NXT Vengeance Day 2024: Trick Williams Loses Twice and Somehow Leaves Bigger Than Everyone

The opener has a difficult assignment because Trick Williams must look competitive without emerging untouched for a championship match later in the night. The match solves that by making Bron Breakker the destabilizing force. Every time Hayes and Williams begin building rhythm, Breakker can erase it with speed that should not belong to someone his size.

Corbin provides the steadier half of the winning team, while Hayes and Williams work like partners whose chemistry is real even as the story is preparing to destroy them. Breakker's rope slip briefly breaks the illusion, but he recovers immediately and the match regains its pace. The near falls become increasingly convincing as all four men empty the larger combinations.

Breakker ultimately spears Hayes and gets the pin, protecting Trick from taking the loss before his title challenge. The winners earn the Dusty Cup and a future NXT Tag Team Championship match. It is energetic, occasionally messy and very effective setup for everything Trick still has to endure.

Dijak and Gacy understand that a no-disqualification match between them should be slightly unhinged. The weapons arrive early, but the match does not become a parade of table setups because Dijak's strikes and Gacy's reckless movement remain the actual foundation. The props decorate the violence rather than replacing it.

Gacy duct-taping Dijak's eyes creates the best comedy-violence sequence. Dijak lands Feast Your Eyes while blinded but cannot make the cover, and Gacy uses the confusion to keep the match moving. A chair-assisted chokeslam and the avalanche German suplex provide stronger wrestling beats between the gimmicks.

Dijak finally removes the tape, uses the nightstick and lands another Feast Your Eyes for the pin. The finish is decisive, the rivalry receives an appropriately chaotic payoff and neither man is asked to pretend this should have been a technical exhibition. It is exactly the right kind of secondary stipulation match.

The mixed tag is competent enough to avoid becoming a disaster and too ordinary to justify the premium-event slot. Tony D'Angelo is the most established worker, Jaida Parker and Adriana Rizzo are still developing, and the match spends much of its time arranging everyone for short bursts rather than creating one sustained conflict. The crowd follows the action without treating it as important.

The closing stretch is the best part. D'Angelo strings together suplexes and the spinebuster, Rizzo gets the crossbody onto the larger group outside, and The Family finally overwhelms OTM with enough activity to give the finish momentum. D'Angelo pins Lucien Price after Forget About It.

The result advances the feud and gives Rizzo a useful premium-event appearance. That is about the ceiling. On weekly NXT this would be a perfectly acceptable ten-minute segment; on Vengeance Day it feels like the card's intermission.

Valkyria and Perez begin with the sharper match. Perez has a clear claim to the championship and works with the urgency of someone trying to regain a title rather than simply have another competitive showcase. The rhythm is building when Lola Vice arrives with the Breakout Tournament contract and changes the match completely.

The cash-in is logically aggressive and structurally disruptive. Vice brings kicks and submission offense, Perez becomes increasingly desperate as the opportunity she earned is diluted, and Valkyria has to survive two different styles. The triple-threat rules also allow Tatum Paxley to interfere against Perez without creating a disqualification.

Perez hits Pop Rox and comes close to reclaiming the title, Vice nearly steals it with her striking, and Valkyria eventually avoids the knockout kick and finishes Vice with Night Wish. The champion retains while Perez is protected from the fall. It is a good match with an angle grafted onto it, and the graft is interesting enough to work even if the original singles match might have been better.

Dragon Lee is almost the ideal first premium-event challenger for Oba Femi because he gives the champion a problem that cannot be solved by standing still and looking enormous. Lee attacks from angles, accelerates every exchange and forces Femi to demonstrate timing rather than only strength. For a champion with so little televised experience, that is a useful test.

Femi's offense remains simple and effective. The one-arm spinebuster and repeated backbreakers look brutal, while Lee's tornado DDT, bicycle knee and floor counter create believable moments where speed might overcome size. The match never reaches a truly dramatic final gear, but it rarely asks Femi to do more than he can handle.

Femi cuts off another burst with the lariat and finishes with the pop-up powerbomb. The retention is decisive and Dragon Lee loses without looking small. The match is more important as evidence of Femi's readiness than as a great championship defense.

Trick Williams enters already damaged from the Dusty Cup final, and Dragunov immediately treats the injury as permission rather than sympathy. The champion attacks with the usual chops, kicks, Germans and apron violence, while Trick sells the knee and mouth damage without turning the match into a prolonged medical angle. The adversity gives every comeback more weight.

The middle of the match is where Williams proves he belongs. He matches Dragunov's pace, strings together the leg lariats and flatliner, and keeps creating enough separation that the crowd begins believing the title change is possible. Dragunov responds with the H-Bombs and powerbombs that normally end conversations.

The referee bump creates the night's most convincing false finish. Trick lands the knee with no referee available, a replacement official arrives, and Dragunov survives the delayed cover. The sequence protects the challenger without making the champion look lucky because both men still have to fight through another exchange afterward.

Dragunov finally beats Trick to the strike and lands Torpedo Moscow for the pin. Williams loses, but the reaction says the performance has elevated him. Then Carmelo Hayes turns the night into something larger by attacking Trick's injured knee with the chair.

As a match, it is excellent. As the final chapter of Trick's two-match night and the launch point for Hayes-Williams, it is even more effective. The wrestling makes Trick credible; the betrayal gives that credibility somewhere to go.