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NXT HALLOWEEN HAVOC RESULTS
OCTOBER 25, 2025
PRESCOTT VALLEY, ARIZ. AT FINDLAY TOYOTA CENTER
STREAMED LIVE ON PEACOCK (U.S.) & NETFLIX (Intâ€ll)
REPORT BY KELLY WELLS, PWTORCH CONTRIBUTOR

Commentators: Vic Joseph, Booker T

Ring Announcer: Mike Rome

-“Prescott” isn’t pronounced as you would think if you’ve never lived in Arizona, and Vic nailed it, so someone had the forethought to brief him. Some of tonight’s players were shown doing their thing and arriving at the venue. Tatum Paxley was shown wearing glasses, which is something we almost never see wrestlers doing, even in these semi-candid moments.

-There was a spooky female-narrated hype video for the event, outlining each of tonight’s matches interspersed with shots of the unforgiving desert (which is actually pretty forgiving in late October).

(1) JE’VON EVANS & LEON SLATER vs. MR. IGUANA & LA PARKA

Evans was introduced first and messed around, grabbing a skeleton prop from the set and talking to him on the way to the ring. Slater is the TNA X-Division champion and his work has to be seen to be believed (just like that of Evans, of course). We got a shot of the announcers, and Vic was wearing a Riddler suit. Nice reaction for La Parka, and a much bigger one for the bonkers Mr. Iguana.

Evans & La Parka started, and of course we had some speedy reversals and some lucha posturing early. The two went for lariats and went to a stalemate. La Parka danced a little and they went back to rights, then kicks. They vascillated between American-style cruiserweight wrestling and lucha libre near-falls and heavily-choreographed reversals. Iguana and Slater tagged in, both to cheers. Iguana played dead on an early bump to his back, then evaded a spot and hit a huracanrana, and they went to speedy reversals themselves, and Iguana did a cross-legged pose with his hand on his face like Jack Benny, for all the seventy-year-olds reading. Evans made a blind tag and he and Slater double-teamed Iguana and planted him on the mat, then danced a little as Iguana played dead again.

Parka tagged in and dumped both of his opponents, then tuned up the band. Iguana threw his stuffed iguana out to them, and they threw it back and forth to each other, treating it like a real animal to be avoided, until Iguana hit them with a plancha. Everyone got involved for a moment and it once again settled to Parka and Evans. Parka caught Evans, pressed him a couple of times, then slammed him for two. He tagged Iguana, who trapped Evans in the paradise lock, a move not seen regularly in WWE since Jack Gallagher. He sat on Evans and posed, then ran the ropes and dropkicked him in the back porch. Parka tagged in and covered for two. Evans got back into it by catching Parka for a snap suplex. He jumped for the hot tag but Parka expertly snatched him out of the air and slammed him back.

Both guys made tags shortly after. Slater got his shine segment by hitting Iguana with some quick offense. He got a “TNA” chant. There was a “Triple A” chant right after. Evans hit a dropkick on Iguana for two. Iguana caught Evans in an arm submission, but Evans lifted him and walked over to make the tag. Parka tagged in as well and he laid out Slater with a side suplex for two. Slater got in some chops and palm strikes. Parka took off one of his skeleton hand gloves and laid in a bunch of chops. Again, both men tagged.

Iguana opened his gear and asked for a chop. Evans obliged and Iguana did another flat-back bump. Iguana broke out his stuffed iguana and used it as a puppet and a weapon against his opponents until it got ripped off and tossed in the air, distracting him for a dropkick. Slater was the next to be featured, and he hit his awesome fly over the corner onto Iguana. Back inside, he hit a high cross-body on Parka, and made the tag. Evans tagged in, hit a frog splash and got a very long two. Evans and Slater hyped each other up, but behind them appeared the Iguana puppet, making for a very silly visual. Everyone got involved and the iguana was vaguely involved in the spots. Iguana smacked Slater with his iguana, leading to a powerslam by Parka, who got two – broken up as Evans knocked Iguana into the pile.

Parka and Evans settled as the legal men, and Parka hit a brainbuster. He tagged Iguana and the two went up in the same corner, but Evans fought them and joined them. Slater cleared Parka off the corner and again it was bonzo gonzo for a bit. Slater hit a cutter on La Parka and as Evans dealt with Parka outside, Slater hit his top rope finisher on Iguana inside to get the duke.

