Sanjay Thakur on April 1, 2025
Tonight’s WWE NXT airing April 1, 2025, promises an action-packed night live from the Capitol Wrestling Center (WWE Performance Center) in Orlando, Florida. The show sees The Culling’s WWE NXT North American Champion Shawn Spears defend his title against Ricky Saints.
The show kicks off at 8:00 PM ET on the CW and is available for international fans on streaming platforms like Netflix. Ringside News will provide live, match-by-match updates and highlights throughout the night. Stay tuned to this page, refresh for the latest results as the action unfolds, and join the conversation in the comments below!
WWE NXT Results (4/1/25): Live Match Updates and Highlights
The show opens up with separate shots of Shawn Spears and The Culling arriving to the Performance Center.
Vic Joseph, WWE Hall of Famer Booker T and Corey Graves then welcomes us to the show as WWE NXT Women’s North American Champion and WWE NXT Women’s Champion “The Dark Angel” Stephanie Vaquer makes her way down to the ring and NXT General Manager Ava already waiting in the ring.
Ava starts off by saying that Stephanie Vaquer has shown time and time again why she’s La Primera, but after a lot of thought she and Vaquer have come to the decision that Vaquer will be relinquishing her NXT Women’s North American Championship tonight in order for other women in the division to get a fair shot and the title to be frequently defended. Ava then reveals that the new champion will be determined at NXT Stand & Deliver in a 6-Woman Ladder Match. Vaquer then says she gets that this isn’t a popular decision, but she will give up the NXT Women’s North American Championship on the condition that she gets to pick who she faces at Stand & Deliver for her NXT Women’s Championship. Ava then agrees.
Jordynne Grace’s music then hits and she makes her way out. Grace pleads her case for challenging Vaquer for the NXT Women’s Championship, but Jaida Parker’s music cuts her off and says if Grace had minded her own business she would have won the NXT Women’s Championship last week. Parker then tells Vaquer to call her shot, but Grace cuts off Parker and tells her that she already had her opportunity and fumbled it. Grace then says Parker may not understand how titles work since she have never held one before, but the most recent challenger goes to the back of the line. Vaquer then tells Parker and Grace that they need to work it out and the two women begin to brawl. Security then makes their way down to the ring, but Grace throws one of the guards on top of several others.
We then get an instagram video of Trick Williams calling out Oba Femi to meet on NXT. Sarah Schreiber then catches up with Femi in the parking lot. Femi says he doesn’t care about what Williams says because he is the champion. Femi then says Williams will find out why you don’t call out The Ruler.
Vic Joseph then hypes the first qualifying match for the Women’s North American Championship ladder match at Stand & Deliver, which will happen next.
The camera then cuts to the women’s locker room, where all the women started bickering over who will be the next Women’s North American Champion.
ZARIA and Sol Ruca then make their way down to the ring for the first match of the night and Meta-Four (Lash Legend and Jakara Jackson) follows.
WWE NXT Women’s North American Championship Stand & Deliver Ladder Match Qualifier: ZARIA vs. Meta-Four’s Lash Legend
The match starts off with both women wasting no time in going after each other. Both women then lock up. Legend then hits a mat return on ZARIA and follows it up with a belly-to-belly suplex. Legend then delivers some knees on ZARIA’s midsection, but ZARIA rolls up Legend. Legend then kicks out and nails ZARIA with a big boot, then continues wearing her down and hits her with a forearm on her spine. ZARIA then cinches in a submission on Legend, but Legend counters into a Bear Hug.
Legend then locks in a Torture Rack on ZARIA and both women exchange strikes before ZARIA hits a German suplex on Legend and follows it up with a Spear. ZARIA then hits an F5 on Legend for the win.
The winner of the WWE NXT Women’s North American Championship Stand & Deliver Ladder Match Qualifier, ZARIA!
