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Advertised for the show:
Franky Monet debuts
Pete Dunne vs. Bobby Fish
Raquel González & Dakota Kai vs. Ember Moon & Shotzi Blackheart
New North American champion Bronson Reed speaks
As usual, here are our five questions about NXT tonight:
1) What happens to the loser of tonight’s main event?
We’ve been speculating on how long both Karrion Kross and Finn Bálor would remain on the black-and-gold brand for more than a year.
The Prince’s second NXT run was given second life by a strong title run, but at 39 years old, how much more of his career does he want to dedicate to what it clearly WWE’s least popular nationally televised show? Bálor gave a pretty clear indication this week on FOX Sports’
Advertised for the show:
New NXT Women’s champion Raquel González speaks
Undisputed Cruiserweight champion Santos Escobar issues an open challenge
Tag champs MSK defend against Killian Dain & Drake Maverick
What happened after Kyle O’Reilly won his unsanctioned war with Adam Cole?
Franky Monet arrives
Leon Ruff vs. Isaiah “Swerve” Scott
Dexter Lumis & Bronson Reed team with Women’s Tag champs Shotzi Blackheart & Ember Moon for an eight-person mixed tag with The Way
More fallout from last week’s two-night
TakeOver: Stand & Deliver
1) How compelling a champ is Karrion Kross?
He re-claimed the top spot last Thursday, beating Finn Bálor to take back the belt he never lost. We’ve seen that part of Kross & Scarlett’s story. Now for the hard part, the part we were denied when Karrion suffered a separated shoulder while beating Keith Lee for the NXT title last summer. what next?
The final episode of NXT before TakeOver: Stand & Deliver takes place tonight.
A 12-man battle royal with TakeOver implications is part of the lineup for tonight s show. Dexter Lumis, Roderick Strong, Bronson Reed, Kushida, Leon Ruff, Jake Atlas, Pete Dunne, LA Knight, Cameron Grimes, Isaiah Swerve Scott, Austin Theory, and Tyler Rust are set for the battle royal. The final six wrestlers will advance to a Gauntlet Eliminator match at TakeOver: Stand & Deliver night one. The winner of that match will challenge for Johnny Gargano s North American Championship at night two of TakeOver: Stand & Deliver.
Once tonight s battle royal gets down to its final six, the order of elimination will determine the order of entry for the Gauntlet Eliminator match.
Before challenging for Io Shirai s NXT Women s Championship at TakeOver Stand & Deliver, Raquel Gonzalez will be in action on NXT tonight.
WWE has announced that Gonzalez vs. Zoey Stark will take place on tonight s NXT. The episode is the go-home show for TakeOver: Stand & Deliver.
Gonzalez & Dakota Kai defeated Shirai & Stark in a tag team match on NXT last week. After pinning Stark to get the win, Gonzalez attacked Shirai and slammed her onto the announce table.
Shirai vs. Gonzalez for the NXT Women s Championship will be the main event of TakeOver: Stand & Deliver night one. The two-night event is taking place on Wednesday, April 7 and Thursday, April 8. Night one will air live on the USA Network, while night two will be live on Peacock in the United States and live on the WWE Network everywhere else.