WWE NXT 7/14/2026

WWE NXT 7/14/2026

Last week's show is here: https://prowresblog.blogspot.com/2026/07/wwe-nxt-772026.html

We are at the Performance Center in Orlando, FL. Vic Joseph and Booker T are on commentary.

NXT Tag Titles - The Vanity Project (Brad Baylor and Ricky Smokes) (c) vs Sean Legacy and Dorian Van Dux

Sean takes RS down by the wrist and armdrags him. Sean armdrag rolls him into a pin attempt. Sean is flipped into the ropes, he armdrags RS and dropkicks him off of it. Sean armdrags both heels. 

Dux botches a slam on Brad. Brad hits up kicks and Dux dropkicks him for 2. Sean butt drops RS' arm. Sean is stomped on in the corner. Sean shoulders RS over then slams him and Brad. Dux slingshot legdrops Brad. Dux backrolls RS into a backdrop. Sean PK's and standing moonsaults RS for 2.

Sean chops RS down. Sean throws his opponents out of the ring. Sean is launched into a springboard dive on the heels. We go to PiP break and return. 

RS corner splashes Sean. Brad flying pumping knees Sean. Sean takes a dropkick + spinebuster combo for 2. RS straightjacket chokes Sean. Sean rolls up RS for 2 then enzugiri's him. Sean hot tags Dux in. Dux top rope crossbodies Brad and back body drops both heels. Dux hurricanrana's Brad for 2. Dux lariats RS then asai moonsaults Brad for 2.

Brad back elbows Dux. Brad ripcord codebreakers Dux and Rs slingshot spears Dux for 2. RS is crotched up top. Dux top rope superplexes RS. Dux top rope splashes RS and Sean springboard 450's RS for 2. 

RS rolls up Sean for 2. Sean pump kicks him and takes a backhand. Sean standing spanish flies RS. Sean and Dux hit stereo topes outside. Sean tope con hilos outside. Jackson Drake gets on the ropes and is nailed. Myca Lockwood pulls Dux out and sends him back in. Dux takes a reverse ddt + top rope double stomp combo and is pinned.

Thoughts: It was a fast paced bout here with tons of moves. None of them really meant much and it was a bit hard to follow at times. I guess it was alright but it could have been a lot smarter.

Borne and Tavion talk in the back. Borne says he will ruin Jackson Drake's night tonight. Kam Hendrix comes in. He says he loved how they hugged last week. He says Borne should be worried about the title on his shoulder. Kam says his health meter is at about 86% but it'll he showtime soon. Borne says Mason Rook might get to him first. Tavion asks him to think about going for the tag titles with him.

OTM come up to Saquon Shugars. He says he's looking for partners against Darkstate. OTM says he can't be serious. Price says he made his bed and now he lays in it. OTM then argue with The Birthright. The Birthright said they did what they had to do last week. King asks if Nima told him about AAA before he ran off of him. He says Nima has a family and implies Price isn't part of it. King says it looks like they have the first crack in the foundation of OTM.

Tristan Angels is in the ring. He says God has a strange sense of humor as he made men like Shiloh Hill. He says God sent him as an apology. He then pulls out Hill's tooth and says everyone can see him for what he is without the tooth - a creepy hillbilly who is not fit to stand across the ring from a man like him. Angels then stomps the tooth into the steps.

Hill appears on the tron. He says the tooth did help him look normal but losing it helped with his mind. He says he can fix his mind but Angels can't fix that the fog is coming. He then does an evil laugh and we see fog and hear thunder sounds. 

Natalya's crew is in Stone's office with Lizzy Rain and Izzi Dame. The girls make their case for why they should get a title shot. Stone sets up a 4-way for the Women's NA Title in 20 minutes.

Tate Wilder vs Naraku

Tate Wilder does an inset promo. He says taking a risk vs Naraku is another Tuesday for him. He says he's willing to take the risk to beat a former NXT Title #1 Contender. 

Nar boots him in the gut and waistlock takedowns him. Nar slaps him and hits an open hand shot. Tate rolls over his back and hits armdrags. Tate is sent throat first into the ropes. Tate flying shoulders him and slams him. Tate dropkicks him out. Tate goes for a low tope and Nar forearms him. Tate stomps his back on the apron.

We go to PiP break and return. Nar suplexes him then STF's him. Tate rolls him up for 2. Nar double chops him down. Nar does a cobra clutch variation and hits double chops. Tate slingblades him. 

