NXT Review: 10/11
Grayson Waller Starts the Show, EK Prosper VS Kam Hendrix
After a recap of last week’s big-time NXT, this week’s edition of NXT kicked off with CM Punk’s music hitting, only for Grayson Waller to make his way down to the ring! This was a great bit of Heel work, particularly as some members of the NXT Universe genuinely thought that Punk was coming! Grayson continues to go on about how historic his current run as NXT Champion is, with The Arrogant Aussie finally making the NXT Title relevant again! Waller still believes that there is no man on this roster who can take the NXT Championship from him, which I still believe is hinting at an eventual Leon Slater debut! Anyway, Shiloh Hill would interrupt the Champion, reminding Waller that he did, in fact, come up to Grayson the day after his initial pipebomb, with Shiloh feeling like he’s proven himself after appearing at NXT every day, including every house show! Whilst Waller clearly did respect Hill in a way that he perhaps hasn’t with anybody else, Grayson still believes that Shiloh isn’t ready! Then, in a big surprise, Mason Rook attacked Grayson Waller from behind, with Rook making his return to NXT to floor The Arrogant Aussie! Having Mason Rook back is a good thing; he was starting to gain momentum before the injury, so I’m hoping that he’s back for good now!
Grade: B-
John Cena officially invited both Noam Dar and Romeo Moreno to enter the John Cena Classic on December 14th, a move that left The Vanity Project completely irate! After promos from both men, it was time for the opening match of the night as EK Prosper looked to get revenge on Kam Hendrix! A couple of weeks ago, Kam Hendrix screwed EK Prosper out of winning the NXT North American Championship, with Prosper getting a modicum of revenge at Halloween Havoc (in one of Danhausen’s haunted rooms)! I have to say, this was a really good match! We know how good EK is; he’s shown that throughout 2026, but I do feel like this was easily the best performance of Hendrix’s career to date! Kam looked far better here than he has any other time I’ve watched him, with both guys going back-and-forth in a match that had a good pace to it! Eventually, EK Prosper would score the win with his insane Moonsault, as he looks to get back into Title contention, and yeah, this was promising!
Grade: B
Izzi Dame VS Wren Sinclair, Kelani Jordan Gets Interrupted
Tony D’Angelo was still standing over the same bridge as last week, with Myles Borne clearly finding his location pretty easily, before The Vanity Project attacked Noam Dar and Romeo Moreno in the warehouse! Before we could get into that any further, it was time for another match as Wren Sinclair was looking to bounce back from Halloween Havoc with a win over Izzi Dame! This was another match that I thought was good; Wren is continuously great, a standout in a stacked Women’s Division, whilst this was exactly the type of match that I was talking about when it came to Izzi Dame a few weeks ago! Put Dame against good in-ring performers, and she looks the part, too! I wasn’t 100% sure which way this match was going to go, with it simply depending on whether Zaria would get involved or not! Rather impressively, Izzi Dame would just win this match clean, with her offense on Wren eventually coming too much for Sinclair, with Dame scoring the win with a Running Knee! After the match was over, Zaria attacked Izzi from behind, with that feud far from over!
Grade: B-
Kelani Jordan was over the moon with John Cena inviting her to John Cena Classic, whilst Zilla Fatu also has high hopes for the invitational, even though he does still have his eyes set firmly on the NXT Championship! Speaking of Championships, the current NXT Women’s Champion, Kelani Jordan, made her way down to the ring to bask in her glory, stating that it was always going to be her who beat Paige, whilst it was also always going to be her when it comes to being picked for the John Cena Classic! Because of her brilliant run, Kelani believes that she deserves a break for a while, with Jordan telling everyone that she’d see them again on December 14th in Disney World! This would then bring out Kendal Grey to interrupt, with the former Champion stating that she is officially back and gunning for the NXT Women’s Title! Kendal believes that she deserves a rematch, something Lani didn’t agree with, so it was up to Mr. Stone to make the match for next week! There was a line in here where Kendal basically diminished the talent of her best friend Wren Sinclair, so I’d keep an eye on that!
Grade: C+
Chantel Monroe VS Lizzy Rain, The Vanity Project VS ?: NXT Tag Team Championships
Tony D’Angelo pulled up to the NXT Performance Center, with Myles Borne also there, before a doctor confirmed that Noam Dar and Romeo Moreno are no longer able to compete tonight! The Vanity Project were over the moon about this, but Mr. Stone made it clear that he’d find them new challengers later tonight! Before then, Lizzy Rain was looking to right some wrongs when she went one-on-one with Chantel Monroe! These two fought each other a few weeks ago in Chantel’s NXT in-ring debut, with Monroe scoring the win after using the rope as an assist! In this match, Monroe would try that again, only to get caught this time, with Lizzy fighting back before she eventually hit her finisher to score the win! I’m guessing that we’ll get a decider between the two, although, by the way the commentary team were talking, it seems like Lizzy Rain is moving on to fighting for Championships!
Grade: C+
Mason Rook has a very keen interest in what Zilla Fatu is going to say tonight, whilst Kam Hendrix was trash-talking Tony D’Angelo in the Men’s Locker Room! Hendrix would then start a brawl with D’Angelo, with Myles Borne once again watching on! I guess Borne-D’Angelo could work as a feud, but when is enough enough for Tony in NXT?! It was then time for the Main Event match of the night as The Vanity Project were forced to defend their NXT Tag Team Championships against a mystery team! That team was revealed to be Hank and Tank, with the Runners-Up in the 2026 NXT Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic getting the jump from behind early! What we then got was a pretty good match, perhaps even great, between two really good teams! The way that NXT structures its Tag Team matches is so much better than the Main Roster, with Hank and Tank having a strong history of entertaining matches, whilst The Vanity Project are just wonderful! In a match that could’ve gone either way, after multiple great sequences, Noam Dar and Romeo Moreno would appear at ringside, with this opening the door for Myka Lockwood to interfere behind the referee’s back, as The Vanity Project were able to sneak away “and still”! A potential Triple Threat TLC Match incoming?!
Grade: B+
Zilla Fatu Closes the Show
After Sean Legacy, Saquon Shugars, and Tristan Angels all got into a verbal exchange, and Chantel Monroe took shots at Thea Hail’s ongoing alopecia, the closing segment on this week’s edition of NXT saw Zilla Fatu cut a promo about how he’s setting his sights on the NXT Championship! Before Zilla could say anything else, DarkState appeared, with Fatu clearly their next target! I did enjoy Zilla’s line about Cruz Montana not only beating Lennox, but also joining the group that stole his catchphrase, whilst BirthRight would then interrupt as Lexis King doesn’t believe that DarkState are relevant anymore! Both of these factions believe that they run NXT, which created a very intriguing storyline when Los Perros del Mal made a shock appearance, with the current AAA World Trios Champions joining in the brawl to close the show! It’s faction warfare across WWE right now, but where does this leave Fatu?
Comments