Tonight on NXT - Tavion Heights collides with Eli Knight & Lexis King battles Andre Chase to kick off the Men's Speed Tournament, Chelsea Green puts her WWE Women's United States Championship on the line against Sol Ruca, Shiloh Hill & Skylar Rae look to silence Stacks & Arianna Grace, Lola Vice & Izzi Dame go at it, and more!
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Thea Hail, Ricky Saints, Je'Von Evans, Chelsea Green, Alba Fyre & Ethan Page, Sol Ruca & Zaria are all shown arriving to NXT.
Match 1: Lola Vice -vs- Izzi Dame w/Shawn Spears
Dame charges Vice at the bell and slams into her in the corner. Vice rolls up Dame who kicks out. Dame attacks Vice and Vice fights back. Strikes are traded between the two and Dame gets Vice flat on the mat. Vice gets Dame in an armbar submission and Dame tries to power out of it. Dame breaks the hold and kicks Vice. Vice takes Dame down and kicks her back. Dame rolls out of the ring and Vice comes off the apron and takes Dame down. Back in the ring, Dame takes some body shots and kicks from Vice. Dame slams Vice and covers her for a near fall. Dame strikes Vice a few times and Vice dodges as splash and kicks Dame in the corner. Dame goes to slam Vice, but Vice reverses it into a sleeperhold. Dame falls on her back and breaks the hold. Dame slams down Vice again and we cut to a commercial break.
We come back, and Dame is trying to get Vice in a crab like submission but Vice smacks Dame and rolls her up for a two count. Vice tries again, and Dame kicks out. Vice starts with some kicking combos and then suplexes Dame into the corner. Vice slams her ass into Dame and goes for a side suplex but Dame blocks it. Dame goes to slam Vice but Vice counters. Spears tugs on Vice's leg and Dame knocks Vice out of the ring. Tatum Paxley breaks through the wall and chases Spears out of the ringside area. Back in the ring, Vice hits a back fist and gets the win.
Winner: Lola Vice
After the match, Kelani Jordan runs into the ring and beats up Vice.
Jordynne Grace is backstage watching Thea Hail's match where she wins against Blake Monroe. Hail comes in and Grace tells her that she's reviewed the tapes and Hail won fairly. Hail thanks Grace for having her back and says she is going to address everyone as the new champ and leaves.
Ethan Page talks to Myles Borne backstage. Page tells Borne that he lost his chance because he didn't listen to Page. He talks about other wrestlers who made a change to their attitudes and they're soaring. Page invites Borne to watch him in his match next week.
Thea Hail comes out to the ring. Hail gets on the mic and talks about winning the North American Championship. She talks about people talking being champion and how nothing prepares you for being a champion. She says this is the best time of her life and talks about how old she is and how she's gotten so many opportunities at such a young age that led here. She talks about her doubters and says she believed and when you believe hard enough you make history. Hail talks about how her road to the gold has been real and she feels like a grown woman now. Blake Monroe interrupts Hail. Monroe asks for this all to end and tells Hail she won as a fluke. Monroe is in shambles and Monroe says she wants her title back right now. Hail refuses. Monroe demands her rematch. Hail says unlike Monroe she will give her a rematch at New Years Evil and Monroe then attacks Hail. Officials run out to break them up and they finally get Monroe off of Hail.
Sarah Schreiber talks to Sol Ruca and Zaria. Ruca talks about what 2025 has taught her and she'd love to end her 2025 as a champion. Ruca talks about how she lost her two titles without actually losing but says she's lucky especially with having a best friend like Zaria. Zaria tells Ruca she has her back.
Match 2 - Men's Speed Tournament Match: Tavion Heights -vs- Eli Knight
We get the bell and Knight dropkicks Heights and then kicks him out of the ring. Knight moonsaults out onto Heights and then back in the ring Knight hits a crossbody and covers Heights for a near fall. Heights takes down Knight and Knight kicks Heights down to the mat. Knight slams into Heights and slams Heights down and hits a moonsault and covers for a near fall. Heights gets kicked in the face and Knight hits Sliced Bread and then misses a moonsault allowing Heights to slam down Knight and get the win.
Winner: Tavion Heights
After the match, the two shake hands and hug.