Tate drops him with punches and backdrops him. Tate slingblade backbreakers him then suplexes him for 2. Tate walks up the ropes and twisting crossbodies him. Tate goes up top and Nar pushes him down to the floor. Nar hits an STO on him and pins him.

Thoughts: Tate got to do a lot more here than usual and he did fine with it. He definitely helped this one out and it wasn't bad. Naraku won as expected though. 

Tony D'Angelo attacks Naraku after. Security grabs Tony and he punches them down. More security comes out including Braxton Cole and Naraku ends up doing the red mist to Cole. Tony attacks Naraku and we cut away. 

Hank and Tank talk to EK Prosper in the back. Hank says he's cleared next week and is going for Keanu Carver. Tank says Keanu is a beast. Hank says he will get his payback on Keanu. Saquon Shugars comes in and says he believes in Hank. He says they all don't like Darkstate. Tank says he doesn't believe him. Hank says he's on his own until they see him change his actions. Shugars tries to do "honk honk" at Tank and Tank won't.

NXT Women's North American Title - Zaria (c) vs Nikkita Lyons vs Izzi Dame vs Lizzy Rain

Layla Diggs had a title shot here but got injured and is out, so this was made. The girls all hit each other one by one. Zar pump kicks Dame. Rain running headbutts Zar. Lyons high kicks Rain. Lyons hits punches on Dame. Dame neckbreakers her on the back for 2. Lyons michinoku drivers Dame for 2. Zar pop up headbutts Rain

Zar running back elbows Dame and pump kicks Lyons. Rain springboard back elbows Zar. Lyons germans Dame and Zar spinning lariats Lyons. The four hockey fight. We go to PiP break and return.  

Zar and Dame hit each other on the apron. Rain high kicks Lyons and facebusters her on the apron. Zar boots Dame in the face. Dame and Zar double clothesline each other. Rain hits a top rope double dropkick. Rain then chop flurries Zar and Dame. Rain germans Dame then spinebusters Lyons. 

Rain tornado ddt's Zar then Dame lariats Rain. Rain cutters Dame for 2. Lyons lariats Zar then tiger drivers Rain for 2. Lyons flying headscissors Zar into Rain. Dame dropkicks Zar and gets 2 counts on all 3 opponents.  

Dame germans Lyons and dropkicks her. Rain is sent into Zar. Dame backcrackers Rain then chokeslams her. Dame and Zar trade shots. Zar headbutts Rain from behind then running lariats Lyons. Dame 2nd rope diving codebreakers Zar. Zar spears Dame for 2. Natalya and Karmen Petrovic come out.

Rain running headbutts Dame. Dame and Rain fight outside. Karmen goes to hit Zaria and Jaida Parker makes the save. Zar spears Karmen on the floor. Lyons superkicks Zar. Zar spears Lyons in side then F-5's her for the pin.

Thoughts: It got a lot of time and went well. It was your usual 4-way with tons of stuff going on and people rotating in and out. Zar winning made the most sense and thankfully she pulled it off. Rain hit a ton of headbutts here.  

Shugars talks to the Wren-Q-CC. Grey says he hasn't given anyone reasons to be his friend. Wren says he can join the Wren-Q-CC. Lola vice comes in. She says she's not done with Kendall. Lola says she's getting her title back.

Tony D'Angelo talks to Robert Stone. He asks why he had refs saving Naraku when Naraku blinded him. Tony says he wants Naraku and will get him. Stone says he's protecting him. Stone says Tony will defend his title vs Naraku next week. Tony says good but he's not waiting. Stone asks what he will do.

Tavion Heights vs Jackson Drake

JD trips Tav and spins on his back. JD piefaces him. JD boots Tav. Tav then spins on his back. Tav waistlock takedowns him. Tav then gets on all four's and wants JD to wrestle him down. Tav trips him into a side headlock. 

JD front facelocks him and Tav reverses it. JD pounds on him in the corner. Tav backdrops him for 2. JD ear claps him and facekicks him. Tav overhead belly to belly suplexes JD into the buckles. We go to break and return. 

Tav northern lights suplexes him off a spinning ddt attempt. Tav goes up and over then JD does the same. JD dragon screws him. JD figure fours him and Tav reverses it. Tav hits punches. Tav hits a nice karelin's lift then airplane spin drops him on his chest. Tav overhead belly to belly suplexes JD onto his partners outside. 

