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

A dominant performance from a woman who’s in NXT UK

Piper Niven has her NXT UK debut, dispatching of Killer Kelly rather easily. Kelly certainly doesn’t look like a total chump here. She gets in enough offense to not have to change her name to Pacifist Kelly, or something. But Niven is just too much. Too strong, too fast, and again, too much.

Even when Kelly is on her back applying a sleeper hold, Niven is able to drive Kelly into the corner, hit a cannonball and hit a driver in the center of the ring for the win. A dominating performance befitting of someone vying for the title of most-dominant woman in NXT UK. We’ll refrain from calling her so quite so soon, and just call it “a dominant performance from a woman that’s in NXT UK.”

One person not impressed is, of course, Rhea Ripley. As Niven is celebrating her victorious debut, Ripley slithers down to ringside to get the jump on her. But, as she gets her head through the ropes, Niven spots her. Too strong, too fast, too observant of her surroundings. She’s more than willing to let Ripley put the rest of her body through the ropes so they can have at it, but Ripley backs away like, “yeah, no, we’ll fight on my time,” even though she was the one who came down to start a fight in the first place. What a heel. This is looking like the next big match to get excited about in NXT UK. (Though there are reports that Ripley is going to be out eight weeks with a foot injury, so if true, aaaaagh, put that excitement on ice like it’s an injured foot for a bit).