NXT TV results (4/22): Moore’s review of Stephanie Vaquer vs. Roxanne Perez for the NXT Women’s Championship, Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez vs. Gigi Dolin and Tatum Paxley for the WWE Women’s Tag Titles

By John Moore, ProWrestling.net Staffer (@liljohnm)

NXT TV
Las Vegas, Nevada at Fontainebleau Las Vegas
Aired live April 22, 2025 on The CW Network

[Hour One] Highlights from NXT Stand and Deliver aired…

Vic Joseph, Booker T, and Corey Graves were on commentary. Mike Rome was the ring announcer…

Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez made their entrance first. Their challengers were Tatum Paxley and Gigi Dolin…

1. Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez vs. Tatum Paxley and Gigi Dolin for the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships. Liv and Tatum started the match. Liv kicked off the match with a kick and pummeling Tatum with strikes in the corner. Tatum shoved Liv to the mat and did a crazy yell at her. Raquel tagged in. Tatum did Matrix dodges to Rodriguez. Rodriguez got hands on Tatum and spun her with a reverse Giant Swing. Liv tagged in and hit Tatum with a Shotgun Dropkick for a nearfall. Tatum came back with a facebuster to the knee on Liv and tagged in Gigi.

Raquel blocked Gigi initially and then Gigi hit Raquel with a Bulldog. Raquel caught Gigi out of the air (after fumbling) and hit Gigi with a body slam for a nearfall. Gigi rolled up Raquel for a nearfall. Liv shoved Gigi off the top rope to ringside. Tatum caught Liv and Raquel with her boots off a Moonsault from the apron.[c]

Raquel was dominating Tatum back from the break. Tatum came back with a jawbreaker, but Raquel took down Tatum with a clothesline. Raquel and Liv cut the ring in half on Tatum. Tatum got a window of opportunity after reversing Raquel’s Suplex into a DDT. Gigi caught the hot tag after Liv tagged in. Gigi rallied with clotheslines and a STO. Gigi got a two count on Liv after a Half and Half suplex. Tatum tagged back in. Liv sent Tatum into Gigi after sidestepping. Rodreguez hit both opponents with a clothesline.

Tatum got a two count off Raquel with a Victory Roll. Gigi hit Raquel with a top rope cannonball. Tatum hit Raquel with a 450. Liv broke up Gigi’s pin. Gigi and Tatum hit Raquel with stereo enzuigiris. Gigi blind tagged in. Gigi and Tatum gave Raquel double headbutts. Liv blind tagged in. Liv hit Tatum with a Magnum. Raquel hit Gigi with a Texana Bomb. Liv hit Gigi with Ob-Liv-Ion for the victory.

Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez defeated Gigi Dolin and Tatum Paxley via pinfall in 11:29 to retain the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships. 

John’s Thoughts: Well worked match, but the crowd was mostly dead for it. I don’t blame them. Long Mania weekend, but also Tatum and Gigi, the babyface team, are ice cold characters. The only person to get a reaction from the crowd here positively was Liv because Liv is awesome. I guess it’s back to the TNA Knockouts Tag Division for Gigi and Tatum. Can we give them some character development, please?

A clip from “earlier today” showed Lexis King begging Penn and Teller to give him the NXT Heritage Cup back. Penn said he’ll give the title back under two conditions, King admit that magic is real, and that he’ll defend the title on this week’s NXT. Teller entered the covered shark cage. Lexis agreed that magic is real and shook hands with Penn. Penn pulled down the curtain and the Heritage Cup returned with Teller. Lexis asked who his opponent in his title defense was going to be? Penn said that will be a surprise…

Ricky Saints was shown walking in the lobby of the venue…[c]

John’s Thoughts: I hope Penn and Teller don’t meet up with Mance Warner and Steph De Lander to bring back the stupid TNA Digital Media Championship out of oblivion.