We then see Josh Briggs and Yoshiki Inamura watching the monitor backstage and praising the last match. Inamura says he dreams about competing at Stand & Deliver. Wes Lee, Tyson DuPont and Tyriek Igwe then show up to trash talk. Inamura then says he liked the old Wes that fought with honor. Inamura then challenges Lee to a match.
Vic Joseph then notes that The D’Angelo Family have some intel on DarkState and will reveal that next.
We then head to the back, where Kelani Jordan is talking with NXT General Manager Ava about how excited she is to get a chance to wrestle for the Women’s North American Championship again. Roxanne Perez then shows up to gloat and says she wants to win a title she hasn’t won yet. Jordan and Perez then bickers. Ava then says only one of them will make it to Stand & Deliver.
Vic Joseph, Corey Graves and WWE Hall of Famer Booker T then checks in from the commentary desk and sends us to Tony D’Angelo and The D’Angelo Family. The D’Angelo Family are sitting at a table at a warehouse. Luca Crusifino hands Tony D a Scouting Report on Dion Lennox, noting that the bookworm gimmick was a ruse and that he was hiding being a team captain linebacker from Oregon State. Luca then says Dion even broke a jaw of a teammate for breaking formation. Luca then says Dion has multiple college degrees with a major in Psychology. The next scouting report is on Osiris Griffin. Rizzo says these NXT wrestlers keep getting bigger. Luca then says he’s a Syracuse all-american with a ton of tackles, even accidentally breaking his QBs ribs. Luca then says he has great mental instincts. The next scouting report is on Cutler James. Rizzo says James is a high quality wrestler from Duke. Tony D then talks about how he hates Duke University. Rizzo then says Cutler breaks peoples mind and spirit. Tony D then says this guy sounds like a wannabe John Wick. Stacks then introduces Saquon Shugars as the wild card of DarkState. Stacks says Shugars turned down an offer from Harvard. Stacks then says Sugars is a good talker that wins over followers. Tony D then says these men sound like four badasses. Tony D then tells Stacks to trust him and he will figure out how to deal with these guys. The D’Angelo Family then leaves with Stacks looking conflicted.
Hank Walker and Tank Ledger are then shown looking embarrassed wearing Pretty Deadly’s shirts. The camera then pans back to show Kit Wilson and Elton Prince coaching Hank and Tank. Tank is really getting into it. NQCC then passes by Hank and Tank to make fun of them.
We then get a Culling vignette. Niko Vance, Brooks Jensen and Izzi Dame are praising their leader. Shawn Spears then talks about how he cherishes all of them and they will all come together to vanquish Ricky Saints.
NQCC then make their way down to the ring for the next match of the night and Hank and Tank are already waiting inside the ring. The Swipe Right tag team from WWE EVOLVE are then shown in the crowd.
Tag Team Match: No Quarter Catch Crew (Myles Borne and Tavion Heights) vs. Hank & Tank (Hank Walker and Tank Ledger)
The match starts off with Myles Borne and Tank Ledger and both men lock up. Tavion Heights then tags in and wears Ledger down with a submission, but Walker tags in and double teams on Borne with Ledger. Walker and Ledger then hit a double splash on Heights and Walker tags back in. Walker then hits a double ax handle on Heights off the middle rope as Ledger holds him in place, but Borne tags in and delivers some strikes on Walker.
Heights then tags in and hits Walker with a clothesline, then rolls him up. Walker then kicks out, then tags in Ledger. Ledger then hits Heights with a series of clotheslines, then follows it up with a belly-to-belly throw and clotheslines Borne into the ring. Ledger then hits a splash over the top from the apron, then levels Heights with a shoulder tackle off the middle rope. Borne then tags back in and hits a F5-DDT combination on Ledger with Heights for the win.
The winners of the Tag Team Match, No Quarter Catch Crew (Myles Borne and Tavion Heights)!
Trick Williams is then shown walking the hallways.
