NXT UK recap for May 29, 2019: Season Finales and New Beginnings

Your recap of everything worth recapping from the May 29, 2019 edition of NXT UK.

After last week’s main event came to quite the shocking conclusion, NXT UK comes to you once more from Glasgow with yet another main-event title match. Maybe this one will end in a more tidy fashion.

We also get a tiny amount of insight into that aforementioned shocking conclusion, set up a huge (huge!) multi-man match aside from the upcoming No. 1 contender fatal four-way and see an “overlooked” talent attempt to prove their worth. Here we go, it’s your recap of NXT UK from May 29, 2019.

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Previously, on The Nina Samuels Show: After racking up a series of dominant wins these last few months, Nina Samuels ascended from just another face in the NXT UK women’s division to No. 1 contender. Confident as ever in her abilities, feeling entitled to sitting alone atop the division, Samuels wasted little time trying to get into the head of NXT UK Women’s Champion Toni Storm. In a move that you might expect out of Walter White, NXT UK’s aspiring Leading Lady brought family into things, saying that in pursuing her “dream” of becoming a professional wrestler, Storm willingly abandoned her single mother and younger sister.

Maybe Samuels truly believed this, maybe she didn’t. Either way, it immediately became irrelevant, as Storm not only angrily challenged her to a match, but challenged her to a match with the NXT UK Women’s Championship on the line. Without having to even ask for one, Samuels had her title shot, her chance to rule over the NXT UK women’s division. She was in Storm’s head and on the precipice. Could ascending the mountain really be as easy as barely lifting a finger?

And now, the season finale of The Nina Samuels Show.

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INT. Braehead Arena in Glasgow, Scotland – Night

Immediately, it’s clear Storm is in a different mindset than the one we’re accustomed to. Samuels is every bit the self-absorbed “leading lady” we’ve come to know and appreciate, but Storm seems to have gone a little mad, become a bit unhinged. How else do you explain the new hat, the Beetlejuice jacket, the “edgy” ring attire? She’s got no patience for any of Nina’s crap, is unimpressed with any of her agile cartwheels. So unimpressed in fact, that the second time Samuels does one Storm big boots her to the outside before doing a cartwheel of her own.

Her one-track mind that keeps repeating “kill Nina Samuels,” however, does prove to be a bit of a hindrance on Storm’s focus. After showing she too has got cartwheels, Storm starts beating up on her opponent a little too much for the referee’s liking. While getting reprimanded, she loses sight of Samuels, who kicks her in the head and gains control. If ever there were a time to prove The Nina Samuels Show should be renewed for a second season and beyond, this was it.

Samuels gets in some big, exciting offense to entice the networks, at one point vaulting over the ropes and hitting a corkscrew splash for a very near-fall. Later, she gets an even nearer fall, following a tilt-a-whirl-adjacent backbreaker that Storm barely kicks out of. From there unfortunately, Samuels loses the one important advantage she was holding over Storm: control. Trying to act like everything’s fine, like there’s at least six more moves she can pull out to put Storm away and become champion, Samuels cracks. The facade falls and she lets out a frustrated scream before calming down. Too much time has been wasted though, and the delay causes the roles to reverse.

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The clock has struck midnight, and midnight coincidentally happens to also be Toni Time. Previously losing her head, Storm starts literally using her head, delivering a headbutt to Samuels, before hitting back-to-back suplexes and finally Storm Zero to retain her title.

Is this the last we’ve seen of The Nina Samuels Show? Could be we’re still too close to it, but for now it seems to be headed straight towards an indefinite hiatus.

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