The commentators plugged Penn and Teller’s Fool Us show (great show by the way)…

Highlights of NXT Wrestlers at GCW’s Josh Barnett Bloodsport show…

Wren Sinclair was chatting with Myles Borne why he wasn’t at Bloodsport. He said he wasn’t asked. DarkState showed up to talk trash. Cutler James told Myles that NQCC should break up. Je’von Evans showed up to have Borne’s back. Borne challenged two DarkState members to a tag match against he and Je’von…

NXT North American Champion Ricky Saints made his entrance. Ricky soaked in cheers and told the crowd he loves the crowd back. Ricky said he started Mania weekend with a bang by successfully defending the championship against a man who will forever be a thorn in his side, All Ego Ethan Page. Ricky said that he made good on his promise and he is the man around here. Lexis King interrupted Ricky’s promo.

King said that Ricky had a historic weekend while he was running around finding the Heritage Cup that Penn and Teller made disappear. Saints said that he doesn’t know why King is here. King said he’s defending his title tonight and if Ricky doesn’t leave, he’ll go after the North American Championship. Saints said that King already lost a number one contender match. Saints said King’s mouth is writing checks his little ass can’t cash.

King said he hates smug arrogant pricks like Saints that think they can get over with the gullible audience. King said they don’t like Saints, they like the King. King said if Saints is so confident, he should put the title on the line against him in a one-on-one match next week. King said he’ll even put the Heritage Cup on the line in a winner-takes-all match. Saints said King is a special individual and it’s telling that King is looking past this week’s match. Saints said “you’re on”. Referees got in between King and Saints to pull them apart…[c]

Hank and Tank were bragging about their tag title win in front of Sol Ruca and Zaria. Thea Hail ran in and praised Sol for winning the North American Championship ladder match. Jaida Parker and Kelani Jordan told Thea to calm down. Fatal Influence also showed up to talk smack…

Lexis King was already in the ring for his title defense. His opponent was the returning former Heritage Cup Champion, Noam Dar…

2. Lexis King vs. Noam Dar in a regular match for the NXT Heritage Cup. Noam took down King with a boot and a few running forearms. Noam got a two count after a inverted Jackknife. Noam put King in an Ankle Lock. Noam hit King with a pump kick. Noam hit King with Muay Thai kicks for a nearfall. Noam tried to clean off King’s weird looking beard. King escaped and hit Noam with his running pelvis strike.

King worked on Noam with Kawada Kicks. Both men traded standing strikes. King took down Dar with a kick for a nearfall. Dar dodged a Swanton Bomb. Dar hit King with a backfist combo. Noam faked a Nova Roller Leg Lariat and instead hit King with the Judas Effect for the victory.

Noam Dar defeated Lexis King via pinfall in 4:02 to become the new NXT Heritage Cup Champion. 

The cameras were trying to find fans cheering, but some fans looked bored (lol)…[c]

John’s Thoughts: So, the crowd does seem a bit dead tonight. Long Mania weekend and this is the tail end. Maybe WWE should have offered free booze or something? Anyways, good to see Noam Dar back who’s been off for a long time recovering from a torn ligament. The guy is great in the ring and even greater in terms of sports entertainment hijinks. Not the biggest fan of him getting the Heritage Cup back though because it was mostly because of him why the cup was so damaged credibility wise, because it was mostly used as his comedy prop (Tony D’Angelo of all people has had the most “pure championship” run with this title having mostly sports-like matches). Well, at least Noam is back and I’m looking forward to his funny wit and SuperNova Sessions.

Sarah Schreiber interviewed Roxanne Perez about confronting Stephanie Vaquer after Stand and Deliver and meddling in a segment on the Raw after Mania. Perez said it was supposed to be her spotlight so she just had to steal the spotlight from Stephanie. Perez said if Stephanie has a problem with that, she has to do something tonight. Perez said she knows Stephanie won’t because of all the stress during a weekend champion as champion. Perez talked about how Stephanie left the venue as champ already, but Perez will leave a 3 time champion…

Fatal Influence were already in the ring. Vic Joseph plugged Jacy Jayne vs. Rosemary for this week’s TNA Impact. Thea Hail made her entrance to her new theme…

John’s Thoughts: I actually like the change after the change of Thea Hail’s theme. For one, this new theme makes me think of Metal Gear Solid Revengence. Butt rock at it’s finest. It also doesn’t remind me of Crazy Eddie Edwards, which is a character I didn’t really care for (current Eddie isn’t bad)

3. Fallon Henley (w/Jacy Jayne, Jazmyn Nyx) vs. Thea Hail. Henley reversed a armdrag into a Juji Gatame. Henley tossed around Hail into the ropes. Hail came back with a huracanrana. Hail hit Henley with a basement lariat. Henley reversed an Exploder Suplex with her own Exploder. Jayne accidentally gave Henley a Yakuza Kick after Hail dodged at ringside. Hail punched Nyx off the apron. Hail did a Underhook Slam into a Kimura for the victory.

