WWE NXT Results 8/25 - Weaponized Steel Cage Match, AAA Cruiserweight Title On The Line

Welcome to Wrestling Inc.'s live coverage of "WWE NXT," kicking off with a Weaponized Steel Cage match between Dion Lennox and Saquon Shugars. 

Shugars and Lennox will be fighting inside the cage weeks after the latter and DarkState excised the former from the faction. Lennox beat Shugars in singles action earlier this month and will be looking to get his win back, ultimately hoping to move on from his days with the group.

Elsewhere on the card, Rey Fenix will be defending his AAA Cruiserweight Championship against EK Prosper. Prosper earned number one contendership by winning a four-way during last week's show, beating La Parka, Romeo Moreno, and Tristan Angels. 

Fenix was in action on Monday's "WWE Raw," defeating Dragon Lee to confirm he will be facing his brother, Penta, at Sunday Night's Main Event to determine Roman Reigns' number one contender to the World Heavyweight title. 

Moreno will be teaming with Noam Dar, Sean Legacy and Dorian Van Dux to take on the four-some of Birthright: Lexis King, Channing "Stacks" Lorenzo, Uriah Connors, and Charlie Dempsey. And Kali Armstong will be challenging Zaria for the NXT Women's North American Championship, with the added caveat that a win would make a three-way title match at Heatwave; Women's Speed Champion Wren Sinclair is scheduled to face Zaria in a title unification match as it stands. 

"NXT" is scheduled to start at 8PM ET on the CW Network for those watching the US. Those watching internationally can do so via Netflix.

Shugars gets into the cage and Lennox launches a trashcan at him to get the match started. Lennox batters Shugars with a steel chair and goes for the cover but only for the two-count. 

Lennox drives Shugars into the cage wall thrice, using his boot to push him up against the steel mesh. He strips the belt from Shugars and continues to beat him with it in the middle of the ring, going for another cover for another two-count. 

Lennox grabs a chair and wedges it between the cage wall and the top rope. He hoists Shugars up for a powerbomb onto the same chair having fallen to the mat, following up with a bodyslam for another cover and another near-fall. 

Lennox comes at Shugars with another trashcan but Shugars throws one back at him, putting it over Lennox's head and hitting it with the lid. He follows up with a missile dropkick to the can and Lennox and goes for the cover, only for a two-count. Now Shugars is battering Lennox with the steel chair across the back, setting two up opposite one another and looking to slam him onto them. 

They go back-and-forth but Lennox gets the better, putting one of the chairs upside down and dropping Shugars back-first onto the legs. 

Shugars fights back and sends Lennox into the cage wall three times, going to the top rope for a high crossbody. Lennox slaps a kendo stick against his mid-section to create space, wedging it in the corner and trying to send Shugars into it. Shugars reverses it and sends him into the kendo stick, dropping him onto a chair and going for a cover for another near-fall. 

Once again Shugars scales the ropes but Lennox hits him with a kendo stick to bring him back down, following up with a spinebuster through the trashcan. Lennox goes for the cover but Shugars kicks out before three. 

Lennox comes at Shugars with a steel chair but Shugars swats it away with his baseball bat, forcing Lennox to grab another chair and throw it as Shugars' knees. Lennox hangs Shugars up in a Tree of Woe and hits him with a chair, cinching in a modified cloverleaf with the bat between the legs. Shugars uses a trashcan lid to fight out of it but Lennox stomps him back down, pulling out a table and setting it up in the ring. 

Lennox moves himself and Shugars up to the top rope to put him through it, but Shugars fights out and goes for a sunset flip, favoring his knee as he lands hard. He puts Lennox onto the table instead, putting a trashcan over his head and delivering a superkick, causing the table to break prematurely. 

Shugars climbs to the top of the cage and delivers a crossbody to Lennox down in the ring, going for the cover and getting the winning pinfall. 

Saquon Shugars def. Dion Lennox via Pinfall

Nattie is shown making her way through backstage, as well as Jaida Parker, with a face-to-face in the ring on the way. 

Tony D'Angelo addresses his upcoming four-way match with Zilla Fatu, Grayson Waller, and Cruz Montana. He reminds that he was the first to beat Oba Femi, considering he is now on "WWE Raw" fighting Bron Breakker to be the "Future of WWE," and says his opponents must have forgot who he is. 

Sarah Schreiber is shown at a bowling alley with Vanity Project, where they're talking up their chances at beating Tavion Heights and Myles Borne at Heatwave. 

Nattie talks up Parker and says she wanted to get in the ring with her because she has all the tools, but she sees wasted potential. She says that she was the one who exposed Parker, and since doing that Parker has gotten even better. 

Nattie says that Parker was a "possibility that I turned into a reality."

Parker comes out to address Nattie. She says since she came to "NXT" she's been trying to prove that Parker is soft and wasted potential, and she did question herself, but she has taken other losses and Nattie is not special, so she sees straight through her. She says that is not out of the goodness of Nattie's heart, and she just saw a talent on the come-up that she wanted to keep down. 

Parker says that Nattie should be thanking her because she came calling for someone who would put her back in the conversation, and that's what she did. Nattie challenges Parker to a submission match at Heatwave, which Parker has no issue accepting before declaring that she will tap her out and show her who she really is. 

The bell rings and they lock up, Carver immediately getting the better of Hendrix and going for an inside cradle. Hendrix kicks out and they lock up again. Carver drops Hendrix with a release suplex and a leaping tackle, but Hendrix sends him throat-first into the ropes. 

Hendrix follows up with some lariats and goes for a cover, only for the one-count. Hendrix continues to choke Carver against the ropes and cinches in a headlock in the middle of the ring. Carver fights back to his feet but Hendrix drops him again with a Showtime kick, again just for a one-count. 

Hendrix chops Carver across the back but it just infuriates him, returning fire with two suplexes and a pounce to send Hendrix out of the ring. The referee stops Carver from trying to get at him on the outside, allowing Hendrix to thumb him in the eye. But it also allows for Mason Rook to emerge and wipe Hendrix out with a crossbody. 

Carver follows that up with a Perfect-Plex, bridging into the cover and getting the three-count. 

Keanu Carver def. Kam Hendrix via Pinfall