WWE NXT Notes: Street Fight Match & CM Punk as Special Guest Ref for NXT Title Set for 10/1 Show, Sexyy Red Appearance, Orton vs. Je’Von Evans, & NXT Tag Titles Matches Set for 10/8 Show, Zachary Wentz Reveals Wes Lee Injured Trey Miguel, 9/24 Card

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Sep 17, 2024

Wes Lee vs. Zachary Wentz Street Fight Match Announced for October 1st NXT Show

Tuesday’s WWE NXT show featured one new match announced for the card of NXT’s premiere show on The CW on October 1st in Chicago, Illinois.

This new match announced was a Street Fight match of Wes Lee vs. Zachary Wentz.

This match was initially setup durign last week’s show following Lee issuing a challenge to Wentz for a Street Fight match and Wentz accepting on social media. During the start of tonight’s show, NXT General Manager Ava was seen in the ring for the NXT Championship match contract signing segment. While running down the cards and announcements for NXT’s first two shows on The CW, Ava confirmed that Lee and Wentz will be competing in a Street Fight match on the October 1st show.

Sexyy Red Return Appearance Announced for October 8th NXT Show

Tuesday’s NXT show also featured the announcement of rapper Sexyy Red making a return appearance at the October 8th NXT show in Chesterfield, Missouri.

At the start of the show, NXT GM Ava ran down the cards and announcements for NXT’s upcoming first two shows on The CW network. Among the announcements included Sexyy Red will be making a return appearance to NXT on the October 8th NXT show. This will be Red’s first appearance in NXT since the May 28th show.

Randy Orton vs. Je’Von Evans Match Announced for October 8th NXT Show

Tuesday’s NXT show also featured the first of two new matches announced for the card of NXT’s October 8th show in Chesterfield, Missouri.

This new match announced was a singles match of Randy Orton vs. Je’Von Evans.

At the start of the show, NXT GM Ava ran down the cards and announcements for NXT’s upcoming first two shows on The CW network. Among the announcements also included the announcement of Orton will be competing in a match in NXT on the October 8th show. Orton’s opponent for this upcoming match was not revealed.

In a follow-up segment, Ava was seen backstage with Mr. Stone & Stevie Turner talking about how she will get the match contract for the NXT Championship match between Trick Williams and Ethan Page signed by the end of tonight. Evans & Cedric Alexander showed up to interrupt and Evans asked for a match at NXT’s show on October 8th. Ava responded back stating that she would consider it.

In another follow-up segment, a video aired of Orton’s tweet stating that he needed an opponent for his match on October 8th and revealed Evans would be his opponent. This match was made official for the show.

Zachary Wentz Reveals Wes Lee Attack on Trey Miguel Being Reason for The Rascalz NXT Title Match Being Pulled

As noted before, The Rascalz were pulled from their scheduled match for the NXT Tag Team Championship for last week’s NXT show due to “somewhat conspicuous circumstances” resulting in them not being cleared to compete. The real reason was due to Trey Miguel had underwent an unexpected minor surgery on September 8th.

During the show, an angry Zachary Wentz came out to the ring and talked about The Rascalz not being able to compete for the NXT Tag titles on last week’s show. Wentz stated that he had something to show and told the production crew to air the video on the big screen. This led to security footage of Miguel walking up to his car in the parking lot in Dayton, Ohio but before he was able to get into the car and leave, Lee was seen running towards the car and attacked Miguel before running away.

After the video ended, Wentz stated that he does not know how long Trey will be out and called Lee an absolute piece of garbage for what he did. Wentz stated that Lee can’t deal with them moving on and claimed Lee was still bitter that he beat him at No Mercy. Wentz then stated that if Lee thought losing at No Mercy was embarrassing, what he will put you though in Chicago will be ten times worse. Wentz stated that it ends in Chicago.

A-Town Down Under vs. Axiom & Nathan Frazer for NXT Tag Titles Announced for October 8th NXT Show

Tuesday’s NXT show also featured the second of two new matches announced for the card of NXT’s October 8th show at The Factory At The District in Chesterfield, Missouri.

This new match announced was a NXT Tag Team Championship match of A-Town Down Under (Austin Theory & Grayson Waller) vs. Axiom & Nathan Frazer (c).

This match was setup following a video airing of A-Town Down Under challenging Axiom & Frazer for their NXT Tag titles and announced that they will be making an appearance at next week’s NXT show.

In a follow-up, a video aired of Axiom & Frazer’s tweet accepting the challenge and this match being made official for the show.

Current card for October 8th WWE NXT Show:

  • NXT Tag Team Championship – A-Town Down Under (Austin Theory & Grayson Waller) vs. Axiom & Nathan Frazer (c)
  • Randy Orton vs. Je’Von Evans

Special Guest Referee for NXT Championship Match Announced for October 1st NXT Show

Tuesday’s NXT show also featured one newly updated match for the card of WWE’s NXT show on October 1st at the Allstate Arena in Chicago, Illinois.

This newly updated match was a NXT Championship Special Guest Referee match of Trick Williams vs. “All Ego” Ethan Page (c). It was announced that CM Punk will be the special guest referee.

This newly updated match was setup following an in-ring promo segment involving Williams, Page, and CM Punk. Earlier in the show, NXT GM Ava attempted to get Williams and Page to sign their match contract for the NXT title only for neither to do so at the time.

In a follow-up segment, Indiana Pacers Tyrese Haliburton, who was a special guest on the show, told Ava that he would fix the issue and get Williams and Page to sign the contract tonight.

In another follow-up segment, Haliburton was seen in the ring holding the NXT Championship match contract. After some words, Haliburton called for Williams to come out to the ring, which he did. After some insults by Williams directed towards Page, Williams signed the contract as Haliburton called for Page to come out to the ring now, which Page did. Page responded to Williams’ comments with his own insults directed towards Williams and Haliburton before also signing the contract making their match official. This led to Haliburton saying that his job was done and started to leave the ring only to stop and stated he forgot something. Haliburton stated “hit the music” which led to CM Punk’s music playing.

Punk came out to the ring and brought up how his big announcement earlier in the show was interrupted by Roxanne Perez. Punk stated that he came out to reveal that his announcement was him being the special guest referee for the NXT Championship match between Williams and Page on the October 1st show. Punk stated that the only rule is they have to listen to the referee and he says they can start fighting now. This led to Williams and Page engaging in a brawl that was broken up after NXT officials ran out to separate the two as the show went to a close.

Current card for October 1st WWE NXT show:

  • NXT Championship Special Guest Referee match – Trick Williams vs. “All Ego” Ethan Page (c), with special guest referee CM Punk
  • NXT Women’s Championship – Giulia vs. Roxanne Perez (c)
  • Street Fight match – Wes Lee vs. Zachary Wentz
  • WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Bianca Belair & Jade Cargill to appear
  • The Miz to host special edition of Miz TV

Current Card for Next Week’s NXT Show

Tuesday’s WWE NXT show also featured new matches announced for the card of next week’s show.

These matches were all setup following promos, storyline angles, and match card graphics throughout the show

Current card for September 24th WWE NXT show:

  • NXT Women’s North American Championship – Wren Sinclair vs. Kelani Jordan (c)
  • Ridge Holland vs. Riley Osborne
  • NXT press conference
  • The Grayson Waller Effect with guests Axiom & Nathan Frazer
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