Leon Slater and Oba Femi sit down with Kelly Kincaid, next.
We come back from commercial break, and Blake Monroe is looking for Thea Hail. Jackson Drake, Brad Balor & Ricky Smokes hit on Blake Monroe and tell her they have presents for her. They also tell her she is supposed to be the champ and they believe her. They call it the Orlando Screwjob. They talk about who will win and Monroe is pissed they think she can lose. She tells them to leave but to leave the gifts.
Kelly Kincaid talks to Oba Femi and TNA X-Division Champion, Leon Slater backstage. Kincaid talks about Femi's dominant year and asks of his feelings for his 2025. Femi says his 2025 was almost a perfect reign. He says he's the ruler of NXT, and actually the ruler of WWE. He says at Saturday Night's Main Event there was a shift and everyone felt it. Slater says he knows this is the biggest and most difficult match in his life. Kincaid asks for more insight into who Slater is. Slater says he started very young and when he found wrestling he filled a void. He talks about training at 9 yrs old and says he had to become who he is and he has no intention of slowing down and in two weeks he'll win. Femi says he has an inspiring story but against him, his sob story goes nowhere. Femi and Slater shake hands.
Je'Von Evans walks backstage and we cut to a commercial.
We come back and Ava is standing in the ring surrounded by security. Ava talks about how things have escalated and now she's here with security. She calls out Je'Von Evans. Evans marches out to the ring minus his smile and bounciness. Ricky Saints is called out next and Saints comes out and joins Evans and Ava. Evans tells production to turn Saints' music off. Evans says they can settle this outside and Saints points out how Evans is too emotional. Saints talks about how Evans isn't fit for the praise he gets and Evans says he wants to fight. Evans says Saints is jealous because Saints isn't the man he says he is and that's why he cost Evans his title shot. Saints makes fun of the way Evans talks and tells Evans he ticks all the boxes. Evans talks about how he wrestled on RAW and SmackDown and how he wrestled on John Cena's final show and Saints has done none of that. Evans says he didn't beg people to pick him over Saints and asks Saints if he wants Evans to slow down because Saints can't keep up. Evans threatens to beat up Saints. Ava books a match between the two for next week.
Backstage, Fatal Influence (Fallon Henley, Jacy Jayne & Lainey Reid) approach Kendal Grey and Wren Sinclair. Henley starts by making fun of Grey and her Kendal Grey train continuing to roll right along. Sinclair talks about WrenQCC and how Grey will be the next champion. Reid and Sinclair get in each other's faces. Jayne tells them all to quiet down and tells Grey that she's not her level and wants a warm up match against Sinclair next week.
Stacks and Arianna Grace warm up backstage for their match tonight.
Match 3 - Mixed Tag Team Match: Skylar Raye & Shiloh Hill -vs- Stacks & Arianna Grace
Grace and Stacks make out as they come to the ring and get jumped by Raye and Hill. Grace runs into the ring and Raye chases after her. the bell rings and Grace slams Raye into the corner and Raye punches her back. Stacks and Hill battle outside and Stacks gets in the ring and confronts Raye. Hill attacks Stacks and Raye dropkicks Grace. Stacks is slammed in the middle of the ring and Raye beats up Grace outside the ring. Stacks is sent out of the ring and Hill throws Raye out onto Grace and Stacks. Back in the ring, Grace throws Raye into the corner and outside the ring, Hill smacks Stacks with a keyboard. Grace smokes Hill with a kendo stick candy cane and she goes to strike Raye and Raye grabs the stick and they battle. The do a chicken fight and Grace then kicks Hill and punches Raye. Hill smacks Stacks and both Stacks and Grace are hung up on opposite corners. Hill and Raye smack Stacks and Grace with the kendo sticks and we cut to a commercial break.
We come back to the match, Stacks beats Hill in the corner as Grace stomps on Raye outside the ring. Stacks calls Grace in the ring and she brings a bowling ball into the ring. Grace accidentally hits Stacks with the ball low blowing him and drops the ball on Stacks' feet. Hill gives Grace his teeth and throws Stacks around. Raye comes off the top rope and hits a double missile dropkick. Hill takes down Stacks and hits a standing tucked shooting star and covers Stacks for a two count. Stacks is thrown out of the ring and Hill throws a wreath on him. Raye throws Grace into a Christmas Tree and Stacks is legdropped on. Hill and Raye hand out Christmas Cookies and Grace throws a Christmas Tree on them and starts smacking them with a cookie tray. Stacks and Grace start making out. Raye attacks Grace and Hill takes some pinecones out of a stocking and puts it on a table. Hill powerbombs Stacks through the table with the pinecones. Raye hits a frog splash in the middle of the ring and gets the win.
