By John Moore, ProWrestling.net Staffer (@liljohnm)
NXT Halloween Havoc
Orlando, Florida, at the WWE Performance Center
Streamed October 31, 2026, on The CW (Netflix internationally)
Arrival shots were shown of Tony D’Angelo, Grayson Waller, Kelani Jordan, Wren Sinclair, and Kendal Grey were shown. A Halloween themed intro teaser video aired…
Vic Joseph and Booker T were on commentary. Mike Rome was the ring announcer. Danhausen was the host of this year’s Halloween Havoc…
Halloween Havoc host Danhausen and the Mini-Hausens made their entrance. Danhausen did his “very nice, very evil” intro for himself. He talked about how Robert Stone paid him a bunch of human monies to fun this show. Danhausen said he did something extra, by turning rooms in the Performance Center into “scare rooms”. Danhausen said “let the havoc begin”…
Vic Joseph and Booker T checked in on commentary. Booker was dressed normally while Vic wore a purple and green Joker themed suit…
Tavion Heights made his entrance with a Freddy Kruger claw. Myles Borne made his entrance in bloody themed gear with a Jason Vorhees mask…
1. Tavion Heights vs. Myles Borne in a Weapons Wild Match. Heights dumped Borne to ringside. Borne grabbed a Kendo Stick and hit Heights in the gut and throat to send him to ringside. Heights fended Borne back with a fire extinguisher. Heights then ran through Borne by hitting him with the extinguisher. Heights brought a Slim Jim table into play to hype up the crowd.
Borne hit Heights with a chair to the gut after Heights set up the table. Borne hit the ringpost after Heights sidestepped him, which hurt Borne’s hand. Heights gave Borne a Belly to Belly into some props next to the timekeeper area heading into break.[c]
Back from break, Borne put a chair on the ankle of Heights and then gave the chair a knee drop. Vic reminded viewers that Borne injured Tavion’s ankle by Pilmanizing him a few weeks ago. Borne put a trash can on Heights in the corner. When Borne went for a running move, Heights chucked the trash can into Borne. Height gave Borne an Exploder Suplex into the exposed turnbuckles in the corner.
Heights dragged a heavy toolbox in the ring. Borne knocked the toolbox away from Tavion and hit Tavion with the toolbox to open it and spill the contents. Borne pulled out a black bag from the box and poured out nuts and bolts. Borne went for Borne Again, but Heights backdropped Borne into the nuts and bolts. After Borne recovered, he gave Heights an Orton-style draping DDT at ringside.
Heights punched Borne in the gut. Borne came back with a power slam into the chair and nuts and bolts for a nearfall. Borne tried to use stairs and a chair to pin Heights, but Heights kicked out. Heights chucked a chair into Borne when Borne tried to hit him wiht the steel steps. Borne felt on the steps and Heights hit him in the back with a chair (which was mostly blocked by the edges of the gap).
Heights put Borne in a trash can and swung a chair at him (at least it wasn’t an axe, which “killed” Jeff Hardy this past week on TNA). Heights was about to pilmanize Borne’s knee, but Borne begged for mercy. Heights paused a bit, but then Pilmanized Borne’s ankle. Heights put Borne in an Ankle Lock. Borne got to the rope, but there were no rope breaks.
Borne escaped by rolling Heights into the exposed turnbuckles. Heights and Borne made their way to the top rope. Borne grabbed a camera from the cameraperson and then hit Heights with hit, sending him into the Slim Jim table at ringside from earlier. Borne hit Heights with Borne Again on a trash can for the win.
Myles Borne defeated Tavion Heights via pinfall in 14:44 to win the Weapons Wild Match.
John’s Thoughts: The match benefited from being given time to develop over time. That said, WWE hardcore matches are handicapped over the past decade or so given that they stopped using blood for the most part and only for specific big moments. Even the thumbtack fakeout spot is starting to get a bit old (though nuts and bolts are nothing to sleep at). Can we use corn syrup blood at least? Anyways, good hard work to eventually make this match pretty decent, but I also feel like Borne preferring to work at a Randy Orton methodical pace makes the match plod a bit.
Tristan Angels was hanging out with some shawtys backstage, acting like he wasn’t scared but ended up freaking out at everything backstage that was set up to be one of those generic haunted house setups. There were random meathooks and knives around. Sean Legacy popped out of a barrel dressed as a butcher to give Angels a boo jumpscare. Legacy ended up taking the ladies hanging out with Angels to go check out some of Danhausen’s scare rooms in the Performance Center haunted house…
John’s Thoughts: Ugh, looks like we’re in for some cartoon BS.
Naraku jumped Shiloh Hill backstage. Both men ended up spitting orange mist at each other during the brawl. Ugh, for some reason, we can see Naraku trapped in his hallucination, which was a long empty hallway. We also saw Shiloh’s hallucination, which sent him to a pumpkin filled forest set. “To be continued” flashed on the screen…
John’s Thoughts: Boo! Not as in a jumpscare, but as in I’m booing this cartoony ass stuff.
Entrances for the next match took place…
2. NXT Women’s North American Champion Zaria vs. Izzi Dame in a non-title match. Vic noted that Izzi themed her gear after Gelinda from Wicked to get into Zaria’s head. Izzi tried to run away initially, but Zaria got her hands on Izzi and slammed her around the ring. Izzi came back with a headbutt and boots on the ground. Izzi rode Zaria like a surfboard to mock her past relationship with Sol Ruca. Zaria recovered and did her signature hangman Sleeper on the top rope.
Izzi tripped Zaria off the top rope, sending the back of her neck to the top buckle.[c]
