NXT UK recap for June 5, 2019: A Very Fatal Four-Way

Munching the competition

Likewise to the Kay Lee Ray match, this match featuring The Hunt getting back on track isn’t at all bad it’s just like a, “yeah that happened” in the grand scheme. The gruesome twosome of Primate and Wild Boar rebound against two of NXT UK’s more amusingly-named talents, Saxon Huxley and Tyson T-Bone.

This one goes down kinda weird because The Hunt — terrifying, rabid animals that they are — get treated and come across as a babyface team. Like, is it that important to make the audience believe Huxley and T-Bone are a dominant heel tandem? Do we need to see Wild Boar — a scary being with black eyes and no front teeth — get beat down by a man whose catchphrase for himself is, “There he goes, there goes Saxon Huxley?” That’s first draft stuff, and Wild Boar should not be bothered by the Lou Thesz presses and the straight punches — from a hand that it is very significant for us to know has a tattoo of the Virgin Mary on it — which keep him down.

Thankfully, once the hot tag to Primate is made, it’s effectively over. For all the “huh?” inspired by the first half of the match, the second half of the match where The Hunt run through their “unorthodox” offensive moves is pretty entertaining. Primate jumps over Huxley to clobber T-Bone off the apron and then turns around to hit a big suplex on Huxley. Wild Boar chop blocks T-Bone on the outside and then cannonballs Huxley in the corner. They do their tossing German Suplex move and finish things off with tandem diving headbutts from adjacent top turnbuckles. Victorious in the ring, Wild Boar licks and nibbles on Primate’s head as a form of celebration.

After the match however, Gallus (Mark Coffey and Wolfgang) emerge to beat down The Hunt. The Hunt might actually be faces now, even though this particular assault gets a positive reaction because Coffey and Wolfgang are from Scotland. What does it all mean? Who knows! They say something in front of the announce team, but you can’t hear it. Maybe Gallus just don’t particularly care for animals. In which case, watch out Wolfgang, guy whose name has “Wolf” in it!