WWE NXT Results 17th May 2017, Latest NXT winners, review and video highlights

Less than a week away from NXT TakeOver: Chicago, we got the go-home show ahead of the show. It was a fantastic episode that served to heighten up the anticipation for TakeOver, something that SmackDown Live didn’t do for WWE Backlash. Without further ado, let’s head straight to the results.

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Drew McIntyre vs Sean Maluta

This week’s episode kicked off with NXT’s latest signing, Drew McIntyre. McIntyre’s opponent was former CWC competitor Sean Maluta, who’s a member of the Samoan Dynasty.

As the two men stared each other down, the size difference between them was stark. Drew drove Maluta into the corner as the bell rang before inviting Maluta to lock up again. They locked up and McIntyre drove him into the opposite corner.

A pissed off Maluta shoved McIntyre away before hitting him with knife-edged chops that had little to no effect. McIntyre replied with chops of his own which knocked Maluta off his feet. McIntyre then tosses Maluta across the ring with an overhead belly-to-belly suplex. McIntyre then deadlifted Maluta and hit a release vertical suplex. Giving Maluta no respite, he followed it up with a stomp to Maluta’s chest.

When Maluta got back to his feet, McIntyre Irish Whipped him into the corner. The Samoan replied with a desperate boot to McIntyre’s head. He then headed to the middle rope and connected with a Codebreaker. Maluta desperately went for a cover but just got a 1 count.

Maluta hit McIntyre with right hands before hitting a forearm in the corner. As he went to Irish Whip McIntyre into the opposite corner, the big Scotsman reversed it and hit Maluta with a nasty boot to the midsection. He followed it up with clubbing blows in the corner, followed by a running forearm and a clothesline from the top rope.

Maluta, in desperation, hit McIntyre with a huge forearm but the Scot just laughed it off and hit Maluta with a nasty headbutt. Maluta staggered back to his feet and McIntyre hit him with a huge running boot.

Drew McIntyre def. Sean Maluta

As McIntyre celebrated, we saw a nasty cut he received under his eye from the headbutt he’d hit Maluta with. In his post-match interview, McIntyre challenged Wesley Blake to a match for next week’s episode.

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We saw footage of SAnitY attacking Roderick Strong after his match with Hideo Itami last week. Following the footage, Eric Young had a message for the former “Mr. ROH”.

Young said that Roddy had a new baby and a beautiful fiancé, so he didn’t realize why Strong wanted to take on SAnitY at TakeOver. He said that that sounded insane even to him and though SAnitY didn’t normally take requests, he’d be happy to take away everything Roderick Strong had at Chicago.

Sonya Deville vs Lacey Evans

Daria Berenato debuted her new ring-name Sonya Deville on this episode. Deville, a former MMA fighter and Tough Enough contestant who’d previously performed in NXT under her real name, took on one of the new additions to NXT’s women’s division - Lacey Evans.

Deville hit Evans with knees strikes as soon as the bell rang and then took her down a clothesline. Evans blocked Deville’s next kick and hit back with a couple of right handed strikes but they didn’t have much effect.

Deville replied with a double-leg takedown for a 1 and followed it up with a double-leg bodylock. Deville transitioned into a roll to pin Evans for a 1-count. Deville then took her gloves off, literally, and hit Evans with straight right hands to the midsection. Evans replied with a right hand off her own that knocked Deville off her feet. Evans followed it up with a jumping kick followed by a rolling neckbreaker for a 2-count.

Deville then hit a running enzeguiri to pick up the win abruptly.

Sonya Deville def. Lacey Evans

Kassius Ohno vs Andrade ‘Cien’ Almas

Ohno overpowered Almas as soon as the match began and he hit Almas with a snapmare. Almas transitioned from the snapmare to taunting Ohno from the mat. The duo then acrobatically dodged each other before Almas teased a hammerlock and took a shot at Ohno. Ohno replied with a nasty right hand to Almas’ face and it sent him rolling out of the ring and to safety.

Ohno acrobatically followed him out of the ring and hit him with a nasty big boot to the head. The shot rang across the arena as Ohno rolled Almas back into the ring and started hitting Almas with chops to the chest. Almas rallied and booted Ohno out of the ring as we headed to a break.

Almas was still in control as we returned from commercial. He stomped Ohno and drove his boots into him in the corner. He then teased the running knees in the corner and instead slapped Ohno across the face. Ohno replied with a right hand of his own to which Almas challenged him to continue hitting him. He took Ohno’s chops without flinching before driving his own right hands into Ohno. Almas then locked a rope-assisted armbar on Ohno.

Almas then headed to the top rope and hit a missile dropkick for a 2-count. As soon as Ohno kicked out, Almas transitioned it into a Fujiwara Armbar. Ohno broke out about it before Almas looked to tease another double knees to the corner. Ohno was having none of it this time and he hit Almas with a chop followed by dual pump kicks and a shot to the midsection. Ohno followed it up with a spinning neckbreaker. The 270 pounder the did a kip up before hitting Almas with a spinning thrust kick.

After this flurry of offence, Ohno hit a bodyslam before heading to the top rope. Ohno went for a moonsault but Almas dodged and the big man crashed to the mat. Almas took advantage and hit a modified Final Cut for a 2-count. Almas then went for a vertical suplex but Ohno reversed it and lifted Almas onto the top turnbuckle.

He looked to join Almas there but Almas knocked him off. He then leaped off towards Ohno who met him with a thrust kick. Almas hit back with a somersault overhead kick and followed it up with the double knees to the corner. It all looked over for Ohno as Almas set him up for the Hammerlock DDT but Ohno managed to power Almas into the corner.

Almas quickly hit Ohno with an inverted Tornado DDT from the top rope and went for the cover. Ohno literally kicked out as soon as Almas had started to pin him and got back to his feet. Almas continued hitting him with right hands as Ohno defiantly withstood the attack. As Almas looked to bounce off the ropes, Ohno met him with another running boot to the head. He then hit the spinning rolling elbow. Ohno then followed it up with a second rolling elbow to pin Andrade ‘Cien’ Almas.

Kassius Ohno def. Andrade ‘Cien’ Almas

Bobby Roode addresses the NXT Universe

Bobby Roode came out for the final segment. He came down to the ring and declared that everywhere he looked, people were talking about Hideo Itami and the GTS. He then added that Itami had knocked a couple of people out and broken a couple of jaws, including Roode a few weeks ago on NXT.

Roode then said he hoped Itami had enjoyed that moment because it wouldn’t happen ever again – because at TakeOver Chicago, he wouldn’t be standing in the ring in a $5000 suit but in his wrestling gear. He then added that he would make an example out of Itami before saying that he wasn’t aware that Itami still worked there.

As Roode continue trash talking Itami, the former KENTA’s music hit. Roode said things like “We don’t need to do this right now” as Itami made his way down to the ring. William Regal came out with security guards to calm Itami down as Roode took off his jacket and rolled up his sleeves.

Itami ran past the security and attacked Roode. When they followed him and restrained him, he hit two of the security guards with GTS’. As he turned on the third one, Roode attacked him from behind. Itami hit Roode with a GTS out of nowhere as fans chanted “TKO” as the show came to a close.