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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 Performance Center in Orlando, Florida as Vic Joseph welcomes us. He’s joined at ringside by Wade Barrett and WWE Hall of Famer Beth Phoenix, who is making her return to ringside tonight after calling the action remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fans chant “NXT!” as we see the Fight Pit structure set up in part of the arena.
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 Thatcher s 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 down to the ring.
Ciampa performed a low blow that was used to escape a sleeper hold. Ciampa was also able to perform Willow s Bell and land Fairytale Ending, but it still wasn t enough.
NXT s Finn Balor Finds a Surprising Tag Partner
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NXT Champion Finn Balor was out for blood after what Pete Dunne, Oney Lorcan, and Danny Burch pulled last week, as their attack injured Balor s arm and reinjured Kyle O Reilly s 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 locker room, coming face to face with the Undisputed ERA s Roderick Strong, Adam Cole, and Kyle O Reilly. They weren t too pleased with his appearance, saying look at what the cat dragged in .