NXT LVL Up – April 12, 2024: They Did The Thing

NXT LVL Up
Date: April 12, 2024
Location: Capitol Wrestling Center, Orlando, Florida
Commentators: Blake Howard, Byron Saxton

We’re done with Stand & Deliver and that means it is time to change pretty much nothing around here. Last week’s show saw something of a grudge match between Je’Von Evans and Scrypts, albeit with some partners. Somehow that was only the second ever six man tag in the history of LVL Up, so maybe we can get another treat here. Let’s get to it.

Opening sequence.

Tavion Heights vs. Uriah Connors

The bigger Heights lips him into the corner to start and wrestles to the mat without much effort. Some shots to the face stagger Heights and Connors sends him outside for a crash. Back in and Connors stomps away, setting up an arm crank. Connors grabs a choke over the ropes, only to have Heights power up into an electric chair for the break. Back up and the spinning belly to belly gives Heights the pin at 5:03.

Rating: C. NXT needs to bring up some new people and Heights might as well be one of them. He has separated himself from the pack around here a little big and that suplex is a good finisher. Connors got in some offense of his own but this was more about Heights, which should be the case at the moment.

Kendal Grey and Carlee Bright are ready to try their best against Blair Davenport and Stevie Turner.

Stevie Turner/Blair Davenport vs. Kendal Grey/Carlee Bright

Turner snapmares Bright down to start but Bright is right back up with a wristlock. Grey comes in to work on Davenport’s arm but she gets taken into the villains’ corner. Bright manages to flip over Davenport though and it’s Grey coming in for an assisted top rope splash. That doesn’t work for Davenport, who brings Grey into the corner for a Backstabber from Turner.

Davenport’s backbreaker gets two on Grey and some forearms to the back make it even worse. Grey quickly powers out of a half crab though and the tag brings Bright back in to clean house. Bright headscissors Davenport into a splash, only to have Davenport come right back with the Falcon Arrow for the pin at 6:14.

Rating: C. The biggest thing here was finding out that Turner was still employed. She has barely done anything in months and I’m not sure why. Her futuristic deal isn’t that bad and she can hang in the ring, but it has never come close to clicking for her. Maybe that changes, but for now she was just Davenport’s partner.

Eddy Thorpe vs. Dion Lennox

They fight over wrist control to start (as is so often the case) before an exchange of shoulders goes nowhere. Lennox’s dropkick lets him grab a headlock but Thorpe isn’t having that. Back up and Thorpe hammers away before putting on an abdominal stretch. With that broken up, Lennox hammers away and hits a clothesline but Thorpe punches him in the face. The impaler DDT finishes for Thorpe at 5:11.

Rating: C. Thorpe didn’t do much here until the end when he just grabbed his finisher for the win. That’ snot much of a match but it did make Lennox look good enough in defeat. At some point you have to try something new with someone and that’s more or less what happened here. Lennox is going to need more than “he wears glasses to the ring” to stand out though and we seem pretty far off from that.

Overall Rating: C. Not their best effort here, with the women’s tag probably standing out the most. This was a show where it didn’t feel like they were trying and it made the show that much less interesting as a result. Like I’ve said far too many times, you can just tell when the effort isn’t there from WWE (as opposed to the wrestlers, who were trying) and it showed again this week with a pretty lackluster show.

Results
Tavion Heights b. Uriah Connors – Belly to belly suplex
Stevie Turner/Blair Davenport b. Carlee Bright/Kendal Grey – Falcon Arrow to Bright
Eddy Thorpe b. Dion Lennox – Implant DDT

 

 

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