WINNERS: Leon Slater & Je’Von Evans at 17:55.

(Wells’s Analysis: It didn’t have a lot of classic tag team action as all four are popular guys who work babyface, and it was often closer to a tornado match than a standard tag match, but it’s undeniable that it worked as an opener for the hot Arizona crowd)

-Blake Howard sat down for an interview with Ethan Page, who said the proof is there that he’s the greatest North American Champion of all time. I don’t know if this segment was shown to everyone, or just to premium subscribers as everyone else got a few commercials.

-Zaria, with more elaborate makeup than usual, tried to cheer up Sol Ruca and convinced her she’d be defending Ruca’s championship successfully after Ruca wasn’t cleared to compete tonight. Izzi Dame and Tatum Paxley walked up and Izzi stirred crap, saying she didn’t know about that, but Paxley would be taking the Women’s Championship later tonight. She said when Paxley wins, the Culling all win, but she doesn’t think it’s the same for ZaRuca.

(2) EL HIJO DE DR. WAGNER JR. vs. ETHAN PAGE (c) – Day of the Dead match for the NXT North American Championship

Page had the left side of his face painted with Day of the Dead iconography, thought there was a red maple leaf around the eye black. They even photoshopped it onto his face on the ring video for tonight.

The two had some quick escapes and landed a large number of chops in the corner early. The match was contested in low light, which I guess is part of the Day of the Dead gimmick. The action spilled outside early, where Wagner got a chair from under the ring and laid in a big shot to Page’s back. A “we want tables” chant went out early, as usual when something more interesting is happening. The action went back inside shortly after, and Wagner put Page into the paradise lock and then set up a chair against his posterior, then dropkicked it. That kind of takes the wind out of the sails of the paradise lock spot in the previous match.

Wagner went out and got a trash can and lid, and held them up to get the pop before he brought them inside and slammed the can down on Page. He tried to powerbomb Page onto it, but Page slipped out the back. He ate the can from a Wagner shot for his trouble. Wagner went up but Page hit him with a thrust kick, then hit a jawbreaker using the trash can lid for two. He used the lid repeatedly on Wagner’s back, then fired up to boos.

The two fought over the rope with Wagner outside on the apron, and Page charged Wagner into a turnbuckle and he crumbled to the floor. There was a “We want tables”/”No we don’t” dueling chant. The two fought outside, and Page choked Wagner out with a femur from one of the skeletons (I didn’t see the bone very well during the spot, so I’m taking Vic’s word that it was the femur). Wagner started getting a table out, and the legs on one side were up. Page yanked Wagner down into the upturned table legs, and soon after there was blood splatter everywhere and Wagner was making some gutteral hacking sounds, so it may have been a worse spot than intended. Oh, never mind, Page’s forehead is caked in blood. I missed in real time how it happened. The ref had his gloves on, of course.

The action went back inside, where a chair was set up in a corner, and another on the mat. Page charged Wagner to the one in the corner and transitioned into a sidewalk slam onto the other chair, then covered fo two. The table was in the ring also, laying flat, upside-down. Page ripped away at Wagner’s mask to a chorus of boos. He snapped it from the eyes and pulled the top part back, and Wagner had face paint, though it was quickly fading with all the sweat. He shook and sold his rage at what Page had done, and Page sold fear that he made the wrong decision. Wagner went into a flurry, hitting a springboard gutbuster for a long two.

The two sold for a bit, and Wagner recovered enough for a thrust kick in the corner. He trapped a trash can between the ropes but against Page, and he jumped coast-to-coast to dropkick the can into Wagner for a long two, as Vic sold it as an inevitable finish (I didn’t buy it as a finish, but I appreciate that out of an announcer in the right dosage). Wagner fought Page taking off his mask, but it allowed Page to hit a powerslam onto the downed trash can, and get a near-fall that would have been convincing but Wagner was clearly watching the ref and waiting for the right moment to kick out. There was a “Let’s go Ethan”/”Ethan sucks” dueling chant that was close to even, which I can understand because we still haven’t seen enough out of Wagner to have a huge emotional attachment to him.

