WWE NXT Spring Breakin' 2024 Week One results, live blog: Ilja vs. Trick

Advertised for part one of the brand's latest themed show on April 23 from the WWE Performance Center: Trick William challenges Ilja Dragunov for the top men's title, and if he can't win the belt he'll leave NXT!

Plus, Roxanne Perez puts the Women's championship on the line against Lyra Valkyria & Tatum Paxley in a Triple Threat, The D'Angelo Family does six-man battle against No Quarter Catch Crew, Sol Ruca takes on Blair Davenport in a Beach Brawl, Natalya & Lola Vice sign a contract for their match at Spring Breakin' Week Two ... and more!

Come right back here at 8 pm ET when the NXT live blog kicks off once the show starts on USA. A running record of everything that happens will be below this line here.

Enjoy the show!

WWE NXT SPRING BREAKIN' WEEK ONE RESULTS AND LIVE BLOG FOR APRIL 23

I won't even turn around to look at your reaction, now it's just a system of subtraction. Whatever happened to your star? Now no one cares who you are. You used to share my broken throne, now you sing flat alone while I liveblog this here pro wrestling show for you, folks.

The show opens with Adam Pearce and Ava Raine in her office with Nick Aldis calling in. She talks up that this is the last NXT before the draft and they talk about all the talent they're scouting.

We see various superstars arriving at the building earlier today.

Lyra Valkyria vs. Roxanne Perez (c) vs. Tatum Paxley (NXT Women's Championship)

Perez backs off, Valkyria attacks Paxley, kicking away at her in the corner! Boot up from Tatum, schoolboy, Roxanne breaks it up and throws Lyra to the floor but turns right back around to see Paxley crawling at her! Valkyria attacks Perez from behind, blocks a dropkick from Tatum and trips her up on the apron!

Lyra with the double noggin knocker, off the ropes, wrecking ball dropkick wipes them both out! Back and forth, Paxley playing third wheel, O'Connor roll from the champion but Valkyria kicks out! Waistlock, O'Connor roll on Tatum but she kicks out and Perez kicks Lyra to the floor!

Paxley throws Lyra into Roxanne on the floor and we go to break!

Back from commercial, Valkyria powerbombs both women out of the corner! She follows it with a fisherman buster on Paxley but Perez breaks it up! Submission attempts stalemate, side Russian legsweep / DDT combo from Roxanne... NOPE! Perez and Valkyria slugging it out, whip across, duck the reverse roundhouse, Roxanne snaps off a German suplex!

Paxley rolls through on her, Roxanne eats the reverse roundhouse, sunset flip from Tatum, only two! Pumphandle California Roll, off the top, 450 splash, Roxanne slips in...

Roxanne Perez wins by pinfall with a bridging pin on Tatum Paxley, retaining the NXT Women's Championship.

We get footage of main roster stars and fans weighing in on who is going to win the NXT Championship match tonight.

Backstage, Thea Hail chats with Fallon Henley and Kelani Jordan and talks about how thankful she is to have amazing people like them in her life to make them better, until Jaida Parker gets up to tell her to stop worrying about everybody else's opinion.

A shoving match breaks out between her and Henley and the locker room holds them apart.

The D'Angelo Family make their entrance and we go to break.

Back from commercial we get a hype reel for Tyson Dupont and Tyriek Igwe, who will be coming to the NXT tag team division next week.

Diamond Mine are interviewed backstage, excited to see tonight's main event.

D'Angelo Family (Channing "Stacks" Lorenzo, Luca Crusifino, & Tony D'Angelo) vs. No Quarter Catch Crew (Charlie Dempsey, Damon Kemp, & Myles Borne)

Chaos before the bell, D'Angelo and Dempsey to start, Tony takes him down and powerbombs him when Charlie tries to move on to a triangle choke! Tags made, Stacks beating Kemp down, taking control, tagging Crusifino in, he and Damon brawl on the mat and Borne tags in!

Putting boots to Luca, but the lawyer powers up, whip reversed, boot in the corner, Myles off the top and right into a diving uppercut! Big dropkick from Borne, cover for two! Tag to Dempsey, the match breaks down, all six men fighting in the ring at once as we go to break!

Back from commercial, bridging northern lights from Dempsey on Lorenzo, cover for two, into a half-crab on the kickout! NQCC fighting a losing action against the tag and here comes the Don belly-to-belly suplexing everybody with abandon! Malfunction at the junction, Kemp double stomps Charlie but Dempsey keeps his head and chop blocks Tony!

Cradle suplex / neckbreaker combination... NOPE! Bridging butterfly suplex, Channing breaks it up, the match breaks down, Shatter Machine on Crusifino! D'Angelo breaks a full nelson, thrust spinebuster... IT'S OVER!

D'Angelo Family win by pinfall with a thrust spinebuster from Tony D'Angelo on Charlie Dempsey.

We get WWE dot com footage of Lexis King rolling up on Baron Corbin to give him a going away basket, but Baron informs him that he's not necessarily going anywhere, and somehow it turns into Lexis booking them in a tag team together and Corbin, correctly, calling him a toolbag.

Out the Mud make their entrance to send us to break.

Fallon Henley vs. Jaida Parker

Back from commercial, match joined in progress, Fallon slides to the floor and cracks her with a right hand before confronting Out the Mud at ringside. Shoulder block, back inside, legscissors press ala Rob Van Dam, Parker whips her across, Henley with a trip and a heel kick, whip reversed, she hangs Fallon up on the ropes!

