2020
NXT UK Takeover: Blackpool II
2020-01-12, Empress Ballroom, Blackpool, England, UK
- Eddie Dennis def. Trent Seven
Dennis pins Seven after first throwing Seven to the
outside in a Razor's Edge and then the Next top Driver inside the
ring.
- NXT UK Women's championship, Triple threat match:
Kay Lee Ray (ch) def. Piper Niven, Toni Storm
Ray has Niven down for a pin after a Gory Bomb, but Storm
breaks the pin by grabbing the referee's arm. Storm then tries to pin
Ray after the Storm Zero, but Niven breaks the pin. Eventually, Ray
gets a three-count on Niven after breaking Storm's pin attempt.
- Tyler Bate def. Jordan Devlin
Bate pins Devlin with the Corkscrew DDT after a series of
Tyler Drivers.
- NXT UK tagteam championship, Ladder match:
Gallus (Mark Coffey & Wolfgang) (ch), Imperium (Fabian Aichner
& Marcel Barthel), Grizzled Young Veterans (Zack Gibson &
James Drake), Mark Andrews & Flash Morgan Webster
After a long and gruelling match, Mark Coffey eventually
manages to climb the ladder to grab the belts and retain the
championships.
- WWE UK championship:
Walter (ch) def. Joe Coffey (subm.)
Imperium's Alexander Wolfe enters the ring to help Walter, but
Coffey's ally Ilja Dragunov comes out to stop him. Coffey eventually
taps out to a sleeper hold after a massive power bomb.
Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic 2020
2020-01-08 to 2020-01-29
The winner of the 2020 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic will challenge the
reigning tagteam champions at NXT Takeover:
Portland.
First round matches:
- NXT 2020-01-08:
Imperium (Fabian Aichner & Marcel Bartel) def. Forgotten Sons
(Steve Cutler & Wesley Blake) [w/Jaxson Ryker]
- Undisputed Era (Bobby Fish & Kyle O'Reilly) (NXT tag ch) [w/Adam
Cole (ch), Roderick Strong (NA ch)] def. Gallus (Wolfgang & Mark
Coffey) (NXT UK tag ch)
- NXT 2020-01-15:
Pete Dunne & Matt Riddle def. Mark Andrews & Flash Morgan
Webster
- Grizzled Young Veterans (Zack Gibson & James Drake) def. Kushida
& Alex Shelley
Semi-final matches:
- NXT 2020-01-22:
Grizzled Young Veterans (Zack Gibson & James Drake) def.
Undisputed Era (Bobby Fish & Kyle O'Reilly) (NXT tag ch)
- Pete Dunne & Matt Riddle def. Imperium (Fabian Aichner &
Marcel Bartel) [w/Walter (WWE UK ch) & Alexander Wolfe]
Final:
- NXT 2020-01-29:
Pete Dunne & Matt Riddle def. Grizzled Young Veterans (Zack Gibson & James Drake)
Imperium | Imperium | Matt Riddle & Pete Dunne | Matt Riddle & Pete Dunne
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Forgotten Sons
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Matt Riddle & Pete Dunne | Matt Riddle & Pete Dunne
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Mark Andrews & Flash Morgan Webster
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Grizzled Young Veterans | Grizzled Young Veterans | Grizzled Young Veterans
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Kushida & Alex Shelley
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Gallus | Undisputed Era
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Undisputed Era
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Worlds Collide: NXT vs. NXT UK
2020-01-25, Toyota Center, Houston, Texas, USA
- Finn Bálor def. Ilja Dragunov
Pinfall after the 1916 DDT.
- NXT Cruiserweight championship:
Jordan Devlin def. Isaiah "Swerve" Scott, Travis Banks, Angel Garza
(ch)
Garza hits the wing clipper on Scott, but Devlin stops the
pin, hits a side-suplex and gets the pinfall to become the new
champion.
- #DIY (Johnny Gargano & Tommaso Ciampa) def. Moustache Mountain
(Trent Seven & Tyler Bate)
Ciampa pins Seven after the meeting in the middle double
kick.
- NXT Women's championship:
Rhea Ripley (ch) def. Toni Storm
Ripley pins Storm after the Rip Tide.
- Imperium (Walter (NXT UK ch) & Marcel Barthel & Alexander
Wolfe & Fabian Aichner) def. Undisputed Era (Bobby Fish &
Kyle O'Reilly (NXT tag ch) & Adam Cole (NXT ch) & Roderick
Strong)
Alexander Wolfe is injured early on, making the match
4-on-3. Fish misses a moonsault off the top rope, allowing Walter to
land a dropkick and a powerbomb, to get the pinfall victory.
