’s Title Matches Set for 10/1 Show

The Bloodline Makes Surprise Appearance on Tuesday’s NXT Show

Tuesday’s WWE NXT show featured The Bloodline making a surprise appearance.

Near the end of the NXT Tag Team Championship match between The Street Profits and Axiom & Nathan Frazer, The Street Profits hit their double team Blockbuster to Frazer and Montez Ford went for a near fall. This led to The Bloodline’s Tama Tonga running out and grabbed Ford’s leg yanking him out of the ring and tossed him into the steps leading to the referee calling for the bell.

Following the match, The Bloodline’s Jacob Fatu & Tonga Loa also ran out and joined in on the attack resulting in them laying out the Street Profits, Axiom, and Frazer.


Guilia Wins NXT In-Ring Debut Match on Tuesday’s NXT Show

Tuesday’s WWE NXT show also featured Giulia winning her first match of her WWE NXT career.

This was Giulia official in-ring debut for WWE’s NXT brand and defeated Chelsea Green in a singles match on the show.


Tavion Heights Makes Surprise Return

Tuesday’s WWE NXT show also featured Tavion Heights making his surprise return to NXT.

During the NXT Heritage Cup Championship match between Je’Von Evans and Charlie Dempsey, No Quarter Catch Crew’s Myles Borne interfered near the end leading to the referee admonishing Borne and Cedric Alexander running into the ring and leaped over the referee onto Borne. Dempsey attempted to hit a release German Suplex to Evans who countered by landing on his feet and sent Dempsey over the ropes. Evans followed it with a dive to the outside that almost completely missed Dempsey and Evans landing face first onto the floor. Evans managed to recover and sent Dempsey back into the ring only to be attacked from behind by Heights who ran out from the crowd. Heights hit a belly-to-belly suplex to Evans on the outside and tossed him back into the ring leading to Dempsey covering Evans for the pinfall victory to retain his title.

This was Heights’ first appearance in NXT since this past July. Heights had been away from WWE and worked in Japan for this year’s N-1 Victory tournament for Pro Wrestling NOAH.


Hammerstone Makes Surprise Appearance on Tuesday’s NXT Show

Tuesday’s WWE NXT show also featured TNA Wrestling talent Hammerstone making a surprise appearance in NXT.

During the show, a video aired featuring Tony D’Angelo paying off a mysterious person to take out Oba Femi for Femi’s open challenge match on the show.

Later in the show, Femi came out first for his open challenge and after a brief delay, Hammerstone’s music played and came out revealing he was the mysterious person and accepted Femi’s challenge.

This was Hammerstone’s debut appearance in WWE’s NXT brand.


Two New Matches Announced & One New Potential Match for October 1st NXT Show

Tuesday’s WWE NXT show also featured two new matches announced and one new potential match for the card of NXT’s premiere show on The CW on October 1st at the Allstate Arena in Chicago, Illinois.

In regards to the new matches, the first new match announced was a NXT Women’s Championship match of Giulia vs. Roxanne Perez (c).

This match was initially setup following Giulia’s challenge to Perez for her title on last week’s show. During tonight’s show, NXT General Manager Ava, Giulia, and Funaki were all seen backstage in Ava’s office. Ava congratulated Giulia on her in-ring debut victory and Funaki translated it to Japanese to Giulia. This led to Perez showing up to interrupt and after some complaining over Giulia getting to jump the line and just being given a title shot out of the gate, Ava responded for her to save it for Chicago.

The second new match announced was a NXT Championship match of Trick Williams vs. Ethan Page (c).

This match was setup following Williams defeating Pete Dunne in a Last Man Standing match to become the new #1 Contender for the NXT title.

In regards to the potential new match, this potential match is a Street Fight match of Wes Lee vs. Zachary Wentz.

This match was setup following recent weeks of bad blood issues between Wentz and Lee. During tonight’s show, Lee came out to ringside and issued a challenge to Wentz for a Street Fight in Chicago and promised he will end it there.

Current card for October 1st WWE NXT show:

  • NXT Championship – Trick Williams vs. “All Ego” Ethan Page (c)
  • NXT Women’s Championship – Giulia vs. Roxanne Perez (c)
  • WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Bianca Belair & Jade Cargill to appear
  • The Miz to host special edition of Miz TV