Canon defeats Bryan Saxton in NXT Season Five: WWE NXT updates
The NXT Rookie, Lucky Canon, was lucky tonight in NXT show. He was victorious against Byron Saxton along with Yoshi Tatsu. It was the eighth week of WWE NXT season five. Titus O’Neil was at the top with a total of 13 redemption points before tonight’s show.
Darren Young was at second with seven and Saxton was at third with four redemption points.
The fight between Saxton and Canon started at the end of the NXT show. Saxton came out with his pro, Yoshi, while Canon came to the ring with his pro, Tyson Kid. WWE diva, Maryse, was at ring side near the announce-table and was sitting on a chair to watch
the match. The match started and Canon tried to get to Yoshi, but Saxton stopped him in his way. Saxton hit a big slam and several strikes that gained the momentum for Saxton. The match continued with punches, kicks, chokes, slams and several submissions by
either side.
During the fight, Canon’s pro Kid tried to interfere in the match, but Yoshi followed him and slammed him into barricade. Canon hit the slide kick on Yoshi that fired Yoshi up. He entered the ring and started beating Canon. It caused the match to disqualify
and Canon won the match. After the match, Saxton got infuriated at Yoshi and hit his final submission at Yoshi. Canon also hit Saxton his trademark 'Lucky Break Finisher'.
The high redemption-point achiever of NXT Season Five, Titus O’Neil defeated Darren Young. O’Neil was with his pro Hornswoggle, while Young was with his pro Chavo Guerrero. Young lost the match due to the interruption of his pro. O’Neil won the match after
hitting a huge Sit-Down Spinebuster for three counts.
Jacob Novak and JTG fought a tag-team match against Conor O’Brian and Vladimir Kozlov. Novak took the victory for his team after hitting his finisher A Big Boot for three counts.
The challenge of this week was 'How Well Do You Know Your WWE Pro?' Two questions were asked from the NXT Rookies in that challenge. Only Jacob Novak could answer the correct answer for first question and he was the winner of that challenge.
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