NXT Takeover: Portland
2020-02-16, Moda Center, Portland, Oregon, USA
- NXT North American championship:
Keith Lee (ch) def. Dominik Dijakovic
Lee hits the Big Bang Catastrophe on Dijakovic, to get the
pinfall victory.
- Street fight:
Dakota Kai def. Tegan Nox
Nox has set up Kai on a table and is about to jump her
when Raquel González appears, throwing Nox through the table. Kai
covers the knocked out Nox to get the pinfall victory.
- Finn Bálor def. Johnny Gargano
Bálor pins Gargano after the 360 DDT.
- NXT Women's championship:
Rhea Ripley (ch) def. Bianca Belair
Ripley pins Belair after the Rip Tide. After the match,
Ripley is attacked by Charlotte Flair.
- NXT tagteam championship:
Broserweights (Pete Dunne & Matt Riddle) def. Undisputed Era
(Bobby Fish & Kyle O'Reilly) (ch)
Riddle pins Fish after a double kick, to win the
championships.
- NXT championship:
Adam Cole (ch) def. Tommasso Ciampa
Undisputed Era comes ringside, and distracts Ciampa so
that he knocks out the referee. Johnny Gargano appears, but instead
of helping Ciampa knocks him down with the championship belt. The
referee comes to and Cole gets the pinfall victory on the knocked out
Ciampa.
NXT Takeover: Tampa Bay
2020-04-04, Amalie Arena, Tampa, Florida, USA
This event was canceled due to the
Covid-19
pandemic.
Matches originally scheduled for this event were moved to NXT TV.
NXT UK Takeover: Dublin
2020-04-26, 3Arena, Dublin, Ireland
The event was canceled due to the
Covid-19
pandemic.
NXT UK television tapings were suspended between April and September
2020.
NXT Interim cruiserweight championship tournament
2020-04-15 to 2020-06-03, NXT Arena, Full Sail University, Winter Park, Florida, USA
Cruiserweight champion Jordan Devlin was unable to defend his
championship, being stuck in Ireland due to the
Covid-19
pandemic.
A round-robin tournament was held to crown an interim cruiserweight champion.
Group A:
| Kushida | Atlas | Maverick | Nese | Total
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Kushida | — | W | L | W | 2–1
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Jake Atlas | L | — | W | W | 2–1
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Drake Maverick | W | L | — | W | 2–1
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Tony Nese | L | L | L | — | 0–3
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- NXT 2020-04-22:
Jake Atlas (1–0) def. Drake Maverick (0–1)
- Kushida (1–0) def. Tony Nese (0–1)
- NXT 2020-04-29:
Drake Maverick (1–1) def. Tony Nese (0–2)
- NXT 2020-05-06:
Kushida (2–0) def. Jake Atlas (1–1)
- NXT 2020-05-13:
Jake Atlas (2–1) def. Tony Nese (0–3)
- NXT 2020-05-20:
Drake Maverick (2–1) def. Kushida (2–1)
Group B:
| Fantasma | Tozawa | Scott | Gallagher | Total
|
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El Hijo del Fantasma | — | W | F | W | 2–1
|
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Akira Tozawa | L | — | W | W | 2–1
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Isaiah "Swerve" Scott | W | L | — | L | 1–2
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Gentlemen Jack Gallagher | L | W | W | — | 1–2
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- NXT 2020-04-15:
Akira Tozawa (1–0) def. Isaiah "Swerve" Scott (0–1)
- NXT 2020-04-22:
El Hijo del Fantasma (1–0) def. Gentleman Jack Gallagher (0–1)
- NXT 2020-04-29:
Isaiah "Swerve" Scott (1–1) def. El Hijo del Fantasma (1–1)
- NXT 2020-05-06:
Akira Tozawa (2–0) def. Gentleman Jack Gallagher (0–2)
- NXT 2020-05-13:
Gentleman Jack Gallagher (1–2) def. Isaiah "Swerve" Scott (1–2)
- NXT 2020-05-20:
El Hijo del Fantasma (2–1) def. Akira Tozawa (2–1)
Tie-breaker:
- Triple threat match:
NXT 2020-05-27:
Drake Maverick def. Kushida, Jake Atlas
This match was set up to break the three-way tie in Group
A. Maverick pins Atlas while Kushida has Atlas in an arm bar.
Final:
- NXT 2020-06-03:
El Hijo del Fantasma def. Drake Maverick
Fantasma pins Maverick after the phantom driver.