Thea Hail defeated Fallon Henley via submission in 2:26. 

NXT Champion Oba Femi was shown walking outside…[c]

[Hour Two] NXT Champion Oba Femi made his entrance, doing his signature strut to the ring. Oba said at Stand and Deliver he did exactly what he said he was going to do. He said Jevon and Trick had all these aspirations of dethroning the ruler. He said he took their dreams, set it ablaze, and burned them to ashes. He said he told them to WAKE UP. Oba soaked in “Oba” chants. He said he did a lot of things about Je’von like calling him a child, said he wasn’t ready, said he can’t hang, and called him inmature.

He said he regrets that because he found out the Young OG was better than that. He said that although his time hasn’t come, his best years are ahead of him, “shout out to da young OG”. Oba said he has no love for Trick. He said as good as Trick is, he’s not as good as the ruler. Trick Williams made his entrance saying “nah”. Trick said Oba keeps trying to find the easy way out and only won because Je’von was in the match.

Trick said he doesn’t care if it’s Oba’s birthday, he wants his one-on-one match. Trick said he ain’t not regular Joe, he’s Trick Williams. Trick said people only think of Trick, not Oba in NXT. Trick said he’s tired of Oba Femi fumbling all his opportunities. Say his name and he appears! I believe in Joe Hendry! [Clap clap!]. TNA World Heavyweight Champion Joe Hendry made his entrance and made the crowd wave their hands side to side and say, “I believe in Joe Hendry”.

Joe said Trick isn’t the same person he tag teamed with back in the Fall. He said that Trick used to soak in cheers of fans, but now he soaks in self pity. Joe said he proved what happens when you listen to the fans by doing it at WrestleMania. Joe said Trick isn’t hungry, he’s entitled. Joe said maybe it’s Trick why he didn’t win the title and maybe Trick is a whiny bitch. Trick called Joe “minute maid”.

Trick said he believes Joe doesn’t belong here as an outsider. Trick said Joe got his ass whooped on Sunday. Trick said Joe can take his little title back home while the big dogs are talking. Joe said he may have lost to an RKO, but he did it in front of 60,000 people at Mania. Joe said he was in the ring while Trick was in the stands. Joe plugged defending the title in Los Angeles at Rebellion on Sunday.

Joe said he’s turning his attention to the NXT Champion. Oba told Joe to not make the same mistake that Moose did. Trick tried to get in the middle of them, but they got on the same page by dumping Trick to ringside with a wombo combo of punches…

The show cut to a cinematic of Channing “Stacks” Lorenzo in a suit, next to a car, in the Nevada desert. Luca Crucifino drove up and met up with Stacks to berate him for betraying his childhood friend. Stacks shut up Oba. Stacks opened his arms for Luca to join him. Luca said “oh fuc…” before the show cut to an Evolve ad…[c]

John’s Thoughts: The crowd woke up a bit here with the star power of Oba Femi and Joe Hendry firing them up. I liked the way Joe turned his loss into a positive by talking about how big of a crowd he competed in front of, and how Trick was in the back. Still no clear vision as to where the NXT Title Picture is headed. On a side note too, I hope that they don’t keep the title belt on Joe Hendry either because Frankie Kazarian definitely deserves to become champion on Sunday.

