NXTUK TV | "THE HERITAGE CUP BEGINS" | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1ST 2020

 

At the start of the show Andy and Nigel give us the breaking news - owing to the attack by Kay Lee Ray last week Piper Niven hasn't been cleared to compete for the NXTUK Women's Championship tonight. 

En queue that brings the champ out to gloat.  She reminds us that Piper Niven is unworthy of a Championship moment and she'll never get one as long as she can help it.  Xia Brookside comes out and defends her friend's honour guaranteeing Piper Niven will come back better than ever.  Xia throws down a challenge to the Champ there and then.  Kay Lee accepts and is met with a Dropkick by Brookside in response.  The bell sounds seconds later and we're off!

1. KAY LEE RAY VS XIA BROOKSIDE

Brookside has Kay Lee on the ropes in this short, scrappy affair, with three near falls on the champ.  Kay Lee stops Brookside's momentum with a Big Boot as Brookside comes off the top.  Soon after Kay drops Brookside with a Gory Bomb for the win.  Kay Lee leans into Brookside and tells Brookside to pass a message onto Piper Niven "don't come back!" before grabbing the NXTUK Women's title and leaving the ring.  An unexpected start to tonight's NXTUK.

2. HERITAGE CUP | JOSEPH CONNERS VS FLASH MORGAN WEBSTER

The first Heritage Cup Tournament Match gets underway. The first shot was fired last week when Conners cost SWSC a tag team match, so the tension is already mounting between these two.

Webster gets the first pinfall off a Reverse Hurricanrana.  Connors evens it up with Righteous Kill.  It looks like Webster's going to win a third fall with a 450 but Connors gets the knees up as Morgan lands.  He hooks in an Inside Cradle with a handful of tights to get the win and move onto the next round.  Conners stomps up the ramp shouting down the camera that he's going to do whatever it takes to be the best.

Noam Dar is on the phone backstage, desperately ringing his "Dirt Sheet" contacts trying to find out who his mystery opponent in the Heritage Cup is.  He's whittled it down to Giant Haystacks, Kurt Angle or maybe Bob Backlund.  Dar's tournament match is next week, so we'll find out then!

We have interviews backstage with Alexander Wolf and Trent Seven about the Heritage Cup.  Wolfe says he will prove that the mat is sacred and belongs to Imperium.  Seven wants to prove that he's not just "shoots and giggles" and the Joker of the pack is the wild card!  They'll face each other in the main event tonight.

3. PRETTY DEADLY UPSET THE TAG TEAMS

Pretty Deadly make their way to the ring to talk about Tag Team Turmoil next week.  Sam Stoker and Lewis Howley say nobody thinks they can win next week, despite the fact they're the hottest team in NXTUK.  They flash up pictures of Ashton Smith and Oliver Carter (their heads super-imposed on the Cool Runnings poster) The Hunt (Boar and Primate's faces superimposed on a Pig and a Money respectively) and Amir Jordan and Kenny Williams (they just flash up a picture of them dancing, saying they look stupid enough).

This brings out Amir Jordan and Kenny Williams, who attack Stoker and Howley, dropping them with Satellite DDTs and Rolling Neckbreakers before leaving the ring.  Pretty Deadly get to their feet and Ashton Smith and Oliver Carter stride out and flatten both guys with Stereo Cool Runnings Knee Strikes and leave.  

Pretty Deadly slowly get to their feet when The Hunt sprint to the ring and leave Pretty Deadly in the dust with Spears.  It's been a rough night for Stoker and Howley of Pretty Deadly!

We get footage from earlier today at the UK Performance Center where four students (two male, two female) are training in the ring. Saxon Huxley enters the room and offers the seeds of tomorrow the chance to grow in his paradise.  The four unnamed students, after hearing his speech, follow him out of the ring.  Huxley has been clearly building some sort of commune lately.

4. AIOFE VALKYRIE VS AMALE

Valkyrie has been a talking point in NXTUK since its return, many believing she could be the future of the brand.  It was a strong effort by Amale but Valkyrie picked up the win with a Top Rope Legdrop.  After the match as Valkyrie is celebrating a photographer comes to ringside wearing a JINNY T-Shirt and snaps photos of Aoife whilst she celebrates.  Aoife looks confused, but before she knows whats happenning the photographer is gone.  Andy and Nigel say that it wasn't a registered photographer and they don't know how they got into the building.

We get a recap of last week's NXTUK Championship Match between WALTER and Dragunov.  It was an attack from Alexander Wolfe that lead to a disqualification win for Dragunov, but that meant no title changed hands. 

After the video we go backstage where WALTER is stood with Alexander Wolfe.  WALTER says he doesn't care what Dragunov has to say, he is looking past him.  He says tonight Alexander Wolfe will out-wrestle Trent Seven and move on to hold the Heritage Cup with the pride of IMPERIUM.  With that Sympthony No. 9 hits and Wolfe heads out to the ring for the main event.

5. HERITAGE CUP | TRENT SEVEN VS ALEXANDER WOLFE

Seven is impressive with his mat wrestling to start, showing shades of Les Kellett strength and silliness against Wolfe.  Wolfe however is able to reverse a a DDT attempt with a Leglock in the centre of the ring.  Seven quickly taps out, as to force a break and not do any more damage to his leg.  Wolfe works over the leg during the second fall.  He goes for a Figure Four but Seven turns it into a Small Package to tie the match.  Both men kick it into high gear for the second fall.  Trent goes for the Burning Hammer but Wolfe slides out and pushes Trent into the referee, knocking him out.  WALTER marches from the back towards the ring but is cut off by Ilya Dragunov. The two start fighting outside the ring, leaving Wolfe distracted long enough to get blasted with a Burning Hammer.  The ref, now back in the land of the living, counts the three and awards Trent Seven the victory!  Dragunov and WALTER fight out of sight a Seven stands talls to end the night.