NXT Championship Match: Aleister Black (c) vs Tommaso Ciampa
Ciampa taunts Black, telling him that it only takes a three count for this to be over. Black sends Ciampa into the corner. Ciampa takes down Black. Front face lock by Black. Ciampa floors Black with a shoulder block. Black misses an arm drag. Ciampa rolls up Black for a near fall. Ciampa smiles. Black takes Ciampa down again. Multiple pin attempts by Black. Black puts Ciampa in an armbar. Ciampa narrowly avoids the Black Mass. Ciampa almost hit a hangman’s DDT. Black avoids it. Black kicks the bejesus out of Ciampa. Black sends Ciampa back into the ring. Ciampa stomps Black as he tries to get in the ring. Ciampa sends Black into the corner. Black kicks Ciampa’s chest in. Ciampa rolls out to the apron. Black boots Ciampa off the apron. Black does his feint dive to the outside into a backflip. Black sits in the ring and waits for Ciampa to get back in the ring. Black tries a springboard but Ciampa pushes Black out of the ring. Ciampa sends Black into the steps. Ciampa sits Indian-Style on the ring steps. Ciampa waves goodbye to Black. Ciampa sends Black back into the ring.
Ciampa drives a knee in Black’s back. Pendulum backbreaker by Ciampa. Ciampa puts Black in an abdominal stretch. Ciampa uses the ropes for leverage. Ciampa uses the entire five count. Black escapes a suplex. Black tries a German Suplex but he can’t get Ciampa over. Ciampa puts Black in a Texas Cloverleaf. Black gets to the ropes to break the hold. Ciampa and Black fight on the apron. Black goes up top. Ciampa cuts Black off and sets up an air raid crash off the top. Black escapes and kicks Black in the knee. Double clothesline leaves both men out on the mat. Black fires up and lands a series of strikes. Springboard moonsault by Black. Ciampa kicks out. Another strike combo by Black. Black gets a near fall. Ciampa tries to beg off. Black yells tweet about this and lays in three of the stiffest kicks I have ever seen. Ciampa sweeps Black’s legs and Black lands back first on the apron. Diving top rope knee by Ciampa. Black kicks out. Ciampa misses his running knee. Black misses Black Mass. Ciampa destroys Black with a lariat. Ciampa pulls down his knee pad and hits the rope. Black catches Ciampa with a running knee.
Black lands a head kick followed by a German suplex! Ciampa kicks out! Ciampa rolls out of the ring. Black misses the golden triangle moonsault. Ciampa pushes Black into the barricade. While the referee is distracted Ciampa hits Black with a foreign object. Topé by Black. Black sends Ciampa back into the ring. As Black gets back in the ring Ciampa hit the draping DDT! Black kicks out! Ciampa pulls the mat off of the concrete floor. Ciampa tries to DDT Black on the floor. The referee stops him. Black pushes Ciampa and Ciampa knocks the referee into the exposed concrete floor. Black hits the Black Mass! There is no referee. Ciampa is down for maybe a 20 count. Black tries to wake up the referee. Ciampa digs his finger into Black’s eye. Ciampa grabs the NXT Championship. Gargano hits the ring and superkicks Ciampa. Gargano tries to hit Ciampa with the title but accidentally hits Black. Ciampa tosses Gargano out of the ring and hits the Angels Wings for the win!
Winner and NEW NXT Champion, Tommaso Ciampa!
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