Winners: Skylar Raye & Shiloh Hill
Ava is backstage with DarkState (Dion Lennox, Osiris Griffin, Cutler James & Saquon Shugars). Griffin talks about how Joe Hendry ruined Lennox's chance at being champ. Ava asks what they want her to do. Lennox asks for Joe Hendry and Hendry comes out. Lennox gets in Hendry's face and Ava says not here. DarkState leaves and James tells Hendry that they're watching him. Ava thanks Hendry for not making this worse, Hendry says he has an idea and wants to give something back to NXT. He suggests he has a concert next week, Ava agrees.
Kelly Kincaid talks to OTM backstage. OTM promises a successful 2026. The Vanity Project comes in and they give Kincaid some presents and introduce themselves to OTM. OTM tells them to never interrupt them again.
Match 4 - Men's Speed Tournament Match: Lexis King -vs- Andre Chase
King kicks Chase out of the gate and Chase then takes King down with some forearms. Chase gets King down and covers for a one count. King is kicked out of the ring and Chase kicks King from the apron and jumps out onto him. Back in the ring, King superkicks Chase and covers him for a near fall. King tries for another pin and Chase kicks out. Chase punches King and misses a kick. King hits a forearm and covers Chase for a near fall. King goes for The Coronation but it's countered and Chase slams down King and chops him. Chase gets King in an armbar submission and King fights out. Chase punches King and King kicks him in the face and hits The Coronation and gets the win.
Winner: Lexis King
Kelani Jordan comes out of the women's locker room saying Lola Vice got what she deserved and beaks off Myles Borne and Tavion Heights as she walks away. Borne and Heights talk about Jordan's attitude change. Heights talks about his match against Lexis King and Borne says that Ethan Page might be right and something has to change. Hank Walker and Tank Ledger come in and talk about their setbacks and how the highs are high and lows and low and to keep going and leave. Heights is pumped up but Borne looks lost in thought.
Match 5 - WWE Women's United States Championship Match: Chelsea Green(c) w/Ethan Page & Alba Fyre -vs- Sol Ruca w/Zaria
Green runs at Ruca at the bell and Ruca gets Green on the mat and stomps on her knees. Ruca and Green grapple in the ring, Ryca cartwheels out of a hold and lifts up Green and slams her down. Ruca gets Green in a surfboard abdominal stretch submission. Green breaks through and goes to Fyre and Page for help. Ruca pulls Green into the ring as Page and Fyre try to pull her out of the ring. Zaria knocks Page and Fyre down and back in the ring, Ruca is slammed to the mat and Green then slaps her. Green and Ruca exchange blows against the ropes and Ruca knocks Green out of the ring. Ruca moonsaults out onto Fyre, Page and Green and we cut to a break.
Back to the Main Event, Green has Ruca in a leg scissors submission and Ruca tries to power out. Ruca elbows out of the hold and punches Green. Ruca chops Green and takes her down with some forearms. Ruca counters a monkeyflip and suplexes Green. Ruca hits a top rope missile drop kick and clocks Green in the face and covers her for a near fall. Ruca is taken down with The RoughRider and Ruca kicks out at two. Ruca rolls up Green and Green hits a middle rope German Suplex on Ruca. Green misses an elbow, and Ruca hits a cartwheel DDT and covers Green, Page puts Green's foot on the rope. Zaria gets in Page's face and Moose runs down and takes out Page. Back in the ring, Ruca goes for Sol Snatcher but Fyre interferes while the ref is distracted. Green hits the Un-prettiher and gets the win.
Winner and STILL WWE Women's United States Champion: Chelsea Green
Zaria checks on Ruca after the match. Zaria then spears both Fyre and Green and Ruca hits a double Sol Snatcher on Fyre and Green as well. Ruca and Zaria celebrate in the ring, as the show goes off the air.
