WWE NXT Recap: Triple H Replaces Rhodes As GM, Ohno Returns, New Tag Title Contenders, More

Brad Maddox is shown backstage. Tyler Breeze walks up and says he has an idea. As he starts to tell him, CJ Parker walks up and shakes Brad's hand. CJ and Breeze fight over them both wanting to be a part of the tag team division. Maddox tells them to shut up and places them together as partners.

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There will be a little tournament thing (they called it a turmoil) to determine what team is the number one contender to Graves and Neville.

Tag Team Turmoil ? Match 1
Enzo Amore and Colin Cassady vs. Tyler Breeze and CJ Parker

Enzo and Parker start things off. They lock up and chain wrestle briefly. Parker airplane spins Enzo. He slams him to the mat and Enzo stumbles around. Parker hit a pair of flying knees to Enzo's chest in the corner. Cassady tags himself in. He hits Parker with a huge spinning slam thing to advance his team.

Winners: Enzo Amore and Colin Cassady

Tag Team Turmoil ? Match 2
Enzo Amore and Colin Cassady vs. Scott Dawson and Alexander Rusev

Cassady and Dawson start things off. Dawson tries to kick Cassady, who catches his foot. Cassady hits a big knee to the gut and clubs Dawson to the mat. Dawson fights back with a back elbow. Rusev comes in and Cassady hits a big boot. Enzo comes in and Rusev hits a Samoan Drop. Dawson comes in and kicks Enzo in the gut. He strikes Enzo repeatedly in the corner. Dawson drapes Enzo across the center ropes in the corner and kicks him in the gut. Dawson whips Enzo and lands a huge Spinebuster. He raises his arms and Enzo catches him with a quick roll up for the win.

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Winners: Enzo Amore and Colin Cassady

Rusev hits Cassady out of the ring and attacks Enzo after the match.

Tag Team Turmoil ? Match 3
Enzo Amore and Colin Cassady vs. The Ascension

The Ascension come out while Enzo is laid out in the ring. Back from commercial and Cassady is checking on Enzo in the corner. He turns around to a big clothesline from O'Brian. Victor comes in and hits Cassady with an uppercut. He strikes Cassady in the corner. O'Brian comes back in and attacks Cassady in the corner as well. Victor comes in and gets a two count. He chops Cassady into the corner. Victor charges Cassady, but Cassady hits a back elbow.

Victor fights back and tags O'Brian in. O'Brian hits four running shoulder knockdowns. Cassady counters with a big boot. Enzo comes in and O'Brian hits a flapjack. O'Brian hits Cassady off the apron. He tags in Victor and The Ascension hit their sweep kick/corkscrew flying forearm finisher for the win.

Winners and number one contenders: The Ascension

Bayley vs. Sasha Banks (with Summer Rae)

Renee Young is on commentary for this match. The crowd chants loudly for Bayley and Banks covers her ears, telling the crowd to shut up. They lock up and Bayley backs Banks into the corner. Bayley gives Banks a double high five and Banks comes out of the corner, slapping Bayley repeatedly in the chest. Bayley drop toe holds Banks and goes to work on her arm. Banks fights out and whips Bayley into the corner. Bayley grabs onto the top ropes in the corner and leaps up, but Banks grabs her by the legs and pulls her to the mat.

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Banks gets a two count. Banks slams Bayley's head to the turnbuckle. Banks hits a snap mare and then locks in a body scissors with a headlock. Bayley fights out and Banks hits a vertical Suplex. Bayley comes back and strikes Banks in the corner. She hits a leaping forearm and a couple knockdowns. Banks his another chest slap. She locks in a wrist lock, jumps up top and then dives off, flipping Bayley into the corner. Banks charges and Bayley moves. Bayley hits a belly to belly for a near pin fall. Renee Young mentions that Bayley calls it the Hugplex.

Bayley hits a back elbow. She goes up top and Banks pulls her off onto the top rope. Banks hits a straightjacket neckbreaker for the win.

Winner: Sasha Banks

Summer Rae gets into the ring and picks up a mic. Rae says she has a huge announcement. She says next week Fandango will be at NXT with her. She says that they will make it their own personal dance floor. Rae says her and Banks are going to run all over NXT be the fiercest divas ever. She says they're going to run things. Emma runs out and chases them out of the ring.

Aiden English vs. Bull Dempsey

They lock up and English locks in a standing side headlock. English hits a shoulder knockdown. He locks in Bull's head again and gets another shoulder knockdown. Bull comes back with a shoulder knockdown of his own. English kicks Bull in the knee and the head. He then punches Bull in the head on the mat. English with a standing leg drop. English hits his finisher for the win.

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Winner: Aiden English

The crowd chants encore after the match and he picks up the mic and says he has decided to give them an encore. He gets a huge pop and then sings again.

Summer Rae is then shown walking backstage. Young walks up for an interview and Summer goes off about Emma. She challenges Emma and a partner of her choice to a mixed tag match against her and Fandango next week. Summer says the fans will go home happy because she's the first lady of NXT. She tells Young to run along and tell Emma.

El Local vs. Sami Zayn

The crowd chants Ole! They lock up and chain wrestle. Local gets a shoulder knockdown. Zayn hits a series of arm drags. He whips Local and hits a hurricanrana. Local lands a clothesline backbreaker. He kicks Zayn in the chest and slaps him in the back of the head. Local with a vertical Suplex. Zayn fights back with body strikes, but Local gets a huge back elbow. Zayn comes back quickly with a dropkick. Zayn hits a few head strikes and a back body drop. Zayn hits his running boot to Local's face in the corner for the win.

Winner: Sami Zayn

Bo Dallas comes out on the ramp and congratulates Zayn. He says he is happy that Zayn is listening and learning from his mentor. Dallas says he is finally healed after being carelessly injured by Zayn at SummerSlam AXXESS. Dallas says he is ready to put his NXT Title on the line. He says next week will be the Bo Dallas invitational. Anyone is welcome and if someone can pin him, they'll get a shot at his title in three weeks.

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Zayn picks up a mic and says the people won't mind if he interrupts. Zayn says he'll be the first person to sign up and they can do it right now. Dallas says he knows Zayn is new, but part of the business is respect. He says part of the respect isn't interrupting the champ when he is talking. Dallas says one day Zayn might have a following but he just isn't there yet. He says all wrestlers are welcome to the Bo Dallas invitational next week expect for Sami Zayn.

Then, Brad Maddox is shown backstage. Kassius Ohno walks into the room and asks Ohno why he has been gone for so long. Maddox says last he heard Ohno got his butt whipped by the Wyatt Family. Ohno says no, he has been medically cleared for a while so there has to be another explanation. Maddox calls him a D+ player, C- player at best.

Ohno says how about this D+ player comes out on his show and disrupts all the matches, resulting in a series of no contests. Maddox says Ohno likes to be in the ring so they keep him on the sidelines because it's funny. Ohno says why doesn't he do something funny, take his fist and drop Maddox. Maddox says he will give Ohno a match next week against a member of the Wyatt Family for revenge. He says it will be what's best for business.

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Back from commercial and Triple H comes out for his big announcement. He announces that he is removing Dusty Rhodes from power over NXT and replacing him with JBL as the general manager of NXT. JBL then comes out and talks (as a heel) about how NXT is the future and says it's the NXT era of the wrestling God.

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