WWE NXT Results 6/23 - EVOLVE Championship On The Line, Double Contract Signing & More

Welcome to Wrestling Inc.'s live coverage for "WWE NXT" on June 23, 2026, coming to you live from the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida!

Tony D'Angelo will be defending his NXT Championship against Naraku at "NXT" The Great American Bash this coming Sunday, while Lola Vice will be putting her NXT Women's Championship on the line against WrenQCC's Kendal Grey that same night. Before both matches take place, a double contract signing is set to be held tonight to make both matches official. D'Angelo and Naraku met with one another in a tense sit-down that featured the former signing their The Great American Bash contract and the latter saying he wanted to sign in his own time during last Tuesday's episode of "NXT". Elsewhere that same night, Vice and Grey teamed up to score a win against Zaria and Kelani Jordan thanks to some assistance from Women's North American Champion Tatum Paxley. However, a miscommunication between the pair post-match led to Grey accidentally hitting Vice with Vice's NXT Women's Championship belt.

Aaron Rourke will be competing in his first ever match on "NXT" as he defends his EVOLVE Championship against Tristain Angels. Not only did Rourke retain the EVOLVE Championship against Angels on the May 27 episode of "WWE EVOLVE", but Angels has taken issue with Rourke voting for Shiloh Hill to become Mr. NXT during the Mr. NXT Pageant on the June 9 episode of "NXT" when Rourke served as one of the judges.

Wren Sinclair will be finding out who her challenger for the Women's Speed Championship at The Great American Bash will be, as The Culling's Izzi Dame goes one-on-one with BirthRight's Arianna Grace in a Finals Match For The WWE Women's Speed Championship Number One Contenders Tournament. Dame emerged victorious against Thea Hail on the June 16 episode of "NXT" in a first round match, while Grace defeated Layla Diggs in the first round on that same night to both secure their spots in the finals.

Tensions between DarkState and Saquon Shugars have been on the rise over the last several weeks since Shugars. was kicked out of the group. With Shugars looking to seek out his retribution this coming Sunday at The Great American Bash when he collides with Dion Lennox in singles competition, the two former stablemates will be meeting with one another tonight as of last Tuesday's show.

Additionally, Keanu Carver will be going head-to-head with EK Prosper as of last Tuesday's show. Hank Walker and Tank Ledger will also be taking on BirthRight's Channing "Stacks" Lorenzo and Uriah Connors following a backstage confrontation between the two parties last Tuesday, while fellow members of The Culling Shawn Spears and Niko Vance take on Sean Legacy and Dorian Van Dux per last Tuesday's show.

We are live! We head backstage and see Robert Stone tell Tony D'Angelo to stay in line tonight when Naraku signs their The Great American Bash contract in the double contract signing. D'Angelo sees Aaron Rourke pass by and wishes him luck against Tristian Angels in his upcoming EVOLVE Championship defense.

Vic Joseph and Wade Barrett then greet audiences at home as Rourke and Angels (sporting a Mr. NXT sash) make their way to the ring.

The bell rings and Angels carefully positions his Mr. NXT sash on the ring post. He locks up with Rourke, but Rourke delivers an open palm strike to Angels.

The lights flash red, momentarily distracting Angels and allowing Rourke to clothesline Angels out of the ring. Angels trips up Rourke on the ring apron to send him crashing into the floor, then sends him crashing into the middle turnbuckle shoulder first and sends him crashing into the bottom turnbuckle.

Angels runs over Rourke with a clothesline and pins him, but Rourke kicks out and Angels fires off a stomp on his midsection. Angels then sends Rourke crashing into the ring post shoulder first and wears down his arm with a submission hold during the commercial break. He catches Rourke with a boot to his face back from the break, but Rourke levels Angels with a pair of clotheslines and a kick.

Rourke lands a Fallaway Slam on Angels and kips up, then grabs the Mr. NXT sash as he teeters on the ropes. Angels knocks Rourke off the ropes and looks to grab his Mr. NXT sash, but someone under the ring grabs it before Angels can and drags Angels under the ring. Angels manages to break free from under the ring with his Mr. NXT sash in hand, but walks into a big boot from Rourke and follows it up with the Molly-Go-Round off the middle rope for the win.

Winner (and still): Aaron Rourke

We then head outside the WWE Performance Center, where Tony D'Angelo confronts Naraku about signing their The Great American Bash contract. D'Angelo opens the contract, but a fireball hits him in the face when he does so. An ambulance pulls up, and D'Angelo is loaded onto a stretcher by Robert Stone and other officials. 

Back in the ring, Saquon Shugars is already waiting inside as Dion Lennox makes his way out.

Lennox asks Shugars why they're meeting and says he's already decided how The Great American Bash is going to go, but Shugars says all he wanted was to meet Lennox in the ring one-on-one. He says he knew he couldn't get caught lacking by DarkState once again after the group kicked him out and says he took out Cutler James and Osiris Griffin intentionally to make sure that their The Great American Bash match was just the two of them.

Shugars says he got to thinking about whether he was the issue in DarkState and whether he let Lennox down, but says Lennox started acting as the leader of DarkState. He says "NXT" needed him in the positions that Lennox was given, then says he may be an independent wrestler but that's exactly what he is.

Lennox says between himself and Shugars, he's the real Superstar. He says he was put in the positions he was in because that's how it was meant to be, then says Shugars was never meant to be in DarkState and he'll be left in the past after The Great American Bash. Shugars says there's no DarkState without him and says he loved Lennox, James, and Griffin, then says he was the one to hold DarkState together and says James and Griffin are lost without him. He says Lennox can't lace his boots or wrap his wrist tape, but Lennox says everything the fans love about Shugars is fake because DarkState saw the real, insecure side of Shugars. He says Shugars would disappear moments before DarkState went to the ring and says Shugars came to him for reassurance, then says Shugars was a distraction that DarkState had to babysit. He says dropping Shugars was a correction, then says Shugars will hesitate at The Great American Bash which is where he'll expose him on Sunday. He says he'll stamp Shugars' death warrant on Sunday and leaves the ring.

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