NXT Takeover: In Your House
2020-06-07, NXT Arena, Full Sail University, Winter Park, Florida, USA
- Shotzi Blackheart & Tegan Nox & Mia Yim def. Raquel Gonzales
& Dakota Kai & Candice LeRae
Nox hits the Shiniest Wizard on Dakota Kai to get the
pinfall victory after she and Blackheart take out Gonzales
together.
- Finn Bálor def. Damian Priest
Bálor pins Priest after a second coup de grâce from the
top rope.
- NXT North American championship:
Keith Lee (ch) def. Johnny Gargano
With the referee distracted by Candice LaRae and Mia Yim,
Gargano attacks Lee with a key, but it is not enough to get a
pinfall. Lee eventually pins Gargano after the Big Bang Catastrophe,
to get retain the championship.
- NXT championship, Backlot brawl:
Adam Cole (ch) def. Velveteen Dream
The match took place in a ring placed on a parking lot.
Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly of Undisputed Era arrives ringside,
filling the ring with chairs. They close in on the ring only to find
Dexter Lumis beneath it, who attacks them and hunts them away from
the ring. Dream performs the purple rainmaker onto the chairs in the
ring, but Cole kicks out of the pinfall attempt. Cole hits the Panama
sunrise on Dream onto the same pile of chairs, gets the pinfall and
retains the championship.
- Karrion Kross [w/Scarlett] def. Tommaso Ciampa
Kross locks Ciampa in the cross-check submission hold, and
the referee stops the match when Ciampa no longer answers.
- NXT Women's championship, Triple threat match:
Io Shirai def. Rhea Ripley, Charlotte Flair (ch)
Flair has Ripley trapped in the figure-eight leglock, when
Shirai performs a moonsault from the top rope, landing on Ripley and
gets the pinfall before Flair manages to untangle her legs to stop
her.
Great American Bash
2020-07-01, NXT Arena, Full Sail University, Winter Park, Florida, USA
- #1 contender for the NXT Women's championship, Fatal 4-Way Elimination:
Tegan Nox def. Dakota Kai, Mia Yim, Candice LeRae
Order of elimination:
- Candice LaRae (by Mia Yim)
- Mia Yim (by Dakota Kai)
- Dakota Kai (by Tegan Nox)
Nox pins Kai after the Shiniest Wizard to become the number
one contender for the NXT Women's championship.
- Timothy Thatcher def. Oney Lorcan (subm.)
Thatcher locks the Fujiwara armbar, and Lorcan has no
choice but to submit.
- Handicap match:
Rhea Ripley def. Robert Stone & Aliyah (subm.)
Stipulation: If Aliyah wins, Ripley joins the Robert Stone
brand. Both Stone and Aliyah tap out when Ripley locks both of them
in a reverse cloverleaf hold.
- Strap match:
Dexter Lumis def. Roderick Strong (subm.)
Lumis locks Strong in the silencer, and wins by
submission.
- Io Shirai def. Sasha Banks (WWE Women's tagteam ch) [w/Bayley (WWE
Women's tagteam and SmackDown ch)]
Asuka shows up, blinding Banks with the mist, allowing
Shirai to hit a moonsault to get the pinfall victory.
- Street fight:
Candice LeRae def. Mia Yim
LaRae pins Yim after a diving spinning neckbreaker from
the top rope onto a pile of steel chairs.
- Bronson Reed def. Tony Nese
Reed pins Nese after the diving splash.
- Johnny Gargano def. Isaiah "Swerve" Scott
Gargano pins Scott after a DDT.
- Legado del Fantasma (Santos Escobar (cruiserweight ch) & Joaquin
Wilde & Raul Mendoza) def. Drake Maverick & Breezango (Tyler
Breeze & Fandango)
Escobar hits the phantom driver on Maverick, getting the
pinfall victory.
- Mercedes Martinez def. Santana Garrett
Martinez pins Garrett after the fisherman buster.
- Champion vs. champion, Winner takes all:
Keith Lee (North American ch) def. Adam Cole (NXT ch)
Lee pins Cole after the Big Bang Catastrophe, to become
new NXT champion as well as North American champion.
NXT Takeover XXX
2020-08-22, NXT Arena, Full Sail University, Winter Park, Florida, USA
Originally scheduled to take place at TD Garden, Boston, Massachusetts,
USA as NXT Takeover: Boston, it was moved to a closed set due to
the Covid-19
pandemic.
