WWE NXT Results – Apr. 4, 2018 – Lars Sullivan vs. Killian Dain

Apr 4, 2018

Results by Arya Witner of F4Wonline.com

April 4, 2018
Orlando, FL – Full Sail University
Commentary: Mauro Ranallo, Nigel McGuinness, Percy Watson

The show began with Charly Caruso recapping the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic. Michael Hayes, Terry Taylor, and Dustin Rhodes were all in the arena to observe the finals.

Caruso also confirmed that Bobby Fish has not been medically cleared to compete, but left it hanging as to what would happen at TakeOver.

The Authors of Pain vs. Pete Dunne & Roderick Strong in the finals of the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic ended in a double DQ

The show kicked off with the finals of the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic. AOP defeated TM61 and The Street Profits to make it to the finals. Strong & Dunne were a replacement team and had to get through Oney Lorcan & Danny Burch and SAnitY to get to this point. Once upon a time, Strong formed an alliance with The Authors of Pain in order to enter War Games together, but that alliance is out the window now.

Dunne got beaten and muscled down by Akam and Rezar, but he put up a fight in going down. Rezar connected with hammer fists to Dunne’s face and it took a double-team effort for them to maintain the advantage. Dunne snapped Akam’s fingers and cut him down with leg kicks, which gave him the chance to make the tag to Strong.

Strong ran wild on both men, getting multiple near falls on Rezar as Akam was knocked outside the ring. Dunne got back in and locked on a triangle choke, but Rezar lifted him up and carried him across the ring and AOP used a double-team neckbreaker. That was the moment that took Strong and Dunne to the next gear as they used an amazing series of double team moves on their larger foes. Akam and Rezar laid them out with a pair of boots.

As all four men were laid out, Adam Cole and Kyle O’Reilly suddenly hit the ring. The match was ruled a double disqualification as Cole and O’Reilly put the boots to both teams.

NXT General Manager William Regal came out and announced that at NXT TakeOver: New Orleans it will be The Undisputed Era vs. The Authors of Pain vs. Dunne & Strong for the NXT Tag Team Championship and for the Dusty Rhodes Cup. It wasn’t mentioned here who from Undisputed Era would be in the match, but it was confirmed later that it would be Cole & O’Reilly.

So, to sum things up, Undisputed Era could win a tournament they never competed in.

Video Package: Ladder Match

We had a video package previewing the North American title ladder match at TakeOver.

Video Package: Gargano vs. Ciampa

A video package for the Johnny Gargano vs. Tomasso Ciampa unsanctioned match aired.

Kairi Sane defeated Vanessa Borne

Borne got a new theme song and light show for her entrance. This was more competitive than you’d imagine, with Bourne getting her fair share of offense. Sane hit the Interceptor spear, the sliding punch, and a Kabuki elbow before picking up the win with the Insane Elbow.

Backstage: Lacey Evans

Lacey Evans was backstage to make a statement. She said she won’t be able to do anything until Mr. Regal disallows societal trash from walking around NXT. She was offended that a complete psycho like Nikki Cross gets opportunities. She also put down Ember Moon, Dakota Kai, and Sane.

Backstage: The Undisputed Era, William Regal

Mr. Regal was leaving the building when Cole and O’Reilly ran up to him screaming about the situation they are in at TakeOver.

Regal told them they had three options: Cole competes in two matches, O’Reilly defends by himself, or Cole steps out of the North American title match.

Undisputed Era weren’t very happy.

Video Package: Almas vs. Black

Next up was a video package for Andrade “Cien” Almas vs. Aleister Black.

Backstage: Ember Moon

More recaps! We were reminded of the Ember Moon-Shayna Baszler fight from last week.

Moon then cut a promo saying she was not sorry for getting into the fight. Baszler disrespected a coach so she deserved to be attacked. Baszler walks around like she owns the place and that’s not how you behave as a champion. Moon said Baszler started the war, but she is going to end it.

Next Week

Kairi Sane vs. Lacey Evans

Seven or eight video packages (this part wasn’t said, but it happens on every single post-TakeOver episode of NXT)

Killian Dain vs. Lars Sullivan ended without a finish

These two monsters will join Ricochet, EC3, Adam Cole, and Velveteen Dream in a six-way ladder match to determine the first-ever North American Champion on Saturday night.

Dusty Rhodes would have been screaming at the announce desk about the clubbering happening here as these two wailed away on one another with one heavy blow after another. Sullivan finally got the brief advantage by ramming Dain into the ring apron. Dain used the Belfast Blitz, but Sullivan got his knees up on a Vader Bomb attempt.

They fought to the top rope and Dain delivered a headbutt, which caused them both to fall to the ground outside the ring. Suddenly, both Velveteen Dream and Cole ran in and glared at one another. EC3 decided that now was the best time to come out and stare down his fellow heels. From the dead, Dain and Sullivan appeared back in the ring. Ricochet’s music then played and the man himself was here.

Ricochet ran into the ring and stared at each man individually as the show went off the air. Dain and Sullivan didn’t seem to mind that their match just randomly ended.