NXT UK recap, September 18: The one with the British Rounds match

Joseph Conners wins a second match

In a story of the rising continuing to rise and the falling continuing to fall, Joseph Conners beat Kenny Williams. Is it just us, or is Conners’ whole “thing” starting to work? Like, commentary always went on-and-on about the mercurial, intense man that is Joseph Conners, but as of late he actually seems to be somewhat embodying those characteristics. Gotta be the snakeskin pants. Also he replaced his sloppy-looking sunset flip powerbomb into the bottom turnbuckle thing with whatever the hell this is:

Kenny Williams on the other hand seems like he’s relying too much on his — seemingly — self-diagnosed case of being lucky, rather than being the best one in a one-on-one match. That and back elbows; my word do the back elbows fly in this one. At least the back elbows look really good!

After feeling lucky and hitting a springboard back elbow, Williams then nails Conners with his wheelbarrow facebuster, only for Conners to be the one luckily placed within arms reach of the bottom rope. Breaking the pinfall that surely would have been the end of him, Conners rolls out to the apron.

When Kenny goes to retrieve Conners, he gets punched. Conners meanwhile slides under the bottom rope like a snake man, and hits his finisher that looks like it would do more damage to him but okay let’s go with it, to win the match. Then he starts punching and talking to the middle turnbuckle. If this singles push doesn’t work out, maybe Conners and the turnbuckle could be a tag team.