Before the show airs, it is announced by Byron Saxton that a tournament will begin tonight to determine the first-ever WWE NXT Tag Team Champions.
Dark Matches:
WWE United States Champion Antonio Cesaro defeated Justin Gabriel with an uppercut in a non-title match.
Natalya defeated Emma with the Sharpshooter.
Episode 1: Airing January 23rd
* The Wyatt Family defeated Percy Watson and Yoshi Tatsu.
* Sasha Banks defeated Alicia Fox.
* Corey Graves defeated Jake Carter.
* Adrian Neville and Oliver Grey defeated 3MB (Drew McIntyre and Heath Slater.
* WWE NXT Champion Big E Langston defeated Axl Keegan.
Episode 2: Airing January 30th
* Kassius Ohno and Leo Kruger defeated Alex Riley and Derrick Bateman.
* Mason Ryan defeated Sakamoto.
* Paige defeated Aksana.
* Bo Dallas and Michael McGillicutty defeated Epico and Primo w/Rosa Mendes.
Byron Saxton hypes the appearance of WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels for later and introduces Ricardo Rodriguez. Ricardo announces that the next taping, scheduled for January 31st, will feature an appearance from World Heavyweight Champion Alberto Del Rio.
Episode 3: Airing February 6th
* Adrian Neville and Oliver Grey defeated Kassius Ohno and Leo Kruger.
* “The Ascension” Conor O’Brian defeated Mike Dalton.
* O’Brian was announced with the Ascension term as a new nickname.
* It is announced that Langston will defend the NXT Championship against O’Brian at the next tapings.
* Xavier Woods defeated El Local.
* The Wyatt Family defeated Bo Dallas and Michael McGillicutty.
* Shawn Michaels comes out to the ring and puts over the entire NXT roster. Shawn talks about the NXT Tag Team Championship, saying he was once a Tag Team Champion and it’s one of the biggest honors of his career. Fans chant for Triple H and Michaels says he’s busy right now. Triple H comes out moments later, but heads to the back and comes back out to Degeneration X music.
Michaels and Triple H exchange stories and talk about their hair problems. Kevin Nash comes out followed by Billy Gunn and X-Pac. Damien Sandow interrupted the DX-Kliq reunion. Triple H eventually apologizes to Sandow on behalf of them all and asks him to do his cartwheel so they can apologize and then end the event. Sandow takes off his robe and Triple H asks that the audience does a drumroll. Sandow does the cartwheel and is immediately hit afterwards with a Sweet Chin Music from Michaels. Everyone but Michaels leaves the ring.
Michaels closes things out by saying if you’re not down with that, we got two words for ya and fans say “suck it!”.
