NXT kicked off its Deadline premium dwell occasion tonight (Sat., Dec. 7, 2024) on the Minneapolis Armory in Minneapolis, Minnesota with the boys’s Iron Survivor Challenge, the match that will decide the following prime contender to the NXT championship. They introduced within the hours main as much as the present that Eddy Thorpe didn’t recuperate sufficient from his accidents following the assault on NXT TV this previous week, and he would get replaced on this match.
The match — which continues to be a reasonably goofy idea, contemplating the way it’s laid out — opened with Je’Von Evans and Wes Lee. The first fall got here when Lee used the ropes to help a pin, sending Evans to the penalty field simply as Nathan Frazer was making his means in because the third participant. There have been no falls within the subsequent 5 minutes, and Ethan Page was the fourth man in.
He was immediately pinned by way of rollup by Frazer.
Page obtained his again by dashing in proper after he obtained out of the penalty field and pinning Frazer, who discovered himself busted open. The 4 males within the ring went back-and-forth till all of them kicked one another to the mat, simply in time for a last countdown earlier than the fifth man was lastly revealed.
It was the longest reigning North American champion in NXT historical past, Oba Femi.
In lower than 90 seconds, he scored a fall by pinning Evans, who was the one man with out a fall at that time. He went nuts when he obtained out of the penalty field this time — doing so by climbing up and out of it as a result of the door was blocked — and at last scored a fall with an enormous cutter from the highest rope to Lee.
Femi was subsequent to run wild, taking out everybody and seemingly setting himself up till Page snuck in and rolled him as much as give himself a fast lead. He was rapidly knocked again onto Evans, who rolled over on him and scored a second fall of his personal.
The downside now could be time was operating out, with solely 90 seconds remaining. Femi managed to hit a double chokeslam and pin two guys directly to take the lead, giving him three falls. Evans jumped in to attempt to take him down in time to tie him, however he didn’t make it.
Oba Femi is your new prime contender to the NXT championship.
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