Footage from Wednesday’s
NXT is played, showing updates on who advanced in the first-round of the Women’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic. Tonight, Shotzi Blackheart and Ember Moon will take on Marina Shafir and Zoey Stark. Whoever wins will conclude the first-round matches!
Vic Joseph and Nigel McGuinness welcome us to another edition of
205 Live. We head to the ring for triple threat action!
Jake Atlas vs. August Grey vs. Ariya Daivari
All three men test their strength with a Greco-Roman lockup. Ariya Daivari breaks it up with a midsection kick towards Jake Atlas. August Grey throws Daivari to the outside. Grey dives through the ropes taking Daivari off his feet. Grey rolls back in to tango with Atlas. Atlas gains wrist control and twists Grey’s arm up in an uncomfortable position. Daivari misses a splash off the top rope. Atlas and Grey look on, unimpressed. Daivari finds himself in a rollup…he gets his shoulders up at two. Grey smashes Atlas with a big boot in the c
Ariya Daivari def. Jake Atlas and August Grey in a Triple Threat Match The Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic didn’t quite go according to plan for Jake Atlas, August Grey or Ariya Daivari, as all three of their respective tandems were eliminated in the first round of the tournament, and all three turned their attention back to singles competition in a thrilling Triple Threat Match on 205 Live. Daivari, who verbally lambasted each of his fellow Cruiserweights on social media to get the scheduled singles match between Atlas and Grey turned into a Triple Threat, got off to a shaky start, completely whiffing on a crossbody from the top rope when Grey and Atlas simply stepped out of the way.
The first round of the women s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic will conclude on 205 Live tonight.
WWE has announced that Shotzi Blackheart & Ember Moon will face Marina Shafir & Zoey Stark in the final women s Dusty Classic first round match on 205 Live tonight. Stark is Lacey Ryan s new WWE in-ring name. She s making her WWE debut in the tournament. Ryan has been based on the West Coast and also appeared on Impact Wrestling twice last year.
The team that wins tonight s match will advance to face Candice LeRae & Indi Hartwell in the women s Dusty Classic semifinals. LeRae & Hartwell defeated the debuting Gigi Dolin (Priscilla Kelly) & Cora Jade (Elayna Black) in the first round of the tournament.
The second-ever Fight Pit match headlines tonight s episode of NXT.
Tommaso Ciampa and Timothy Thatcher will face off inside the NXT Fight Pit tonight. The match was originally supposed to happen at NXT New Year s Evil two weeks ago, but it was postponed due to Thatcher suffering a minor injury.
Thatcher also took part in the first Fight Pit match, defeating Matt Riddle in May of last year.
The inaugural women s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic kicks off tonight with Mercedes Martinez & Toni Storm facing Kacy Catanzaro & Kayden Carter in a first round match. The full bracket for the women s Dusty Classic was revealed earlier today. Candice LeRae & Indi Hartwell, Gigi Dolin (Priscilla Kelly) & Cora Jade (Elayna Black), Shotzi Blackheart & Ember Moon, Marina Shafir & Zoey Stark (Lacey Ryan), Aliyah & Jessi Kamea, and Dakota Kai & Raquel Gonzalez will also take part in the tournament.