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The second-ever Fight Pit match headlines tonights episode of NXT. Tommaso Ciampa and Timothy Thatcher will face off inside the NXT Fight Pit tonight. The match was originally supposed to happen at NXT New Years Evil two weeks ago, but it was postponed due to Thatcher suffering a minor injury. Thatcher also took part in the first Fight Pit match, defeating Matt Riddle in May of last year. The inaugural womens Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic kicks off tonight with Mercedes Martinez & Toni Storm fa...

NXT TV  Aired January 20, 2021 on USA Network [Hour One] Highlights from last week’s NXT and 205 Live Dusty Classic matches aired. They then aired a teaser for this week’s NXT show featuring Dusty Classic matches and the NXT Fight Pit… Vic Joseph, Wade Barrett, and Beth Phoenix were the commentary team. During the opening match entrances, Vic Joseph introduced the return of Beth Phoenix as an on-site commentator. Wade shot off party poppers in celebration of Beth returning to the table�...

0 of 7 Credit: WWE.com The Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic has taken over WWE NXT. This tournament is no longer just a single-gender tag team experience as the women will now compete at the same time as the men. The January 20 edition of NXT included three big matches in the Dusty Classic. First, for the men, Johnny Gargano teamed up with Austin Theory. The two members of The Way would fight their recent rivals Kushida and Leon Ruff. Lucha House Party also dropped by from Monday Night Raw to comp...

The quarterfinals of the mens Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic will kick off on NXT next week. WWE has announced that the next round of the mens Dusty Classic will begin with MSK vs. Drake Maverick & Killian Dain and The Grizzled Young Veterans vs. Kushida & Leon Ruff taking place on NXT next Wednesday. Kushida & Ruff advanced in the tournament by defeating NXT North American Champion Johnny Gargano & Austin Theory in a first round match on NXT tonight. MSK and The Grizzled Young Veterans both wo...

NXT recap & reactions (Jan. 20, 2021): The Pit Share this story FIGHT PIT! Capitalizing Fight Pit the way we do at Cageside is slightly tongue in cheek. It’s such a ridiculous name for a wresting gimmick, over the top as we expect in our sports entertainment. But it’s actually one of my favorite innovations in recent memory. It has a very unique look. It’s a cage, but there are no ropes and there’s a balcony that the men can fight on that always seems perilous. The tap out or knockout r...

With two Dusty Classics running simultaneously, the black-and-gold brand is able to set-up more of their card in advance than usual.

Updated Tournament Bracket For Dusty Rhodes Tag-Team Classic ); The brackets for the Dusty Rhodes Tag-Team Classic tournament have been updated following Wednesday’s episode of WWE NXT. We saw Leon Ruff & Kushida defeat The Way while Lucha House Party beat Imperium to advance to advance to the second round during Wednesday night’s episode. Here are the updated tournament brackets leading into next week’s show: Round One

Welcome to our WrestlingINC.com Live WWE NXT Viewing Party. Tonight’s show comes from the Capitol Wrestling Center in Orlando, FL. – Tonight’s WWE NXT episode opens up on the USA Network with a look back at the 2021 Men’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic kicking off last week. We also get hype for the Women’s Dusty Classic, which kicks off tonight, and the Fight Pit main event between Tommaso Ciampa and Timothy Thatcher. – We’re live from the Capitol Wrestling Center at the WWE Perf...

WWE NXT: Tommaso Ciampa, Timothy Thatcher collide in the Fight Pit UPI News Service, 01/21/2021  Tommaso Ciampa and Timothy Thatcher went to war inside of the Fight Pit in the main event of WWE NXT. ADVERTISEMENT The Fight Pit is Thatchers specialty and is a modified steel cage with a small walkway located at the top. The match can only be won by knockout or submission. Ciampa and Thatcher started the brutal match on the walkway Wednesday before eventually taking their battle do...

NXTs Finn Balor Finds a Surprising Tag Partner ✖ NXT Champion Finn Balor was out for blood after what Pete Dunne, Oney Lorcan, and Danny Burch pulled last week, as their attack injured Balors arm and reinjured Kyle OReillys jaw. Balor found General Manager William Regal and wanted a match with Lorcan and Burch outnumbered or not, but Regal told him he needed to find a partner if he wanted to make that match happen, and that he most certainly did. Later in the night we saw Balor head into the ...