Backstage, Tommaso Ciampa basically tells Thatcher they should and will face IMPERIUM next week.
NXT Championship Match: Finn Bálor (c) vs Adam Cole
Cole and Bálor tear into each other. Bálor traps Cole in a side headlock. Cole escapes and locks in a headlock of his own. Bálor escapes and almost walks into a superkick from Cole. After the break, Bálor rolls through a sunset flip attempt by Cole and nails him with a dropkick. Bálor drops Cole with a dropkick to the knee. Bálor lights Cole up with chop after chop. Bálor hits a knee breaker. Double leg by Bálor. Bálor double stomps Cole. Cole surprises Bálor with an enziguri. Bálor reverses Cole suplex into the final cut. Cole kicks out. After getting tangled up with the referee, Cole boots Bálor in the face. Cole separates the ring steps to drop Bálor on them. Bálor counters yet again and suplexes Cole on the metal ramp. After the break, Cole counters Bálor’s suplex with the Ushigoroshi. Cole misses the Panama Sunrise.
Bálor lands the John Woo dropkick. Cole avoids Bálor’s double stomp. Cole superkicks Bálor. Bálor kicks out. Cole puts Bálor in a crossface. Bálor almost makes it to the ropes but Cole rolls Bálor back to the center of the ring. Bálor almost reverses it into a submission of his own. Cole somehow manages to turn it back into the crossface. Bálor makes it to the ropes. Bálor turns Cole inside out with a lariat. Cole flips out of 1916. Cole superkicks Bálor in the knee. Cole lands the Last Shot. Bálor kicks out. Cole crawls to the corner to set up another Panama Sunrise. Cole hits it. Bálor kicks out! Cole is stunned. Cole tries another Last Shot but Bálor sends Cole out of the ring. Kyle O’Reilly appears in the crowd. While Cole is distracted, Bálor flattens him with a dive over the top. Bálor hits 1916 out on the floor as he stares at O’Reilly. Bálor hits the Coup de grâce for the win.
Winner and STILL NXT Champion, Finn Bálor!
O’Reilly gets in the ring. Cole begs off. O’Reilly rips the Undisputed Era armband off of Cole. O’Reilly beats the crap out of Cole. The referee tries to pull O’Reilly back but O’Reilly sends the referee flying. O’Reilly tries to brainbuster Cole on the ring steps but a bunch of referees make the save. As Bálor is standing in the ring, he says “what took you so long?” Bálor turns around and Karrion Kross is standing there. Kross and Bálor go nose-to-nose as we fade to black.
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.@AdamColePro's actions have officially caught up with him… bay-bay. #WWENXT @KORcombat pic.twitter.com/yCWBq2D5gi
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— WWE (@WWE) March 11, 2021
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