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NXT UK headline match - Tyler Bate (with Trent Seven) vs A-Kid, Heritage Cup match
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This week's NXT UK headliner carried on as the bell rang to begin round four of the Heritage Cup match. Immediately after the round began, Tyler Bate launched himself at the champion A-Kid, and hit him with a barrage of stiff strikes to the midsection.
A-Kid then took down Bate with a vicious-looking double-footed strike to the face. Tyler Bate responded by hitting A-Kid from the second rope. A-Kid tried to roll up the challenger for the pin, but he quickly kicked out.
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Tyler Bate hoisted up A-Kid into the airplane spin, but A-Kid managed to move out of this and grabbed Bate into a sleeper hold whilst on his back. A-Kid released the former NXT UK Champion and took him down with a leg strike to the chest.
With another minute of action left in the round, he applied the sleeper hold again. This time, Bate managed to break it himself.
A-Kid came back with a guillotine hold on Tyler Bate, but he escaped this and took A-Kid down with powerslam, but time ran out as he went for the pin.
The fifth round of the NXT UK Heritage Cup match began with Tyler Bate taking control. He attempted to pin A-Kid with a suplex, but he kicked out. Tyler Bate then went for the Tyler driver, but A-Kid reversed this to a pin. However, Bate lifted his rival up and off him with a bridge.
Tyler Bate then managed to hit A-Kid with a Tyler driver. A-Kid kicked out of the subsequent pin. He followed this up by attempting an attack from the top rope, but A-Kid grabbed him in an armbar.
Despite appearing to be in agony, Tyler Bate held on for the last few seconds of the round and resisted the urge to tap out.
The sixth and final round of the NXT UK Heritage Cup match began. Almost immediately, Tyler Bate went for the Tyler driver again, which A-Kid reversed into a hurricanrana. He tried to pin the challenger, but Bate forcefully kicked out.
A-Kid then hit Tyler Bate with a superkick, and attempted a roll-up on him, but Bate turned this into a pin of his own to win the round, and the NXT UK Heritage Cup.
As the show went off air, he celebrated in the ring with Trent Seven.
Winner: Tyler Bate
Grade: A-
