Full NXT Taping Results From October 17 *SPOLERS*

There’s only one path to War(Games). For the past several years, NXT has been one of, if not the, best wrestling promotions in the world. They’ve found the nearly perfect mixture of action, storytelling and sheer entertainment that keeps the viewers coming back week after week. Their best shows are often the Takeover specials, and it’s time to start setting another of those up.

NXT was back at Full Sail University in Winter Parkm Florida on Wednesday night to tape four more episodes of television for the coming weeks. These shows will begin airing next week and will run for four weeks, ending on November 14. There is a chance that some of these results will be out of order as NXT doesn’t always record shows straight through. Here are the results, courtesy of Wrestlinginc.com:
October 24 Episode:

* NXT General Manager William Regal will make a War Games announcement on the NXT Title later on

* Backstage segment with NXT General Manager William Regal. He tells security to get ready as Aleister Black will be arriving soon. Regal wants to speak with Black

* The Undisputed Era comes out for an in-ring promo. NXT Tag Team Champions Kyle O’Reilly and Roderick Strong talk about defeating The War Raiders. Adam Cole hasn’t forgotten about his rematch from NXT North American Champion Ricochet but EC3 interrupts and disses Cole, saying he’s not worthy of the rematch

* EC3 defeated Adam Cole. After the match, The Undisputed Era destroyed EC3 and took out his leg with a steel chair

* Mia Yim defeated Aliyah

* Kassius Ohno defeated enhancement talent Justin Xavier. After the match, Nikki Cross comes out and laughs at Ohno, then leaves

* NXT GM William Regal comes to the ring. He’s about to announce the “Takeover: War Games II” opponent for NXT Champion Tommaso Ciampa but Ciampa comes out to interrupt. The Velveteen Dream then interrupts Ciampa and then Lars Sullivan is out next. Lars declares that NXT and the NXT Title are his. Dream has words with Lars and Lars starts choking him. Nikki Cross runs back out and says “he’s coming” – Aleister Black then comes from the crowd and superkicks Lars’ head off. Johnny Gargano runs out next and superkicks Black out of nowhere to leave him laying. Gargano puts his hood back up and we now know who attacked Black

October 31 Episode:

* The Street Profits defeated The Mighty

* Nikki Cross defeated Mercedes Martinez. After the match, Candice LeRae comes out to have a word with Nikki but Nikki laughs at her and leaves. Aleister Black comes out and stops Nikki from leaving. Black looks at Candice and she walks up to him, staring him down. Black says something to Candice in private and then walks back to the back

* Matt Riddle makes his NXT TV debut and defeats Luke Menzies

* Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch defeated Humberto Carrillo and Raul Mendoza in a quick match

* The cameras cut to outside as The Undisputed Era brawls with The War Raiders and NXT North American Champion Ricochet. The brawl moves into the arena as WWE UK Champion Pete Dunne joins in and attacks The Undisputed Era. Regal announces the “Takeover: War Games II” main event – The War Raiders, WWE UK Champion Pete Dunne and NXT North American Champion Ricochet vs. The Undisputed Era’s Adam Cole, Bobby Fish and NXT Tag Team Champions Roderick Strong & Kyle O’Reilly

November 7 Episode:

* Heavy Machinery defeated The Forgotten Sons’ Steve Cutler and Wesley Blake

* Dakota Kai defeated Taynara Conti

* Bianca Belair defeated Mia Yim. It looks like they are taping out of order now

* Lacey Evans defeated enhancement talent Karissa Rivera

* NXT Tag Team Champion Kyle O’Reilly defeated Hanson to earn the advantage at War Games. There was interference from both teams in this match

* Lars Sullivan defeated The Velveteen Dream due to interference from NXT Champion Tommaso Ciampa. Ciampa attacks Dream after the match but Dream turns it around and gets the upperhand until officials break it up. Dream raised and posed with the NXT Title belt as the crowd cheered loudly.

This is what they’re following up on.

Aleister Black makes shocking return during Nikki Cross vs. Bianca Belair: WWE NXT, Oct. 17, 2018

Opinion: There’s something about the time spent building up towards a Takeover that just feels awesome. These matches sound awesome and there’s a good reason to believe that they might pull off another masterpiece in Los Angeles. Some of these stories are looking great and the Aleister Black reveal alone is going to be worth seeing. It’s so nice to have these shows live up to and exceed the hype, which doesn’t happen very often in wrestling.

Which of these stories interests you the most? What do you want to see at Takeover? Let us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 28 wrestling books. His latest book is the the Complete 2003 Smackdown Reviews.

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