00:00My brand, land with the shoelaces just like a brand.
00:12Here we go.
00:24And we're kicking off tonight with a championship matchup.
00:28But Booker, do you feel the, how do I say, unnecessary tension surrounding Dark State?
00:37Well, I think that tension is very necessary, man.
00:41You know, me, man, 99%, keep your mouth shut, 100%, you speak up 100% of the time.
00:49That's Sugar Man.
00:51A lot of the issues step between Sugars and Dion Lennox.
01:08And you gotta be impressed with our champion's fighting spirit.
01:13This is two weeks in a row.
01:14He's putting the gold on the line.
01:16Come on, man.
01:17Two weeks.
01:18All right?
01:19Let's, let's, let's, let's give him a 10-week.
01:22You know, defense, let's start talking about.
01:26It's hard not echo.
01:28All right?
01:29Let's not put the cart before the horse, man.
01:31You have flashbacks to your TV Championship days at WCW?
01:35You're damn right.
01:36You died to prove myself.
01:38Well, let's go up to our ring announcer as we get set to kick it off tonight.
01:41The one and only, Mike Rome.
01:43The following contest scheduled for one fall.
01:47One fall.
01:48Is for the NXT North American Championship.
01:57Introducing the challenger, weighing in at 232 pounds,
02:02Dark States, Saquon Sugars.
02:12Let's go, let's go.
02:14And his opponents, weighing in at 220 pounds.
02:19He is the NXT North American Champion, Miles Boyne.
02:30Back-to-back weeks, we are kicking off the night defending the North American Championship.
02:36I wanna go back before the start of this matchup officially to what we saw from earlier today.
02:41Book, do you agree with Shawn Michaels that NXT right now is anyone's game?
02:46You know, I do believe that, man.
02:48I believe it's anyone's game.
02:50But, you know, Miles Boyne, Tony D, they should have, they should have words.
02:54Whoa, whoa.
02:55Because those are the guys that are running the place right now, man.
02:58We also talking about the women's division with Lola Vice.
03:01Yes.
03:01Talking about the tag team division with Vanity Project, door wide open.
03:05We've been saying it all year long, it's the year of opportunity.
03:07Opportunity, baby.
03:09Right now it's the opportunity for the sugar, man.
03:11Can he go out here and break gold to Dark State?
03:14Big neck breaker.
03:16Beautiful.
03:17That's what it's been about, though.
03:18Because it was Dion Lennox, and you have to understand Dion's point.
03:21Dark State needs gold once again.
03:24Like I said, Dion Lennox, he's been doing a hell of a job quarterbacking this thing.
03:28It's what Dark State opened.
03:30This guy right here, he's a loose cannon, the sugar man.
03:33He could be the one that could bring gold here tonight.
03:37Yes.
03:38Beautiful goodness.
03:39Gunwrench suplex right after that x-plex, but that'll stop anybody,
03:43will be a boot to the face as Sugar's coming in, got caught with a power slam.
03:48Born quickly trying to get into the cover, and Sugar's to the outside.
03:51Come on, come on down by the sugar man.
03:53Getting a little bit of separation, getting a little bit of space.
03:56My God.
03:58My God.
03:59Separating from Miles Born will never break.
04:02He's here once again defending the title.
04:05He will never shy away from defending his championship, no matter what the odds are.
04:10And the official better get the hell out of the way.
04:12Hey.
04:14When Miles turned around, that was a shot to Cutler, but it opened the door for
04:18a second for looking at Miles Born.
04:19He is fully focused tonight.
04:21He knows the numbers advantage, not in his favor.
04:25Right there, you see that on the tailbone, right there on the Cox's bone, right there.
04:29I'm gonna tell you right now, Miles Born is in a lot of pain, man.
04:34Still to come tonight, Hill, Ricky Saints, our main event.
04:38We'll also hear from our women's champion, Lola Vice.
04:40We'll also hear from our NXT champion, Tony D'Angelo.
04:44Not to mention, this tag team matchup.
04:46Still to come here live on NXT as Miles Born are starting to battle back in this match.
04:51Could be looking for a backslide.
04:52Can't get that last arm, but finally did.
04:55Sugar's reaching out, trying to hold that middle rope.
04:58Nice counter.
05:01My.
05:02Beautiful work, beautiful work.
05:05Sugar's eight years ago today, had his first match ever.
05:09Would love to celebrate with championship gold.
05:13And now again, Sugar's on the outside.
05:17Booker, I think the pad fell off, that was exposed steel.
05:22And I'm looking up for Armander, that steel is exposed right into the throat of the champion.
05:27There's nothing our official Derrick Sanders can do.
05:30Man.
05:31In front of us.
05:32Sugar's taking.
05:33Taking your business right now, that's Sugar's man.
05:35Who is walking out?
05:37North American champion.
05:39The official doing his best to back everybody up, because that was incidental.
05:43But Miles Born is hurt.
05:45Miles Born is down.
05:54Miles Born trying his best to get back into this matchup.
05:56He went over that exposed steel throat first.
05:58He hasn't quite been the same.
06:00But now he's starting to rally due to all the love and admiration from the NXT Universe.
06:06And they all know Miles Born's inspirational journey.
06:09And he looks to continue that uphill train with a big hip toss.
06:13You see him going right back.
06:14He's not 100% Booker.