Short-arm shoulder blocks, whip into a knee lift, kneeling Cobra Twist to grind Henley down at the ribs. Back elbow, mat slam, jumping neckbreaker, Fallon piecing it together but she can't get a win out of it! Jaida slings her into the ropes...

Jaida Parker wins by pinfall with a running hip attack.

Jacy Jayne cuts a promo running Thea Hail down.

We get a video package for Lola Vice vs. Natalya and we go to break.

Back from commercial, JD McDonagh is interviewed backstage and offers the sage advise that you need to hospitalize Ilja Dragunov to beat him and he doesn't think Trick is that guy.

New Catch Republic roll up and Tyler Bate is very excited while Pete Dunne is more sanguine.

Ava Raine is in the ring with the ropes removed to talk about how part of being GM is pushing the show into a new era and breaking glass ceilings, and that's why she's excited to hold a contract signing for the first-ever women's NXT Underground match between Lola Vice and Natalya.

Natalya enters first with Karmen Petrovic in tow and signs the contract. Lola enters alone and signs the contract and tells her that just because she shakes her ass, doesn't mean she can't kick her ass, and next week they're making history and she will break her.

Nattie talks about the dungeon and says she's going to tap her out, Vice claims to have the fastest hands in the division, and her training partner will make them even faster—

Enter Shayna Baszler!

Shayna tells Nattie her chances have gone from slim to none and gives her a chance to tear up her contract and get out gracefully, especially if Petrovic is her training partner. Baszler shoves Karmen and gets knocked out by a flash roundhouse kick! The babyfaces send the heels packing!

Ridge Holland is shown arriving at the arena earlier today and talks about racking up victories the right way when Shawn Spears rolls up to do his dime store Sean O'Haire act. Ridge refuses to get riled up and says he'll be seeing him.

Blair Davenport makes her entrance and we go to break.

Back from commercial, we get a hype reel for the Final Testament.

Axiom and Nathan Frazer are backstage watching and they talk about how they're gonna beat the odds against the Authors and the other teams chime in about teams coming in and taking spots, including the Good Brothers. Edris Enofe breaks a mirror attempting to point out the hypocrisy therein.

Blair Davenport vs. Sol Ruca (Beach Brawl)

Davenport in control early on, brawling on the floor, Ruca turns it around and slams her into a ball pit and smacks her with a surfboard before mock surfing on her and delivering a stomp to send us to break!

Back from commercial, Blair back in control and working her over in the ring but Sol smacks her with a boogie board a few times before grabbing a steel chair, back elbow, superkick, boogie board-assisted standing moonsault, cover for two! To the floor, cartwheel DDT blocked, Davenport sets a table up, perches on the barricade, Ruca escapes!

Package, up on the barricade... CAPTURE SENTON THROUGH A PICNIC TABLE! Dragging her back inside...

Sol Ruca wins by pinfall with the backflip Stunner thing.

Trick Williams is backstage on the phone with his mom, who is dealing with some kind of medical issue. He says if she fights, he'll fight, and they'll both win.

Johnny Gargano rolls up to give Trick a pep talk and tells him it's his night and we go to break.

Baron Corbin vs. Lexis King

Out and back in early, King cuts Corbin off with a boot but eats a Rock Bottom into the turnbuckles for two! Lexis with chops and a choke, kicking his leg out of his leg, off the ropes, northern lariat... NOPE! Baron with a suplex dropped into an Ace Crusher... STILL NO!

King with a folding press, his feet on the ropes, referee catches him, Corbin with an Attitude Adjustment for a nearfall! Baron almost bumps the ref, Lexis with a low blow...

Lexis King wins by pinfall with the Coronation.

We get a video package for our main event and we go to break.

Back from commercial, commentary hypes up next week's show.

Ilja Dragunov is interviewed walking backstage and says he's forever unbesiegbar when Damian Priest rolls up to wish him luck and hit on the interview lady.

Byron Saxton interviews Trick Williams and Trick lays out the stakes and says he fears no man and either tonight goes good or bad, but he's gonna whoop that trick like his mama said.

Ilja Dragunov (Title) vs. Trick Williams (Career) (NXT Championship Title vs. Career Match)

Dragunov with a German suplex in the opening moments of the match! Wild chops, big elevated DDT, Constantine Special takes him off his feet, cover for two! Ilja presses the attack and we go to break!

Back from commercial, Dragunov goes Coast to Coast... SO CLOSE! Trick Willy hits an H Bomb of his own, cover for two! Fired up, in the corner, charging uppercut, another nearfall! To the floor, Ilja clears the announce desk, Williams back body drop, right hand, off the barricade... BOOK END THROUGH THE TABLE!

Up on the apron, Ilja blasts him with a knee, superplex, roll through into the H Bomb! Off the second, another H Bomb... STILL TRICK WILLIAMS KICKS OUT! Another one, another kickout! German suplex, Trick pops right up, knee to the back of the head... DRAGUNOV KICKS OUT! Trick lines him up...

Trick Williams wins by pinfall with Trick Shot, becoming your new NXT Champion and saving his NXT career.

Post-match, Dragunov clutches the belt momentarily before giving it to Trick and hugging and kissing him. The old champ rolls out of the ring and the new champ celebrates.

That's the show, folks.