- Finn Bálor def. Timothy Thatcher
Bálor pins Thatcher after a coup de grâce followed by a
1916 DDT.
- NXT North American championship, Ladder match:
Damian Priest def. Johnny Gargano, Bronson Reed, Cameron Grimes,
Velveteen Dream
Grimes climbs the ladder and is about to grab the
championship when Candice LeRay comes to the ring, takes down the
ladder and attacks Grimes. Gargano and LeRay then double-teams to
take out the other competitors, allowing Gargano to set up a ladder,
but he is denied by Reed. LeRay stops Reed from grabbing the belt but
Reed squashes both Gargano and LeRay. He eventually makes it back and
unlocks the championship belt, but Priest grabs the other end and
denies Gargano the victory.
- Adam Cole def. Pat McAfee [w/AJ Hawk & Darius Butler & Nick
Maraldo]
McAfee superplexes Cole from the top rope, but Cole kicks
out. Cole hits the Panama Sunrise on McAfee to get the pinfall
victory.
- NXT Women's championship:
Io Shirai (ch) def. Dakota Kai [w/Raquel Gonzalez]
Shirai locks Kai in a cross-face, but Kai kicks out.
Shirai pins Kai after a moonsault from the top rope, to retain the
championship.
- NXT championship:
Karrion Kross [w/Scarlett] def. Keith Lee
Kross pins Lee after two Doomsday Saitos from the second
ring rope.
NXT Heritage Cup tournament
2020-10-01 to 2020-11-26, BT Sport Studios, London, England, UK
Matches were taped starting 2020-09-03,
the dates below are the air dates.
Qualifying match:
- NXT UK 2020-10-01:
Triple threat:
Kenny Williams def. Aston Smith, Amir Jordan
William pins Smith after a corkscrew DDT to qualify for
the wildcard spot of the tournament.
First round:
- NXT UK 2020-10-01:
Noam Dar def. Alexander Wolfe
"Bruiserweight" Pete Dunne was the special guest
referee. Noam Dar picks up the first fall in the second round after a
roll-up. Wolfe pins Dar in the fourth round after a German suplex for
the second fall. Dar hits a scissor kick in round five, winning the
third fall and the match.
- NXT UK 2020-10-08:
A-Kid def. Flash Morgan Webster
Webster picks up the first fall in the second round after
a series of rolls. A-Kid gets the second fall in the fourth round
after a Spanish fly from the top rope and a kick to the neck. A-Kid
wins by submission in the fifth round when he locks an arm bar on
Webster.
- NXT UK 2020-10-15:
"Bomber" Dave Mastiff def. Joseph Conners (KO)
Mastiff hits Conners with a massive right hand in the
beginning of the third round, to win the match by knock-out.
- NXT UK 2020-10-22:
Trent Seven def. Kenny Williams
Seven picks up the first fall in the third round after a
seven-star lariat. William equals the score quickly in the fourth
round, after a roll-up. In the fifth round, Williams has Seven on the
top rope. Seven manages to counter the roll-up to get the deciding
pinfall.
Semi-finals:
- NXT UK 2020-11-05:
A-Kid def. Noam Dar
A-Kid has Dar in a submission hold as the second round
ends, but is unable to get a fall before the bell. In the third
round, Dar locks A-Kid in a submission, to win the first fall. A-Kid
gets a roll-up pinfall in the fourth round. With only 50 seconds left of the
sixth and final round, Dar submits to A-Kid's hold, giving A-Kid the
victory.
- NXT UK 2020-11-12:
Trent Seven def. "Bomber" Dave Mastiff
Seven gets Mastiff off his feet and rolls him up for the
first fall in the second round. Mastiff picks up the secound fall in
round five after a cannonball. In the sixth and final round, Seven
hits the burning hammer to win the match.
Final:
- NXT UK 2020-11-26:
A-Kid def. Trent Seven
The first two rounds go by with A-Kid trying to break down
Seven with multiple submission holds. The pace picks up in the third
round, where A-Kid gets the first pinfall after knockout kick. The
fourth and fifth round passes by without any decision, leaving Trent
forced trying to make a comeback in the sixth. Seven reverses A-Kid's
submission and gets a pinfall just in time to draw the match to
sudden death. A-Kid locks both arms of Seven in a submission hold to
win the match and become the first Heritage Cup holder.
