Rodrick Strong vs Adam Cole
Strong forces Cole into the corner. Strong gives Cole a clean break. Strong double legs Cole. Cole gets to his feet but Strong takes Cole down with a headlock takeover. Cole escapes. Strong lands a chop. Cole kicks Strong in the gut. Cole whips Strong into the rope but Strong reverses it and dropkicks Cole. Cole rolls to the outside. Strong dives onto Cole. Strong rolls Cole back into the ring. As Strong gets back into the ring, Cole uses the referee as a shield. Cole superkicks Strong off the apron. After the break, Cole is working over Strong. Cole locks in a triangle hold. Strong kicks out of it. Cole puts Strong in a sleeper. Strong drives Cole into the corner to break the hold. Cold charges at Strong and locks the sleeper back in.
Strong picks up Cole and drops him in a pendulum backbreaker. Clothesline by Strong. Carnival backbreaker by Strong for a near fall. Cole surprises Strong with a leaping enziguri. Strong kicks out. Strong catches Cole with a boot to the face. Strong tries a cradle backbreaker but Cole knee Strong in the face to avoid. it. Cole hits a modified ushigoroshi for a near fall. Strong knees Cole in the face. Strong sits Cole on the top rope. Cole and Strong battle on the top rope. Strong picks up Cole and backbreakers him on the top turnbuckle! Before Strong can get the pin, Kyle O’Reilly, and Bobby Fish pull him out of the ring. Cole has been disqualified.
Winner- Roderick Strong
After the match, The Authors of Pain and SAnity run to the ring. A huge brawl breaks out. Alexander Wolfe dives over the top rope onto everyone. Cole and Strong end up back on the top rope. Strong superplexes Cole off the top onto everyone.
Where there is @roderickstrong, there are BACKBREAKERS! #WWENXT pic.twitter.com/Sl0D7lVME7
— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) November 9, 2017
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