WWE NXT Battleground
May 28, 2023
Tsongas Center
Lowell, MA
Welcome to our live coverage of WWE NXT Battleground. As always, we will have the results up immediately after every match. Refresh this page often to see updated results.
Here is tonight’s card:
NXT Championship Match:
Carmelo Hayes (Champion) vs Bron Breakker
Tournament Final for the NXT Women’s Championship:
Lyra Valkyria vs Tiffany Stratton
British Rounds Rules for the NXT Heritage Cup:
Noam Dar (Champion) vs Dragon Lee
Triple Threat Match for the NXT North American Championship:
Wes Lee (Champion) vs Tyler Bate vs Joe Gacy
Last Man Standing Match:
Ilja Dragunov vs Dijak
NXT Tag Team Championship Match:
Gallus (Mark Coffey and Wolfgang) vs The Creed Brothers (Julius and Brutus)
Our live coverage begins at 8 PM EST
Triple Threat Match for the NXT North American Championship:
Wes Lee (Champion) vs Tyler Bate vs Joe Gacy (w/ Ava)
Bate hit the Tiger ’97 on Gacy, but Lee broke it up with a running knee to Bate’s head. Lee with an Enziguri on Gacy. Lee flew over the top turnbuckle on Bate. Gacy gave Lee the Rock Bottom. Lee gave Gacy a cartwheel kick to the head and pinned him to retain his championship.
===Winner: Wes Lee
British Rounds Rules for the NXT Heritage Cup:
Noam Dar (Champion) vs Dragon Lee
No pinfall or submission happened in Round 1. Oro Mensah came down to be in Dar’s corner while Nathan Frazier came down to be in Dragon Lee’s corner. In Round 2, Dar rolled up Dragon Lee to go up 1-0. No fall happened in Round 3, but Dar gave Lee a cheap shot after the bell rang. In Round 4, Lee had Dar in the Texas Cloverleaf. Mensah pushed the bottom ring rope towards Dar so he could grab it and have the hold broken. Nathan came over to confront Mensa. When Frazier was done confronting him and began walking away, Mensah threw him into the ring steps. Lee gave Dar a twisted slam and pinned him to even the score 1-1. Mensah came in to pull Dar to his corner in between rounds. Frazier immediately jumped Mensah and gave him a superkick and dove on him outside the ring. They had a quick brawl and the referee ordered them to the back. In Round 5, with Dar on the ring apron, Lee dove over the top to perform what looked like what was going to be a Hurricanrana, but Lee didn’t turn it over and fell flat on his back to the floor. Lee came back and gave Dar a powerbomb. Jakara Jackson got in the ring which distracted the referee. Lash Legend came from the other side of the ring and hit Lee with the bucket from Dar’s corner. Dar hit Lee with the Nova Roller and pinned him to win the match
===Winner: Noam Dar
Last Man Standing Match:
Ilja Dragunov vs Dijak
Dijak and Dragunov were both outside the ring. Dijak pulled out a table from under the ring. As he was hoisting it up, Dragunov charged at him through the table and was cut open below his chin. Dijak had Dragunov caught in the corner and beat him with a Kendo stick. Dragunov brought in a chair and hit him with it. As Dijak wound up to try and hit him again with the chair, Dragunov caught him with a flying elbow. With Dijak laying face down on the chair, Dragunov jumped off the ring steps which were inside the ring and landed a forearm to the back of Dijak’s head. The referee began the count. Dragunov got up at the count of 9 while Dijak was still down at 10.
===Winner: Ilja Dragunov
In a Chase University pre-tape, Duke Hudson said being the MVP and substitute teacher has been consuming and sucking his will to live, so he’s brought in Drew Gulak and Charlie Dempsey to teach the art of Catch Wrestling. They signaled out Thea Hail showing the class what not to do. Hail got mad, got up, and left the class. Hudson told Gulak that nobody talks to Thea or any of his students that way. He told Gulak to have a better lesson prepared next week and told them to get out of here.
Backstage, Dar was interviewed with Jakara Jackson, Lash Legend, and Oro Mensah with him. He bragged about still being the holder of the Heritage Cup.
NXT Tag Team Championship Match:
Gallus (Mark Coffey and Wolfgang) (w/ Joe Coffey) vs The Creed Brothers (Julius and Brutus) (w/ Ivy Nile)
Julius Creed gave Mark Coffey and Wolfgang a series of overhead suplexes. Julius hit Mark Coffey with a high knee to this jaw and planted him with a rollover spinebuster. Joe Coffey came in the ring, but when he ran to the ropes, Nile tripped him up. Julius clotheslined Mark over the top rope. Ava came down and threw Nile into the ring post. With Julius looking at what was going on outside the ring, Gallus came from behind and hit him with the flying kick and pinned him to retain the championship.
===Winner: Gallus
Tournament Final for the NXT Women’s Championship:
Lyra Valkyria vs Tiffany Stratton
Valkyria leapfrogged Stratton, but didn’t quite clear her and she grazed the top of Stratton’s head and landed awkwardly on her left foot. Stratton picked up Valkyria outside the ring and rammed her knee against the ring post. Inside the ring, Stratton pulled Valkyria’s kneepad off and continued to work on her left knee. Valkyria came off the top rope onto Stratton who rolled her over and picked her up and gave her a Samoan Drop, but Valkyria followed through with the fall and rolled her up for a near fall. Valkyria tried to powerbomb Stratton off the top rope, but Stratton held on to the ropes and gave her a Hurricanrana and followed it with a forward role. Stratton came off the top rope with the moonsault and pinned Valkyria to win the vacant title.
===Winner: Tiffany Stratton
NXT Championship Match:
Carmelo Hayes (Champion) vs Bron Breakker (w/ Trick Williams)
Hayes gave Breakker a cutter for near fall. After exchanging punches and forearms, Breakker lifted Hayes over his head, but Hayes turned it into a Codebreaker. Hayes came off the top rope, but Steiner moved out of the way. Hayes came off the middle rope but was met by a spear for a near fall. Breakker gave Hayes two gut wrench suplexes and lifted him overhead, but Hayes got out of it and got him in an inside cradle for a near fall. Hayes gave Breakker two superkicks and hit him with an elbow off the ropes. Hayes came off the top rope with a leg drop to the back of Breakker’s neck and pinned him to retain the championship.
===Winner: Carmelo Hayes