Wagner hit a couple of impact spots and then a moonsault for a long two. He sold frustration for just a bit, then set up the (as usual, branded) table and set it up near the corner. Wagner took Page up in the corner. They fought for position for a while, and Page slipped out underneath, then messed with Wagner’s mask and turned it around to blind him. Wagner kicked Page away, but Page threw salt into Wagner’s eyes and hit the Twisted Grin through the table to finish.

WINNER: Ethan Page at 18:21.

(Wells’s Analysis: A decent enough street fight that was elevated with the sub-story of the mask leading into all the most critical spots in the endgame. Page is reaching five months as champion and has quite a few big defenses at this point)

-Kelani Jordan, dressed as the red queen from Alice in Wonderland, was run upon by Jordynne Grace, dressed as Velma from Scooby-Doo. They had a chippy conversation about Jordan siding with TNA during the invasion, and it led to Grace giving Jordan a hard slap. Jordan said Grace would regret it.

-NXT: Gold Rush, a two-week Tuesday night event in NXT in mid-November, was promoted. Evolve, AAA and TNA will all be part of the shows.

-Kelly Kincaid sat down with Izzi Dame and Tatum Paxley in another segment that might be for Premium subscribers. Dame talked over Paxley a couple of times and said nobody else had her best interests at heart, and Lyra Valkyria is going to abandon Paxley again, and Dame will be there to pick up all of the broken pieces. Dame was pretty strong in this segment, and continues to become a better long-term prospect by the week after a long stretch of going nowhere until she got comfortable in her role with The Culling.

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WWE NXT ShowDown Highlights:On October 8, the special episode of WWE NXT ShowDown took place at the Performance Center. This event was a TV special, which was aired live on CW in the United States, and in India, it was streamed live on Netflix. This episode of NXT was special as it was a collaboration event with TNA. We saw multiple TNA wrestlers on this episode of NXT.Â

On this episode of WWE NXT, it was already advertised that Jeff Hardy and Matt Hardy will face the DarkState for the title vs title tag team match, and Ethan Page will defend his NXT North American Championship against TNAâ€s Mustafa Ali. Last week, it was also announced that there will be a four-on-four Menâ€s and Womenâ€s elimination matches between Team TNA and Team NXT.

WWE NXT ShowDown Highlights: The Hardy Boys vs DarkState

The Hardy Boys, Jeff and Matt Hardy, faced DarkSate in a title vs title match. The DarkState are the NXT Tag team Champions, and the Hardy Boys are the TNA Tag team champions, and in this match, both titles were on the line. The match went on for 20+ minutes, and received “this is Awesome†chants from the NXT audience. At the end of the match, Hardy Boys defeated DarkSate and made history to become the first tag team in the history of professional wrestling to hold the TNA and NXT Tag Team Championships at once.

WWE NXT ShowDown Highlights: NXT vs TNA Womenâ€s elimination match

It was announced that this match would have a special guest referee, and it was Jordynne Grace. The NXTâ€s Womenâ€s team included Jacy Jayne, Sol Ruca, Jaida Parker, and Lola Vice. The TNA Womenâ€s team included Kelani Jordan, Cassie Lee, Jessie McKay, and Mara Sade. The match went on for almost 25 minutes. At the end of the match, from Team TNA, only Kelani Jordan was standing, and from NXT, the remaining members were Sol Ruca and Jacy Jayne. Jordan was about to hit the 450 splash to Sol Ruca, but Sol Ruca countered with her fisher Sol Snatcher, and Jacy Jayne pinned the TNA Knockouts Champion, Kelani Jordon, to secure the victory for Team NXT.

WWE NXT ShowDown Highlights: Mustafa Ali vs Ethan Page

As it was announced on last weekâ€s episode of NXT, Ethan Page defended his North American Championship against TNAâ€s Mustafa Ali. This match went on for 20+ minutes, and in this match, we saw many shocking moments, including Page pushing Ali from the top rope to the outside of the ring. At the end of the match, Page delivered his finisher to Ali and retained his North American Championship via pinfall.

WWE NXT ShowDown Highlights: NXT vs TNA Menâ€s elimination match

It was announced that this match would have a special guest referee, and it was Joe Hendry. Team NXTâ€s Menâ€s team included Ricky Saints, Trick Williams, Jeâ€Von Evans, and Myles Borne. Team TNAâ€s Men’s team included Mike Santana, Frankie Kazarian, Moose, and Leon Slater. This match was one of the best matches of the entire night, and we also saw one of the biggest shocking moments of the entire night, when Trick Williams betrayed Team NXT, and because of this, at the end of the match, Moose delivered a power bomb to Ricky Saints and secured the victory for Team TNA via pinfall.