Vic Joseph plugged the WWE World’s Collide show in Inglewood happening in June…

Sarah Schreiber interviewed Sol Ruca and Zaria. Sol praised the other women in the ladder match and said she’s proud to be champion. Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez showed up. Liv tried to mock Zaria and stir the pot. Sol said nothing will come between Za-Ruca. Liv and Raquel walked off…

Vic quickly sent the cameras to Trick Williams crashing out and destroying equipment backstage. The cameras died and we could hear NXT GM Ava ordering Trick to get out of here…

Je’von Evans made his entrance. Myles Borne and Wren Sinclair were already in the ring. DarkState made their entrance. Vic noted that every DarkState match is like a Freebird rules match where they interchange members before the match starts…

5. Je’von Evans and Myles Borne (w/Wren Sinclair) vs. “DarkState” Dion Lennox and Osiris Griffin (w/Saquon Shugars, Cutler James). Evans hit Dion with a huracanrana. Griffin tagged in and powered Evans to the corner. Evans rallied with strikes, but was taken down with a headbutt. Evans and Borne dumped DarkState to ringside with dropkicks. Evans went for a dive, but was caught out of the air by Griffin. Borne took down Griffin and Lennox with an impressive flip dive.[c]

Charlie Dempsey and Tavion Heights showed up at the top of the ramp. DarkState cut the ring in half on Evans back from the break for a few minutes. Vic pointed out how Osiris is wrestling through a finger injury from the brawl with the D’Angelo family a few weeks ago. Evans got a window of opportunity after hitting Osiris with a jawbreaker. Evans got a two count on Lennox after a Sunset Flip.

Borne caught the hot tag and rallied with right hands. Borne cleaned house with Randy Orton’s signature moves, like the Power Slams and high drop kicks. Borne hit Lennox with a Ushigoroshi for a nearfall. Evans hit Griffin with a slingshot clothesline. Griffin caught Evans at ringside and slammed him into the apron. Lennox hit Borne with a Spinebuster. Griffin tagged in. DarkState hit Borne with a double team Shield Bomb for the victory.

DarkState defeated Myles Borne and Je’von Evans via pinfall in 9:58.

John’s Thoughts: DarkState continues to grow on me, but I think they need to give Saquon Shugars the mic more often to allow him to use his slick mic skills to get the group over.

Vic Joseph plugged Stephanie McMahon’s podcast…

Ava was chatting with Shawn Spears backstage. Spears ended up leaving. Yoshiki Inamura showed up and talked about how his excursion is coming to an end and he would like to thank Ava for the opportunity to wrestle in NXT. Inamura said he feels really sad that he and Briggs couldn’t win the tag titles. Inamura started to cry when Briggs showed up. Inamura said he was daijoubu. Ava said it’s okay too and that she’ll give Briggs and Inamura a title shot against Hank and Tank next week. After Ava left, Inamura gave a thumbs up and said his fake crying was a old Japanese secret…

John’s Thoughts: That was cute! Dang, I wish we could get more Inamura down the road. A shame he spent most of his time in NXT just hanging out backstage. I really like his unique sumo ring style, but he’s also a really good English speaker and character worker.

The show cut back to cinematic-mode with Tony D’Angelo knocking on Adriana Rizzo’s hotel room. Rizzo asked Tony D if anyone was following him. Tony D said it’s just him and he entered the room. Apparently the camera man is also allowed. Rizzo said she can’t believe Stacks betrayed them. Tony D said he’s doing okay physically. Rizzo asked where Luca was? Tony D said he thought Luca was just clearing his head.

Rizzo talked about how Stacks taught her how to fight against the bullies when she was young. Tony D said people change and Stacks is not alright now. Rizzo said all she needs to do is sitdown with him. Tony D said he doesn’t like rats and betrayal. He said he can’t sit down because Stacks declared war. Tony D said Rizzo can’t go home because it’s not safe. Tony D said he needs to go to some of his goons to hide at a safe house. Tony D hugged Rizzo and said it was going to be all alright…

John’s Thoughts: As much as I loved Lucha Underground, it’s very jarring to try to make things connect between “live sport” and cinematic approaches. It’s always weird to have the commentators acknowledge the cinematics, yet the players in the cinematics not acknowledging that this is being recorded and aired on TV. As a person who liked Lucha Underground, and hear me out, WWE has the resourses. Maybe WWE can do a one-hour episodic cinematic wrestling Drama, similar to LU? All cinematic promos w/ non-cinematic in-ring? Also, allow Jeremy Borash and AAA booker Konnan to produce that show and it would be FIRE!!! Trust me.