Trick Williams’ music then hits and Williams makes his way down to the ring. Williams starts off by saying he called Oba Femi down to the ring last week, but he hasn’t heard from him since. Williams then says he’s still the man in NXT even though Femi still holds the NXT Championship and he’s fought to get where he is including losing a brother in Carmelo Hayes. Williams then says the success he has comes at a cost with his peers in the back. Je’Von Evans’ music then hits and Evans makes his way out. Williams warns Evans against interrupting him and says he gets why he’s upset, but what happened is collateral damage as the time has come for the grown-ups to start talking. Evans then asks Williams when he knew it was his time, then says this time last year Williams was in the same spot that he was in. Evans then says Williams became the golden child of NXT when he won the NXT Championship and the difference between him and Williams is he doesn’t have to break out of everyone’s shadow.
Williams then says Evans is currently in his shadow and knows nothing about being on the top of NXT. Williams then says he’s one of one and Evans objects to his statement. Evans then says Williams has no idea who he is and he is Hayes rather than his own person. Evans then says that makes sense because everything he is saying is what Hayes told him last year. Evans then says Williams can try watering him down to make himself better and he’s done something that even Williams hasn’t and that is taking down Femi. Femi’s music then hits and he makes his way out. Femi tells Evans to say what he has to his face and calls him lucky for taking him down. Evans then responds by saying he was seconds away from winning the 2024 Men’s Iron Survivor Challenge and Femi tells Evans that all he sees in him is a small boy with big dreams. Femi then says Evans’ success will not come at his expense and calls himself the now of NXT. Williams then invites Evans to leave the ring so he can challenge Femi to a NXT Championship Match at Stand & Deliver and Femi tells Williams that he will still have the title if he did less talking.
Ava’s music then hits and she makes her way out to make an NXT Championship Triple Threat Match between Femi, Williams and Evans official at Stand & Deliver. The three men then begin to brawl, but Darkstate interrupts them and takes out Femi and Evans. Dion Lennox, Osiris Griffin, Cutler James and Saquon Shugars then circle Williams and James and Griffin toss Williams over to Lennox and Shugars to hit a powerbomb on him. The segment then ends with Darkstate standing tall.
We then see a doctor informing Andre Chase last week that he has broken ribs after his match. The doctor then asks Chase if he has a ride home. Chase then says he’s all alone. Uriah Connors and Kale Dixon then show up and offers to take Chase home.
We then see Hank and Tank meeting up with Axiom and Nathan Frazer backstage. Frazer and Axiom start bickering and say they should be close friends like Hank and Tank. Swipe Right then shows up to trash talk Axiom and Frazer. They also stare at Roxanne Perez when she was heading to the ring.
Roxanne Perez then makes her way down to the ring for the next match of the night and Kelani Jordan follows.
WWE NXT Women’s North American Championship Stand & Deliver Ladder Match Qualifier: “The Prodigy” Roxanne Perez vs. Kelani Jordan
The match starts off with both women locking up. Jordan then shoves Perez and both women take turns wearing each other down with submissions. Perez then rolls up Jordan, but Jordan kicks out and both women continue taking turns wearing each other down with submission holds. Jordan then hits an arm drag on Perez and follows it up with a dropkick and a twisting leg drop off the middle turnbuckle as Perez is draped across the middle rope. Perez then rakes Jordan’s eyes while the referee has his back turned, then sends her crashing into the ring post shoulder first. Jordan then rolls up Perez twice, but Perez kicks out both times and wrenches back on Jordan’s shoulder. Perez then hits a knee on Jordan’s midsection and follows it up with a belly-to-belly suplex, then wrenches back on Jordan’s arm before sending it bouncing off the mat.
