NXT UK Recap for July 24, 2019: Download Crashed

Your definitive recap of the July 24, 2019 edition of NXT UK, featuring a main event of Trent Seven versus WALTER.

Just when you thought you were out of the mud, NXT UK pulls you back in. With a card like this however, how could you not be?

Can the friendship between Kenny Williams and Noam Dar ever be repaired? Will Toni Storm or Kay Lee Ray build some all-important momentum ahead of TakeOver: Cardiff? Was it an unequivocally bad idea for Trent Seven to challenge WALTER to a fight. Let’s not waste any more time and jump into the July 24, 2019 episode of NXT UK: Download Crashed.

Growing old on Moustache Mountain

In the end, perhaps calling out WALTER and promising to knock the man’s head off was not the smartest thing Trent Seven has done. Credit where credit is due, Seven goes down swinging until the end. But, as we learned from Travis Banks’ title match  a few weeks ago, it takes more than heart and passion to bring WALTER down. Yes, even heart and passion that’s aimed towards saving NXT UK itself from the clutches of Imperium.

Seven gives literally all he’s got from bell-to-bell. Actually, from before-bell-to-bell as he attacks WALTER while the United Kingdom Champion is still making his grand entrance. The man expends every last ounce of himself defending the wrestling mat from those who would try to claim it as their own.

He must chop WALTER no less than 30 times in this match and that’s honestly not even including the series of rapid fire ones he delivers at one point. These are far from feeble attempts too; there’s force and anger being delivered directly into WALTER’s chest every time Trent Seven’s hand comes into contact with it.

And yet, it’s hardly enough. Frankly, it’s far from enough. When it comes to absorbing and doling out punishment, WALTER is in a class all his own right now. For every big hit that knocks WALTER down, he is back standing toe-to-toe with Seven in no time at all.

As they get deeper and deeper into things, he almost shifts into another gear, easily leveling Seven with increasingly brutal moves. WALTER gets a two-count off of a chop. Obviously his hands are noted huge slabs of concrete, but still. Meanwhile, in order for Seven to even get a pinfall attempt on WALTER, he has to pull off a hard-fought superplex more than two-thirds of the way through the match.

It’s a joy to watch Seven hang in there, to come out of the gate hot, to rally and fight through pain, to absolutely lay into WALTER, to refuse to relinquish the soul of the brand that he helped to build. When it comes down to it though, getting powerbombed into the apron and then subsequently powerbombed five more times in the ring is just a lot of times to get powerbombed. What else was going to happen?