Alexander Wolfe | Noam Dar | A-Kid | A-Kid
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Noam Dar
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A-Kid | A-Kid
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Flash Morgan Webster
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"Bomber" Dave Mastiff | "Bomber" Dave Mastiff | Trent Seven
|
Joseph Conners
|
Trent Seven | Trent Seven
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Kenny Williams
|
NXT Takeover XXXI
2020-10-04, WWE Performance Center, Orlando, Florida, USA
- NXT North American championship:
Damian Priest (ch) def. Johnny Gargano
Priest gets the pinfall after the Reckoning, to retain the
championship.
- Kushida def. Velveteen Dream
Kushida works on Dream's left arm, and eventually gets a
submission victory by locking it in an arm bar.
- NXT Cruiserweight championship:
Santos Escobar (ch) def. Isaiah "Swerve" Scott
Escobar's associates Joaquin Wilde and Raul Mendoza come
to ringside, distracting Scott and the referee, but Ashante Adonis
comes to Scott's aid. Escobar hits the Phantom Driver on Scott, but
is unable to get the three-count, He eventually does hit a
double-underhook knee to the chest, getting the pinfall to retain the
championship.
- NXT Women's championship:
Io Shirai (ch) def. Candice LeRae
Shirai locks LeRae in the cross-face, but LeRae manages to
reverse it into the Gargano escape, which she has to release when
Shirai reaches the ring ropes. With the referee distracted,
LeRae hits Shirai with the championship belt, but is unable to get
the pinfall. Shirai hits a moonsault from the top rope, getting the
pinfall to retain the championship.
- NXT championship:
Finn Bálor (ch) def. Kyle O'Reilly
O'Reilly targets Bálor's legs, but Bálor eventually
manages to land a coup de grâce to retain the championship.
NXT Takeover: War Games
2020-12-06, WWE Performance Center, Orlando, Florida, USA
- War Games:
Team LeRae (Toni Storm & Racquel González & Dakota Kai &
Candice LeRae) def. Team Shotzi (Ember Moon & Rhea Ripley &
Io Shirai (ch) & Shotzi Blackheart)
Period one | Ember Moon | Dakota Kai
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Period two | Shotzi Blackheart |
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Period three | | Racquel González
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Period four | Rhea Ripley |
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Period five | | Toni Storm
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Period six | Io Shirai |
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Period seven | | Candice LaRae
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One member from each team starts the match, with the rest
being released later. The match can only be won after everyone has
entered. González blocks Shirai from entering the ring but when LaRae
tries to get a pinfall on Blackheart, the referee refuses to count as
not everyone has entered. Shirai eventually climbs in from the
outside, jumping the other team from the rop of the cage with a
garbage can. González powerbombs Shirai through a ladder hung between
the ropes of the two rings and covers her to get the pinfall for her
team.
- Tommaso Ciampa def. Timothy Thatcher
Ciampa locks Thatcher in the ring ropes and attacks him
with chops and kicks. After bringing Thatcher back into the ring with
a DDT, Ciampa covers him for the pinfall victory.
- Strap match:
Dexter Lumis def. Cameron Grimes
Grimes brings his own strap, which Lumis agrees to use.
Grimes blindfolds Lumis using the bag from the official strap and
hits Lumis with the strap. Lumis drops Grimes on a chair in the ring
and locks him in a sleeper hold to get the submission
victory.
- North American championship, Triple threat match:
Johnny Gargano def. Leon Ruff (ch), Damian Priest
Priest, who earlier had helped Ruff to win the
championship from Gargano, quickly turns on his previous protégé.
Priest runs Ruff through the security railing with the Razor's Edge,
forcing the officials to take Ruff out. Ruff eventually returns,
however. Several masked people come in, attacking Priest with a lead
pipe. With Priest out, Gargano hits a swinging neckbreaker on Ruff to
get the pinfall victory and regain the championship.
- War Games:
Undisputed Era (Adam Cole & Roderick Strong & Bobby Fish
& Kyle O'Reilly) def. Team McAfee (Pat McAfee & Pete Dunne
& Oney Lorcan (tag ch) & Danny Burch (tag ch))
Period one | Pete Dunne | Kyle O'Reilly
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Period two | Oney Lorcan |
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Period three | | Bobby Fish
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Period four | Danny Burch |
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Period five | | Roderick Strong
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Period six | Pat McAfee |
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Period seven | | Adam Cole
|
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O'Reilly jumps from the top rope, onto a chair planted on
top of Oney Lorcan and gets his team the pinfall victory.