FAQs

Q. Is NXT Owned by WWE?

A. NXT is owned by WWE and is considered the developmental brand of WWE.

Q. Who are the Men’s and Women’s champions of NXT?

A. Jacy Jayne is the current NXT Women’s Champion, and Ricky Saints is the current NXT Men’s Champion

Q. Who is the head of creative at NXT?

A. Shawn Michaelâ€s is the head of creative at NXT.

Q. Does WWE own TNA?

A. WWE doesn’t own TNA; however, they have a partnership deal that allows wrestlers from both companies to appear on any show.

Q. Is Jeff Hardy in WWE?

A. Jeff Hardy is not signed with WWE; he is currently signed with TNA.

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NXT TV RESULTS
OCTOBER 7, 2025
ORLANDO, FLA. AT CAPITOL WRESTLING CENTER
LIVE ON CW NETWORK
REPORT BY KELLY WELLS, PWTORCH CONTRIBUTOR

NXT Commentators: Vic Joseph, Booker T

Ring Announcer: Mike Rome

Backstage Correspondent(s): Sarah Schreiber

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-The show opened with a hype video promising a once-in-a-lifetime showdown. Video clips were shown of the major players in tonight’s matches, with much of the footage coming from last week’s show that set this up. The two men’s teams were shown arriving, and Vic said that would be tonight’s main event. The women’s teams were shown arriving also.

(1) THE HARDY BOYZ (Matt Hardy & Jeff Hardy) (TNA Tag Team Champions) vs. DARKSTATE (Dion Lennox & Osiris Griffin) (w/Cutler James & Saquon Shugars) (NXT Tag Team Champions) – Champions vs. Champions, winner takes all

DarkState tried to swarm, but the Hardy Boyz cleared the ring of them. Referee Adrian Butler sent James & Shugars to the back. The bell sounded and Jeff faced off with Lennox. In the audience, Bubba Ray and D-Von Dudley were shown, as members of both companies’ hall of fame. Jeff controlled Lennox and made a couple of early covers, but Lennox made a tag and Griffin grounded Jeff with basic power stuff. Griffin missed a standing leg drop and Matt tagged in. Matt fought off Griffin in a corner, but got caught on a charge. He set up a twist of fate but Lennox had made the blind tag and he grounded Jeff. The match went to commercial with no split-screen. [c]

Lennox was still dominating Jeff upon return. He went with some ground & pound followed by a splash. He tagged Griffin, who kept it up with some kicks, then a choke over the second rope. Lennox tagged in and laid out Jeff with a big DDT for two. The hot audience chanted for the Hardy Boyz. Griffin hit a big elbow for two. Lennox tagged in as the heat sequence reached five minutes. Jeff finally fought free of the would-be double team and hit the whisper in the wind on both men. He leaped for the hot tag. Matt hit a bunch of rights, a side effect on Lennox, and a spike DDT on Griffin. He battered Lennox in a corner, and the Hardyz teamed up for the Plot Twist for two. “This is awesome” chant.

DarkState hit a big spinebuster on Matt, then set up a Doomsday Device. Matt wriggled free in a very awkward spot, but the guys saved it without injury. Matt put down Lennox with a Twist of Fate. Jeff tagged in and immediately hit the Swanton Bomb for the win and the titles.

WINNERS: The Hardy Boyz at 10:43.

(Wells’s Analysis: No real surprise, as this was clearly set up to allow the Hardy Boyz to win another tag title they’ve never won before. DarkState really could have used the win as while they’re champions, the jury is still out on them, but between history – and the fact that TNA had yet to win an NXT Championship while NXT has repeatedly won TNA Championships, this outcome was inevitable. The match was okay, and was set up for the Hardy Boyz to play their greatest hits)

-Vic promoted the women’s Survivor Series match, up next. [c]

-While he didn’t mention their relationship, Vic was clearly jazzed to introduce TNA ring announcer McKenzie Mitchell (his wife, formerly of NXT).

