WWE NXT UK recap for April 24, 2019: Tales from Axxess, Pt. 2

Your weekly recap of everything worth knowing about from the world of NXT UK.

WrestleMania may have been dropped off at Sbarro’s several highway exits back, but its memory stays with us. Yes, it’s another week and another episode of NXT UK taped at Axxess.

We covered this last week, but it is worth repeating: these Axxess shows are weird. The pre-taped nature of the show becomes even more heightened, the concept of time is rendered meaningless and the matches themselves don’t make any true long-term impact beyond “look how good at wrestling these people who won their matches are.” Hope we’re not hyping this episode up too much. Let’s dive in.

Mixing it up with the boys

This week’s main event pitted lifelong friends Mark Andrews and Flash Morgan Webster against Moustache Mountain, the proud father-and-son duo of Tyler Bate and Trent Seven. It was a fun tag team match that allowed both sides to show off what makes them exciting performers. For Andrews and Webster that meant wowing feats of speed and agility. For Moustache Mountain it was being a couple of big strong bois, and in the case of Bate, also wowing feats of speed and agility. That guy has it all.

A quick aside: we haven’t talked about Webster in here before, so just want to bring up how it’s entertaining that he comes to the ring with several accessories to show how “mod” he is, one of which is a helmet that he never actually wears. The helmet has a bulls-eye on it. Also, he seems to have at least two nicknames, neither of which is “Flash,” because that’s actually his first name. First name Flash, middle name Morgan, last name Webster, and it’s fun to hear Vic and Nigel have to say the full thing every time.

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As mentioned in the preview for this episode, Andrews and Webster have dreams of becoming the first-ever Welsh tag team champions in WWE’s history. Obviously, a win over the hugely popular — even with the tiny Axxess crowd — former NXT Tag Team Champions could put them on a direct path towards that. Accordingly, they pull out all the stops. After some rough sledding early on, the duo seem to keep bouncing back, hitting increasingly stunning tandem offense.

One sequence sees Andrews survive a Bate exploder suplex/standing shooting star press combo, for he and Webster to then rally and hit simultaneous tope con hilos. Webster hits a tornado DDT on Seven, tags in Andrews and then gives him a leg up for an assisted standing 450 splash for a near-fall. Some time later, Seven throws Webster into Andrews’ arms and then smacks the latter so hard in the chest that he DDTs his partner. Their reply? A Webster jumping knee into an Andrews reverse rana for another near-fall.

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Unfortunately for Andrews and Webster, Moustache Mountain are too good to overcome. Seven is a joy to watch as a goofy, passionate powerhouse. Bate — well we already said “That guy has it all” above, but he truly is awesome in every sense. Without going too in-depth on all his feats of strength and agility, a standing shooting star press will never fail to (standing shooting star)impress, and his two-for-one airplane spin/big swing on Webster/Andrews is as ridiculous aesthetically as it is physically. Moustache Mountain get the win with a knee drop-assisted Burning Hammer, and look to be right back in the tag team title picture.