Tav overhead belly to belly suplexes him inside. JD sunset flips Tav off an overhead belly to belly suplex and pins him.

Thoughts: The leg selling could have been a little better here but I liked it. Tav really threw JD around and JD made him look good by bumping so much for him.

Reina Volcan does a video. She says nature doesn't ask for permission or apologize and neither does the first Dominican superstar in WWE. She says we will remember her name as she flipped the table over. She says she won't negotiate or compromise. She says our favorites will be buried beneath the wreckage when we realize who she is. She says she'll make her debut next week.

Noam Dar and Romeo Moreno talk in the back. Shugars comes up to them. Shugars says no one wants to team with him. Dar says he's hard to trust. Shugars says he doesn't mind going against Darkstate by himself. Romeo wants to team with him and says if they win, they could be in line for the NXT Tag Titles. Shugars asks when the last time Dar backed down from a fight was. Dar agrees to the match.

Wren and Kendal talk. Ken says she doesn't care who she faces tonight but wants to run it back with Kali. Kali comes up and says she thinks about their match everyday and says she will get that W tonight. Kali then walks past Jaida Parker and asks what she's looking at. Jaida tells her to keep the energy as Lola and Kelani won't care about her nickname. Natalya's crew then jumps Jaida from behind.

Shawn Spears is at Full Sail. He says NXT has always been about cultivating talent and he believes in that. He says truth will prevail and Izzi has become everything he thought she would. He says Niko took a big step forward but took 2 steps back when he chokeslammed him through the table. He says he's dragging him into deep waters and wants to find out how much he learned.

#1 Contender's to the NXT Women's Title - Lola Vice vs Kali Armstrong vs Kelani Jordan

Kali is double lariated over the top. Lola grounded chokes KJ. Kali corner spears both opponents together. Kali then hits corner spears separately on them. Kali misses a corner spear. Lola hits kicks on a seated KJ in the corner. KJ pulls the ref in the way and slaps Lola. KJ boot flurries Lola in the corner. Lola double leg slams her. Kali shoulderblocks both over.

Kali slams KJ and Lola. Kali hits punches on KJ and totally misses one. Lola and Kali then punch each other. Lola chest kicks her and is pulled out by KJ. KJ lariats Lola hard in the face. KJ springboard diving headscissors Kali then dropkicks her for 2. 

Lola cradles KJ for 2. Lola front facelocks Kali and kicks KJ. Lola tornado's into a seated guillotine on Kali. KJ flips over Kali and Kali pop-up powerslams KJ for 2. Lola nails Kali in the gut. Lola la silla's KJ off the apron. Kali goes up top and plancha's both opponents. We go to PiP break and return.

Lola hits pin kicks on her opponents. She hits a kick combo on KJ then hits one on Kali. Lola hits corner hip attacks on both girls then hits extra ones on KJ. Kali spinebusters Lola for 2. 

KJ boots both opponents in the face. KJ double soul foot's them. KJ germans Kali. KJ twisting legdrops Lola as she sits on the 2nd rope. KJ split-legged moonsaults Lola but Lola triangles her. Kali bridges up with KJ. KJ hurricanrana's her for 2. Lola sunset flips Kali for 2 and armbars her. 

KJ top rope splashes Lola for 2. All 3 girls hit each other. Kali is double superkicked. Kali powerslams Lola. Kali flying shoulders Lola. KJ and Kali backroll each other with pins. KJ cradles Kali for 2, but it looked like 3. Lola uraken's Kali. KJ top rope 450's Kali. Lola spin kicks KJ and then Lola falls on Kali to pin her.

Thoughts: Kali had a rough night when she needed to do well but it went alright otherwise. There was no real reason to suspect Lola was losing here and she didn't. They had some real styles clashes here but mostly were able to pull this off and keep it moving. 

Stone goes to the parking lot and sees tony beating up Naraku in the parking lot. Stone separates them and says they can fight in a street fight next week. 

Overall thoughts: There was a lot going on here as often is the case and even more is going on next week. I thought they did a decent job with getting Naraku/Tony over and doing the story with Shugars looking for partners. We had a lot of decent wrestling here and the multi-person matches went a lot better than expected. I'd say maybe the main was the match of the night. I'd give this a 6 out of 10 and thought it was a good show overall.