The field is now set at six, as Indi Hartwell and the current NXT Women’s Champion Roxanne Perez are added to the ladder bout at Stand & Deliver.
The reason for this match even taking place is due to the uncertainty on if Perez was medically cleared to compete. After she retained against Meiko Satomura last month, Perez collapsed in the ring and hasn’t been able to wrestle since. Due to this, Shawn Michaels set in motion a ladder match at Stand & Deliver to decide a new champion. But Perez is cleared now and begged Michaels to allow her in the match as she is still champion. She stated she collapsed due to exhaustion and anxiety. He agreed after somw convincing. He originally suggested to crown a new champion and giving her a title match later.
As for Hartwell, she won a last chance match as she defeated Sol Ruca and Ivy Nile in a Triple Threat. All three women were not able to advance in their initial qualifying match. The final moments of the match witnessed Nile with a choker submission on Hartwell but Ruca out of nowhere and hit the Sol Snatcher onto Nile. Hartwell took advantage and stole the win out from under Ruca. She delivered a blow to the back of Nile’s head and got the pin for the win.
Both Perez and Hartwell will join Gigi Dolin, Tiffany Stratton, Lyra Valkyria, and Zoey Stark in the ladder match this Saturday.
After Hartwell’s win, all competitors for the match cam out for a staredown.
Also on this week’s NXT had a match between Elektra Lopez and Valentina Feroz. The two have a story where Feroz was being “helped” by Lopez who tried to convince her to win her matches by cheating with brass knuckles. Feroz never gave into that but did use them on Lopez a few weeks ago by knocking her out.
Now the two faced off in a match that saw Lopez come out with the victory.
Ava will be having her debut match at Stand & Deliver in an eight person tag team match. The winner gets control over Chase U as Chase U will be taking on Schism. The promo shown this week hd Schism already preparing the deprogramming of Chase U and bringing them under the tutelage of Joe Gacy instead of Andre Chase.
Lastly a vignette aired for Isla Dawn and Alba Fyre as they are challenging Kiana James and Fallon Henley for the tag titles. They focused on the fact that James and Henley continue not to be on the same page. Henley knows all about Sebastian and later in the night she intended on telling Brooks Jensen.
James was able to get a match for Jensen and Josh Briggs against Tony D’Angelo and Stacks. If they won they would have been added to the men’s tag title match at S&D. They did not win, but post-match, Henley told Jensen that James had something to tell him. Instead of telling Jensen about Sebastian, James planted a kiss on Jensen.
Stand & Deliver – April 1
- Schism vs. Chase U – Eight Person Tag Team Match for control over Chase U
- Fallon Henley & Kiana James (c) vs. Alba Fyre & Isla Dawn – NXT Women’s Tag Team Titles
- Roxanne Perez (c) vs. Zoey Stark vs. Tiffany Stratton vs. Gigi Dolin vs. Lyra Valkyria vs. Indi Hartwell – Ladder Match for NXT Women’s Title