06:15Now we're gonna see, like I said, what Miles Born is made of.
06:17He's trying to go out of here on will alone and try to battle the dark stage.
06:22It's not gonna happen that way, Vic.
06:24Sometimes you gotta go underhanded just a little bit.
06:28Sometimes you gotta go outside the box just a little bit.
06:31All right now, he's in trouble.
06:33And again, that leg drop to the throat into the cover.
06:36Do we have a new champion at Born able to kick out?
06:38And I wanna ask you this about Shivers.
06:39Do you believe Saquon actually talked to Robert Stone for Dion to have this opportunity?
06:45Or did he make it about himself?
06:47Man, I'm not gonna speculate or anything like that.
06:49I don't need the dark stage showing up in my house, okay?
06:52I don't need that.
06:53But I do know one thing.
06:54I do know one thing.
06:56Miles Born is in a lot of trouble as well as his championship is in a lot of doubt
07:00right now in this matchup.
07:02We can agree on that, can't we?
07:03We certainly can because look, I said it earlier and you kind of snickered at it.
07:06But Miles Born has had back to back weeks having to defend this championship.
07:11The toll that takes on someone, all joking aside, Booker, two weeks in a row.
07:15The physical toll and the mental toll that takes on someone.
07:18Well, it's a grind.
07:19It's definitely a grind.
07:20In the ring, this kid has had to be champion out of the ring.
07:23He's had to be champion with all the interviews and all of that.
07:26Let me tell you something, it's the hardest job in the division.
07:29That's why I say this matchup right here is gonna tell a lot about Miles Born.
07:33Always say, champion don't have to win, he just don't have to lose.
07:37That's what this kid didn't be thinking about.
07:39Big kick to the back.
07:41And Sugars put all of his body into that enziguri.
07:46And when it comes to Sugars, I also start to wonder if he feels undermined by Deion Lennox.
07:50At one point, we used to call Sugars the leader of Dark State, but I think that is swung to
07:56Deion Lennox.
07:56I never said that, and I don't need you over here trying to stir the pot or anything like that,
08:01Dick.
08:02Just stay focused here, please.
08:04Well, Sugars trying to stir up some trouble with a super belly to counter.
08:09Hard landing.
08:10Counter, right into the cover.
08:12Will it be a nothing?
08:14I gotta give credit to Sugars.
08:16You can call him the rubber band man because he just snapped back.
08:20Saquon Sugars has all, has got to have all the wind thrown all out of his body right now.
08:25Because that was a hard landing right there.
08:28Talking about a hard landing, take another look.
08:30Check it out, check it out.
08:32God.
08:32That was all of Miles Born coming right down onto the chest of Saquon Sugars.
08:38And look, you take a look at this reign of Miles Born.
08:41How crucial was it for Born to finally find this aggressive side?
08:46A side he credited Ethan Page for helping him find that he's able to roll back into
08:50the counter cover and another kick out.
08:52I love it.
08:53I love this side of Miles Born.
08:55If it wasn't for Ethan Page right now, he's keeping it up.
08:58Whoa, almost got it right there.
09:02And a takedown into a counter, and you're right, if it wasn't for Ethan Page,
09:05I gotta give credit if Born might not have found this side.
09:08A nice bridge.
09:09Look at the core strength.
09:11Looking for that backslide.
09:13That is.
09:13It's time.
09:15It was not all there.
09:17Another kick out.
09:18What a way to kick off NXT.
09:19Highly contested championship bout.
09:22All for the North American champion.
09:24Shipping.
09:25You're talking about climbing the ladder.
09:27Sugar's got caught right there, big time.
09:30Kick.
09:31Take another look.
09:32Look at the height.
09:33Look at the precision.
09:35I'll give him a 10 on that one right there.
09:38Beautiful drop kick with precision.
09:42NXT Universe now trying to rally.
09:44Born and again, Dark State is on the outside.
09:47It is crucial for Dark State to get gold back inside the grasp of one of these four men.
09:52So they can get some power back.
09:53That's in their mind.
09:55But Miles Born right now hitting the plex.
09:59Is it perfect?
10:00It is not.
10:01So close.
10:02So close there for Miles.
10:03Dion.
10:05Here comes Lennox.
10:07Lennox the man who lost the board last week.
10:10Opened the door for a moment.
10:12And now for a second.
10:14Wow.
10:15Beautiful Northern Lights.
10:17Wow.
10:17Followed up with that drop kick.
10:19High combination offensive.
10:21Now with that, Derrick Sanders has his hands for right now Booker.
10:25Let's go the hell of a job.
10:26Let's go the hell of a job.
10:27Let's go the hell of a job.
10:27Hey, hey, hey, hey.
10:29Lennox with a chair.
10:30What are you doing?
10:31What are you doing?
10:32I'm trying to win.
10:33I'm trying to win.
10:34What the hell are you doing?
10:36What are you fucking about?
10:38Well, Sanders caught Lennox red handed.
10:41I think Lennox had the rest of Dark State running the play.
10:44But it's been intercepted by the champion.
10:46What are you thinking about?
10:47We had to die.
10:48What is he thinking?
10:49I don't know if he was thinking, but Bourne up over Bourne again.
10:55Cover.
10:56One, two, three.
10:58Bourne retains.
11:02Here is your winner and still the NXT North American Champion,
11:09Maia Boyd.
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