WWE NXT UK recap for April 10, 2019: Toni! Toni! Toni!

Here’s your recap of all the action fit to recap from the April 10 edition of NXT UK.

With NXT Takeover: New York in the books and a new, large champion atop the brand, NXT UK rolls on from its home base in Coventry. And while this may be the start of a new era for the black-and-gold-and-British brand, there’s still scores to settle and other championship defenses that are several weeks in the making. Here’s what went down on the April 10 edition of NXT UK.

It’s always Toni Time somewhere

For weeks, we’ve been hearing Jinny tell us how she’s sick and tired of hearing about Toni Storm. She doesn’t care about Storm, the only thing she cares about is the NXT UK Women’s Championship, etc., etc. It’s well-worn territory in these recaps and previews. At any rate, Jinny finally gets the chance to show Storm just how little she cares about her, by wrestling her for the aforementioned championship in this week’s main event.

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After the series of verbal attacks between these two escalated into a physical attack on Storm last week, they get going right out the gate, wailing on each other immediately and trading submissions early on, including one where it kind of looks like the person applying the hold is riding the other like a jet ski. Jinny begins paying particular attention to Storm’s back, targeting it with various moves. She hits a backbreaker for a two-count, and then does a big wind-up with her leg to just straight up kick Storm in the back for another count of two. Feeling emboldened, Jinny starts slapping Storm in the face, but gets caught in a trio of German Suplexes after whiffing badly on one slap too many.

Storm goes for Storm Zero, but gets rammed into the corner instead, before being placed on the second rope. From there, Jinny hits a huge facebuster, but is only able to get a two-count when Storm somehow gets her foot on the rope despite the busted face. Completely and utterly frustrated, Jinny tells Storm, “‘Toni Time’ is over,” before attempting a Storm Zero of her own. Unfortunately for Jinny, Storm knows her own signature move very well and wiggles out of it. She then proceeds to bonk Jinny with a big headbutt for her brazen disrespect. The two begin trading strikes, but when Storm goes for a kick, Jinny catches her leg and thrusts it down so hard that momentum carries Storm’s face into Jinny’s knee.

At last, Jinny has an opening, with all this caring about the title and not caring at all about Storm about to pay off. Running at Storm, she goes for a hurricanrana, but Storm is able to catch her, hit a powerbomb, and then hit Storm Zero for the three-count.

We’ve made a lot of jokes about this throughout the feud, most of them contained within very long sentences such as this one. But it’s probably safe to say that Jinny should have been more concerned about Storm, and not just the championship she now continues to hold.