Perez then continues wearing down Jordan’s arm with a submission hold, but Jordan delivers some strikes on Perez and sends her crashing into the mat spine first. Jordan then kips up, but Perez sends her crashing into the mat face first and hits her with a missile dropkick that sends her crashing out of the ring. Perez then hits a crossbody on Jordan through the middle rope and sends her back in the ring, but Jordan dropkicks Perez back to the floor as she stands on the apron and flies over the top to land on her. Jordan then sends Perez back inside the ring and hits her with a crossbody and a Sit-Out Facebuster.
Jordan then sets up for a split legged moonsault on Perez, but Perez moves out of the way and looks to roll up Jordan. Jordan then heads to the top rope and hits a DDT on Perez, then follows it up with a split legged moonsault for the win.
The winner of the WWE NXT Women’s North American Championship Stand & Deliver Ladder Match Qualifier, Kelani Jordan!
We then see NXT General Manager Ava in her office with Stevie Turner and Robert Stone. EVOLVE General Manager Stevie Turner apologizes for Swipe Right showing up unannounced. Ava says she is more concerned with Darkstate. Ava then books Darkstate vs. Je’Von Evans, Oba Femi and Trick Williams for next week’s show.
We then see Sarah Schreiber interviewing Ricky Saints. Saints talks about how he is about to be dripping in gold tonight. Saints then talks about how it took a long time for Spears to win a title in WWE, while he’s going to get gold in record time. Saints then says the revolution will be televised when he becomes the new North American Champion.
We then see ZARIA and Sol Ruca were hanging out backstage. ZARIA says she wants Ruca at ringside with her. Kelani Jordan then shows up to claim she will win the NXT Women’s North American Title. Ruca then says either she or ZARIA will win the NXT Women’s North American Title. ZARIA is surprised at that statement. Ruca then points out that she is in a Qualifying Match next week.
We then get a Darkstate selfie promo, where they gloat about their beatdowns. They also call out The Tony D’Angelo family.
Ricky Saints then makes his way down to the ring for the main event of the night and The Culling follows.
WWE NXT North American Championship Match: The Culling’s Shawn Spears (c) vs. Ricky Saints
The match starts off with both men wasting no time in going after each other. Saints then delivers some right hands on Spears on the outside, then sends him crashing into the barricade and hits him with a chop. Saints then gets Spears back inside the ring and nails him with a dropkick, then delivers some right hands on him in the corner and hits him with a back body drop on him on the floor outside the ring before hitting him with a right hand off the barricade.
Spears then sends Saints crashing into the ring steps and mocks him by hitting his signature pose, then sends him into the corner chest first back inside the ring and delivers some right hands on him. Spears then hits a bodyslam on Saints and climbs to the top rope. Saints then intercepts Spears on the ropes and hits a superplex on him. Saints then nails Spears with a couple of clotheslines and an enzuigiri, then looks to follow it up with a Tornado DDT. Spears then stops Saints’ momentum, but Saints hits a spinebuster on Spears. Spears then rolls out of the ring for a breather, but Saints follows him out there and hits a Tornado DDT on him on the floor.
Saints then sends Spears back inside the ring, but Niko Vance hops up on the apron to distract the referee as Izzi Dame passes the North American Championship to Spears. Spears then pins Saints, but Saints kicks out. Spears then sets up for the C4, but Saints avoids it and hits the move on Spears himself. Saints then pulls Brooks Jensen into the ring and nails Vance, then clotheslines Jensen out of the ring and spears Vance. Saints then hits a second spear on Spears back in the ring and follows it up with the Roshambo for the win.
The winner and new WWE NXT North American Champion, Ricky Saints!
After the match, Ethan Page appears out of nowhere and hits a Twisting Neckbreaker on Saints. Page then holds up the NXT North American Championship as the show comes to a close.
Matches & Key Moments Scheduled for WWE NXT on April 1, 2025
- Trick Williams and WWE NXT Champion “The Ruler Of NXT” Oba Femi will have a face-to-face
- WWE NXT North American Championship Match: The Culling’s Shawn Spears (c) vs. Ricky Saints
April 1, 2025 7:31 pm
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