Blair Davenport Delivers With Return Match; Fallon Henley Scores The Upset

Hello and welcome to another edition of NXT UK!

In recent weeks, NXT 2.0 has been crossing the pond and challenging their male and female counterparts. Following in the footsteps of Ivy Nile and Lash Legend, NXT 2.0 stars Sarray and Fallon Henley made their first appearances last week with Sarray getting the win. Can Fallon do the same?

But first, a long anticipated return: the self proclaimed heir to the NXT UK Women’s championship, Blair Davenport, is back and she intends to pick up where she left off.

The match sees Angel Hayze getting in a surprising amount of offence against the returning Davenport with several near falls. Davenport is caught off-guard several times by Angel including an impressive sling blade and Angel escaping the Falcon Arrow. Blair hits a beautiful front dropkick from the top rope and that seems to spell the end but in a shocking display of resiliency her opponent breaks loose. Angel only buys herself a short reprieve however as Blair hits the inevitable and secures the pinfall.

The second match to feature the women was set up by Meiko Satomura as a test of some kind for Emilia McKenzie. Both women going in to the match have their own reasons for wanting to win. Emilia to impress Meiko and Fallon to carry on the momentum of her friends Brooks and Jensen.

The match starts as a typical face vs face affair with clean cut wrestling. Emilia is an incredible performer and consistently delivers strong matches. I am not too familiar with Fallon’s work but she keeps up with Emilia throughout this match and the two could both win at any time. Throughout we start to see some cracks in the façade of Emilia however as frustration clearly sets in, perhaps the pressure of Meiko Satomura is closing in? Locking Fallon in to a modified cobra clutch, Emilia’s expression turns dark and the ref has to…