Kick-Off Show
The NXT Kick-Off show is hosted by Charly Caurso, Sam Roberts, and Pat McAfee.
They begin to run down the card for tonight’s show, starting with the Women’s Championship Match. Roberts says that Baszler may be the toughest NXT Champion ever, but Io Shirai is experienced and prepared more than any other challenger. They say that this will be the toughest challenge of Baszler’s reign.
The panel then discuss the ladder match for the Tag Team Championships. Roberts says he thinks tonight has “Undisputed” written all over it, but that he reckons The Street Profits will sneak away with the titles. Pat McAfee says he loves the Profits, but that he thinks the Forgotten Sons will take charge tonight and be forgotten no more.
We see a hype video for the North American Championship match between Tyler Breeze and Velveteen Dream. Sam Roberts goes-in on Breeze, saying he’s spent the past few years doing nothing, while Dream has been winning matches. He says there’s nothing Breeze has ever done that makes him think he can hang with the current NXT Superstars. Pat agrees that NXT has gotten a lot better and that Breeze is rusty.
The former NXT Champion, Tomasso Ciampa joins the kick-off panel to discuss the main event. The fans chant his name, so he jumps on top of the table and shouts that “this is my house”, while patting his own back. The fans chant “NXT”. Caruso says, based on his ability to climb on the table, he seems healthy. Ciampa says that, 12 weeks removed from surgery, he is cleared for non-contact activity. Meaning he is on the way back and he is coming for Goldie. Ciampa says he will be watching the match very closely tonight because he will be back in the hunt very soon and he can beat either Cole or Gargano.