(2) TEAM NXT (Jacy Jayne & Sol Ruca & Lola Vice & Jaida Parker) vs. TEAM TNA (Kelani Jordan & Mara Sade & The Iinspiration (Cassie Lee & Jessie McKay) – Survivor Series Style Match with Jordynne Grace as Special Referee

After Parker was introduced, she and Vice did Parker’s litte entrance dance together, and when Ruca got there, the three did hers, too. They were less excited about joining Jayne, but they did so.

Jayne and Jordan – the captains – started the match and went to quick mat reversals and near-falls. After a few shots neither could land, Vice tagged herself in, to the annoyance of Jayne. Jordan held Vice in an arm wringer and the Iinspiration made two tags, grounded Vice, and did a pose to cheers. Santino Marella and Carlos Silva watched on a monitor in a room somewhere in the CWC. Parker and Sade tagged in. Parker and Vice did a stereo hip attack on Sade. Sade threw some rights, then hit a neckbreaker and covered for two. Parker and Sade got chippy, and Grace tried to get control, but then she told them to just go ahead and fight. It was pier eight for a moment and all women got some shine as action spilled out to the ramp side. Ruca hit a plancha to the outside on all four TNA women, and the NXT team jumped up and down together excitedly, totally giving in to being a team for one week that will likely be ignored soon when it’s time to just be faces and heels again, and the match went to commercial, again with no split-screen. [c]

Cassie Lee had Sol Ruca grounded, and Mara Sade tagged in to keep it up. The audience was doing the wave for some reason. Sade hit a knee drop on Ruca for two, then tagged each member of the Iinspiration, but Ruca hit them with a double suplex as they attempted to suplex her. Jordan and Jayne each tagged in, and Jayne played a babyface house of fire, which was…a strange decision. She hit a cannonball on Jordan in a corner, then a senton from the second buckle for two. Jordan hit a split-legged stunner and both Parker and Sade tagged in. Lee and McKay made tags again and Parker beat them both down and stacked them in the corner for the teardrop. She missed in the corner on Sade, who hit a reverse x-factor. Sade went up and completely missed a moonsault by overshooting Parker. Yikes. Parker hit a falcon arrow and got a near-fall, broken up by Ruca. Yet again, every woman got involved and hit impact moves. Parker laid out a bunch of TNA women, but Sade rolled her up for three. Immediately afterward, Ruca came in and hit the Sol Snatcher to eliminate Sade. I’m guessing the formula of TNA getting some quick rollups and NXT getting pins via finishers will continue. [c]

First elimination: Parker by Sade at 12:37

Second elimination: Sade by Ruca at 13:05

McKay & Jayne were going at it evenly. McKay got dumped but Lee quickly got her back to the ring. Vice made a hot tag and hit impact kicks on all of TNA. Vice hit Jordan and McKay with repeated hips in the corners, and Lee reentered. Vice finished off Lee with a backfist, and then finished McKay with a submission, with Jordan able to break it up but electing not to.

Third and fourth: The Iinspiration by Lola Vice at 19:00 and 19:24

Jordan hit the split-legged moonsault and had the visual pin on Jayne, but Grace was hung up with the Iinspiration and she didn’t get the pin. Jordan did, however, roll up Vice for the pin shortly after. McKenzie Mitchell said “The winners of the match, team – ” but thankfully caught herself at the last moment.

Fifth elimination: Vice by Jordan at 21:19

Fans chanted “traitor” at Jordan. She fought both women, but eventually got hit with a Sol Snatcher. Jayne tagged herself in and stole the pin.

Sixth elimination: Jordan by Jayne at 23:12.

WINNERS: Jacy Jayne & Sol Ruca at 23:12.

(Wells’s Analysis: Jayne continues to be a big priority for whatever reason. Vice got plenty of shine, scoring two eliminations, but didn’t get to survive; however, her elimination came at the hands of someone who’s actually NXT, so it’s not like she took a fall to TNA. The only NXT star to take a fall to TNA was Parker, and it was a flash rollup that did her in. Fun action through most of this, but Mara Sade’s completely missed moonsault and McKenzie Mitchell nearly calling the winner too early might reinforce the stereotypes that some WWE fans feel about most any other company)

-Mustafa Ali and Ethan Page separately walked through the back ahead of their match. [c]

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SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)… NXT TV RESULTSSEPTEMBER 9, 2025ORLANDO, FLA. AT…