Sarah Schreiber interviewed Ricky Saints and told Saints that he’s only defending his title next week due to Noam Dar winning the Heritage Cup. Saints praised Noam Dar for returning and winning the cup. Ethan Page cut in and Saints pointed out how Page broke Noam’s ligament. Lexis King bindsided Saints and left him lying. Page knelt over Ricky and said they’ll continue this another time…

Roxanne Perez made her entrance…[c]

An ad aired for the NXT Battleground PLE…

The show cut back to the cinematic with a man putting a briefcase on a table and opening it. It was Andre Chase taking out his old Bobby Knight esque Chase U sweater. Chase yelled “We’re [bleeping] Back Baby!”…

Ricky Saints vs. Lexis King for the North American Championship, a Tony D and Stacks confrontation, and Hank and Tank vs. Briggs and Inamura for the Tag Team Titles were announced for next week…

NXT Women’s Champion Stephanie Vaquer made her entrance. Mike Rome handled the formal in ring championship match introductions…

6. Stephanie Vaquer vs. Roxanne Perez for the NXT Women’s Championship. Stephanie and Roxy started the match with chain wrestling. Vic talked about how Corey Graves used to wrestle in AAA and used that to hype WWE acquiring AAA. Both women traded quick pin attempts and chain wrestling. Perez slammed Vaquer to the mat and wiped her feet on the mat. Both women traded rollups again.

Stephanie hit Perez with a back suplex. Perez rolled to the rope to boos when she blocked Steph’s hip thrust move. Perez hit Steph on the arm with a diving knee. The show cut to picture-in-picture.[c]

The show cut back with about 6 minutes left at the top of the hour. Vaquer and Perez were trading Yay-boo right hands. Vic noted that Stephanie’s thumb was dislocated at Stand and Deliver. Both women brawled on the ramp. The ramp was level with the ring which allowed Vaquer to hit Perez with a 619 and Slingshot Crossbody. Vaquer hit Perez with Eat D-Feet.

Steph pointed at Booker and gave the crowd and Booker Booker’s favorite horny move, the Hip Thrust Face Smashes to the mat on Perez. The crowd chanted one more time. Vaquer hit Perez with a backbreaker. Perez hyperextended Vaquer’s arm into the top rope. Perez did a huracanrana into a Crossface. Perez kicked the rope to drag the submission to the center of the ring. Steph broke the hold with a rollup. Both women traded rapid rollups with two minutes left at the top of the hour.

Vaquer hit Perez with a back kick. Vaquer blocked Pop Rocks and tossed Perez into the turnbuckle. Vaquer hit Perez with a Dragon Screw. Vaquer hit Perez with a Package Shoulderbreaker for the victory.

Stephanie Vaquer defeated Roxanne Perez via pinfall in 11:38 to retain the NXT Women’s Championship. 

Giulia made her entrance to glare at Stephanie from the ramp. Jordynne Grace wash shown glaring at both women from the balcony. The show closed after the executive producer credits…

John’s Thoughts: Busy weekend for Vaquer with Stand and Deliver, Raw after Mania, and NXT. She looked great on all those shows and showed that it’s guaranteed she’ll be a success once she’s called up. That’s a gimme, given that Stephanie has stated in interviews that she’s only in NXT voluntarily to improve her English speaking, promo delivery, and carry the NXT brand. She’s already succeeded at all of that and I appreciate the hard work she’s putting in to perfect her presentation. Good match, that would have been better if they didn’t have the CW Network time crunch.

When is Roxanne Perez being called up? Every time it looks like she’s getting called up she shows up on NXT doing something important. A few weeks ago she was begging for a Stand and Deliver match for some reason? Shouldn’t she be begging for a main roster match? She’s great, so hopefully creative is there for her when they do finally settle with her on the main roster. A solid show after Stand and Deliver. Nothing too earth shattering in terms of surprises (nice return for Noam Dar though), but a good show nonetheless. The glaring negative was the crowd seemed a bit out of it after the long Mania weekend (though credit for them for responding well to the Oba Femi segment and women’s main event.