WWE NXT: The 5 count for May 22, 2019

A five-count rundown from this week’s episode of WWE NXT, keeping you up to date on the latest happenings in the black and yellow brand.

This week’s edition of WWE NXT gave us the complete card for TakeOver XXV. And it looks like it will be a good one. We had a surprising return to the black and gold brand from the main roster that is sure to shake up the North American title picture as well.

We’re here to break all the big moments down for you, so let’s get started: this is the NXT 5 Count.

1. Does the Undisputed Era really run the show?

NXT opened this week with the newly-reunited Undisputed Era, all seemingly back on the same page after the troubles between Adam Cole and Roderick Strong in recent weeks. For all we know, everything is cool within the Era again … at least, for now.

Cole takes a microphone and says that they all have heard the whispers in the NXT locker room and he wants to make it clear that the Undisputed Era is going nowhere and that they are stronger than they have ever been. He says this is, “a statement to everyone in the locker room that despite the fact that their contracts say NXT Superstar, they own them.”

He says they won’t stop until the Undisputed Era are running the black and gold brand and that they will do what they want, when they want. And they won’t stop until the entire group is draped in championship gold.

Cole says that all starts at NXT TakeOver XXV as Kyle O’Reilly and Bobby Fish will regain their tag team titles while he will defeat Johnny Gargano for the NXT Championship. Before he can continue, he’s interrupted by Gargano who confirms that the match at TakeOver is on. But we already knew that last week.

Gargano says the real reason Cole’s out there celebrating that he’s back with his boys is that he knows he can’t beat him on his own. Cole quickly retorts that he beat Gargano in the first fall at the last NXT TakeOver. But Gargano quips back that Cole “doesn’t understand how math works.” He says Cole “didn’t shock the school system,” which got a good laugh from the crowd.

Johnny Champion explains that while Cole won one fall, he won two falls, which made him the NXT Champion. Cole tells him to shut up because he knows that “it eats Gargano alive” that he pinned him by himself in New York and in two weeks he plans on doing it again.

Before Cole can really continue Matt Riddle hits the ring via the crowd and starts attacking everyone in the Undisputed Era, looking for revenge from last week. Gargano joins Riddle to try and help even the odds and the two of them clear the ring before the referees come out the separate the six men.

This leads to our main event, as NXT general manager William Regal pits Gargano and Riddle against Fish and O’Reilly. It was a great match which saw interference from both Cole and Strong to swing the odds in the favor of the Undisputed Era.

The finish saw Strong hit a suplex on Riddle on the ring apron while Gargano was occupied with Cole. That led to Fish and O’Reilly hitting the high-low combination on Riddle to pick up the victory.

Clearly, things are far from over with these men as their next chapters will be written at NXT TakeOver XXV. Will the Undisputed Era leave TakeOver with most of the gold? We will have to tune in to find out.