Last night’s WWE NXT told a much bigger story than the five matches on the card. NXT is in the middle of a roster reset, and last night felt like the clearest snapshot yet of what WWE wants the brand to become after another wave of talent movement: younger, faster, more international and far less … Read more
The WWE NXT August 18, 2026 comes at exactly the right moment for a brand that suddenly has more questions than answers. Zilla Fatu detonated last week’s NXT Championship No. 1 Contender’s Match by destroying Cruz Montana and Grayson Waller, leaving Tony D’Angelo without a Heatwave challenger and immediately becoming the most talked-about newcomer on … Read more
WWE NXT entered tonight needing more urgency on the road to Heatwave, and Grayson Waller supplied nearly all of it before the first match even started. Returning to the brand that originally transformed him into one of WWE’s most irritating and effective antagonists, Waller delivered a blistering opening statement about his stalled main-roster career, his … Read more
WWE NXT closed last night with the beginning of a completely new era in its men’s main-event scene. Tony D’Angelo finally put Naraku behind him by retaining the NXT Championship in a violent Street Fight, only for former two-time TNA World Champion Mike Santana to enter through the crowd and confront him moments later. Santana’s … Read more
The increasingly violent rivalry between NXT Champion Tony D’Angelo and Naraku reaches what should be its final destination tonight when they collide in a Street Fight for the NXT Championship. Tony already defeated Naraku at Great American Bash, but that victory did nothing to end Naraku’s obsession with the championship or Tony’s desire to punish … Read more
WWE LFG Season 3 Episode 13, “Who Dares Wins,” was built around wrestlers learning that taking control of their careers does not mean ignoring the process, and showing ambition does not excuse skipping the fundamentals. Nathan Cranton entered last night’s episode ready to leave his real name behind and fully commit to a new wrestling … Read more
The road to NXT Heatwave continued last night with an episode that leaned heavily on in-ring action, immediate championship stakes and the fallout from The Great American Bash. Lola Vice fought her way back into the NXT Women’s Championship picture by defeating Kelani Jordan and Kali Armstrong in a competitive main event, but the result … Read more
WWE LFG Season 3 Episode 11, “The Bodacious Belly Boys of LFG,” was not the flashiest episode of the season, but it was another useful hour of developmental television because every match had a clear assignment. Sirena Linton returned from her first NXT live event tour and turned that experience into a needed win over … Read more
WWE LFG Season 3 reached Episode 9 last night with “The Apollo-Elijah Connection,” and this was one of those episodes that worked best when it remembered exactly what this season has become. This is not really the same LFG from the first two seasons anymore. Through the first eight episodes, Season 3 has slowly moved … Read more
WWE NXT entered last night with less than two weeks remaining before Great American Bash and several important pieces still missing from the June 28 card. By the end of the night, Tavion Heights had earned an emotionally complicated championship opportunity against his former partner, Jaida Parker had suffered another damaging defeat, and the already … Read more
